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The one where the gang enters the Attitude Era
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Its another Doug and Steve spectacular. Magic is captured, embarrassment is felt, and glass is shattered. Its everywhere.
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Listener Feedback and Episode Appreciation
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I recently spoke to Crystal. Um, I guess she, she reached out and we were talking about something. And when we were, when we visited them in, um, in, uh, North Carolina, we all got together. I played the Paco episode, the, the, cause you had just released it. I think that you two think so. They were laughing about it and I didn't bring it up and it was like weeks later, but she brought up to me. She, she, she dropped a quote from one of the episode. I can't remember what it was, but it was a later one. She said, I'm.
00:00:27
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I'm up to, she said she was right up to, um, like the, the week before. So she had caught up all the way through to like, so seven. And she was just saying, she's like, she was, she's like, I'm an avid fan, you know? Oh no, she said I'm an avid consumer. That's what she said. And it was like a quote from whatever it was. I over oversold it there for a second, an avid consumer. I mean, I listened to it. I may have, I glanced at it.
00:01:05
Speaker
So what did, what did you get into yesterday?
Anniversary Celebrations in Mexico and Queens
00:01:10
Speaker
Well, you, you won't believe it, but, uh, it is, you know, it's our, it's our official 10 year anniversary, 10 year wedding anniversary. Yeah. Absolutely. No way. There's no way. Certainly there's a way. It's just the timing of it. Yeah. We said the math doesn't matter. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy, right? Like time flies.
00:01:35
Speaker
Um, so yeah, we, so we, um, celebrated with the kids last month going to Mexico. Like that was the, you know, the big resort thing and all that, but then we, we didn't have anything necessarily planned for the actual day. Uh, but you know, a few weeks ago, Betty was like, Oh, I really want, she had, she was like craving, um, like Chinatown food, like, uh, like Manhattan Chinatown. And then we're like talking about the parts that like how that would go.
00:02:03
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Um, and then, um, it just made more sense to do a flushing like Queens. Cause we, we ended up getting a sitter and then we, um, we went and, uh, look up a bunch of spots. And, uh, you know, in about three hours or so, we, we put it something together and you just kind of went like put a bunch of Yelp reviewed areas, bookmarks, and then just kind of went, but, uh, you know, there's only so like, I was very excited to do it and her too, but man, you can only have so much, uh,
00:02:33
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hand pulled noodles. I think the key was- I respectfully disagree. It's not for want to try. I think we did it pretty good. It was a strong effort. I think some critical mistakes. Variety is important. We went to one, all these hole-in-the-wall places and all within walking distance, so we ended up
00:03:00
Speaker
We started at one and tried to like map that out as best we can, but very rough. It wasn't, we didn't like playing it to death. It's just, but definitely walking distance. And, um, it was important that we not every place had the same stuff or each place had something else
The Quest for White Bear Dumplings
00:03:13
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to try. So first place we went to, uh, was a place called white bear and very whole in the wall. You can't even, um, first you can't, you can't even find it like it where it's mapped and where like it's Yelp reviews. It doesn't match where you actually have to go. You know, so we had to like turn the, we're walking down.
00:03:30
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following the directions exactly, and then it's not where it should be. We're located right at the pin, and it's not. So we end up having to turn the corner, and then it's like, wait, it's a little bit further away. But you come upon this place, and it's basically an older woman at the front, almost like a window, like a walk through, a drive-through window. And she's just taking the orders. So the first group of, I guess, tourists are right in front of me trying to like,
00:04:00
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talk with her saying, um, okay, so, so what do you have with this with this? And then, then they end up just shaking their hands and you're saying like, uh, nevermind. Nevermind. Just cancel the order. They walk away. So like, that's not a good sign. And then, uh, and then we walk up and there's obviously table tables and seats. And when we looked at, um, like, uh, YouTube stuff or like looking at clips and trying to get, get together things when we looked at this place, people were seated seated and they were eating. So I said, Oh, you know, we'll, we'll split something. We'll just, you know, we'll go to the next thing. But
00:04:30
Speaker
Now they, they like have a hard stop, like right at the, she's right there and she has a little cart preventing you from going any further. So, you know, you just walk up, you get your order, but they do like these, um, these like, uh, dumplings with, uh, chili, hot chili oil on it. Like that's their go-to. It's, uh, get it, like serve it up. We split one order and then that was kind of it, but all, uh, really good, pretty, I mean, the noodles feel fresh. There's definitely a difference from what we have around where we are. And, um,
00:04:58
Speaker
It was awesome. It was a little chilly out, so like a little cold out. And it warmed us up. We can walk. It definitely lends itself well to sharing, even though it's like a dish and like a fork, we can just share it and went to the next thing. But that was good. And then we had some like these paking duck sliders we had next.
