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Introduction and Christmas Reflections
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BeyBlade
Hello, you are listening to the all-new Anti-Fanboy Podcast for the week of December 28th, 2025. Sometimes I say the numbers, sometimes I say the month. Who could say what mood I'm in? But listen, Christmas is done and dusted, y'all.
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BeyBlade
I smoked those things, I just went, just a pow! Get out of here, Christmas. I never believed in you anyway, Santa Claus. My name's Devin Kobeck. With me, Steve O'Tierry.
00:00:28
Steve-O
I'm happy to be here. I hope y'all had a Merry Christmas, but I hope you have a terrible new year.
00:00:34
BeyBlade
And the terrible he new year himself, John Suarez.
00:00:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
hmm hello i'm gonna wreck it we're gonna wreck it
00:00:38
BeyBlade
He's coming. You're going to come in and just ruin my shit. That's what you're doing.
00:00:43
Steve-O
That was such just a genuinely nice hello.
00:00:44
BeyBlade
let's
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BeyBlade
Hello.
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Steve-O
Hello.
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BeyBlade
he's He's coming to fuck your year up. 1-1-26.
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Steve-O
high
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BeyBlade
You're fucking done.
00:00:55
Steve-O
Well, we're having a very Christmas Christmas this year because.
00:00:59
BeyBlade
Oh, you just had that. You know what?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
damn you know
00:01:00
BeyBlade
You know what? why Why do I do the intros when you just got that stuff in your back pocket, huh?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
having a mess this year.
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Steve-O
No, i because that's the thing. i don' I can't go for the I can do the sprint. I can't do the the the marathon for the intro.
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BeyBlade
so Okay. All right. Fair enough. Yeah, I know. Chris ah said he's like, gotta do inventory.
00:01:23
Steve-O
He's a businessman now.
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BeyBlade
I remembered, by the way, guys. To the thing we were talking about earlier. I remembered. So you're welcome.
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Steve-O
What did you remember? Oh, okay.
00:01:32
BeyBlade
I remember what I watched. he if It clicked. It clicked. Guys, I've been.
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Steve-O
It all fell into place.
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BeyBlade
ah Yeah. So last week, if you recall, I was like, I think I'm getting kind of sick. I got sick, y'all. I got like the most sick I've been in a minute.
00:01:51
BeyBlade
And yeah, this whole week was like ah i was in a fugue state um that I just I couldn't.
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Steve-O
Dang.
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Steve-O
Hmm.
00:02:00
BeyBlade
The worst part, frankly, was my sleep schedule was completely ruined. So I had a whole basically a whole week off ah like Monday.
00:02:12
BeyBlade
I was off. Tuesday I worked from home and the rest of the week I'd been free and clear of any real responsibilities for work. And I was just, I couldn't enjoy any of it because I was sleeping or not being able to sleep or falling asleep for about two hours and then waking up and then making package deliveries and death, death stranding too.
00:02:33
BeyBlade
Um, with a, with a brutal fever, um, and cold sweats and night sweats and chills and, and,
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
How high was your fever?
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BeyBlade
i You know what I realized? We don't own a thermometer.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, well, you don't have You don't have a baby you don't have a baby you don't have a baby, so doesn't matter.
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Steve-O
should You should get one of those little quick digital ones.
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BeyBlade
So.
00:02:51
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, I need Yeah, no, listen, it was one of those thoughts I had because I was about day four into this and into like legit chills.
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Steve-O
Hmm.
00:03:02
BeyBlade
Like I need to get get under some blankets and and shiver myself to unconscious. And I was like, we should get a thermometer. I might have to go to the hospital.
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Steve-O
When your chills sick, it's bad.
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BeyBlade
And then Jenny was like, Hey, do you think we're going to make it to my mom's for Christmas? And i was like, I think I need to go to the hospital. And then she made me feel guilty.
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BeyBlade
um And I was like, I will see. And then i had that moment where, the fever broke. Like I woke up and I was drenched and I was like hungry for the first time in like four days.
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BeyBlade
And then I just ate half a box of corn pop cereal.
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Steve-O
Yeah.
00:03:42
Steve-O
Was that Christmas? Was that a Christmas miracle healing?
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BeyBlade
No, that was like the day before Christmas. yeah Yeah.
00:03:47
Steve-O
OK.
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BeyBlade
Yeah. So you know what, Steve? Yeah. It was a Christmas miracle.
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Steve-O
Christmas Eve.
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BeyBlade
Uh, yeah. i was like, Oh, you there. What day is it? And then, uh,
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Steve-O
It's Christmas Eve, sir.
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BeyBlade
Yeah. And then, ah but even then I still felt weird because I was, you're not better, right? doesn't mean you're automatically healthy. It was just, i was able to be, yeah, it was just meant I was able to be upright, but like, it's still weird because I told everybody, I was like, Hey, I'm sick.
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Steve-O
but you're better than were.
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BeyBlade
So please don't hug me. Jenny's 89 year old grandmother. Like, please don't go near me.
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Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
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BeyBlade
You're a very sweet person. I don't want to get you sick. um And they were like, oh, you guys should spend the night because it's like an hour 40, like just to get there. So it's like a two hour, three hour round trip.
Wallets and Real ID Frustrations
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BeyBlade
And I was like, no, I'd i'd i'd rather just be home and and normal sick. But yeah, so i I sat on my butt and I watched a lot of things.
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BeyBlade
And I played one thing.
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Steve-O
There you go.
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BeyBlade
And I'm not done it yet. But I made progress. i ah I still think I had a good shot to beat it by the end of the year.
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Steve-O
All right. Well, if you don't.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What, that's trending?
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BeyBlade
Yeah, Death Stranding too. I'm at the point where it's like, we looked up, there's like 18 chapters or whatever.
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Steve-O
Yeah, you said something like that last week, right?
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BeyBlade
I'm on chapter like 11, the narratively like... the narratively like ah the game's like almost done. It's like, go here to do the end of the game. Like essentially that's what the game's telling me.
00:05:25
BeyBlade
So of course I got to build roads and monorails before I do all of that. That's the most important things, but yeah, I mean, listen, I could talk, I could wax poetic about things I watched and and played and things like that. But what about you guys? How was your Christmas?
00:05:43
BeyBlade
This is,
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Steve-O
I was also under the weather. i wasn't as sick as you were, it sounds like, but I definitely had like a head cold. So I was sneezing, snotty, lot of sniffling.
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BeyBlade
Thank
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Steve-O
ah i made a run um December 23rd, like half an hour before midnight to the nearest CVS that was still open just to get some just to get some cold medicine.
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Steve-O
And they were thankfully open. So made it just in time.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
The one on the pike, the one on the pike, the only 24 hour one, I think, near us.
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Steve-O
Yup. Yup.
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Steve-O
ah And they were closing because, you know, everybody's, everybody usually closes except for,
00:06:27
BeyBlade
Did you walk in like, I need Sudafed.
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Steve-O
as
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BeyBlade
way
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Steve-O
Except for Wawa.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah
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Steve-O
Wawa Christmas Day, we stopped at, and they were just full service going. I got myself a coffee, got some gift cards, and I was like, bless you for being open.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Damn.
00:06:43
Steve-O
And she was just like, I'm happy to be here. And I was like, are you?
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BeyBlade
You're like, no, you're not. Cut the shit, lady.
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Steve-O
she was She was surprisingly pleasant for having to wear Christmas.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Man, she was probably getting holiday. She's probably getting holiday pay. Let me look that up.
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Steve-O
But...
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wah-wah holiday pay. Let's see what they do.
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Steve-O
Christmas, you know, ah i went to my aunt's.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, time and a half.
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Steve-O
It was delightful.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They get time and a half, bro.
00:07:04
Steve-O
ah Tess and I ate some good ham and everybody had a good time. So the end.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, Christmas Day is double time.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I'd be happy as fuck, dude.
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Steve-O
Double time.
00:07:17
Steve-O
Oh, okay.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
was getting paid double time. Shit.
00:07:22
Steve-O
How about you, John? How was your Christmas?
00:07:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's good. I got a Mr. Potato Head shirt.
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Steve-O
Shirt?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
got... um Yeah.
00:07:28
Steve-O
Now, when you say Mr. Potato Head shirt, is it a shirt with Mr. Potato Head on it, or is it a shirt that you can, like, put parts on?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's a brown shirt with Mr.
00:07:35
BeyBlade
Yeah.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Potato Head on it.
00:07:37
Steve-O
but Okay.
00:07:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It matches one that he already has, so he wanted to get me that.
00:07:41
Steve-O
Oh, that's cool.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But my the favorite shirt that he has that I have is this, like... Let me see if I can find it for you guys. But it's this... ah It makes him laugh every time I wear it, which is usually...
00:07:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
just as pajamas because i don't know if i could wear that outside the house but it's like it's like mickey mouse but he's like buff and has big muscles you've seen it yeah he every every time i wear it he fucking he fucking he laughs his ass off so it's just uh it's just a red shirt where he's just like fucking
00:08:02
Steve-O
Oh, I've seen that shirt. I've seen that.
Gift Exchange and Delivery Mishaps
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
got big muscles and he and he loves it uh what else um
00:08:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I got a ah Ridge wallet, so I'm as cool as Golani now.
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Steve-O
Did Galani have a ridge?
00:08:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And yeah, he's the one I've seen.
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BeyBlade
I have a rage wallet.
00:08:28
Steve-O
Are y'all ridge wallet rockers?
00:08:31
BeyBlade
Dude, rage wallet?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, you were hating on it before, Devin. I remember that.
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BeyBlade
Dude, I've had a rage wallet I think longer than all of you.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You were hating on the...
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BeyBlade
What are you talking about?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, chris Chris had it first, and then you were hating on it, if I recall.
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BeyBlade
No way, dude.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like Let me...
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BeyBlade
Don't gaslight me.
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Steve-O
I'm going to have to see the receipts.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
we have We have a Discord. We have a Discord.
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Steve-O
I'm going to have to see the receipts.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Let me see.
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Let me look up where Ridge wallet.
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BeyBlade
I'm going to have literally Google ah Amazon when I bought my... I bought my Ridge wallet in like 2018, dude.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Let's see.
00:08:59
BeyBlade
You know what's funny? I'm going to find out I don't even have
00:09:00
Steve-O
Oh, wow.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you're gonna you're about to eat shit, Devin.
00:09:04
BeyBlade
Oh, dude, am I?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Let me see. 20...
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BeyBlade
Hold on.
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Steve-O
Devin Kopech, 2021.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
twenty
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Steve-O
Now, if it was a Ridge Racer wallet all day.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
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BeyBlade
Hold on. What kind of wallet do I have?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I almost jumped on it, but then I saw the user reviews of people's baby screws. That's what you were saying in 2021. and you had and you Sir, sir on the on the stand right now, you've had you've had one for three years and you you were looking up user reviews on it three years later?
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BeyBlade
Wow. I've owned one for a minute
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Interesting, Devin.
00:09:32
BeyBlade
Hello.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Interesting.
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Steve-O
ah
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BeyBlade
do it
00:09:34
Steve-O
You should have gotten the Ridge wallet that Worm Man has.
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BeyBlade
You know what? i i dude i'm telling I'm telling you right now, I bet you I bought one within three months of that comment.
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Steve-O
This is a June 2021.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wait, so Steve, you have to get one now.
00:09:40
Steve-O
Yeah, I'm the last holdout, i guess.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You gotta get one.
00:09:47
BeyBlade
Because yeah I was thinking about it, I bet.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, yeah, because I remember I saw Galani have one, like, back then. Probably around 2014. Yeah, because I was looking at him in 2021. I'm like, I don't know.
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Steve-O
Oh, this is when devin Devin was showing off his new wallet, which was the Travando Men Slim wallet with money clip.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
These are...
00:10:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, is that the one where we were fucking cooking his ass on?
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Steve-O
it Yeah, yeah.
00:10:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah Because it was the fucking... It was the George Costanza wallet.
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Steve-O
you
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, that's... Because it was gigantic.
00:10:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then Devin was probably self-conscious about it bought the smallest wallet.
00:10:17
BeyBlade
Remember that? I think that's legitimately what I was bullied into binary.
00:10:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
physically possible.
00:10:21
BeyBlade
Well, quietly. And then i then I act like I never shit on it if had ah
00:10:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Anyway, I do like it. Mine has... um Wait, how many cards do you use in yours, Devin?
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BeyBlade
it.
00:10:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because I have like five right now.
00:10:34
BeyBlade
Too many. um I don't know. I probably like...
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It seems like the perfect...
00:10:39
BeyBlade
See, the thing is, is I also have like my health insurance card and stuff like that.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
perfect size.
00:10:44
BeyBlade
That's the stuff that fattens it up, dude.
00:10:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
People say not to bring that around. People say not to. Some people say you should. It would make your like emergency room visit easier for the people that work there.
00:10:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
but that But other people also say that health insurance fraud is like a fucking pandemic these days. And people like go out of their way to try and steal your health insurance identity to get health insurance.
00:11:02
BeyBlade
Oh, okay.
00:11:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because our country is fucking hellscape. And we can never we can never you know solve our own issues that are simple to solve.
00:11:14
BeyBlade
Hey, well, if you don't like it, you can leave. Okay, buddy?
00:11:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But yeah, i keep my non I keep my non-Real ID driver's license in it.
00:11:19
BeyBlade
Get out.
00:11:24
BeyBlade
Yeah, dude.
00:11:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
A debit card, a credit card, and my Costco card.
00:11:26
BeyBlade
does Does anyone have a real ID? Do you have a real ID yet, Sean?
00:11:30
Steve-O
I have a real ID.
00:11:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i have an ah I have an appointment for it this Saturday. Thank you very much.
00:11:34
Steve-O
It takes a long time.
00:11:34
BeyBlade
I...
00:11:35
Steve-O
When did you set that appointment?
00:11:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And you know what sucks? Dude, you know what sucks, Steve? um Fucking, it's easier to get your passport, right?
00:11:40
Steve-O
What's that? Mm-hmm.
00:11:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And for the Real ID driver's license, they ask for it. more documentation proving your identity than what you need to get your passport. And that that includes bringing your passport as well as a form of ID when you when you get it.
00:11:59
BeyBlade
Jesus.
00:12:00
Steve-O
So does that mean i could just take my real ID down and be like, see, I got a real ID. So come on, just give me my passport.
00:12:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I think once you...
00:12:07
BeyBlade
Isn't it it like just like a flaky piece of paper too?
00:12:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, but like, it just seems like...
00:12:10
BeyBlade
It's like not even like a real.
00:12:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah, did they at least up the quality of the fucking laminate that they use for the...
00:12:16
Steve-O
They stamped the corner with like a little star.
00:12:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is it just the same quality as an old one?
00:12:19
BeyBlade
But, but I mean, is it like a piece of paper though? Yeah. Cause remember when the first came out, they're like, dude, this is worse than my normal driver's license.
00:12:24
Steve-O
Oh,
00:12:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This is trash.
00:12:28
BeyBlade
It has a quality.
00:12:29
Steve-O
It looked the same. It honestly just looks the same.
00:12:32
BeyBlade
Okay.
00:12:32
Steve-O
Like I wouldn't.
00:12:33
BeyBlade
Well, that's fine.
00:12:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Okay.
00:12:34
BeyBlade
No, like legitimately the first the reports I was hearing was there like, it was like they had the consistency of like your, your social security guard, you know, like this is just paper.
00:12:44
Steve-O
Hmm.
00:12:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right. No, that, yeah, yeah, I don't know.
00:12:47
BeyBlade
Well. Yeah.
00:12:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm like, I'm like self con. I'm going to bring way more than I need, probably because all I hear is like, oh, I didn't bring enough documentation. So had to reschedule. And it's like a fucking pain in the ass.
00:12:59
BeyBlade
Yeah, you're going back. Yeah. they'll Always bring more than you need because he's going back is, you know, hell.
00:13:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Steve, did they print it for you there? or You had to wait for it a couple of weeks.
00:13:10
Steve-O
I had to wait for it.
00:13:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wow. Wow.
00:13:13
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:13:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They wait for the queue to fill up at FedEx Kinkos to print your fucking shit out on regular paper.
00:13:21
Steve-O
I felt they made me feel bad that day. Like...
00:13:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Really? Because I'm not um not fucking around. if If they want to be assholes, I'm going be asshole back.
00:13:29
Steve-O
They made me feel like such a bother. And like... It's fair. They were packed. But...
00:13:36
BeyBlade
but like
00:13:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But dude, you work at the DMV. like That's how it is.
00:13:39
Steve-O
it
00:13:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like You sign up for it.
00:13:40
Steve-O
That's what you're going to be doing.
00:13:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you know You get paid for that.
00:13:42
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:13:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know, like that's your job, you know.
00:13:45
BeyBlade
Yeah, you like you didn't ask to be there.
00:13:45
Steve-O
hmm.
00:13:48
BeyBlade
You know you don't want to be there. I'll tell you what, they don't they don't deserve that.
00:13:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's when you so you slip them a little hundo under the table, Steve, and you say, listen.
00:13:55
Steve-O
Get me out real quick.
00:13:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, let's get this done. here's here's Here's my social security card. My name is Benjamin Franklin and my social security security number is 100.
00:14:07
Steve-O
Oh, Mr. Franklin, welcome. Welcome. Come on in.
00:14:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What else? What else did I get? Oh, we got we got the kid ah like his new shitty iPad, so I get my iPad back. So it's kind of like I got
Comforts and Challenges of Weighted Blankets
00:14:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
a new iPad for Christmas.
00:14:21
BeyBlade
and nices Nice.
00:14:22
Steve-O
Back in the iPad business.
00:14:23
BeyBlade
That's like, did you see that clip of that guy that ah his like wife opens the door and he shoves the p s five into her hands and shoves her out of the the house?
00:14:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah.
00:14:33
BeyBlade
He opens the door and he acts like, he's like, oh my god, you got PS5.
00:14:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's like, yeah, I'm so surprised.
00:14:36
BeyBlade
It's basically what you did.
00:14:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Also, I got PS5 Pro, I got Xbox Series X, and I got
00:14:41
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah. Really good value at this time of the year.
00:14:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and I got a new 300-inch OLED 4K 120Hz Just kidding.
00:14:48
Steve-O
a
00:14:50
BeyBlade
Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
00:14:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I didn't get any of that stuff.
00:14:55
BeyBlade
Wow, fake win.
00:14:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, actually, you know what sucks? ah We went to my mom's for Christmas Eve, and she got my sister Beats headphones, which were a gift from the casino.
00:14:55
Steve-O
But it's the spot.
00:15:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
She got Sam and my brother-in-law Kindle Fire HDs, which were also gifts at the casino, and she got me nothing.
00:15:16
Steve-O
You didn't get anything?
00:15:17
BeyBlade
Dude, did you, did you?
00:15:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No. Isn't that fucked up? Nah, it's not bad. i don't really care.
00:15:21
BeyBlade
No, you should. Why?
00:15:22
Steve-O
ah Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:15:22
BeyBlade
don't, yeah,
00:15:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
was actually i was in actually I was actually more mad that she got um Sam a Kindle Fire HD because she asked if...
00:15:24
Steve-O
Let's rewind that.
00:15:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is it called a Kindle anymore? Because it's just a tablet, that thing.
00:15:36
Steve-O
I think they're still called Kindles, right?
00:15:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because she asked if she asked like like six months ago if if Sam would like a Kindle.
00:15:39
BeyBlade
yeah I don't know.
00:15:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um And I asked Sam. She was like, yeah, I would use a Kindle.
00:15:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then and then radio radio silence for the rest of the year. So I just figured she just didn't get it from the casino anymore. So I bought Sam like an actual e-reader Kindle for Christmas.
00:15:48
Steve-O
Oh, I think they're called Fire Tablets.
00:16:00
Steve-O
Hmm.
00:16:00
BeyBlade
Oh, no!
00:16:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But Sam opened that on Christmas Eve. And I was like, Jesus Christ, Mom, just ask me.
