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The one where Steve lies about his kids age.
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The gang talk about dog problems, getting Steve's head in the game, and kind of pay their respects to the late great Carl Weathers. Then they decide to enjoy a trailer, a visual product, in an audio format. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
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Young Gamers and Technology
00:00:00
Speaker
I'm glad we figured that out. Totally worth it. Wait, man. How old is she supposed to be? How old is she supposed to be? She's five now. She's going to be six next week. Man, is she's playing massively online games? Yeah, that's what all these kids are into, man. You don't know what it's like. This is crazy. Yeah, I thought.
00:00:29
Speaker
I thought she'd be a couple of years away from doing it or so. No. To pick it up quick. For sure. Still getting around that. Oh, Steve, have you ever been in a situation where you're like, I don't know how to use this app, but I bet Juliet does. I like it to the settings in the, how do I change my face on this app? No, I'm not for sure. Like she'll ask me to play, to beat up a level on Roblox and I cannot do it.
00:00:56
Speaker
Yeah, I thought that they would never come any type of a game, but it's like, I can't, but not so much the science that that'll happen soon, I'm sure.
Family Photo Traditions
00:01:11
Speaker
Do you have when you growing up, did you have in your parents house where they're like,
00:01:17
Speaker
family photos and things on the on the walls or is it just art, things like that? I hope not in my mom's. No, not in my mom's house, my grandma's house. They had stuff like that. Not my mom doesn't do a lot of photos. Yeah. Oh, my my my parents house in Pennsylvania, they did like three big framed
00:01:47
Speaker
photos from just me and my brothers throughout and I I've seen those photos so many times and I don't have the memory at the time like it like kind of what you were describing that's what I was thinking about when you were saying it like in the in that moment I don't remember I can't place myself over there but it's obviously me but I see I've had a bunch of that we we don't do that in our house like we don't have big posters with all the photos we just
00:02:11
Speaker
know, everything's digital. So we just go over that. But I think we're gonna start doing that like some photos that we like and putting them up. You don't have like, I know a lot of people like you and Matt married married folks do like the like the wedding collage thing or whatever, you know, something like that. We said we're gonna do that. But we had a huge photo that was
00:02:35
Speaker
the, during the, uh, the engagement, uh, the first year engagement, we took like photos, those photos, it was like a massive tree. Um, and where was this? And I think it's in sleepy home or no, it was Rockefeller state park. It's like a massive tree. So you have to go wait. Um, the, you have to have it to get the full scope of it. You got to go way back. So if you go close, you'll see Betty and I at the, at the, uh, at the bottom of that tree. And that was like a light and nice big photo that we had.
00:03:02
Speaker
Um, I didn't, I didn't take any of the, I liked a lot of the photos that we did for the wedding, but I didn't like make a collage or post that up anywhere. Maybe we'll do that eventually. Was that the bat given, given, uh, his two cents on it? Um, yeah, I think that's right. Uh, he was saying something. Uh, yeah, he's usually yelling. There's always, cause it's like a busy street or whatever. There's always like dogs coming around and they like to like walk up, up on the soup and he like loses it. Oh yeah.
00:03:31
Speaker
Oh, yeah, it's with other dogs. It's yes, but not in a way that it's it's more. It's because he's so big that a couple of things can happen. One, like if it's like a small dog, he's like so big he likes to just kind of smoosh them down with his nose.
00:03:49
Speaker
And then two, he'll try to do the same thing to bigger dogs and they don't have it. They're not. They're like, no, let's go, bro. Yeah. And then and then stuff just pops off. So I mean, they're trying to walk up on his house. So what else is he supposed to do? That
Neighborhood Dog Tales
00:04:11
Speaker
is true. And a lot of times people we have like this giant, huge like tree right out front, like on the
00:04:17
Speaker
Street and a lot of people lit their like dogs like poop up against it like and then just not pick it up And so in a way he's like letting us know he's like these fucks You catch him with that right now if you heard we're just like dude shut up. What are you doing? He's like, please listen to me
00:04:40
Speaker
But yeah, no, so he he loses, but he's OK with a lot of he's very submissive, a lot of dogs, too. So and people he hates hates anybody over. I don't think he's ever met you, Matt, but he would probably hate you because he hates anybody like over six foot. Oh, I mean, he doesn't trust him. I think so. I get that from a lot of dogs, especially if I'm wearing a hat. They're just like.
