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A Bum-Per-Sticker with a Rolled R
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Today we talk about Rolling our R's and more bum stuff
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And action. Lines. Lines. Morning. Right.
Introduction to 'That's RQ' with Danny and Adam
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ah Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and people up, down, all around, inside and outside the gender binary. Welcome to That's RQ, or TOQ for short.
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I'm Danny Guarantee, here as always with my lovely friend Adam. Say hello, Mr. Adam. uh danny i don't think any of that came through i'm gonna need you to do a pickup and do that one more time okay pick up pick up pick up yeah lines children that was good that was good i'm proud of you that was fun thank you thank you no but seriously what were my lines Why we take your Qs and turn them in into As, gang?
The Q to A Transformation Concept
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Yeah, we're going to... Wait, I got this.
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We're going to take your Qs and we're going take them into the car wash, give them a good scrub down, you know, get that foam gun thing. Foam it all up, get it all nice and sudsy.
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Let it sit for a bit, let it really break away, you know, all that Q gunk. And then we're going to wash it all off and leave ourselves with a nice shiny chrome A.
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It's it's chrome, so you know it's good. Chromy? Futuristic. Yeah, it's a chrome, eh? Oh, OK. Right on. Right Yeah, it's like a homey, but like chromy. Right.
00:01:27
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Yeah. I hear you, dog. Shiny. Yeah. right. Anyway, do you want to answer a question? Yeah. Do you remember we used to answer a bunch of questions on
Show Format Reflections
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the show? I do. And then we were like, hey, why don't we just do one and make the show 20 minutes?
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And they're usually still 50.
00:01:46
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Well, you know, let me talk to the higher-ups and see if we can fix that. But in the meantime, you know, let's just kind of go with what we got going, you know? I don't think there's anything to fix, personally. I think you did a great job. Well, I mean, I... Go ahead. Yeah.
00:02:03
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All right. This one is, I think, specifically for you, Mr. Adam, as a health buff and a gym nut and all that good You think I'm a nut?
Gym Membership Anecdote
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Yeah, absolutely.
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i I've paid for like five months of my gym membership and haven't been there in five months. This is your two favorite things, ah the gym and being an extrovert. Boobs and boobs. Oh, yeah. OK, let's do it.
00:02:28
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Oh, sorry. other The other two favorite things. Yeah. No, actually, I'm a butt cheek, butt cheek kind of guy, but go ahead.
00:02:35
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ah So the arms and legs, weirdly enough, we can talk about that another time. Go ahead. Yeah, no, absolutely. i mean, look, I'm down to talk about anything. My last one was about my butt. So, you know. ah That was just about how you wipe your butt. Yeah.
00:02:50
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Yeah, was. Hey, mom. All right. So, Adam, Mr. Adam. Yeah, let's say you're going to the gym. All right, let's pretend you you decided to go to the gym.
00:03:02
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Hey, Planet Fitness, what's up Yeah. Oh, so gym anxiety.
Innovative Gym Ideas
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What what could a gym do to make you feel comfortable as like a newly gym membered person?
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Like, what what are some things that you're like, oh, I could understand being, you know, uh, anxious about for going to the gym for the first time. What are some things that you think a gym could do to make it a more welcoming experience?
00:03:30
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Well, I don't think that would have the staff for what I would initially recommend, but I do think what would be helpful would be to have like a set amount of hours that only new members can use and like can only be in certain areas. Like, you know, cause like, I gotta tell you, even as somebody who's been to the gym ah plenty of times, I still don't go to some of the equipment cause I just don't know what it does or how to use it.
00:03:58
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And some of them do like some of the actual machine machines have like little QR codes you can scan to see how to use it. But there's also like the free weight machines and like the bench presses and a lot of other like I know what those are. But there's other things in and around that area where I'm just like, I don't know how the fuck to use this stuff properly.
00:04:16
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And I feel like I'm going to hurt myself or you don't know if you're even doing it properly. And not all gyms offer like personal trainers and personal trainers are expensive. So there's just I don't know if you necessarily get the maximum amount out of your visit because you don't.
00:04:32
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Like, you know what a treadmill is, you know what free weight is. Most of the other machines are usually beginners or people who aren't diehard workout people because that's where they feel safe is on the machines that like there's some support there.
00:04:43
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But the moment you go to the free weight section or like that area where the jump ropes and the yoga mats and the the medicine balls and the giant ass ropes and stuff are, no one knows what to do there. Like, I know I'm still figuring it out.
00:04:55
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Mm-hmm. I actually was at there there last year with my roommate and I asked a random guy who was currently bench pressing and paul Paul was embarrassed. He's like, no, don't do that. He's working out. It's like, I'll wait until he's done with his set and then I'll ask him how to do it.
00:05:10
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And then I went when he was done with his set, speaking of my extraversion and I went over and I said, Hey, brother, i don't know how to use any of this stuff. Like, I don't, I know you're not a teacher, but can you at least give me a tip on like where to get started?
00:05:23
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And he was a real peach. What a sweet man he was and went through a couple of the different machines. And I remember when I was done, I was like, why the fuck doesn't this gym do this all the time? Um, so to answer your question, I, to go back to my original answer,
00:05:38
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I think it would behoove a lot of people to have some sort of like preliminary, either a class that they could attend within the gym, just be like, Hey, let's go over what all the machines do.
00:05:49
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Or if there was maybe like a set amount of hours for beginners only to use certain machines, maybe they marked them with a certain color of tape or something like, Hey, during these hours, these are only allowed for new members who've only been here for maybe two months but or less, something like that, because not all gyms have the capacity to do full on like,
00:06:08
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You know, they can't just have a buddy come and meet you at the door unless they're like a personal trainer or something. But um no, actually I really like that idea. Like a but I think that could be really helpful. Yeah, that's a really good idea.
00:06:19
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Yeah. Kind of like an hour long. Just have a group of people. You can even have just one teacher that's, you know, talking them to a group and being like, OK, we're going to I'll show you how to bench press and then we'll have each of you try it.