00:16:07
Steve-O
Oh.
00:16:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Or something. Be like, yo, this is what I'm getting getting for your wife.
00:16:12
BeyBlade
Yeah, no, that's true.
00:16:13
Steve-O
Hmm.
00:16:13
BeyBlade
That's true.
00:16:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But i looked it up and it's like, if you're going to read like a fucking book, which is what Sam is going to be doing, like it's better to just have the e-ink, the e-reader version.
00:16:24
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:16:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because it looks...
00:16:24
Steve-O
Hmm.
00:16:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I mean, she she turned it on. It looks like fucking real paper. Like, it was weird.
00:16:30
Steve-O
Yeah, I've heard um but E Ink is so good now.
00:16:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like it looked Like, it looked like it was off. Like, I was like, is this on? Is there a sticker? Is there a sticker on this?
00:16:36
Steve-O
And it's going to like last forever, too.
00:16:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Then we got it removed.
00:16:38
Steve-O
Is
00:16:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, it's like a longer battery and stuff.
Gift Wrapping Struggles and Fast Food Disappointments
00:16:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and you know it's not It doesn't have like fucking tablet apps and shit.
00:16:43
Steve-O
it backlit?
00:16:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, yeah, it is backlit.
00:16:46
Steve-O
Oh, that's nice.
00:16:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So I think I beat my mom with that. So I won.
00:16:52
BeyBlade
Yeah, good.
00:16:53
Steve-O
won!
00:16:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I won! And I also got...
00:16:55
Steve-O
I won!
00:16:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah i didn't think she was going to like it this much, but she i got her this fucking... Like this plush... Like... It's not a bathrobe, but it's like And it's not a... What do you call What do you call those things?
00:17:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's not... What the fuck are they called? Hold on I'm sorry. You guys have no idea what I'm talking about. um
00:17:19
BeyBlade
I'm still trying to figure out why your mom thought it was acceptable to get you nothing.
00:17:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, she watches my kid for free, dude.
00:17:27
BeyBlade
Like, yeah. All right.
00:17:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's enough.
00:17:28
BeyBlade
All right.
00:17:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That would have been another mortgage I'd have to pay.
00:17:30
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:17:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So I'm okay with it.
00:17:33
Steve-O
ah
00:17:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And to be fair...
00:17:34
BeyBlade
Come on, man.
00:17:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And to be fair, like... it's like she's doing stuff that she can't do for my sister's kids anymore for my one kid. So it's like, when I, when I break down the math, it really isn't a big deal to me.
00:17:44
BeyBlade
Okay. Okay. All right.
00:17:49
BeyBlade
Yeah, you're she's got you she's got you in a corner, dude. Yeah.
00:17:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:17:52
Steve-O
sorry.
00:17:53
BeyBlade
You can't say anything, dude.
00:17:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. But it was like, i don't know. Yeah. I'm like, I got to take care of her now, you know? Cause like, um, we, uh, she was going to the casino with my uncle and my aunt, but she was watching Owen on Friday, but I worked near,
00:18:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Atlantic city now. So i was like, Oh, just bring them down there. I'll pick them up there. We'll have dinner at the, like, we you know, my uncle bought us dinner at, at the casino or whatever, the buffet at the Borgata, which was really good. And then, um, and I like, I got my, you know, my first new paycheck. So I gave my mom some money to gamble with, which she lost all, all of it on, but you know, I'm cool with it.
00:18:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm cool with not getting any physical presence from my mom anymore.
00:18:31
BeyBlade
yeah You're cool with washing your mom, Gameloy. Hey.
00:18:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, what are those there wearable...
00:18:38
BeyBlade
Yeah, get it.
00:18:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
wearable ah I forgot what theyre what the term was, but they're not they're not in anymore. But I got Sam this... um It's like a blanket, a plush blanket that you can wear as a robe.
00:18:52
Steve-O
Oh, um
00:18:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And she loves it. It's not a...
00:18:55
Steve-O
like an Odie or something.
00:18:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, what do they call those things? No, it's and it was before. um
00:19:01
Steve-O
I forget what they were called.
00:19:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Fuck.
00:19:02
Steve-O
Slank it or something like that.
00:19:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It starts with an S. Blanket with arms. Sorry.
00:19:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
With arms sleeves.
00:19:13
BeyBlade
Thank
00:19:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What are they called? I mean, yeah, slanket comes up, but that's not what we were calling it 10 years ago. It was something else.
00:19:21
Steve-O
It definitely had a name 10 years ago. and I'm trying to remember what it was.
00:19:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. Snuggie.
00:19:25
Steve-O
Snuggie.
00:19:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Snuggie. Yeah, it's not a snuggie because it's a robe with like a hood and stuff.
00:19:30
Steve-O
Dang, that was just like an Obi-Wan Kenobi moment in my head where I was like...
00:19:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I think that was the that was the winner. That was the the the touchdown. catch of the of the year, I think.
00:19:37
Steve-O
People do love a nice, comfortable ah robe or Snuggie.
00:19:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, because I didn't want to get her like a bathrobe because I know a lot of people wear bathrobes around the house, like if they're cold.
00:19:45
Steve-O
Hmm. Hmm.
00:19:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But this one seemed like really comfy and it was I wore it for a little bit. I'm like, shit, I should get one for myself. And we were we were at my sister's yesterday and she had this weighted blanket there.
00:20:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And I've never used a weighted blanket before.
00:20:04
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:20:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I was like paralyzed on the couch.
00:20:06
BeyBlade
Oh, dude.
00:20:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And I was like, i know.
00:20:06
BeyBlade
Yeah. Weighted blankets are no joke.
00:20:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I was like, I don't know if I like this.
00:20:08
Steve-O
manner how How heavy was it?
00:20:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But then like 10 minutes later, I'm like, I need this. But if I have this, I might not.
00:20:12
BeyBlade
No. So.
00:20:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah might I might not ever leave the bed if I had if I had a weighted blanket. So maybe that's not not a good thing.
00:20:18
Steve-O
Do you know the weight of it? Yeah.
00:20:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't know, but it was fucking heavy.
00:20:22
BeyBlade
Yeah, so they say when you buy a weighted blanket, they say you need to give it like two weeks because like you will feel uncomfortable. Like you got like acclimate to the weight.
00:20:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah.
00:20:33
Steve-O
that Oh, I see.
00:20:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, I mean, I felt uncomfortable at first. I'm like, this thing, this is weird.
00:20:37
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah. But then it's like some of the best sleep you'll ever have.
00:20:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But then, like, after, like, 20 minutes, I was like, yeah, I'm like, after 20 minutes of not moving under it, I was like, this is actually fucking pretty incredible.
00:20:41
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:20:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
but i think i I think I need this for my birthday. Wink, wink. arch
00:20:55
Steve-O
Okay.
00:20:56
BeyBlade
Yeah. ah The only thing that sucks is like when they get dirty, they're really hard to wash.
00:20:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, not to you. I was telling that the same.
00:21:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, I didn't even think about that.
00:21:04
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:21:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's probably... Yeah.
00:21:05
Steve-O
put it in a washing machine it just breaks it
00:21:06
BeyBlade
It's like, dude, I remember I had to try to throw a few of mine out because like I put them in like store you know like storage over the summer. And then I bust them out and they just smell.
00:21:19
BeyBlade
They have that weird funk.
00:21:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, how heavy was yours?
00:21:22
BeyBlade
I 30 and 50, think.
00:21:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh.
00:21:23
BeyBlade
fifty i think
00:21:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
50 pounds? Holy smokies.
00:21:26
BeyBlade
Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, it's laid out. It's, it's dispersed, you know,
00:21:30
Steve-O
could you technically work out with a weighted blanket
00:21:33
BeyBlade
can I do what?
00:21:34
Steve-O
Could you like technically like just lifting the weighted blanket up be considered a workout?
00:21:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah won't That doesn't kill your dog in its sleep, Devin?
00:21:41
BeyBlade
No, no, dude, the dog's not under it. No. See the way to like, it's designed to like go on top of the blanket that you're already wearing, you know, cause they're pretty small, relatively speaking.
00:21:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, the dog's gonna go under it? Okay.
00:21:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right. Okay. Okay.
00:21:55
BeyBlade
Um, But the problem was, is I got and like, you know, you break them out and you're like, oh, this has that weird like I've been in a crate for like eight months stink.
00:22:06
BeyBlade
And and then you realize you can't really get rid of it without washing it. And then you're like, how am I going to wash this thing? And I there's techniques, but it's far.
00:22:17
BeyBlade
It was just easier for me to just frankly buy a new one. i was like But, you know, this this wasn't worth it. um Then my dumb ass threw it out or I did something with it and stuff like give it away to somebody that could probably use it.
00:22:32
Steve-O
John. okay
00:22:33
BeyBlade
Like John.
00:22:34
Steve-O
right and
00:22:34
BeyBlade
Yeah. was going to say like the homeless, but yeah.
00:22:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Nah, I don't want somebody's used weighted blanket. don't want that shit.
00:22:40
BeyBlade
Dude, that's all you need, man. If you're homeless, you don't need a house. Get away the blanket. you're You'll be fine.
00:22:48
Steve-O
I didn't realize how cold my hands just naturally are until recently where like, I've been walking around.
00:22:54
BeyBlade
Until you were told by your significant other, hey, you have dead hands.
00:22:55
Steve-O
Well, yeah, I've been told, but like, like, she handed She handed me these, like, stones that she just had in her pockets. And I was like, what are these?
00:23:06
Steve-O
And she's like, they're hand warmers. And I'm like, okay.
00:23:08
BeyBlade
Okay.
00:23:09
Steve-O
And so, like, I held them. My hands instantly got, like, warm. Because, like, we were walking outside. And I was like, oh, my goodness. this is like This is, like, night and day. Like, I am officially, like, not feeling like I'm going to, like, freeze by walking outside, like, with, like, my hands in my pockets and stuff like that. So...
00:23:28
Steve-O
She got me a couple for Christmas. and I was like, oh, my goodness. i'm I'm like weirdly excited about these like heat warmer stones that I have now. So anybody ever needs hot hands.
00:23:40
Steve-O
I got them.
00:23:40
BeyBlade
Yeah, now you're just going to start. If anybody needs warm neck massages, you got us covered.
00:23:46
Steve-O
But don't put it up to three because it'll just set your hands on fire. It will burn you.
00:23:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is it like, it's like electronic. do you have to charge it? Okay.
00:23:56
Steve-O
Yeah, you do have to charge it. It's ah got USB-C. um But it's nice.
00:24:00
BeyBlade
So what if what's wrong with gloves? Do gloves just...
00:24:03
Steve-O
ah You ever try to hold something with gloves?
00:24:08
BeyBlade
I mean, like,
00:24:09
Steve-O
ah You know, the thing is, too, you can hold them while wearing gloves. So it's like heat on heat.
00:24:13
BeyBlade
Okay. All right. All right.
00:24:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mm, yeah.
00:24:16
Steve-O
Because we went to Longwood Gardens and it was freezing. It was the day of that like terrible windstorm.
00:24:22
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:23
Steve-O
And we were like, just so cold.
00:24:25
BeyBlade
You know, i'm I'm a real piece of shit because I'm struggling to remember the other gift. Jenny got me ah she got me a new Thoreau gun, um which is I feel kind of bad because I opened it and it was definitely like...
00:24:41
BeyBlade
repackaged. It was definitely like refurbished, I think. And I was like, what the fuck? And then I plugged it in and it hasn't taken a charge.
00:24:50
Steve-O
oh
00:24:50
BeyBlade
So like, yeah, you need to like, I think you need to return this shit. Like there's a reason why ah yeah it's like a massage gun, like a, like a, reant yeah, there were guns.
00:24:54
Steve-O
What is it? A throw gun? okay. okay
00:24:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, those Theragun things?
00:25:01
BeyBlade
I'm sorry. Yeah.
00:25:02
Steve-O
Okay. I was like, what is this?
00:25:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, was like, what's a Throgon?
00:25:04
BeyBlade
Oh, what an asshole I have pronounced it wrong. Um,
00:25:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, somebody used that on their fucking thighs one time after the gym.
00:25:13
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:25:15
Steve-O
Broke it.
00:25:15
BeyBlade
Dude, they kind of rule. um
00:25:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, that's what hear.
00:25:20
BeyBlade
They, well, actually, I don't, my algorithm, have you seen the ones that are like, it's like 19 heads and it like, you're supposed to just like rub it on your back.
00:25:31
Steve-O
I think so
00:25:32
BeyBlade
Yeah, they they use it at chiropractors sometimes and it's the best feeling in the world, but they only give it to you
Convenience Store Loyalty and Costco Appreciation
00:25:40
BeyBlade
for about 10 seconds and you're like, I need
00:25:42
Steve-O
You can do it to yourself.
00:25:44
BeyBlade
Well, you can buy it, but the problem is is you can't do You need somebody to just, you know, yeah.
00:25:48
Steve-O
You need someone else to use the gun on you.
00:25:49
BeyBlade
yeah
00:25:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:25:51
BeyBlade
Unfortunately. yeah i didn't
00:25:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Need a spotter.
00:25:55
BeyBlade
Well, the gun, but if you have like the little Thera gun, um you can just use it on yourself.
00:26:02
Steve-O
Okay, so you can use it on yourself.
00:26:04
BeyBlade
because I have one, but the the charge has long since kind of went out on it and then she got me something else, and I feel like a piece of shit because I can't remember what it was.
00:26:15
Steve-O
Well, while you're trying to remember that, so I got my mom this huge Emeril Lagasse brand toaster.
00:26:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wow.
00:26:18
BeyBlade
I'm sick, guys.
00:26:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Nice.
00:26:23
Steve-O
It had an air fryer, rotisserie chicken.
00:26:24
BeyBlade
okay.
00:26:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Does it say BAM when it's done?
00:26:25
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:26:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Does it say BAM when it's done?
00:26:27
Steve-O
a Basically, the size of this thing, it could have.
00:26:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
BAM.
00:26:31
Steve-O
ah my mom opened it and boy, you could just tell that she just had no interest in it. She was just like, she's like, gee, thanks.
00:26:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, man. That's the worst.
00:26:43
Steve-O
And I was like, oh man, I spent like a really long time trying to wrap this. Like we were, like it was so big.
00:26:49
BeyBlade
oh my god dude wait can i yeah no was just gonna say i you said rap like it took you a long time rap i i'm not a good rapper um
00:26:52
Steve-O
um
00:26:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
She wanted a gun, I think, Steve.
00:26:55
Steve-O
But, but the thing is yeah. Yeah. What's up?
00:27:06
BeyBlade
in any variation of the word, but I'm i'm really bad at rap. I like, I don't understand it. I've watched videos. I does not make sense to me. Right.
00:27:18
BeyBlade
At in any level. So I watched this one, like I was today years old when I found out how to wrap wrapping paper.
00:27:28
Steve-O
Okay. Mm-hmm.
00:27:29
BeyBlade
And I was like, Oh, that seems easy enough. And i went through two and a half rolls of different wrapping paper. And I just ended up taking like industrial tape and wrapping.
00:27:42
BeyBlade
though I ended up punching a hole in the box because I was so mad wrapping this.
00:27:46
Steve-O
No.
00:27:48
BeyBlade
I fucking hate wrapping gifts.
00:27:50
Steve-O
Did you rage? You rage quit rapping.
00:27:52
BeyBlade
I didn't rage quit, but it like it's it's honestly I'd rather give it to you in a gray Amazon box.
00:27:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mm-hmm.
00:28:01
Steve-O
um Dude, I'm going to give you a suggestion. My mom did this this year just because, you know, she wasn't healthy enough to wrap. ah She was getting these fancy Christmas bags.
00:28:08
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:28:11
Steve-O
And, and you know, you you think I'm talking about the ones where you like it's like, you know, like the the normal gift bags.
00:28:16
BeyBlade
Yeah, with the little paper. yeah
00:28:17
Steve-O
No, no. These are bags and they're like kind of in the material of like a saran almost where you put it in and then they have a bow and you kind of like tie it up top and it's like.
00:28:29
Steve-O
It looks like it's like a gift wrap gift, but it's like in kind of like sort of Santa's sack as well. um And all the gifts were wrapped in that. And it was nice.
00:28:38
BeyBlade
ah
00:28:38
Steve-O
It was it was a nice because you just stick it in. You just tighten it and then you're done. um
00:28:44
BeyBlade
Dude, yeah, I mean, I'll be honest. Like I told you, I'm like this, like it actually ruins my day.
00:28:51
Steve-O
No, I I'm whenever I try to wrap, it looks like all the gifts I've wrapped.
00:28:52
BeyBlade
Like I'm mad.
00:28:59
Steve-O
lost 20 pounds, but they still have a bunch of saggy skin. um So whenever I have help from someone else to wrap gifts, I'm always like enamored by like how amazingly perfect people have the art of gift wrapping down.
00:29:05
BeyBlade
Yeah, I've used the whole role.
00:29:14
BeyBlade
I wish enamored.
00:29:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:29:15
BeyBlade
I just get intensely jealous and I'm in a bad mood about it.
00:29:17
Steve-O
You're like, how did you, how did you learn this? Who passed this knowledge down to you?
00:29:20
BeyBlade
Yeah. I like it's the most it's one of the most sexist comments I have that I truly believe. But I'm like, I think just women are just designed with it in their brains. Like, I just can't.
00:29:32
BeyBlade
I'm truly incapable of it. And it vexes me.
00:29:36
Steve-O
there's a There's a deafness and a detail that like is like required for it.
00:29:41
BeyBlade
Yeah, that i just I just do not have and I will not have it.
00:29:41
Steve-O
and that i
00:29:44
BeyBlade
But I'm sorry. So you get this gift.
00:29:46
Steve-O
So my mom's less than plussed about it.
00:29:47
BeyBlade
Your mom's like, thanks. And you're like, ah
00:29:50
Steve-O
And it was supposed to be like her big gift. And I was like, ooh.
00:29:52
BeyBlade
oh, yeah.
00:29:53
Steve-O
So i was like i I talked to her later that day. I was like, hey, you know I did get that from Amazon, so I can return that. And she was like she she was more excited that I could return it than she was about the gift.
00:30:05
BeyBlade
She's like, oh, sick.
00:30:06
Steve-O
She was like, oh, awesome. You could use my car. ah So I went like go on the website and you know i went through the little Amazon return options.
00:30:19
Steve-O
And it gave me like, it's like, hey, you know before you return it, do you want to like you know go through some of these things? You can also talk to Amazon. to They can kind of like help you out. Or you can talk to Emeril Lagasse.
00:30:33
Steve-O
And I went, wait, what? it Hold on.
00:30:34
BeyBlade
ah
00:30:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is it just an AI ai Emeril Lagasse?
00:30:36
Steve-O
and
00:30:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is that what it was?
00:30:38
Steve-O
I kind of wish, um but it was basically just because the brand was called Emeril Lagasse. It just was, it just, yeah, it was the, it would have been contacting the company, but I kind of liked the idea that I just had a line to the man.
00:30:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, it's like the company.
00:30:56
BeyBlade
Hey, what's wrong with it? You don't like it?
00:30:58
Steve-O
Have you tried kicking it up a notch?
00:30:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Bam!
00:31:01
BeyBlade
Why don't you love me?
00:31:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Bam!
00:31:03
Steve-O
Bam. Bam.
00:31:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I had another interesting Amazon experience. I ordered like, um, like a little pouch to hold some tools that got to bring to work that I have at home.
00:31:13
Steve-O
Okay.
00:31:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And, um, it was only like nine, nine or 10 bucks, but, um, they delivered it, but it was clearly at the wrong house. Cause it wasn't my door and it wasn't my doormat.
