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Ty & Eric hop in the Sprinter van to discuss why footlongs are ideal Van Life food, whether butane stoves could solve our homeless crisis, if Subway consumption contributed to Fogle’s motivations, attending a mountain top potluck, the intermission in the Brutalist, Timothy Chalamet’s SNL apprearance, Victor Wembanyama’s diet, and creating a podcasting clinic for men.
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Celebrating 400 Episodes of Think Fresh
00:00:07
Speaker
Hello, Brendan!
00:00:11
Speaker
Tye and Eric, back in the booth for the 400th episode of Think Fresh Podcast, everybody. ah oh whoa what And that's the European side of you coming out to roll in those arms.
Evolution in Hip-Hop: From Kendrick to Designer
00:00:27
Speaker
Yeah, dude. You don't remember a designer? oh The rapper?
00:00:32
Speaker
Oh, I remember designer fresh freshman XL freshman 16, right? Yeah, maybe 18 18 maybe second best year. Yeah 16 because of ah the Pablo era. Yes. That's right. That was right. Dude. That was when there was so much potential for the hip-hop industry like back then they didn't think that Like Kendrick and Drake would be in the beef they are today, you know? Yeah, dude. Yeah, in 2016, we didn't think that we would forget every single artist that was coming out in 2016 and only care about the ones that came out in 2010. Yeah, isn't that a while? Hip-hop is a heritage movement at this point.
00:01:08
Speaker
Maybe we're just becoming old heads. Like, we just gravitate to the artists of our era, and that's what our forefathers have always done. And we we call them Unk, you know, we berated them, but really we're just becoming Unks. Dude, 100%, like every 40-something is like super into Wu-Tang Clan, and I just don't get it.
Nostalgia and Subway's Cultural Impact
00:01:27
Speaker
Yeah. Well, that's why, I mean, that's why we long for the days with a $5 foot long tie. We're just like trying to grasp onto whatever childhood we have left. You're right. Back when Drake and Subway would take care of me. Listening to take care while I take care of my lunch, dude.
00:01:45
Speaker
Dude. That was a tough time. i know But ah you know, those just 12 inches and Marvin's room got me got me through it all. you know It made me the man I am today. That's right. That's crazy. like that like The $5 footlong has built the modern man. The modern man, someone like middle aged, they're like peak years of growth were due to a $5 12-inch sandwich.
00:02:14
Speaker
They probably, like humankind probably consumed millions of these things, right? Yeah.
Victor Wemenyama: Rising Star in Basketball
00:02:21
Speaker
I mean, I don't think we would have a wen binyama tie if it wasn't for a Subway. What the hell is a wen binyama?
00:02:30
Speaker
That's the rookie on the San Antonio Spurs who was like 7'5". Oh, interesting. I thought you were just going to describe like a Benny Hana ripoff. Wen binyama.
00:02:43
Speaker
Let's I'm just gonna show you what this guy looks like compared to Victor when they me on LeBron James who is nine Okay, we're looking at a picture of Victor next to LeBron Yo, this guy's looks like he looks like um the Statue of Liberty. Yeah, literally with Liberty Yeah, he doesn't jump really he just kind of dunks the ball. That's crazy Yeah, he doesn't really have to kind of get up there to out jump even the tallest players in the NBA. Oh Life for this guy would be hard. Honestly, he's going to get decked by every doorframe he walks through. Yeah. Like you're constantly ducking. Yeah, dude. But imagine like he's ah no doubt looked up to LeBron James his whole life as this idol. Now he's looking down, bro. Now he's like quite literally looking down on him. That's crazy. Yeah. Everyone looks up to this guy. Yeah. What a muse. Truly insane. But that's, you know, all off of the the footlong. 100 footlong with that guy. When you eat long food, you become Wemenyama. You are what you eat, truly. Exactly. Kind of crazy. But the thing is, like, the guy who ate the most subways ended up a pedophile. So, like, what does that say about the you are what you eat mantra? Damn. I don't know that. Makes you think, though, it doesn't it? A little bit concerning. It's very concerning. It makes me think, like, what's so young about the sandwich that he's eating?