00:06:31
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I'll, you know, correct any mistakes. And there you go. Right. I mean, I like that. over That's really cool. Or the other idea that I have that I'll just throw in there in case like the capacity isn't there is to have other gym members sign up to like be a buddy, right?
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To like, you know, cause it's easier to go in somewhere when you know someone's waiting for you. you could sign up as part of like a buddy program. Maybe they can give you like a discount off of your membership for a little while. If you sign up for this program to help new people, that way they know somebody, they kind of can get an idea.
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It's not exactly a personal trainer, but it's like, Hey, you know, you have someone that you can connect with either on your app. or something that says like, oh, hey, you know, you're a first time or so and so is sign up. do you want to go in with them? And then maybe that way you can have somebody that you can look forward to meeting for the first month that will not only give you like a gym buddy to give you like motivation to stay active in the gym, but also like more comfort to try different things within the gym. And maybe you'll meet more people doing that.
00:07:27
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um So those are my ideas. Danny, let's start a gym and do that. That is a really good idea. I actually really do like that idea. We'll call it gym buds, gym pals, gym buddies. I kind of billy buddies.
00:07:38
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That's already a thing people use. Answer Mancers. No, that's no because then it sounds like it's just for men. Oh, OK. More than just men work out at gyms. team No, that's true. That's true.
00:07:51
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We'll come up with it. We'll spitball later. We'll call it gym anxiety.
Bumper Sticker Brainstorming
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ja No, we'll call it James Anxiety. Jim Society for Anxiety. of Jimmy's Society for Gymnasium Anxiety.
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Anxietal Probes. Why probes? Because you're trying to probe each machine to find out. You know what? In space, this machine probes you.
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And Jims, we probe the machines. Russian space. Yes, in Soviet Russian airspace. Machine probe you. Now, what is it? In International Space Station, machine probe you.
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But at Jim Zyedy's length... uh anxiety nope ang ang ang
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anxiety society for gym members anxiety society i hate it it feels like a secret club i could be a part of yeah we'll call it jim's ah friend friendnasium were getting there jim's friendnasium fred friend, friend, uh, romp around.
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Just call it romp around. Did you have romp around as a kid? Huh? Did you have romp around by you as a kid? Are you, is that like a Dunkaroos? that like a snack situation? with the Oh, I guess not. No, it was like Chuck E. Cheese.
00:09:20
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Yeah. Romp around. No, it was like a Chuck E. Cheese. I mean, I had that too, but we had a romp around. Was that like a local chapter? i guess so. I've never heard it. guess Did you know that the E in Chuck E. Cheese stands for entertainment?
00:09:38
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Chuck Entertainment Cheese? His name is Charles Entertainment Cheese. and I don't like it. I did not know that. That's a very real thing. If you look it up, that's his middle name.
00:09:50
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No, I did not know that. Yeah. I had a friend who used to work at one. He hated yeah? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm sure I could imagine, right? To work in a building filled with screaming children all day. Oh, have been Also, shout out to our daycare workers, our preschool and high school. And and everybody else. actually Actually, high school, all the teachers, really.
00:10:09
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Mothers, fathers, all of you. Yeah, mothers, fathers, you know what you're getting into. Not always. That's true, not always. The ones that planned it.
00:10:20
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But even then, you might get, you might get. If you planned for this, then it's on you. For everyone else, you cooked Tylenol before you had your kids. Okay, that's, you know, I'm just saying. Did you read the instruction manual on kids?
00:10:33
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There is one. If you acetaminophen, that's on you then, you know? Sorry, can't help you. Anyway, Danny, what about you? What do you think about gyms? So, yeah, I was actually thinking, because for for those who already forgot, we're talking about gym anxiety. I know...
00:10:53
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It may not seem like it. Stay with us. Stay with us. Keep up. what Come on. You keeping up? Review the show. um Gym anxiety. So my big one was having ah private workout rooms for people that work out room do not like, you know, because you hear a lot about people that are first going to the gym.
00:11:18
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So they're out of shape and they're like, well, just I feel so self-conscious. running on the treadmill or doing the weights, but I can't do all that much. You know, I'm new, I'm tired. There's a dude with like a 24 pack over there, um, screaming and bench pressing 50 tons.
00:11:37
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So I propose just little workout rooms that have, you know, like you could, you could, um, reserve a little room that just has like a treadmill and like some free weights and stuff.
00:11:50
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um And you could just go in there to work out without the hassle or the the self-consciousness of, you know, having other people watch you or feeling like other people are watching you and making fun of you for not knowing what you're doing or whatever.
00:12:05
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um Maybe you could even have like an instructor that goes in with you and does like a one on one thing where nobody else can see and and people don't make fun of you ah to your mind, you know, um because I honestly don't think people do.
00:12:20
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Um, it's very rare to, to have somebody like make fun of the new person going to the gym. Usually because I've been to the new person at the gym a lot.
00:12:32
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Um, because I have no self-control. Um, and usually, you know, that a lot of the people there are actually really excited for new people to go to the gym.
00:12:44
Speaker
They're like, oh, yeah, you know, this is great. You're turning your life around. Turn all that fat to muscle. You got this. Oh, OK. Right. it And usually, too, like a lot of times, it depends on the culture of the gym. But in most situations, I think it's kind of like like I used to be a dance teacher. That's no that's no ah news.
00:13:06
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But like something that but i just I found during that, and like that career path was you know It seems like such a niche thing that not a lot of people do that when our students saw new students come in, one of the best tactics I could use to get them comfortable was to introduce them to other people and have them like new students and older students to say like, oh, I remember when I first started, it was so much, you know I was so scared and now I can do this.