00:05:01
Speaker
Fuck this, I've read the stats. This guy is no good. Who's he trying to fool? He's a baseball cap. No good. Yeah, sometimes we'll have like tall people kind of bend down when they come in to meet him. Oh, I got you. Yeah. So, Horn, I think you're OK because we're we're about the same height. So. And then and then Chris. And then I think he's maybe madly in love with Chris. So. Oh, yeah, whatever is on my skin.
00:05:38
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think I've ever given him a belly row. No, I have not. Not at least with it. Like not when I was looking, no. Right. You know, the average penny. Yeah. Yeah. He's all about. Yeah. I have to assume it's like your lotion. Something like I think you were over for like a like a Super Bowl or Penn State game, bowl game, whatever. And those games last about three hours. And there was no point that Lebat stopped licking Chris. Gross.
00:05:52
Speaker
All about it. Really enjoyed. You play with them? You give them those belly rubs as well?
00:06:10
Speaker
That's too much. You think one of them would have gotten tired of the situation? Chris, did you switch arms at some point? I think he was going legs. So that means you don't notice as much when it's a leg versus an arm? It's less intrusive, I guess. My legs are stationary. Watch the game.
00:06:41
Speaker
How long till your throat swells? Like how long could you let a dog lick you, Steve, before your throat swells up and you die?
Pet Allergies and Family Visits
00:06:49
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah, because it is activated by the saliva, right? Yeah. I don't know. Because I'm just used to just... I imagine it would be very quickly for dogs, I can last an hour, maybe like two hours for cats, like within the hour for sure. And I've never had a cat lick me. But the dogs, they have licked me before.
00:07:10
Speaker
And still that same timeframe, I think type of makeshift EpiPen or something like that. I don't know. I always think that EpiPen seems so severe. It's like, I don't know. Uh, you know, I always think it's like when your throat, I never felt like my throat was going to close. It's just, um, how did you find out like, did you just find out like as a kid, just being around dogs and you're like, I never had, had any issues with, I never even thought about it until, um,
00:07:39
Speaker
like 16 or 17. And it was, um, my brother, my brother, Bobby, it was, um, bought a house with his girlfriend and they, um, they had a dog and a cat. And when I went over, but just like, it was like one night, like we meet and my brother Richard stayed over. And, uh, yeah, it started, I had no idea what was going on cause it never happened. And I'd been around.
00:08:05
Speaker
We never, we didn't really own any, any pets. I had like a Dalmatian for like a one or two months before we gave it away as a young kid. But I always thought like, Oh, we were just a family that never had pets. I never thought like, uh, I gotta actively stay away from them because I'm allergic. Um, but, and nobody else in my family, um, has any type of problem. My, my, my, on my mom's side, they, they sneeze a lot in general, they have allergies in general. And my mom never liked, um, any animals, but, uh, but yeah.
00:08:36
Speaker
So one brother just have straight up like a dog farm. And I asked him about that because I, cause I'll see him like, you know, sneeze once in a while. He, he never struck me as like a, you know, he's a dog guy or anything. And, uh, it's definitely his, his wife just, um, had dogs, always loved dogs. And so he's just in it for the money. That's exactly what it is.
00:09:00
Speaker
Wait, you're going to visit them in a few weeks. How's that going to work? I'm going to stay over. I'm not sure what the weather's like over there. I imagine it's still going to be cold, but they have a nice open lot that they have where the kids will run around, the dogs run around. I'm going to try to, as much as I can be outside, but I visited them before a few years ago and it wasn't a problem then either.
00:09:26
Speaker
But I think the big issue is like, if I stay there for a long time, multiple days, you know, um, I'm breathing it in all, all night. Yeah. Yeah. But that's gonna be in, um, end of the month in February, February, third week of February. It's a type of makeshift RV to not have to stay in his house. Why not just an RV? Why a makeshift RV?
