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S3 Ep215: Talkcast - July 2022
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Introduction and Casual Banter
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Caffeine, Relaxation, and Independence Day
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it going, everyone? Welcome to another episode of Soapstone. My name is Jake, and I'm joined by my co-host, as always, Dave. How's it going tonight, Dave? Uh, it's going frantic brain. That's how it's going. Frantic brain? Are you highly caffeinated?
00:00:40
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Uh, I'd say for a normal person. Yes. I'm definitely highly caffeinated for me. Like you, you can see my facial expression. I'm just here. There's comfortable baseline of stimulants in the bloodstream without them all die. How about you? Where are you at today? I'm doing pretty well. Today was a relatively chill day. Nothing terribly overwhelming came off of the, uh,
00:01:09
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The longer weekend, thanks to Independence Day, which for me is a holiday as an American. Um, I don't know. I'm with that. I thought you were going to talk about the movie. Oh yeah. It's a good movie actually.
00:01:27
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I remember being a good movie, but this is also back when I watched movies and I was young and it's like all blockbusters were huge at the time. Yeah. My takeaway from Independence Day, I mean, like it was entertaining as an action flick, obviously, but it had a lot of practical special effects. It's in that like old Terminator or old Alien style of movie where it's like, what can we accomplish through just like sheer skill instead of
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you know, relying a whole ton on, um, full CGI on for CGI. Yeah. So they actually blew up the white house for that one. Um, it's actually the most expensive movie to ever be shot. I guess spoilers for independence day, but yeah.
Bird Feeder Stories and Squirrel Prevention
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They're like, how do we fit in this actual terrorist attack into making us money? Oh, well tell them it's a movie. Well, this was, this was pre 9 11. So a lot more things flew back then.
00:02:26
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I see a really good joke. It's a really good joke. I'm just, I'm just in appreciation really. Yeah. Well, no, it's been pretty, it's been pretty nice. Um, it's nice to not have a bunch of like late night stress work like that. Um, it's basically taken care of for the current time work can stress me out later when there's a, or surgeon resurgence in the sine wave or whatever, but, um, no, it's just weird.
00:02:54
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Like, look at my calendar. It's not full of crap. So you're saying you're free. Right now. No, actually, this is I have to block this one out, but. But yeah, no, it's it's been nice. That's good. I feel like I should lead off of that, too, somewhere, but oh, actually, very recently we put up a bird feeder that a friend of the show, Dave, actually
00:03:24
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Uh, provided as a birthday present, uh, for Jenny. And, uh, it took us forever to put this thing up, but so I was advocating. So here is the situation. I was advocating. We just like take some straps. I have some cord and we just like hang it up off a tree branch. And Jenny was like, that doesn't seem like a super great idea. I was like, nah, it'll, it'll be fine.
00:03:53
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And I thought about it a little bit more and I realized like, yeah, there are actually some problems with that. It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realize that like a squirrel could just like climb off the tree branch and eat it all. Um, the main thing with squirrels is they're like food, food for other things. No, no, no food for me, for me. And if they can climb it, they will do it for sure. So what we ended up getting, I didn't know the name for this thing, but we actually had one, um, in back.
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from the previous owners, but it wasn't as strong. It's a shepherd's crook, which is just like a metal rod that goes into the ground. And then there's a hook off the side and you can hang something on it. But we went to Home Depot and we got a heavier duty one that could support like 20 pounds.
00:04:38
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And it's got like two spikes on the bottom. So you can like stab it in the ground and it's not like single spike. It actually has low grip. Yeah, exactly. And then we finally got it set up and like the day after, so which was like this morning, I woke up, was like prepping coffee for work and stuff like that. And I look out and there's like two birds eating right there and I'm like, yeah, I took a picture.
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Which I'm sure I haven't actually sent the picture. It's like, Oh, we set it up. It's like, Oh, it looks good. I hope you guys get some birds. Looking forward to more animal photos. And she posted a photo of a chipmunk. I'm like, Oh, it's the guy. Now you're like, Oh yeah, we have bird photos too. We're just holding out. Yeah, we are just holding out at this point. I also have like house sparrows and maybe Robins are like the most common.
Nostalgic Educational TV Shows
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Yeah. Robin sparrows. There's some other types out there too. Cardinal. Any finches? Finches are small birds, right? There's a good chance. Yeah. We have some significant really small brutes here. I'm going to pick the best photo I think I have here and send this one to you.
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on Discord. This is like very difficult content to parse for a podcast. All right, so I'm gonna describe what I'm seeing. It's a bird at a bird feeder. But the bird feeder looks like a little house. It's in the driveway getting the feed.
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It's really nice for here because the one you got us is it's very sturdy. Like it's incredibly well put together. It's not like an old wooden thing that's going to just like sway in the breeze or whatever. So it holds a lot of feed. And importantly, like we get gusts of wind by the house. Like we're kind of on a hill. And when it rains, it pours.
00:06:32
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Um, and so it's going to stand up against all of that, which is really nice. So it's good. Thank you. Yeah. You guys are welcome. Yeah, we finally know a different front of the show, Dave, who's just never been on the podcast yet as a guest. Um, you, you mentioned though, that you get more wind because you're on a Hill. Yeah.
00:06:57
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um like on the side there like there's are you saying like because there's elevation there's more height for you to catch wind i think it's so like there's less things blocking it technically right i mean there's a tree line behind us and i think that if we didn't have the road in people's yards and things like that there would probably be less wind but yeah any cross-cutting breeze basically has to travel
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It's us. I'm not a weatherman, so I can't tell you if exactly that's how it's supposed to work. I understand rain shadows a lot more than I understand wind, but yeah, it gets windy here sometimes. Are rain shadows like the darkening under a cloud? You're like, I think it's raining in the distance. It's the it's the part of a mountain that doesn't see rain because the clouds get to the mountain and they have to ascend.
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to pass over the mountain. And as they ascend, it becomes more likely that rainfall is going to happen because the pressure is building. So if you're on one side of the mountain, you get all the rain. And if you're on the other side of the mountain, the clouds are already completely depleted. And that's usually like a desert environment or something. Interesting. Yeah. I learned something. I hope you guys did too. I don't remember where I learned that. I think it might have been magic school bus. There's a good chance.
