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Episode 5: Don't Watch Alone, Alone
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In this episode of Amplified Nonsense, hosts Bryan Sours of Soursound Audio Works, Charles Henry of Silktone Amplifiers, and producer Emily Harris of Get Offset talk about upcoming guitar and pedal events, get into the science of the Doc Brown’s “Back to the Future” amp wall, and answer a caller’s question about cheating on his partner (aka watching their favorite TV show without her).
If you'd like Bryan, Charles, and Chris to answer your question on an episode of Amplified Nonsense, call (513) 334-3803 and leave a voicemail.
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:08
Speaker
Welcome to Amplified Nonsense, a podcast that's loosely about amplifiers and firmly about your phone calls. It's hosted by Chris Benson from Benson Amps, Brian Sowers of Soursound, and Charles Henry of Silktone Amplifiers.
00:00:24
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And I'm your host, Emily. i will actually be participating a little bit today. So let's get to it.
Camping Stories and Irony
00:00:33
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You should always participate, but why? explain Explain to our viewers, our listeners at home, why today is so special.
00:00:40
Speaker
Yeah, why do you list first the person that's not here? Don't know.
00:00:44
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What are you talking about? He's right there. Thanks, Emily. that's right. He showed up. He made it up. Why can't I see him on the screen? What's happening? you can't see me either. So Chris Benson is not here today, but he used his power of foresight. He's a bit of a seer, and he submitted the things he was going to say. He just recorded an episode on his own with what he thought we would talk about.
00:01:09
Speaker
That's exactly right. We'll see how it fits. Meanwhile, he's out camping, eating nachos with his kid over a sink at midnight. He brought a sink camping and he he's definitely nachos over it. Not a camp washtub. He forgot the fishing poles.
00:01:26
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He had to make room for all the chapstick and nachos. mean, he had this on his calendar. We're here. I'm tired. You're tired. I'm sure Emily doesn't want to hear us banter. Made sure to schedule around him.
00:01:38
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And then he's like, sweet, I'm going to go camping. I hate saying this, but it's so Portland. It's It's Portland, yeah. up. Generally Pacific Northwest. Like, oh, it's nice. I'm going to just eschew responsibilities and yeah and go into nature. Let's go camping. I hate camping.
00:01:58
Speaker
Not everyone can be a miserable workaholic like me. Yeah, I also hate camping. Why do you hate camping? What's wrong with you? Dude, give me a bed. i'm just i'm no I feel too broken to camp.
00:02:10
Speaker
Nature's cool. i like a day I like a sweet day trip. Yeah, day trips are nice, but I've never been closer to divorce than when my husband and I have tried to put up a tent together. Really?
00:02:21
Speaker
Oh, I hate it. Do you want to share that story? I'd love to hear it. We forgot the stakes. So so is that your fault or his fault? You know, neither of us really understand the tent.
00:02:34
Speaker
We ended up, we had a Ford Explorer, so we just slept in the back of that. it was great. Oh, there you go. That's how you need to do it. So in other words, you didn't blame one another for forgetting the tent stakes. You blamed your relationship's existence on forgetting the tent stakes.
00:02:51
Speaker
Something like that. Me and Citi, the biggest fights we've been in have been when we tried to do, when we tried to build something together because we both want to be in control of the project and it's like just too many chefs in the kitchen or whatever.
00:03:05
Speaker
So now we don't do things together. Ikea furniture things or building, building what? It was a barbecue.
00:03:15
Speaker
Yeah. We tried to build a barbecue together. It wasn't even our barbecue. was my sister's barbecue. And we were like, yeah, we were close to divorce, not married. We almost got married just to get divorced over it.
00:03:26
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want one What's new with you guys? Oh, God.
Fretboard Summit Preparations and Comparisons
00:03:33
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It's been a week. it's I'm getting ready for a Fretboard Summit, and I'm so not ready. I was supposed to ship a bunch of stuff today, and it's not going out until tomorrow, so I might have to like second date.