00:04:06
Speaker
Dude, it's all those baby, that baby spinach. should be all on no Petite little black olives. Very petite. I don't know, dude. There's something about Subway that just, I think it's, it's just a pedophilia foot. I think it's, I think it's the phallic shape actually. It could be. It could be.
00:04:27
Speaker
think you think that like a pedophile would like some nice fresh toasted buns but like proper like hamburger buns you know there's something a bit more like just kind of like the shape of it is it like a child's bum
00:04:43
Speaker
The footlong, girthy, large adult. Yeah, no no sesame seeds on those buns either. No, no, they are greased. They're perfectly smooth, yeah. Baby's bottom buns. But I guess like the new subway, like the the potato bread is kind of in that zone. Like, RIP Jared Fogle, you would have loved the potato buns. Yeah.
00:05:00
Speaker
It's also the only, one of the only fast food restaurants that serves cookies. That's like a kid's food. Dude, that is 100% a kid's food. No, dude, when you're, I mean here in like the construction worker in front of me online is like adding the cookies to his, to BMT. As one just walks out of Starbucks. Literally the construction worker's walking by with a venti-frap. Damn. That's crazy.
The Intersection of Van Life and Food
00:05:21
Speaker
It blows my mind that these, like there's a child in every man, you know, deep inside.
00:05:25
Speaker
dude all tough blue collar guys they just want a little frappuccino once in a while they just want to be a little spooned once in a while too yeah we're also currently parked next to an amazon worker who is eating his foot long in the driver's seat i don't know if you can see ty yo i didn't even notice that yeah it's it's a wrap i believe you can probably see on the rear view or the left side mirror Oh yeah, dude, I see them going bite for bite now. Wow, that's so crazy that Amazon drivers, they are so committed to their job that they even eat in the driver's seat. They're not even sitting inside the subway, which is nearly 20 feet away.
00:05:58
Speaker
I mean, look at this thing. this This truck is quite impressive, if you ask me. It's a you know so almost like a Sprinter or like a a Ford kind of cargo van. And who knows what he's, he's probably got like a little bed in the back. Yeah, dude. Like, it's kind of funny that like, there's like this van lifer aesthetic, but then Amazon Prime delivery drivers are kind of doing the exact same thing. They're eating, pissing and sleeping in the same vehicle. That's about literally they're like the same model. Like I think the,
00:06:29
Speaker
the Ford Transat is kind of the default van life vehicle. Yeah I mean the default's a sprinter but no van life people can afford it. Exactly. That's the problem. I was going to say this the Mercedes sprinter but it does it is too too expensive. And then to buy that just to mod the shit out of it doesn't even make sense you know. Every single person who's considered living in a van has googled the sprinter first.
00:06:52
Speaker
Yeah, and then they're like, oh, I'm paid for that market. That's for influencers only. Like, damn, I can't even afford to be homeless? That's crazy. That is crazy. Yeah, like, the the real head, like home like, people that live in their vehicle, it's like, old RV, no insurance, tarp over one window. Like, that's how you, if you want to do it on the street, that's how they're doing it. Yeah. Like, stuff blocking all the windows. Yeah. Like, not even, like, for privacy. It's just, there's no room anywhere else. Yeah, they've accumulated too much. They need Marie Kondo.
00:07:22
Speaker
They got a Marie Kondo the condo. Yeah, that is their condo. crazy But Subway is also, we've discussed this many times, it's the perfect road trip food because you can eat it in the car, you know? You got a nice big paper that kind of blocks, it's kind of like when Dexter like murders someone, he like wraps the entire room in plastic. That's that's what the Subway paper is able to do for the driver's seat, right?
