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We Revisit TOQ 2025
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We take a stroll down memory lane and re-hash our love for bluetooth yo-yos!
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Introduction and Podcast Reflections
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right, we're here. Hey, hi, everybody. Good morning. guys Who's doing that? Okay, it's you. Good year. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I did it last time. No, it's fine. ah You want me to it? Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, good ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, people up, down, all around, inside and outside the gender binary. It is beautiful to see you again in this digital space that we have here where you hear our beautiful voices, but you have no idea we look like.
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uh happy new year and merry christmas and happy holidays and all that fun stuff we are back i am danny guarantee and with me as always is the goodest boy adam good morning good afternoon and good evening ladies gentlemen i'm by the network and this is that's rq where danny guarantee and i are your show hey danny oh you kind of slurred it a little bit halfway there could we i did i had a little bit of juice front from the uh-oh Yeah.
00:00:50
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Adam doesn't drink, but juice? Like sugar? so shadow actually Actually, no. It was zero sugar power rate. I don't really have that. use Oh no, it's near beer drunk. Oh God. Yeah. There's some sodium in it though. I think that's probably what it is. that's That must be it Salt has the exact same effect. Yeah. Yeah.
00:01:08
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ah But hey, here's what we're going to We don't really have a solid plan, but this, um if I scheduled these the way I wanted to, we would have a bi-week and then we'd have two episodes in a row. And this episode should be the one that lands on New Year's Eve if I planned it properly.
00:01:23
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We'll see. um If not, you might be listening to this in the new year. But just in case, if if I do it properly, we thought it would be fun for us to go through all of the episodes that we've done and just kind of we're just going to look at the titles and maybe we discuss what we think they were about or see if we remember them or just kind of go through.
00:01:41
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So we're just going to get into it real quick because there's a lot of episodes to go through. um So, Danny, the first time that you appeared on the show was when Josh and I were still running the show, although you came on after Josh had had to take a break from the show.
00:01:55
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So you came on and I hung out on an episode two years ago, almost to the day. It's like about a maybe two years ago in a month. Yeah.
00:02:05
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Yeah. The episode was an hour and 33 minutes long and it was called Laugh and Shits. That was when you were a guest then. And it was right after I filmed an episode with the Zencaster guys.
00:02:16
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Do you remember Laugh and Shits at all? do you I do a little bit. I remember because I'm also reading the I'm reading the little, you know, ah bio you gave for it. And I do remember we talked about whether or not you would laugh or say anything if somebody next to you was blowing up a toilet. Oh, oh yeah.
00:02:35
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he Oh, we did the infinite cup. Yes. And the infinite cup. Oh, dude. Yeah. I forgot about it. What would you put in your infinite cup?
00:02:46
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Oh, man. Do we want to re-answer it real quick? and say Oh, man. don't remember what I said. Was it dollars? like ah It was probably dollars. I think mine was i think mine was blood.
00:02:56
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Oh, you wanted like a negative blood. I wanted to get like blood so there'd be an unlimited supply of blood donations for people. Right. So Jesus Adam wanted to help everybody with his blood. Yeah. What a shocker.
00:03:10
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My answer has absolutely not changed. I would still fill with infinite Diet Coke and I would die in an early grave. But I would die happy. Oh, man.
00:03:21
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You know what i can actually look at the transcripts and you do say Diet Coke in there. i There was not a doubt in my mind that I said Diet Coke back then. I'm reading the one transcript and it says, what I'm thinking is you put those hundos in there, you probably get a couple thousand of them, then you're pouring them out into your living room, right? And then you just take those hundos out of the cup, you know, because you have to clean it out completely.
00:03:40
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And then you pour a little bit of Diet Coke in there, you're back to Diet Coke. Oh, that's right. You can switch what's in it. Yeah, absolutely. You can kind like clean it out and then put something new in it. And then, yeah, yours was that 100% Diet Coke. i No doubt in my mind that I would have said that then, and there's no doubt in my mind I would say it now. That's fucking hilarious.
00:04:01
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um Wow. So, yeah, the Infinite Cup. what I forgot all about that question. What a great question. That was a great one. Man, what would you put in the Infinite Cup? So, like, you could clean it out, and then, like, yeah it's like, but you'd have to clean it out from, like, the top, because you can't spill it, because it'll infinitely spill out whatever...
00:04:19
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Right. Like you also can't really clean it with like soapy water. Otherwise you just have an infinite cup of soapy water. Right. You would need to get really clever with how like you scrubbed it out. You'd have to like suck all of it out. But if it's like ah a quarter or something, like you could just fist all the quarters out. Right. But like if it's a liquid, it's going to be a lot harder to
Memories and Podcast Evolution
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to to.
00:04:37
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Well, luckily, I don't really need to clean it out. I got it. No, here's what I'll do. Here's going to fill my cup with. ah First, I'm going to. boil or in some other way sanitize a hundred dollar bill and then i'm gonna put it in the infinite cup with diet coke there you go now it doesn't even matter i can either drink my diet coke or i could pull out a wet soggy hundred dollar bill yeah somebody wow Man, i i' like I'm like a bit floored by that. It took me two years, but I did it. I came up with a better idea. I'm just kind of floored because I forgot about that. like I'm surprised I forgot about that question, but that's such a great conversation piece that i need to remember is the Infinite Cup. It's a great fucking conversation topic.
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um Let's see. So a few notable entries following that. We had... but It was a great one. What's that? Shit man, but money shit man, but money would you do what it was about money.
00:05:39
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That was the one we're like, what was it like every week? There's like every week you out you shit out like a jar of money. Oh, man. Did I write the question in that? If you poop out money, I can't remember. I'm trying to read the transcript to see you if it says exact. I think it was like you should shit out like twelve hundred bucks or something. I can't remember.
00:05:58
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Yeah. And somebody was like, oh, well, you would put it in like a thin tube. So you can pass it easier. But then what happens if you break it? There was one about navigating, tipping and service etiquette, overcoming social anxieties. Apparently we talked about at some point. I'm just reading like the headlines from the AI transcripts.
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um Oh, the one with the one we did with Dax Mirage. The stream. Oh, yeah. That was a good one. That was a fun one. That was on stream, right? Yeah, we did that live on his stream.
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That's right. Man, what ah that was such a... We should do that more. um We also did... I think it would be cool to live stream these. Yeah, I agree. I think getting more participation will be fun.
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um We had... ah We had your friend Falcon come on. um We learned the word Susurus. I think that's when we started putting the... vocabulary words. Well, no, that that was only one of them. We didn't start doing that consistently for a little bit.
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No Nut Brown. Oh yeah. Hot Metal Snakes from Dixon came on. Yeah. Smozes. Blanket Kags. Welch Schmerz with Nexu was very, very funny. Oh, that was a very good one. That was when they she come up with like, you know, if they say that your dad says, I fucked your mom. And then she said, well, I fucked your mom. Yeah.
00:07:17
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it It's so good. They didn't even like hesitate. They were like, yeah I'll just say I fucked your mom too. Oh, OK. Makoto on. We had a lot of guests like for like a couple of weeks. We had Milo on. We had Calico on.
00:07:31
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We had... um uh uh fly bullets featuring adam and danny being bros yeah i don't you've ever seen the episode titles i do for all of these but no i think that was i think that one didn't even have a question i think it was just me and you just shooting the shit for like 40 minutes um and they're weird arousal stories hi gabe hi terry oh yeah I said, I to your parents and the. OK, great.
00:07:59
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I forget that people don't see that shit sometimes. Oh, I did a vocab recap about a year ago. i remember that. So yeah, sick or something. That was called Adam's Vocab Recap. Yeah, Danny was sick, so I did a vocab recap that night.
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um Let's see How do you prepare for the chicken uprising? Where the fuck was that? A life-changing fart. ah Yeah. Was it a life-changing fart? What was the question for that one? Did I write that down?
00:08:31
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I'm guessing how do you prepare for the chicken uprising? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. advice special? Do you fart on your face? What the hell was farting? I don't remember, dude. What the hell was farting?
00:08:44
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you have to look up fart again. I can't remember. All right, hang on. Fuck, it's been so... What is fart?
00:08:52
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We have to revisit all of our... We should have done that. I don't think it's that one. If we were more prepared.
00:09:00
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If there was a chicken rebellion, how would you prepare to fight off your 2.7 chickens, give or take a few? To paint with cosmetics, do you wear makeup?