00:31:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right. So like, I went on the thing that customer service and I was like, Hey, like, you know, delivered to the wrong house or whatever and like i love how their first fucking like the suggestion is to go to your neighbors and bother them and go check your neighbor's porches to see if it was delivered there and it's like are you fucking serious like no so i like i was like connect to an agent so i so i like called i talked on the phone with them and i'm like dude like she's like yeah like you know they might have
00:31:47
Steve-O
what
00:32:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
deliver or they I can see that they delivered it to the wrong house because it does the picture doesn't match previous deliveries that were made at your house. I'm like, yeah. I'm like, is this something that you share with the delivery drivers to let them know so that they can check?
00:32:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because like you know that might be helpful. I don't know.
00:32:23
Steve-O
the
00:32:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm not i'm not you know i'm not in charge here, but like having a feature like that might be helpful to delivery drivers if you guys don't have that already. And she was like, all right well, you know, she's like, well, you would have to wait two days if you if you don't if you don't have it before we can issue a refund.
00:32:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm like, no, you guys can actually issue a refund right now.
00:32:46
Steve-O
bra
00:32:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because, yeah, because like I'm not, I don't know whose door that is. I'm not going to go check.
00:32:51
Steve-O
I'm not going to patrol the neighborhood.
00:32:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
might Like, yeah, I don't live in an apartment building where I can like look down the hallway and see that it was, it's next, it's five, six feet away.
00:32:55
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:33:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, like that's, Like if if I lived in a more dangerous neighborhood, like that definitely is not an option. I don't know why you guys even suggest that like to to people at all.
00:33:10
Steve-O
Hmm.
00:33:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So she's like, yeah, well, I can't, I can't contact the driver. So I was like, you know what? I was like, just issue me the refund now. So she was able to do but I was like, okay, this is a good, you know, litmus test to see if my neighbors are pieces of shit or not. Right.
00:33:29
Steve-O
That's true.
00:33:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right. Yeah, because like it has my it has my address on it, right?
00:33:34
Steve-O
Mm.
00:33:34
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:33:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
so And we've got we've gotten packages from Amazon that don't belong to us before. And i will just you know I would just go to their house and leave it on their door and call it a day. Or if it's like during the daytime, I'll knock on their door and be like, hey, we got this. And actually, last Christmas, last year, there was an incident where we got somebody's like gaming desk.
00:33:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and And the same neighbor got something that we were supposed to get. So it was like a cool exchange. But yeah, but this year I was like, oh, we'll see.
00:34:02
Steve-O
Okay. Hmm.
00:34:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But there's nothing like valuable in it. So it's not like an iPhone or it's not like a cell phone or a computer or something. So we'll see. Anyway, like three or four days later, Sam's like, oh, we the neighbor just left this on our they did not go to do anything, but they just like left it on our pouch or our porch. And it had a note that said, sorry, opened. Like we we thought it was ours and we opened it. And it's like, what? Like, why the fuck would you open a package that's not addressed to you? Because it has your name and your your address on the package. Like, I i don't know about you guys, but I check every time i get something to see if, you know, if it's my name or if it's Sam's name or something.
00:34:47
Steve-O
I can sort of understand in the sense where like if they order a lot of stuff from Amazon they just grab it off their porch and rip it open maybe but also in my head I always look like it I like to see who in the house like it was addressed to first
00:34:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Then.
00:34:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I guess, but I don't know, man. You gotta look.
00:35:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But like, not only did they open it, but there was a, it was the, the pouch thing I ordered is like a zip pouch. It's like a little tiny, like electronics bag.
00:35:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You can fit things in, but they, they, they opened it and they, and like they unzipped it and checked inside.
00:35:18
Steve-O
Oh, but they like rifled through it?
00:35:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And I'm like, dude, like, that's not cool.
00:35:23
Steve-O
What? ah You think at that point they would have been like, did any those order a...
00:35:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
what Like you Oh, nobody ordered this weird fucking, you know zipper pouch that from Amazon.
00:35:29
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:35:33
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:35:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I mean, I'm glad that they just gave it to us, but like, you know,
00:35:37
BeyBlade
But I mean, at that point, that is the move. Just do it in the dead of night so no one can see.
00:35:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I guess, but yeah, it makes me like, it's our like fairly new neighbors.
00:35:42
BeyBlade
No.
00:35:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They just moved in like maybe last year or something on our on the other side.
00:35:49
Steve-O
bad move, new meant new neighbors. Bad move.
00:35:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, but you know what? I usually go out of my way, like when it snows to shuffle their, to to shuffle to shovel their their, like, that side of the sidewalk all the way up to their driveway.
00:36:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Just as a courtesy, because my other neighbor does the same that to me. Like, he just shovels mine.
00:36:08
Steve-O
You're passing it on.
00:36:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you pay it forward. So I usually do it, too. i don't know if I'm gonna do that next time.
00:36:14
Steve-O
I say this...
00:36:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
think I might just cut it off right at where right where the property ends and basically tell them to go basically tell you'll fuck themselves.
00:36:15
BeyBlade
Yes.
00:36:18
Steve-O
I say you go up to the driveway, but help yourself into the garage and just pick around a little bit and just leave.
00:36:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But it's like, i don't know, man. It just rubs me the wrong way.
00:36:33
Steve-O
I get that.
00:36:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i guess, like like you said, maybe if they rip it open, but they clearly opened the package that was it was inside of and unzipped it and checked inside.
00:36:44
Steve-O
That's weird to me.
00:36:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And i don't think i don't think they're, like, poor. Like, they got nice cars in their driveway, so it's like...
00:36:49
Steve-O
Do they have a child?
00:36:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But...
00:36:49
Steve-O
Maybe a child grabbed it.
00:36:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Nah, they don't have a kid.
00:36:53
Steve-O
Dude, no excuse then.
00:36:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, that's what i'm saying. But even Owen knows, like, he'll like ask if he can open a package and we always say no, unless your name's on it, you know, like, cause it's a law thing too.
00:37:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like you're not really supposed to, yeah, you're not supposed to open something that doesn't have, doesn't, isn't addressed to you specifically.
00:37:10
Steve-O
It's literally a law.
00:37:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So yeah, that's my, you know, I got my, I got my refund. So it was for free basically.
00:37:24
Steve-O
Did they put their name in the note?
00:37:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So whatever.
00:37:25
Steve-O
Like who?
00:37:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, but they did, so they did put, um, Oh, this is from you know house, whatever. The number.
00:37:32
Steve-O
Oh, okay.
00:37:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
the number
00:37:34
Steve-O
Because like if they did it in the dead of the night, maybe they thought they were being being clever, but it's like you have a picture of their house. Like you have a picture of their porch.
00:37:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I kind of want to get fucking ring cameras now.
00:37:42
BeyBlade
yeah I was going to say, you for sure know because of the the picture of their porch.
00:37:47
Steve-O
I've been thinking about the reincarnation too.
00:37:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, I know because they they put the the number of there their house on the on the note that they left on the package. They're like, hey, sorry, we opened this.
00:37:55
BeyBlade
Oh, i'm just, okay.
00:37:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No name. Just the number they live in.
00:37:59
BeyBlade
But still.
00:38:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Just also, you know, if I was a detective, I would take a second glance at that too and be like, why don't you put your name?
00:38:09
BeyBlade
Detectives.
00:38:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
don't I don't know, man.
00:38:12
Steve-O
I think you're on to something, John. I think there's something fishy.
00:38:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Maybe it was, maybe it was another neighbor and they just framed the other neighbor too. I don't know. But you never know these days, you know? And then, you know, Steve, you were telling me about the whole fucking AirPod thing.
00:38:26
Steve-O
The AirPod thing.
00:38:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And I'm like, dude, I can't, you know?
00:38:26
Steve-O
Dude, that lives in my head rent-free ever since.
00:38:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I'm like, do you have ring cameras, ah weapons cameras, Steve?
00:38:29
Steve-O
I'm like,
00:38:32
Steve-O
no, I don't.
00:38:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Or no?
00:38:33
Steve-O
But i was I was thinking about it.
00:38:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yes. ah I'm thinking about getting one now.
00:38:36
Steve-O
I was thinking about it a little bit.
00:38:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I'm thinking about getting them now.
00:38:38
Steve-O
I've been looking it up a little bit.
00:38:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Although, like, the idea of having those kind of freaks me out because, you know, because I'm a weirdo and, you know, paranormal activity is a thing.
00:38:49
Steve-O
I've here's the thing.
00:38:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
don't want to see ghosts on that thing.
00:38:51
Steve-O
My only deterrent from getting one has been i hear that they can get hacked easily and I don't like that. I don't like that at all.
00:39:02
BeyBlade
But what...
00:39:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I could see that, especially if it's like connected to your Wi-Fi or something.
00:39:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like I could see that being like possible. But also like if they're going out of their way to fucking hack your your network and shit.
00:39:06
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
00:39:11
BeyBlade
I wonder, like, what can you hack them?
00:39:17
Steve-O
and want them.
00:39:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And fucking they they're going to take any they're going to take what they're they want from you anyway, you know.
00:39:22
Steve-O
When I'm walking away from my door, I don't want somebody looking at me and cat calling me through the ring door camera.
00:39:22
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:39:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, that see, that's creepy, right?
00:39:30
Steve-O
Ooh, wait, hold on.
00:39:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:39:33
Steve-O
good there
00:39:34
BeyBlade
This is the best case scenario for me terms of hacking. Like, hey, nice butt.
00:39:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Also, what if i what if i have a what if I have a secret package coming that I don't want Sam to know about, you know?
00:39:43
Steve-O
That's true. That is true. You get the notification on your app.
00:39:49
BeyBlade
What if you want to bring home ah side piece, you know? can't.
00:39:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, no, because the thing is, like, before, when I was working from home all the time, like,
00:39:55
BeyBlade
The ring panel.
00:39:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
if I bought something that, you know, it was a gift or something that I didn't want her like the, the plush, uh, robe that I got her from LL Bean came in a box, came in but in a box that said LL Bean all over the fucking box.
00:40:09
Steve-O
Not the Snuggie.
00:40:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And she's the one that brought it in, which is fucking stupid.
00:40:15
Steve-O
LL Bean.
00:40:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know, like, why would you do that?
00:40:17
Steve-O
That's messed up. Dude, because they're all about their brand.
00:40:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I know, but it's like, it's first off, somebody who wants something from LL Bean, you know, it ah would attract somebody to steal it from your porch.
00:40:30
Steve-O
one hundred percent one hundred percent they know that's a luxury brand.
00:40:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And second off, it's a, it's fucking Christmas. Like it's Christmas season.
00:40:36
Steve-O
yeah I had a...
00:40:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like you would think a ma and pa private company like LL Bean that has good faith in their, you know, they have like lifetime warranties and stuff would, would think about these things, you know?
00:40:50
Steve-O
They've got their own credit card. You'd think they'd know about protection, right?
00:40:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right. Right. Yeah, so Sam's like, oh, what'd you get at L.O. Bean? Did you get boots for Owen? I was like, yeah.
00:40:59
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:41:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'll wrap it.
00:41:01
Steve-O
Nothing for you. Nothing that you wanted.
00:41:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Sure.
00:41:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, but it's like, what do you No, I got you something, and I wish you didn't know that I got something from L.O. Bean. That fucking sucks.
00:41:02
Steve-O
Don't worry about it.
00:41:09
Steve-O
Now things are weird. Now it feels like I'm i'm holding something from you.
00:41:14
BeyBlade
Yeah, slightly same issue is slightly less of a flex, but I got Jenny a Keurig and the box was like, Keurig, Keurig, Keurig.
00:41:14
Steve-O
It was a surprise.
00:41:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Cheerig.
00:41:22
BeyBlade
And I was like, okay, I guess.
00:41:22
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:41:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
In flame, like flame font.
00:41:26
BeyBlade
I, yeah.
00:41:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Fucking ne glitter. Flame and glitter all over the box.
00:41:28
BeyBlade
I was like, I guess I'll throw this in the office and throw a coat.
00:41:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
00:41:31
BeyBlade
or I just threw a coat over it.
00:41:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, what the fuck?
00:41:33
BeyBlade
i was like, i don't know I don't know what to do here. So, fluke.
00:41:36
Steve-O
You should have been like, oh, they just spelled Kopech wrong.
00:41:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:41:41
Steve-O
I was getting a custom package.
00:41:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, it's mine. It's for me. it's ah i like
00:41:45
Steve-O
It's mine.
00:41:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I like coffee now. So, I got it for me.
00:41:48
Steve-O
Yeah, I'm getting real big into the into the coffee drip game.
00:41:51
BeyBlade
I know, right? i ah To be fair, I think it was one of those. She's like, oh man, I really wish I would have this. And I was like, and then she sends me links to it. And I'm like, okay.
00:42:01
Steve-O
hmm.
00:42:02
BeyBlade
So you know what? If you're sending me a link and it shows up, maybe mean Maybe we can just give up. the We can both lie to ourselves.
00:42:08
Steve-O
Yeah, you know what? Pretend like you didn't see nothing. Pretend like you didn't see nothing.
00:42:11
BeyBlade
Yeah, you know, like, if ah if neither one of us can keep up the the facade at that point, it's like we don't deserve this.
00:42:19
Steve-O
Oh, that was for the neighbor.
00:42:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, but like yeah I can't do that anymore.
00:42:21
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:42:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I can't intercept packages anymore.
00:42:25
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:42:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And you know, sometimes you know sometimes I'll buy something that I don't want anybody to know about.
00:42:30
BeyBlade
Yeah, I get it.
00:42:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:42:32
BeyBlade
We all need a flashlight.
00:42:32
Steve-O
ah That's the thing. ah
00:42:33
BeyBlade
Yeah, understand.
00:42:34
Steve-O
Amazon. Amazon, sometimes you you kind of roll the dice with them. Because they'll just like...
00:42:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, sometimes they won't even package it in anything.
00:42:41
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:42:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They'll just give you the box that says wheelchair or whatever it is.
00:42:43
Steve-O
That happened to me. i bought a top-of-the-line cat fountain. And...
00:42:49
BeyBlade
Sorry.
00:42:50
Steve-O
it but This isn't the same point, but like it came completely...
00:42:51
BeyBlade
what What a brag.
00:42:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And my cat knew that it was for him.
00:42:53
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:42:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah
00:42:54
BeyBlade
What a plex. What a top of the line.
00:42:56
Steve-O
yeah Top-of-the-line.
00:42:57
BeyBlade
Can you canoe and you send a picture of like the...
00:42:57
Steve-O
I mean...
00:43:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I would like to see this count cat found out.
00:43:01
BeyBlade
I wouldn't know what top of the line.
00:43:01
Steve-O
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It has an app.
00:43:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, i just
00:43:03
Steve-O
It has an app.
00:43:03
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah, I...
00:43:04
Steve-O
It has an app. So top the line.
00:43:07
BeyBlade
yeah yeah
00:43:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
because maybe Devin wants to get one for his dog. A fancy dog fountain.
00:43:11
BeyBlade
fallon what it Wait, like, you mean like one of those?
00:43:13
Steve-O
It's. I'm putting it in.
00:43:15
BeyBlade
all right, yeah, put it in before I ask for his stupid fucking questions.
00:43:19
Steve-O
I do have a side rant about ah i've I went to Royal Farms for the first time and tried their chicken.
00:43:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Did you like it?
00:43:26
Steve-O
No.
00:43:27
BeyBlade
Wait, really? The first time?
00:43:30
Steve-O
First time.
00:43:30
BeyBlade
i didn't know you...
00:43:31
Steve-O
I was strong.
00:43:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
he it be Is it better than All right.
00:43:34
Steve-O
No, no, no, no.
00:43:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Between... Where does it lie on the spectrum where KFC is like bottom and like Popeyes top?
00:43:42
Steve-O
First, let me give you my situation.
00:43:44
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:43:44
BeyBlade
yeah cause yeah like good um
00:43:44
Steve-O
So when we were coming home, me
00:43:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah do you like Do you like Royal Farms? Chicken? e
00:43:51
Steve-O
oh, Devin.
00:43:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, I'm just asking Devin. I'm going to get a feel for for the discussion here before it starts.
00:43:54
BeyBlade
It's passable, but when I first got it, like that Royal Farms had been open for like a less than a month, and I had some of the worst.
00:44:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, so they were try- they were try-hards?
00:44:03
BeyBlade
i had some the No, no. It was the worst.
00:44:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, they weren't try-hards.
00:44:06
BeyBlade
i There was a mold on my sandwich at one point.
00:44:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh.
00:44:09
BeyBlade
One time, there was just bones in the
00:44:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh.
00:44:13
BeyBlade
the boneless chicken. Like, cause what they do is they'll take the chicken and they'll pull it apart. Uh, but these fucking people kept leaving the bones. I, one time, sorry, Steve, I'm like stepping all over them.
00:44:23
Steve-O
no you're good.
00:44:24
BeyBlade
But one time I got a side and, uh, like a mashed potatoes or whatever and gravy. And I was like, I got the chicken and I was like, hey, yeah, I also got...
00:44:34
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:44:35
BeyBlade
I told the guy, was like, hey, I got a mash pit. He's like, oh, that's not me. That's them. And he just points to like some guy fucking five feet away from them. like it Like it's a different section.
00:44:46
BeyBlade
And I'm like, you guys all work behind this area. Can somebody just give me the fucking mash pit? And they were cold. Like I was just like, yeah, this...
00:44:58
BeyBlade
you know And I've gone once or...
00:44:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This place sucks.
00:45:00
BeyBlade
I've probably gone like maybe three other times since that first month.
00:45:04
Steve-O
Oh, you went back.
00:45:05
BeyBlade
Well, because I know that was just like...
00:45:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's convenient. And it's convenient.
00:45:09
BeyBlade
One, it's convenient.
00:45:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They're everywhere.
00:45:10
BeyBlade
Two, it's like I understood and I appreciated that they don't.
00:45:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And they don't have fried chicken. They don't have fried chicken at Wawa.
00:45:15
BeyBlade
And and also, i just I know it's like, listen, they just opened up. You hired fucking everyone. you got to figure out who like is actually bad at their job and or not. And then, you know, the other times I've been there, it was...
00:45:28
BeyBlade
passable. You know what I mean? It was like fine. But anyways, what was that?
00:45:33
Steve-O
Well, I went in a week ago.
00:45:34
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:45:36
Steve-O
Keep in mind, you know, we were, ah you know, earlier this month, ah we went to Hell's Kitchen. And as we were driving by, driving back, there's all these signs for the chicken box.
00:45:47
Steve-O
Royal Farms chicken box. Ten dollars. Four pieces of chicken. French fries.
00:45:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This is right after you left Hell's Kitchen.
00:45:53
Steve-O
This is right after we left Hell's Kitchen.
00:45:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And you guys, you guys, you guys fucking trash, you trash can raccoon to fucking fried chicken.
00:45:56
Steve-O
Well, no, no, no, no. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. This is, this was, this this was, this was, this was planting the seed.
00:46:00
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:46:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Okay, okay, okay, all right, all right, all right.
00:46:03
Steve-O
This was planting the seed. And so we're driving it back and and Tessa goes, chicken box. And we kept just saying chicken box. And so it just kind of became a running joke for the past two weeks.
00:46:15
Steve-O
And so one day, one day i just went chicken box.
00:46:16
BeyBlade
yeah
00:46:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and You got to go. You got to do the chicken box.
00:46:20
Steve-O
And she goes, yeah. ah But the thing was like, you know, we were kind of comfortable at home. So I was like, I'll run out. I'll grab the chicken box. I'm going to be a good boyfriend. Grab us chicken boxes. It's going to be it's going to treat.
00:46:33
Steve-O
We're going to watch a Christmas Vacation. It's going to be a good time.
00:46:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Nice.
00:46:37
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:46:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:46:37
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:46:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Sounds like a good time.
00:46:38
Steve-O
I run out Royal Farms.
00:46:41
Steve-O
There's no cars in the gas station or in front of Royal Farms. It's completely empty. I feel like Leon Kennedy walking into the gas station in RE2 remake. and I walk in.