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I learned about human anatomy a little bit. I learned about the ocean and probably part of an episode on space. I learned about Uranus twice, honestly.
00:08:43
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Fun fact about Magic School Bus, I realized I set my own segue up and then I was just like, here, this is for you. And then I kicked you off of it and then just got back on the segue. But it's one of the, I was like homeschooled when I was younger, right? And Magic School Bus is a major contributing factor to me testing grades ahead in science when I was like in elementary school. Like everything else was like fourth grade or something like that. And they're like, yeah, sixth grade science.
00:09:14
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And it was literally just because Miss Rizzle. So it wasn't from the Simpsons where you learned about the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. You learned that everywhere. That's a universal truth.
00:09:29
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I will say when you are homeschooled for a bit and you don't have the plebeians around you, you really get to focus in on PBS morning shows. Thank God it paid off in any direction because there was just so much. Read Between the Lions. Oh my gosh. Arthur wasn't as informational. Life lessons though. Social. Yeah, exactly.
00:09:54
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What was it, Dragon Tales? That was another one back then. Yeah. They had a lot of shows about Zaboomafoo. Zaboomafoo was awesome. With the Crap Brothers. I still hear it instantly. I'm sure they've been involved. Anybody at the time says me and you, I'm like, son of a bitch, I got to say it now. It's programmed in, weirdly enough. I'm going to have to practice that call and response for people. That's one of those things that people talk
00:10:23
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The cliche, only 90s kids, like whatever meme. But sometimes people play it straight because they just... The one generational constant is people have nostalgia for their specific thing and they want to gate keep it. But yeah, Zaboomafoo is freaking great. I feel like the Crap Brothers must have been involved in at least one major scandal at this point. Statistically, yeah.
00:10:52
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But I just, I've never heard about it, but then I can really go looking for, for scandal so much. I'm going to guess drug trafficking.
00:11:02
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Oh my God. That's why the lemur died. I can't jump around no more. I got too much heroin. Oh man. I'm trying to think there's probably at least one other, I mean, Sesame street, obvious, classic staple. Um, I'm trying to think of something that's more animated. Oh, the cartoons.
00:11:25
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uh what was this i mean schoolhouse rock has been forever that's cheating that's not our generation though that's not our generation it's so old but here's the thing it's like everything there was from like the 1970s but that music still holds up and is catchy as fuck
00:11:41
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Yeah. It's still education. It's designed to make it catchy and be like, oh, I'm going to learn the patterns of what they're saying, which is in itself a lesson of like, this is how some grammar works. Here's some math stuff. How else are you going to learn? Here's some stuff about the social policy. How else are you going to learn how a bill becomes law, right? Theoretically, if Congress and the Senate agree with each other.
Cartoons and Childhood Memories
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Interjection. Mm-hmm. Sorry. Recess, though, and the same vein as, you know, Schoolhouse Rock, Recess was a Saturday morning show back in that time. I remember that being more of a just fun. Yeah. Was Recess with Cartoon Network or was that PBS? I didn't have cable, so it had to have been on, it might have been like CBS or something like that.
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Cause I, I had the basic channels. Um, Trisha can call it CBS. I might as well just call it BS cause there's no P in it. Yeah. Right. Put down some of these broadcasts that we're extending them all to hell. Yeah. Now that we're content creators, right? Supposed to judge our lessors betters. I don't know, but pushes up glasses. I personally enjoyed code Lyoko said nobody.
00:13:02
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They had really big foreheads. That's the thing I remember about that show. It was a French animation studio. And that's why the design was so... I don't mean to use the term foreign as the way it's coming across, but it was just so wildly different from our typical American animation. And also it was one of the first adventures in 3D that I think I would have seen as a kid outside of like the Toonami plugs with Tom. Yeah. So it was a big thing for like a show to have it.
00:13:32
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Yeah, I think that one was actually also cartoon. Cartoon Network had much better cartoons than Saturday morning, ABC, CBS. I was going to say CNN, but no. Jake launched the news very early. Why did you know what's going on? Or CBS. Wait, no. Which one was it? The TBN. TBN was the one.
00:13:55
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I was like, the Trinity Broadcasting Network. That sounds Christian as fuck. It absolutely was. The 700 Club, which is not, as it turns out, a club about people who have sex in planes. That's a different one. It's a very low riding plane.
00:14:18
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You know, it was, uh, I'm remembering now that we're talking about that though. This was like, we had a CRT television, cathode ray tube for the younger generation, um, and an antenna. Um, and I think at some point it's been a very long time since I had like a CRT, but they straight up changed the way analog signals work.
00:14:40
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or stop them or something like that, I can't remember. I probably should have done a little bit more about that. Are you saying the fact that we've lost bunny ears from TVs? Yeah, yeah, I don't think you use antennas really anywhere. No.
00:14:55
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That was much older version because I have a CRT now and it just has the coax stuff for video and audio in, but it doesn't, granted it's not picking up any television stations. But I do remember on some of the older, almost wooden panel type TVs.
00:15:16
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Like you'd very much be practicing a theremin without realizing it of like trying to adjust the static signal You're like, I'm gonna figure this out, but I have no reference point for what I should be doing I'm just gonna let other people tell me like that's better or like no, that's bad Yeah, I really remember We could get a configuration so most of the channels came in But it's been so long since I thought about analog TV signals
00:15:41
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The one that we really struggled with was Fox, which was unfortunate because they had like the cool Saturday morning cartoons. They had like X-Men. Oh, yeah. And stuff like that. Oh, you're talking about old Fox, like Fox Searchlight. Yeah, not Fox News. OK. Yeah, they had the great cartoons.
00:16:05
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I wouldn't put it past them to just have an animated news segment that's still propagating Saturday mornings. But now there's some cool stuff. Sherlock Holmes and the 22nd century I think was also a thing.