00:09:12
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Oh, interesting. To fart is to put on cosmetics. I see. Which I have had on me before. i have worn makeup before. Same. um Not by choice. We had Sean on about Draggy McNobody. I don't remember what Draggy was or Draggy. Was that the question? I can't remember.
00:09:31
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Draggy McNobody. and then we Yeah, because it was a non-swear insult. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We had cap on. We're talking about dingles and like honeysuckles. oh like You guys remember that listeners? you remember that?
Creative Brainstorming: The Wireless Yo-Yo
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We should look up like all of these fucking words again. um Yeah, but, you know, there's a there's a there's a lot of these at a strip club with Caitlin. Eleven's ease at a strip club. A glamorous old roach.
00:10:01
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Danny Fuzel, the yord of the way. That yeah, that was the day that you try to say word of the day. Do you say yeah part of the way to the way? Fuzel is a great word. Doesn't that mean like to mess up or to live make a mistake?
00:10:15
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Also Fuzel. Fuzel. yeah And whatever the third question is that I forgot. Also, Foozle. Great. is that what i wrote in the Thanks, Adam. Yeah, it's good. I'm good at those. Real good. Foozle definition. Oh, man. do you remember re-gift the crunch? Clumsy or botched to attempt at something, like saying word of the day.
00:10:37
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Yes. See, I knew it. um Elatricus. Ah, ah, ah. Re-gift the crunch in a Kafkaesque way, because I think you inadvertently like spit out re-gift the crunch. We're talking about cereal, I think. yeah Or low-salt meatloaf. I can't remember exactly where that came from. was also like talking about how to explore your perception. you explore sexuality?
00:10:59
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What weird qualities do we find attractive? And how do you best preserve toast? Oh, it was crunchy meatloaf. That's what it was. Because we're talking about eating meatloaf in front of your partner. Because I'm looking at the at the transcript and it says... Crunchy meatloaf? Somebody said, yeah, and then you make him eat the meatloaf in front of you. Crunchy meatloaf that you... That you...
00:11:24
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that you fluk i don't know, it says crunchy meatloaf and then you say, re-gift the crunch to his ass or something like that. Did I say that? you I don't remember. I guess you had the crunchy meatloaf.
00:11:38
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I think that might have been a question for listeners. Tell us of what was the crunchy meatloaf thing. I don't remember. You have to realize that we, we, we just get into like a Zen when we do these half the time I come out of these recording sessions and I'm just like, I couldn't tell you exactly what we talked about at all. Hang on a second.
00:11:59
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Oh, wait, there was a different subject. about preserving toast crunchiness. That's where it started. That's what it was. We're talking about reserving toast crunchiness.
00:12:11
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And then somewhere in here, you say to re gift the crunch. And I can't remember what it was, but you said something about that because then we just kept that going for like the rest of the episode.
00:12:24
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um Because you said that somebody said, and that'll give crunch from the toaster. Then you're reusing, you're using what you didn't get, you know, that the bread that you paid for that you didn't get out, that stuck to the bottom of the toaster. Now you finally get to eat it and you're going to use it to preserve the crunch or re-gift the crunch. There you go. You get to give the crunch back. You get to give the gift of crunch back.
00:12:47
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That's what it was was. We were trying to figure out how to use the toaster leavings in the bottom to re-crunchify toast. That's right. You got to re-gift the crunch back to your toast. ah what a stupid fucking conversation we we so we drink and smoke nothing when we make these by the way ah we are both absolutely sober for these Oh my God.
00:13:11
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Cause it says, but for the lot, it says, here's a logical and even more logical answer. Number one, just put it back in the air fryer. You don't preserve the crunch. You just re crunch it, right? It's going to be a little crunchy on the crust part, but throw it in the air fryer for a minute.
00:13:25
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It'll re crunch and be just as good. If not better. But the more logical answer is you take the toaster leavings, you put a little butter, apple butter, your condiment of choice, you smear it all over the piece of toast when you want it back, right? And then you dump your toaster leavings on it and it'll stick to whatever you slathered your toast in or your bread with.
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And that'll give it the crunch from the toaster.
Friendship Reflections and Podcast Impact
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And then you can re-gift the crunch back to the crunch or some shit like that. yeah I don't know. The AI is not great at like, no, it's doing a fantastic job. Oh my God, man. We i have to go back and we listened to that. I don't remember all that conversation, but re-gift crunch is such a great phrase.
00:14:05
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Listeners. Oh, here we go. Umble come stumble cannoli. Oh man. What a great word. That was such, I remember umble come stumble. Cause we brought it back later in a different conversation.
00:14:16
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That was our 50th episode too. Was it really? Oh, the oh I wrote 50 on there. Oh, yeah. We're coming up. This might actually be it. Hang on a second. Oh, my God, please.
00:14:27
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No, this is 68. aids OK, well, no, no, wait, shit. Now I can't remember. Fuck. um Hang on. I have to look real quick because I can't remember what number am I at right now on my files. I'll tell you.
00:14:44
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65 we just recorded 66 and then this is 67 so 69 will come out in january sometime so we haven't done 69 yet all right we need to do some kind of big celebration for 69 okay because this is 67 what we're doing right now let me see if i can get beluga on for 69 oh man that'd be great she loves 69 it'll good 69 with beluga Oh, hey, but that means that this episode is six, seven. No shit. I don't know what the fuck it means.
00:15:14
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ah Let's see. There's. um Cut around and find out. That's that was our first quickie that we actually managed to get in right at 20 minutes. Look at that time slot. 20 minutes. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. ah Yeah, dude.
00:15:31
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Also, remember, fuck.
00:15:35
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Listeners, we're going down memory lane here, and I don't know if it's entertaining for you, but it's fun for us. Violent therapy and a new way to wipe. A new way to wipe. What was this conversation about a new way to wipe? I do remember some of the violent therapy with like video game violence or something. Was that like?
00:15:50
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That's that one. Yeah. Was that it was? We also talk about several different dot dot dot. Oh, come on.
00:15:57
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We also talk about several different ways that people clean their bums after dropping a deuce. So listen.
00:16:06
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I don't remember that part, but let's see if the AI doesn't let me down and tell me. Well, the first thing you do is you take three seashells.
00:16:18
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Three seashells? My God. You don't know the three the seashell? No. Oh, yeah. you You use two seashells to um to pick at it, and then the third seashell to to scrape off what's left or something like that.
00:16:34
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Is that from like SpongeBob or some shit? No, I forget what that's from. Is that Bear Girls? Probably. Sounds like something Bear Girls would say. Like, I'm trying to drink my own piss. Where
Exploring Future Podcasting Ideas
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did the three seashells?
00:16:52
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Green man with a Bluetooth yo-yo. Oh, that was probably talking about the color of personality colors. We jumped ahead quite a bit, but like. Oh, it's a bathroom.
00:17:06
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It's a bathroom. It's something you can get for the bathroom. It says, how do you use the three seashells? ah Step one you hold two of them kind of like a clam.
00:17:17
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You use that to grab the shit and pull it out. yeah Then you use the third seashell. You shall he use the third seashell to scrape away whatever's left. And then you dispose of them in the toilet.
00:17:31
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It's how you wipe with three seashells. Huh? In case you're ever lost on an island. Huh? You know, you now you know what to do. i didn't know.
00:17:42
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Yeah. Let's see. Wet face dry phone. That was relatively wet face dry phone. Yeah, I remember that one. said it right, too because I'm reading it. The Bluetooth yo-yo. Oh, yeah.
00:17:54
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That's such a great idea that I think I came up with. And I think so. Bluetooth yo-yo the future. Huh? What would it do? It's a yo-yo, but like you fucking just use like, you know, I think I said like a wristband or like a ring that talks to it and it moves around like how a drone works with a controller. You would just do shit with a yo-yo with your, you know, you'd have like little gloves or something that maybe it responds to your hand movements or something.
00:18:23
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Like how bitching would that be if like you could fucking essentially. How would it work? Like a drone has propellers to fly. This thing might too. I don't know completely. how I mean, there's, that's why it needs to be developed. I didn't do any R and D since that episode, but like, maybe you should have, I'm just saying it's a cool idea to like, you know, like, you know, like those like floaty balls that like kind of look like it's floating above your hands and shit, you know? Oh, um, know call no, uh, Fushigi.
00:18:54
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Bless you. ah Yeah. but The balls. that you Yeah. um Yeah. Something like that. But like yo-yos, I don't know. There's got to be a way to do it. string There has to be a wireless yo-yo.