00:46:56
Steve-O
There is no one inside of Royal Farms.
00:46:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, man.
00:47:01
Steve-O
After like a minute, some guy comes out crawling out of the back, not crawling on the ground, but like just like basically like basically like was like hiding and was like, can I help you?
00:47:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
was like, what the fuck?
00:47:11
BeyBlade
Yeah, he's getting high in the back room.
00:47:13
Steve-O
or no, he doesn't say I'm sorry.
00:47:14
BeyBlade
Like, fuck.
00:47:15
Steve-O
He doesn't say, can I help you? Because keep in mind, I'd never been to Royal Farms.
00:47:19
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:47:19
Steve-O
There's no music playing either. Like, you know how Wawa usually has like some background music for you?
00:47:24
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:24
Steve-O
Dead, dead store silence. Royal Farms not playing any music. I walk over to the computer and I'm like getting ready to put in two chicken boxes. And the guy goes, Hey, we don't have fries.
00:47:39
Steve-O
The machine, they took the pin out. We can't make fries.
00:47:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, my God.
00:47:44
Steve-O
And I go, okay, but I can order. I can still get chicken. Yes. And so I'm like, OK, well, I can't get the chicken box because the key the key part of the chicken box is it's the the the four the four pieces of chicken and the fries.
00:47:51
BeyBlade
Okay.
00:47:58
BeyBlade
okay
00:47:58
Steve-O
So I was like, all right, let me choose the one where I can choose the other sides. So I got like another four piece, um but with mashed potatoes and ah a biscuit.
00:48:10
Steve-O
I got two of them, one for me, one for her. And it took about 20 minutes for them to get this thing together. And I paid. It was not $10. It ended up being $28.99 total for two.
00:48:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Ooh, they got that Chipotle tax on you?
00:48:25
BeyBlade
What the...
00:48:26
Steve-O
They got that Chipotle tax on me.
00:48:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
it did Damn.
00:48:29
Steve-O
um But...
00:48:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ta ah Tariffs, Steve.
00:48:32
BeyBlade
Wait, did you say, oh I'm sorry, i just, I only wanted two of these, not seven.
00:48:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I
00:48:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
only wanted two boxes.
00:48:38
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:48:38
Steve-O
Yes, that's the thing. I was like, i was like ah well, you know, they're really selling this chicken because, you know, you walk past a big metal chicken and there's the arch in front that says, like, home of the best chicken.
00:48:46
BeyBlade
Yeah, that metal chicken is there.
00:48:49
Steve-O
um So, like, I wait 20 minutes and someone else comes in eventually and they try to order and the guy goes, hey, if you want more than this much chicken, you're to have to wait 20 minutes.
00:49:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh my god.
00:49:05
Steve-O
And so I'm like, oh okay.
00:49:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wait, when did you... get Wait, time out though. When did you go? Like, did you go during the non-peak hours?
00:49:09
Steve-O
what about i went about 6 p.m., I would say.
00:49:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, so actual time where people would want chicken for dinner..........
00:49:15
BeyBlade
Wait, wait, what day is it?
00:49:15
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:49:17
BeyBlade
What is it like? What's what's the date?
00:49:18
Steve-O
ah
00:49:19
BeyBlade
Is this?
00:49:19
Steve-O
I would say I went at around...
00:49:20
BeyBlade
Well,
00:49:25
Steve-O
I'm trying to look. I'm trying to parse this out myself.
00:49:27
BeyBlade
well I guess like how how early before?
00:49:28
Steve-O
It might have been like Monday or Tuesday.
00:49:32
BeyBlade
So.
00:49:32
Steve-O
It might have been Monday or Tuesday. yeah
00:49:35
BeyBlade
So that would have been.
00:49:35
Steve-O
So it was like the twenty second twenty third
00:49:37
BeyBlade
Yeah, so it's not like you went on Christmas Day.
00:49:39
Steve-O
Right.
00:49:40
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:49:42
Steve-O
So I wait 20 minutes.
00:49:42
BeyBlade
Yeah, there's no excuse, dude. No excuse, yeah.
00:49:45
Steve-O
And then at one point he goes, ah man. And he looks at me and he goes, you wanted
00:49:53
Steve-O
And I said, yeah, it was it was two four pieces with two mashed potatoes and two biscuits.
00:49:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
no Get out.
00:49:59
Steve-O
And he goes, oh, well, pick another piece. And I go and pick another piece. He's like, do you want? He goes, do you want a drumstick or a thigh?
00:50:13
Steve-O
And I go, okay he goes, which one? and I go, well give me a drumstick.
00:50:16
BeyBlade
Oh my God, how would you say the chicken was?
00:50:18
Steve-O
And he he packs the the drumstick and he gives it to me. And I'm like, all right, well, I just want to get out of here because I've waited so long and I'm hungry. And I'm just, you know, I've never been to Royal Farms before. Let me just say, first impression, wasn't great.
00:50:33
Steve-O
Wawa always, always at least feel decent.
00:50:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, Christmas Day, you went to Wawa and they were pleasant.
00:50:37
Steve-O
I went to Wawa Christmas Day that made me feel magical. Time and a half. No, no, don double time.
00:50:45
Steve-O
I got home. I opened it up. there was only one mashed potato and one biscuit. So not only did he point out that I needed two, he just failed to put those in there. Because I imagine it would take probably another hour um So I tried the chicken. The chicken was fine.
00:51:06
Steve-O
I honestly think if I went to Popeye's, I probably would have had better chicken.
00:51:11
BeyBlade
In half the time for...
00:51:12
Steve-O
um Half the time, um the mashed potato was the most bland thing I've ever tasted. And the biscuit was meh.
00:51:20
BeyBlade
Yeah, the mashed potatoes are are nothing to be impressed by. I'm just shocked by this the Listen, I get it.
00:51:31
BeyBlade
it's It's a fucking Royal Farms. I'm not expecting the best customer service, but for him to be outright hostile towards you is like, dude, you what are we supposed to?
00:51:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Ha!
00:51:39
Steve-O
he was bothered he was bothered that
00:51:42
BeyBlade
Yeah, I'm sorry. we have the fist fight right now? Like, why are you yelling at me, dude?
00:51:46
Steve-O
he was just like he I think he felt dumb that he didn't see on the ticket that it was for two that everything I'd ordered was like two two two
00:51:54
BeyBlade
Then he's yelling at you to pick different chicken and it's like...
00:51:58
Steve-O
He was having a day because when he was describing the the fry machine to me, it sounded like something something went bad. And... and
00:52:06
BeyBlade
Dude. You know what? Listen, i've I've written a corporate for less. You should write the corporate.
00:52:12
Steve-O
ah
00:52:13
BeyBlade
This man ah yelled at me. That's, dude, to me... It's not the same, but it's the same energy as that guy who punched the dog at the dog park and then yelled at the guy whose dog.
00:52:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Huh.
00:52:24
Steve-O
Oh, maybe.
00:52:26
BeyBlade
You know what I'm saying?
00:52:26
Steve-O
Hey, you know what?
00:52:27
BeyBlade
Like, like, dude, I can't believe you walked.
00:52:27
Steve-O
Could have been the same guy. who knows?
00:52:30
BeyBlade
Like I left you left that interaction with that guy thinking you were the asshole. You know what I mean? was like, what a fucking dickhead.
00:52:40
Steve-O
I was fine with that because I would at that point I was like, I don't know if if this just chicken must be really good.
00:52:40
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:52:47
BeyBlade
No, no, dude, because at the end of the day, it's gas food chicken.
00:52:47
Steve-O
But just no, I've never going I've never go back to Royal Farms.
00:52:53
BeyBlade
that's I'm just shocked that you've just, you never,
00:52:59
BeyBlade
like, your, what's the word I'm looking for? Like, your distance to a Royal Farms, you just never had for so long at this point.
00:53:10
BeyBlade
You've never just, like, even by accident, just like, i like oh, let me switch it up.
00:53:13
Steve-O
I'm not gonna lie, dude. It was the what it was the Wawa allegiance.
00:53:15
BeyBlade
Let me switch it up. in here one minute.
00:53:17
Steve-O
there there is that There is that bird that is in my heart.
00:53:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, dude. If they opened up a bunch of Sheetzes around here, I would never go in to a Sheetz.
00:53:20
BeyBlade
dude oh Oh my god.
00:53:25
Steve-O
Ooh, the only one I would absolutely betray Wawa for is if they opened up a Buc-ee's.
00:53:26
BeyBlade
i'm doing
00:53:31
BeyBlade
Dude. i've
00:53:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Why? Because of the beaver? Steve, you love the beaver.
00:53:34
BeyBlade
Sheets is so superior.
00:53:34
Steve-O
Dude.
00:53:36
BeyBlade
It's not even funny.
00:53:37
Steve-O
Wow.
00:53:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Sheetz? No, it's not you're You're a fucking psychopath.
00:53:38
BeyBlade
shes is in Have you been to a Sheets dude?
00:53:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You're just a hater, dude. You're a hater and
00:53:44
BeyBlade
No dude. Sheets is ah better I think in every shape. inform yeah Yeah, dude.
00:53:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Nope. Nope.
00:53:52
BeyBlade
You're talking about 2025 Wawa? Dude, if this is 2010, 2008 Wawa, yeah, I get it.
00:54:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Not even having this conversation.
00:54:02
BeyBlade
I get it. Dude, Sheets blows Wawa out of the water at this point. You got to understand, man. yeah this is You're right. This is blind allegiance. That's what that is. That's like being a Jets fan and being like, no, there's they're a good team.
00:54:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, it's fine. there's No, you know what that you know what it's called? It's called loyalty, Steve, and you're just not a loyal person like me and Steve.
00:54:19
BeyBlade
Yes, Steve, you're not a loyal person, Steve.
00:54:19
Steve-O
um hey Hey, you know what? I just doubled down. I doubled down.
00:54:25
BeyBlade
I can't believe that, dude.
00:54:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, now you'll never step in into Royal Farms again. You don't want those fucking heat lamp burgers at Royal Farms.
00:54:31
BeyBlade
But like but you know what? um Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You're not tempted by those dogs.
00:54:38
Steve-O
do um ah
00:54:38
BeyBlade
You know what? You know what I am fiercely loyal to?
00:54:41
Steve-O
What's that?
00:54:41
BeyBlade
Costco gas stations. I'll drive 30 minutes out of my way to save 50 cents a gallon.
00:54:48
Steve-O
Oh, we've been to Costco a lot.
00:54:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It is cheaper, but but you know you know before before you didn't you didn't have to show your membership card, but everybody caught wind of it.
00:54:49
BeyBlade
So it's noticeably cheaper,
00:54:51
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
00:54:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So they started doing that now. You got to do it now.
00:54:58
BeyBlade
dude.
00:54:59
Steve-O
Yes, yes, show the card.
00:54:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And the cool the cool thing about Costco is that it doesn't matter what side you're on. like They have have those fucking cranks that will just move.
00:55:05
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:08
Steve-O
Oh, that's cool.
00:55:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
to Yeah, yeah, you just go whatever's free.
00:55:10
BeyBlade
cant Can I tell you, though, how how infuriated I get when somebody still gets on the wrong side? It pisses me off. because I'm like, you you're a you're an idiot.
00:55:21
BeyBlade
You should be you should be put in the street.
00:55:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, but they're like, it's a streamlined it's a streamlined process, though. it's It's meant so that if there's a lot of people, you know you can't just pick and choose.
00:55:26
BeyBlade
No, no, I get it.
00:55:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You just pick whatever whatever has has ah a vacancy.
00:55:33
Steve-O
You drive forward.
00:55:34
BeyBlade
not you There's enough that you could pick the right fucking side.
00:55:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:55:38
BeyBlade
But but to John's point, they have the big it's on this big arm. So if you're on the wrong side, it just it's big enough to go on the way.
00:55:46
Steve-O
That's cool. Hey, that's cool.
00:55:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, they got like a crane.
00:55:48
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:55:49
Steve-O
That solves one of the problems. The problem. Here's a problem. the This is a Wawa problem. People who have to back into their spot at Wawa.
00:55:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, just, yeah, at Wawa, like, there's no reason for that shit, dude.
00:56:00
BeyBlade
Thank you.
00:56:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Just fucking, you're in and out.
00:56:04
Steve-O
it's they are just They just are taking up more time, preventing other cars going around them.
00:56:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, and it's also, like like, what purpose does it serve? Because, like, it's not like it'll take you less time to get out, I guess, but it's like, you know, it's just it's just stupid.
00:56:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's just an inconvenience at a convenience store, you know?
00:56:23
Steve-O
Exactly.
00:56:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's annoying.
00:56:24
Steve-O
Exactly that. ah What I do love is those Costco rotisserie chickens. Oh, my goodness. We bought one of those, turned it into chicken noodle soup because I wasn't feeling well.
00:56:38
Steve-O
Oh, my goodness.
Costco Spending and Travel Deals
00:56:39
Steve-O
Delicious. Can't they do anything wrong at Costco? They're phenomenal.
00:56:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah you got Are either of you guys premium members at at Costco?
00:56:46
BeyBlade
Yeah, they could lower some of their fucking prices.
00:56:49
Steve-O
Oh, we got the black card.
00:56:51
BeyBlade
Yeah, I'm a, you know what's bad?
00:56:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah um I don't know. I think I'm a basic bitch. I'm a basic bitch.
00:56:56
BeyBlade
So the last two times I've went with Jenny, we have spent more than is healthy, right? The first time i kind of explained it away, it was Thanksgiving, Brett.
00:57:09
BeyBlade
The second time the woman stopped us, she's like, are you the the card owner? And I was like, yeah. She's like, and she just like radios over to like her her manager or whatever.
00:57:21
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:57:21
BeyBlade
So you're you're the card owner? I'm like, yeah. And they're like, well, listen, we've been looking at how much you've spent so far. We've had the card for like two months. And he's like, you're over 50% to like get the, if we had the black card, we, you know, are over halfway to like,
00:57:44
BeyBlade
the mid max or whatever of like, you know, cause you get like a percentage of the the money back after.
00:57:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right, right.
00:57:50
BeyBlade
And he's like, yeah, you're already more than halfway there.
00:57:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:57:53
BeyBlade
I mean, how long have you had the card for? Like two months. And he's like, Oh, you should get it.
00:57:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is the black card like a credit card, though? Or do you just get rewards?
00:58:01
BeyBlade
No, no. It just gives you rewards.
00:58:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like...
00:58:03
BeyBlade
You can also then sign up for the credit card, which I was like, we can't.
00:58:03
Steve-O
yeah. right.
00:58:08
BeyBlade
Cause Jenny goes,
00:58:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Hell no. Yeah.
00:58:10
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:58:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Hell to the fucking no.
00:58:12
BeyBlade
Dude, I mean, yeah.
00:58:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dangerous game.
00:58:14
BeyBlade
So, and listen, it's a learning process, dude.
00:58:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's a dangerous game to play. Wait, so... and Did you upgrade?
00:58:17
BeyBlade
It's a learning. We did because at that point it was like the fucking bill was already 400 something dollars. i was like, well, what's another 115 bucks or whatever it was.
00:58:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh my God.
00:58:29
BeyBlade
Right. i was like, fucking throw it on. Who cares?
00:58:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Soon that, yeah, you know what, Steve, soon they're going to be booking their vacations to Disney World with Costco travel too. They're just going be Costco, Costco heads.
00:58:43
Steve-O
Costco everything.
00:58:43
BeyBlade
Dude, I'll be a be ready for my new tires, dude.
00:58:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We did, we did, used, we did um
00:58:49
Steve-O
Why don't you get on your Costco flight to go to your nearest sheets?
00:58:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
we used
00:58:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
we didn't use We didn't use Costco travel for the Disney trip itself, but we did get a fucking killer deal on renting a minivan through Costco travel when we went to Disney.
00:59:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
it was like fucking It was so absurd that i forgot forgot how much we spent but it was so absurd that the the fucking dude at the rental car place like didn't believe it.
00:59:12
BeyBlade
course.
00:59:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And we were like, no, this is the thing. And and because of that, you know they fucking took their sweet old time and and made us wait until, you know. who's available and blah, blah, blah.
00:59:24
Steve-O
All
00:59:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But like, you know, Costco travels a thing too, Devin.
00:59:28
Steve-O
right. Three questions for because you did bring up a Costco credit card. If you were to get a credit card, would you just get one for air mileage? Would you get an Amazon credit card or would you get a Costco credit card out of those three?
00:59:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Depends, like how much traveling do I do in the air? not much.
00:59:50
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:59:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So I'd probably just go for Chris.
00:59:53
BeyBlade
I mean, i have an Amazon credit card.
00:59:56
Steve-O
Okay, you do
00:59:57
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:59:58
Steve-O
Which one do you have?
00:59:58
BeyBlade
Which is about the normal one, I think.
01:00:02
Steve-O
Because apparently there's multiples.
01:00:04
BeyBlade
Well, actually, so this is fun.
01:00:05
Steve-O
There's stages, there's levels.
01:00:06
BeyBlade
This is fun because he's not here to defend himself. um
01:00:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
chris
01:00:11
BeyBlade
So I've been slowly paying off my Amazon credit card, which is fine, you know, um but because they basically cut me off and they were like, oh, ah you can't use your credit card anymore because I had two quote missed payments ah because of when I got hacked. Thanks to Chris.
01:00:37
Steve-O
oh
01:00:38
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:00:38
Steve-O
Oh.
01:00:39
BeyBlade
when I was switching everything over, it like it it was just one of the ones that got lost in the shuffle. So Amazon tried to like charge my
01:00:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you were soap you were soap is
Financial Mishaps and Hacking Incidents
01:00:47
BeyBlade
account.
01:00:47
BeyBlade
and There was no money in it.
01:00:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You were so pissed.
01:00:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
at Chris.
01:00:51
BeyBlade
Yeah. So, and then, and then I remember it happened like twice and then they were just like, cause I paid it and I thought it was done. Like I thought I fixed it.
01:00:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But it was like, but you had change you had to change your bank account.
01:01:00
BeyBlade
And then the next month,
01:01:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you had to change your bank account, so it didn't, yeah.
01:01:03
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah. And then the next month, they tried it again, but I thought I'd switch the bank accounts over and I didn't.
01:01:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Damn, dude.
01:01:09
BeyBlade
And then Amazon was like, you know what? We're just, you just fucked you.
01:01:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Fuck you. Yeah.
01:01:14
BeyBlade
You have to pay this off and you're not able to use it, you know?
01:01:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you're blacklisted.
01:01:19
BeyBlade
so So that's been pretty sick.
01:01:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wow.
01:01:23
BeyBlade
Shout outs to that. Yeah, I'm pretty... pretty psyched about that to be honest.
01:01:32
Steve-O
that's This is good to know. This is good to know.
01:01:34
BeyBlade
Yeah. So like,
01:01:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's good to know because if if if Steve or if Chris ever calls you Steve about some kind of Venmo thing, just say no.
01:01:41
BeyBlade
yeah, don't, don't just don't. Yeah. Just don't just to be like, listen, you have to help yourself out of this problem.
Movie Trailer Critiques and DC Universe Plans
01:01:49
BeyBlade
You know,
01:01:50
Steve-O
You got figure out, Chris.
01:01:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's crazy.
01:01:52
Steve-O
Chris, figure it out.
01:01:52
BeyBlade
you do you just got me. Yeah. If he says, Hey, I need somebody to prove that they know me. Just know that Chris is a sleeper agent. ah He doesn't know. It's a Manchurian Candidate situation.
01:02:02
Steve-O
This is Chris. Yeah, Chris is like the winter soldier.
01:02:05
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah.
01:02:05
Steve-O
They spoke the code phrases and activated
01:02:06
BeyBlade
that's exactly one one ah Yeah, was really sick. It was really awesome. That's what happened to me.
01:02:13
Steve-O
the Hey, Steve Rogers is back, so.
01:02:15
BeyBlade
yeah Yeah, i I told you. I proved it.