00:05:22
Speaker
But, uh, you know, you usually it's a shared thing. It's a table thing, but they do it, you know, they have the ducks hanging in the window and they, again, everything is, I don't know if they change, I don't know if they changed everything after, um, COVID where, uh, you know, the separation is there because it's definitely indoor seating, but I guess this additional step of, you know, you come to the window for an order and then like, you give us the money, we'll give you the food and then you're on your way. That's, it does work well with the food crawl. So.
00:05:51
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Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So we, we had that, we split that, then we get to, so I made a critical mistake in the next one where Betty wanted something. I wanted something else. So we're like, uh, you know, this happens all the time. We'll order separate things. Critical mistake. Wait, where the, I assumed the kids were just watching each other. No, they, uh, they were, they were at home. We had, um, a sitter who we've had a lot of
Roller Skating Resurgence and Unique Venues
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time. She, she has,
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she was a school teacher where they were both in their pre-K and she's since kind of moved on, but she's still in the area and she'll babysit. So they both know where it's like, it was like perfect, but we don't, we don't, uh, overdo it or overuse it. She's very, um, you know, we don't use a babysitter too often actually. So, uh, but it worked out pretty well. You know, we saw that we're outside and they're both really into roller skates, which I guess are coming back. So now they're,
00:06:45
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Wait, roller skates or roller blades? No, roller skates, four wheels. They- Safer, for sure. Yeah, there's more balance, so they really like it. I remember, yeah, back in my day, it definitely was roller blades. Yeah, we had a thing called bullies. Yeah. Very quickly, all the things you loved were turned against you. Yeah, so that's good.
00:07:11
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Nice. Yeah. There's a lot of roller skating rinks that are like reopening. There's like a bunch of them here in the city.
00:07:22
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How do I? Well, I follow the roller skate drink. I just quarterly quarterly, right? Yeah, they can't put that out every month, but you know, fresh order. So it does feel like a unsustainable is it's like opening like a like a beanie baby store. It's like, you know, this is not going to be forever, right? Yeah, this is. So yeah, I imagine there's living it up right now. Yeah, is the I guess the client, the people that would
00:07:51
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visit the patrons would be is it more on that nostalgia kick it's it's. Is that the idea? Chris, we're gonna actually go to one in.
00:08:03
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This is like last year, maybe. Yeah, I think last year we were going to go to a, um, apparently it never stopped. This has been for like the last 30 years. Um, they turned an old, uh, they just wanted to be a sacrilegious as possible for the skating rig. So they turned like an old Catholic church. Uh, instead of tearing it down, they just like gutted all the pews and turned it into a, turned it into a skating rink. That's only open on Sundays. Ooh.
00:08:31
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So long for, so much for day of rest. Oh yeah. So it's like a bar slash skating race. Stained glass windows and stuff. All that stuff. So it's like a famous building in the center of the city. Yeah. So again, they've been doing it for decades at this point. Well, that has not reached over that, that I'm aware of. I mean, we, um, as far as like the, uh,
00:08:59
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You know, we've, the kids are really into ice skating prop, like actual ice skating. They like to do that in those ranks skating. We get it. Like whatever that, um, family time recreational, whatever it be. It's like, I would think, okay, bowling, ice skating, things like that of that nature. And then I could see how roller skate rinks would fit into that, uh, that grouping, I guess of, uh, you know, uh, family type activities. But I, I don't, I did not realize that roller skate rinks were.