00:16:21
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I'm going to get into the esoteric stuff. Action man. Wait, was Sherlock Holmes like a boy and a dog? I think, but I'm thinking of an older show that's in the like Rocky and Bullwinkle era. Oh, yeah. Of like they did like time traveling mysteries or like went into stories or notable pieces of history.
Nostalgia for Analog and Digital Transition
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But they had, the two characters had a name together that was like of a prominent historical figure. There's no way this is dating life. Right. But in a similar vein to something like that. Yeah. Yeah. And then there was a, I recall, I don't remember what it was on, but action man, which,
00:17:08
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was an attempted type of like superhero thing, but basically his power was, he was so good at instantaneous math. He could just calculate all physics interactions for whatever's in play and then adapt them to his, his outcome. So I think like he didn't have superpowers beyond that, if I recall.
00:17:30
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But looking back on it as a not kid, I realized he could just be shot. Like someone could just shoot him. But if they throw something at him, you know, he could, if he has time to think he can, you know, throw something to deflect it or redirect it to somebody else. It works way better in tennis than a lot of real situations. It's kind of the physics of everything, but he sucks at driving. Uh-huh. Yeah.
00:17:58
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Also, because you said action man, I now have to bring up the obligatory Bible man. Oh, yeah. Which was a comic, but more importantly, was a live action television show. I don't think it was aired, but I think they had VHS. Yeah. For the quote unquote series. This is another acronym. What was it? It's. It might actually be CBD.
00:18:27
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I think Christian book distributors. Yeah. Yeah. It sounds right. Um, which has a different meaning now, but back then it was Christian book distributing. That's why I still tell my parents if they ask. Uh-huh. That was a CBD catalog. Do you guys not oil your Bibles? Okay. All right. Heathens. Um, yeah, man. I remember that. That's where I got, um,
00:18:56
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I'm sure I talked about it at some point on the podcast, but Saints of Virtue. Of the old Doom clone. Yeah. I had to convince my parents. I'd be like, but there's Bible verses in it and I can learn the Bible verses, which was true, but it's also just a scarier game than Doom ever was.
00:19:18
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Yeah, because the giant faces, right? Because the giant faces, because the enemies are like gigantic floating faces. And the game was like depressingly isolated and the music was very ominous and it is freaking terrifying. You know, later on, they went to make actual horror games. Yeah. What can our skills be utilized? I'm curious if they ever made anything else.
00:19:48
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It would be hilarious if they went on to make Saints Row or something.
The Value of Nostalgia and Keepsakes
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I've got to say, I'm going to kneecap my statement immediately. I don't usually consider myself to be a nostalgic person. But I was hanging out with a buddy recently. We were talking about some high school stuff. I was like, oh, I remember some things. It's nice to travel down memory lane a little bit, if they're pleasant memories or entertaining memories.
00:20:16
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Um, but I don't really keep a lot of memorabilia around. Like I'm starting a very small, like, this is something I don't want to throw out box, but I don't have a place for it. So it's just kind of in the closet. Right. But I do appreciate when like my parents would like save stuff. They're like, you're going to want to see this when you're older. I'm like, why do you sound like that? Now you're middle aged. And I could then go back and like look on it. Like, Oh cool. You actually kept that around. Okay. That's a nice little,
00:20:46
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brief jaunts down memory lane. Oh, yeah. As long as I don't have the story. Yeah, I don't I like to think I don't hoard that much. I mean, for a long time, I didn't really have the space to do so. Now we have, you know, too much space, but I still just accumulating things doesn't really matter too much to me if I'm not going to use them. But I will say it's nice to maintain
00:21:10
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tokens of just like something symbolic. Um, not like a lot, but like when I came to, oops, let me just hit my microphone. Um, when it came to Pennsylvania, the first time, um, Jenny's dad.
00:21:26
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gave me a chunk of anthracitic coal, just like literally. Real talk, one of the most PA fucking things you can do. Absolutely. Absolutely. So for people who have only seen like charcoal in a grill, this is like smoother. It doesn't like peel off or anything like that. It's more like a combination between. It's more soapy kind of in its texture. But I was like, well, dang, that's actually really cool.
00:21:57
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And I think I still have it somewhere. And the other one from my dad is he had a, what was it?
00:22:06
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uh, a silver dollar, like it's really old and his dad gave it to him. And then he's like, you know, passing on to his first born. And I was like, you sure? Like my brothers got better prospects than I do. But okay. If you want this to die here, then sure. Give it to me. This ends the line. Uh-huh. Yeah. But, uh, I mean, small things like that can be nice.
00:22:34
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Do you have any tokens or symbols you've maintained over the years? I definitely do. They're all in like a small box, like 15 feet from me. At all times. It's like the opposite of restraining order. I have to have it on my person.
00:22:55
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struggling to remember specifics from the box outside of like, Oh, this is the paperwork on popsicle sticks like commissioned from Rachel when we did the one, I guess like the second or third video or soapstone. It's like, here'd be a fun idea. And I stand by it. It was amazing. It was really good.
00:23:15
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And like for a while I did collect obscure coins of like, Oh, this isn't standard or is like an older version of like a quarter or it's from another country. Uh, so I had like $2 in other countries currency in total spread across, you know, way too many countries. Which is fair. I mean, like our currency is obviously superior and worth so much more money. So $2 by I see like a mansion.
00:23:44
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somewhere else, obviously. And we have those, as you know, just a single bill for some reason. Yeah. You can still get those, which is crazy to me. A $2 bill. $2 bill. Yeah. I don't know how you get those. But pennies, let's keep those forever. Yeah. We can flatten them into things in museums and they'll pay out the pocket. 50 cents. Wow. I remember that. I was in a silverwood theme park, which is like in
00:24:15
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either Washington or Idaho or something like that. And like many places, they have that where it's like, hey, for 51 cents, you can get this cool crushed thing. And I was like,
00:24:26
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What did they use the, what did they use the two quarters for? Like my brain just as a, as a younger kid, my brain is actually what crushes the penny down. As it turns out, capitalism, capitalism is what you use the first two quarters for. Um, did you ever try and actually flatten a penny? Like, did you have any railroads by you at any point? Not like not myself. Okay. I use the dedicated contained environment of one of these machines.
