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Episode 132 - You Should Be Thanking Me
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Welcome Back & Austin's Travel Tale
00:00:20
Speaker
What is up, everyone? Welcome back to Laundry in the Basement, episode 132. As you can see, goingn on Austin did, in fact, make it back from his trip.
00:00:32
Speaker
I am here, baby. I felt so great. Although the last um coming back, the last like 20 or 30 minutes, there was such heavy winds um that the pilot went into manual mode for the descent. Not just like the last, you know,
00:00:48
Speaker
two minutes like they normally do. Like this guy you could feel it because the wind was pushing the plane left and right. And he just trying to compensate the entire time. and i wasn't like the rip in that seat man I was like, is it.
00:01:01
Speaker
This is how I go. i made it the whole trip and now I'm coming back in and I'm just going to, you know, I'm going to meet my demise right here. But thankfully it didn't happen. a little bit, little bit shaky, but you know,
00:01:13
Speaker
That was, um I want to hear about your flight experience, especially now with all this stuff like going on. But that was my last flight experience. um I had to stop in D.C.
00:01:24
Speaker
and it was so windy. Have you guys ever flew through D.C. through Ronald Reagan Airport, Arlington, bridge Virginia? Beautiful when you when you go in and out because you see all the monuments, but it was so windy. As it was descending, the wings are shaking.
00:01:39
Speaker
And I was trying to stay calm because i was like, you know we you know, it's just heavy wind or this and that. But I was like, for the love of God, put this bird down. Put this bird down. But with Ronald Reagan Airport is you obviously don't see what's in front of you.
00:01:53
Speaker
And there's a giant river. I don't know which one it is. It runs through. This is the Potomac. is Is it the Potomac? So when you're going, you're when you're descending, all you see is just getting closer and closer to water. So you see getting closer and closer to water.
00:02:06
Speaker
The bird is shaking. I'm like, put this bitch down. You know what I'm saying? And and obviously theyre they're skilled. They do it. But I know exactly how you feel because that was my latest flight experience. But was there anything crazy? Did you go through like security and the flights and all that? No issue or...
00:02:23
Speaker
ah Truly, i was I was blessed with pure luck this entire trip. But... but That was the only hiccup. And we were even, once we got on the tarmac and we were waiting to to get into the gate, the plane was shaking on the tarmac from the wind. Like originally I thought like, yo, they got some, like somebody that's just learning how to fly and they're giving them the like the last 30 seconds of the flight just to, you know, give them their flight experience so they can write it down on their card. But no, it was like, there were strong winds.
00:02:59
Speaker
um So. go How long is that flight? That's a short flight. super short it was like an hour and 15 minutes oh that's nothing you're up and down to 45 you're good but they still give you a you know they still give you snacks and everything like that but by the time the the stewardess or you know ah it gets from the front of the plane to the back of the plane you're done yeah because it takes 20 minutes to go up and then it takes 20 minutes to go down so really how much time you're really in the air And that, no, no, no, that hour and 15 minutes includes gate to gate.
00:03:30
Speaker
That includes landing and waiting to get to the gate. So it's really like 50 minutes. Yeah. It's a short flight. It's not that bad. No, no, really not that bad. All I was trying to do when I was flying was avoid a nine hour drive because I knew I couldn't convince B to like go with me on a...
00:03:49
Speaker
A nine hour drive where she didn't know where she was going. so I was like,
Travel Discussion: Flights vs. Drives
00:03:53
Speaker
you know what? There's got to be some flight. Isn't it a blessing? Like when you're accustomed to doing long drives to take that one hour flight, isn't it such a blessing that that how much time you make up? Oh, he gets spoiled after a while.
00:04:05
Speaker
Super spoiled and it's addicting, but it's bad because you're paying for all of it. And it's like I had, I got off the flight. I walked over to the rental. I walked right into the car that I had booked.
00:04:16
Speaker
Right. And, and I took off and i was like this is fucking fantastic. I just like teleported. How was the border?
00:04:24
Speaker
Easy. They weren't strict. Yeah. No, no, they, they, they really weren't. I mean, even coming back into the U S they were like, where did you go?
00:04:36
Speaker
What did you do? And you, you don't even have to give them specifics. And this is probably speaking from a place of privilege, but I was just like, you know, Hey, yeah, we were here, we were in Ottawa and you know, we were there for, for just like a regular vacation.
00:04:50
Speaker
And they're like, okay, cool. Here you go. And that was it. No pressing about what I was carrying with me or whether I had more than a certain amount of cash or, you know, they press me on any of the specifics. So...
00:05:03
Speaker
I don't know whether that's rare or, you know, I'm, you know, getting special privileges here, but it was super, super clean. i Nice. I find that it's easier. Like back in the day, it was easier to get into Canada than it was coming, like coming back to the U.S. Like the U.S. hammered you on questions. I'm finding that it's the opposite.
00:05:24
Speaker
I'm finding that Canada is asking you tough questions. like and and we'll keep you there to ask you questions and and the us the last time i crossed it back into the us border the guy asked me if i had more than ten thousand dollars in cash and what i did for work and then he he put his pass he put uh my passport out and
Chalet Chat & Environmental Concerns
00:05:44
Speaker
i had to ask the guy because he must have been like half sleeping i asked him i was like are we done he's like yeah you're all sad like he didn't ask me where was what i was doing in this and that he goes you got ten thousand dollars in cash or more he said no he goes what do you do for work
00:05:56
Speaker
I said, I work in a hospital. And that was it. Karen was like, the fuck are you doing here? And I was like, well, you know. Yeah. I mean, plus if you're if you're driving in like a car that like realistically you couldn't really fit many people or, you know, whatever else that you want to hide in a car, um maybe they ask you less questions, but I'm sure it's way Way more than that.
00:06:23
Speaker
But yeah, man, I didn really didn't have any issues. um And it it was really a smooth trip. So here we are. I did have to see Mike again. and I knew that I said that I wouldn't, you know, ah wouldn't enjoy that. But, you know, it's good to see your face, buddy.
00:06:40
Speaker
Still wearing those glasses. Look, I even joined you this time. Yeah. Look at that. Solidarity. I wasn't going wear But you did. i And I'm happy you did. How was the chalet?
00:06:52
Speaker
I love that word, chalet. I feel like we should be adopt that in the English language. Chalet is like a version... um i don't want to say beach house, but it's like a lodge.
00:07:04
Speaker
It's like a vacation home almost. Yeah, like kind of ah a vacation home, like a lodge. like ah I don't want to say resort, you know? But like, what a word. Why are we not adopting that? How does the chalet look good? Because it's French.
00:07:15
Speaker
That's probably why we're not... It was fantastic. I tell you what, there was so, I, again, got so lucky because there was so much snow. um When we got there already, there was probably about like two feet of snow on the ground that that was already there. And it was like lightly snowing when we came in.
00:07:36
Speaker
And the day that we left um from that morning, it had snowed another five inches. count God damn. It's March. They're getting hammered. Yeah, this is like, but but about apparently after this, it's like it gets hot and it all melts.
00:07:54
Speaker
So I think I might have been just at the end of it Nice. You got the tail end of a winter wonderland. That's beautiful. Nice little A-frame, you know, little hot tub outside. I got in that the day that we left.
00:08:06
Speaker
Should have done it earlier. Oh my God. It's like, you know, when you go outside and it's snowing and it's incredibly quiet, it's like it's just access, as like a sound didn't exist into everything around you.
00:08:16
Speaker
It was like that. But if you're in the woods and it's already quiet, it's eerily quiet when it's snowing. Um, but it was just so cool. I sat in the hot tub and watched the day go by and was around the snow and i don't know. I had a really good time.
00:08:33
Speaker
was relaxed. Yeah. Well, I'm happy for you. That sounds like a great time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. think glad you set our ah You accomplished what you set out to do. Yeah. So now into two devastating pieces of news that I have for you guys.
00:08:49
Speaker
The first of which has been spoiled by Mike already in our group chat, which will be a reoccurring theme that we will bring up later, by the way. want the listeners. know shut the Shut up. Shut up. Shut up Shut up. Let me finish. Let me finish.
00:09:02
Speaker
Finish. it The listeners, I want you to remember this. When I say spoiling something in the group chat, we will be coming back to this later. Yes. But first thing, somber news.
00:09:15
Speaker
I'm very, very sad to report that our beloved seal Chappie has died. Rest in peace. no longer with us He was a state treasure. What happened? did did I didn't read the full thing that Mystic's book put out. What happened to him? and ah He had too much plastic in his intestines and basically bled to death through internal bleeding. fuck so it yeah I read something different. ah what did you well He had like pneumonia too, but it's all because there was plastic. okay what What did you read? oh he had he had ah like a twisting of his intestines.