00:03:44
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And ah I'm finishing up so much stuff right now that it's like it's hard to get any one thing done. But Fretboard Summit's cool. i guess that's the new news for me. I'm looking forward to that. You're going be there, right, Emily?
00:03:56
Speaker
Yeah, I am. And I know Chris is going to be there, and Brian is not because he doesn't want to. Unless he goes for camping. That's what I'm to do. I'm going to go camping while you guys go. do that You'll come to Chicago and just not go to f Fredboard Summit. Yeah.
00:04:11
Speaker
No, honestly, that sounds awesome. It's like going to NAMM, going to Anaheim and then not going to NAMM. That doesn't sound awesome at all. Anaheim sucks. Yeah. how Somebody hates Disney World.
00:04:22
Speaker
Disney World's in Florida. Disneyland, my God. yeah No, the fretboard summit is great. The last time I was there, i was on a, I guess a panel with Chris, actually.
00:04:36
Speaker
was the Germanium chef. So it was Robert Keeley and then Heather Brown from Heather Brown Electronicals building a fuzz face from scratch in like an hour.
00:04:48
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And I was going to be one of the judges. Damn, that's cool. It took them both an hour? from there From straight up scratch. yeah What's the buts the judge? What's the contest? Like how good it sounds? Yeah, which one was better?
00:05:01
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Only Roberts worked. only roberts worked Oh, damn. Yeah. That's rough. Yeah, it was real rough. because heather Did it sound good? It sounded fine. it oh heathers heather Heather's was cooler. and think she was more thoughtful about it.
00:05:17
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She fixed it.
Reminiscing Past Events and Amp Shows
00:05:18
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She fixed it like an hour later, went back to her Airbnb and fixed it. I want to do that. i Not to throw shade or anything, but Fuzz Face, pretty simple circuit.
00:05:28
Speaker
An hour seems like a long ah long time for that. Yeah, I think everybody thought it would be enough time, but Keeley, he had like um a maple veneer that he drew schematic on. I don't really understand circuitry. So he like traced it and drew it himself, like on a little piece of maple.
00:05:49
Speaker
That's cool. And then what, just soldered it together on the piece of wood or like poked holes and popped the parts through? Yeah. do they have chassis and stuff or... Yeah, they put they put them in enclosures and everything.
00:06:01
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um sweet. That's cool. I missed all the fun shows like that at Frat Board Summit last year because I was busy like running my booth and drinking beers. But um I did a panel with Chris also. i did Me and Chris and Eli from Turok and ah Maynard did a did an amp panel. That was pretty fun.
00:06:21
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Nice. Yeah. I don't know i't know if I'm going to be on any. It was really last minute last year, which is like, hey, you want to be on this. I was like yeah, OK, but I don't think I have anything planned this year. I'm bringing an employee this time, though.
00:06:33
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So that's going to rock. Yeah. It sucks to run a booth by yourself. So you're just going to be day drunk while he's doing all the work. Yeah. Sounds like capitalism. I'm going to be across the street the whole time. That's I'm bringing him.
00:06:48
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He did great at NAMM. No, after I did NAMM with Nick, he, yeah, I was like, I'm never doing another show alone again. he He carried the load for sure. My friend Corey says the same thing. Go away.
00:07:00
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Be gone, ghost. I want no more. Yeah, go fishing. But yeah, I'm never doing another show alone again, except for when I go to New York in October. and I'll probably do that one alone.
00:07:11
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What's in New York
Anticipation for Upcoming New York Event
00:07:12
Speaker
in October? ah It's ah like one of those Petal Expo things. The thing that Paolo does, the ah Stomp Box. Yeah, oh, the Stomp Box.
00:07:22
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Yeah, yeah. It'll be in Brooklyn. That'll be cool. I've never been New York, so it'll be the first time. That'll be fun. I got bunch of people to visit. You've never been to New York? No. Period? Never. How? I think the farthest east I've been is Chicago.
00:07:35
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What? Yeah. I think the forest farthest east you've been is Japan. It's so far east, it's west. That's weird, though, because I flew west for that. so But, yeah.