00:24:57
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um i feel like i had the desire to but i don't know if i ever followed through because i definitely was by a train track several times in my life with coins and i was like what do you know it'd be cool but i don't know if i ever actually followed through like derail the train just get like a really really low luck roll and
00:25:19
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I'm like the first guy in this setup of a mischievous hooligans where I just put the penny down, walk away, light my cigarette, and you just watch the train derail behind me. And I go to the mic, we're good. The slow-mo kicks in. Jazz started playing. I recently just watched the loop in the third movie. Okay, I'm not familiar. Loop in the third was, I think also initially a French animation, but it's kind of like a
00:25:47
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a great heist type guy. He's the kooky vagabond who's really good at all things mischievous and thievery and he's always being chased by an inspector type thing. He always gets away through some fantastical means. The animation for the movie was really good.
00:26:08
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That's all I will say about the movie that's fair. Yeah, I don't know if people are here for the loop and spoilers Is it new is it old it came out in like the last two years, okay originally, I think it was a series of movies but like they were old 1980s anime style movies and then they did like a huge budget 3d one like two years ago and
00:26:35
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I mean, that's a way to do it.
Media Formats: Remakes and Streaming Costs
00:26:37
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I think a reimagining in a different medium is sometimes, you know, it's sometimes a lot better than a remake, you know, um, looking at you, Spider-Man. I don't know. This new Spider-Man is supposed to be good. I haven't seen most of them, but, um, I feel like I stopped watching any type of superhero stuff and then like 17 Spider-Man's came out. Like, have you seen this one? Have you seen the spider verse? Right. I was like, what?
00:27:04
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I know about like one of them. That's about it. Peter Park. Peter Park. Yeah, that's the one. I know about PP and not much else. That's what his friends call him.
00:27:20
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Well, it's just like the classic old Jay Jonah Jamison, where my pictures of Spider-Man. And to the notorious girlfriend weed. That's what, that's what they call it. Just pee pee and weed. Sure hate my best friends now dating my girl weed. Yeah.
00:27:45
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That's such a great character in the, um, in the older movie, though. Um, I can't remember the guy's name, but the guy that plays, uh, J Jonah Jamison. He's very popular. I want pictures of Spider-Man. I've literally just seen him in like two other things. He's Cave Johnson in Portal too. Um, God damn it. That's fine. I'll buy you some time. I'm going to do loud typing because you know I'm fucking looking.
00:28:18
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Yeah, I actually have Simmons. JK Simmons. That's right. Yeah. Great actor. Just kidding. Simmons. Yeah, absolutely amazing. I was also recently rewatching the legend of Korra. Okay. Yeah. And he does the voice of Tenzin, who is a major character in the show for you, Jake, who hasn't seen the show based on your. Yeah. Well, I saw like a couple episodes. I do need to watch it because it was pretty enjoyable.
00:28:45
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If you want, I literally have the Blu-ray box set that I got a while back, but I've been watching it on Netflix. But if you ever wanted to borrow it, if you don't have Netflix, we let it lapse. I agree up for stranger things, and then I'm going to let it lapse again. Yeah. I think it's a little too expensive right now. And they keep basically, I guess they're in financial trouble, but I mean, that's not my job to fix it if their product isn't competitive anymore.
00:29:15
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which is probably the most free market thing I'll say in this episode, but like they increase the rate. It costs more now, right? Yeah. It's up to like 15 for if you want HD. Yeah. If you want SD, which stands for shitty definition, it's like eight bucks, which is what it was, you know, 15 years ago. Yeah. Which kind of implies that their issue is like bandwidth.
00:29:38
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Or no, they're just, what it really implies is that tiered systems push people to the more expensive option. And then they were talking like, they're considering adding ads to it. And I'm like, this is the death of your platform. That's literally like- Just tuck it in. One of your major points was to not have that. Right. People are gonna start going back to Redbox if you start putting ads in. Mm-hmm, yeah. I feel like Redbox is fully dead, right?
00:30:07
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They, I think they exist. I think they're still physical locations, like the little drop boxes for movies and things like that. Hmm. I think in rural America, it's impossible to get away from them, but. That's fair. Cause what are you going to do? Cool. I guess there's one, right? There's, I think one is singularly kept in business for a meme. Uh-huh. But like other video stores as well, unless it's like a local thing, I don't think exist.
00:30:36
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Yeah. Cause why would it? Right? Like internet still kind of sucks in the United States on average, but the places where it's good, it's usually really good. And so it's like, if you have bandwidth, why are you going to leave to do something? Um, I didn't like, we started doing carryout for pizzas because it's literally down the street any further than that, like one additional block. And I would not do carryout, but
00:31:05
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Now, do you walk to get the pizza? I don't. I drive. How far is it? I mean, if it was a walk, it would probably be like 20. Oh, 15, 20. Sorry. That's a lot. Yeah. Especially with how he looks at it, too. There's also hills between me and the destinations. Oh, yeah. And you're also fighting against the wind at that point, so. Uh-huh, exactly. Both ways.
00:31:30
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We had a blockbuster growing up that was, I mean, to be fair, my dad worked at it for a bit. So it was fairly local. But we would occasionally, it was like 15, 20 minute walk through like some back roads and stuff. But we would go there as like a family trip and we'd like bring the dog. And then one of the parents would be outside with the dog. All the people would go and get movies. The other people, my other family members. Right, right. The others.
00:31:57
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the other humanoid units in my home. Mm hmm. But it was really nice to have it that close because then you could hit up other things on the way. Like you technically pass by a Dunkin Donuts. Oh, yeah. So as a kid, I could be like, you know, it'd be really nice if you guys paid for these donuts. Tap spelling the donuts, the donuts that are that are in your lap in the car as you've left the store. Oh.
00:32:27
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No, man, I remember that. Whatever route you have between A and B, there's something else on the way there. I imagine people who did sports as kids also probably had a similar type of experience where it's like, but there's an ice cream shop on the way or some convenient food place or something like that.