00:09:48
Speaker
Well, yeah, like internal bleeding and stuff. But I think that's because of the plastics. No, they said that that was secondary. They said that that was just comfort the primary, secondary. You could list one, two. It doesn't matter. He didn't have enough plastic in his system to kill him.
00:10:06
Speaker
But for some reason- just roughed him up. That's all. His intestines were twisted. It cut off blood supply to like major parts of his intestines. And he couldn't recover Fuck. fuck We gotta, yeah, no, pour one out. What's wrong with this world? It's from my guy, man. That sucks. it that hard to recycle? No, like seriously. Is it that hard to recycle?
00:10:24
Speaker
Well, you know what it is? You know what it is? Like, especially like major corporations, all that shit just goes into the same dumpster. Like a lot of businesses and like schools and stuff will have two separate bins for like recycling and like regular trash.
00:10:40
Speaker
And they end up just throwing it into the same bin anyway. They just want the illusion and like, they just want to show you that they're recycling, but they're not actually recycling. So I worked with somebody at the at the hospital and they said that they had a ah coworker at a previous job who had a friend or whatever.
00:10:58
Speaker
Basically, long story short, what he was saying with, and Victor, you would know this, like all the cardboard and all the boxes that you throw out in in the pharmacy industry, right? There's countless, countless.
00:11:10
Speaker
he was He was holding on to those cardboard boxes and sending them out to his friend in India because they used the cardboard boxes to make so many different things. And I don't remember what it was, whether it was paper straws or this and that. But like literally, he was like, it was so insane to me that we just threw out all these boxes. He's like, this is like...
00:11:30
Speaker
um We all look at this like money. He was like, so I would i would take all the the boxes as I could and send them out to my friend because he would use them to reuse them for whatever he was making. And was like, it's genius. You know, how much shit do we really throw out?
00:11:44
Speaker
You know, like somebody couldn't throw out that six pack plastic ring that Chappie had to swallow to die. You know, like what's going on? Is that still a thing? theyve They've been trying to do it less and less, but yeah, absolutely.
00:11:57
Speaker
they They find ways to like perforate the edges even more like you know to make sure it like tears easier. right But literally, you can go to any supermarket and all sodas are pretty much still in. like Any six-pack of soda is in the plastic stuff. They do not have... like At least beers will do it in like a box. You know what and i mean? like They'll do it in a cardboard box, but sodas still do the plastic rings for the most part.
00:12:24
Speaker
Yeah, man, it's it's fucking sad. i We had a national treasure for like a week. I know. Literally. Literally. I mean, like, seriously, we put out the episode on Friday. It's only been like three days.
00:12:35
Speaker
I put out the reel about Chappie yesterday. And yeah, he's already fucking... It's gone, man. Rest in power to my guy. Rest in power. I was about to say rest in pieces, but rest in pieces. don't know about the pieces, man. Come on.
00:12:49
Speaker
All right. And I guess you know my my second piece of really, really sad news, Hooters has filed for bankruptcy.
Business Woes: Hooters & Nostalgia
00:13:00
Speaker
to Gasp. Yeah. I don't know anything. I don't know anything about... I've only been to Hooters once, and I wasn't even that impressed by the food or what's supposed to be the attraction of Hooters. Oh, okay. It was more just like... I even want to say like annoying, but it's like it just felt weird, you know?
00:13:19
Speaker
How could such a thriving business go under? Yeah. I don't really know. Like... I went to a Hooters like less than six months ago. It's really nothing to to write. home wow And the only people that are there are the people that like you look at and you're like, I know what you're doing. Yeah, yeah exactly.
00:13:42
Speaker
My guy, you're 60 years old in this place right now and you're a regular. Come on. Yeah. You're by yourself. Every Sunday. Yeah. We know what you're doing. First of all, everybody's going to Twin Peaks. So, you know, Hooters died down. Number two, but nobody's really... Twin Peaks is like ah the rival of Hooters. it's kind of ah It's mainly out in the Midwest.
00:14:02
Speaker
I don't think I've ever heard of Twin Peaks. I've never heard of Twin Peaks. Other than the show. I've never been. But Twin Peaks is pretty big out of the big out of the Midwest. It's kind of their rival now.
00:14:13
Speaker
That's what everybody was alluding to, that Hooters was going down because Twin Peaks is taking over. But number two, like... People, I don't know, people aren't into that anymore. i don't, I don't know. I don't, know I don't.
00:14:25
Speaker
Yeah. I, I'm going to be, I'm looking at photos at Twin Peaks restaurant right now. i give this the same lifespan as Hooters, man. Like that, i don't that's the thing. I don't get the appeal.
00:14:38
Speaker
You know, i I mean, I understand the appeal. It's supposed to be very, very attractive women in low cut shirts and like booty shorts serving you food or whatever. I don't know. That's not what I'm there for.
00:14:50
Speaker
I'm there for good wings. sorry Look at me. I'm a big boy. all right I'm there for the food. but also you're Vic, you're a wing guy. You're not going to Hooters first choice for wings. There's so many good wing options here in Connecticut and like locally to us too that like Hooters is not even on the fucking radar.
00:15:07
Speaker
no and Everyone said, like oh, Hooters, buffalo wing is really good. I went in there and got their like signature sauce and it kind of sucked ass. o I wasn't happy. Yeah, it's one of those things where you you go in there and you're like, I can't believe that this is still around.
00:15:24
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, it doesn't surprise me that they that they filed for bankruptcy. No. Also, also Hooters and Twin Peaks. Come on. Like the naming couldn't be any more obvious.
00:15:36
Speaker
it just It's just so weird to me. I will say the branding for Hooters, like the owl with the with the two eyes, yeah that's that's a cool logo. Yeah. That's a really, really cool logo. That bright orange.
00:15:47
Speaker
Oh my God. You could spot that a mile away. Yeah. But the rest of it, yeah, it's not really that big of a loss to me.
00:15:56
Speaker
But think of the think of the countless employees that are losing their job. What are they going to go to now? Twin Peaks. Yeah, Twin Peaks. right oh yes, because the ones the ones that still still work in the two in Connecticut are going to go to the Midwest for Twin Peaks. No, no, no. That means we start a Twin Peaks in Connecticut. Dude, let's do it. Let's start a franchise.
00:16:16
Speaker
That'd be so sick. We'd make lot of money. Let's do it right in an old Hooters, too. Yeah, in in the one in Manchester or whatever? not no, not Manchester. Not that one. There used to be one at Waterbury, allegedly.
00:16:29
Speaker
Hooters and Waterbury? Yeah. Obviously, as you can tell, that didn't last long. Allegedly. What this, like a conspiracy theory that we used to have of Hooters and Waterbury?
00:16:40
Speaker
i've Yeah, I've never heard of Hooters and Waterbury. Oh, yeah. Back in the day. Mike, I feel like you're tuned into like the Ponty nonsense. know what I mean? It's not nonsense. It's real. There was something nonsense. It doesn't. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Original Hooters closed 145 Bank Street, Waterbury, Connecticut. Ah, Bank Street. Yeah. Yeah. close yeah When did this close?
00:17:04
Speaker
Probably 1984. was to say like. that Yeah, I did it last long. It's like I closed yesterday. It lasted as long as Mamma Mia's. Rest in peace. Another rest in power right there. That tiramisu.
00:17:17
Speaker
ah Is this a funeral? We're losing too many people. I know, man. I know. Rest in peace. Mamma Mia's. Okay, hold on. So is it a... who ah It's called Original Hooters.
00:17:30
Speaker
That's all it's called. Maybe that's what it was called. Also, it brought me to fucking MapQuest, as if anyone has used MapQuest in the past 25 years. What is... i didn't even know MapQuest was still up.
00:17:44
Speaker
Yeah. Did you guys know that? Now, here's another rest in peace. Skype has gone down. Yeah. Skype is done. up in time they're going for they're They're sticking with Microsoft Teams over Skype.
00:17:57
Speaker
you guys You guys remember like after school after school doing little Skype, doing little Uvu? Remember that one? was going to say, I never used Skype. I used or... You guys ever hop on Omegle?
00:18:08
Speaker
Oh, yeah. yeah Yeah. Or AIM. Classic. Do you guys remember your... um your your handles I do but it's too cringe that I'm not gonna see yeah i'm gonna get roasted i go i'm really I'm gonna keep that one to myself man yeah we keep that one and that's that's for me and be only <unk>s So hold on. So we had the, do do we want to loop back to the whole group chat thing?