00:13:33
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Or like, oh, I just started two months ago and look at what I can do. And they're just excited to see somebody who likes the thing that they like to do. And so like a lot of gym rats are the same, like, oh shit, somebody new who's like,
00:13:43
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wants to try this thing. And once they know they have an in to talk to you, that's usually when it starts. Like, I think a lot of people want to offer help, but they don't know how to, it's like you know, it's like any other um hobby or like, you know, like really big hobby that somebody is really into. Right. It doesn't matter what it is. If they find somebody else who wants to get into it, they will talk about it nonstop.
00:14:08
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It's just how people are, you know, we're, no matter how introverted you think you are, everybody loves to talk about something that interests them and show the ropes to somebody new.
00:14:22
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I know I personally love doing that. um But that's my, you know, my big idea is little private rooms so that people could could work out in peace without feeling like there's eyes on them. I think that would get a lot of people who normally wouldn't go to go. You know, I just thought of one more idea on top of that.
00:14:39
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Hit me. yeah like I don't know if you know this, but like when usually when you work in a place that requires a hard hat, you wear different colored ones to represent like if you're new.
00:14:51
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Okay. Right. So usually it'd be like a pink or a, or blue or a white hat. I think that'll say like, Oh, this person is new to this site or new to the profession.
00:15:01
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That way, if somebody sees you maybe in an area you might not know is dangerous, or maybe there'll be extra precautious or cautious around you, or maybe they'll like kind of hold your hand a little bit more through processes. Even if they haven't met you yet, they can clock your experience based on what color hat you're wearing.
00:15:17
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And so like, Maybe gyms can offer like, you know, and this could be a profit for the gyms as well. Or maybe if they already have this culture, other people can kind of buy their own clothes of like, oh, I pink shirts mean that like I'm kind of new to working out or.
00:15:33
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or if it's a planet fitness shirt, just that way people don't, people know it's not just, Oh, somebody wanted to wear pink today and it's nothing other than they
Monetizing Creative Ideas
00:15:40
Speaker
want to wear pink. But like maybe a pink planet fitness shirt can be like, Oh, I just started. I'm still like 90 days and under, you know, if maybe it just kind of means like, Oh, Hey, if you're experienced, like I want to show people that I'm new that way, if you don't understand, or if you want to offer some help, you can, or maybe like, or maybe green since green usually means like you're new. where I got this. Um,
00:16:00
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um What you need to do is you need to sell like those ah new driver bumper stickers, but new gym-goer bumper stickers that just slap on your Honestly, yeah.
00:16:11
Speaker
Absolutely. I would wear an i would wear a bumper sticker. Yeah, a bumper sticker. Yep. Let's make bumper stickers, Danny. Let's just like abandon everything and make bumper stickers. Well, I think Pink and Juicy already have that market cornered.
00:16:26
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No, not stickers that you're supposed to just put on your ass. Like, I'm talking stickers are... Oh, that's I talking about. And now I'm talking like, you know, these are like reapply, reapplicable to other pants. They like they they sit, ah you know, it's like you slap it on your ass and you take it off when you're done. you put on your other pair of pants. It can be on jeans.
00:16:47
Speaker
It can be on shorts. It could be on your jeggings. It can be on other types of materials and styles, dresses even. You could put it on. How would you get it to stick?
00:16:58
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That's the part where you figure out, Danny. I don't know the answers. I'm just saying, let's make bum per stickers. And we'll call it bum per sticker. Like, it's like five bucks per sticker. It's bum per sticker. yeah but first upstairs What do they say? What is it?
00:17:12
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Whatever we wanted to say, Daniel. I just farted. They could say, I just farted or who farted or who farted.
00:17:23
Speaker
Fart of the deal ah or um fart of the cards. Oh, my God. ah Farther of With the sword. What's that guy's name?
00:17:35
Speaker
King Arthur. King Farther. King Farther. Surf arts a lot. That's the classic. Yeah. Yeah. Let us know. Would you be interested in a bum per sticker?
00:17:47
Speaker
ah A bum per sticker. Yeah. Bum face per sticker. It would be backwards. It a sticker per bum, but we call it bum per sticker. Yeah.
00:17:58
Speaker
It's a bum per sticker. I'm telling you, I don't know how to invent things. I just know how to make ideas for things. but i need We're ideas people. We need actionable solutions.
00:18:09
Speaker
There has to be a way to sell ideas for people to buy them from you and then invent things and you can just get a small fee. If I can make 500 bucks off of somebody making $5 million, dollars that'd still be fine.
00:18:19
Speaker
I'm okay with it. I know at least it was my idea. I wonder if that is a thing. it' got there's another There's another idea we want to sell. I want to sell the idea that you pay me for my ideas.
00:18:32
Speaker
It's like, it's like when you pitch scripts and screenplays to people and then somebody else make it. I wish I could do that with video games. There are some times where i'm like, man, i have such a cool idea for like a game system or something.
00:18:43
Speaker
But I don't know how to make games. Nobody I know knows how to make games, really. Listen, if you know how to make bumper stickers or Big Rick Energy, or if you know a place where you can pitch ideas for money, get back to us on the show, leave a comment on the episode, or email us. Magnets.
00:18:59
Speaker
What? Magnets. You have to have buns of steel for magnets to work. No, you get one half of the magnet goes on the outside of the pants, the other side goes on the inside of the pants, and so it sticks to any pair of pants.
00:19:12
Speaker
Sure, you make sure don't sit on it, because that can cause some issues. You like sitting on your wallet all the time can cause you some hip displacement. It doesn't have to be that thick of a magnet. You're right. If it's like a flat magnet, it would probably work. Like those flat little guys that you put on your fridge.
00:19:27
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Yeah, you just got to put it like right on the meaty part of your butt so that you just kind of form around it. You know fridge magics? magic Yeah, magics? Magnets? Yeah, fridge magics, yeah, yeah. Frigidary air magnets.
00:19:39
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Jesus Christ.
00:19:43
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I'm telling you, bumper stickers. It's the future of style. swear to God, if this episode gets released and then like a month later I start seeing these things, I'm going to be pissed. We'll call it Ass in His Fashion.
00:19:56
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Bumper stickers. Fashion. Fashion. You'll be billboard no more. ah new one. No more.