00:19:05
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There has to be. That's just a rock.
00:19:12
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But a rock with no programming in it. There has to be. It's just a rock. You just throw it at somebody. There has to be a program. I'm telling you, there has to be a way to do it. There has to be. yeah Maybe there's a series of magnets that turn on and turn off in your gloves that will send it and then recall it back to do things. I don't know. I'm just saying there has to be a cordless yo-yo concept that can work.
00:19:40
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I refuse to believe that it's impossible. i just don't. I can't. I can't in good faith think it's impossible to make a wireless yoga or a cordless or a rope less yoga, whatever. just sort all ah It's not just a rock, just a rock. What are talking about?
00:20:01
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so funny. what are you talking about this's just a rock you just throw it at someone you throw it at the lake or something so that's a yo-yo it doesn't come back it's just a rock okay hear me out you know how you skip rocks on the lake imagine if you could skip a rock on the fucking lake and then that rock comes back and jumps back into your hand but it won't because it doesn't have a string but imagine if it could That's just a boomerang.
00:20:32
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It's like a boot. Yes, that's much. That's closer. Okay. Imagine the concept of a yo-yo and a boomerang put together, right? We're like, you don't need a string. Maybe the yo-yo is shaped a little different and you use that to manipulate, you know, maybe the air around you. Maybe there's fans involved. I don't know yet. There's probably, there's a way to do it. Okay. Maybe you go into one of those, those booths that like make money fly everywhere on game shows and you do it in there. I don't know yet, but there has to be a way to have a wireless fucking yo-yo do things that you want it to do. Fuck me.
00:21:07
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How cool would that be if you're in a rock skipping contest and you skip it like 15 times across the surface of the water and then you yank your hand back and it skips 15 more times back into your hand? That'd be very cool until I got disqualified for cheating.
00:21:23
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Hey, it's not, and no there's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't play a basketball, you know, just like, if
00:21:33
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yeah if they don't say, yeah I don't know, man. I think, I think this will just break competitive yo-yoing. No, it would be a new way to do it. Competitive yo-yoing is a noble sport and you're, you're trying to ruin it.
00:21:47
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But there are different ways to do different. Like, i mean, what is pickleball, but tiny tennis, what the fuck is, you know, curling, but like shitty ice skating. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. whoa who As somebody who has gone curling and enjoy it, it's more like competitive sweeping. All right. Sure. It's competitive. At least get it right.
00:22:10
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Right? Like there's you like things, it's, it's its own category. You wouldn't do wireless yo-yoing against somebody with strings, right? It would be different physics. You would have to do it with other people doing that thing.
00:22:23
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Right? I don't know. I'm just saying there's probably a way to do it. Do you stand in a wind tunnel? Can you only do it when you're simulating space travel in an airplane? Like, I don't know yet, but there's a way to do it.
00:22:36
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And You know, if Elon Musk weren't so busy, you know, putting his dick in his rocket's gas canisters, he could like help us fund that research. And maybe one day we can play with wireless fucking... ah Yo-yo's on the moon.
00:22:53
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and there's There's just a way to do it. it's on Oh, maybe. You know how we have those like those reflectors on the moon that we can like fire lasers up to to measure shit? like Why don't we put something up there that somehow there's like a space here on Earth, I don't know, maybe like in Roswell or something, where people can gather and then like there's like some sort of electromagnetic field there that allows gravity to be manipulated differently and that's how we do wireless...
00:23:19
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We use magnetic fields from our space lasers. You know, the Jewish space lasers that the dumb bitches in Congress think are are real. We use those to make our wireless. Our wireless. yo yeah as Well, you know, it's getting put to use then.
00:23:34
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You know what I'm saying? There has a way. I just Google wireless yo-yo during this. And all I got, I put in wireless yo-yo on Google. Did anything come up?
00:23:47
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A lot of wireless Bluetooth speakers. let's See, that means that there's they say there's nothing new. But did get a video of a guy doing a yo-yo trick.
00:24:00
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where he disconnects the yo-yo from the string. And then while it's in the air, reconnects it to the string. That's still pretty freaking cool, man. It's really cool. See, that's like, that's close.
00:24:12
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That's close. Okay. There's something to that, right? There has to be a way. Maybe, maybe it's not as advanced as like, okay, you have telekinetic powers. That's my dream. But maybe it's just like you, the new thing is like,
00:24:26
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you know you whip you you you manipulate the yo-yo in a way on the string, and then you like you hit a button, it lets go of the yo-yo, and then maybe it jumps up like a stunt ramp or something similar to marble racing. Maybe it's like BMX meets yo-yo, and like you have it do different tricks based on the physics of how you whip the fucking thing off the string.
00:24:45
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there's There's just a way to do it, man. There's a way to enjoy yo-yos without the strings, is all I'm saying. There has to be a way. Yo-Yo Studio professional responsive yo-yo.
00:25:01
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I'm done responsive yo-yo. Why would I want an unresponsive yo-yo? Look, I'm sorry that like we had to revisit this conversation. Could a yo-yo be a weapon?
00:25:12
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Yes, it could, but not like a good one. It could. Not for long anyway. They're just plastic. Was the yo-yo ever a real weapon?
00:25:22
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No. Doing stringless DNA beginner tutorial. Look, look, see, it's not invented yet. We can do it. yeah Actually, you know what this reminds me of is that that thing where you have like a yo-yo on a rope on like a. A
Personal Growth and Friendship Insights
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top rope and you have sticks that hold it and then you like bounce it into the air and you catch it on the rope.
00:25:44
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Oh, I know you're talking about. i don't know what that's called, but like I do know what you mean. yeah That's kind of that kind of reminds me what a stringless yo-yo would be.
00:25:54
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I mean, yeah, there that that is similar. But like the the thing that's it's like a big spool, though, like the thing that you're catching. Yeah, it looks like a big like spool that you'd put twine on.
00:26:05
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Yeah, I don't know what that's called. You're really cool if you know what you're doing. I actually met a guy in person who went by the name Flanoa, which is like Latin for flower or some shit. I can't remember, but they were very like they could flip it like.
00:26:19
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holding it with both hands and then they'd switch it to more like a whip and they'd throw it up in the air, then whip it up in the air and back. I don't know how to describe It it was some cool ass shit. And I was like, what is this thing? And they probably told me what it was, but I don't remember. Cause I wasn't ready to think about wireless yo-yos yet.
00:26:32
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But now I am. Now you need to get back in touch with them. I wouldn't even know how, I guess I could reach out to John Starraiser. Hey John, do you listen to this? Can you let me know if you still go by John Starraiser?
00:26:44
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Yeah, John. get Get us a string with YoYo. Yeah, John was the one that introduced me to Flanoa. So hey, John. Well, maybe Flanoa. you listening? Are you listening, dude? I don't know if you remember me. We were hanging out outside. don't remember exactly where. I think it was somewhere in town.
00:27:02
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And you were just like throwing this thing sky high and catching it. And and John would be like, yeah, this is Flanoa. That's a name they go by.
00:27:13
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And I didn't know if that was like a trans thing at the time or if it was just like a stage name. But that's what I remember you as is Flanoa. So like if that's still your name or if you've gone by that at some point, can you let me know what that thing was called? And if you still do it and can I borrow it?
00:27:27
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um because And can you make a cordless? Can you make a wireless yo-yo as well? that If that would really solve a lot of my issues. We will give you exposure.
00:27:39
Speaker
Yeah, we'll pay you an exposure. We'll pay you an exposure for it. If you could give us a yo-yo. You can be the first to compete in the Wireless Yo-Yo Championship. Yeah, yeah you win by default.
00:27:50
Speaker
Congrats. Please and thank you. Yeah. It's going to be the next pick. Yours truly. The Answer Mancers. That's right. um Sandblast, your hourglass couple weeks ago.
00:28:02
Speaker
And then Danny DeWorm. Danny DeWorm. Control Z. Whimsical on the mic. Um, we visited a lot of great soup has a nice ring to it. Yeah. Dirty Allen quick kick and chicken. You dirty Allen. Yeah.
00:28:17
Speaker
A lot of great ones. I ranted about food banks for a long time. Remember that? I do remember that Uh, a fat verbal twirl. I think I was talking about like how we would do a twirl like, but like, ah was it about me twirling, but like doing it, but like not in person. Was that what it was?
00:28:37
Speaker
ah can't remember. don't know. Show them. Show me them tootsies. Today we discuss far jars and food picks. If you're in ah that a good thing, that I meant to type fart jars.