00:18:36
Speaker
I think, I mean, I'm ready for it. Go ahead. Can I say my piece before I get, but before I get wrecked? No, no man. You can say afterwards. yeah You're not going to let me. so love Well, all right.
00:18:51
Speaker
That's not true. How much, what what can I say? And what can I not say? Is what i is what I'll ask. how about you say what you want to say and then he can say afterwards whether or not we keep it in. No, um I mean, I think that was more of a question for you.
00:19:03
Speaker
Yeah. um I don't care about Mike. Yeah. yeah It doesn't matter what I tell him not to say and what not say. He's going to do it. yeah I mean, we can say what's going on. I'm not i'm not you know going to be secretive about that. yeah you know Because it's not public knowledge right now, but I mean, this comes out in four days. So I don't i assume and within... Yeah, lay it out there. I mean, everybody you know everybody who needs to know knows.
Engagement Mishap: Austin & B's Story
00:19:27
Speaker
Okay. So the reason why we've been talking about this trip so much is because this trip to Canada, Austin got engaged. um o One second, one second. Okay.
00:19:49
Speaker
that and then you start that shit yeah so um i was I forgot to do this before the show, but I was going to i was goingnna download the five booms sound is hilarious be like i like soular brand issue oh boom love who oh Yeah, man, your engagement gets five booms. You're also going to get that at your funeral, so get ready for that. i yeah the five And the wedding. what Let's get that's do the wedding first and then the funeral. That should 100% happen. B would kick us the fuck out so fast.
00:20:26
Speaker
But anyway, yeah, that's kind of what we've been dancing around for the beginning half of this episode, talking about Austin's trip. um So yeah, I mean, we've kind of known about it for a while. Yeah.
00:20:39
Speaker
obviously it's been in the works for a while. And so the day of Austin leaving for Canada, I decide to be a good friend and check in, you know, what I will say is I like to, you know, you guys know when like video games, like sports video games, when like players get like awareness stats, um,
00:20:59
Speaker
Like the quarterback will have like 90 awareness usually, and that like makes him a good quarterback. yeah I'd like to say my awareness is probably like a 90, 95, right? For sure. You have great emotional intelligence. Yeah.
00:21:11
Speaker
I knew that the plan was you land in Montreal and then drive for two hours. And in my mind, I'm like, okay, for those two hours that Austin is driving, anyone could be looking at his phone.
00:21:26
Speaker
Literally anyone. So, In my mind, I'm like, let me send a very nondescript text. Just, you know, I said, hey, man, hope you got to Canada. All right. If I don't hear from you, I'm going to cut the episode in half where we talk about you dying in an air crash because it'd be in poor taste.
00:21:43
Speaker
If we didn't hear from him, I think it would be in poor taste. Right. Or or very good service announcement. You know? Yeah. So, you know, again, I had that in mind. I was like, he could be looking at his phone while he's driving. Let me not send anything stupid.
00:21:59
Speaker
Mike sends, tell me when it's official. And then three ring emojis. Now, granted, the ring emojis were hidden by invisible ink, but you could clearly see if you looked at the emojis, like if you looked at the screen, that they were three diamond rings covered up by invisible ink.
00:22:18
Speaker
Yep. And so immediately i was like, hey, man, you need to unsend this. And I was at work and my service is not good at work. And what I've kind of I've wanted to bring this up and I keep forgetting Mike and I work for the same company in different sectors. So ah we're able to have each other on teams. And sometimes Mike and I will message each other how much we want to kill ourselves at work.
00:22:40
Speaker
Now, it's a completely different. It's a completely different story. But pretty much every day when I punch in, I will send Mike's a team message saying, hey, man, just got to work. I'm going to kill myself. Yeah. You know just for fun. Today's the day. And I'm like, hey, you want to hop on this payroll call real quick with me? Yeah.
00:22:54
Speaker
No, and then and then the company ah HR rep comes down because they've been monitoring your team chat. You want to make sure you're okay. What are they going to do? Yeah, that would be hilarious if they were doing that, but I doubt it. They don't care about us that much anyway. I know, that's what I'm saying. They're like, ooh.
00:23:12
Speaker
Yeah. Good, fuck them. We could hire someone for less anyway. Yeah.
00:23:19
Speaker
anyway So my text wasn't sending. So I immediately hop on teams and I'm spamming the thing. I'm like, bro, you need to delete this. You need to unsend it. And Mike's like, I can't, it won't let me unsend.
00:23:30
Speaker
So I'm, I'm not having a breakdown, but I am just like laughing at the absurdity of this.
00:23:37
Speaker
And again, Mike can defend himself afterwards, but I'm about to go to an even funnier part of the story that I think we discussed on Friday, but I can't remember. Can I, can I give my perspective on that real quick? Yeah, interject. So,
00:23:49
Speaker
and so ah I see we're driving in the car. Victor is absolutely right. We are in the car. We are headed to Ottawa. um And all of a sudden, because I got my phone connected to Apple CarPlay, like I'm driving the car. The only other person in the car is B. And I see a ping or two come up for the group chat. And I'm like, okay, whatever. And I ignore it.
00:24:11
Speaker
And then I started seeing ping, ping, ping, ping. Right. And, and you know, At the time, I understand the intention was, let me just, let me just fucking spam the chat and drive it down. And so she can't see it.
00:24:25
Speaker
Meanwhile, we're in the car and B is like, you know, they're sending a lot of messages. That seems like, do you want me to read like what they're sending? It seems like urgent. And I'm like, don't know.
00:24:36
Speaker
no, I don't want to hear what they're saying right now. And I just played it off. It's like, we're probably talking about some dumb shit. Like just leave it alone. Right. Lo and behold, if she opened that up, not only would she be spammed with absolutely ridiculous messages about bullshit that nobody cares about, then it would be like, bam, bam, bam.
00:24:54
Speaker
And we wouldn't have even gotten to the place yet. And not only did I see that, I know Victor, you're about to talk about this in a second, but I see a message from Victor and he's like, oh, by the way, Mike thinks that if she did read that, it wouldn't have been that big of a deal. And I was like, not that big of a deal.
00:25:13
Speaker
what the fuck are we, and what am I doing? Right? Like, black why do you think I'm in Canada? At that point, it's just like, well, let's go home. Right? Like, I don't need to bring you to the show. Oh, no. No. That's it. Trip over. Right?
00:25:30
Speaker
Cat's out of the bag. No, get the fuck out of here. no, no, no. Listen, listen. I need to go. but i I will send this to you guys because i took it I took a picture of this to make sure that this man could not wring his way out of it. Mm-hmm.
00:25:44
Speaker
I took a picture of our team's chat because literally I was like, this is going to be a really funny story if Austin is not mad enough to not record with us on Sunday. And he goes, what do you mean he would be mad?
00:25:56
Speaker
was like, you don't think spoiling the engagement would make him upset? He was like, nah, she already knows, bro. That's crazy. I'm going to tell i'm telling you right now, i'm like if she found out in that car, not only would you not be invited to the wedding,
00:26:12
Speaker
No, I would not have recorded. she wasn't going to find out, guys. What's the big deal? She wasn't going to know. Not only did you put that message in the group chat, you proceeded to send 10 messages after that that made her think that she needed to read the chat.
00:26:31
Speaker
so You handled it like a champ. You were like, nah, they're talking dumb shit. It's done. It's it done. It's all good. You know? Yeah, it's done now. And again, like we said, it's a very, very funny story.
00:26:43
Speaker
But, oh my God. This is ridiculous. This is like why you only read certain people in at certain times because you know that somehow, some way, they're going to fuck it up.
00:26:55
Speaker
should have read Mike in then i got to read like a minute before. Yeah, Mike, how about how about you read out exactly you read our our team's message? Yeah, you read but you read the back and forth.
00:27:08
Speaker
Yeah, we were going back and forth real fast. Yeah. It'll be a fun story on the pod if he decides that he's not too mad to do the study or to do this Sunday.
00:27:18
Speaker
I said, why would he be mad? If you spoiled the surprise, you don't think he'd be mad? Not at all. Okay, well, that's a topic for Sunday. I didn't spoil it. Just don't put it in the universe.
00:27:30
Speaker
I hope, man. But if she saw that... And I said, nah, we're in the clear. Which, by the way, you most certainly were not in the clear. Nobody knew at that point who had read what or whatever. Mike was just talking out of his fucking ass. listen.