00:07:44
Speaker
So it'll catch all the olives, it catches all of the mustard drippings, no need to worry. So you can eat it in the car, you can eat it on the plane. It's the perfect travel food. That's a good point. I would say that the sandwich itself is not the best vehicle for transportation of ah of a lunch. The sandwich itself falls apart.
00:08:05
Speaker
a little bit. like there You're catching strays on on your lap the whole time, but it is the packaging that makes the subway the ultimate road trip food. It is that tarp that you lay down over the lap.
00:08:16
Speaker
Yeah but also like a sandwich is kind of it's you can eat it while driving as well yeah you don't have to park like you can actually kind of get away with eating a wrap or um i've seen people eat with chopsticks in the car which is really impressive that is crazy and i've actually done the wrap while driving before and it's it's an exhilarating tie especially when you're in traffic Dude, the rap is stressful, especially those last few bites. The bottom bites are scary. Yeah, dude. Because a wrong bite and it's falling apart. It's falling apart, yeah. It requires a sensitivity to the structural integrity of the rap at every chomp. You really got to bite it left to right and then back to the beginning. but You can't kind of like bounce around too much or else you'll create too much flap.
00:09:06
Speaker
Dude, you gotta like subdue the flap. Yeah. There's no so flap with a sandwich. It is the ideal handheld. Bagels are good too, but you know what Tim Hortons does? They don't have any tarp to lay down once you get a bagel. What do you mean? What does it come in? It's just like wrapped in like the world's smallest piece of parchment paper and they don't even give you napkins with it these days. You got nothing. You gotta eat that shit outside.
00:09:30
Speaker
Dude, thank God Trudeau's out because we need to bring back paper bags, plastic bags actually. Triple the amount of disposable packaging. Yeah, back to plastic and back to like excessive amount of napkins. Yeah. I am surprised that the makeup industry has gone this long with excessive packaging. Like you see some of the shit that sits before these days. Yeah. Like the world's smallest lip balm wrapped in like a giant globe of plastic. Yeah, dude. I bought a Chanel sunscreen during COVID and it came in, it's like An inch long it's like a tiny little thing and it comes in like a massive box with a ribbon And I'm like, this is like the most insane shit ever, but I i love it. Yeah, that is crazy. I just I don't know I feel like How long can this facade go on where humans are convinced to buy packaging? You know instead of the product in it That's a beauty of subway the packaging. I love packaging. It's so thinly wrapped
00:10:25
Speaker
Yeah, but they don't even give you the bag anymore. Like, you gotta have a special request, the footlong bag. I don't like the bag. You don't like it? I don't like the footlong bag. Well, not if I'm going straight to the table, but if I'm, you know, gonna walk out of there and, I don't know, maybe take it to go, God forbid, or eat it in my whip. I don't want to, like, carry it like a baby. um I want to just kind of chuck it in the bag and keep it moving.
00:10:46
Speaker
Okay, take it back. I hate the plastic bag. It's too thin. It's not brand-propelling. The paper bag, which is the shape of the footlong, feels like I'm carrying a baguette out of a French bakery. That is nice. I love that one. That's a great bag. That's also funny because whenever I'm brown bagging my sandwich, I feel like I'm trying to hide it from the world. Yeah. I think there's something kind of funny about that. Yeah, dude, brown bagging the sandwich on the stoop. Yeah, exactly. Kind of cool.
00:11:13
Speaker
But they don't they they should get rid of the the packaging the branding on the packaging, then. Yeah, I agree. I want a white label. Yeah, yeah. Just anonymous brown bag. White bread label, baby. When an officer pulls up, it's like, what you got there, buddy? It's like steak and cheese.
00:11:27
Speaker
Yeah, who's your supplier? I'll never tell. Exactly. Aw, man. Yo, Ty, I want to talk to you about what I did this weekend. I went on a 27 kilometer hike. What? Oh, wait. And this normally wouldn't be interesting, but I do want to talk to you about the things I ate on this hike. Okay. Because, you know... That's like three meals, dude.