00:07:47
Speaker
Does that count? I guess it's... No, i was a joke. I'm sorry. No, it's a good one, though Where in Brooklyn is the that show?
00:07:56
Speaker
Brooklyn? Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. go Wow.
00:08:02
Speaker
No, I have no idea. Just wherever you do, just go get deli sandwiches. That's the best thing about that area. That's the only reason I'm going. Yeah, exactly. It's for the food. I only go to these places where they have food.
00:08:14
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So I haven't gone to Portland in a while. Last time I went to Portland, it was like, Oh, let's get some Mexican food. And Sour's was like, no, all the Mexican food sucks here. And I was like, this would be my last trip.
Debate on Mexican Food Quality
00:08:25
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I mean, that's pretty much the case. I've, I mean, there's there's standouts, but there's not good Mexican food here. It's Portland. Yeah. i've I think the only other place I've had, I've never been to Mexico or anything. that There's not exceptional Mexican food here.
00:08:41
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I need to find out. There's plenty of good restaurants. yeah How do you guys feel about Tex-Mex? I like it. Yeah, like it too. But we're both from Ohio. Of course we like that. show Free chips. Yeah.
00:08:53
Speaker
I don't really enjoy that style of Mexican food. What about New Mexican? That's even better. That's not my thing. I do not like it. What? What is New Mexican? What? Well, I like the hatch green chili element of it. I've only had it once or twice. It's fine.
00:09:08
Speaker
It's just not my favorite. Like New Mexico. burritos. Like from New Mexico? Yeah. New Mexican
Analyzing Movie Scenes and Amplifiers
00:09:17
Speaker
Hey, look it up on your own time. We're in the middle something.
00:09:20
Speaker
That's one? Yeah. That's part of it, right? It's conversation starter. You to get into the first call? I mean, if you guys don't want to talk about Mexican food anymore, I could do an hour on this, but.
00:09:30
Speaker
I don't want to talk about new Mexican food. It's good. Come on. The good old Mexican food. Oh, yeah. I ah feel like I got to apologize to Dave. I think. Oh, yeah.
00:09:42
Speaker
Yeah, Dave. We got to have him on. Which Dave? He's a new Mexican. Non-human audio, Dave. Oh, yeah. He's lovely. He's best. I love that dude. the ah I'll argue with him about Mexican food, even though I haven't tried his weird kind.
00:09:59
Speaker
But Kansas City surprised me. Surprisingly good tacos. Oh, yeah. Almost good as California tacos. Kansas City is all about the barbecue. Yeah.
00:10:09
Speaker
Yeah, awesome barbecue. It was funny. ah Last time I was there, I was talking to Joe Perry about going to Kansas City, and he was like, you got to go to LC's Barbecue. You know that place? And I was like, let me ask my dudes. they They're all about it. And they Mark and Sean were like, oh, fuck it, LC's rocks.
00:10:25
Speaker
So I sent him a photo while we were there because there's like a picture of of Joe Perry up on the wall there. And I sent it to him. I was oh, you're on the wall. And he was like, man, we used to stop here every time and load for the road. Yeah.
00:10:38
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It was a little weird. but Load for the road. Got a load for the road. My God. Amazing. That's going to be my my vocabulary for quite a while now.
00:10:49
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It has been ever since it happened for me. so All right. Let's listen to a phone call. I hear you are asking for questions. I hear you know guitar amps.
00:11:03
Speaker
Deep cut, Back to the Future, original movie, Michael J. Fox, opening scene. He unveils a massive bank of amps and blows himself out with a power cord. So one, you guys are experts. How realistic is the scene?
00:11:18
Speaker
Does it help him win over his girlfriend played by, later by Elizabeth Shue, somebody else in the first movie? And what is your amp wall to impress somebody?
00:11:30
Speaker
Thanks. Wait, the girlfriend's played by someone different in the second movie? No, it's it's well yeah it's Elizabeth Shue, but I guess it is someone different in the first one.
00:11:42
Speaker
I never thought about that. I'm going to watch the scene real quick. Oh, it's Leah Thompson. Oh, wait. No, no, no, no that was mom That's mom. That's his mom. Elizabeth Shue? Claudia Wells in the first one.