00:20:10
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I used to do this series very early on Facebook when I had it where Justin and I would take pictures in front of this dry erase board in our kitchen or in our dining room. And we called it dry erase board, B-O-R-E-D. And we would just color different shit on it and like like make it look like we were interacting with it or posing for pictures with whatever was put on it.
00:20:30
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We called it dry erase board. that's where I thought of that was board. Billboard. No. Mord. Billboard Baggins. See? ah so you're at i'm writing I'm writing this down right now. Bumper um yeah her sticker.
00:20:49
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There has to be a way. but oh But in parentheses, but also magnets. But also magnets. See, we don't have to be poor, Daniel. We don't have to have a regular day job. We could do this.
00:21:01
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Just fucking put your dick aside for a second and just work with me here. But i I need my hands full. I mean... No, you don't. You you have and extra hands. i so Talk about this.
00:21:17
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I swear to God, this show... it It's like being high. Because... You know, my mom listens to these and she'll be like, oh, my God, I was cracking up at this part where you guys are talking about this thing.
00:21:33
Speaker
And I'll be sitting there nodding and going, I remember none of that. Yeah. And then I think about your note taking. Like imagine a week from now, we forgot all about this and you're going to see a sticky note that just says bumper stickers and in parentheses, but also magnets.
00:21:54
Speaker
That's literally written on a tiny little memo pad that I keep on my desk for just such an occasion. I write down episode titles that I want to do. I write down dumb ideas that I want to have. I actually just did that today.
00:22:05
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Can I tell you a quick side tangent that is related to this? Absolutely. That's As you all know, maybe you missed it in the other episode, but I work at a food bank.
Creative Solutions for Food Insecurity
00:22:15
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And um during a meeting today, is yeah now i'm not going to go on any rants. Don't worry.
00:22:22
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um But during a meeting today, we're meeting with the child nutrition team because there's an an increase in people who need food, especially amongst children, because a lot of school programs are being cut because of the asshat in chief.
00:22:36
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So they're like, how can we get more food, especially around like long breaks and, uh, you know, like Easter breaks, Christmas breaks, or like when there's issues at the school or like they have backpack programs where they let kids fill up backpacks full of food and take home.
00:22:50
Speaker
And that's something that we do. Like we try to get food at schools and the kids can walk around with fake money and then pretend like they bought all these groceries to help out their family. It's very cute and very wholesome, but it can only go so far.
00:23:01
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And so, And we can't guarantee that the families will use everything that we send to them, but whether there's allergies or maybe they just don't know how to use some of the supplies that the kids bring home. We're working on nutrition education as well so people can know how to use more of the food.
00:23:15
Speaker
But anyway, while we were sitting there having this meeting with like other organizations about how we can get more food into the schools or how we can rescue more food that's being thrown away and not going home with the kids, Um, such as building school pantries within the school and maybe even being run by some kids, like as like a little volunteer project, older kids, a lot of states do that already.
00:23:35
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Uh, which is really cool. When I was at that conference, I learned that there are high schoolers that ultimately will kind of take pride in their work and like help, like they'll do like part of their school day. They'll help run the pantry and it makes them feel good that they're feeding their friends and their community. Right.
00:23:48
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So anyway, we're talking about all that stuff and I had some crazy ass ideas I wanted to throw out, but that we were getting tight on meeting time. And I was so worried that I was going to divert too much attention to these wild ideas that I'm afraid people are not going to like or that maybe it's going to take too much discussion time up.
00:24:04
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So I pitched to my team today. There's three of us on my little team, and we have Microsoft Loop that we use to share ideas very quickly. It's an okay program. It does what I need to do, but like but it's just a great place for people to just sign up real quick and like follow something along, and it's childlike enough that I can keep up with it.
00:24:21
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And so I made like a little page under our program that says Adam's ah radical ideas. And so I just started typing the dumbest, craziest, wildest shit that maybe isn't so dumb when I pitched them, but I'm still new to this world, this, this food bank world. So I don't know if any of it's feasible, professional within my job description, or if it'd be passed to someone else.
00:24:41
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So I'm like, I don't want to like start throwing out ideas in this like chat full of people who don't Only do part of the work that I do. So I just started writing all this shit down that I possibly could with partnerships I want to do with other organizations that have nothing to do with food banking to like, ah you know, fucking asking Walmart to buy us a food pantry.
00:25:00
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yeah or Or a mobile food pantry. Like on wheels, you can just drive to schools and shit. and like Or a fucking school bus that has refrigerators on it. um I was just like, all these crazy ass things that I can dream up right now, I'll put them in there.
00:25:13
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And then they just started reading them. And I said, hey, I'd change it to just our radical ideas if they wanted to add to it. But anyway, I started thinking like in that moment, Danny, I was like, you know, when I'm recording the fucking podcast, I have a notebook right next to me that only I see that I write just the dumbest shit on. It's funny you say that because I was like, sometimes I do go back. I'm like, what did I write this month? And I'm like, oh, I don't remember why I was talking about that. But that's a great idea.
00:25:37
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If I remember it right away, I know it's a good idea. If I don't, I'm like, it must not have been that cool because I barely remember thinking about it. Or but like, oh, fuck, I forgot I wrote this. Oh, yeah. What was that about? So anyway.
00:25:48
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what you what i I'm being very sincere right now, Daniel. If there is a moment where we can work on bumper stickers, why isn't there an avenue in which maybe there's a slight threat of chance that you and I can find a way to make money and find purchase by slamming our flag into the world of bumper stickers?
00:26:05
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Right? Who's to say we can't? I do like money. It's true. Me too. I don't I don't love money. I don't chase money, but i I want to chase it enough so that way I continue can continue to do things like this as ah i and and still could do my work because I do like my day work, but like to have more motivation and dollars to throw towards making things like this even better and to support my other friends and colleagues dreams. Right.