00:10:00
Speaker
like a you haul that you put like a mattress in the back where you just get what you need but yeah
00:10:13
Speaker
I'm like, no, no, nothing like that. Nothing. No makeshift RV. But is this, I thought you, uh, I thought there was like a limit for like how long of a road trip Charlie could be on. Wasn't it like, uh, yeah. Well, it's, it's, it's an hour and a half. Yeah. If like, um, the drive to Pennsylvania would be three hours and, uh, sick and that type of a drive. So we try to keep under, under that.
00:10:38
Speaker
And, uh, he's, he's okay for flights. Um, yeah, we're gonna go from LaGuardia to Charlotte. Uh, uh, that's two hours, I think. And then the car, I'll rent a car and that'll be 50 minutes from the airport to where my brother, uh, brother lives. And then we'll be another, we'll be staying about an hour away. Um, so yeah, that should be good. And then visiting crystal at some point in the mix.
00:11:10
Speaker
Uh, like we're getting on the 22nd, uh, early, like around lunchtime, then basically stay the most of the entire day. And then, uh, crystal will be getting to the, the, this house that we're renting. So it'll be crystal Jason and his wife and daughter. And then, uh, Paco should be there. I think on Friday night, Friday, Saturday, and then on Sunday, I'll go, I'll go back. Um, then I'll pick up, I'm going to drop off my mom the day that we land. We'll be together.
00:11:27
Speaker
Yeah, the same time frame.
00:11:38
Speaker
And then my cousin might fly over from Florida or drive over from Florida. And then at the end, before we go, we'll go over to my brother's house early.
00:11:48
Speaker
Spend some more time and then we'll take our flight. Oh, your mom's staying, staying with your brother for like. Yeah, she hasn't. Yeah, she hasn't seen them for a while. And my brother just had another kid. So that's like baby number seven competition. Yeah, you know what? You're going to let them one up. You're like, yeah, absolutely. You're going to let them five up. You're like, yeah, it's a blowout. You're running away with it. You got a lot of ways to put it away with it.
00:12:18
Speaker
We're not gonna let them win, are we? Yeah. This is fourth quarter, baby. Yeah. Oh, God. No, no, no, nothing like that. Forget that. Wow. I mean, you know what? I think Steve threw the game. Yeah, that's right.
00:12:36
Speaker
So that'll be triplets in your back in it. I'm thinking, see, that's the problem. I've been thinking about it all wrong. I need somebody like Christa really. Yeah. It's another boy too. That's crazy. So this one's going to be named Robert Jr. He's going to take his, his name. Oh, yeah, man. Crazy.
00:13:02
Speaker
When you throw a junior around like that, it usually means the last one, right? You would think so. I didn't hear no bell. Rest in power. Finally. That's not the way you're supposed to react to a beloved American.
00:13:29
Speaker
I'm not talking about Action Jackson. I'm talking about the fact that we're talking about Action Jackson. Yeah, you get it. Matt, what are your thoughts on Carl? Carl Weathers passing away. Here we go. Everyone give him the floor. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a sad day in America. And what is he known for?
00:13:49
Speaker
Oh, man. Such disrespect. I've heard the name, but yeah, can't can't play some. It's a power creed. Oh, yeah, man. Right. That's hard. That's why I know. They got his got his arm shot off and predator. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He got his arm bit off and happy Gilmore. Keep your hands in your pockets, I guess. Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:16
Speaker
What do you do with his hands in the Mandalorian? I know he was on that and I didn't watch too much of that. Oh, that's right. Um, he, yeah, he did get, he didn't get too hurt. He actually directed a bunch of those episodes. Really? Yeah. You don't remember him from more recently. Cause I didn't heard about it for a while, but he was in, um, what was, was it arrested development that he was having soup all the time?
00:14:41
Speaker
That was his big thing. Like, who's the Blue Man Group guy? That character. Well, either way, he was like paying for acting lessons from Carl Weathers. And the only lesson he could teach him is like, take any opportunity to make soup. And that was just like a running joke. Like, oh yeah, when I showed up on set, I would just take things from craft services. And you know what I do with it? And he's like, make soup? Damn right, I'd make soup.
00:15:06
Speaker
This is like it was funny but he was always playing a he was like playing a character like a starving artists use like playing.