00:11:53
Speaker
News to me. ah How realistic is that? I mean, if Doc Brown built your amp rig, it's very realistic. I mean, look at the guy. He made a time machine Yeah, I mean, I would think that if they were hot-rotted, perhaps.
00:12:09
Speaker
That's Tiny Little Guitar. Oh, you really are just watching it right now. Have you never seen this before? He's not even listening to us. No, he's not. He's really not. He's just laughing.
00:12:23
Speaker
Oh, yeah, it's not it's not ah Marty's wall of amps. It's Doc's wall of amps. Well, it's that it's at Doc's spot, so... Yeah, you need a key to turn it on. This is serious.
00:12:35
Speaker
Yeah, isn't that, that's not his place, right? No. um Okay, hold on. I'm looking at it now, and I just want to point out that where he plugs the guitar into is a Gibson GA5T.
00:12:49
Speaker
oh yeah this There's no truth in this. This isn't even possible. It's a 5-watt amp. It's used as a little preamp, dude, to the gigawatt amp. Oh, it's a... It's 10,000 gigawatts or whatever.
00:13:03
Speaker
Herzog. He's using GA5T as a Herzog into the 1,000 gigawatt system. Gigawatts or whatever. chi Is that what he Gigawatts. That's not so much a a wall of amps as a wall of amp.
00:13:17
Speaker
Yeah, it's a wall of amp. It's really a speaker. Also, is he using a stainless steel pick? It looks like it. Man, that's going to make pick slides sound awesome. It shined. The... ah So anyway,
Sonic Weapons and Military Humor
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realistic.
00:13:29
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Again, if Doc Brown built it, it's realistic. The power, if there was 10,000 gigawatts flowing through that speaker, it would definitely but blow up like that if it couldn't handle it.
00:13:41
Speaker
And the the air force from from the excursion of the speaker blasting so hard that it blew up could absolutely knock him back. It'd be like a sonic, yeah, it's like a sonic boom. That's the coolest opening scene of movie I've seen.
00:13:56
Speaker
and what It looks like what happens is is the the tweeters that are positioned at the top. Those blow first. Actually, those are mid drivers, the bigger ones, the mid drivers. So the mid drivers short. They get overdriven.
00:14:07
Speaker
I'm willing to bet it's a solid state DC coupled output, you know through like a Zobel or something on it. and I mean, if you if there's gigawatts flying through that thing, it's solid state.
00:14:18
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. So that's what happened. Mid drivers blow. And when they blow, they short. The whole thing drops. DC ah runs out the output.
00:14:29
Speaker
That's what blows the big woofer and pushes out. And that's where the whole thing. Over-extrusion through the big woofer. And that's what? like That's like a seven-foot woofer.
00:14:39
Speaker
So seven-foot woofer is going to have some massive extrusion. That's not a woofer. That's a motor. You move a lot of air. So that's going to launch.
00:14:50
Speaker
Did you guys know in the military they built like sonic weapons that like emitted brown noise and s***? Brown note, dude. Brown note, yeah. And and to paralyze their enemies and make them all crap their pants?
00:15:03
Speaker
Yeah, but ah ah not successful when the frequency that they're producing is inherently omnidirectional. Yeah, but they tried. So maybe they wear diapers and when they put it on?
00:15:16
Speaker
You can't hurt me. I'm wearing a diaper. Yeah. But either way, yes, this scene is 100% plausible. I just want to point that out. They just stuck they stuck antiphase resonating plugs up there. That's where the the butt plug
Guitar Talk and Notable Musicians
00:15:31
Speaker
was invented. It's an antiphase plug.
00:15:33
Speaker
and If Chris isn't here, does that mean his mom won't listen to the show? Because you're... Don't know. Yeah.
00:15:50
Speaker
Did he record this in his car or on his phone? Was he driving? knew. How do you know? How do you know did? I do this. so He gave us a lot to work with.