00:26:30
Speaker
So I have to chase the money a little bit to do these things. Then eventually I'll kick Elon Musk out of Twitter and then make it a much better place and kill all the bots. Terminators can't win.
00:26:40
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I'll win, but we have to make that money first. So I can't do that without bumper stickers and big Rick energy ideas, Daniel. That's all I'm saying. I can't take down the billionaires of the world. If I'm just a $10 an air. A little, yeah. Like a poro schmuck. I getcha revolution. Eat the rich.
00:27:03
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Wait, sorry. I'm getting too ahead of myself here. Eat Richard. Eat Richard. but Eat more dick. So gymnasiums, if we have bumper stickers that say, look at my ass, I'm new. Help me out. Look at my ass. I'm new.
00:27:28
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Then there's a reason for everyone to check out everyone's ass. We're all doing it just to see. We're all doing it anyway. And then the other people get one to say, I'm not new. Don't look at my ass. And now, you know, now, you know, then you go, Oh, that person doesn't have font on their ass.
00:27:45
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Oh, dang. I got, i need one that has a front and a back that says, hate to see me go love to see me leave. Well, Hey, that's perfect. Right? There you go.
00:27:56
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There's my idea. Where's my money? That's great. ah you know Or you know on their on your left butt cheek, it can say, um ask me out on a date, turn to page 43. To go F yourself, turn to page 80 or something. yeah It can be like a choose-your-own-adventure book.
00:28:15
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A choose-your-own-adventure book. It'll be poos, your own adventure.
00:28:24
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Oh my god. Anyway, Daniel, can I educate you? Sorry, no, go ahead. Can i educate you on something else? Something unrelated? I'd love it if you did. I like learning things. So I found a post on Reddit about something that I don't know if this is a new term or if I've just had my head in the sand.
Understanding 'May-December' Relationships
00:28:41
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As some of you may know, i am a dropout fan, you formerly known as College Humor. And I subscribe to Dropout dot TV, which is a very delightful little platform and um has a lot of really great content on it and run by wonderful people.
00:28:56
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And they had this new show based on a game changer episode called Crowd Control, where different members of the audience wear different kinds of shirts that have like prompts on them, like about them. Like one might say, um, survivor on it. And then a comedian may that's up with says, well, what are you a survivor of? And then like, if it's like a red flag thing, then they, it, they're challenged to figure out how can I turn this into something comedic? And these people gave permission, or it might say like something like, um,
00:29:26
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one one says, ask me about my secret talent or something. And so, yeah and they just kind of, that's how they kind of interact with the crowd is based on what their shirts say. Okay. And it was a really fun idea, ah which is also why I think bumper stickers could be a good idea um or something like it, which is something I want to talk to you about off air, but I don't want to overwhelm your brain.
00:29:46
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But anyway, so I saw one where there were these two gentlemen sitting next to each other and they One of their shirts said May and the other one said December. And I didn't know that meant anything until the comedian said, what's this mean?
00:30:04
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And oh, no, the comedian knew what it was because he was a gay man. And he goes, he says, oh, but that's very common in our community. You guys are May, December. So who's older than whom or whatever. And so I learned about these relationships called May, December, May hyphen, December. Have you heard of them?
00:30:17
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I have not. What is that? So, and I found this funny enough. i was just looking for things to talk about today. And I saw this on Reddit and I was like, oh fuck, I just learned about this yesterday. um And so ah May, December romances mean like,
00:30:33
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There's a significant, like a very significant age gap between the two people who are lovers. Right. And so that's the what they call it. Like May is supposed to oh, springtime of youth. Then December is supposed to be like, oh, late in life.
00:30:46
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So called May-December relationships. And so in this particular one, the one gentleman was 28 years old and the other gentleman was in his 50s or I think he said 50s or 60s. I can't remember, but pretty far out there, at least like a 20 year age gap, if not more.
00:31:00
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um And so I learned that that's what those are. have yeah I thought that what a delightful thing to learn about. And I don't know if anybody else has ever heard of those. I don't know if everyone knows about them or if they're more common in the queer community.
00:31:14
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But as I found out on Reddit, there was nothing in here that said it's just a queer thing. So I think it's just a general term for people who might be in you know, a significant age gap in relationship. Like, you know, ah but the part of me just from from what I've I've I've seen, I think it's probably more in the queer community, but I think everybody can identify as one if they are, in fact, in one.
00:31:33
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I don't know what the age gap has to be to meet that requirement. I don't think there's necessarily rules. But anyway, that one guy was like late 20s. The other guy was probably late 50s or early 60s. So, yeah, I want to share that with you because I just thought that was a very neat thing to learn about. That is very cool.
00:31:50
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Yeah. Alright, I got a quick little story for you then. Sure. Do you know what a bear is? Not the animal. I live with two gay men. Yes, I know what a bear is.
00:32:01
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and i was just I actually did not know they were gay. Yeah, very gay. Well, I shouldn't say that. They have more manly hobbies than they're so gay. They have more manly hobbies than me. They fix cars and shit. They can build stuff. I don't know how to do of that.
00:32:15
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Gross, they fix cars. That's so gay. It's super gay. They had they are they are part of a group called the car gays.
00:32:24
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That's real. It's like the anxiety society. I heard of them. Yeah. um So I learned what a bear was only a couple of years ago. Like I went through a lot of my life not knowing that it was even a term.
00:32:38
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Really? Yeah. And I have a friend ah online who goes by Falcon. You've met him. Big dude. Um, bald with beard.
00:32:49
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Yeah, well, I always used to call him my friendly bear. Just because the dude's built like a bear. But he's super nice, like, super, super nice.
00:33:01
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Uh, and yeah, I had no idea that i was what I was really calling him. When I was like, oh, yeah, I have a friend. He's like the nicest bear.
00:33:13
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Oh, so then I learned what it meant. And i was like, how recent was that? Just a couple years ago. Oh, interesting. OK, like that's how I would talk about him.