00:15:13
Speaker
failed actor Carl Weathers in the, in the twilight of his career. And now he's got to go, he's got to go hustle from day job to day job or play like a role just to get the craft service table and make some crappy soup. I always felt bad about that. I'm glad he was like, he, he ended up doing well in that Mandalorian show. I remember at least getting more, more stuff. You know, Creed came around, you know, he was
00:15:38
Speaker
His name was, even though he didn't have any role in there. Yeah, super dead. Yeah. They predicted it, I guess. Technically. Yep. I'd like to think he went out a different way than in the booth. Oh, check the Simpsons. They usually get right. Yeah, he died on, he died on there too. Is there, has there ever been a famous person who's died, Matt, where you were like, I need a minute.
00:16:01
Speaker
Or you don't give a fuck about anybody but yours. It's probably closer to that, but yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Nobody come into mind. Even though I guess a kid.
00:16:17
Speaker
Oh right. Why am I asking you about your childhood? I refer to point A and point A. Oh my gosh. Definitely not. Not as a kid. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, what are common ones? I remember people like Whitney Houston was kind of recent. Yeah, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson.
00:16:41
Speaker
Yeah. Really? Right. That's crazy. Hmm. Have you I guess I take it that you've never felt you've never had like a parasocial relationship with a famous person. I don't think so. You see a parasocial relationship. All I heard was, did you kill Paul Walker? Well, I answer the question.
00:17:09
Speaker
I'll go first and say I didn't. You were pretty shook about the Paul Walker thing, Chris. You talked about, I mean, you're still talking about it. Did you do it?
00:17:25
Speaker
It just wasn't supposed to go down like that. OK, OK, I got one. I got one. I got one. Oh, here we go. I think I think I was I think I was shocked. Probably the most shocked I've been was Heath Ledger. Oh, that's a good one. That is a good one. Because I'm just like, because he was on top of the
The Impact of Heath Ledger's Passing
00:17:43
Speaker
world. Yeah, like what? That's crazy. Wow. But I don't know. But I wasn't like, I need a minute. I don't know. I've got no connection to the.
00:17:52
Speaker
I'm just, I'm just like, uh, he seemed like a very, um, not just creative, but like, I don't know, like, like he loved what he did or he was very passionate about it. I was, yeah. So I think it's more like if someone told me, Oh, there's this really passionate, creative person and they're doing really well. And now, you know, now they're dead. Yeah. I mean, to me, that's, that was, that was kind of shocking. But, um, so yeah, that would probably be, uh, the most. Do you think his death boost?
00:18:19
Speaker
The dark night. I would think so. That's usually what happens, right? Yeah. It just creates more interest for, you know, good or bad. I mean, just like, can you believe it? It's like, you almost feel like you need to honor his last work or whatever it is. I think that, I think that was part of it. It did, but you know, if he was crap, crap actor and crap role, you know, we're in a badder, but the fact that he was, you know, it's what could have been and all that other stuff. So I would think it enhanced.
00:18:48
Speaker
So wait, would dark, would dark night rises be a non trash movie if Tom Hardy had died or about the same? No, well, you would, um, I, the, uh, the fact that he died, um, I know I didn't, I, well, I think I didn't have that whole, uh, you know, I need a minute or anything like that, but I was, I felt bad about the situation about what, what could
00:19:16
Speaker
him as a, he's an actor in a, in a movie franchise that I, I become invested in that Chad Boseman. So it's like, it's like, it takes away from what could have been. So I'm like, man, that when I say, uh, man, that sucks. It's like, it's all selfishly for my own entertainment. I kind of, I kind of waited. Give me one more. But so, you know, and you want to push those bad thoughts away, you know, I have to be so, and so, um, you know,
00:19:45
Speaker
so selfish. But, uh, but yeah, it could have been completely different, right? You had, uh, you pledge around and check those around. Oh yeah. If they, if they lived long enough to see themselves become the villain. That's right. Exactly. It all makes sense. Just Heath Ledger and his MAGA hat. Just
00:20:06
Speaker
Oh, did you see that trailer for that Civil War movie? Oh, man. Oh, the timing on that. That looks excellent. That looks scary enough to be. Are you are you really? Yeah. Yeah. Let's let's put on the big screen. Let's see. Oh, man. Here we go. All right.