00:16:02
Speaker
But yeah, that's how that's how the phase plug came to be. You know, similar to a butt plug. Same shape. Flared bass. Yeah, it's this it's to prevent anatomic resonation of the brown note in friendly fire.
00:16:18
Speaker
Oh, you literally mean a plug. That's disgusting. You see the guitar he is using in that scene? What is that? It's tiny. Yeah, a tiny little thing. That's what saying. so It's like a lap steel with a humbucker in it.
00:16:28
Speaker
The chikita travel guitar the earla wine Chiquita Travel Guitar, Travel Guitar, available on Reverb pre-owned for $1,099. I o put a Seymour Duncan slug in that thing. You said it's an Erlewine? Did Dan Erlewine design that?
00:16:50
Speaker
I guess. Oh, okay. so Someone's going to have to verify that. Yeah, we'll figure it out. for yeah He's at the fretboard summit. You can ask him. Did you make that Marty McFly?
00:17:02
Speaker
He's a li's a guitar luthier. Like a pretty pretty famous one. It's on his website. so Join other musicians including Joe Bonamassa, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Andy Summers, Paul
Impressive Amp Walls and Vintage Gear
00:17:14
Speaker
McCartney, Billy Gibbons, and more in discovering the small and mighty Chiquita Travel Guitar. It's a 19-inch scale length.
00:17:24
Speaker
Weird. I thought you were listing off people that were going to be at fretboard summit at first. And I was it's like, what? like crap do I need to go to this. i don't want to be around people. from Sorry. The second part of that question is what would your, what would you put on your amp wall to impress somebody?
00:17:44
Speaker
To impress someone. Hmm. Oh, I didn't realize I had to impress anyone. I don't know. like ah Who are we talking about? Impress them with like rare amps or impress them with ah getting blown the back when you turned them on?
00:17:58
Speaker
Put some ancient medieval weaponry up there or something. what What's going to impress? What's going to impress you, Charles? That's a weird question to answer. What would impress you, Emily?
00:18:10
Speaker
and On an amp wall? Yeah. Yeah. God, nothing. i'm I'm unimpressed. Yeah, know, right? I don't know. I'd be pretty stoked off of like a giant wall of DR-103s, like vintage ones.
00:18:25
Speaker
That'd be pretty sweet. i That's just my like my favorite amp though. So I'm easy. That's super attainable. That's not too hard. I think a ton of people have DR-103 walls. I mean, some like amp wall stuff when I was recording High on Fire, like the full length.
00:18:40
Speaker
I swear my ears still ring from that. Jesus. What, it what amps were they? what Didn't you build amps? Yeah. Yeah.
Recording Experiences with Bands
00:18:47
Speaker
Yeah. Well, not for that, but I had, I had one involved. Yeah.
00:18:52
Speaker
Um, I have, man, it was so much stuff. Just make it sound like volume four. Yeah. Well, which we had, we had a Lainey super group. I don't know, 72 or 73. I can't remember. Super group 100 that I had rebuilt.
00:19:06
Speaker
And that he had just recorded that sleep album, the sciences with that amp specifically. i'm right um So we had that and there was ah hundred wide JCM 800. There was...
00:19:21
Speaker
there was Oh man, I have pictures but buried somewhere. um There's so much stuff. There was ah one of those Yamaha, Mike Saldano designed Yamaha T100s, I think, that I had actually done a lot of modifications to.
00:19:39
Speaker
My friend Corey says the same thing. I know Corey. Corey doesn't say that. I'd buy that for a dollar. I'd buy a T100 for a dollar. What was the most used amp on that record?
00:19:50
Speaker
I had my 15 watt combo. Like clean guitars for all that. And some like solo stuff. We definitely went through a lot of amps. um And there was some reamping involved too by by other people, not just me. So I can't even tell you, like over recorded.