00:28:50
Speaker
I think it was supposed to be fart jars and foot picks, not food picks. You know what? I'm leaving it. I'm not in it. It's fine. I yeah, you really bad on.
00:29:03
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Listen, folks, if you learned anything from this episode is go and read all of my um all of the descriptions of all the episodes and let me know are all the show notes and let me know if they all look good.
00:29:15
Speaker
They look great. I think some of them are probably funny. Some of them are probably stupid. Some of them probably don't make sense. And some of them have typos in them. um Yeah. Can you think of, you know, as we round out the year, Danny, can you think of like anything that has happened on the show?
00:29:32
Speaker
You know, it this can be a mixed bag. So it's kind of choose whatever tickles your fancy. But like, is there something that like on the show that you remember that? Oh, wait, hang on a second. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Sorry, I got distracted.
00:29:44
Speaker
Something's wrong. Wait, oh, no. Wait, wait, wait.
00:29:51
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I forgot that there are episodes that have multiple parts to them, and I was just looking at the number of episodes on Zencaster, and it says it's 68 episodes. So this is 69. This... No. Or is this 70?
00:30:06
Speaker
This would be 70 unless we post this first. Motherfucker. Oh, shit. Oh, that's not good. Oh, no, because... I get, wait, how can that be? Because I have these all numbered in my files unless there's some I didn't have saved in the right folder or because there are a couple that are multiple parts.
00:30:28
Speaker
Maybe I didn't. Well, one of them. okay It's OK. It's OK. We will. We will do um nine, 60, 61, two, three, four, five, six. No, that can't be right. This is wrong. This is wrong.
00:30:41
Speaker
We're at 66. I'm right. This is right. It's counting a couple. We want to make sure we can always do like a episode 69. tribute episode you know like it's not actually the 69th episode the greatest 69 in the world this is just tribute If I am right on episode 50, which was here, which humble come stumble.
00:31:10
Speaker
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. So that's 60. One, two, three, four, five. No, I'm right. This is wrong. It's probably tracking something else. Okay. so So this is 67 that we're recording right now. Yes, because there are a few that are multi-part episodes, and I think that's what's thrown off the number.
00:31:29
Speaker
Okay. So no, there are sorry to do this while we're recording, but this is the most important thing we've done. So far yes, so there are 68 posts, but not 68 actual full episodes. Okay. One of the more continuations of other things.
00:31:45
Speaker
That's fine. So I'm not counting those as actual episodes. They are posts. So I'm right. This is, this is okay. Okay. So we're on call the number and I was like, fuck. Okay.
00:31:56
Speaker
who That was close. Jesus. All right. God. I need lay down after that one. We almost missed the big number. Is there anything... that you remember from the show since joining the show, what, a year ago?
00:32:12
Speaker
Two years ago. Two years ago. Has it been two years? Yeah, because the first one I guested on was January two years ago. Right, but i'm like joining the show officially was like ah like a year and some change you ago. Yeah, okay. like Officially becoming a co-host was year. That was my favorite part.
00:32:27
Speaker
Is there just anything about the... the show that like really stuck out to you that like you shitting in your hand, huh? You shitting in your hand.
00:32:38
Speaker
Really? what episode I told that story on. this is like but second one? Did I really? Fuck, I don't remember. super I mean, know I told that story. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm not ashamed of it.
00:33:00
Speaker
No, no. The reason I say that one is because I i remember saying back then, I'm never going to let you live it down. I have not to this day let you live down. goodness. That's fucking hilarious. my Oh my god, my favorite part.
00:33:16
Speaker
That was a memorable moment for you. That so funny to me. Because that was the first time it was early enough in the show that, you know, I wasn't fully aware of like how far we could push the envelope or what we were comfortable talking about yet.
00:33:36
Speaker
And then you came out with this story about shitting in your hand because your friend was in the bathroom and you didn't know what else to do. yeah ah Well, I didn't shit on my hand on purpose.
00:33:48
Speaker
I thought I was checking. So I was i thought I going fart in my hand, but shit came out. Right. um But I wanted to catch. And that that was the moment I was like.
00:33:59
Speaker
Oh, okay. So this is no holds barred. We can do whatever the fuck we want. Was that shit man, but money? Is that what that one? No, that was the one where, were we talking about me? Did I tell the story in that episode about shitting in my hand?
00:34:16
Speaker
I don't remember. Was that when it was? It was, it was very early episode. Huh? Wow. Wow. Well, I know I talked about the time I accidentally shard at my friend's house and had to run home and yes, refuse to tell him why.
00:34:31
Speaker
Man. That must have been that must have been the episode because we had a bunch of guests after that, and I don't think I told that story. Yeah. And that one is all about poop. So that makes sense. That's probably what it would make sense to talk about it there.
00:34:45
Speaker
Um, that was one no game for the game, boy. That's a memory that you have. We do say sharing some old memories and just being jolly. Just being jolly. I don't know, man. I don't know.
00:35:00
Speaker
Uh, is there something that you would like to see on future episodes or that you would like to do or, you know, what's like a something we could try for next year? And that's our cue.
00:35:12
Speaker
I really like the idea of streaming some of these. I think it would be very cool, especially if we could get like people watching. They could just give us questions right then and there. That would be cool. Yeah. Um,
00:35:25
Speaker
honestly it would be great for content too because we could just do like one three hour long session where we just answer questions from people and everything then we could cut them up into episodes and boom like there's a bunch of episodes easy peasy out of the way um as well as doing you know episodes like you say here's the creative process folks yeah as well as doing normal episodes but we could use that as like a filler right Sure.
00:35:51
Speaker
um i would like that. I also think it would be really cool of us to find snippets in each of our episodes, really funny bits and make like YouTube shorts or TikToks. You know, if we stream these, people could do that for us.
00:36:06
Speaker
That's true. Maybe we should just start streaming. Yeah. I mean, i would have to figure out the editing process a little bit there, but um I think that could be that's possible. I just have the video edit instead of audio edit, it but.
00:36:21
Speaker
But, you know, Danny said he's going to learn how to do that so we can offload some. Absolutely did not say that. possibilit He didn't say that at all. But what he could do, since he already has all the streaming stuff set up, is he could stream it.
00:36:34
Speaker
And then just send it to you for editing. Or you can say, or. Or. Or. Or. Well, the good news is about this show is that. buy an editor. Unless there's like not a lot. Unless there's like ah like some sound balancing that I have to do. Typically, there isn't a lot of editing done to these episodes anyway.
00:36:54
Speaker
So. uh, really what I would need is just the audio sent to me. And I would just have, I just wouldn't be able to balance it out the way that I prefer to. So we'd have to make sure that we had good audio from the beginning.
00:37:06
Speaker
Um, cause they would be all, I don't think you can get separate audio unless we recorded separate audio. Like while we were recording, we just have to be better about that. But there's a way to do it. We could do. We could still do like Zencaster and like a stream probably.
00:37:20
Speaker
Um, but, um, Something to think about. What did we do when we stream the episode with Dax? Isn't that what we did? Didn't we do like Zencaster and. Yeah, we did Zencaster and then Dax streamed their stuff. Yeah.
00:37:33
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. OK. They did all the streaming and then we just set up Zencaster like we always do. Yeah. We would just have to record the. Yeah. You know what, listeners, you don't have to know this, but if you know how to do these things or if you want to work. lo bono if you'll be If you go want to make some money, you know, if you want pay an exposure.
00:37:50
Speaker
I'm not going to pay you in exposure, but I'll pay you in friendship. And it's arguably the best payment. We'll pay you in money once we start making money. Sure. Absolutely. We don't, we're not looking for free help. If you want to help for free for now, and then, you know, leads to job later.
00:38:07
Speaker
Absolutely. if you want to be an intern for a little while. yeah um Yes. It's an unpaid internship. Unpaid intern. Um, Yeah, those are some good ideas. I would like to do that, too. I think doing like a video format could be fun.
00:38:21
Speaker
um We haven't done anything like that in a long time. It'd be nice to kind of get. Like revive, a revive that. um We need to get like Subway Surfers gameplay so people have something to watch while they listen to us. What are you talking about? We would be on camera.