00:09:28
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a big thing like you're saying. Yeah. I remember doing, uh, I don't know if this has come back, but, uh, did you ever as a, as a kid, I assume you did because every kid in America did afterwards, but, uh, uh,
00:09:41
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Like street hockey.
Childhood Sports and Memorable Embarrassments
00:09:43
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Street hockey. Yeah, like after the D, the Mighty Ducks movies, they did street hockey like the knuckle puck I think was developed in the street hockey court. I remember doing street hockey like as a kid. Really? Yeah, just like taking over roads and everybody on rollerblades. No, actually, did not, did not, that wasn't a thing in Queens. It wasn't a thing of they and my friends. We didn't, we were big into
00:10:10
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Uh, football, like on the street, it'd be like, um, touch football. So yeah, right on the ass, no, it'd be, it very much, it would either be, there'd be basketball, you know, you roll the, the, like, um, uh, you, you, well, well, with football, you know, you, you're clear when, when a car is on the way you spot it, or if there's basketball, you'd bring, uh, you'd bring it out and then you'd roll it back out. If there was any, um,
00:10:38
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any cars coming, but that would be really it. We didn't do any of the, um, the ice, the, um, street hockey stuff. Well, yeah, I think a lot of the street hockey we did was we'd take over like an enclosed basketball court. Okay. Like an outside basketball court. So you just kind of put some goalposts at either end. And then, uh, I think that's the other ends up being about the correct size. Yeah, man. There's still,
00:11:05
Speaker
That seems like it involves a little bit of involved work there. Got to have the equipment with you and everything else.
00:11:13
Speaker
Yeah, I assume there was, like most things, there's there's always like, parents quietly making all this stuff happen in the background, like making their kids lives better in a way that kids are never thankful for and never remember when they're adults. Yeah. Like, have you? I mean, has this? Well, actually, this is a good question. Has this come up yet? Like, have you had to build a diorama for one of your kids class yet?
00:11:41
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Um, no, not a diorama. We had, no, not diorama. We, it, it, it will get to that point. The stuff that they're doing right now is, um, it's like, uh, not even volcanoes, but they're like science class, multiple volcano. No, I'm just thinking it's, uh, no, they, they, what they're doing is like the water table, like the, um, the, uh, the phases of, of water.
00:12:09
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with precipitation and evaporation and rain. And then there's a lot of experiments. For whatever reason, Charlie had to do many versions of that. But it was not a show and tell type of thing or a
00:12:22
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But it's common for sure. It's going to it's that I see that happening pretty soon. That's still because that was always a thing, like, especially as you as you get older and you look back, it's like there's no way because one, I know, like my parents helped slash did a lot of them. But you go back and you look at some of these like classroom diorama or those big projects or whatever. And you're like, there's no way a child did that. Yeah, like that is a poorly, you know,
00:12:51
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poorly executed by some adult that has a full time job has been doing the morning or night out.
00:13:00
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Oh, man. Yeah, poster board for sure. Yeah, you're getting all that stuff. I remember another one of those like, as your, your, your terminology of like, douche chills, something I think about with more frequency than I should is in fifth grade. And this was, again, another one of those projects that parents did most of them.
00:13:26
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We had to do states i think every every kid had to build a state float so you had to make a nothing like something like about the size of say like.
00:13:39
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like a kid's desktop, so about that big. And yeah, so every kid I'd do state and then my mom, I think I had Indiana? Yeah, I think it was Indiana. And if you were to make a state float, what would be your go-to, like what would it look like? Regardless of what the state is, what would you probably make the float look like?
00:14:03
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Well, I don't like the state. There we go. Right. There we go. Exactly. Not 99 out of 100 times. You're going to make it look like the state, because why would that not be what you did? So every kid, every kid's parents made their floats look like the state.
00:14:22
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My mom took some creative liberties. And I think I vaguely remember saying that was like part of the requirement is that it's supposed to be the state or whatever. And she's like, no, no, no, I'm just going to do my own thing here. And she just made this big box tower and then like glued on stuff from the state. But obviously it was just the more of a cube than anything. Definitely not like a flat portrait of a state. And
00:14:51
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Yeah, the level of ridicule and mockery that day haunts me till today.