00:20:08
Speaker
i think Kripalu told me to keep it sparse and you know minimal, like just to the meat of it. And I was like, oh yeah, totally, totally. And then had... 35 40 tracks of guitar it was stupid is it over recording if they want a grammy think that's enough recording yeah to win the grammy was over it was it was too much um i had my 55 watt my old 55 watt amp there we had a friedman 100 i think a b100 which one were you the most impressed by was there one that stood out
00:20:42
Speaker
Okay, so there's one sound on that record on one song that I'm to this day we just very proud of. And that was, I set that rig up and I remember doing that.
00:20:53
Speaker
I had suggested Matt play his- This is Electric Messiah, right? Yeah, yeah. I think it's this this the solo on Sanction Annihilation, i think is what it was.
00:21:04
Speaker
And you you know Matt for a long time with ah High on Fire had been using that custom first act nine string guitar. which I found out later that my cousin actually built or was involved with building because he worked there. Which is kind of crazy. I didn't know that.
00:21:20
Speaker
And um so I suggested for the solo for him to play that. And the rig was like, if I remember correctly, i think we had a boost pedal, probably my $100 boost in there, ah feeding a, what was that? A Dynacord VRS 23, VSR, I think it's VRS 23, which is a an analog bucket. The double tracker?
00:21:47
Speaker
Oh. No, no, no, it's it's a reverb, but it uses bucket brigade chips. It's a delay. It's a delay to make a reverb, short delay. but it's german and it used uh i think they were german produced bucket brigades that effectively predate or are around the same time as like the panasonic chips they sound fantastic you'll never find them they sound yeah you can find those those units but not the chips anyway oh no no okay i screwed this up boost pedal front end friedman b100
00:22:21
Speaker
I think it's on the high gain channel. So, you know, obviously the gain is derived from there out of the send of the effects loop into the VRS 23 and then stereo out of that one side back into the Friedman return of the effects loop, the other side out into a sour sound 55 watt amp, my amp.
00:22:46
Speaker
Um, So into that, and then that was cranked more and pushed more for like upper mids. And then split off, obviously, to two separate cabs, two separate mics.
00:22:57
Speaker
And so it wasn't double tracking, but it also wasn't like you know, more reverb, not really echo. And just what it did with the harmonics coming off of the nine string, because that thing just sounds wild when it's distorted.
00:23:12
Speaker
I mean, if you had a stereo set up with a cool delay in there, that's like, does that qualify as double tracking kind of? mean, we were clipping that front end of the VRS23 to just the slightest bit.
00:23:24
Speaker
Like it was just a little bit of more harmonics upon more harmonics. with a bass signal that was basically a distorted guitar signal. That's it. What track was it again? I want to listen to it after this.
00:23:35
Speaker
It's the, there's I guess there's, if I remember correctly, there's two solos, like the first one's longer, but it's, I think it was sanctioned. Annihilation is the name of the song. It's in the middle of the record. If I remember correctly on electric Messiah by high on fire.
00:23:50
Speaker
If any of you want to go listen to I think Brian is talking a little too much.
Voicemail Humor and Insights
00:23:54
Speaker
Should I be offended by that? I'm offended.
00:24:00
Speaker
Come on, man. Ring-a-ding-ding. Seriously. This is We should just have Chris on this way all the time. yeah
00:24:13
Speaker
Bangers. mean, he's on fire. He submitted more clips than I had space for Zencaster. oh my God. What?
00:24:24
Speaker
What? right. Oh, we have another voicemail. We have time for one more voicemail. All right. Do you want clowns or relationship?
00:24:36
Speaker
Relationship. Same. Yeah, my girlfriend and I like to watch the TV show alone together, but lately she's been really busy and hasn't been able to watch.
00:24:48
Speaker
So my question is, would it be wrong if I watched a few episodes without her? I wouldn't spoil it or anything and I'll happily rewatch them, but I know it's kind of controversial.
00:24:59
Speaker
Thanks. That is absolutely wrong. Absolutely not allowed. You do not do, especially alone. no I agree. Like meet me and Jess are all about that. Or we've already talked about this or maybe we haven't recorded us talking about it, but alone is awesome.
00:25:19
Speaker
I haven't seen it. What? But any show, I don't care what it is. Any show, if you're if you're committed to watching it together and that's, it's hard to find time to, it's hard enough to find time to spend together. But when you're watching a show and you're committed to that, be patient, be patient and wait for your partner and watch the show that that you've committed to watching together.