00:11:51
Speaker
Yeah, that's like kind of constant snacking for like eight hours. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Which stomachs don't love. Stomachs hate this one trick. To just like keep moving and eating. Yeah, exactly. Fuel while you move. But, um, if you think about it, like the gorp movement tie, good old raisins and peanuts, that's pretty much what fueled me for most of that. How many cliff bars?
00:12:16
Speaker
I had two Go! Macro bars, one of my favorite Robert Irvine protein bars. Shout out to Robert Irvine. He's basically like a bodybuilder chef. Oh, what? That's awesome. And then at the top tie, we had some spicy tuna, black coffee,
00:12:38
Speaker
and Teddy Grahams was like with the item of a fucking inmate. let's see Yeah dude so spicy ground tuna kind of like spread over a cracker and then I kind of we ran out of crackers so it ended up moving in onto the Pringles. It's like if you asked early AI to generate food yeah they come up with that meal.
00:12:58
Speaker
Yeah, it's what people who live in vans eat. Yeah, basically. And not the not the cool kind of vans. Yeah, exactly. The ones who don't don't get the Sprinter. So how did you make the coffee? I'm assuming it was freshly brewed on a mountain peak. Yes, so brought a little stove, warmed up some water and then instant coffee. um But that alongside probably the spiciest tuna ever eaten and like a handful of teddy grams and a handful of Pringles and then some like random kind of like gummy candy, all these things didn't really mix well on the way down. And then you're like, okay, fueled up, time to walk 14 kilometers on this. Oh, I would be reeling over, dude. That's rough. I think I threw up in my mouth like three times on the way down. um But yeah, it was it worked out. It worked out. Do you have any lessons you can share with me from this experience?
00:13:52
Speaker
Um, I would say put effort into cooking normal food at the top. Yeah. Yeah. If you have a stove, then you can heat up some like craft dinner at the bare minimum. That's true. At least it's a consistent meal. Yeah. And I would also maybe stop halfway up to make the coffee and versus like having it with your food because coffee and like camping food don't really go well together. But you don't want to have it too early in the hike or you'll have to shit at the top.
00:14:20
Speaker
Yeah. The goal is to always ship before the hike. Yeah. Just ride it out. Yeah. And if you don't, then maybe just leave the coffee at home. It's kind of like alcohol, right? You just don't want to mix. If you mix too much, you're going to have a bad time. And I think food on a hike is the same way. Stick to the seedy nutty bars and never deviate from that and you'll be fine. As soon as you get a little freaky with it, you're like, I'm going to try to make a, make a mountain top quesadilla. That's when you're in trouble. This is what happens when four people bring food. It's a potluck. A peak luck. Exactly. A mountain top potluck. Wow. I got to say that was... Yeah, that's crazy, dude. All of those things are great in isolation. It's just mixing um in your stomach while you're kind of running downhill. Not great.
00:15:07
Speaker
No, that's not great at all. But you know what is kind of cool about that is that you got to experience coffee culture in a beautiful place. I think that's really special. Yeah. Yeah, it was quite nice. Dude, the portable stove is like, why don't all homeless people have them? like I mean, like but it just makes eating like actually possible without, I don't know, getting like hot food somewhere. Like you can actually just make whatever you want, like in the middle of the street if you want it. Yeah, like you can get like a portable butane stove at Canadian Tire or Walmart for like $29, which maybe is asking too much for someone down on their lock. Pot lock? Down on their pot lock?
00:15:51
Speaker
But then you just can like you can cook every meal like for 30 bucks. You have like unlimited I guess we can't call it home cookie you can have unlimited street cookie under a bridge yeah three food Yeah, you're right. It's the it's the fuel that's kind of expensive But I think homeless people are really good at starting fires. Yeah, especially in LA Yeah, so I think just you know start a little fire get the pot on top of that and you're good to go Yeah, dude, it's ah a little bit more civilized than like roasting rats over an open flame in a garbage can boil her at sir another boiled It's a good idea though
00:16:36
Speaker
More more solutions for the van lifers when i lived in a van yeah yeah that's right right ah If you haven't known if you didn't know what I did live in a van before the pod ever existed That's right. It was pre-pod before before I got my bread up from this podcast and then could afford to live like a normal NPC human Mm-hmm, but maybe we should be clear. You didn't live in a van in your hometown. No you you traveled to for the sole purpose of living and in the van in a new place. That's true. It was a means of unlocking vacationing. People would call those digital nomads these days. Yeah. You were kind of a pioneer. I think digital nomad now is a bit of a slur to describe these people.