00:27:45
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, go ahead go ahead. The floor is yours now, Michael. Go ahead. Explain. Look, here's the deal.
00:27:53
Speaker
Yeah, look, I know where I messed up. You what I'm saying? know where I probably shouldn't have. So apparently, and I learned this that day, is that when you send something in invisible ink, you can't hold it down to undo, send, or edit, or anything.
00:28:06
Speaker
Because I was like, ah I realized when I threw it in there, i was like, nah, that's probably not a good idea. you know And Victor was like, hey, yo, delete that. And I was like, i was I was beating the phone. I was like, it's not it's not happening.
00:28:17
Speaker
So then that's why I was like, spam the chat. Because we just got to throw there in heavens. in the heaven But I mean, it's it's pinging. It's going on. Was your phone now? Was your phone in your pocket while you were driving?
00:28:31
Speaker
No, Mike. My phone was in the middle console and I was projecting it on Apple CarPlay driving to the Airbnb. Was it connecting? Because Apple CarPlay, you don't have to connect it anymore. You can leave it in the pocket.
00:28:45
Speaker
Yeah, but Mike, we I needed her to put in directions. She was putting on music. You could do that from the screen. You could do that from the screen. You don't need the phone for that. Okay, okay. forward stop Stop victim blaming here, by the way. ra I'm sorry. I thought I had the floor. This is crazy. I thought I had the floor. you do to But I'm objecting your dumb shit right now, all right? Let's just let him go. Go ahead. Yeah, you know, go ahead.
00:29:13
Speaker
good Tell me how I was doing the wrong. I have nothing to say. All I can say is it didn't get out. We're good. It's all good. like not only here's the other thing that I didn't have to mention either.
00:29:24
Speaker
Not only did you send all of those messages and I had to block them because she almost opened it. I then had to go into my phone and delete all of those text messages.
00:29:37
Speaker
And we're not far from each other. Like we're, you know, we're in a small cabin. Right. And so I had to find a way to discreetly delete those and not have her see me delete those so that she thought something else nefarious was going on. You go take a shit in the bathroom. You delete it all in there. I mean, how hard is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:54
Speaker
The other thing that I'm not saying either is if there are times where we're driving and you guys do send messages, I usually find it funny to say to her, nah, read it out loud. You guys, it's good to do shit that you're saying. Okay. Why don't you bring that up first?
00:30:09
Speaker
Why don't you say that, hey, sometimes she casually reads it because it's dumb shit. No, no, no. Maybe. know it's not... It's not my job to tell you, hey, Mike, she reads it, by the way, so don't say anything stupid. That should be assumed. No, you know me. No, you've got to tell me. you got Awareness, 55. Awareness, 95.
00:30:27
Speaker
Am I being too generous with that 55? I was going to say 35. I give myself a 13. Look, I get it.
00:30:37
Speaker
i get it. It didn't happen. It all worked out. You had to do a little audible and it's all, it's all good. It's all good. It's a great laugh. Do I love that? I did this to you. Absolutely not. I don't, but I feel like you guys make it a little big deal than what it has to be.
00:30:52
Speaker
I feel like I'm telling you right now, if, yeah if she had found out it would have been the biggest fucking deal in the world. Come on. Yeah.
00:31:06
Speaker
Come on Mike, your friend points are dropping so hard and plummeting. If you had a stock. Dude, I just gave you five big booms for getting engaged. Bullshit. Listen, shoe on the other foot. Are you mad?
00:31:20
Speaker
Yeah, actually, that's a great point. Shoe on the other foot. Are you upset? If if one of us had done that to you? Well, Austin doesn't text me, so I'm usually pretty in the clear. So I'm not. i' look like Look what he's doing. Look what he's doing.
00:31:32
Speaker
Look what he's doing. He's trying to turn it. He's trying to turn it.
00:31:37
Speaker
No, no, no. Just completely deflecting away from the question. this is This is like classic. Like somebody with a psychology degree, please, please analyze this conversation and talk about all the different defensive techniques that Mike is using here.
00:31:51
Speaker
Yeah. We've got victim blaming. And what was the other one that we just talked about? Doesn't even matter. Yeah. You know what? i Listen, I owned up to where I was wrong.
00:32:02
Speaker
No, you didn't. You owned up to it just now. owned up to when you called. Did Bea at least get a good chuckle out of it? Was she like, oh, knucklehead Mike up to his no good antics again? Yeah, after the fact, for sure. She found out on the phone when I was FaceTiming you guys to tell you.
00:32:22
Speaker
And we smoothed it over. I brought my mom on camera. It's all good. You know I'm saying? We had a good time. Yeah, Kora makes everything better, for sure. do you think I was there? i was like, good. They want to talk to you, not to me. I was like, get in there. but
00:32:36
Speaker
Oh, man. I'll formally apologize to Bea next time I see her. Yeah, if you could if you could write like a ah letter and send it over, that'd great. Yeah, send me your address. I'll mail it.
00:32:47
Speaker
That's not Yeah, of course. No problem. You know what? We're going to look back at it, and we're going to laugh. But I know Austin, every time like everywhere he goes now, if he goes to his parents, XYZ, he's going to tell the story. My friend Mike almost fucking blew it. You know what I'm saying?
00:33:03
Speaker
I am only going to tell that story to the people that know Yeah. Because they're going to know exactly what you're talking about. no they're going to say that's some shit that Mike would do. 100%. 100%.
00:33:14
Speaker
ah hundred percent hundred percent I tell you what, though, if I go to my family's place and I tell them that story and they're like, well, why do you you know you you said something to her. You kept him from seeing it. It's all good. You know, nobody. i Thank you, oh bro.
00:33:30
Speaker
I would. Listen, me and big Tony Cable. Best friends. yeah Yeah, I may. I may. You know, me and Pam may may hit some Pilates next week. You know what saying? That's how close we are.
00:33:40
Speaker
You know, what are you going to And her sister that lives in Maryland or whatever, you know, yeah you know, it's all good. By the way, for everybody, like that I won't give too much detail, but like there was a whole thing about planning this ah proposal that just got very, very convoluted at the end of like having to try to keep things secret. And you know ah it got out of hand.
Proposal Planning Drama
00:34:05
Speaker
I went and I called my parents and I explained to them like the latest drama with it all. And my father was like, too fucking complicated. Whatever you got going on right now, this could have been so much simpler. was like, you know what? You're right. Thanks, Dad.
00:34:23
Speaker
Appreciate it. I was like i was looking for like a, hey, it's going to be okay. And he was more like, fuck you doing it.
00:34:33
Speaker
Big Tony C's looking out for the best of you. You know what? It all worked out. We can all laugh at it later on in life. What a story. You know what? You're welcome for the story. you wow ok The gaslighting. This crazy.
00:34:46
Speaker
To end this with, you know what? You're welcome. I feel like if anything, I may have made the story better. don't know. Holy shit. Oh, brother. I cannot wait until you have something important going on that you need. I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you. If he tells you about something going on, maybe he's going to be.
00:35:06
Speaker
I got you. No, you're both cut off. You're both cut off. That's crazy. So bad. You're both cut off. It's hilarious. It's also direct message to whoever it is. Like if he's proposing, going to send a direct message to who, are you know, to, to Alessandra and be like, he's going to do it. And then I'm going to say, yo you were in the room with her. Why didn't you stop it
00:35:35
Speaker
Holy shit. It's all good. It all turned out okay. She knew what was going to happen. You know what? You're welcome. ah ah When you when you make a when you should say it like that, it sounds like an asshole. you know yeah I wonder why. What was that saying that you said, the other like the life advice that you gave a couple of episodes ago about you being the asshole? and um yeah but yeah let's we dont I don't think it applies. i don't think it applies and i think applies Move on.
00:36:05
Speaker
as the You know what? I guess that's a great segue for for this week's life advice. She had a little jingle for this thing. But, you know, obviously, you know, I think times are tough.
00:36:19
Speaker
um You know, as explained, Mike and I really hate our jobs. So I found a solution for us to sleep at work, bud. okay i think you're going to like this one.
00:36:30
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he If you're caught sleeping at your desk, All you have to do is go, damn, they told me at the blood drive that this would happen. Sorry, boss. Beautiful. Genius.
00:36:43
Speaker
Wait, you have to have like, ah well, I guess if you're wearing sleeves. Well, mean, if you're doing heroin, I mean, that kind of helps too, you know? yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wouldn't really be a blood drive, but you know. Yeah, you know, but hey, you get the needle marks for it, but.