01:02:19
Steve-O
it You're right. You're right.
01:02:22
BeyBlade
Isn't that nothing, just a nothing trailer?
01:02:25
Steve-O
It's a very nothing burger trailer.
01:02:27
BeyBlade
Apparently there's a Thor one coming out and that's equally a nothing trailer.
01:02:33
Steve-O
I'm very excited for him to like drive his truck and then walk into a home.
01:02:38
BeyBlade
Thor's truck. Yeah.
01:02:39
Steve-O
Forrest truck.
01:02:40
BeyBlade
Yeah. um
01:02:41
Steve-O
The F one 50.
01:02:43
BeyBlade
My issue, my issue with that really is like, it's the, it's just the smug factor of it all.
01:02:43
Steve-O
hmm.
01:02:50
BeyBlade
I think like it's, it's the fact that they want to show these things and they're expecting the internet to, Like, bro, it's not, you know, it's up twenty not 2017 anymore.
01:03:03
BeyBlade
Like, you know, you can't put out Captain Marvel and then accidentally make a billion dollars. Like, you just can't do it.
01:03:08
Steve-O
If that was a shadow drop and no one saw it coming, sure. But like people knew people knew.
01:03:14
BeyBlade
Yeah, right? It was just like, and, but like, to me, it's just like, like, it's not bad. I'm not not. gonna see it like i'm I'm excited for it but like to to pod to put this out there and expect it to have the same impact as it would have even six five six years ago is like insane to me and like that's definitely their expectation
01:03:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
Collectible and Comic Discussions
01:03:42
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:03:42
BeyBlade
and it just has been it's been irritating for sure I'm like i I don't care about you guys fuck you
01:03:48
Steve-O
That's the thing. They're clawing for any, like any of that former luster they had at this point. And they're trying to retain it. Like I think 2025 was the year DC, you know, they got there. They got there.
01:04:05
Steve-O
um What is it? Their ships in a row. Is that the saying?
01:04:08
BeyBlade
They're ducks.
01:04:09
Steve-O
They're ducks in a row. You think I would know that? I like ducks.
01:04:13
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:04:13
Steve-O
They're ducks in a row. um Dude, I went to the mall. I was wearing my absolute Batman hoodie.
01:04:20
BeyBlade
Okay.
01:04:20
Steve-O
Guy who was running ringing me up at the store was like, dude, absolute Batman hoodie.
01:04:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Bro.
01:04:25
Steve-O
Let's go. And like at first I was gonna be like, thank you. But then like my brain like double checked it because he like he made sure to say absolute Batman. And I was like, dude, all right, there we go.
01:04:33
BeyBlade
What a what store?
01:04:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, he knows. knows ball. knows ball.
01:04:37
BeyBlade
What store is this?
01:04:38
Steve-O
It was mini. So I think it is. It's like a little like ah like a fun little like Japanese ah like gotcha sort of.
01:04:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It was Japanese ah shops with a bunch of trinkets.
01:04:46
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:04:47
BeyBlade
Okay. All right. So there's a little bit, you know, yeah
01:04:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This was at the this is at the mall?
01:04:53
Steve-O
Yeah, it wasn't like Bed Bath and Beyond. i didn't get clocked there.
01:04:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Did you... Was this at the Cherry Hill Mall?
01:04:59
Steve-O
Deptford Mall.
01:05:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Okay. Because they got the fucking Labubu store ara at the Cherry Hill Mall.
01:05:01
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:05:04
Steve-O
They do. they do
01:05:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
which i was I was at the Cherry Hill Mall yesterday and it was fucking... was insane.
01:05:12
Steve-O
Was it packed?
01:05:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It was fucking packed, dude.
01:05:15
BeyBlade
Oh, yeah, the malls are always crazy. like oh Oh, yeah.
01:05:17
Steve-O
No, but the Lububu store.
01:05:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
La Boo Boo store is crazy. And my my niece, yeah, my niece is here from Vermont.
01:05:21
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:05:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So like she likes La Boo Boo. So i was like, let's go. and um should have bought her one thing, but it's like, they're like mystery things.
01:05:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So was like, well, which one do you want?
01:05:35
Steve-O
Hmm.
01:05:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
She's i want this one. I'm like, oh, fuck. was like, all right, let's just get two of them just in case. Fuck. You know? Haven't seen her in a while.
01:05:44
Steve-O
I like that loot boxes have just extended beyond.
01:05:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, it's insane now.
01:05:48
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:05:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, and then, like, if you buy one on the on the app, you could, like, before it even gets to you could, like, open it digitally and see which one you got to decide do you decide if you want to buy another one on the app to see if...
01:05:59
Steve-O
Because they have like...
01:06:03
Steve-O
That's wild.
01:06:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I know, it's such a fucking...
01:06:06
Steve-O
They have like authentic... Authenticators inside the boxes, right?
01:06:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's so bad, dude. Yeah, yeah.
01:06:10
Steve-O
Like you open it up and you can scan it to make sure it is like legit.
01:06:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
There's so many fake ones.
01:06:13
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:06:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
There's so many fake ones out there. And there's, you know, they sell those those at the fake ones at the mall too. You know? So unless it's like a vending machine or like the actual store, like, I don't think I would ever, i mean, hopefully I don't have any more Libuboos I got to buy in the future, but
01:06:30
Steve-O
I can't I can't fall into the boo boo's. I don't I don't get it.
01:06:34
BeyBlade
Yeah. I mean, hey.
01:06:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
they're cute. They're cute, Steve.
01:06:36
Steve-O
I get I get it, but also like.
01:06:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They have this, they had a, They had a Japanese-made hush Batman action figure there, and they had like a cutesy Joker, too.
01:06:48
Steve-O
Oh.
01:06:51
Steve-O
They got the boo boo hush.
01:06:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But they were over $100 each. And I was like, oh, man. i was like If this was half the price, I'd think about it. but
01:07:00
Steve-O
Now you got me thinking because i didn't know they did like that kind of stuff.
01:07:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, they do a bunch of stuff. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, just go to PopMart.com and look a Batman.
01:07:11
Steve-O
Is that what Pop Mart is?
01:07:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, man.
01:07:12
Steve-O
Oh, they are opening up a Pop Mart at the Deptford Mall.
01:07:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, shit.
01:07:14
Steve-O
I saw that.
01:07:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:07:15
Steve-O
I saw that when we were walking.
01:07:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, they're opening a Deferd wall, too?
01:07:17
Steve-O
Deptford Mall is getting one, dude.
01:07:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, fuck.
01:07:19
BeyBlade
What's a Pop Mart?
01:07:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm cooked!
01:07:21
Steve-O
I think that's that's who runs the Lububu.
01:07:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Don't worry about it.
01:07:24
BeyBlade
Oh, yeah.
01:07:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, this was the this was the this was the action figure that they had at the store.
01:07:25
BeyBlade
Yeah. Let
01:07:30
BeyBlade
me see this thing.
01:07:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But, like, if it was... If it was... Superman or like Street Fighter or Resident Evil, I probably would have bit bitd it.
01:07:42
Steve-O
Oh, if they had Leon.
01:07:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, dude, even if they if they had like Chris, I probably would have bought it at this price.
01:07:48
Steve-O
that's That's pretty cool. That's a pretty cool Batman.
01:07:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's a sick Batman figure, right, Devin? Like it's got actual cloth and shit.
01:07:55
BeyBlade
Um, I'll be honest.
01:07:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I like it. I thought it was cool.
01:07:57
BeyBlade
This is not my style of action figures. So I've always hated like the, the real cloth.
01:08:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I like the ones that don't have color that you have to paint yourself that you don't paint later.
01:08:06
BeyBlade
Yeah. for Yeah. do what should call No, no. Like I've never enjoyed toys that had like the real cloth on it. Like I've always just like, you know, cause like my, my childhood was, you know, let me see.
01:08:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like if they had this there, if this was there, I probably would have bought this.
01:08:20
Steve-O
Oh, that is sick.
01:08:21
BeyBlade
Yeah, my toys got a lot of play when I was a kid, you know?
01:08:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This Kingdom Come Superman.
01:08:24
BeyBlade
Like, I couldn't handle the the real claw.
01:08:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
The toys aren't for play anymore, Devin. you They're for putting on your shelf.
01:08:29
Steve-O
Toys aren't for children.
01:08:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's what it is.
01:08:30
Steve-O
They're for middle-aged men.
01:08:33
BeyBlade
I mean, sadly.
01:08:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And the Superman shit is fucking sold out.
01:08:38
BeyBlade
Shazam's available.
01:08:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Damn. I don't care for Shazam.
01:08:41
BeyBlade
Shazam, John? You're the big Shazam guy This is just the Alex Ross collection.
01:08:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But they they had a joke had a Joker there too that was kind of cool.
01:08:46
BeyBlade
at might Yeah.
01:08:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Let me see if I can find that. Yeah, it was.
01:08:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you know, it this might be up your your alley, Steve.
01:08:50
BeyBlade
Oh, Kingdom Come.
01:08:51
BeyBlade
I got you. Let
01:08:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This Joker Kubo figurine. But it was expensive.
01:08:58
Steve-O
Oh, that's that's fun. That's a fun one.
01:09:01
BeyBlade
me see this Kubo.
01:09:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. Like, they had that there, but and it was the last one.
01:09:04
BeyBlade
Oh my god!
01:09:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But it's expensive.
01:09:07
BeyBlade
I... Yeah. yeah
01:09:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And they had Warhammer.
01:09:12
BeyBlade
what the
01:09:12
Steve-O
Dude, the the Kubo Superman.
01:09:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They had a bunch of Warhammer stuff.
01:09:14
Steve-O
That's the one I'm looking at. that one's...
01:09:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They had a bunch of Warhammer stuff, too, Devin.
01:09:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Just kidding. Let me see. Nah, don't show me this. Aw, dude. Yeah, see, if if that if this was there, yeah, this one sold out.
01:09:18
Steve-O
You see this one, John?
01:09:24
Steve-O
yeah
01:09:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
If this was there, I might have might have bought it and hid it in my niece's ah
01:09:29
BeyBlade
you would've You would have dropped that
01:09:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
In my niece's shopping bag.
01:09:34
Steve-O
but
01:09:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And be like, yeah, don't tell Antian about this. Just hand it to me later.
01:09:39
Steve-O
Come on, this is between you and me.
01:09:39
BeyBlade
too rich for my blood.
01:09:40
Steve-O
Come on.
01:09:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Blood packed. Blood packed.
01:09:44
BeyBlade
dude i mean it's
01:09:48
BeyBlade
that's far too rich for my blood
01:09:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But i'm I'm a sucker for like na the Nendoroids though, Steve.
01:09:53
Steve-O
I'm a sucker for those two.
01:09:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And I think it's you.
01:09:54
Steve-O
I'm with you.
01:09:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Was it you that got me the creatives one that year?
01:09:58
Steve-O
Yes.
01:10:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, so you you you fucking you started this, so I blame you.
01:10:00
Steve-O
Yes.
01:10:03
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:10:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And they're very... i mean, they're not $100, but they're not cheap either.
01:10:09
Steve-O
They're not cheap.
01:10:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They're like $40 to $50.
01:10:11
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:10:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And the one the ones that I want are sold out, the Hollow Knight ones, because I was late to the party. so
01:10:18
Steve-O
I hope they reissue those.
01:10:19
BeyBlade
You're fake fan.
01:10:20
Steve-O
that'd be That'd be nice if they did that for that.
01:10:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I'm a fake i'm a fake fucking Fairweather Hollow Knight fan that just got into the series recently.
01:10:22
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:10:25
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah. You couldn't get your skull panda or whatever.
01:10:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But like, yeah, I was like looking on eBay at those. I'm like, oh, but you don't know if they're real or not. And then like Vicious posted a link to a clearly fake one. And I'm like, dude, I don't buy fake shit ever.
01:10:39
Steve-O
Right.
01:10:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm not going to buy fake toys. don't care how how much cheaper it is.
01:10:46
BeyBlade
Yeah, this is like, this is just an area I'm just so not.
01:10:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, I'm sorry, but you like, but it's not like you don't buy fucking figures.
01:10:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You were showing me $200 fucking unpainted figures you gotta to assemble yourself.
01:10:55
BeyBlade
No, no, no, no.
01:10:56
BeyBlade
That's what I mean. Like, no,
01:11:00
BeyBlade
no, dude, you want to see the new one? You want to see the new one? I was like, oh, I'm going to buy this guy. Hold on. I'll, uh.
01:11:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, this eBay store has a pre-order for Hornet, and it's $135.
01:11:10
BeyBlade
okay
01:11:12
BeyBlade
Listen, I'm not saying I'm above it.
01:11:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
all right.
01:11:14
BeyBlade
I'm just saying this particular section is just like not...
01:11:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
okay all right
01:11:19
Steve-O
He's waiting for the the Warhammer.
01:11:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, but I already have like i already have a Kratos, I have a Leon, and I have a Sekiro one. So it's like, I have to have all my mains, you know?
01:11:31
Steve-O
those are Those are good.
01:11:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, what the fuck is this, Devin? What is this, Day 20? Oh, it's a fucking Warhammer Advent Calendar.
01:11:37
BeyBlade
New Huron.
01:11:39
Steve-O
Bratmists.
01:11:39
BeyBlade
your arm That's what I'm talking about.
01:11:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
There's a Warhammer Advent Calendar?
01:11:41
BeyBlade
Like,
01:11:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh my god.
01:11:42
BeyBlade
I mean, i don't I don't follow that. I just follow like when a sick model comes out. but I'm like, oh, sick. Like ah the new Huron Blackheart model dropped. I'm like, oh, that's fucking...
01:11:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i love I love how there's no price on here because yeah they know that it's just going to be overly expensive.
01:11:57
BeyBlade
It's going to be 50 or 60 bucks. I'm going to say...
01:12:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, it's they already know. They already know. Yeah, there's no price at all. Like, how much do you think this thing costs?
01:12:08
BeyBlade
i'm goingnna say
01:12:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's a p playable figure, like a tournament legal.
01:12:12
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:12:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Okay.
01:12:13
BeyBlade
the They...
01:12:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's not just a statue or action figure.
01:12:15
BeyBlade
I mean, dude. You know what? Because, like, there's a whole YouTube video. Like, ah there's, like, they have a YouTube video reveal on this. And I was, like, trying to figure out, like... The only thing comparable to this is, like, when you see, like, a WoW expansion or something.
01:12:31
BeyBlade
You know? When they're like, oh, check out the...
01:12:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:12:34
BeyBlade
but but but And this is going to come out. And they're going to announce... I guess his squad, because he's like, he's basically, it's just Blackbeard, right? It's Warhammer 40K Blackbeard.
01:12:47
BeyBlade
Just kind of, that's here on Blackheart. But, ah yeah, I don't know. He just looks cool. My point is, is, again, I'm not above it.
01:12:58
BeyBlade
It's just, you know.
01:13:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What about this one? This $300 absolute Batman statue that I've been eyeing up.
01:13:05
Steve-O
e
01:13:06
BeyBlade
Yo, by the way, I didn't i have it on on deck. The new issue dropped on the app.
01:13:11
Steve-O
Oh, I gotta read those.
01:13:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, dude, I got a new old, i got a new four-year-old iPad I bought four years ago that I can read comics on again.
01:13:16
Steve-O
i was sick.
01:13:17
BeyBlade
but
01:13:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So umm I'm in. I'm in it to win it.
01:13:20
BeyBlade
wow you've You've been unable to... ah
01:13:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, I've been reading on my phone because just like, you know, just the he just gets, uses iPad.
01:13:25
BeyBlade
Oh, that's right. Yeah.
01:13:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i got I had to clean it, dude.
01:13:30
BeyBlade
I... am
01:13:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It was disgusting. Fucking gunk all over it and shit.
01:13:33
BeyBlade
hell dude did you like that's
01:13:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dried up apple juice and shit. like right to I had to take this thing to the fucking cleaners, man.
01:13:43
Steve-O
You just scrub it down.
01:13:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I had to scrub down with isopropyl alcohol.
01:13:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Disinfected and shit. Man, this Batman figure is so sick, though.
01:13:49
BeyBlade
the way said that yeah i uh was reading more dc ko um yeah
01:13:54
Steve-O
That's awesome. Oh, is that still fun? Are they still having fun with that?
01:13:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I was going to wait for Chris, because Chris has been reading it too. i was going wait for his his review of it
01:14:05
BeyBlade
Yeah, well, like, um there's still, I think, only two out, but all the the spinoffs dropped. So where where it's like Lobo versus ah fucking Wonder Woman and, you know, things like that. And like, the thing I like about these comic apps is when the event's over,
01:14:28
BeyBlade
You know, they do a nice collection so you can either read the series or you could read the series plus all the tie-ins. Right.
01:14:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. Yeah.
01:14:36
BeyBlade
And so the unfortunate part is, is like when the events in the middle of happening, there's not that. So I'm just kind of like haphazardly clicking on things that aren't really in order because You know, it's not designed that way. But the good news is is this at this this this event is just kind of silly.
01:15:02
BeyBlade
So it's not super important. Like you're just reading the Red Hood fight the Joker. You know what I mean? Like it's not tied to the main thing. However, you know what I did do ah this week in my fugue state?
01:15:18
BeyBlade
um I read... the the Bane event that came out a few years ago. Do you guys remember when I was talking about how like Alfred's canonically dead in DC Comics?
01:15:31
Steve-O
yes
01:15:32
BeyBlade
Well, was like, what? I want to read when that happened. And this is when i read, well, this is when ah Batman and Catwoman were like engaged and she was pregnant. Remember all that?
01:15:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, i remember all that. Yeah.
01:15:48
BeyBlade
And that was like real. That was like in canon. And also Batman's dad was back. His dad was alive. um the The Flashpoint Batman.
01:16:00
BeyBlade
He had like transported universes essentially.
01:16:00
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:16:04
BeyBlade
um And I was reading all of that and just at some point they're like, oh, um Thomas Wayne teamed up with Bane to break Batman's back and then they colluded to kill Alfred
01:16:22
BeyBlade
While Batman was away on a beach with Selina Kyle for like seven issues. And i was trying to find the lead up to that. I'm like, how did we get here? And all of it was like Batman was essentially connected to like a fucking like ah the the goon, the goon coffin, essentially.
01:16:49
BeyBlade
From Mission Impossible. And it was all just like a fantasy. Him and Selina Kyle.
01:16:55
Steve-O
Oh.
01:16:56
BeyBlade
And then he wakes up. Tries to beat Bane. I think they just retold. You know it's like the new 52 or whatever. Or whatever this new.
01:17:04
Steve-O
It was a. It sounds a lot like ah for the man who has everything.
01:17:09
BeyBlade
Yeah a little bit.
01:17:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:17:10
BeyBlade
But he wakes up and then just like beats up all the villains. And then. They use psycho pirate to like turn all the villains and the cops. It's, it's, it's truth be told, it's terrible.
01:17:23
BeyBlade
um It's, it's truly, it's truly bad, but like, like most bad things, there's always like a nugget of, of something that's pretty interesting.
01:17:24
Steve-O
okay
01:17:27
Steve-O
Right.
01:17:33
BeyBlade
And the interesting bit is like, why would Thomas Wayne be working with Bane to like do all this bad shit to Bruce?
01:17:39
Steve-O
right
01:17:40
BeyBlade
And essentially he was like, listen, I'm trying to give you the out. He's like, I'll take care of everything. We'll kill Alfred because Alfred's the deterrent, essentially. ah And he's like, and he's basically, he's just like, listen, I'll sort all the villains out for you. Being a Batman's a terrible thing for you to do.
01:18:06
BeyBlade
So just like, don't do it. And that was the whole reason why he teamed up with Bane and this, that, and the other thing. And of course, it's some of the worst Batman tropes that you could think of. Like Batman had planned to wake up in a goon coffin and lose to Bane and get his back broken.