00:38:38
Speaker
No, that's not enough. You know, you need people you need to hold their attention these days. The attention is us looking hot while we talk about shit. Oh, I'm failing miserably. Well, they can look at me. Ah, shit. Yeah, if we start streaming, I'm going to have to, like, care about my appearance for these. Not really. hot i'm to like some of the Some of the streamers that are out there, man, they just like show up in their dirty stained t-shirts and they just go to town, man. like what I'm not that bad, so yeah, we should be all right. Yeah, as long as you wear your your typical sweat gear, I think be fine. I can't record naked anymore. Got it.
00:39:12
Speaker
Right. ah But yeah, I think was going to say your mom might watch, so you don't want to that. No. Well, I'm pretty sure it's against to TOS yes anyway. I almost said TOQ. Terms of service, yeah.
00:39:25
Speaker
It's not against TOQ. Definitely not against TOQ. It's not against We care. No, we don't care all. You do whatever you want. As long as not hurting anybody, it's fine. Don't be nude around, know, people who don't want you to be nude around them. But other than that, have fun.
00:39:38
Speaker
So... ah Yeah, I'm trying to think of something that stuck out to me. I think probably something I really enjoyed was like, I have two things. One was like a little less impactful, but still really fun was I did like that we like had words of the day for a while. That was really fun. Cause like some of those words I still use, ah which is really fun to do that. um But I think once we hit like a certain point, I was like, man, I don't remember all of them, but like, it's nice to go back and look at that.
00:40:07
Speaker
um So like, like, like mellifluous is a great word. I still use like, um I mean, we can bring that It was easy enough. It just kind of fell by the wayside.
00:40:18
Speaker
Yeah, which it like it's fine. Like different I think it was good that we were experimenting with different things, ah you know, once we started taking over like or swapping who hosted what. So I really enjoyed that. um But, you know, I got to say, like the show really took a different thing. Like, you know, I would like to get Josh back on the show someday just because he just does have like a very dry way of delivering certain things. It's very funny to me.
00:40:40
Speaker
But I do think energy wise, like the show definitely took a different energy shift from like a little bit more of a calmer discussion of things when Josh and I were on the show to me and you being on the show. And I think the energy definitely like kike came, it elevated in like, I don't know what you're talking about. I never outburst. I never laugh.
00:40:59
Speaker
I never, but but but but I think like, if you remember the, i the first time that we recorded together, we didn't really know each other even then that well. Like, I think we had just started kind of hanging out.
00:41:14
Speaker
Uh, so like that was still a very new developing acquaintance friendship at the time. So I think that was the longest time that you and I had spent together, like just shooting the shit over that hour and a half on the show. the Two of us. Absolutely. Yeah. Like we've been in little groups and things or like on a stream and or, you know, recording like,
00:41:35
Speaker
I love you, Colonel Sanders and stuff. But like, I think that was the first time we were just, it was just me and you talking. Yeah, I remember I was a nervous frickin wreck. Yeah, i I remember you had some questions and you didn't know like what you were supposed to say or like, and I was just and I think it was hard for me to express to you at the time, like this show really isn't that big of a deal. Like, it's fine. Yeah, you like I'm sitting there like, oh, but it's a professional thing and all this. And you're like, dude, just chill. yeah We're just going to talk. for And i remember when we had the conversation about when I was talking about reviving the show.
00:42:07
Speaker
that like I remembered goals that you had, like as we were building that friendship over that following year, because TOQ took almost a year off. And um I think when you were describing like trying to get better at certain things and microphone presence and stuff like that, I think I was just like, oh, this could be an opportunity. And I was nervous to ask, but like, you know, it ended up working out quite nicely if I do say so myself.
00:42:32
Speaker
Yeah, you may say, yes. I'll allow it. Yeah, and so I think... Yeah, because you you came to me you like, hey, man, like so I noticed that the show, you know even though I haven't recorded anything for like a year, it is still getting new listens.
00:42:48
Speaker
Right. I'm thinking of bringing it back. How would you like to be my co-host? And it was like one of those... like um you know, anime moments where like, I'm just sitting there like, yeah, man, that would be pretty cool. But like inside I'm like, yeah, very, um,
00:43:10
Speaker
yeah it's very um I think I can't remember when we first started kind of being in each other's orbit, but like i remember i remember at least what got us to start talking more. I don't remember what we were doing. I think it was during a stream. Maybe you were streaming.
00:43:28
Speaker
I was streaming. You were streaming and you did a Super Mario frustration reference. Yeah, i typed in chat. Oh, my God. Is that a Super Mario frustration? Nobody ever knows about that and you're like oh my god thank you nobody ever gets those yeah i think i said was that was it the hole or some shit like that yeah you'll get the goomba in the hole oh yeah fuck yeah i was like yes yeah like it was just a stupid reference that like only one other person in my life has ever known and so like when danny responded that he knew what i was talking about i was like holy shit i need to like talk more to this guy yeah because beluga was actually in your orbit first Yes, she was. That was she was saying she told me to watch her strength. She was like, I think you'll like this guy. He's pretty cool.
00:44:16
Speaker
She mentioned before, too. She's like, I think I think my husband would think you were funny or something like that. She's like, you like put off similar energy. um But it took a while for that to transpire. But yeah.
00:44:29
Speaker
But yeah, I think that was the moment that really kind of solidified like, hey, we should like do stuff together. And I think that's when we started doing like some streams and voice acting fun and shit like that. Well, then we we started hanging out online literally like every day for about a a while. Yeah. And then I mean, they eventually, you know, calmed down a bit. And now we're we're kind of hitting the normal strides. yeah Yeah. Our honeymoon phase.
00:44:54
Speaker
Yeah. but ah ah Yeah. I mean. Dude, you quickly you so quickly rose through. Like my list of friends up to like best friend within like two months, I was like, yeah, this is Adam. I've known him forever. He's like my best friend. He knows everything about me and I love him.
00:45:14
Speaker
i was like, that is like a very it's so interesting how like. How that kind of developed because like It took a while at first to like, I i mentioned this, I think on this show, it might've been on shares a lot. I can't remember, but like how, like I had tried like this whole network thing before and it didn't pan out the way I hoped I got Adrian out of it, which was great.
00:45:40
Speaker
But, um, uh, I think trying it again and like in like a much more looser fashion. And like, that's how I met Beluga with trying to do like, the monster the week extended universe to revive the role players podcast. And she was just one of the people that like responded online and was like, yeah, sure. That sounds cool.
00:45:58
Speaker
And then I just put them in a group of random people they've never spoken to before. Which is all crazy for her, by the way. ah Yeah. And I didn't know that until much later. i had not, I didn't know anything about her. She's nowhere near that outgoing normally.
00:46:11
Speaker
which yeah like like i When I learned later, i was like, how the fuck did I get you in this? like in like the the pilot launch of this thing. like How the fuck did I do this? ah How did you do this?
00:46:23
Speaker
and um it was so crazy to me like that that that happened and then ah just somehow along the way, she's like, yeah, OK, you know, I'm going to have Danny come and just kind of be in the orbit and see what happens. I'm like, oh, this is the Danny or this guy. OK, cool.
00:46:39
Speaker
um So it just very interesting. And I'm really it took a while to become what I wanted it to be. But like, i'm really grateful that they're There are still people, because not everybody stuck around, but of quite a few people did from those ventures.
00:46:56
Speaker
And, you know, I got some really great friends out of it. And I would have never expected upon the day Beluga signed up to but appear as a guest in a Monster of the Week episode that would become a long running series.
00:47:10
Speaker
that like one day I would be visiting her house and hanging out with her husband, who is one of my best friends. Like I would have never thought that. Like I was just grateful to have people who wanted to do some goofy, fun, creative shit.
00:47:22
Speaker
And like now here we are, which is kind of, which is pretty insane to me. And I don't know if I ever told you, but meeting you and you know, the whole fun installers group happened at like the perfect time in my life.
00:47:38
Speaker
Um, Because just, you know, because of the age we were at, a lot of my older friends were starting to move away, have kids, um which I'm extremely happy for.
00:47:50
Speaker
But we were starting to lose contact with everybody. You know the the group was starting to to loosen. Sure. And that's fine. I'm still friends with all of them.
00:48:02
Speaker
But yeah, I was. I think part of the reason why she wanted me to. to check out the stream and and meet you so bad is because I had been talking to her not long before that about how i was like, well, I have like no one to hang out with, you know, like me and you can play some games when she feels like playing video game.
00:48:22
Speaker
I have a few friends that play, like I can play certain games with. I was like, I don't have anybody to really just like sit around and talk to or anything like that. I have nobody to just BS with constantly.