00:32:54
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Just remind your parents, like, don't you really hate cooking? What the kid didn't know is that they were actually promoting like HelloFresh very early on. Uh huh. Right. Yeah. Man, cooking today is just so inconvenient. We actually had a subscription service for meals all the way back then. It was like swan.
00:33:16
Speaker
I think is what it was called. I think it was still do stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Um, just like a few things occasionally. Was it, were they actually meals or were like they separate food items? I think there were food items more than meals, but some of that you could also get prepared or like cook and eat meals there. I remember they had weird things at the time though. They had like kangaroo meat and some other stuff. And I was like,
00:33:43
Speaker
I don't. Where am I? Swan? Yeah, right. That's probably Swan. Yeah. I mean, I mean, I guess it did exist. Like they still had was Omaha's steaks.
Food and Local Convenience
00:34:00
Speaker
It's like, hey, you can order steaks to your house. And I was like, what? What did I see recently that was like a parody on that? It might have been prosody. No, no, it was.
00:34:14
Speaker
I can't remember. I can't remember who it was, but it definitely wasn't ProZD, but they were talking about how it was like an all you can eat steak service. It's like there will always be a steak at your doorstep, but like that's the way they phrased it. There will always be a steak at your doorstep. And so the person who made the video was like, is this like a threat? Like you get home and there's just continually steaks piling up or what's happening?
00:34:38
Speaker
What, why is there a burning bag in my doorstep? Better stomp it out. Oh no, it's a stake. Uh-huh. It was a stake the whole time. Yeah. And it's, I'm glad we live in this age of convenience, but I have not had anything delivered here yet. Well, you don't have to go like in a pretty accessible area, right?
00:35:04
Speaker
Yeah. Like I can, if I need like quick and easy stuff, there's a CVS and Turkey Hill within walking distance. So I got to say, like I walked over there today and I was out for like maybe three minutes and it's like, Oh, it's 75 back sweat. It is so fucking human. 75 at 300% humidity. It's all swim over.
00:35:28
Speaker
But yeah, down the road, I can access some other stuff on the way, or if I get closer to downtown, there's other places. And usually, I'm not even going that far into a sit-down place. There's something small, maybe a Sheets run. Did that today, actually. Yeah. Did we do that? We did that for lunch, yeah. I've gone to Sheets a lot. It's probably financially not the right decision anymore.
00:35:54
Speaker
I think we talked about it, but find a couple of healthy food items or healthy-ish food items and they're pretty good. Like their crispy chicken salad still. They're crispy chicken, anything I'll, I'll send for. Yeah. I always get like a two snack wraps.
00:36:12
Speaker
And then I'll mix up what's in it. Knowing, knowing sheets, they probably do. It actually, it's, it is spelled that way. Intentionally, I believe. Schnack. Of course. The degenerates. One day I'll try one of the, what I'm going to guess was like 12 to 15, uh, icy options. Yeah. I haven't tried those. I've been trying, I've been working my way through their, their energy
00:36:41
Speaker
drink infused offerings, nitro coffee, really good. Freaking love nitro coffee. They have like, um, it's like oatmeal and I don't know if it's oatmeal cookie or something like that flavor, but it's like freaking delicious. Wait, an oatmeal cookie flavored coffee. It's something like that. It's, it's close to that. It's definitely got sweetener in it, but it's also the nitro coffee. Yeah.
00:37:11
Speaker
That's been like a thing, like nitrogen infused beverages. I know Pepsi also has one. It's like Pepsi Nitro. I just saw that a child the other day. And like, I don't really drink traditional soda anymore for the most part. If like I'm going to drink soda, it's basically going to be like Coke Zero or something diet or whatever. But it's pretty good.
00:37:37
Speaker
It's like pretentious AF because it's literally like turn it upside down and then like
00:37:43
Speaker
then you do the pour thing and make sure that, you know, you consume it quickly or
Coffee Preferences and Brewing Methods
00:37:48
Speaker
whatever. And it's like. Oh, do you turn it upside down to pour? I usually put the glass above the bottle, like check this shit out. Well, I think like, yeah, they want like a specific they want to encourage the mix. So you get like the full nitrogen smoothness, which goes away like if you don't drink it, so.
00:38:11
Speaker
They do advocate pretty heavily for that, which is fair, but it's nice. I like it in coffee. I like it in soda. I don't know if you can make it yourself without poisoning your body. I guess you could try a soda stream, but with nitrogen instead. Right.
00:38:31
Speaker
let's just see what happens. Next time you're in my area around anything within like the brunch lunch hours, there is a place next to like the video game shop, which I thought was just like a coffee place, but like they, they do have good coffee, which is the reason I'm suggesting it, but they also have like some nice breakfast or lunch options too. Nice. But I got a,
00:38:57
Speaker
imagine something frappiato, caramel, cherry. It was a very sweet coffee for me. Typically, I'm just like black. And if it tastes good, we're good. This is very much a lot of accoutrement, but it tasted good. Yeah, I like both. I like the I like the
00:39:20
Speaker
I don't like this term, but I've used the term for a while, so I'll try to retire it here. But I called them girly drinks for like a long time. Basically starting at college, right? It's like because there was discrimination involved, you know, you would see a group of people leave class all in UGG boots and they would go in order caramel macchiato. And so what I would do
00:39:45
Speaker
is I was like, that looks good. I'm going to order it and love caramel macchiatos. So I really like the drink. Um, and I like drinks like that, but I also, if I'm going to just drink coffee, then I just drink it black. Um, so, you know, embrace both white shoes.
00:40:07
Speaker
I thought you were going to say white Jews. I'm like, well, embrace both white Jews. Give me a hug. And I can get behind certain sweet stuff, but needs to be like the right, I guess, state of mind for me. I got to be like, oh, this will be like a nice with something. I'm never going to be like, I need a sweet thing. Let's go and get one sweet thing. It's always like other people are like, we're going to do this thing. I'm like, I could ingest sugar. Yeah.
00:40:37
Speaker
We'll hang around for that. It was Alicia Keys, by the way. Who did? You said you had to be in the right state of mind. Oh, Empire State of Mind? The Empire State of Mind, yeah. Okay. This is a useless callback. We talked about this a week or two ago. I don't remember who that was. I know my guesses are probably wrong.