01:18:28
BeyBlade
and Like, like it was all, it was all like all according to plan. Right. ah Apparently. um But just at the whole time, he doesn't think Alfred's dead. Alfred dies in like the first issue. And he's like, oh, Alfred got away. It's fine. It's fine. And then ah he finds out Alfred's dead. And this happened in like 20 fucking 18.
01:18:49
BeyBlade
Maybe not. Maybe maybe like 2020. But like Alfred's been dead for a minute. But I was just reading this in my in my sickly fugue state. And I was like, oh, this is some of the worst comics I've fucking ever read in my life.
01:19:03
BeyBlade
this is This is wonderful. um But you know what I picked back up?
01:19:08
Steve-O
What's that?
01:19:08
BeyBlade
and um Aliens vs. Avengers.
01:19:14
Steve-O
Okay.
01:19:14
BeyBlade
And i know what youre I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking. But it's John Hickman and Esad Ribic. ah Do you guys remember that really cool Silver Surfer story from like way back when?
01:19:29
BeyBlade
But the art was really good.
01:19:31
Steve-O
I think I do.
01:19:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It Hickman.
01:19:32
BeyBlade
no yeah Yeah, well, that Hickman's writing it, but Esad Ribic, the guy who did the Silver Surfer book, ah he he did this. And essentially, it's... um It's just like, oh, like the year is 2068 or whatever. Like Tony Stark is like an old man in a wheelchair.
01:19:53
BeyBlade
But then all of a sudden like aliens show up and the the Avengers have to deal with it. And I've only read the first like two issues and I think it's done now.
01:20:02
Steve-O
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:20:03
BeyBlade
But a it was pretty good. And i was kind of reminded that it ended very strongly. And I was like, oh, I should I should pick that back up. But. You know, leave the Hickman to just take like a fucking garbage job.
01:20:19
BeyBlade
Like, hey, do a crossover with aliens because like we have the IP. And he's like, fine. All right, bet. Like, I'll do it because I'm.
01:20:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, and then he just gives it 210%. He just makes it amazing.
01:20:30
BeyBlade
Yeah, exactly.
01:20:34
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah.
01:20:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This is Hickman.
01:20:35
BeyBlade
But ah so I don't know, man. I just there's something about reading trash, though. I just can't. not not do it like i just
01:20:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I know. It's a weird thing with you, man.
01:20:50
Steve-O
You're like, what if this is secretly good?
01:20:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You can't stop.
01:20:52
Steve-O
What if this is?
01:20:53
BeyBlade
i finally finished dark knight metal and that was all that was awful it's so bad dude so bad
01:20:57
Steve-O
Yeah, I've heard that that's real bad.
01:21:01
Steve-O
um Devin, do you know this comic? I remember, what was it? Comics Explained did and a little thing of it where it's like Bruce Wayne wakes up in like a sanitarium and like,
01:21:17
Steve-O
the doctors are all like, no, yeah all your Batman stuff is just in your head. And, and then it's like, he finds out that this is just like some sort of fake like thing.
01:21:28
Steve-O
And he escapes and he has like Joker's head on his belt or something in like the desert.
01:21:34
BeyBlade
No. ah
01:21:37
BeyBlade
No, i I don't know that one.
01:21:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mm-mm, no. no
01:21:42
BeyBlade
Did they say who wrote it?
01:21:42
Steve-O
me look this up. Let me look this up real quick. Um, This is Batman Last Night on Earth? is i don't know if that is...
01:21:53
BeyBlade
Okay. Oh, Scott Snyder. Oh, wow. It's a black label. Oh, the black label.
01:22:01
BeyBlade
Remember black label? Where where you saw Batman's dick and they were like, it's not, it's uncensored. And then they were like, you' you're not actually, it's too censored.
01:22:01
Steve-O
The Black Label.
01:22:06
Steve-O
You're not supposed to see that. You can't... Forget that. Forget that.
01:22:12
BeyBlade
hu um Okay. Okay.
01:22:17
Steve-O
I don't know if it's any good.
01:22:18
BeyBlade
I've definitely seen ads for it.
01:22:18
Steve-O
I just remember hearing that story.
01:22:19
BeyBlade
Like, like here's the problem, right? Is like when I'm like reading back on all this shit from like 2017, 2018, like it's like, Oh, that it's coming.
01:22:25
Steve-O
Right.
01:22:29
BeyBlade
It's it's coming. Batman and Snyder. And I'm like, okay, it's, you know, the, well, the pit that I'm in is so deep, you know, in terms of like comics to quote unquote catch up on.
01:22:40
BeyBlade
Like I'll, I'll never do it, but I've seen ads for this.
01:22:41
Steve-O
Hmm.
01:22:45
BeyBlade
um
01:22:46
Steve-O
It seems like Scott Snyder was going wild at one point and they were like, Scott, put it together.
01:22:46
BeyBlade
Is it,
01:22:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Chill, yeah, chill. Take a chill pill.
01:22:52
BeyBlade
yeah well The thing is, is like i it's interesting, right? Because i'm like I'm reading metal, and I'm like, this is so unbelievably like bad.
01:23:04
BeyBlade
And then there's stuff like this, and I'm not saying it's bad or good, but I'm like i'm trying to find out like where Absolute Batman came from, right? Because it's like, he's just clearly doing weird shit.
01:23:21
BeyBlade
And somehow he just lands on absolute Batman, which is like, it just reads so well. um And I'm not like Snyder has always been really good, but it's like, I mean, I guess when you're just writing Batman nonstop for 15 years, like, I don't know how long he's been doing it, man, but yeah, it's it's an event.
01:23:42
Steve-O
Did Capullo do metal? Okay.
01:23:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
01:23:46
Steve-O
Do you think it was like the separation between Snyder and Capullo?
01:23:50
BeyBlade
I don't know, man.
01:23:50
Steve-O
that like re-energized Snyder somehow.
01:23:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I feel like metal yeah I think feel like metal was like up his alley like he would he wanted to do shit like that like art stuff for that
01:23:57
BeyBlade
Yeah. Well, because Metal's like, they literally, there's like, oh, we have a Spotify playlist from each issue of Metal.
01:24:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
01:24:04
BeyBlade
It's not subtle. You know what I mean? um But it's just like, I don't know. it's There's just something about Like Delany's right when he says like there's two Batmans, right?
01:24:16
BeyBlade
He's like, there's like Gotham City Batman. And then there's like Justice League Batman and like Justice League Batman has the subplot of there's been Batman vibes since caveman times and and this, that, and the other thing.
01:24:22
Steve-O
Yes. Mm-hmm.
01:24:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He's soft. He's soft. He's soft. He's soft, Devin. Just say it.
01:24:33
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:24:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He's soft.
01:24:33
BeyBlade
he's a little flu Baby who who rides Batman dragons and fights Joker dragons and Because it's it's metal. you know And it's it's fucking dumb, frankly.
01:24:44
BeyBlade
um And he goes in off off in all these directions. And I guess at some point he was like, I want him to just be an absolute unit of a man.
01:24:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank
01:24:54
BeyBlade
ah And we'll just do that. Then it'll be sick. But
01:24:58
Steve-O
What if instead of Batarangs, he was just six foot nine? What
01:25:02
BeyBlade
he's just 6'9", 420 pounds, and he had a battle axe.
01:25:04
Steve-O
do one?
01:25:06
BeyBlade
A bat to lax, you know?
01:25:09
Steve-O
Sounds good.
01:25:09
BeyBlade
and Yeah, I'm not bad. I'm not mad about it, but.
01:25:12
Steve-O
I will admit that one issue that wasn't done by, um um I mean, I'm sure there have been different artists doing absolute Batman, but there was like that one run with like Mr.
01:25:12
BeyBlade
ah
01:25:23
Steve-O
Freeze where I was like, this feels weird.
01:25:24
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:25:28
BeyBlade
Yeah, he because the right the artists true him like normal Batman.
01:25:32
Steve-O
He drew like normal Batman.
01:25:34
BeyBlade
And it doesn't work, dude. Like, I don't I don't love it.
01:25:37
Steve-O
Did they not get the memo?
01:25:39
BeyBlade
but I mean, sometimes, because you hear about that shit, right? They're like, oh yeah, they're like, um you know, some of these artists are like, they don't speak any English and they're just like some dude in fucking Italy.
01:25:52
BeyBlade
They get that script sent to them and they just draw it, right?
01:25:52
Steve-O
I guess I'm drawing Batman.
01:25:56
BeyBlade
And it's like, okay, yeah, sure. Why why not? um No, this looks good though, Last Night on Earth. I'll read it.
01:26:05
Steve-O
All right. Devin's going to go in. and was going to give us the review.
01:26:07
BeyBlade
I'm going to jump in, dude.
01:26:10
BeyBlade
You know, um speaking of reviews, a I watched <unk>ive the new Knives Out.
01:26:21
Steve-O
How is that?
01:26:21
BeyBlade
friendly Yeah, it's good.
01:26:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah Was it good?
01:26:23
BeyBlade
It's good. It feels like...
01:26:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Did you watch it on Netflix or at the theater?
01:26:27
BeyBlade
I watched it on Netflix. I watched it on Netflix. It was just something...
01:26:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You didn't watch it? You didn't go to the cinema to watch the pictures?
01:26:32
Steve-O
Did you watch it while ill?
01:26:32
BeyBlade
get it No, I watched that today. No, last night. I watched last night.
TV and Anime Reviews and Debates
01:26:39
BeyBlade
Jenny was there. Dude, i I'll be honest.
01:26:41
Steve-O
It might have been a fever dream. Maybe you didn't watch it.
01:26:43
BeyBlade
No, but it's weird because like half the movie's over before Benoit Blanc like shows up.
01:26:51
Steve-O
Oh.
01:26:52
BeyBlade
you know Which is like, i appreciate... switching it up because it's, you know, you can't keep having them show up from the beginning and be like, I knew it from the first minute I walked in and then still need to have a movie playing.
01:26:57
Steve-O
Hmm.
01:27:07
BeyBlade
So it's kind of interesting. um I still think the first one's my favorite. Actually, I know the first one's my favorite, but it's gotten me, it's gotten me to a point where I'm like, I feel like I should rewatch the first one because like,
01:27:13
Steve-O
That makes sense.
01:27:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I only watched the first one.
01:27:23
BeyBlade
The other two just feel so Netflix-y.
01:27:26
Steve-O
I kind of wanted to do that too, but I 100% agree with you where the glass onion, um I remember watching it and I was like, this was fun, but
01:27:26
BeyBlade
You know what mean?
01:27:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Did watch Glass Onion? i don't think I watched that.
01:27:37
Steve-O
It definitely feels Netflix-y.
01:27:37
BeyBlade
Yeah. It's not bad. it Well, it's also, it's like peak COVID, right? And it's like, when people tell you, when they're like, oh yeah, like this movie shot in COVID, you know, and they really start talking about you can you can kind of tell.
01:27:53
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:27:53
BeyBlade
you know You're like, oh yeah, everything's just in like a room and it seems like they're just acting to no one. and Yeah, yeah, everybody's just in the fucking Superdome.
01:28:00
Steve-O
Everybody's in the the NXT trading center.
01:28:07
BeyBlade
yeah ah So i get that aspect of it. And I'm not saying that just disqualifies it, but it's such a weird era of movie. And Glass Onion definitely fits in that. And this was just like...
01:28:22
BeyBlade
i don't know, man. It was just like, we're doing this knowing that Benoit Blanc's going to show up and he shows up. But even then, he kind of just like still is like an idiot about it.
01:28:35
BeyBlade
Which is like part of it, right? It's it's decent. it's ah It's a solid flick. ah so called the The Roof Man?
01:28:40
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:28:43
BeyBlade
The Roofman?
01:28:44
Steve-O
Is that what it's called?
01:28:45
BeyBlade
No, no. that that That was Knives Out, Wake Up Dead Man, and then...
01:28:46
Steve-O
Knives out the roofman.
01:28:50
Steve-O
Okay.
01:28:51
BeyBlade
ah The Roofman, is that Channing Tatum movie where he's like living in a Toys R Us for like a year?
01:28:54
Steve-O
Oh.
01:28:58
Steve-O
No, i I did not hear about this.
01:29:00
BeyBlade
Oh, it's decent. You know, it's decent. Watch Fallout, caught up on Fallout. Again, man um i'm I don't want to say I'm concerned because like it's...
01:29:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Sophomore slump.
01:29:15
BeyBlade
I don't know, man. I don't know. It's just like...
01:29:19
BeyBlade
TV's in such a weird spot right now because it takes you so long to come out with a TV show now. And you only get eight episodes, if you're lucky.
01:29:31
BeyBlade
get eight. And then three years will go by. And there's so much money to produce at this point for, you know, insert reasons here.
01:29:42
BeyBlade
And if, like, not... You know, and if it still has, like, this... TV pacing, it's like a problem now. And I feel like, unfortunately, yeah like, unless the budget's light, you can't have that, that TV pacing problem.
01:30:01
BeyBlade
And,
01:30:01
Steve-O
I don't like when they give you throwaway shows in modern TV pacing.
01:30:06
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah. like I'm like, bro, we only have eight. The whole point of going from 24 to 12 and now 12 to eight or whatever is that then it's got to be all killer, no filler.
01:30:18
BeyBlade
And like now we have two multiple filler episodes.
01:30:18
Steve-O
Exactly.
01:30:22
BeyBlade
And and I'm not saying filler. like The plot's moving, but I'm like, dude, every episode needs to feel like they're shot out of a fucking cannon at this point.
01:30:30
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:30:31
BeyBlade
Or you really got to be building to something that just doesn't really feel like Fallout Season 2 is doing that right now.
01:30:31
Steve-O
You know what's... ah
01:30:37
Steve-O
Tiny sidetrack. um I'm just going to say, if you want something that's all killer, no filler so far, ah Mighty Nein on Amazon Prime.
01:30:46
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:30:48
Steve-O
it is It is genuinely like, every episode is like, oh, that feels like... like huge huge to like the characters huge to like what's going on and uh it's just been it's yeah
01:31:00
BeyBlade
I forget. i think I've asked you every single time you've made this. Do you need to watch any of the other one or is it completely?
01:31:07
Steve-O
no no so this is its own campaign with all new characters um and uh
01:31:11
BeyBlade
right.
01:31:15
Steve-O
It's it's really good. The last episode introduced, um I guess, because that's the thing. I didn't listen to um ah Critical Role when they were doing it. But I guess this was a point where just like a new person came on to like join their campaign.
01:31:33
BeyBlade
Okay.
01:31:33
Steve-O
And they come in like such a freaking badass. Like I was like, oh, damn, this is like the past three episodes. I've been like real, like real attached to it. And i'm like, OK.
01:31:44
Steve-O
And they dropped like a bunch of them. Like they were doing the weekly thing. But then they just were like, here's like five. You're six.
01:31:50
BeyBlade
move I love it, man.
01:31:50
Steve-O
So.
01:31:51
BeyBlade
Let's just get it out. Let's just get out of my system. I mean, you know, and I'm still, I'm i'm in that spot where I'm like, oh, this anime ended and that anime ended.
01:31:55
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:32:01
BeyBlade
So I'm like,
01:32:01
Steve-O
You know, season one of One Piece just ended. After a thousand plus episodes, Devin.
01:32:09
BeyBlade
Wait, what? They called it season one?
01:32:12
Steve-O
They called it season one.
01:32:14
BeyBlade
Wait, wait, are you talking like on Netflix or whatever?
01:32:14
Steve-O
i'm more No, I'm talking about the anime.
01:32:16
BeyBlade
Dude, you know what? This is, this is a, you know what this is? This is a, ah this is a Shenmue situation all over again.
01:32:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This is the problem.
01:32:29
BeyBlade
Remember how Shenmue 2 ends? Well, Shenmue 2 ends on a big cliffhanger and you're like, oh my God. what a story it would be to finish it. Oh, can't we got finish the story? What a, like one of the biggest crimes, right? Is like, we never got to finish the Shenmue story.
01:32:47
BeyBlade
The guy gets a fucking gift. He's allowed to make Shenmue three. And what happens when Shenmue three comes out? He goes, uh, we're maybe a fourth of the way through the story.
01:32:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:32:59
BeyBlade
And it's like, are you fucking high dude? Like, You were gifted the opportunity to like jump back in here and like, you know, do what you can finish the fucking story. And then you're going to tell me like, oh, there's there's only eight more. There's probably so eight more games to tell. Like, are you fucking kidding me, dude?
01:33:21
BeyBlade
And then, oh, then what happens? Right. Shenmue three. It's a 7 out of 10 at
Vince Zampella's Accident and Industry Impact
01:33:26
BeyBlade
best Kickstarter game. And then, you know, makes no money again. And then it and fans are just left in this.
01:33:35
BeyBlade
We'll never have the story completed. And I'm not saying one piece is that. But it's the same hubris where it's like, I'm sorry, what? Like, by what logic is that a season one?
01:33:50
BeyBlade
He's like at gear eight, guys.
01:33:53
Steve-O
Just wait until season two.
01:33:54
BeyBlade
Do you even know what gear eight means? I don't, but like that's a lot of gears to go through in season one. This has to be a technicality.
01:34:04
BeyBlade
Somebody called vicious.
01:34:07
Steve-O
Vicious, where are you?
01:34:07
BeyBlade
I refuse. Wait, hold on. no why gotta i look this Now I'm like fired up here. One piece season one.
01:34:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He'll send you a top 10, top YouTube video.
01:34:18
BeyBlade
No, what do the internet says? ah There's like 10 seasons. Let me talk about Steve.
01:34:24
Steve-O
I do. I just posted it in a, in shit talk.
01:34:26
BeyBlade
You put, okay, let me, let find this. Too many windows open.
01:34:33
BeyBlade
One piece season. What the fuck does that mean? What does that mean?
01:34:42
BeyBlade
a seasonal format and starting in April season format after 26 years. okay Whatever, whatever.
01:34:54
BeyBlade
whatever Who am I? Who am I to complain? This is season 10, 13, 14, 16. thirteen fourteen sixteen
01:35:07
BeyBlade
Whatever. Fucking now i'm in a minute dude now I'm in a bad mood, Steve.
01:35:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Fake news?
01:35:12
BeyBlade
Thanks.
01:35:13
Steve-O
You're welcome.
01:35:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Steve, was that, it was an AI generated ah news article?
01:35:15
Steve-O
my special power.
01:35:15
BeyBlade
ah
01:35:21
Steve-O
um Speaking of that, i kind of i'm I'm a little curious about this ah video you posted, Devin, of ah what happened to Vince Zampella, which, you know, rest in peace.
01:35:33
BeyBlade
Oh, God.
01:35:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Hmm.
01:35:34
BeyBlade
right Yeah, that's that's been awful, man. Yeah. there Apparently there's more to it um where they the the onlookers drag one of the.
01:35:46
Steve-O
Is that a real video or is that AI?
01:35:48
BeyBlade
I thought that was real from my understanding.
01:35:50
Steve-O
i I can't tell from it because it's, it's so weird.
01:35:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Can't tell anymore.
01:35:54
Steve-O
Cause it's like, he's zooming and then like the car just explodes. And
01:35:58
BeyBlade
Yeah, no, he he he he hits it too fast, loses control.
01:36:03
Steve-O
is he street racing? What is he, what's he doing?
01:36:05
BeyBlade
I think this is like a a known spot for people to just like fucking, you know, race their Ferraris and Lamborghinis and stuff.
01:36:16
BeyBlade
um Apparently he just hit the turn way too fast, lost control the car. And unfortunately, you know, he he died as well as the passenger.
01:36:28
Steve-O
Oh, I didn't know there was a passenger.
01:36:29
BeyBlade
Yeah, because the passenger was ejected from the car. And I think that's what there's more video where the people grab the...
01:36:32
Steve-O
Oh my God.
01:36:36
Steve-O
I saw that. Yeah.
01:36:37
BeyBlade
And they drag them. They drag the other guy away. But even then, you know, it's...