00:36:57
Speaker
Yeah, that's commitment. Wow. thats you know that That's a good one. i mean Hey, listen. if anyone If any of you guys get caught sleeping at your desks, just use that one. Because and what do they get what are they going to say? They're going to question your integrity?
00:37:10
Speaker
You just donated blood for a blood drive. You are helping the community. Yeah. Carry a chocolate chip cookie around with you at all times. Yeah. Carry a Red Cross sticker. and i'll get get all Get everything. Have them in your drawer or something like that. Yeah.
00:37:24
Speaker
Let's see if you can Amazon those. Oh, 100%. Sure you can. I'm sure if you go to American Red Cross website, you could probably just get them. Yeah. Red Cross.
00:37:37
Speaker
That's good. That's good.
00:37:41
Speaker
Stickers. Donating. Blood.
00:37:48
Speaker
and Okay, they don't they don't have them on sale on Amazon, but you could easily yeah you could easily Photoshop. yeah you trying to scam the American Red Cross right now on a sticker? We're not telling people to run blood drives. We're just telling them to have the stickers on it.
00:38:06
Speaker
If anything, you're creating awareness. Yeah. Damn, you actually like can't buy these. They got the old ones. They got old ones from like the 50s for $6 on What about the pins?
00:38:17
Speaker
but but Isn't it IP? that why you can't... That might be it. Yeah, it is probably... is huh Oh, you know, Etsy might have them. Oh, somebody will make it on Etsy.
00:38:30
Speaker
No, they don't. They have different things. If they were making them on Etsy, they'd be getting sued. Yeah. It's alright, guys. I mean, basically, even without it, you're solid. Yeah. what like What is your boss going to do?
00:38:42
Speaker
Like, come Yeah. I mean, I'll try it. I'll let you know. Yeah, let us know. I'll tell you what though. If somebody found me asleep at my desk while working, I'd be freaked out. How the fuck did you get in my house?
00:38:58
Speaker
um That is true. How the fuck did you get in my house and why are you... to Somebody from work in my own home? Oh my God. you wouldn't even You wouldn't even make coffee for them?
00:39:11
Speaker
No. I'd probably be too busy dragging their body somewhere. That's fucked up. Jesus. I would at least ask them if they want to stay for dinner.
00:39:26
Speaker
We're very different people, Mike. Yeah. Clearly, as you could tell in this whole episode, yeah, we're two different people. Yeah, that is that is very true. We are two different people on how we approach situations. That is hilarious.
00:39:40
Speaker
It's all good, Austin. You know what? Although I may have spoiled the surprise. It's all good. Oh, yeah. You know I love you, buddy. It's just, you know, you got some quirks and this one was was a big one. Yeah.
00:39:52
Speaker
but Yeah, no, just say my fault right on camera. That's fine. Thank you. But yeah, I love you, too. Thank you so much. We can keep going. Victor has been telling me that he has blackmail on me. Oh, man. i got Just wait. Just wait. Listen, in a couple of weeks, we are going to be doing a series of episodes in person.
00:40:11
Speaker
In the guest lineup that I have. ah I'm nervous. Yeah, we do have a guest lineup. Oh my God. Mike might not show up. Yeah, no. It's just one of our old co-workers. One of our close friends. Does it start with No.
00:40:28
Speaker
it's just one of our old co-workers who was like one um yeah one of our close friends start with an m no No, no, no. I would i would not show up.
00:40:43
Speaker
That would amazing. That wouldn't be funny. That wouldn't. No, no, that wouldn't. That wouldn't be funny at all. No.
00:40:52
Speaker
No. Why would we do that? but What's the joy out of For the content. Yeah, for yeah for the clips. For the five extra likes we'll get off that photo or that video? I don't know about five. Yeah.
00:41:04
Speaker
You never know, dude I mean, that could be that could be what rockets us to the fucking moon. dude Dude, we get the the world's first gotcha podcast.
00:41:18
Speaker
Doing an Eric Andre type show, but to our own friend. Yes. for For literally no reason other than for for just our enjoyment. For clout.
00:41:29
Speaker
yeah for but No, not even clout. No one will watch it. it and just let's start It's just us. So you're admitting nobody's going to watch it. So what are we going to do it for? you that i just say We're doing it just to get Mike's ass. Just yeah just to own him.
00:41:44
Speaker
How is this fun? How is that fun? the You got to see the humor in it, man. yeah What humor? What do you mean? I said to Victor the other day that I think our next in-person podcast should be a tracksuit episode. Would you agree or disagree, Austin?
00:42:04
Speaker
I wouldn't mind doing the tracksuit thing again. I mean, we we we bought them. We got to use them. but I'm just saying, no rhyme or reason. you know We're all together. Last time we were together, we put on some track suits. Maybe we do it again.
00:42:18
Speaker
I'm not opposed. I'm not opposed.
00:42:22
Speaker
That's a good man. That's beautiful. The 14th will have a stacked lineup of guests coming in and out of the basement. More than one? Yes. More than one. Who's the others?
00:42:36
Speaker
You'll find out. You'll find out when you show Live from New York. And I'm going to have it in a way where they come through the door. So they you don't we don't even get any prep time.
00:42:46
Speaker
it is what We're already rolling. it's like, alright, guest number one. Come through. is this like Remember that MTV show Next where they used to just roll off the roll off the ah RV?
00:42:59
Speaker
You remember that show? It used to be like a dating show and they used to come off the RV and you could say like immediately next for any reason. And the longer they stayed, the more money they made. Oh, really? that sounds like ah That sounds like the button. You ever see those? Yeah, i was going to say, I feel like a show... like It's crazy because it was like super... like in In today's standards, the way they were doing the show was super like shallow and like really... like i don't know. I would say non-PC or whatever.
00:43:29
Speaker
But like I think if you were to bring that concept back... into like, like, you know, like, have you guys seen like the 20 V ones like dating shows or like the balloon popping shows? yeah i've seen them Yeah. Those are like pretty like, I mean, again, I think it's like the same thing where it's like, it's not really the clean. It's pretty shallow the way people reject each other, like with the balloons and stuff.
00:43:53
Speaker
But I feel like a show like next would probably be really popular if they brought it back. I agree. And I think if we took like a, Like you guys watch, what would you do?
00:44:05
Speaker
i've seen yes I've seen it. Yeah. I think if we applied that format here, but we just had a segment for Mike And we ran them through like different like what would you do scenarios. I feel like that extremely entertaining. For who?
00:44:18
Speaker
For who? Who's that entertaining? everybody watching the show. yeah That might be segment for next week. I'm going to come up with list of scenarios and I'm just going to be like, what would you do, Mike?
00:44:31
Speaker
We can all answer, but we know where the real entertainment going to come from. yeah exactly.
00:44:37
Speaker
i don't I don't like this. I don't like this. You don't like what? I don't like how this is this is a gang up on me. you know What did I do wrong? What did I do? I think we explicitly told you what you This like... Did you die?
00:44:50
Speaker
this is this is like Did you do most you know i'm saying like did you did you get in trouble? that is i mean our Brother, you would have died if...
00:45:01
Speaker
If you spoiled it, you would have died. Yes. Yes. No, it wasn't going to get spoiled. This what you guys aren't understanding. It wasn't going to get spoiled. No, no, no. This is what you are not understanding. Almost did. You put it it it. Listen, it was not going to get spoiled until you sent stuff that could have made it spoiled. na You directly put it in the line of fire.
00:45:23
Speaker
Mike, we were seconds away from ruining the entire thing. No, come on. Yes. What do you mean no? Seconds.
00:45:34
Speaker
You know what? I want the other side of the story on the podcast next episode. Who? Whose side of the story? I want to i want the unbiased opinion. but by The unbiased opinion from who? Of of of b What do you wouldn le my think she thinks? What do you think she's going to say?
00:45:55
Speaker
What do you think she thinks, man? There's two things that could have happened, right? She could have picked it up and read it automatically.
00:46:06
Speaker
Or she did what she did and she asked whether she could pick it up and read it because she had access to the phone. She was doing the music and everything like that. And then the text messages came in. So it was either she was just going to automatically jump to and be like, oh, Mike and Victor texted you. And they said, or she did what she did, which was the right thing to do and said, hey, they're they're sending you a bunch of messages. Should I read them for you?
00:46:27
Speaker
And I said, no, please don't do that. Please, please don't do that. I beg of you.
00:46:36
Speaker
Nah, it didn't get ruined. We're all good. We're in the club. God, Mike. I am so glad that this is recorded right now so that we can reference this later on when I intentionally sabotage something.