00:48:38
Speaker
And then she's like, oh, well, check out Adam's stream. He seems pretty funny and pretty cool. And yeah, that that's all it took. Yeah, that's yeah. I remember you did say something to that effect. Not quite like that in depth, but I remember you had said like, oh, you know, I'm trying to meet more people. I'm trying to branch out a little bit, ah you know, and I wasn't really sure how to do that. And then, you know, we just I was getting in that rut where it was like just work.
00:49:06
Speaker
was like the only socialization I was getting. was like, I was talking to my coworkers and I was talking to Beluga and that was about it. Yeah. And I remember too, you would, I can't remember exactly how you put it, but I remember you kept saying you were signing up for shit that like in groups of people you didn't know, which is a very uncharacteristic of you to like,
00:49:30
Speaker
I don't know. I won't remember how you said it, but like you said something to the effect of you are developing like a certain level of like confidence. You're getting out of your comfort zone in a different way than you. I was trying to fake it till I make it with.
00:49:44
Speaker
So I'm very introverted by nature. I'm absolutely just fine talking to nobody for an entire day and just chilling by myself all day. That being said, you know, even introverted people want companionship every once in a while.
00:49:59
Speaker
Sure. And um I realized that one of my biggest failings was I didn't really know how to talk to people. So I decided to just kind of i actually, if you really want to go into that, I took a psychology class and we were told to come up with a mantra to help us do things.
00:50:19
Speaker
And oops. And I almost got a lot of trouble because my mantra was fuck it. Yeah. and everybody thought I meant like, well, what's the point? Just fuck it. You know, ah screw it. I'm done.
00:50:33
Speaker
I said, no, that's not what it is. It was letting go. It's it's letting go. It's when you're standing at the edge of like the high dive and you're scared to death and you just say, fuck it and just jump.
00:50:45
Speaker
Yeah, it's that. That was the mantra. And that's what I started to do with. being more outgoing and talking to people at work. I would just say, you know, oh, that person probably doesn't want to talk to me or whatever. You know what?
00:50:59
Speaker
Fuck it. Hey, how you doing? And just like diving in. And it's worked wonders. I've actually gotten a lot better at just talking to people nowadays. i Still not something I would do, you know, like Adam does ever, ever, ever, ever.
00:51:14
Speaker
But... If you know somebody comes up and talks to me on the street, I can at least hold a conversation now and be mostly normal. Yeah, there's much like our fuck yeah conversation. There is something else very freeing about fuck it. Yeah. It's just like a a very powerful way of just like letting go and just like, I'm just going to do it. I'm just going to do it and deal with whatever happens. Yeah. Just go. Yeah.
00:51:44
Speaker
And i think, yeah, there are just some phrases like fuck yeah and hell yeah and fuck it or screw it, whatever that just like, Yeah, I don't know why that's those are such freeing sentences. But yeah, i which is good. Like, i mean you know, and I'm glad that you did that. And I'm proud of you for doing that, because like, I think there are a lot of people who get stuck in the wishing pocket right they just like they want to they wish they could they wish they should you know or they wish someone would grab them and make them like so that they didn't have to make that choice and i understand that kind of paralysis and that kind of indifference right so to actually take a step and to do that thing and just like ah fuck i'm just gonna try i'm just gonna do this thing you know like look at how many awesome things have come from it and so and And again, just the feedback we've gotten from listeners, both people that we know and people that we don't about just certain things they've taken from our show alone.
00:52:45
Speaker
ah Like if had you not had that, you know, mentality and had I just not inadvertently said something that you also thought was like, oh my gosh, he knows this thing.
00:52:56
Speaker
You know, there's people who wouldn't have gotten some of the input and advice that they really enjoyed from us. They have had some of the funny moments. They wouldn't have learned all those great words. I don't think I'd still be doing voice acting if we never met either, because through you, I met Kimmy and Cass.
00:53:15
Speaker
Yeah. Who both have voice acting things that they do that I've taken part in. So that kept me, you know, um, more loose in it. It kept me doing it, kept me practiced.
00:53:27
Speaker
And now, you know, we were doing audio book stuff, me and you. Yeah, that's true. You know, I, fuck, we're doing it. yeah and Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's just, I think something that like, i and that leads me back to the thing that I think I am like the most, most excited and memorable about, or that I remember the best about the show is like,
00:53:51
Speaker
The energy that took off once we started doing it, I think it felt like a different show, but with the same through line of we're going to answer questions, but the conversations were different. The energy was different.
00:54:05
Speaker
The intention behind a lot of the conversations were different. Um, or behind, behind the conversations was different. And I think there is something really, what's the word it's,
00:54:22
Speaker
it's it's a comfort zone that's also a place where you can be uncomfortable if you want to be. It's a safe place to just like, say what do you want to say. Yeah, because never once have I felt, because I know I've gone off on rants before, the food bank being one of them and other things.
00:54:40
Speaker
And I've never once during any of this had you say to me, hey, man, you should tone that down. Or, hey, man, that was not okay. Or, hey, man, like, because I've never done anything that was meant to be like super hurtful. It was just like I was letting my feelings out.
00:54:54
Speaker
And never once did I feel like, and I don't think Josh would have done that either. But it's a different vibe between you and me. And I think, yeah. I've never once had you say like, oh man, we're going to catch some strays with that one. Or, oh man, people aren't going to listen to us anymore because you, you know, like I've always felt like I could just like be genuine the entire time and not feel like I have to be too like, oh, I got to play on the fence. You know, I got to, you know, I don't want to lean one way or the other with how I feel about things.
00:55:23
Speaker
So I think like that energy pickup and that safe space that like has ultimately, really solidified a comfort for me on this show that like, I probably wouldve have with Josh. I've known him for over 20 years, but it's still, it's a different dynamic. It's not the same.
00:55:38
Speaker
And I think you and I just have a different level of, Like compassion and passion about similar ideas or at least with each other, understanding how the other one operates and and feels that I think makes it more comfortable.
00:55:53
Speaker
I don't if that makes any sense. It does. And right from the beginning, it came so naturally to us. Like even when i was me guesting that first episode.
00:56:04
Speaker
When we were done, you were like, yeah, that was like a 50 minute episode. You were the longest guest. Oh yeah. We ever had. and it was just you. Josh wasn't even there.
00:56:15
Speaker
Right. And I've always factored in like that it would be a longer episode because there's three people who need to do input and three people who need to talk. But even then, like the, I'm looking at the episodes now, the Immaculate Zenseption episode with Ryan and John from Zencaster, that was an hour and six minutes with three people, two of whom I hadn't met before.
00:56:36
Speaker
And then you and I talked for an hour and 33 minutes. Even right now we're at 56 minutes. Right. Like, and I think that's part of it is like the conversation. Is easy, you know, like it's not that struggle with talking to people, but I think some conversations have a more natural flow to them.
00:56:58
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and um And and that's something I've said with the guests before, too. Even we've had guests say it like, oh, i was super nervous at first, but then after about 10 minutes or so.
00:57:09
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you know, they start calming down because it's all just it flows. it It's just sex so natural for us all. Yeah, it's like taking a nice hot bath.
00:57:20
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Yeah, it's like taking a bath. And people were like, yeah, by the end, I had no problems at all. And I'm super terrified of doing stuff like this. You know what?
00:57:31
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Thank you for bringing that up because I had forgotten that we had such great feedback over that because we had like a good string of guests for like two or three weeks. And you're right. I do remember once we hit the stop button.
00:57:46
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there was a lot of times where I remember the the conversation prior and the conversation after were way different energy. Like yeah I remember a couple people were saying, what if I say something wrong? Or like, if I mess up, will you tell me? Or, you know, I don't know if I'm going to have a whole lot to say. And then when we got to their segment, they were so eloquent and comfortable and excited.
00:58:06
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And like, i remember them saying like, wow, like that went so fast or, you know, ah man, I was really getting into it. Or I was just, thank you for making us so comfortable. And I was just like, like i've forgotten all about that but you're right like we have had a lot of great feedback from people i can't remember if it was it was either milo or calico one of them i think it was calico yeah that's i was trying to nervous wreck right beforehand they were not a social butterfly at all no i remember by the end of the episode yeah and sean
00:58:40
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Both of them, by the end of the episode, they were like completely out of their shell. Yeah, we were talking about, you know, the things that they loved without a care in the world. And it was fantastic. It was so beautiful to watch them all just like break out of that. And I was the same way when I guessed it.