01:36:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
01:36:41
BeyBlade
you know i think
01:36:41
Steve-O
I think my brain was trying to protect me. was like, this is AI, this is AI.
01:36:45
BeyBlade
Yeah, it's... ah That's rough, dude.
01:36:47
Steve-O
This is AI.
01:36:48
BeyBlade
that's ah That's a rough way to...
01:36:51
Steve-O
Because like they're like instant rigor mortis like in that video.
01:36:55
BeyBlade
Yeah. And also, like... Listen, it's it's brutally sad. no one's No one's saying it's not. But it's like i know thinking game a million percent avoidable.
01:37:09
BeyBlade
You know what I mean? It's just an accident. I don't want to say it's a freak accident because you're going 400 miles per hour.
01:37:19
Steve-O
Right.
01:37:19
BeyBlade
You know, it's just that stuff's going the odds go up. But like, yeah, man, it's Vincent Pella was... was one of the guys, man.
01:37:29
BeyBlade
He was call it co-creator Call a Duty, Modern Warfare, yeah, Titanfall.
01:37:33
Steve-O
Modern Warfare Titanfall.
01:37:37
BeyBlade
um Then he just, ah the fucking dying of Ferrari crash is just like so stupid, you know?
01:37:46
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:37:48
BeyBlade
was just so, it's so frustratingly stupid.
01:37:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:37:53
BeyBlade
So matt yeah yeah, thoughts, shout outs, thoughts to his family and friends as well as the passenger. um You know what's weird is I i was reading... Sometimes like when I just want to get like irritated, I'll go like Reset Era or something like that.
01:38:12
BeyBlade
And I'll just read. And there was just a big debate about whether or not Vince Zampello was going to get charged with... It's that funny, but the argument went from like, oh, like what a shame this happened to like, well, now he's to be charged with murder.
01:38:29
BeyBlade
Like technically, like technically he's a murderer.
01:38:32
Steve-O
Are they going to get the RIPD to get him?
01:38:33
BeyBlade
And.
01:38:36
BeyBlade
Not no, but I'm saying like they're like like somebody's argument, I think they were like technically like when you're writing out the forms, he will be charged with, you know,
01:38:49
BeyBlade
murder like uh or manslaughter i guess because of the the passenger uh and they're like you know obviously of doesn't matter but uh you know technically he's a murderer guys i was like what the and it was just a big stupid uh argument on the internet about it and i was like yeah this is what i need to be reading at 4 30 in the morning
01:38:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
01:39:11
Steve-O
Yeah, you're just boiling your own blood.
01:39:14
BeyBlade
Yeah, well, that, and I was just like, I just want to go to sleep, and I just couldn't. Then I got invested in a stupid show like that.
01:39:20
Steve-O
Let me just check the internet real quick. Wait.
01:39:22
BeyBlade
yeahmen i Yeah, I... Listen, ah I think it's it's ah it's terribly sad, and Call of Duty... I don't know, man, like, what what would you say... What's, like, a comparable, right? Because it's not like...
01:39:44
BeyBlade
Miyamoto is like the father Mario, right? And Simpela is just like, oh, like this would be like if... I think of like a comparison.
01:39:54
Steve-O
Um, that's yeah, it's, um,
01:39:57
BeyBlade
Yeah, like like I don't even know. like Yeah, yeah, I mean, Herodotus, yeah, he recently passed away.
01:39:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Harada?
01:40:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Actually, don't even know. Maybe. Maybe a Tekken dude? No, he didn't pass away. He just quit. Right?
01:40:11
BeyBlade
Oh, no, no. we who No, I'm sorry. Itagaki.
01:40:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I thought you were talking about just like the...
01:40:15
BeyBlade
Itagaki passed away.
01:40:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:40:17
BeyBlade
Itagaki passed away.
01:40:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
01:40:19
BeyBlade
Yeah. Shout out to Arata.
01:40:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, I thought you just meant like a type of...
01:40:21
BeyBlade
He's still alive.
01:40:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um type of person, type of status.
01:40:25
BeyBlade
Yeah. Like like the the creator of Street Fighter died. I don't know. Like in a fucking in a street racing accident. Like.
01:40:37
BeyBlade
Trying to think of some more modern.
01:40:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
don't know.
01:40:41
BeyBlade
Like, game developers being kind of like rock stars is a weird...
01:40:45
Steve-O
Yeah, it's kind of, it'd be like if, um who's the Undertale guy?
01:40:48
BeyBlade
The Destiny guy drowned on his boat.
01:40:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Would it be like, would it, would it be like, would it be like if Dan Hauser did something stupid like this?
01:40:57
Steve-O
Probably, right
01:40:58
BeyBlade
Yeah, I'd say so. Yeah, he actually, that's i think that's a really good... Like, when the Housers passed away. Yeah.
01:41:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Passed away because of something like this, not not just, you know.
01:41:05
BeyBlade
Because... Yeah, or yeah just like an unexpected you know passing, right?
01:41:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
01:41:11
BeyBlade
Because it's just like... Yeah, like Modern Warfare is clearly one of the most influential games that's ever been created.
01:41:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh yeah if yeah yeah one of the one of the most right
01:41:21
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:41:23
BeyBlade
And then he proves it's not a fluke with things like Titanfall and then ah Apex Legends and everything. Like like the guy just like... I mean, you know, obviously he was very comfortable in that space at that point in his career, but it was just like, the guy was just like so good at making games, man.
01:41:43
Steve-O
Yeah. The, the star Wars Jedi games too. What were they called? Jedi fallen fallen Jedi. Yeah. Forsaken Jedi?
01:41:50
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:41:51
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:41:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. Fallen Order.
01:41:52
BeyBlade
Fallen Order.
01:41:54
BeyBlade
Man, yeah, it's, it seems like,
01:41:57
Steve-O
And I'm sure there's like before then too. Like, you know.
01:42:03
BeyBlade
Yeah, he's a...
01:42:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:42:05
BeyBlade
Rest in peace, dude. and samel
01:42:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's crazy. People were like, um, posting the video and stuff online. It's like, dude, chill the fuck out.
01:42:16
BeyBlade
Yeah, did you see it, Sean?
01:42:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, i don't want to watch that shit.
01:42:20
BeyBlade
Yeah, I watched it.
01:42:20
Steve-O
I thought I thought that's the thing I watched it.
01:42:22
BeyBlade
I got sicko, dude.
01:42:22
Steve-O
i I don't like my brain is like, is this AI? Is this an AI video? Because like it feels like a little bit, but also like it might be my brain trying to protect myself from seeing some messed up imagery.
01:42:29
BeyBlade
the I am... i am
01:42:35
BeyBlade
I am depressingly comfortable with being tricked by AI videos in the year 2026.
01:42:42
BeyBlade
I think it's going to officially happen. I'm going to get, I'm going I'm going to bite on something.
01:42:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
01:42:48
BeyBlade
I'm going to post it. And i think we need to make an agreement now that we can't make fun of the other person.
01:42:56
Steve-O
Okay.
01:42:58
BeyBlade
We can't.
01:42:58
Steve-O
Good call.
01:42:59
BeyBlade
If I send you guys something, know.
01:42:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
it's like ah it's like it's like the It's like people in the Navy that get seasick. gets seasick.
01:43:04
Steve-O
But here's the thing.
01:43:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like you're not allowed you're not you're not allowed to laugh at the guy that gets seasick
01:43:05
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah, you can't laugh at us. We're we're we're too old and and it's too good at this point.
01:43:09
Steve-O
Here's.
01:43:15
Steve-O
But hold on.
01:43:16
BeyBlade
Okay.
01:43:17
Steve-O
One of us isn't here right now.
01:43:20
BeyBlade
Oh, no, Chris, he's he's we're going to drag him.
01:43:23
Steve-O
Okay, so yeah we get to we get to call Chris Boomer Galani if he gets called.
01:43:24
BeyBlade
I also think of of us all, I feel like of all of us, Chris would be the most susceptible.
01:43:33
Steve-O
You know what?
01:43:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, probably.
01:43:34
Steve-O
That's the thing. i could I could argue against that, though. Because I think Chris chris is like...
01:43:37
BeyBlade
Okay.
01:43:40
Steve-O
he's got He's got pretty decent media literacy. And he's been really he's been really good at like pulling things that are just like...
01:43:49
BeyBlade
Damn it.
01:43:49
Steve-O
they've They've got a little whiff.
01:43:49
BeyBlade
All right.
01:43:50
Steve-O
They've got a little whiff of a stink to it.
01:43:52
BeyBlade
Well,
01:43:52
Steve-O
Chris can usually put his finger on it.
01:43:55
BeyBlade
but what about Chris? Yeah, but remember when... That's stupid. Remember when I accidentally tricked him?
01:44:01
Steve-O
um fuck
01:44:02
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:44:06
BeyBlade
I actually tricked him a few weeks ago.
01:44:07
Steve-O
Yeah. but How'd you get him? How'd you get him?
01:44:11
BeyBlade
with with It was and this was a total accident. It was the one I wasn't on with the Disgusting Fish.
01:44:18
Steve-O
Oh, yes, I do.
01:44:19
BeyBlade
It's not AI. It's not AI, but it was yeah was about Zack Snyder getting animated.
01:44:21
Steve-O
It's just a disgusting film. Disgusting.
01:44:24
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah.
01:44:25
Steve-O
Yeah, you did get him.
01:44:26
BeyBlade
Granted, you're right. It's not AI, but it's close.
01:44:28
Steve-O
But do you remember when he got you when he had you click on that Facebook link and you got it?
01:44:36
BeyBlade
No, when he called me and said, hey, as your good friend, can you support me in getting my account back? I said, yeah, you're one of my best friends in the whole world. He's like, okay, sit on the phone with this Indian man and get hacked for two hours.
01:44:54
BeyBlade
I won't change anything and I'll be fine, but you have to change everything and ruin your life.
01:44:59
Steve-O
ah
01:45:00
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah.
01:45:01
Steve-O
that's funny because what if Chris was just like look I know you guys want to hack me but what if I get you to hack one of my friends instead
01:45:07
BeyBlade
you said Yeah, He's like, I got somebody
AI Video Skepticism and Stranger Things
01:45:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
01:45:11
BeyBlade
who's really good.
01:45:12
Steve-O
oh
01:45:14
BeyBlade
I got somebody who's really got a lot to lot to lose in his life.
01:45:18
Steve-O
oh what
01:45:20
BeyBlade
He's got a lot to lose, let me tell you. This guy fucking sucks.
01:45:25
Steve-O
You know what, Chris? You're a good man.
01:45:27
BeyBlade
yeah yeah You're a good man, Chris. You're just, you know, ruining my day.
01:45:35
Steve-O
ruined my day.
01:45:37
BeyBlade
Room of D.
01:45:38
Steve-O
All right. So.
01:45:39
BeyBlade
Oh my God. Sorry, you just reminded me.
01:45:41
Steve-O
Yeah, yeah, go for it.
01:45:41
BeyBlade
I watched i watched a little bit of Chappelle drop like a new stand-up. And it was it's not it's not good. And I try not to be that guy to like judge comedy because it's you know so subjective. But yeah man, it just it was... feel pretty hacky, dude.
01:46:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:46:03
BeyBlade
i'd say I think he might have lost it a little bit.
01:46:07
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:46:07
BeyBlade
Officially. um I think I'm... I'm out.
01:46:13
Steve-O
You're out.
01:46:13
BeyBlade
ah Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I'll ever truly be out. I'll always be interested, but I was just... I just watched it, and I was like...
01:46:21
Steve-O
There's the classics. There's always going to be the classics, at least.
01:46:24
BeyBlade
Yeah, you know? just... I went... I had a few of those. i had a few, like... And then...
01:46:34
BeyBlade
I think Jenny's like, let's watch Tom Segura. And I was like, why? Why why are we doing this? Why?
01:46:42
Steve-O
But why though?
01:46:42
BeyBlade
again it's not It's not like I hate hate these people, but I was just like, And...
01:46:51
BeyBlade
Oh, man. I used to...
01:46:53
Steve-O
Man, when a comedy special takes the comedy out of, which you're like, ooh.
01:46:58
BeyBlade
I know, but it turns into storytelling. Again, it's a weird line.
01:47:04
Steve-O
Hmm.
01:47:04
BeyBlade
It's like this fine invisible line, but at some point I'm like, you're just telling personal stories and there's no jokes here.
01:47:12
Steve-O
When there's more like applause breaks than there is like jokes and laughter, I'm always wary.
01:47:12
BeyBlade
It's just like a funny thing that happened to you.
01:47:21
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, so... Sorry. I just watched... um
01:47:31
BeyBlade
I don't know why this worked on me now. So John, I keep seeing that, uh, that 11 face, uh, showing up and it, she's just,
01:47:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's her the whole season, man. full of ah She's full of collagen injections and plastic surgery. That's what the internet's running with, at least these days.
01:47:56
BeyBlade
yeah, it's mean, right? It is mean, but, uh, So, shout out. So, Steve, i steve I had asked Steve, I said, Steve, did you watch Stranger Things? And apparently it didn't matter what Steve said, because what I had heard was I've watched, I'm up to everything but the last episode. And i was like, oh, okay, sick.
01:48:20
BeyBlade
But you haven't watched any of the new drop, right?
01:48:23
Steve-O
No, no.
01:48:24
BeyBlade
The the Christmas. So you're you're in fact behind three. And then I spoiled something for Steve. So I apologize. But...
01:48:32
Steve-O
That's all right. That's all right.
01:48:34
BeyBlade
hum John, you're caught up. And we don't we don't have to go deep into spoilers. um I think at all, frankly, because I would even argue that i don't think a lot even happens in these three Yeah, yeah.
01:48:48
Steve-O
i know what I know Chris has some thoughts. And so I'm sure next time we have Chris, you know, he'll be, he'll be done to share.
01:48:54
BeyBlade
i used I do think it's... um
01:48:59
BeyBlade
If you're going to, and this is more of the TV complaint, right? If you're just going to do this thing where you're making everyone wait fucking three years for a season and you're going to do this and you're going to do that and you're going split up the show, maybe like fix your pacing.
01:49:17
BeyBlade
Like maybe just like a smidge because it's like the first three I thought moved pretty well. Steve, I don't know. I think you could agree, maybe. Like, it felt like there there was a good pace to the to the show. And these like next three are just kind of, it's a lot of explanation, which I'm not saying is bad.
01:49:41
BeyBlade
But it's just like not not a lot is moving.
01:49:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank
01:49:46
BeyBlade
It's a lot of standing around and and talking and, you know, one, two, three, like and with each episode being like 90 minutes, it's just, yeah dude it's ah it's a lot.
01:49:56
Steve-O
That's a long time.
01:50:00
BeyBlade
So maybe Steve, to be honest, I don't know. Is your plan to wait until the final or is it just like you're getting around to it when you get around?
01:50:07
Steve-O
um just been I've just been swamped and busy and you know um I'll get to it at some point, but also based on the reaction, it sounds like it's
01:50:13
BeyBlade
I think, yeah, I'll be honest. Like, The closer you can just lead, if you could just even lead it into the the final, I think that's that's the move.
01:50:22
Steve-O
OK.
01:50:24
BeyBlade
And it's not like, oh my God, what are we going to do? going wait so long. Like, we don't.
01:50:29
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:50:29
BeyBlade
why But it's, you know, I kind of rushed these three because of of obvious concerns for spoilers and things like that. And I was like, oh, I didn't need to rush at all.
01:50:41
BeyBlade
like I could have just, I could have waited. I could have sat on this one.
01:50:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, we like spent a all night watching them. Watching all of the game.
01:50:52
BeyBlade
Yeah, that's exactly what I did. i was like, oh my God. Also, like I made a...
01:51:00
BeyBlade
So again, I'm at this Christmas party with Jenny's family. And I was just like, hey, is everyone going to watch Stranger Things when we get back? Because it was... you know, started at 8 p.m. or whatever.
01:51:13
BeyBlade
And her whole fucking family, every young person in her family just like made me feel like a shithead. Like, oh, I stopped watching that three seasons ago. Hey, jump the shark.
01:51:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mm-hmm.
01:51:23
BeyBlade
I don't, I've never even watched it. I've never even. And I was just like, oh, oh so I'm sorry. i didn't think I was ah the worst fucking human being in the room.
01:51:35
BeyBlade
Like, I felt they made me feel so bad. I was like, okay, fuck me, I guess.
01:51:40
Steve-O
Evan just walks out of the party sick and crying.
01:51:42
BeyBlade
Yeah, I was sick and i was like, I don't even want to be here, dude.
01:51:46
Steve-O
Why did you feel so mean to me?
01:51:47
BeyBlade
but that
01:51:48
Steve-O
if
01:51:49
BeyBlade
I can leave, dude. I'm not related to any of you yet. Fucking pieces of shit.
01:51:58
Steve-O
Yeah, what John was saying to me is it sounds like for some reason this far in they have decided to lean into trying to explain the entire series to new viewers.
01:52:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So it seems like there's just like, there's so much, there's so much expositions.
01:52:13
BeyBlade
You know what? There's a little bit of that.
01:52:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like that people are like, it's just like the monologues and the, it's just, i don't know, man. You watch one battle after another and everything is just over-expositioned in anything these days.
01:52:28
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:52:29
BeyBlade
Yeah. Well, I mean, there's there's the very there's a very funny... Because I think everybody who watched it had the same thought. Where you're like...
01:52:42
BeyBlade
I get it. It's tough because I don't even want to get close to spoiling it. But, you know, you're like, just stop talking, guys.
01:52:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:52:50
BeyBlade
Just this can wait.
01:52:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, can you just...
01:52:52
BeyBlade
this can wait.
01:52:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:52:53
BeyBlade
and then ah and then it just goes on and on and on. And yeah, there's just a like a lot of them.
01:53:02
BeyBlade
Yeah, no one's going to get into it at this point. You know what I mean?
01:53:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. Right.
01:53:06
BeyBlade
Like, just let it be fucking over. And it's just the pacing of everything. It's just, it's very, very obnoxious. But what are you going to that's That's the state of TV.
01:53:20
Steve-O
Modern TV.
01:53:21
BeyBlade
Yeah, unfortunately. and um And, you know, this is not, ah this is no spoiler, but like, I truly think that we, they're going to lead with like a weird spinoff at the end of this show.
01:53:37
BeyBlade
Right? They're going to probably have a,
01:53:41
BeyBlade
there's going be some character spinoff.
01:53:42
Steve-O
They're going to Game of Thrones that you think I'm trying cash cow.
01:53:44
BeyBlade
Oh my God. Yeah. Like I'm curious about like, i bet you there's going to be a noticeable metric in terms of Netflix cancellations after this.
01:53:46
Steve-O
Hmm.
01:53:56
Steve-O
I would not be surprised.
01:53:57
BeyBlade
Cause people are arguing that they're like, And i I think the hate's overblown because of, you know, a lot of factors. But they're like, this feels like this could be like ah a Game of Thrones situation where it's like no one's
01:54:10
Steve-O
Hmm.
Historical and Cinematic Authenticity Debates
01:54:12
BeyBlade
happy with the final season.
01:54:13
BeyBlade
And it's so bad that it loses all of its cultural relevance.
01:54:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
01:54:18
BeyBlade
ah like after it's over. Everyone's just like like, well, let's just pretend that we didn't care or think about this and this wasn't like the national obsession.
01:54:26
Steve-O
That's still blows my mind with Game of Thrones.
01:54:28
BeyBlade
I don't think that's going to happen.
01:54:30
Steve-O
Like Game of Thrones, just like it just like dissipated instantly.
01:54:36
Steve-O
But they've got that new season, right?
01:54:36
BeyBlade
Yeah. well i'm doing it's
01:54:38
Steve-O
They got that new show.
01:54:39
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah. Which ah that after it took one season for it to go wrong. Yeah. like yeah And me, I was like, dude, um im I was shockingly digging that first season.