00:46:50
Speaker
You're not going to intentionally sabotage that because you're not going to know. You're not going to know. oh Oh, Mike. think that's enough badgering for one episode. What do you guys think?
00:47:04
Speaker
Of you or of me? When did we badger you? where In this 50-something minutes, when when did we badger you? And in fact, we gave you praise.
00:47:15
Speaker
We said, congratulations. You survived a flight. You did great planning. We we were on your team. We're on your team. Victor was on my team. When did I say your planning was shit? When did say that? Well, you told me that it was my fault that you almost ruined the my proposal. That's when you weren't on my team.
00:47:34
Speaker
I don't remember that. Play that back. All right. You're right. Also in the pre-planning when Austin was like, you know what? I got to stick to this route because this is the route I chose. I, I told my boy, I was like, you know what? I support that. I think you should do that. And you were like, nah, man, you got to tell her. You got, you got to let her go. There's no context. Not and the listeners are not going to understand that. one i know and there There can't be context. Cause there's a lot more to you know, that we'd be here for what I'm saying is I chose the route of team B.
00:48:03
Speaker
and And number one, I chose the route of Team B. And number two, I wasn't explicitly like, awesome, just like just tell her straight up. You know what I'm saying? But I was just like, you know give her look give a little son to work with. you know i need, i need from from both of you guys, I'm going to you know right now, I need you to always be Team A.
00:48:19
Speaker
Right now. And I want to listen. dawn i want I want to be team. a I want I want team. I want team. I'm saying i we baby I want to be team. A so bad. But the problem is you hurt my feelings, dude. I mean, come on. Oh, what? What did I hurt? Hold on. Hold on.
00:48:37
Speaker
Are you telling me? Are you telling me you intentionally did this because I hurt your feelings? No. Oh my God. No. Victor, is that what this sounds like? That's kind of what it sounds like.
00:48:50
Speaker
No. I didn't do that. didn't sabotage you. I can't believe you guys think I sabotaged him. No, Mike, you almost sabotaged us and it would have been fine.
00:49:01
Speaker
But then you said it was no big deal. And then I was like... Now it's time. Well, so you just said right now, I almost sabotaged you and it would have been fine. But in the past 50 something minutes, you alluded to it not being fine.
00:49:14
Speaker
So you can't. You doubled down on it. Yeah, you doubled down, dude. You told me. If you were just like, yo, my my bad. I didn't mean to do that. that's my I did I did it. yeah I said it. After you had already doubled down.
00:49:27
Speaker
Yeah. All right. All right. We've spent too much time on this. and I feel bad. all right. No, we're good. We're good. Obviously, in all seriousness, I obviously did a big fuck up.
00:49:38
Speaker
I knew immediately. I learned something new. You can't undo a sentence with invisible ink. Found that out the hard way. Yeah, did. But now you know. Yeah.
00:49:49
Speaker
And knowing's half the battle. And knowing is half the battle. All about growth. right. Here we go. There's another life advice for you guys. don't Don't explicitly text your friends big news or spoil their big news by accident.
00:50:07
Speaker
It's all right, Mike. We we still love you. You didn't do anything wrong. I mean, you did a lot wrong, but I mean, you know what i mean. Hey, listen, I admit it. admit it. I did an oopsie. you know, I did in an oopsie.
00:50:19
Speaker
But you know, we're going to laugh about it in 10 years, you know? Yeah. No, no, no. You're right. You're right. I mean, we can laugh about it now. We were literally laughing about it just now. It didn't feel like laughter, but I mean, you know, it was laughter. laughter there we laugh I'm telling you, Vic got a kick out of it. Vic took going to watch this unfold.
00:50:40
Speaker
Oh, shit. That's beautiful. Listen, whoever gives a speech at the wedding has to mention it. Yes. that's all say Everyone has to know. And you know what? I think we could play this pic with the podcast. You probably could. I'd be like, you know what? I would love to explain it, but this just does it so well.
00:50:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:01
Speaker
You know, that's good promotion. It's good storytelling. We could get like 35 followers just that night. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, whoever your best man is, just just be like, dude, don't do his speech. We're just going a quick seven-minute video. yeah pull up Pull up this clip. I'm going to cut this into a clip on its own, right?
00:51:20
Speaker
For YouTube. Of course. Be perfect. All right. Yeah, let's ah switch gears here. ah you guys watch the Oscars last night at all or no?
Oscars Review & Film Highlights
00:51:32
Speaker
I didn't, but I saw all the highlights.
00:51:34
Speaker
Okay. I did not. No, I didn't. Yeah, I didn't watch any. i watched a couple of the Oscar movies. I was pretty happy that Enora won Best Picture. What is that about?
00:51:44
Speaker
So, Anora is about a sex worker who... it's been like It kind of follows the plot lines of Pretty Woman, I'd say, for like the first... like If you bold it down to one sentence where it's like, a sex worker falls in love with a very rich like guy.
00:52:01
Speaker
And then that's kind of where the paths like diverge. Because the last like hour of Anora is basically like a i don't to say like a crime like movie, you know what i mean? In a sense, but it's like a gritty, like noir almost where like, basically it's this, it's a, it's like a young girl and a young, like they're in their early twenties and the guy is like from an oligarch family in Russia And she's a sex worker in Brooklyn and they fall in love. They get married so that he can stay in the U.S. because he doesn't want to go home to Russia um and like doesn't want to like deal with his family.
00:52:43
Speaker
And his family obviously cannot accept the fact that he got married, especially to a sex worker. So they send people to like his, like they send his like handlers, like his parents, like hired help to like, you know, whatever, um, to like find him and he like dips.
00:53:01
Speaker
And so the rest of the movie is a Nora who's played by Mikey Madison. She's fucking incredible in the movie. She won the Oscar for best actress. And I think it was pretty well-deserved. Um, it's her and the goons, like the, the parents help basically tracking him down through like all of New York.
00:53:20
Speaker
And then like his family comes in and like forces them to separate. And, uh, it's like, ah it's a pretty, like, it's funny. It has so many elements. Like, it's funny. It's emotional.
00:53:34
Speaker
um It's like sad. this was like a low budget movie, right? I don't know about low budget. It's eight 24 film, I believe. Um, if I'm not mistaken, i think, I think what I read was that it was like, like less than $10 million dollars that they had. Oh yeah. It wasn't you. Yeah. $6 million dollars for the budget.
00:53:55
Speaker
Um, and Isn't that the trend? isn't Hasn't that been the trend for the last handful of years that like a lot of indie um or not widely known movies are getting like recognition and then they become popular afterwards?
00:54:12
Speaker
um I mean, yeah, kind of. Yeah. I can't remember what one last, last year, but like Mikey Madison's like sort of a rising star. She's had like a couple, like she was in once upon a time in Hollywood, but this I think is like her main, she's in scream too, as like a side character, but this is kind of like her first time taking on like a massive role, I believe in a film.
00:54:36
Speaker
And she crushed it. Like really. Um, and Sean Baker's had like a couple of indie films too. Um, who's the director, Sean Baker. Um,
00:54:47
Speaker
And some of this, I mean, I'm trying to like, I'm looking through his filmography to see what I've like actually watched. And I, I don't think I've actually watched anything but a Nora. Um, but I've heard like a lot of his stuff is good.
00:55:00
Speaker
I gotta go back and watch it. i don't even look at that. And you know what I did watch recently too, um, which I don't think had any, um awards was The Substance. Oh, The Substance, I heard, like, i I tend to lean away from horror films just because I'm too much of a bitch to fucking be scared.
00:55:19
Speaker
um But I heard The Substance was incredible. it It really isn't like a ah horror movie. It's, ah I shouldn't say that. It's body horror.
00:55:30
Speaker
Okay. Right? Because the whole concept of the movie is that Demi Moore is like a former um fitness model. And in her, like she's being pushed out, right? they're they're They're replacing her. They're looking to replace her with somebody new.
00:55:48
Speaker
And the the sci-fi aspect of it is that she comes across a serum that will... supposedly make you younger. Right.
00:55:58
Speaker
And so she takes that as like a last ditch effort to, to keep herself in the spotlight and everything goes from that. But it's, it's all like transfiguration and in body horror type stuff.
00:56:10
Speaker
But it's so cool. Like, All practical effects, like very much like the thing. Yeah. The original, the thing kind of like practical effect type deal. It was so, so, so, so cool.
00:56:23
Speaker
little out there, but I thought it was great. I was surprised it didn't win anything. But if you haven't seen it. A lot of people were upset that um Demi Moore kind of got snubbed for the Oscar.