00:40:58
Speaker
But Starbucks did have a caramel apple spice, which was just I found out later, just steamed apple juice and like some caramel flavoring. But like, holy shit, when it was cold and you had finals, I'm like, I'm going to Starbucks so I can justify studying. Yes. Yeah. So nice. Yeah, they had they also had the the refillable cup promotion on campus. And it only worked for like
00:41:28
Speaker
standard coffees, right? Like a caramel macchiato or something you got in a plastic cup. Like you couldn't be like, put that in my, in my reusable mug type thing. Um, but if you had that.
00:41:40
Speaker
Uh, you could just get standard coffee in it. Um, and then they still have the sweeteners, right? Like there's the sweetener booth area over there. So you could have whatever you wanted and make it, um, a more, uh, dessert drink. Um, but then it was 50 cents for the cup. If you use the reusable or it was 50 cents like per coffee, if you use the reusable thing, um,
00:42:07
Speaker
That wasn't bad as a college student. That's reasonable. They've done that with Wawa had, I guess, mugs of varying surprisingly large sizes up to like 32 or maybe even 64 ounces. That's a lot. That's a whole lot. But it's like, hey, just come by. It's really basically free.
00:42:28
Speaker
Jeez. I mean, it costs them nothing on overhead, right? Yeah. Coffee's supposed to be. Coffee's like, oh, coffee's like $0.15. But it's a get you in the door thing. Yeah. But if you're somebody who's just like, I just want the coffee, or even if you get the coffee cheap and you also get this little egg big muffin, not bad.
00:42:46
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, any size coffee is still the same price at McDonald's. You're just like, yeah, who cares? It's coffee. We make a ton. I think they, they color the water and they're like, eh, you buy it. I actually kind of, I still do like, um, I still do like McDonald's coffee, um, with like a little bit of sweetener. You can get like French vanilla in there and they'll put it in anything. Um, so.
00:43:15
Speaker
You can be like, Oh, here's coffee. But even though it's not on the menu, put like sugar-free French vanilla in it or something like that. Um, which isn't too bad. Is there a coffee? And then there are iced coffees too. I've had their iced coffees. Maybe that's Dunkin Donuts. They're probably similar. Yeah. Dunkins are a little sweeter, I think. Or McDonald's coffees akin to like a greasy spoon diner type.
00:43:40
Speaker
Where it's like it's been on a burner in like a glass pitcher type thing. I don't think so. They have the. I know they have like a machine, but as far as like the taste. Yeah, I don't think I've ever had any coffee that tasted old there. Do you like an old coffee? Sometimes. I mean, if I'm like really tired, then old coffee's got like a kick to it.
00:44:06
Speaker
But ever since I mean, I know we talked about this on the episode or on the podcast. I learned you could just microwave coffee to make it taste better. I was like, that's that's basically what I do. Or in this case, I mean, I usually drink coffee, like and don't leave any remnants to the point where sometimes it's a detriment. Right. Like I reached the end of the day, I was distracted by something. I didn't finish the coffee and it's like
00:44:35
Speaker
7 p.m. And I'm just like, let me just keep sipping on this thing until I realize I'm past my cutoff time. And then you're like lying in bed. You're like, oh, fuck. Who could have done this? I've done this. Yeah, I even have like a.
00:44:54
Speaker
friends were nice enough to get me an AeroPress that they were not using. Shout out to Justin and Rachel. So you just take some coffee grounds and it's like a quick version of like a French press, but I use that to make some, some coffee. And I have that in a cup, not far from me. And I've been working on it for three days. I'll have some and then I'll go get distracted. I'm like, Oh, I should go grab like a, make some G fuel or something else. Or I'll have like some with a meal, but I'm not like binging it.
00:45:25
Speaker
If it's coffee, I stand by that. Like I can, I can leave it sit and come back. Does it like reheat or are you reheating at all? Are you just going back to it? Okay. It's full bachelor tepid. Like there's a liquid by me. It will go inside me for drinking. Yeah. The bachelor motto. Yeah. Like the bachelor thing is like, I'm leaving this a little bit too, too vague. Yeah.
00:45:52
Speaker
confirmed bachelor motto. I know we both made the jump though. We've had a Keurig for a very long time. Cake-ups are very expensive, environmentally wasteful, lots of reasons to not.
00:46:15
Speaker
They were very convenient and so I used them for like years, but we finally made the jump and got reusable pods and then started purchasing like actual grounds for it. And that's been, at first I was like, it doesn't taste like the same as the pods. And then I kind of just got used to it and I don't care anymore. And the convenience outweighs everything else.
00:46:41
Speaker
Yeah, it's just, just nice. The thing is you have to find like a nice ground or flavor that you're like, cause you might like try a bag and you're like, well, this will take forever to work through. Or you throw it out and you're like, that was very wasteful. Yeah. It's easier to do that with like K-cups, right? Like you can go on Amazon or some other, get a variety pack, get a variety pack of like 200 pods. And you're like, the Cinnabon tastes good. Or not.
00:47:10
Speaker
And then you jot that down the giant whiteboard of like, when I reorder, I will grab these. Where you have like a giant wall of like the, uh, do they still have the Amazon buttons? Oh yeah. Yeah. The instant order things, the program buttons. I can imagine a wall of that. And you're like, this tastes good. And you just, it's very much the opposite direction to just like voice controlled a word or G word automation for ordering things.
00:47:41
Speaker
Yeah. Wall of buttons. There was a divergent path in the timeline, and we either were going to wall of buttons or voice automation. Wall of buttons is funny, but it's so much more abusable if I had friends over, because they'd be like, what does this button do? And I could explain it or not, but they would press the button anyway, because it would be funny. Right.
00:48:04
Speaker
You just do it repeatedly. But I've still had people try and order stuff for me because it is, I think, built in by default to, oh, you can order by voice.
Voice-Controlled Technology
00:48:15
Speaker
But they'll say, hey, would you like to reorder X? And you're like, oh, yeah, sure. And then we'll add it to your cart, or you can buy it immediately. Again, age of convenience.