00:33:25
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You know, I would call him a friendly bear to his face and stuff. I don't know if he knew what it meant either. at the time yeah but that's how i would talk about him i was like oh yeah and i know this one guy you know huge dude bald beard he but he's like the friendliest bear you know he's like a big dude but he's so nice i mean if he were queer he would definitely be probably in in that click oh he would absolutely be that yeah absolutely yeah he even he knows like nowadays he's like oh yeah i would absolutely you know i'm a bear in all but sexuality
00:33:58
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Right. um There's a yeah lot of terms that I've been learning and trying to retain over the years. of It's just a silly story of me not knowing, you know, a little bit of um genuine ignorance rather than.
00:34:13
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Sure. Weaponized ignorance or any of that. Right. but Right. Like is you you don't choose to stay ignorant. Right. fee You embrace know what? Quick tangent. That's something people need to learn. Ignorance is not bad. It just means you didn't learn it.
00:34:27
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And that's fine, but that means you have to keep yourself open to learning it. Right. willful Willful ignorance is when the materials are there for you to learn, but you choose not to because it's easier to live in your little world of, you know, whatever you imagine Earth to be as opposed to what it actually is.
00:34:42
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Yeah. um So, you know, that's why it's called woke. You to wake the fuck up and understand how the world works and that it changes. Anyway, Daniel, I have one more thing I want to talk to you about today.
00:34:54
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Okay. Excuse me. um So. ah There's another i was today years old thing that I found that I wanted to ask you about. We may have talked about this, but I don't remember.
00:35:08
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But I just read that somebody. Said I'm just going to read it, says I was today years old when I realized that tongue rolling is not genetic. And you know what rolling your tongue means, right? Yes.
00:35:19
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I remember sometime in middle school, someone told me that whether you can roll your tongue or not is genetic. I never questioned this. My peers repeated this fact so often all the way through high school. I've never been able to roll my tongue and my mom couldn't either. So I thought, oh, well, I'm now 28 years old and have been doing face yoga for a month now. and if you don't know what that is, it's making weird faces a form of exercise. I don't know what possessed me to, but I decided to try rolling it again and it worked. And my first thought was, wait, I can't do this.
00:35:44
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Then I realized that 28 years old, I still believe this was genetic trait. So I think what they mean is like when you can like roll your tongue up
Discovering Tongue Rolling Isn't Genetic
00:35:51
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and like like a burrito or fold it or things like that. Yeah.
00:35:55
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Right. OK. But what I was thinking of easy one. I see. I don't know how to roll my tongue, but I'm sure you can learn. right The one thing I never learned how to do was purposely wiggle my note my nostrils. I know other people who can do it, but I can't do it.
00:36:08
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But I can move my ears ah without doing my moving my eyebrows, which most people have to do. um But what that made me think of, though, was rolling your R's. And I thought, I know people who think that they can't, like, like I've had people say, like, how do you do that?
00:36:27
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And I was thinking, I want to ask you real quick, because I thought for sure I've heard you do it, like you like an actual, like, rolling your R's, right? Yes, I can roll my R's. Right?
00:36:38
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Now, so if you had to describe to somebody, this is my question based off of this question that has nothing to do with exactly rolling R's, but rolling your tongue. is if you were to describe to somebody what role in your like but step one to three would look like to get started learning to roll your Rs, how would you describe how you do that?
00:36:57
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All right. I got this. Because honestly, I knew where that question was going, and I was thinking of it just now. Where are you? aware Aware of the question? I aware of it.
00:37:09
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ah here's Here's how you do it. Ready? You're going to... Open your mouth slightly, with your tongue in the middle of your mouth, so it's not really touching anything.
00:37:20
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Like it? Like that? Yeah. Oh, like that. Okay, got it. And then you're going to breathe out and slowly raise your tongue towards the roof of your mouth.
00:37:33
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yeah yeah yeah Okay, but breathe out like breathe out ah softly over a long period of time, like a nice...
Learning to Roll R's
00:37:43
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a Okay, but don't do it like an idiot.
00:37:52
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How dare you? I'm trying to learn. But if you just softly breathe out of your mouth and slowly raise your tongue up to the roof of your mouth, eventually it'll catch and you'll go...
00:38:06
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Right. i I like to describe it as like... Press through your tongue to like the roof of your mouth. Like if you're going to say the letter T, like like if you just said the the T sound a bunch of times like.
00:38:20
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But you do it with your mouth more open when you do it. That's how you start is you want to have that like. oh Yeah, that like you want to have like i can't roll my R's without my tongue touching the top of my mouth at some point.
00:38:32
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Right. or um Right. Because basically what you're doing when you're rolling your R's You're basically doing a fart with your mouth. Kind of.
00:38:43
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You're basically doing a fart with your tongue. The same way, like, as the air escapes your ass, your butt cheeks slam together and make that pound sound. That's what you're doing with your tongue.
00:38:54
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You're pressing it against the roof of your mouth and letting the air come out. And the R rolling is the pound sound of your tongue. You say when your butt cheeks slam together? And make that pound sound.
00:39:06
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That's like a fucking rap lyric.
00:39:12
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When them cheeks slam together and then make the pants sound. oh ah ah Well, now we just have to make a rap about Bumper stickers. Bumper
00:39:26
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But yeah, so <unk>t tell me if you can hear this sound because I'm not going to do it in words. I'm just going to do a sound effect. Tell me if this comes up in the microphone. Okay. Can you hear this?
00:39:36
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Yeah, you rolled an R. Right. But I was just like, like I was farting and getting like. Right. OK, yeah. So like so like that's how I would start to do it is because a lot of people like when they're searching for something, especially if they think there's someone watching or if there's someone in the room, you know how many times you're like, oh, hang on, let me find it.
00:39:55
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You know, you just kind of like make these little noises with your mouth because you're trying to fill the silence because you're being watched now. Right. It's that's how I would start to do it. It's like put your pretend like you're going to say a T, but then like kind of like almost like you're going to do a T and a CH at the same time. like I think actually the best way to to do it would be to combine our two.