00:56:34
Speaker
I still think like, again, I maybe I'll go and watch the substance because, again, I've heard great things, but. um The performance that Nora, like that Mikey Madison put on in Nora was incredible too.
00:56:48
Speaker
And that's not to say Demi Moore isn't, you know and i mean? It's just only one person can win. And I guess, you know, the the voters were rocking with a Nora because it won best picture too. Yeah. um And it's, it's subjective, right? Like whoever's going to be on the board to vote for these movies are biased. They're obviously biased.
00:57:04
Speaker
So it doesn't mean that the other one wasn't a good movie. Yeah. I mean, just being nominated, I think means that they're all great movies. Um, I will say anything, any of these?
00:57:16
Speaker
No, I didn't see any them. I saw um that the main character of Anora do an interview at Jimmy Fallon. She was saying like all the stuff she had to learn.
00:57:27
Speaker
You know, she's like, I had to learn Russian for the film. I had to learn a Russian dialect. She's like, I had to, she goes, and I don't, you guys would know this or Vicky would know this because you see in the movie, she's like, I had to learn,
00:57:38
Speaker
how to dance like a stripper that's what she said literally right there she's like i had to learn how dance like stripper she's like i had to learn how to twerk she's like i i never knew how to do that she was like that's that's not my avenue and she's like my family watched the movie so many times because they were just yeah they loved the film but she's like i was doing things i've never done before i learned so much and i was like that's pretty cool you know that's how you know that you're either you know a rising star or a rising actor actor or whatever the case is where you just like learn these skills out of nowhere for your role and you just end up nailing it.
00:58:09
Speaker
You know, that's how, that's how, what that's what separates the good from the greats, you know? Yeah. I saw that she had, um she had also like lived in Brooklyn with like, um either with like a group of women or like make made friends with a group of women because she really wanted to like nail the Brooklyn accent.
00:58:27
Speaker
yeah she did her she did a fantastic job in the movie did you guys see it wasn't at the oscars what was the the other one that was a couple weeks ago but did you guys see um that everybody was going through and talking about like oh i'm from la and i'm an actor and talk about like their la experience and the it was famous video of um The cast from Shrinking, ah her name is Jessica. I don't remember her last name, but she was saying her little monologue about being from L.A.
00:58:54
Speaker
And Harrison Ford was just there like eating a chip and realized he was in the camera. And then she turned around. She's like, but go away. It was the funniest thing, dude. She's like, I told you not to look. It was the funniest thing I left.
00:59:07
Speaker
And then obviously the famous one from the Oscars is Conan O'Brien going on there and be like, well, it's the half point of the show. And that means, ah that means Kendrick Lamar is going to call a drink, a pedophile. And I was like, oh shit. i was like, we're still doing that. That's pretty funny. Yeah. Can't not comment on it. I mean, it I mean, it is crazy. It is like reaching even that too, but listen, like that's,
00:59:31
Speaker
big. Yeah, it's big. It's got to be tough for Drake. Again, halftime show, the Oscars are now... like He's catching strikes at the Oscars. like didn't they Didn't they settle? they so He settled the UMG lawsuit, ah which you know I don't even know They probably like, just drop it. Yeah. I don't know how much we, I don't think we talked about it much, but like, honestly, I can understand what he's like talking about with like the, not pay for play, but like payola has been a thing for like decades where it is like sort of like some disc jockeys and like other, you know, whatever, like radio stations will get a little bit of incentive to play another song or like, you know, play a certain song a bunch of times or whatever.
01:00:14
Speaker
But yeah, For Drake to think that he hasn't also benefited off that system at one point or another is also pretty funny to me. yeah like they I think UMG is doing it to all their artists, as they should, by the way. you know what i mean like that if it's ah If it's a legal practice, you wouldn't be a good record company if you weren't.
01:00:32
Speaker
But it is funny for him to be like, yeah, only the the label's only benefiting Kendrick and not me. Well, yeah. And in for him, he's definitely ignorant to think that they're doing that because they want to snub him, not because they want to make money.
Celebrities & Gambling Ethics
01:00:48
Speaker
You know what mean? Exactly. Yeah. It's not about ah being a diss to Drake. It's about how can we maximize profits? This song is already one of the hottest songs of the year. Of course, let's keep like putting money behind it.
01:01:00
Speaker
It's like, let this shit blast off. Yeah. has drake Drake hasn't done a halftime show, right? No. no But I guarantee you, if it was the other way around and Drake came out with the one that that took off and people thought that he had won the beef and he got the opportunity to to do a super bowll halftime to Super Bowl halftime show, absolutely he would fucking do it.
01:01:22
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. You'd be dumb not to. Yeah, exactly. And that's that's the whole thing. You'd be dumb not to. And so for Drake to think that Kendrick and in the label are going to like not go this route is like...
01:01:36
Speaker
It's so ridiculous. It's ignorant, but I mean, i don't know. But did you, did you see in the same light, did you see that Drake posted a steak logo on his Instagram the other day? no ah what oh what he posted he posted the the company stake i think it's ah like a sports betting thing yeah it's it's crypto gambling crypto gambling yeah he posted on instagram just the logo for the company stake and he said in the caption he's like everybody please disregard this message i just need an extra two million dollars to get myself back up into the green because i lost a lot this weekend
01:02:11
Speaker
I think that's like, a oh, damn, I wanted to bring this. like I had this as a topic for a couple weeks ago, but um we can go into it now that you brought this up. um Yeah, I mean, he is a huge ah advertiser for Steak.
01:02:26
Speaker
He is on there all the time like gambling. He's like doing Twitch streams or kick streams or whatever, gambling on there. Yeah. What's really, really predatory and ah shitty about it is that all that money that he's quote-unquote losing is funded by Stake, most likely.
01:02:47
Speaker
so he is So he's like, oh yeah, I lost $2 million, dollars but it's not really $2 million. dollars it's like It's nothing. it's it's nothing He's supposed to lose that money or whatever. It's coming out of Stake's pocket, not his pocket.
01:03:00
Speaker
And in by stakes pocket, it's really the people he's driving to stake to gamble. like It's coming out of their pockets. It's coming out of the consumers' pockets. Because he's making way more money than that.
01:03:12
Speaker
Oh, yeah. hundred percent But like every time there's a big event, like Super Bowl, big boxing thing, like the NBA finals, like Drake will post on his story, like his bet slip of like, oh, I bet a million dollars on Duke to win the national championship tonight or whatever in basketball.
01:03:31
Speaker
Yeah. And I think that like drives a lot of younger and impressionable. And you know what? Again, this is something I had a conversation with someone about this last night. I don't think you have to be young to be impressionable.
01:03:44
Speaker
I think you can be impressionable at any age and get sucked into some dumb shit like this all the time. You could see it in like politics, like pop culture. And I think fan, when it comes to like fandoms like this, like I do think someone our age could see Drake winning Oh, Drake won $150,000 because he bet on the Chiefs to win this game.
01:04:07
Speaker
I could win ah fuck ton of money. So let me do you know let me get on stake and do whatever. And then you know they get lost in a rabbit hole. And you know Drake's not losing anything, but these guys are losing their fucking life savings. you know yeah and that's And it's not just Drake. I'm not here to just shit on Drake. I i genuinely mean this about like any... It's mainly streamers and like content creators that go on and do gambling like sponsorships.
01:04:31
Speaker
It's incredibly predatory. yeah And I don't know how these companies... I mean, Kik is owned by Stake, so that's how they're able to get around it, because they fucking own the streaming site. But it's just fucking shitty, because it's going to be real people losing real money.
Drake's Tour & Money Giveaways
01:04:46
Speaker
Yeah. And that's not to say like ah Drake is not playing a part. I think Drake actually has ah know an obsession or addiction to gambling yeah because he does it all the time. And and nine times out of 10, even though he's gambling that money, some of it is his, right? Yeah. Probably not all of it.
01:05:04
Speaker
um And so, yeah, no, I agree with you because people probably jump in on that and like, yo, Drake's betting on this. Like that dude knows more than I do. I'm going fucking put money in there. Yeah. Right. And then they lose.
01:05:15
Speaker
But he's doing this whole thing now. He's got his whole tour and it's in it's like that Anita Max Wynn persona that he puts on, like specifically for the tour. Yeah, I didn't know he was doing that.
01:05:25
Speaker
Yeah, and he has a tour in Australia that he's doing and it's called the Anita Max Wynn 2025 tour. um But yeah, i the the point I wanted to bring up that I mentioned, I don't know if you guys it saw the photo from Drake's tour, but it's him like looking out into the crowd.