00:17:17
Speaker
Yeah, it's definitely pejorative. Yeah, exactly. So I don't really like to associate myself with the digital nomad culture. Nonetheless, while my tribulations in van life were happening, I did have a portable butane stove that I use for almost every meal. But I got to say the hardest part about it, Eric, is you can't really light it in the van because you're a little worried about like dying dying but if you try to light it out of the van you don't have a ton of control over whether you're in a covered area or not and you might just be pulled over on the side of a road so you're always at the mercy of the wind
00:17:54
Speaker
And we don't really think about this too much at campsites because it's one night and you can deal with it. And most places like Subway are all, <unk> they're not al fresco, they're confined. But when you have to cook every single meal and fight the wind, it really wears you down. Okay, survivor, man. Yeah, dude, I feel like I was on the last season of Survivor. Yeah, dude, you were one day away from drinking your own piss. And you're like, fuck, it's time to go home.
00:18:20
Speaker
um no dude i think the move and i i only know this because i used to live beside so many people who would live in their vans they would spend most of the time with the van door wide open and just kind of like hang out in the van with all the windows not the windows but the door wide open um I'm assuming that's enough airflow to cook up a meal kind of like near the door, you know, so you're, you got some fresh air coming in, you know, you don't have like too much food smell lingering, you know. You don't want that food smell because that's where you're sleeping. Exactly. Yeah, you're cooking where you're eating and you're shitting where you're sleeping. It's probably actually a better setup than living in a like like a studio apartment because it's the same challenges, you know, getting like you the sense of the curry you ate last night in your sheets. Yeah.
00:19:08
Speaker
So that seems like an obvious solution. Did you do that? Like, did you just cook inside with the door open? Almost never. I should, maybe. Really? You just didn't think of that? I guess not, dude. I'm not that innovative, my guy. Did your van have, like, shelving and stuff that the previous owner installed?
00:19:26
Speaker
Uh, it did. And then I also installed some more. Oh yeah. I needed more space. Oh, got the walking closet in in the trans app. Yeah. And it did have doors on all sides, like many vehicles do. I could have opened them and I never thought of it. Wow. You kind of build one side of your van up to be a storage unit Like you'll put a shelf off or you'll put a bookcase or full bookcase is a bit of a stretch But hmm, I don't you mean yeah cupboards you eventually turn it into something that is unopenable Right, so you never ever open that one side. Yeah, you end up reliant on a single point of entry no back door Right. So were you going through the back door or the side door? I'm a side door man. I door, sometimes we pop it to see what's happened back there. Did the back door open upwards and create almost like an awning? Yes, it created a little shelf. That's a good way, if you're buts if you are finally considering downsizing, look for an awning-type back door because it will protect you from the rain.
00:20:31
Speaker
Yeah. It's a nice feeling. That is a nice little feature. Um, I don't know what it is, Ty, but I'm kind of into the idea of owning like a nice truck or van that offers some of these camping abilities, like not something to live in, but something where I can install like either a rooftop tent yeah or like something that has a real awning that comes out and then you can have like seating and like a little fire pit or something. Yeah, dude, that would be very cool. Yeah, it's fun when your vehicle can be your home in a pinch like my pedestrian grocery getter vehicle right now seats lay flat back in the back seat and business class like all that yeah exactly the flat and All the windows are tinted so good night tie That's a nice little feature. Mm-hmm unexpected didn't buy it for that reason, but I'm happy I have it. Mm-hmm
00:21:25
Speaker
And also like van life is great for eating subway because you get full ventilation going. If you can open both sides, perfect airflow going through your dining area. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. And the last benefit is like sometimes you're just too drunk to drive home. And in that case, it's nice to be able to pop the rooftop tent. That is nice. we'll tackle We'll tackle that challenge in the morning. Yeah. Is that actually legal? Like can can you sleep in your car drunk? I don't know.