00:25:40
Speaker
Emily, what's this guy's name? He didn't give a name. Oh, You didn't want to be called out publicly. Yeah. I would have found his girlfriend and told her to break up with him as he was considering, as he was considering. don't rat him out yeah Don't do that.
Debate on Watching Shows Without Partners
00:26:00
Speaker
Especially alone. me or him.
00:26:05
Speaker
Don't watch it. Don't watch alone. When you've been watching it with your partner, don't watch it alone. Yeah, right? i mean, the best thing about the show, in my opinion, or the best way to watch is what I should say, is is like We don't just do like one episode. You watch it like a couple of them.
00:26:22
Speaker
you know So like you get in it. Because, I mean, Charles knows this. like we We wait. like We don't watch shows when they come out or anything. It's just... It's frustrating because I always want to talk about them with you. I'm like, did you see that episode? And I'm like, oh, no, you didn't because you're a dickhead.
00:26:38
Speaker
You wait till the end. Oh, don't spoil it. Dude, it's been eight weeks. wait Yeah, I don't like waiting. Like, waiting a week. Yeah. And Alon's like that too, because like there's the ramp, you know, how the season, like the show ramps.
00:26:52
Speaker
So like, if he's like, oh, I really just want to watch like the second episode. That's some pointless. Like you're not going to get anything from that. You're going to maybe one more person that taps out. If you're lucky, you're not going to see anyone.
00:27:03
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but okay. You might see a couple like, you know, neat people making tools or working on their shelters. And I like that stuff, but really like in the grand scheme of a season, there's nothing to be gained by watching an early one ahead of your partner.
00:27:17
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But so like what you're doing the end, like you want to know who wins it. Like, come on, man. Okay. So here's another question for both of you. After all of the, after the unanimous disdain over the notion of watching one, have you guys ever done that?
00:27:34
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You guys ever watched one without your partner? I just watched South Park premiere without her. Did you watch South Park without her? ah We talked about that. I was like, dude, you've got to watch it. and You're like, I'm waiting for Jess. I was like, no, don't. Just watch it. now And Jess doesn't know this.
00:27:54
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No, you just just reprimanded this man yeah wanting to watch a couple episodes of Roland building his rock house. yeah
00:28:07
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Rock house. Do as I say, not as I do. Watching somebody kill a Wolverine with ah an axe. i And you watched South Park.
00:28:18
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and That season is so good. Well, yeah, you know, obviously there was a lot of like fervor in the news and and, you know, a lot of uproar about it, about the premiere, when it premiered.
00:28:28
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The South Park premiere. yeah Yeah, and I had this weird thought like, you know, obviously there's the context of the Paramount lawsuit and the like 16 million or whatever, whatever that was.
00:28:39
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And so my thought honestly was that by like day two, that it was going to get taken down. Like I just assumed because, you know, they... they paid those guys, what, $1.5 billion? dollars Yeah, $1.6 billion. and Yeah, yeah, like, I just assumed that Paramount would be like, oh here we go, and just take it all down and just rip the contract up and say, like, sue us or something.
00:29:05
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The CEO stepped down. Did you hear that? No, was it because? After that happened, yeah, the CEO was like, oh, I guess I'm stepping down. Yeah. I assume because of that mess, but ah yeah yeah. I did watch it, but again, because I thought that I wouldn't be able to watch it pretty soon.
00:29:22
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But you haven't told Jess. So when you guys inevitably watch it together, are you going to, are you going to, oh, so you did watch it together and you pretended to have not seen it yet. I did. Yes.
00:29:42
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I can't wait till Jess hears this episode. Jess isn't going to listen to this. Come on. I'm going to send it to him. the When we first started dating, the, not Lord of the Rings, but the Hobbit movies were were around. Like they were coming out.