01:54:52
BeyBlade
And then season two, and I was like, you know, I was just busy, couldn't catch up on it. Chris was like, yeah, I don't know. And, you know, ah Chris is, ah I think Chris is like famously little negative at the start. Probably more than me in terms of shows.
01:55:09
BeyBlade
and But then everybody else was like, wow, yeah, they're really... They seem like they're ruining it. And then George R.R. Martin, of course, is like, they they're fucking it up. And it's like, dude, how how did we?
01:55:21
BeyBlade
We couldn't even get two seasons in before we blew it.
01:55:25
Steve-O
We tried.
01:55:27
BeyBlade
And, you know, and now it's this weird show that I i could watch.
01:55:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mm-hmm.
01:55:32
BeyBlade
I could try, but we'll see.
01:55:36
Steve-O
I think there's this 10 year span of interest that people have for certain ah certain stories or genres. And I think if you start to push it, it goes wrong.
01:55:49
Steve-O
I think Marvel had it. And then when they tried to go beyond it, that's when people were like, ah, this too much. You're putting it all in weird places. You're making it complicated.
01:56:00
Steve-O
um i think Game of Thrones, you know, they kind of lost their luster. I would say even a little bit earlier than 10 years. But I think, you know, I think if Stranger Things, you know, doesn't stick it, it could be that.
01:56:15
BeyBlade
Yeah, dude, it's like once Gen z decides like they don't like it, it's over, dude.
01:56:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's over, yeah.
01:56:21
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:56:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And it just completely takes over everything.
01:56:22
BeyBlade
You cannot...
01:56:22
Steve-O
H.
01:56:24
BeyBlade
Yeah, like you cannot come back from that. Seemingly. like yeah Yeah.
01:56:27
Steve-O
They treat you like they treated you at that Christmas party.
01:56:32
BeyBlade
A little bit. And there's no Gen Z. They're all millennials. And they all just made me feel like shit. But it's like... um It's like the whole odd. Have you been seeing like the the discourse? I struggle to even call it that. But like the the talk about the the Odyssey movie.
01:56:50
Steve-O
No.
01:56:50
BeyBlade
About how like people are mad that it's not authentically. like Like some guy tweeted like, oh wow, great. Like I'm so glad like we have another like leather armor like inaccurate fucking thing.
01:57:08
BeyBlade
bland Greek warrior design, basically. Like, yeah ah you know, if you look at the the armor that you see in movies that they wore, it's completely historically inaccurate.
01:57:17
Steve-O
Right.
01:57:21
BeyBlade
And then somebody's like, yeah, but like this is what historically accurate looks like. And it looks terrible. you know It's like gold-plated. Everybody's like wearing just – it's cinematic. It's the cinematic look for a reason.
01:57:37
BeyBlade
And some guy tweeted that it shouldn't be like that. And now there's a shocking amount of discourse about how the Odyssey – apparently is going to be DOA, which it won't be, right? But they're like, oh, God, like, the fans hate it already because it's not historically accurate. And it's like, you know this movie has a Cyclops in it, right?
01:58:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mm-hmm.
01:58:01
BeyBlade
You know this is about, like, the story the story of Odysseus, right? Like, and Homer and all that. Like, what are what
Avatar Sequel and Cinema Critiques
01:58:10
BeyBlade
are we doing, guys? So it's... ah I don't know. if There's just what's that fucking eye of Sauron called the Internet turns on you. It's so hard to get out from under it.
01:58:23
BeyBlade
And, you know, apparently it's.
01:58:27
BeyBlade
we're We're in trouble.
01:58:28
Steve-O
It's come for Christopher Nolan.
01:58:31
BeyBlade
Yeah, that's the thing. Now it's his turn. It's now he's in trouble.
01:58:37
BeyBlade
So F you.
01:58:37
Steve-O
I think he'll be okay.
01:58:40
BeyBlade
ah That movie that sold out theaters a year in advance.
01:58:42
Steve-O
Yeah, a year in advance.
01:58:43
BeyBlade
Oh,
01:58:45
Steve-O
As long as he lets people sit, i think he'll be okay.
01:58:49
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:58:50
Steve-O
That's still my favorite of the the controversies. Christopher Nolan doesn't let people sit.
01:58:56
BeyBlade
That he refuses to let you sit down on chairs.
01:58:58
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:58:58
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:59:01
Steve-O
ah
01:59:04
BeyBlade
I think my favorite's the um the story with, ah what's his name? James Cameron, who like took a cell phone and put a nail gun through it on set because it was ringing.
01:59:17
Steve-O
That's funny.
01:59:17
BeyBlade
And he's like, yeah, no, I'm pretty sure I did that. Like he, you know.
01:59:20
Steve-O
That sounds like a thing he'd do.
01:59:26
Steve-O
James Cameron, notoriously unlikable director, but made Terminator 2, so.
01:59:29
BeyBlade
plus Psychotic man. Yeah.
01:59:34
Steve-O
I can't, I can't.
01:59:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Free pass.
01:59:36
Steve-O
Yeah, free pass. I i hate it.
01:59:38
BeyBlade
He, you know, he was, he was talking about how apparently he's not a psycho anymore. He's like, I think that's how he's like, I'm not crazy anymore.
01:59:44
Steve-O
can't trust the psycho.
01:59:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
only and Only a thing only a psycho would say.
01:59:47
Steve-O
Yeah, you can't trust the psycho.
01:59:47
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:59:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm not a psycho anymore.
01:59:49
BeyBlade
But he said, he said the reason was, is when they were shooting way of water, um there's so many underwater scenes like where actors have to hold their breath and it's really dangerous for them to panic and or be stressed out.
01:59:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
fine.
02:00:07
BeyBlade
So they're like, dude, if you freak out, then you're going freak out the actors who are underwater and then they're going to drown and die. So you need to chill the fuck out. They beat like some fucking drill sergeant or something told him like whoever was like the safety tech was like, he's like, you need to relax.
02:00:28
BeyBlade
He's like, yeah, they I just decided I didn't need to scream at anybody. And who knew, right?
02:00:35
Steve-O
he's like whenever you decide to yell at someone look at your bank account and realize you don't need to work that hard you're fine apparently it sounds like
02:00:36
BeyBlade
well
02:00:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
02:00:45
BeyBlade
Yeah, you're fine.
02:00:46
BeyBlade
The movie's still... Actually, you know what? I haven't looked.
02:00:52
Steve-O
they're not going to continue the avatar series. So he's, he's said he's going to do little sittings where he explains what was going to happen in four and five.
02:01:05
BeyBlade
Yeah, I think he said if it doesn't make its money. Now, it's currently at $760 million dollars worldwide.
02:01:17
BeyBlade
I don't know where that's at in terms of, you know, I know it's made less, right? It's it's making less than, it's trending behind Way of Water.
02:01:31
BeyBlade
And just frankly, I don't know, man. Like, I don't know. If we're truly at a point where, like, movies need to make multiple billions of dollars for you to get a greenlit sequel, don't know.
02:01:45
BeyBlade
Like, maybe maybe we just shouldn't shouldn't do that anymore. Maybe we should just stop.
02:01:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. 6-7.
02:01:53
BeyBlade
um Call me crazy. But, I mean, yeah, I think he went on record as saying, like, he's more than willing to just go on tour and just, yeah, write a book or something about, like, what would happen.
02:02:09
BeyBlade
Which is fine, you know? I'd be over it, but... I don't know. 760 after two weeks is not, it's not bad.
02:02:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
six seven
02:02:19
BeyBlade
You imagine a movie make making a billion dollars.
02:02:21
Steve-O
have been
02:02:22
BeyBlade
Can you imagine making a billion dollars and being like, not good enough?
02:02:26
Steve-O
No, not at all.
02:02:27
BeyBlade
That's fucking insane, dude.
02:02:32
Steve-O
That's that's kind of like nightmarish where it's like you're moving to make a billion dollars and it's not good enough.
02:02:35
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, like, what are we doing, dude?
02:02:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, that.
02:02:37
BeyBlade
Like, yeah, it's like we broke, whatever machine is we broke for.
02:02:38
Steve-O
Sorry.
02:02:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, because like, because james yeah james James Cameron was like kind of like bashing. You know, it seemed like he was bashing people that do artful films because he was something.
02:02:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
it the I don't know what the exact quote was, but he's like, oh, I'm here to put movie.
02:02:54
BeyBlade
I mean, he's like the guy.
02:03:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
put movies in movie theaters, not award chasing or or so something along those lines. And it's like, dude, come on, man.
02:03:05
BeyBlade
Yeah. But I mean, like, who else would say that? Right. That's that's like.
02:03:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
By the way, I'm not a psycho anymore, but I'm going to say shit like that.
02:03:13
BeyBlade
yeah But I mean, saying if there is one guy that's going to say that, like, it's got to be him.
02:03:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right.
02:03:22
BeyBlade
You know?
02:03:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, because, like, do you do you do you personally believe that he's, like, genuinely... likes making the Avatar movies, and these are, like, extensions of his, like, vision and stuff.
02:03:22
Steve-O
And
02:03:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, compare, like, not just, like, you know, on terms of, like, like, um, like, how good the movie is, because, you know, like, Terminator 2 and Aliens and blah, blah, blah, and even Titanic, to a certain extent, is one thing.
02:03:35
BeyBlade
do. Yeah.
02:03:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
but Like, this is the fucking third Avatar movie, you know? Like, does he, do you really think he's, like,
02:03:55
BeyBlade
yeah
02:03:55
Steve-O
and
02:03:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, it means that much to him. Like, you know?
02:04:01
BeyBlade
I think yes. um I just think like.
02:04:08
BeyBlade
Because I think James Cameron's in that spot where like he makes any movie like any action movie like it's going to make a close to a bill just off name alone.
02:04:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right. Right. Right.
02:04:19
BeyBlade
Like. If he sticks around and like I'm making two more of these like now. ah i don't know man like.
02:04:30
BeyBlade
That is, to me, that's pushing it. It's like, ah get it.
02:04:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, because like...
02:04:35
BeyBlade
You have a story you want to tell, but like going back to what I was picturing about before, it's like, you can't tell your story in fucking three movies.
02:04:47
BeyBlade
You can't tell, like,
02:04:51
BeyBlade
you know, in this set amount of time, like you're just putting out just fucking, i don't want to say fire and ashes filler, right?
02:04:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:04:58
BeyBlade
But it's like, You're going to tell me this thing you've been working on for X amount of time that you can't wrap this thing up. Like I'm expected as a viewer to, to hope that this movie makes fucking billions of dollars so you can finish your tail.
02:05:19
BeyBlade
Like, I don't know, man. It's just, we are in this weird spot where just, ah storytelling has gone like it's taking way too long to to get there and it's all just motivated by money at this point which is like i don't know boohoo right yeah it's like everything's just being dragged out fuck get to the point dude kick humanity off Pandora
02:05:39
Steve-O
How long can we drag something out?
02:05:49
Steve-O
Do you think?
02:05:53
BeyBlade
Or make humanity take over Pandora, but please pick one.
02:05:59
Steve-O
You said that the third movie, the ending, it felt like the second movie's ending, right?
02:06:04
BeyBlade
Yeah, well, ah I mean, what I've discovered is that I probably knew this years ago and I just forgot. Like he shot both of them essentially back to back.
02:06:15
Steve-O
Mm.
02:06:15
BeyBlade
He had all the footage, like a lot of the footage like already done when he was shooting too. Which I guess is why the turnaround was relatively quick in comparison.
02:06:30
BeyBlade
But yeah, man,
Anime Box Office Success and X-Men Nostalgia
02:06:31
BeyBlade
ah I don't know. it's a but But yeah, point is, is like it just felt the same because it was just in his... I guess that's where he was when he was writing this. He's like, I just want everything to be...
02:06:47
BeyBlade
water-based and fighting and they get captured and they don't get captured and it's going to be a big problem. I don't
02:06:58
BeyBlade
know, man. I think we're in a weird spot with big movies where if Avengers Doomsday doesn't make a billion, like that's going to be in trouble.
02:07:13
Steve-O
Movies, they're dead.
02:07:13
BeyBlade
and then But in the same year you have... an anime spinoff movie that made almost a billion dollars that cost, you know, it's still a big production, you know, imperatively, but that Demon Slayer Infinity Castle, that made $700 million. Yeah.
02:07:35
Steve-O
It's um it's interesting. It's interesting what lights up the market.
02:07:43
BeyBlade
anime
02:07:44
Steve-O
I mean, K-pop demon hunters, people were going to see that that sing along, right, John?
02:07:45
BeyBlade
that
02:07:48
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:07:49
Steve-O
You went to that.
02:07:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, dude.
02:07:53
Steve-O
Huh?
02:07:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But then again, like, you know, we talked about it before. It's like, would there have been such a a large exposure to the movie if it wasn't on Netflix first, too, you know?
02:08:06
Steve-O
You're right.
02:08:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because it's not like it was some kind of, it was like a known IP beforehand, you know?
02:08:12
Steve-O
I tell you what, though, if in that Avengers Doomsday trailer, that motorcycle pulls up, door opens up, and it's Genu from K-pop Demon Hunter.
02:08:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And it's Charles x Xavier.
02:08:24
Steve-O
Oh, Charles Xavier would be good, too.
02:08:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, I was going to say Charles Xavier.
02:08:28
BeyBlade
Wait, is he is he in the sidecar or does he get off the motorcycle?
02:08:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Patrick Stewart.
02:08:32
Steve-O
He gets off the motorcycle.
02:08:34
BeyBlade
Whoa. Because now I'm interested a couple different ways. Why is he walking?
02:08:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because he doesn't have his powers anymore, dude. You know, isn't that how it works?
02:08:42
Steve-O
He gave him up for his sick bike.
02:08:43
BeyBlade
that's i mean hate I hate that so much, by the way.
02:08:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Isn't that how it works, Devin?
02:08:47
BeyBlade
No.
02:08:48
BeyBlade
And that's why I hate it.
02:08:48
Steve-O
Is that not how it works?
02:08:53
Steve-O
His head's so full of stuff, he just, his leggings don't work, right?
02:08:53
BeyBlade
why Why should it work?
02:08:58
BeyBlade
Yeah, like when when did that become the plot, right?
02:09:01
Steve-O
is it Wait, but isn't that actually, like, how he works?
02:09:02
BeyBlade
Oh my...
02:09:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mm-hmm.
02:09:04
Steve-O
Like,
02:09:04
BeyBlade
No! No! He was... His back was broken by Magneto.
02:09:10
Steve-O
I thought it was shot in the first Avengers. And by that I meant the the first X.
02:09:15
BeyBlade
you talking about the comics are you just talking about like...
02:09:17
Steve-O
Talk about the movies. We're talking about the movie trailer.
02:09:19
BeyBlade
Oh yeah, a bullet was lodged in his spine. Because somebody shot at Magneto or whatever and he like deflected the bullet.
02:09:27
Steve-O
It's Kevin Bacon.
02:09:29
BeyBlade
Yeah, and then somehow that turned into he can walk.
02:09:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
02:09:36
BeyBlade
What the fuck? I can't remember. Yeah, he can walk if he takes his his shot that you know makes him not have mutant powers anymore. By the way, this is the good X-Men movie.
02:09:50
BeyBlade
This is the one we all liked. Days of Future Past.
02:09:52
Steve-O
It's the good run. Yeah.
02:09:54
BeyBlade
We're like, oh my God, there's a show for it.
02:09:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i mean, I have issues with it.
02:09:57
BeyBlade
We like that one.
02:09:58
Steve-O
I was more of a Logan fan.
02:10:00
BeyBlade
Oh my God.
02:10:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:10:01
BeyBlade
I mean,
02:10:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I still liked X2 more, I think.
02:10:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And First Class.
02:10:04
Steve-O
Oh, X2 is a great movie.
02:10:05
BeyBlade
mean no one's no' insane <unk>s saying that you know it's the best one, but I'm saying like that's a well-received one.
02:10:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And First Class. And Days of Free. fish test No, but remember, I... What I remember from that one is that i was like, oh, why does Kitty Pryde have fucking weird fucking fucking Doctor Who powers in this for no reason?
02:10:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We got into discussion about it.
02:10:25
Steve-O
we just did what All of your fiance's relatives did at your Christmas party.
02:10:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
but
02:10:32
BeyBlade
yeah
02:10:33
Steve-O
Days of Future Past. Let's keep Days of Future Past the past, Devin.
02:10:35
BeyBlade
ah i i grew up. Okay, I don't watch that anymore.
02:10:41
Steve-O
Let's keep Days of Future Past in the past, Devin.
02:10:44
BeyBlade
Fuck me, dude. No, fine. Yeah, you're right. I'm wrong. It's terrible.
02:10:49
Steve-O
didn little la a
02:10:51
BeyBlade
yeah we go slash I'm go slash films, most films now, because... all my friends make fun of me and I have to live in the future now.
02:11:08
Steve-O
Kalani's here. You know he's not making fun of
02:11:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
All right. Well,
Christmas Gifts and Gaming Addiction
02:11:10
Steve-O
you.
02:11:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Galani's not here, so let's wrap it up.
02:11:11
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah.
02:11:12
Steve-O
All right.
02:11:12
BeyBlade
Let's wrap this up.
02:11:14
Steve-O
ah
02:11:14
BeyBlade
Really. yeah Yeah. It's just that. effect and Listen, it's the week of Christmas, to everyone. There's the,
02:11:20
Steve-O
Go play with some toys.
02:11:21
BeyBlade
Go play with your fucking toys. Go play with your... Wait. did you any Were any of you guys gifted fun video games?
02:11:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I was gifted Ninja Turtles Cowabunga Collection.
02:11:38
Steve-O
I got gifted dispatch.
02:11:38
BeyBlade
Nice.
02:11:41
BeyBlade
Ooh. I expect report cards.
02:11:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I have to gift myself this batch still.
02:11:47
BeyBlade
Maybe on dispatch. Maybe dispatch. I don't...
02:11:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But i was telling I was telling Steve before you got on that might be getting a little burned out on the bonk.
02:11:51
BeyBlade
after
02:11:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So um um I might be in need of something.
02:11:57
Steve-O
Ooh. What's going to be 2026 bunk. 2024 lot.
02:12:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't know, dude.
02:12:03
Steve-O
or twenty twenty you four is bellattro
02:12:05
BeyBlade
You think it's going that vampire survivors card game?
02:12:08
Steve-O
no
02:12:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, no, no.
02:12:09
BeyBlade
No.
02:12:10
Steve-O
I feel like the spinoffs never hit as hard as...
02:12:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's going to be the Bellatro update that we're going to get.
02:12:17
Steve-O
oh
02:12:18
BeyBlade
Man.
02:12:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
My cousin mentioned it, mentioned it to me on Christmas and I fired it back up and I could feel myself relapsing.
02:12:21
BeyBlade
Yeah. Well,
02:12:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So I like, like I got out of there as quick as possible.
02:12:33
Steve-O
I gotta go.
02:12:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm I was at the point where I was like, oh, what what do you have to do right now? Like, how do you play this game? And then I was just like back into the fucking...
02:12:41
BeyBlade
Wow.
02:12:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It was the train spotting scene. I fell into the floor, got dragged to the yeah ER. My parents were disappointed in me.
02:12:52
BeyBlade
When
02:12:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then I saw a dead baby crawling on the ceiling.
02:12:57
Steve-O
my god.
02:12:58
BeyBlade
did he crawl in the toilet?
02:12:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then I jumped into the toilet to grab my Bellatro copy.
02:13:00
BeyBlade
Walk out.
02:13:04
Steve-O
Bellatrol.
02:13:06
BeyBlade
You know, choose life, you know.
02:13:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But yeah, alright man.
02:13:09
Steve-O
All right.
02:13:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
choose life.
02:13:11
BeyBlade
She's like,
02:13:11
Steve-O
Choose life.
02:13:11
BeyBlade
she's like
02:13:12
Steve-O
See you next week.