00:21:55
Speaker
i've heard of I've heard stories where people will be like sleeping even in the backseat with the keys in their pocket drunk and they'll still like get clipped. No. Yeah. Wow. We need better. We need more clear regulation around this. Yeah. I avoided a situation like this in my younger years die.
00:22:11
Speaker
I was planning on sleeping in my car, just like completely blitzed, but instead I walked home, which all men will do instead. I'd rather walk 15 kilometers than sleep in my car. Dude, because that pilgrimage, it may be 15k, but it feels like five after enough pints. Yeah, I think I stole a bike on the way home. So I just rode someone's bike and then ditched it outside my house. No, that's so sick.
00:22:38
Speaker
Come do what you gotta to do. Avoiding breaking some laws, breaking others in the process. yeah Me and you talked about how we always remember our last playground drunken experience. That was mine. That was it. yeah That was the same same night. Until next weekend baby.
00:22:54
Speaker
Man, so Eric, I watched SNL for the first time in a hot minute this weekend.
Pop Culture and SNL Highlights
00:23:00
Speaker
I'm sorry to hear that. No, it's okay. I only did it because my my muse, Timothy Chalamet, was featured this week. Was he hosting? He was both hosting and the musical guest. A first time in SNL history. I didn't know he could slap the bass.
00:23:17
Speaker
i Mean he can do it about as good as mr. Bob Dylan. Oh shit. Okay Yeah, so he did a few Dylan tracks at the end with James Blake on piano random. Oh, that's so sick It was kind of sick. Whoa, it was really weird because they didn't do any other intros It was just like they cut it's the end of the show. They cut into the musical guest suddenly um James Blake just comes out of nowhere and I'm like, hey, I know that guy That's kind of cool. And then Adam Sandler popped out of nowhere too, and he's like, Timothy's channeling me and everybody, and then he just disappeared again. Just spawned and unspawned. I love it. Yeah. But I think my ah my favorite ah SNL moment was when, I think it was, but who's the guy who dated J.Lo? Who dated J.Lo? Was it a Chris?
00:24:07
Speaker
No, it was ah oh Ben Affleck. and Mr. Affleck. Ben Affleck had to introduce Kanye. And then every time he would introduce Kanye to perform a song, he would look more and more depressed. that He's really going through it. oh And then Kanye would just go and scream on stage. He was so sick. Was that Yeeza's era? That was Yeeza's era, oh yeah. was like he would have He would be performing like new slaves. And he's like, ladies and gentlemen, Kanye West. Kanye again. Again, yeah. Damn. That was a good title. on yeah I know, yeah. The one after that wasn't as good. He was just wearing the MAGA hat and yelling and at people. Yeah, it's a bit tougher. Yeah, a tougher sell. um to Timothy, I watch it because I'm trying to make it my muse because we have a similar body type and jawline and kind of a general aura.
00:24:54
Speaker
um Because of because of Timothy I've been thinking all month about buying an Arcterix toque and then I noticed this week you own team like down yeah Wait Timothy owns one. Yeah, which one ah kind of like the one you have with the big big bird the big bird on it Damn, I think so That's kind of funny. Now time to burn mine. Yeah, well, I'll take it off your hands. I'm trying to take on that vibe. But why this is important, not the Eric Terry Steve, but why this SNL episode was important to discuss with you today, Eric, is throughout the episode, there were numerous skits fully dedicated to podcasting. No. Yeah. It kept coming up as a theme throughout the episode. Obviously making fun of the medium.