00:40:15
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Start with yours saying, you know, make a T, but keep the mouth slightly open because that does set you perfectly up for mine. which is then slowly breathe out of your mouth and raise your tongue up until it catches the air and it just I have one I have one more ah well actually I have several but I'm only gonna give you one more that I that I tried to teach my nephew how to do this um and so every now and again because like we were playing one day and I was throwing a football at him not to him Adam and yeah we know you're Adam yeah
00:40:48
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Also, Jesus, man. I meant to say two of them, but my friend was like, say you threw the football at him. So I was pelting my nephew with this football.
00:40:59
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and I don't know why that's so funny, but I just imagine myself like, come here, Alex. bill um But ah so anyway, when I threw it, I'd go like, but but but like when I chuck it and he'd be like, how do you make that noise?
00:41:11
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And so i was like, huh? But I realized when I do it, I go. but up but but So like, I'm still rolling my r even though there's no R in there technically, but like something like a. So I've been trying to like, just say, but as fast as you can, but, but, but, ah but but but but but but But if you can do the ra, ra, ra, that's a single roll of an R. Right. And so you kind of get like what your tongue is supposed to be doing. And then eventually you learn to do it without the bruh in it. You just do a ra, which a little harder.
00:41:41
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But like, so he's every now and then he'll go like, bruh, bruh, bruh. And I'm like, you're getting it. just got to it faster. You're doing the D though. It sounds like he was doing like. But does it it is like a D, which is fine, because like he whether you're making a T sound or a D sound, i guess I'd say that when you roll an is closer to like repeating a D sound over and over again, like.
00:42:00
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but Right. So like I said, you're not just going to do did did did did did did did did did really, really, really fast. Right. So like, I just want to go like, but, up but, up but up but, and eventually like, you know, every now and again, he'll get it, but he won't be able to repeat it.
00:42:13
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Like you forgot what he did, but like, that's the most success I've gotten in the shortest amount of time. Just be like, but but but but but but right. So like, in case you're out there, you know, there's ways to practice it. If you really want to roll your, art I'm pretty sure I learned it trying to, uh, basically do drumming, like not beatboxing, but drumming with my mouth, like, but, but,
00:42:36
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but Exactly. See, we're kind of doing the same thing that I was just saying, right? but Yeah. but but but but but but but but Yeah. Cause you would go brrr. You'd start it with a B. Yeah.
00:42:47
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Right. Exactly. So like, that's why I was like, maybe that's a better way to do it. It's like brrr, brrr, brrr. Like consonants are easier for people to form. So start with a consonant sound and then fire it off afterwards. Instead of trying to like roll your r's, right? That's really difficult to learn.
00:43:02
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But if you're like, roll your bars, right, that's easier because your your lips are giving you some assistance on how to get started. and Right. So like that's kind of like I've seen success in this little kid, like pretty like only after a couple of weeks at him trying, like just every uncle Adam, am I doing it? but but but but but And every now and then, honestly, that's pretty, new and that's impressive.
00:43:22
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right Yeah, he'll just fire one. ah Kids learn so fucking fast. I was like, oh, hey, maybe I'm onto something. um so I just was reminded of that recently when I when i was reading this. i was like, hmm, I know that's not what they mean, but that made me think of that.
00:43:37
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and so I was like, oh, I want to see how Danny would like instruct somebody as somebody who's in the vocal acting and voice work and stuff. i was like, how would you teach someone to roll their R's? so I thought that might be a fun little exercise. so I think you and I both...
00:43:51
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I didn't practice how you practice. I just could always do it. I just it always made sense to me when I heard it. Like the first time I heard something where I just did it. Yeah. like i Yeah. Like I didn't go out of my way to learn it. I was just like doing shitty beatboxing and I just did it I was like, oh, that sounds like a quick hit, like a, you know, quick series of hits.
00:44:14
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I think when I first saw Michael Winslow on Police Academy was when I first really started trying to figure out like, oh, what can I how can what can I do? Like he can do like he sounds like a full on Atari
Admiring Michael Winslow's Vocal Talents
00:44:24
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machine or something. And I'm like, you know, so I think like I just kind of are like I just try to like do all the noises that I heard him do.
00:44:32
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Not remotely close. He's the gold standard. But like, yeah, if you don't know. um
00:44:39
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just blanked on his name. Michael Winslow? Yeah, thank you. If you don't know Michael Winslow is, look him up. He's still doing shit. and Is he really? like He's not in movies so much, but like he makes appearances.
00:44:52
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and Actually, he was on a dropout show a couple years ago. They have like a series they call Make Some Noise. And like the one guy couldn't make it. So Michael Winslow filled in and man. And so now he learned years later after police Academy that he puts a microphone in his hand.
00:45:08
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He has a little soundboard where he records his own sound effects and then plays them back so he can amp up other shit he's doing. he can have three or four of his own sound effects playing at once. Yeah. This dude is just ah it's incredible.
00:45:19
Speaker
This guy is just a human soundboard. He is a human. radical It's. Inspiring. Dude, he he I can't remember what song he was doing, but somebody was playing an acoustic version of a song and then he did the drums and or the electric guitar version during the solo where she just put this microphone up to his mouth and just learned that he can just like control his throat and his jaws to create like this. Like sounds like a fucking guitar is playing. And I was like, how the shit.
00:45:50
Speaker
is this dude doing this um incredible and they really utilize that skill in the original police academy movie actually the first couple i think the first three he was in and uh also in space balls wasn't that he was yeah he was the sweeps and the creeps yeah yeah the i can't even do them look you know and then there's the bleep boop Oh my God. He's so good.
00:46:14
Speaker
du ah Yeah, you're right. He wasn't that was so funny. I forgot. He's on, uh, uh, Darth helmets. What is his name? Dark helmet, Darth helmet, dark dark helmet. It was dark, hel dark helmets.