00:48:25
Speaker
I just realized while you were talking, I remembered that there's three of them, right? Because Microsoft has one also. Amazon has the A word. Alphabet is the parent company of the company that has the G word because it's the same. And then Microsoft has the third one. But if you say C word, that's not what people are going to think about. Is it spelled with a C and not an S?
00:48:54
Speaker
Uh, there's, oh no, cause there's is, uh, for, for windows. Um, I can say this because Master Chief's assistant, but, uh, oh no, cause, um, you're thinking of apples. Apples is with the S. Yeah. But they don't have any home devices, correct?
00:49:14
Speaker
Uh, Apple. I also like how we went from earlier talking about like old technology and using acronyms. You explained one of them, which was CRT, and then we're immediately going to like, ah, yes, A word, B word, C word. You can keep up, right? You know exactly what we're talking about. Uh-huh. Yeah, this is probably not a very useful entry point to learn about technology for any decade, but that's what we do.
00:49:44
Speaker
I didn't realize that people, it wasn't until someone was censoring the words on YouTube that I realized what was going on. Um, I was like, why did it, it's like, we all know what the word is. It's not a swear word. You're not going to get demonetized or like defunded or whatever for naming this product. Um, and then I realized how easy it is to activate other people's devices. Yeah.
00:50:12
Speaker
Uh, and it's really easy. Like you see why I'm wearing headphones right now. Yeah. The audio needs to go to me and me alone. We've had it like accidentally happen in like a team's call for work before. Cause someone was like using speakers and I'm like, that's what you get. I guess. Um, but yeah, it's, it's crazy.
00:50:37
Speaker
Yeah. It's again, it's, it's so convenient, but it's also very conveniently be abused by other people too. Not that people are like going around being malicious, but again, going back to the, would your friends touch your buttons? Yeah. I remember when we were.
00:50:55
Speaker
And we were in the car with Zach going to lunch and he got a text from somebody. It's like the car was like, Oh, would you like to read it or ignore it? And everyone in the car, like there's a full car was like, everyone's like, read it. I tried to override the computer to be like, we want to hear what this is because obviously it's more personal than a normal thing. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, it's pretty funny. We're definitely living in the future.
00:51:26
Speaker
Speaking of living in the future, if I were to jump back a couple topics, I like prepped a side path and I was like doing some trimming around it and making sure like the path would work.
Animated Spinoffs and Franchise Expansion
00:51:39
Speaker
And then we kind of just passed it by, but coming back to it, did you see- When you started that out, I was like, oh, he's talking about an actual segue. And I was like, no, wait, he's describing the side path in the house. Oh, wait, it's a segue. It's a segue, yeah, it is actually the segue.
00:51:52
Speaker
Uh, did you see the new blade running? I say new, but it's like a couple of years old at this point with, uh, with Ryan. Yeah. One of them. I've seen a lot of like clips of it on Reddit, but I heard it was from whoever kind of boring. So that kind of influenced me to not ever go check it out. I think it's enjoyable. I like it, but I mean, I also run a cyberpunk campaign. So judge your sources. Um,
00:52:21
Speaker
But it's got cool music, cool visuals, all of that. That's not what I'm talking about. It's cool. But much like the Animatrix, they have a series of animated shorts that tell stories for some of the side characters that are involved in the movie and also give like prequel information for the movie. And they put like a lot of effort into it.
00:52:46
Speaker
And, um, we were talking about both childhood, you know, cartoons, but then shows that aren't cartoons. And it made me think of this, right? Like, um, and remaking media as a cartoon. Um, and I'm actually a huge fan of that. Like it's very low commitment by comparison. You're not dedicating to dedicating like a bunch of hours, but if you can do like a self contained short story that expands the universe, we can go for it.
00:53:14
Speaker
I mean, Star Wars gestures widely with arm.
00:53:19
Speaker
But no, it's, it really can expand any type of universe in a more approachable medium. Like Clone Wars made me give a shit about star. I don't overall give a shit about Star Wars, but it made me interested in invested more so than the movies ever did. Cause it was in like my Saturday morning format. And that's also where I learned that Grievous has asthma. And I was like, dude, same. Yeah. Right. I can't do the whole multi-arm lightsaber shit, but like, man, same.
00:53:48
Speaker
Most people can't. It's kind of his trick. Only the elite few of us have asthma. I'm borderline asthmatic, but I don't have a full diagnosis. We'll get you there. I have enough that it's uncomfortable when I'm in a public place and I'm wearing a mask and I'm coughing because I am never not coughing.
00:54:15
Speaker
Also, I do chase you around a lot, and that's my bad. That also does it. You know what's weird? If somebody chases you, even if you know they're messing around, and there's nothing bad at the end of it, you feel the instinct to run from them. I don't know if that's built in fight or flight, or just growing up as a kid playing tag drag, you're not going to catch
Childhood Play and Adult Reflections
00:54:40
Speaker
me. No, no, no, no. Redirect to someone else.
00:54:44
Speaker
Well, yeah, like you would you'd run enough distance until like somebody like, oh, I'm going to try and tag somebody easier. And you're like, cool. I'm breathing. I wonder if you've had this experience more recently than I have, though, because I don't think I've experienced this since literally college. Well, were you there's a good chance you were the one chasing me for people versus zombies or humans versus zombies is what it was called. Society versus zombies. Yes. We're kind of just getting up on the zombies at this point.
00:55:14
Speaker
I haven't experienced it since then because as a work at home, you know, person in the tech industry, I don't get chased very often. And that's going to change starting today. I don't know. I'm going to post your address with this next episode, let people know what's up. No, not recently for me, though. I don't really get up to too, too much.
00:55:40
Speaker
I like that you're hedging here, so you don't have to outright lie and say that here. It was yesterday. It was yesterday. But no, I'm not typically ever chasing people. Most of the time, I have some younger cousins. I can see that as I'll be the fun uncle who will try cardio for about 10 minutes tops, and then I'll find a beer and drink it with your pops, because that's closer to where I'm at. Right.