01:05:42
Speaker
In the crowd, every single person essentially had a sign being like, Drake, please give me money. Yes. like no i'll I'll see if I can pull it up on my phone and show you guys. Yeah.
01:05:54
Speaker
So just so I show it on the screen, but yeah, like literally every single person was like, Drake, uh, we spent our, um, like engagement ring money on this. Like, please, can you give us like X amount of dollars or, um, you know, like pay for my car, pay off my mom's mortgage here.
01:06:13
Speaker
It's going to be hard to see, but it focused. oh I can see that. I can see that. Okay. Okay. Like just if you could read some of the signs, like it yeah help me buy an upgrade for my rims five years together.
01:06:26
Speaker
um Damn. It's hard to read some of these though. Sorry. But yeah, I get, I can see it. Like he did that for like three straight shows or something like that, where he gave away like 25, $30,000 to multiple people.
01:06:38
Speaker
Okay. So he was giving money out at these shows. Yeah. Yeah. oh He was getting money out, but like, You know, it's it's because like, listen, if you were doing that just at like a rate, like if I went to like, ah i don't know, I'm trying to think of an artist I would get like if I did that at a Jonas Brothers concert.
01:06:56
Speaker
That'd be fucking insane. Yeah, wouldd be crazy. That'd be so crazy for me to do. Okay. I guess with context of them, like him giving away money, that makes a little bit more sense. It's still pretty crazy and kind of sad, especially because a lot of those, like, think about how much those tickets are, how much they pay to be on the floor to be within eyesight of Drake.
01:07:20
Speaker
you probably could have upgraded your rims with that money, man. I don't know. like You probably could like, there's, there's one in there like, Oh, help me buy an engagement ring. You probably could have used that money for an engagement ring. Or one of them was like, help my father.
01:07:32
Speaker
You could have helped your father with the money you used to go see Drake. i don't know. It's just, well, I mean, he's giving, he's giving away like 25, 30 grand every single time. And if you spend 1500 bucks on tickets, okay.
01:07:46
Speaker
Right. Then that's a bad, that's a bad lottery ticket though. Well, it's a good, yeah, no, it's a bad lottery ticket. yeah If you win, if you, if you, if you get picked out of the crowd, that's a good, you know, return on investment. But realistically, it's not going to fucking happen.
01:07:59
Speaker
Right. It's just, it's just wild that, and the the reason that he started doing that in the first place, to me, seems like a marketing thing because he's down in the, you know, the, the, the ah public space right now. And so he says, let me just fix that by giving people money. Yeah. I mean, yeah. people Money at shows.
01:08:20
Speaker
is weird oh man that's it feels dystopian it really feels like I don't know I mean I guess it makes more sense with the context but like if that was any other artist or any other like person on stage and all you saw in the crowd was Drake please give me money like that would be crazy yeah yeah man Mike you're at a concert And I'm performing.
01:08:52
Speaker
And I give you $30,000. What you doing with that money? I mean, are they really getting the full $25,000, $30,000? That's what I want to know. We all know he has the money. Listen, was thinking that too. Are they really getting the full $25,000? I saw a video where he was like, some girl had this sign. It was like, hey, it's my birthday.
01:09:12
Speaker
Or something like, spent my birthday money or whatever to see you or something. He was like, oh... Something, I don't know what he said, but he was like, I'll give you $25,000. You and your girls go out, celebrate your birthday or something. How much did he really get?
01:09:26
Speaker
How much did really get? I wouldn't be surprised whether they actually get that. Like maybe they cover the taxes that go along with the two. Like I forget what the the whole, don't, I'm not going to pretend to know how that impacts your, like whether you got to pay taxes on that or not.
01:09:42
Speaker
Though I do think that if he claims that on his tax returns, he gets a benefit for that. Oh, hell yeah. It's a donation. Yeah. for like For like, you know, cash gifts or charity or something like that. Depends on how you want to classify it. But he definitely benefits from doing that too. So don't get twisted.
Fantasy Spending & Travel Dreams
01:10:00
Speaker
But all of that aside, Mike, I give you $30,000. You get net $30,000. What are you doing? We're going on vacation, boys. Strap in. Where do you want to go? do you want to go?
01:10:12
Speaker
I don't know. Where you guys want to go?
01:10:16
Speaker
You know you know ah trip that I've really been thinking about doing? right Iraq. Listen. Listen. i said it I said it before. What did I say? um ready to do to say Texas is safer than Iraq. Iraq is safer than Waterbury.
01:10:34
Speaker
So I mean I think we're in the glare. You know? right i mean i mean Listen. Iraq. Beautiful place. Nothing happened in there. Let me tell you. Iraq or Iraq?
01:10:46
Speaker
I think it's Iraq. How about... How about we go to Chirac? Where's Chirac? Chicago. They call it Chirac because of like the gang shootings that go on there. Jesus. Yeah, i know. It's not... Guys, we got to go somewhere nobody's going. Why are we going to Madagascar?
01:11:07
Speaker
You know? Why are we going... um I don't know. I know why people aren't going there. But why arent we going to why are we going to Cambodia?
01:11:20
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? Cambodia would be sick, dude. yeah i think i mean Cambodia is beautiful. Laos. cambodia I've heard Laos is beautiful. Yeah, a little tour.
01:11:31
Speaker
We should go to Thailand. a Actually, we should go to the Philippines. Listen, everything is so much cheaper in the Philippines. and so it's It's so much nicer.
01:11:42
Speaker
Well, okay, not nicer. I will say it's it's not nicer, but everyone's just happy. They are more happy than I will ever be. It's incredible. That's because you could get a massage for how much, Victor? How much you spend for that massage? ah The equivalent of like six bucks. yeah No wonder why everybody's happy. For if you're six bucks, you get an hour massage. what I tell you what, even in Canada right now,
01:12:04
Speaker
Everything's 70 cents on the dollar. It's fantastic. Yeah. You can't argue with that. No. I'll tell you what, being anywhere by the U S right now, sounds very appealing.
01:12:15
Speaker
Take it easy. Take it easy. Don't, don't take it easy. I was sorry. I forgot. Yeah. Somebody here representing the yeah conservative side, the red, white and blue.
01:12:27
Speaker
Yeah. Emphasis on the red.
01:12:31
Speaker
All right. Well, ah yeah, weird transition to the ending. Our recording got cut like halfway through a different topic. So probably for the best.
01:12:42
Speaker
Yeah, I think probably for the best. We're just going to end into here. Yeah, we were going to go back to badgering me, you know, but yeah, we'll save that for next episode. yeah No, no, we're going to leave it here. We'll find another one Austin and I kissed and made up.
01:12:56
Speaker
Yeah. I'd like everybody to know that contrary to probably popular belief, Mike and I are really good friends. yeah Yeah. We don't. Pretty close. We don't hate each other. But yeah. Now me and Mike, on the other hand. Yeah. I hate Mike.
01:13:14
Speaker
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Podcast Outro & Future Plans
01:13:15
Speaker
So yeah, that's a fucking that's an episode. I don't know how to fucking end this thing. Thanks guys for listening. um We'll be back next Friday with another banger of an episode.
01:13:28
Speaker
um Maybe we won't shit on Mike as much. Can't promise anything though. You're special guests to shit on me. How you not going to shit on me as much? That's in two weeks. For the listeners, that's in like three weeks.
01:13:38
Speaker
But I'm going to start teasing it early because again, you know, in my heart, that's like right now. I mean, it's always going be right now for you, brother. going to let you know that right now. Just know we never intend to, batch you during the episodes, but something that you do during the week, just kind of, you know, yeah.
01:13:58
Speaker
Here we go. Hold on. Here's the wrap. Come on. Do it. There you go. There it is. All right, guys. Like, comment, subscribe. Click the link in the bio there for all our stuff.
01:14:13
Speaker
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01:14:24
Speaker
um Again, if we get enough subscribers, we will be doing more episodes. But for right now, you guys only get one a week. So be happy. Be grateful we let you into our homes. So fuck the fuck up. ah Yeah.
01:14:38
Speaker
Oh, man. All right, guys. and We will see you next week. Get us out of this thing. Peace. Shitty ass outro music. Christ, write some outro music, Mike. Yeah, do it.
01:14:50
Speaker
You write some outro music. I did. What are you listening to ai right now? But I wrote it. I wrote the code. I wrote the the script. are I wrote the script. told AI what I wanted and this was it. all right This is what came out.
01:15:06
Speaker
There were eight different options, but this is the one I chose. Amen. I'm going to ask Chad GPT. They can't generate anything like that for you yet.