00:20:26
Speaker
Let's watch this trailer together. Chris, you don't watch trailers, right? I watch trailers right up until I know I want to see the movie. Nice. I think you've got to play something. I love trailers. I hate the... They do a lot of clips. I was like, I don't want to see a clip from a movie that I haven't seen yet. Oh yeah, here we go. That's by the Ex Machina guy.
00:20:53
Speaker
Oh yeah. And it's A24, they never miss. Well, they do. Yeah, that's probably true. Oh yeah. Look at that. Yeah. He pops up all over the place. Man, this looks good. Looks like one of those multiple perspective. Here's from the journalist perspective. That's the scariest part. That's what Chris says all the time.
00:21:23
Speaker
Oh, when all this silence come? Oh, you didn't join the watch party? No, he doesn't watch trailers. Oh, right, right, right. He doesn't believe in them, I thought he said. Oh, yeah, that's also true. Over my dead body. No, I said I had a call to take a look. Oh, yeah, we're watching the Civil War trailer. Well, that audio just captures through a shield at Iron Man, so... Oh, shit, Spider-Man shows up. Oh, this is... Oh, my God.
00:21:53
Speaker
They actually did have that in the in the Civil War trailer. The problem I have with that, the premise of that movie is California and Texas have teamed up against the rest of the United States. And I immediately check out. I'm like, no, no, that doesn't work. Oh, and Florida's seceded as well, right? I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. Some are in the gray, right? Well, I'm assuming you're talking about a different move.
00:22:21
Speaker
not the Marvel Civil War. Right. Yeah. No, we're talking about the Marvel Civil War. But yeah, I heard about this. You guys seem to both have been aware of it, Doug and Matt, but I had no idea about it. That's a crazy trailer. Yeah. Yeah. It's my new lunchtime activity. Instead of like watching a show or a movie or something, I'll watch trailers.
00:22:49
Speaker
Just a bunch of trailers. Oh, well, I don't want to run that back. Oh, absolutely. You could watch the show at any time. Yeah. Oh, Chris, God. Well, it's got to be good. Mm hmm. Is it Kristen? It's Kristen. Yeah. Oh, is it Kirsten? Is it Kirsten or Kristen?
00:23:17
Speaker
I think it's, uh, let's look at, let's look at the video that explains it. It's curious. Get that smash glass side effect in there.
00:23:40
Speaker
I will say I saw a movie. I don't want to say similar because that would be definitely a spoiler, but there's a very similar movie called Leave the World Behind that just came out by the Mr. Robot guy. And the premise is almost like exactly the same, but from a very different angle. And it's so wildly disappointing and bad that I'm just like, I don't know if I want to see any more of this.
00:24:11
Speaker
Yeah. What else did he do other than Mr. Robot? Was that a hit wonder? He did the Queen Bohmian Rhapsody. No, no, not the actor. I'm talking about the Sam Esmo, the guy who directed Mr. Robot. He did a show with Julia Roberts on Amazon Prime called Homecoming, I believe. Yeah. I tried episode one and two of that and got bored. Yeah, I've never seen it. I did watch Mr. Robot the whole way through, though, and I. Oh, man.
00:24:39
Speaker
That first season, I was like, I don't know, television gets better. And by the end of the show, I was like, I just want four years of my life back. Like a roller coaster that one. Oh, they gave you the Game of Thrones treatment. No, well, I mean, I don't know what that means because I didn't watch Game of Thrones. But if you're if you're implying that only the first season was good and every other aspect of the show was garbage, then yeah.
00:25:13
Speaker
I did watch some of the first season and found it fine. Not something I'm like, oh, I got to keep watching this. But pretty much every time I talk to anybody who was a everybody was a big fan of Game of Thrones up until the show's final season. And before that, it was constantly like, oh, yeah, you just got to watch a couple of seasons of it and you'll be hooked. I'm like, I'm not watching 30 hours of something to be hooked. What are you talking about?
00:25:27
Speaker
I feel like Game of Thrones was good for longer than one season.
00:25:41
Speaker
So yeah, I would think the first episode is
00:25:46
Speaker
generally going to give you what you want or not. Yes, I always try to watch more than one episode. Actually, I appreciate that Hulu does. I think Amazon Prime and Hulu do the first three episodes of most shows, which I appreciate that format because then it's like, OK, you can actually get a feel for the show and know if you like it or not. But but yeah, I think we watched like five or six. We got pretty close to finishing the first season.