00:46:25
Speaker
He was like one of the pilots. Yeah. What the fuck is dark helmets? Number two guy. Um, I can't think of his name, but like he never lose he never leaves his side. Yeah, the guy whose luggage thing was 1, 2, 3, 4. Oh, no, that's the mayor. Oh, that's right. That was the mayor of the planet.
00:46:43
Speaker
Yeah, it's like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. That's the same combination on my luggage. What'd he use that?
00:46:50
Speaker
I'm going to look it up. It's going to be crazy. That guy was too good not to remember his name. That whole movie was just oh so fantastic. Fuck, what is his name?
00:47:02
Speaker
uh dark helmets second in command
00:47:08
Speaker
oh colonel sanders how could i forget all that oh oh my god yeah it's spelled s-a-n-d-u-r-z sanders sanders i was like there's no i know it's an easy name i forgot it was a fucking pun colonel sanders But anyway, yeah, he was on Spaceballs. He's on Police Academy. He makes all these fun guest appearances on shows and talk shows and just, yeah, like, it's incredible.
00:47:35
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But yeah, I think the first time I saw him in Police Academy, i was like, I was just obsessed with trying to make noises. Like, I wish I practiced more as a kid, so I'd be better at it now. But I remember even now, like, if I'm just bored, if I don't have my headphones, if I'm just walking somewhere, I'm always doing like a...
00:47:51
Speaker
like i'm just trying to find ways to just beat box like you said and like just you know or like just see or like a like i do that a lot when i'm playing with the kids or if i'm uh or sometimes i'll grab the dog like the dog will lay on his back and like kick his feet at me and shit to play and so grab his arms like i'm like i grab his front arms his front paws like i'm stick shifting a card i go you know what you just the way you you rolled your r just a second ago was like you know what i think I didn't learn it trying to do beatboxing stuff.
00:48:25
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I bet you I learned it as a little kid with a machine gun. but Oh, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:48:34
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I bet you that's where I first did it. It might have been, because that's the hard way. Again, but you started with a consonant, because the way that I imagined... is spelled is T-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-T. Yeah, obviously. Right?
00:48:48
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Like, if I had to spell it phonetically, that's how I would spell the sound, the first sound ever made as a machine gun, which is T, bunch of Ds, and another T at the end. I don't know. I think I would still use R's. I would do, like, P-R-R-R-R-R-T.
00:49:02
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You'd still spell it pert? Well, because that's what you're doing without actually using your voice. You're going, pert. No, that's not how I would have... That's not how. No, I mean, I see what you mean, but I do pert is more like a. Let's see if I were making that noise, I go.
00:49:21
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I don't know, it'd be like the sound of phone makes and vibrates like.
00:49:28
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ah Or pert, I guess I could see that a little bit like.
00:49:34
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Yeah, yeah, maybe like a bigger gun, maybe like a bigger, higher caliber gun. I like. Well, that's.
00:49:44
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Is this good radio for you guys listening? Welcome to the sound effects show. Welcome to ASMR. All right, now, if you just relax. Today, we're going to do a machine gun. Today, we're doing an AK-47. It a little bit like this.
00:50:06
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Is that relaxing? I sure hope Are you relaxed now? Up next, laser guns. No, I'm just kidding. Anyway, you know what?
00:50:18
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ah Hit us up in the comments of this episode with your best sound effect. Just whatever it spell sounds like phonetically, just spell it out. Yeah, and if there's any you want us to try and do and make a fool of ourselves on next episode, put it in there.
00:50:30
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Funestellersnetwork.biz if you want it in there as a question. There you go. Can you do this? all All responses, it's like Jeopardy. All responses must be in the form of a question that we can answer All responses must be in the form of an answer so that we can question it.
00:50:48
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No, Adam, we're supposed to be the A's, not the Q's. I don't want to live in that box. I want to be whatever I want to be. No, get in your box. Oh, yeah?
00:50:59
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You better be behind cover, buddy. Tell my wife!
00:51:08
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I will.
00:51:13
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Okay, but that's all the bullshit that I have. I just thought that would a fun little discussion. um So that's it. That's what I have. So, uh, Hey, everybody before Daniel gives us funny, funny, funny, funny notes.
00:51:28
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Uh, remember bum per stickers, uh, and you know, and, um, again, you can leave comments on our episodes, wherever you get your podcasts. I know Spotify lets you do it. I'm pretty sure Apple lets you do it.
00:51:39
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00:51:51
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But again, as far as the comments are concerned, to help us combat the algorithm as it gets changed constantly and the competition, everybody's making podcasts these days. um You know,
00:52:03
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If you leave a comment, if you review the show, good or bad, it still helps bump us up in the ah the rankings when people search for certain kinds of shows. So please do that. It would really help us out a lot. We sincerely appreciate it.
00:52:16
Speaker
And outside of that, ah take it away, Daniel. Bye. Okay. you don't have anything else you want to say? Because I'll end it there.
00:52:30
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All right, fine. I can't. Look, I was going to do the bit, but like thank you all for listening. I want you all to know that we appreciate it. I can't just leave it there. ah
00:52:41
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It's a dream come true. Okay, bye. hey you know what you should do before we leave? Say that same sentence, but as if you were... but rolling Yeah, he's gonna say, say every single word with an old R. Right.
00:52:57
Speaker
That will be hard. Let me try. You sound like you're drowning. Thank you all so much for listening. love you all.
00:53:09
Speaker
It's a dream come true. You sound like a fucking alien trying to talk through a transponder. Rrrrrr. this It sounded like that fucking bird. Actually, you know you know what I can do while I roll my eyes?
00:53:21
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I've been told I can do a very good Chewie impression. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. There you go.
00:53:32
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You know what I can do a good impression of? Hmm. Oh, I was going to say something mean, but then I decided not to. Well, now I need to know. No, I'm not- no, it's okay. I need to know. yeah end this episode and then tell me.
00:53:49
Speaker
Goodbye, everyone. You'll never get to know, but I'm gonna know. Brrrra, brrra, brrra.