00:25:40
Speaker
Absolutely. Like there was a whole bit that was all about AI generated podcasts, which was kind of fine. But the one that really caught my attention that I wanted to share with you was they suggested a new format of men's health clinic.
00:25:55
Speaker
where you enter and it is a podcast. There's mics. It's in a booth. It's like set up kind of like a man cave and you talk to your physician as if you're on a podcast. And I think that's brilliant. The only way to get people to talk to a therapist. Exactly. It gets them in the room and it gets them opening up and talking about like how many drinks they have a week or they're the color of the urine. Yeah.
00:26:19
Speaker
Well, you know what, Ty? I'll be honest, this podcast has improved my quality of life so much and also my mental health. And there is something about the format that just opens you up to being willing to discuss men's health issues.
00:26:34
Speaker
yeah dude i just want to talk about erectile dysfunction exactly over a over a cocktail with you on mic it's the first thing on my mind when i get in this booth so i thought that was a pretty good bet and it made me think like there's definitely like a way to bring men together is through a mic. You can put a mic in that subway across the street from where we're recording. Leave it open, leave it on a booth. I give it to you. Two men, lonely men, lost in the ether. We'll find their way on the other side of that mic. And they'll talk about, I don't know, the Kansas City Chiefs or something. Yeah. Wow, this car's real close. Dude, you're going to get clipped by this thing. What is this? Oh, we're good.
00:27:15
Speaker
you This is an old vehicle, very cool looking. Yeah. It's an interesting concept though, Ty. Thank you. Do you think, well, you didn't come up with it. but Yeah, I will let the writer's room know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you think think we talk about sensitive issues on this show? Do we kind of go deep? Like, like are there things that you wouldn't tell Bae that you would tell me and, you know, thousands of people?
00:27:47
Speaker
it That's a great question, Eric. Our podcast description says that we go deep. It's questionable how deep we go. On the sandwich institutions? Specifically the sandwich institution and we have reached rock bottom. The bottom of the bucket. yeah Other topics, it's more of a like a light nibble.
00:28:08
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. That's true. I don't think we need to go like another bite deeper. I think we're at the perfect spot, you know, lighthearted. You can listen to this on your commute. You can listen to it at the hospital waiting room, you know? Yep. You don't want to listen to it with your, your, your family, but you can, it's cheeky me time for the boys. That's right. That's exactly how it is.
00:28:36
Speaker
um Ty, also I also want to talk to you about a movie I saw on Friday.
Cinematic Breaks and Subway Metaphors
00:28:42
Speaker
I saw The Brutalist. I've been curious about this film. Yeah, it was ah quite a nice movie. Quite long, um but you know I won't bore you with the details. I think the one interesting thing I want to talk to you about was this is the first movie I've ever seen with an intermission halfway through.
00:29:00
Speaker
yeah i've heard that's like the standout feature of this film i don't know if that's good or bad for the movie well there's a rape scene oh i would say that's probably the standout scene um but uh no the intermission it's just in like interesting and different because i've never it's weird to watch it in a theater and then everyone kind of just like stands up and half the people go to the bathroom and then the other half just kind of like linger in the in the aisle and it's kind of I don't know, you can just kind of look at everyone and see what their reactions are. people maybe People might be crying, you know? People are kind of sitting there on their phone. Maybe they're kind of going into their popcorn a little little more. Interesting. Yeah, it was kind of weird dynamic. It's kind of like when the seatbelt light goes off on the plane. You never know what's going to happen, but you're going to get a nice bag of reactions.
00:29:50
Speaker
yeah You always want to time it where you like get up right before it comes on it comes off. Yeah, first in line for the bathroom. Yeah, exactly. um you know ah You want to be like first in line for the Lily Phillips gangbang, right? You don't want to be number 500. Exactly. So what did how did you take advantage of this intermission? but How did you fill the, what, 15 minutes? 20 minutes. pop Up the popcorn. Get an extra Coca-Cola.