00:29:59
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And I think it was like, I think it was like the second Hobbit movie that had come out. It like just come out. And my, my buddy, Matt,
00:30:11
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was like, you know, hey, I really want to go see this. Will you go see this with me? And I was like, yeah, you know, I really want to see it too. Yeah, no problem. And ah we ended up getting like hammered and we're like drinking in the theater watching the Hobbit movie. this i guess Like I said, this is second one.
00:30:28
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And I think like, I think Jess was out of town and like a week or something later, this was a, this was obviously quite a long time ago. Jess got back and was like, Hey, you know, I was waiting for you. I really wanted to see new Hobbit movie, you know, let's go see it. And I was like, Oh, I got drunk with Matt and we went and they were so, so pissed at me for like years.
00:30:54
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Oh, that's a bummer. Oh man. That's, Oh, you're totally- Just like the Lord of the Rings, is those stories mean a lot to Jess. and Right. know, South Park doesn't have the weight, so I'm not terribly concerned that that any major ordeal will come of it.
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but But you still hid it.
00:31:17
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didn't say anything. We watched it together, and it was just as funny, and I was exuberant about the funniness of it. I've totally done it too. I've totally, when we watch anime and stuff, I get super like, God, we'll bang 10 of those at a time.
00:31:33
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And um yeah, recently, even recently, like I wanted to watch a bunch of One Piece and Siddy was like, no, wait for me. and I was like, you haven't even really been watching. You've been kind of just on your phone the whole time anyway.
00:31:44
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But ah yeah, okay, I'll wait for you. And then I totally watched two episodes that didn't tell her. And then I i just threw them back on the next weekend when she came back to watch. See, everyone's done it. You're still a piece of shit.
00:31:57
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Still a piece of shit? Yeah. yeah You shouldn't do it. yeah We're, you know, self-proclaimed degenerate pieces of shit. You don't want to be like us. It's a critical thing. Of Emily's over there like I have no wrong. Emily, if you have you done it?
00:32:13
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No, i I don't do it, but... Good on you. So, well, here's the thing. So I worked from a home before the pandemic. And also before I worked from home, Rick often worked nights or in the evenings, so a lot later than me. So I had a lot of time to watch TV.
00:32:31
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And then when he started also working from home... He started watching the shows that I was watching, like Righteous Gemstones and stuff like that. And so now I have to wait for him on these shows. I was able to just...
00:32:45
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binge on my own oh that's frustrating yeah i mean it's more fun to watch it with him and i i did watch back all the righteous gemstones with him but i'm like man i have like two or three shows now that i i can watch without him because he hasn't gotten invested in them and i'm trying to keep those ones close to the chest honestly Yeah, totally. I definitely have shows that I watch.
00:33:10
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Yeah, I have shows that I watch by myself. That's different. Or if I start a show by myself and then Citi starts watching it, I'll be like, no, i'm I started it I'm going watch it when I want watch it. like We don't watch everything together, but um there's some overlap for sure.
00:33:26
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Yeah, but if you start watching something and you're like, You're like, oh, my partner would love
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00:33:31
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this. You got to stop. Yeah. Sometimes. Yeah, I've done that. I've watched an episode or two and been like, oh, damn. OK, this would be cool to watch with.
00:33:39
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But then other like Bosh, she don't care. and it's stupid, dumb cop show, whatever. I love it. ah So I watch crap like that by myself, just like while I'm falling asleep.
00:33:51
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00:34:30
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I talk to these guys all the time, but I don't get to answer calls. What do you think, Chris? Pro Tools is a computer virus.
00:34:40
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Oh my god. We just like like have like some B-roll time here and just roll some of those out. We should do another one next week and see if anyone even notices but that it's different.
00:34:53
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How you doing over there, Chris? Haven't heard heard from you in a bit. Don't know. See, i now I know that this is AI because the real Benson would never say, don't know.
00:35:05
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Would he ever say? ha, hee hee, ho ho. Nobody might say Pro Tools is a virus. Pro Tools is a computer virus. there's one one more Where is it?
00:35:18
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That dude probably likes the hi-hat. ah I've done it. I've liked the hi-hat. Let's go on go out on that high note.
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