00:58:58
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Yeah, it's nice to like Danny. And that's something like now that I'm thinking about it, because I trying to explain this to someone just a couple of days ago at that party I mentioned in and the previous episode.
00:59:08
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at the holiday party when i was trying to explain to someone When they said like we've gotten to a little bit of a funny little argument, like just like we did earlier about like pets and people. And they're like they just said, like, how, though? Like, what is it about ah this girl? name is Claire. And Claire was like, you know, you care about people. You do all this stuff. but Like, what is it specifically about you that lets you say, I love people more than my dogs? Like, she's like, how do you how does want do that? She's like, I love people, but I could never say I love someone more than my dog.
00:59:39
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She's like, what is it about that? And I had to think really hard about it. And I started because my new friend Hitch was there as well. And Hitch is my new buddy and also going to be my new roommate pretty soon. And, um,
00:59:52
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they I was explaining to both of them because Hitch especially was just like, I don't understand how you work, but I'm so curious how you work. dude And I've stopped asking that one.
01:00:04
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But the thing is, like what you got to experience something that I get to experience all the time, like like the battery fills up when you see and hear somebody.
01:00:15
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evolve in real time. Like, or when you see over the course of a short period of time, they become a much stronger version of themselves doing things. And like when I told that story in the previous episode about like my yellow flag of, you know, just fixating on dancing and like, oh, but you can do it. Like it's because that's such a like. It's a drug. It's a drug, man. Like I love seeing people succeed. I love seeing people succeed. grow and evolve. And like, those are examples, like little micro examples of like, somebody starts off, I'm scared. I'm nervous. I don't know if I can do this. Is it okay that I'm here? I'm an imposter. What if I don't talk enough? What if I don't know what to say? Right. And then an hour and 30 minutes goes by, We told them it would be maybe an hour. We talk for even longer than that.
01:01:08
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They want to keep talking. They chat a little longer after the fact. They tell us that they're feeling good. Like, holy shit. Like from an hour ago to now, it's like a radical change. And it's just such a nice feeling.
01:01:22
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And that's part of how I work. And so I'm glad that you were able to perceive that and appreciate that because that's me every fucking day, man. Like I'm addicted to like seeing people do things they didn't think they would do or be good at or want to try.
01:01:38
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You know what? What part really stuck out to me one time? What's that? with ah With the whole coming out of your shell is how freeing and therapeutic it is for the person. to be able to do that.
01:01:50
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Oh yeah. When we were on with Dax Mirage. Yep. After that episode, they were like, guys, if you ever want to do that again, am so down. I want to do this again so badly. And Dax, if you're listening to this or anybody who watches Dax, if you're listening to this, the door is absolutely not closed. We haven't had a guest in a while, but that is another thing we should focus on again next year.
01:02:15
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Yeah, absolutely. even do a second show. Like a guest only show. know we'll We'll discuss it. know But ah Dax, the door is absolutely still open. Don't you worry, buddy. I got you on the list. Oh, for sure.
01:02:29
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But yeah, Dax was like, oh, my God, that felt so good. That was so much fun. My chat all loved it. I would love get i lot to do it again. Yeah, it worked really well.
01:02:42
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Yeah, I think. Yeah. So maybe we should have Dax on for the first streamed episode. I'm sure that they would. I'm sure we could probably. I'm sure they would. And it would make like a special first episode.
01:02:54
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Yeah, I think we could do it. Absolutely. And listeners, if you have any streamers or other people who are in entertainment or creating creation who wants to come and be a guest, we have a form. Danny, remind me to put the form in the show. Oh yeah, we do. I made a form. I was professional in the show notes. Cause I think we're supposed to send that. Tell us who, and we'll send them the signup form.
01:03:15
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um Cause I don't want to get too many. I don't want to. I think we have it. It's a Google doc that I think you need a link for. Yeah, yeah. So let us know because we have a form now so people can fill out ahead of time to let us know their comforts, discomforts, what they want to talk about, their schedules, just to make it easier to get people on the show.
01:03:32
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So if you know somebody, let us know. Message us on Fundus Allers Network dot biz and just say, hey, this is a person I think you should reach out to. Here's their handle. I'll reach out, see if they're interested.
01:03:43
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Or if you tell them to go there and say, hey, so-and-so so told me I should talk to you about, you know, we can talk, see if it works out. Send them the link. go Doesn't matter the size. If they're a big streamer, small streamer, I don't care if they stream to nobody. yeah We're willing to talk to them. That's fine. Absolutely. We're not picky.
01:03:59
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Yeah. As long as you think they'll meet our energy and they're nice people, we're good. And they don't have to be like full on crazy extrovert like me or like full on like just somebody that you think would like to talk to somebody somebody who just like enjoys a good conversation. So and yeah, i I think that's a those are good things to take away from and what we have here.
01:04:21
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So just to recap real quick, your favorite thing was like the energy and how like quickly we were able to grow as friends and how like beautiful the friendship has become and all the great things it's allowed us to do my favorite takeaway part was you shitting in your hands yeah i you know i'm just making sure we're on the same page some call me jesus some call me mr rogers what can i say um yeah what can i say uh oh if there isn't if there isn't a perfect example of what this show can be it's yeah it's it's it's oh i i like when you said you shit your pants you shit in your hand but also oh what a nice thing to say Oh, man, I love you. You're the best. I remember that time you shit in your hand. um Yeah. And hey, Danny, I do love you, man. I appreciate the shit out of you. Same here, man. I love you, Adam. You're the best person ever.
01:05:21
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Yeah, we ah we get along quite nicely. I'm very grateful for our friendship, for our partnership, for our collaborations, and just for being in each other's orbit for as long as we have, because these kind of friendships are very easy to lose. You know, life gets in the way. You don't get to, like, keep certain things up.
01:05:39
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It's very easy just because life just picks up, man. And so it's just nice to know that there's still, like, these people in your life that whether they're next door they're not, like, they're still important people that...
01:05:51
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Yeah, Adam is like, I don't know if people know this, but Adam lives like five hours away. Six six hours. um Five hours. adam i' eating Thank you for being patient with me, because like I said, with my red flags thing, I know I'm not, you know, the easiest person to be a friend of. I don't reach out. I never ask how people are doing. It's not that I don't care. And I'm so happy that you have the patience and the.
01:06:17
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Sight to know that or the the. Forbearance to know that I'm not doing it because I don't care. You know, you're patient enough to be like, reach out to me like it's nothing and just be
Navigating Social Dynamics
01:06:30
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like, hey, man, you want to just like heck dive? You want to just do a TOQ tonight?
01:06:35
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So I greatly appreciate that. And I want you to know I appreciate that. No, man, I appreciate you appreciating that because it's something that I am trying to be better about, too, is being, you know, I think.
01:06:50
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As an extroverted person, it's Like I want to meet people where they're at, but also let people know that I have things that need to be met. And so I think we've been like good at discussing like, Hey, what's a compromise where we can still get the time in that we need, that we want. And it's fulfilling for both of us, but won't drain you, but won't leave me feeling like i'm lacking. And a lot of my friendships, I'm trying to be better about trying to meet people. I've done so many craft nights in the past two months because that's what most people like to do. And I'm awful at it and I don't enjoy it, but I love being with people who like to do it.
01:07:25
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So like it's, you know, and so stuff like this, like I'm cool with just being like, hey, you want to hang? And you're like, no, dog. I'm like, okay, good. I understand. another time like i was about to say, i I have a great respect and appreciation for that as well. The other day you asked if I wanted to hang out and do something. i was like, you know what?
01:07:42
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Mal and i we were just chilling and just gaming. And I was just Zen. I was like, nah, not tonight. you know, I'm just, I'm so comfortable right now. I don't really feel like having to put on the face and everything.
01:07:56
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Yeah. And you were just like, yeah, man, no problem. We'll hang out maybe tomorrow. i was like, Thank you. You made that so easy. Yeah. I'm trying to be better about that rejection because like, i don't, I'm well, rejection is not the right word, but like, you know, i used to take it that way where.
01:08:13
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It's not rejection. Yeah. No, it's not. It's not. It's it. It's easy to take it as a reaction, but it's not you. It's me. Right. It's a, it's a boundary. It's an energy thing. And i used to think of it all in the wrong way because I had people in my life who,
01:08:30
Speaker
you know would only reach out when it was only convenient for them or if they wanted something. And like it took me a while to get over to realize I still had like some residual, I don't want to call it trauma, but maybe triggers from it.