00:26:13
Speaker
and just kind of...
Fantasy Genre and Unique Influences
00:26:16
Speaker
Yeah. Sam. It's crazy because you love The Lord of the Rings. Is that true? I just remember talking about it. I never heard you saying the opposite. Yeah, I think the... Well, I don't know if I... I actually... I do love the very first Lord of the Rings movie, like The Fellowship. I think it's great. And then I think the other two movies are too long and could probably be one movie.
00:26:40
Speaker
Yeah, they did feel long. I liked the first trilogy for sure. I didn't give much for the Hobbit. Oh, yeah, the Hobbit. Because that was just so extended. They just kind of seem to go on forever. I just didn't understand. This entire world is fantasy. Everything's made up. Elvish language, right? They're making all kinds of things up.
00:27:01
Speaker
And the two bad guys in the first movie, one of them was named Sauron and the other one was named Sauron. I'm just like, can we not, can we not different, like not all of us have read all the books six times. Like, give me a little help. Take the barrier to entry a little lower for this thing. What do you mean? What do you mean by made up?
00:27:28
Speaker
Oh, you don't want to sit down from this. Yes, it's I'm not looking to offend anybody. But I do want to bring you to reality in that. None of that shit is real. No, like the books, right? It's it's a completely fabricated story. Right. I mean, they could be anybody, anything that could be Steve. Right. Oh, Steve, Steve, too. So they're not historically accurate. I don't know. OK. What?
00:27:58
Speaker
My problem with fantasy has always been at least most post Lord of the Rings fantasy is that they can be anything and they can do like they could be about anything. And yet they all seem to be like steeped in like Arthurian legend, like, you know, English, like very like everybody has a fucking British accent. Like it's just it's it feels just very lazy to a certain extent.
00:28:26
Speaker
Um, but I'm actually reading, uh, the Africa was called the grace of Kings, which is part of like a series of books and it's a fantasy series, but it's all steeped in like, uh, Chinese mythology. So all the, so it's not, it's not our world. It's not China or whatever, but you can tell, I mean, they're eating
00:28:44
Speaker
They're just like eating Mapo Tofu. They're just doing stuff that like you could tell like where the influences are coming from. But it has the same thing as Lord of the Rings where the very beginning of the book is like 20 pages of names. Like before the book starts, it's like, here's all the names you need to know. And like, anytime you read a book like that, it's just like, I don't know what I'm doing. This is... Yeah, they're asking you for a lot to get on board. Yeah, like a fictional book with like an index. It's just like,
00:29:15
Speaker
I don't know. But it's good. I highly recommend it. So it's a call. The one I'm on right now is called The Grace of Kings. And it's that's that's the chat. That's the name of the book or the series is called The Dandelion Dynasty. Gotcha. By Ken Liu. You have time to read books, Steve. No, you can't while you're while you're cooking.
00:29:48
Speaker
Like a dude like audible or something, right? Yeah, just maybe I will maybe I will although you just got into podcasts I don't know if you need to pivot into
00:30:01
Speaker
to audible already. That's just all in time. Yeah, I think we might have a subscription actually. Betty had some stuff. I'll have to check in on that. Have you looked at the library of books? What? Have you looked at Betty's library of books? She'll show you it was more recent. I don't know if it was audible or if it was. There's another there's something else, but it was she got something for specifically because she wanted all the Harry Potter books like in a short amount of time.
00:30:31
Speaker
She started it, but she never went through. And then she went through this thing of she wanted to catch up on all of it and started with some of the audio books. But then she just ended up just reading it like, um, on, uh, on Kindle or something like that. But she, but it started, it might've been like a, um, we definitely don't have, I don't think it was audible. It must've been something else. It's one of those things.
00:30:54
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Well, don't want to keep you from pizza. So much pizza, so much pizza party prep. We're doing, uh, we're doing chicken, uh, do a chicken cutlet and we're doing, um, rice and broccoli. That's on the, uh, the menu today. All that, all that on top of pizza.
00:31:18
Speaker
Whatever I gotta say to get out of it.