00:30:14
Speaker
um i didn't really plan for this tie i just kind of sat there it gave me an opportunity to google a bunch of shit that i saw in the movie and i was like is this real getting formed yeah yeah yeah so one of the things that googled was why is there an intermission um another thing i googled was if it was based on a true story and it wasn't it's a fictional story and that kind of like ruined it for me a little bit because i just assumed it was real it felt real it felt it felt like something that could happen yeah it was like a realistic scenario for you know, people fleeing kind of World War II, things like that. So it's like, oh yeah, it seems real. But it turns out it was kind of loosely based on like a few kind of architects. Oh, dude. That's hilarious that you like, the intermission gave you a window to stop suspending your disbelief. They're like, get lost in our world. And then halfway through, you're like, nah, I got to Google this. Yeah, it was stupid because I was like, I crushed like 800 reels.
00:31:09
Speaker
Yeah, I thought it was kind of a bad move, in my my opinion. The director just mentioned that like he personally doesn't like sitting in a theater for that long. But then I'm like, don't make the movie four hours long then.
00:31:21
Speaker
Yeah, that's kind of on you, bro. Yeah, that's your fault. So you know't it's like you're putting a bandaid on the on the on the cut. you know My brother in Christ, you made the movie. Yeah, you can make it an hour long. Make it real at this point. Exactly. And then it got me thinking, like intermission just made the movie feel way longer than it really was. So it's like it had the opposite effect.
00:31:43
Speaker
I was like halfway through the second half of the movie. I was like, are we still here? We're still in the same movie. For sure. Yeah. The cinematic universe has not altered. No. And this is, I feel the same way about the foot long Eric, because sometimes I want to take a break after the six inch, but then it's just like, Oh, that the second six inch is going to be a slog. If you take that break, it feels good in the moment. Exactly. But then it's going to feel bad later when you're, when you're biting down on the same flavors, but they're colder and mushier. That's exactly why I brought this up because once you take a break from eating the footlong, you can't finish it. yeah You're done. You're done. You tapped. Yeah. So I want to see Subway go to a, you know, a whole sandwich lifestyle. Just like don't cut it. Let's go full sandwich mode. Yeah. 100% uncut gem lettuce. That's all I want here. Exactly.
00:32:36
Speaker
So we can ask that. like I think that's a preference. like You don't have to circumcise the sandwich. Every person who births the sandwich gets to choose. Do you want it cut or not? And the default, obviously, is cut it. But like there's a new movement happening if for uncut sandwiches. And I think you and I can be on the forefront of it. Yeah, exactly. We're progressives. I don't want it cut, and I want to spank my sandwich, too. Exactly.
00:33:05
Speaker
Damn, they caught me off guard. You thought I was going to say something normal? I don't know why I did. After you made a circumcision joke, I was just going to follow it up. I was dancing around a circumcision joke. You went out and said it. Yeah, I guess so. I just went out and went for the full cut. Yeah. Anyways, Ty, anything else you want to talk about? We have a few minutes left. You want to get everything off your chest? Oh, dude, I have so many so many things to discuss, but I think we'll save them for another episode.
00:33:33
Speaker
Yeah, that sounds great. All right, breadheads. Thank you for joining us today for our 400th episode. It's been a whirlwind journey for you. I can't believe we've been recording this thing for like five freaking years, Eric. Dude, yeah, five fucking years since 2020. We have been around as long as the pandemic. I mean, there are like COVID babies who are younger than us. Yeah, dude, there's COVID babies in kindergarten and we are older than them. This show would be in grade one.
00:34:04
Speaker
it has about the intelligence of a first grader, I'd say. I agree. Social ineptness, too. Yeah. Well, thanks, Brad Heads, for following us on this journey for 400 episodes and counting. cal And yeah, check out our merch store. Buy buy a t-shirt. Support the pod. Don't buy the tote bag. It needs a redesign. Yeah, sure. I'll fix that after this episode. We'll drop the V2. All right. Thanks, Brad Heads. Ciao.