01:08:42
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And so like you know to be like, hey, you know what? They don't want to, and that's fine. I can be alone or I can reach out to other people and that's okay. like I can find things to keep myself entertained.
01:08:52
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And so it's been a good practice for me. And I think the pandemic really helped me to morph that in a, in a healthier way too. um But, ah but yeah, I, I appreciate that because that's something to work on. I think knowing, just like I said earlier with how the conversations go and on TOQ in general, that like, this is typically a conversation we would probably have even off mic.
01:09:17
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Right. Oh, absolutely. Like, well, usually when we're done with the TOQ, we're usually talking for about 20 minutes afterwards. Right. Or we're hopping on a game and then continuing to talk. Which by the way, right can still do. Which we can We're planning on doing that.
01:09:30
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Right. So, but yeah, I just think in the, in the grand scheme of, of just how friendships operate, I think I'm getting more comfortable. i think you and I have like a relatively good, um,
01:09:42
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We're in a good stable place. or A good understanding. Yeah. the the only The only thing that I think is missing from it is that I hope one day you'll reconsider and you'll come visit me here once.
01:09:54
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I do want to visit you at some point. Yeah. It's just not going to be a day long thing. It's going to be like a trip. Sure. Like a day trip. Yes. I'm absolutely down to visit for like a weekend or something.
01:10:07
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Yeah, right. Exactly. Like I wouldn't,
Podcast Structure and Listener Engagement
01:10:10
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unlike me who would drive six hours, hang for five and leave for six. Not happening. No, or in a million though although this past time I didn't. I spent the night and then I left, which was a lot easier for me.
01:10:21
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wi And you're always welcome to do again. Yeah, that was a lot easier for me that time around. I'll never, I don't know unless it was emergency if I would drive, drive five, stay five, leave five, because that was hard. you for doing that. But yeah, that was fucking hard.
01:10:35
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I will. visit I have no problem visiting you if it's for like a weekend or longer. Yeah. As long as I'm there long enough to make it worth it. Yeah, we'll have we'll have a guest room by then and then you come and stay there. don't got to pay for a hotel. do you have pets, though?
01:10:50
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ah There is a pet. There is one pet. Yes. Is it dog or cat? It's it's a cat, but we can put her in the basement.
01:10:59
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Worst case, I'll get a hotel room. We can put it in the basement. It'll be fun. Yeah, but there's still hair in the house. We'll talk about it later. We'll clean it. We'll clean it. Trust my allergies are nothing to snap. The basement is huge, so that cat will be having the time of their life.
01:11:13
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So anyway, ah but yeah, ah listeners, I hope that this past year, the TOQ revival has been something for you. I know it hasn't been something for everybody all the time, but I hope that The way the episodes are recorded in a way that you can listen to them in whatever way you want, that is by design.
01:11:31
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That's on purpose. So that way there might be subjects you just don't want to fucking talk about or you don't want to hear about. There might be conversations that you hate and you want to go to a different one. They're there they're made that way on purpose. We took inspiration from the Saturday morning cartoons. Yeah, so you can just watch them in any order and you're not missing out on a story. It's just whatever is here.
01:11:50
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Sometimes you reference other episodes and we recorded multiple in a day, but typically you don't need to have listened to one to understand the other one. How'd the Jetsons meet? Who the fuck cares? Here's today's episode. and he's Exactly right. What's that? Olive Quahog is blown up by a nuclear bomb. and next Whatever. It'll be fine.
01:12:08
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um So, yeah. So anyway, i hope that you enjoy that. If there's anything that you would like to see in future episodes or hear in future episodes or partners you think we should reach out to, ah you please go to the website, fundinstellersnetwork.biz. Leave us a message. Let us know. It would mean a lot.
01:12:26
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um And yeah, we have the merch store as well. We have some fun stuff on there. If you want to check it out, tell us if it's any good. That'd be great. yeah Yeah. You know what? I don't, even if you don't buy anything, if you check them out and say like, Hey, I like this or Hey, I don't. And here's why it's true. Feedback is always welcome. Feedback is absolutely welcome.
01:12:46
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um I know we joke around sometimes about like, Hey man, pay us. ah We can do this better and blah, blah, blah, blah. I want to make sure everybody knows that we, you know, will absolutely accept donations and all that, but we are just joking when we say, hey, you should pay us and all that crap. Yeah. What we really care about more than anything else is if you were having a bad or a rough day and you listen to this and just two relatable douchebags talking about whatever the hell they feel like put a smile on your face for a little bit and made you feel a little better.
01:13:24
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That's really all we care about. That is why we do it. Yep. So honestly, if you ever feel like you want to support, we'll take it. We absolutely could use it.
01:13:36
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We have a co-fi as well. We do. Yep. We have a co-fi. We have fun installers network. Biz. We have the merch, you know, five.com slash one installers. Ruining the spirit of what I'm saying, but thank you.
01:13:47
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saying We will absolutely use it and we appreciate it to no end. And also thank you to our, cause we do have people who are supporting the Ko-Fi and people who have purchased merch, one of whom we met and was wearing a shirt with Marion's face on it. Like we appreciate it sincerely. Like, don't think that we don't really cool.
01:14:10
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Yeah, that was incredibly beautiful to meet a a friend and a fan who was wearing something that way that we made. So like sincerely, it like not thank you to those people as well, whether you're listening or if you have donated or purchased something that is really sweet of you. And thank you If you can't financially, so you know, donate don't want to, that is absolutely fine. We do not hold it against you in any way whatsoever.
01:14:39
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We really,
Goal Setting and New Year's Resolutions
01:14:40
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more than anything, truly just hope that you find some enjoyment. And this makes your life a little bit happier, little bit easier. That is the main goal of TOQ.
01:14:51
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Yep. And it's also just a a nice reason for Danny and me to make sure we squeeze some time to hang out if it's a busy week or a frustrating time. We also get to do it. So it's a nice thing for us too. So just knowing that people are also listening is encouraging for us to, you know, make sure we make time to do it and make sure we make time for each other. So, you know, that's you know friendship goals that i'm really happy that we are meeting. So, you know, thanks for being an encouragement for us to make sure we spend time with each other. Thank you for saving our friendship because without you, I would have dumped his ass long ago.
01:15:25
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Yeah, it's it's true. There's a lot of expectations when you're dating Jesus. He's so neat. He's got this holier than thou attitude. I mean, it's real. I can't help it. I was born that way. Born that way? Yeah.
01:15:42
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I'm also Lady Gaga. I'm both Jesus and Lady Gaga. You caught me. I'm sorry. Rah, rah, rah, ah, ah, ah, means something else. Oh, my God.
01:15:55
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um but anyway, thank you all for listening. We appreciate it. And have a lovely new year. Just know that If you're somebody who sets New Year's resolutions, you know what? They're there as inspiration to try something.
01:16:12
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I hope you can stick to it, but you know don't go at everything at 100% right away because then you'll burn yourself out. Ease into whatever it is you you have. Set a reasonable goal, something with a timeline.
01:16:23
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A New Year's resolution doesn't have to start and finish throughout the next year, which is why people think that you fail. Pick a thing, finish it in a couple of months. If you do the thing, even if it's just make your bed every morning when you get up for a week, that's fucking great, man. You checked it off the list.
01:16:39
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So just set something reasonable. If you're somebody who sets goals, make sure you accomplish it and you'll build what's called behavioral momentum and you'll keep doing smaller, more achievable goals and you'll feel good about yourself more regularly. So just don't put too much pressure on yourself to do that. As long as you get out of bed, man, that's one of the best things you can do. as long as you still keep getting up.
01:16:58
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And if you do mess up, you didn't fail. You just messed up. You just get back on that horse and you keep going. You got this. And I believe in you. Or if you do consider it a failure, fine. People fail all the time. It's fine. Yeah. It's nothing you have to hold against yourself and hate yourself over.
01:17:14
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It happens. You tried. It didn't work. You can either try again or maybe failure is a teaching moment just as much as anything else. Maybe you learn a better way to try next time. Yep.
01:17:25
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And so having said that, Danny, do you you have anything else you want to say before we peace out? um year I hope everybody had a happy holiday, whatever they celebrate, if anything at all. I hope you all have a beautiful new year and have a I hope this year year is easier than the last few have been for people.
01:17:45
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And I love you all. And thank you all so much for listening. And here's to another year of answering questions. And here's to the invention of the wireless yo-yo.
01:17:57
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It's coming. 2026, baby. 2026. It's a rock!