00:56:10
Speaker
Good run. Thank you. I do practice those before each episode. Mm-hmm. It's just you in a mirror and a piece of paper. What are you doing in there? Pros. Now, be gone. Yeah. I can't remember what was the last time I was actively running after people or having people that's going to run after me.
00:56:38
Speaker
Of the two, I feel like it's more important to specify you haven't been chasing people recently than chased. I think like from a social perspective, that's the important one.
00:56:53
Speaker
Cause if you're being chased, people be like, Oh man, like what happened with someone angry at you or something? You're like, so anyways, I was running this person down, right? And you're like, like, no one's going to know how to jump in on that story. That's such a biblical term. What's the next topic?
00:57:18
Speaker
Do you look down to the side? Do you have topics? I got nothing. It's like I said, it's been a frantic brain day. That's fair. I had a haircut scheduled for today. If you look at my face, that did not happen. Because it's like, oh, your haircut thing is all there. Cool. Let me walk over to it. And they're like, yeah, we don't have you in the system. And I looked at my thing like, oh, that was for a different place.
00:57:42
Speaker
That's not within a walking distance. Also, I'm going to be late. Also, like today is kind of hectic. I probably should talk to more people about work stuff. So I just I didn't go.
Humor in Misunderstandings and Conversation Endings
00:57:52
Speaker
Yeah, but I can charge you.
00:57:55
Speaker
Well, here's the thing, there's an online booking and I gave them my email address and nothing else. Gotcha. So if I book there again, they might be like, hey, weren't you the guy who canceled? I'd be like, ah, listen. This is why you were talking about chasing, because you got to be ready to run if they find you. Mm-hmm.
00:58:13
Speaker
But I want them to run after me because if they have a pair of scissors, that's bad. Yeah, that's a percent chance to die every single second you're running with scissors. Yeah. I actually remember using that as a witty retort because occasionally I'll grow up my facial hair and everything and just be like, I'm lazy, not feeling it. And that'll become my look and eventually I'll get tired of getting everything in my fucking mustache.
00:58:41
Speaker
I had a bagel with cream cheese today. Spent more time cleaning my mustache than anything else. But when I would shave, he'd be like, oh, what happened to you? Obviously I shaved. He'd be like, oh, I ran with scissors. You'd have to come up with like a new thing to like, here's your, here's your joking answer. Get out of here. You just can't.
00:59:04
Speaker
No, those can be good. The sarcastic useless response. Do you have any built-in things? Or do you have any canned responses for like, Oh, I get this question a lot. Here's my, here's my go-to. Uh, not really for questions other than saying, well, instead of good, if people ask how I'm doing. Um, no, I don't know if I have canned responses for questions. I do find that I'll use the same like idioms a lot. And if I was prompted for one,
00:59:35
Speaker
in the situation where I would have to think of one, it would come instantly. And right now I'm not going to be able to think about it if I'm looking for it. But it's the equivalent of saying something like them's the bricks or that's the way it goes or that's how they get you. That's how they get you. Exactly. That's one. That's one. I use the ton.
00:59:56
Speaker
because it doesn't mean anything. It implies an external force or entity that is trying to exert some control over your life, which in most circumstances doesn't make any sense. So that makes it funnier.
01:00:16
Speaker
That's why Jake's been off the grid all these years. They're not going to get me, he said. Right. I literally switched grids for it. And that's time. Boom. Podcast. What if we did that? There was a hard cut. If we didn't have a reducer, just pulled the plug.
01:00:35
Speaker
Like we like we have a guest on and they're like having a heartfelt story and we're just like, that's it. We got their mic muted. They're like, all right, that's all we have time for today. Glorious. I don't think I'd have the heart to do that to anybody. No.
01:00:55
Speaker
At least not on an actual episode. I love it on Discord calls though. I love the abrupt to leave and then I love the commitment to it. When someone's like, like, let's say you'd make a bad joke and we're like, Oh, I gotta, I just gotta leave and then I leave, but then they don't come back. They don't come back. Oh, I should probably like do some errands and I'll come back in like two hours. I think we'll love that. No, that's good. I do like the commitment. Um,
01:01:23
Speaker
Or you're the one you told the joke. Can you leave right after the punch line? If it's like a really terrible joke. Oh yeah, you don't even wait to hear. Or you start to hear like the response. The beginning of the groan. You're like, I've done my job. And gone.
01:01:36
Speaker
I still think it's one of the most rewarding things is to exert a reaction from somebody who you like, whether it be positive or negative. That's why I like shit humor sometimes, not actual poop jokes, which can be good at times as well. There's overlap between these two categories. There's definitely overlap. But I like throwing out a pun and knowing somebody's trapped in the car with me. Oh, yeah. It's so nice.
01:02:02
Speaker
Mm-hmm. It's the dad joke. Like, if I can't make you laugh, I will make you groan. Yeah. For sure. Well, we're over time now. Oh, we getting paid over time?
01:02:19
Speaker
Oh man, I wish. Oh, no, we got to wrap this down. I'm not getting paid for this shit. We have, we got paid at all. Uh, if you're an advertiser out there and you want us to show for you, let us know, please just let us know what you can do. So we'll show for like basically anybody. Dave's going to put some qualifiers on this. I'll cut his mic real quick so we can't do that.
01:02:43
Speaker
I wasn't going to say qualifiers. I just, and I can just also say this afterwards, but like how about going forward? We find something to shout out or somebody to shout out like a friend who's doing something cool. We're like, Hey, we found this thing recently. Shout out to this. That's true. We can make it a segment, albeit a very brief segment.
01:03:04
Speaker
I like that idea. If you have an idea for that segment, maybe you're also a content creator. You have something cool that is vaguely age appropriate. I mean, these are all marked explicit anyways. You can send in your idea, product, content, something. So we can shill for you at soapstonepodcast.gmail.com. Always willing to shill for friends.
01:03:28
Speaker
or join the club on Facebook at facebook.com slash soapstone podcast. And as always, we'll see you in the next one. Have a good night.
01:04:01
Speaker
Bye!