00:15:03
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I just imagined a little, a little, uh, snot-nosed grog coming in. But maybe, did you start very proud? And then was it slowly chipped away the more? I don't know if I started real proud. I think I started, well, I think I immediately became skeptical when I walked in and there was, everything was just, you know, like a 2D version of a state. And there I am with my, you know, my, my cube, my, my dice looking Indiana and, uh,
00:15:32
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Yeah, it is one of the, yeah, I think I almost immediately knew that this is not, this is not my day. Oh man. Yeah. I don't know. It doesn't, it wasn't exactly the same thing. Uh, I know we did things like that. You know, we brought in presentations or anything like that, but we had, um,
00:15:55
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I assume you guys had talent shows and, uh, yeah. Yeah. So I, I, I knew like the earlier parts of elementary was always chorus and singing, but at a certain point, like maybe from fourth grade up for right now, the earliest that they let you do it is third grade. So his age and his grade, but he's not interested. He's very shy. And, uh, like I was shy growing up also, but I know that I, I did participate, um, in a talent show. It might've been like either the fifth or sixth grade and, uh,
00:16:24
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I was, uh, I did, uh, I did magic. I was like, um, I, I, yeah, I don't know if it was, uh, I don't know what was around at that time. I think, um, I remember David Copperfield things were out there. This is way, I think way before David Blaine, right? Cause this would have been David Blaine. No, no Chris Angel yet. But they, I remember there were like things where there was some, there was something out there in media of, of.
00:16:50
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Magic stuff when we were the magic like this like the late 90s the I forgot what the guy's name is he've revealed himself at the end, but there was that series of How magic is done? Oh, it was like every yeah, there was a bunch of them Yeah, so it was probably maybe either right during that or before that I don't know but there was stuff for it and I was very interested in magic and but You know, so I have these magic books and then I my dad
00:17:19
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Definitely helped me like he he like would take me out on the weekends and we would go there was one magic shop in Long Island and those can get somewhat there's a range the really really good ones are expensive the there's you know, you could probably get these little bullshit ones for $10, but that $20 to $30 range is where is where it's at where you could probably do some kind of a reasonable thing where you know, there's a little bit of
00:17:48
Speaker
you need to practice to make it. And then you might get somebody saying, I don't know how you did that, you know, there, but it's, you gotta buy it. You gotta buy all these gag, these, these tricks. Um, so I had started putting some of those together. So I had like, I don't know, four or five of these different tricks that came up. Did you have two big rings that you pulled apart? Yeah. Yeah. They had, I remember they had, um, these, uh, oversized playing cards. So they did the trick where you, uh, you, you show it, you show the cards.
00:18:18
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And then the one, the one card is the trick card. And it's got, um, you know, you, you show, you show the cards and then you say pick a card. And then when you show it again, it's like the card is completely gone. And like, how do you, how do I hide it? You can't hide this oversized comically large card, but the trick was that there was a, oh, I can't reveal this actually. I took him to take the, there was the one large card, the middle card had a slit in it and a hinge.
00:18:47
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It was so big, you could do this. It was like, it was almost like poster board that had like, uh, an in-between slot and had a little, a little sleeve. And you had a quarter of, of a card with this little hinge and like the queen of spades would peak out. But then when you folded all the cards together, that, that quarter of a queen of spades folded inside of its heart. And then when you show it again, it disappeared. So it's like, Oh my God, this is crazy. So that was like, that one, I was like, Oh man, if I could do that.
00:19:15
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And the talent show was going to be there. So I was like, oh, I can do that. I'll do a couple of this. And there was another trick where it's very, very brightly colored rubber balls. And then you put that. You show the colors. It's very obvious what the cards are. And then without doing sleight of hand, you change the order of the cards as you put them into the cylinder that's covered. And then when you put them in, like a red, a blue, a green, then when you
00:19:44
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Open up this cylinder and there's a clean tube in That's being Concealed you should see you see the balls, but the the colors are not there It's a completely different colors or none of the balls are there so you play with that and like you kind of hide them but there's a trick in it and then When I was performing this, you know, I had I had the first two are good But this is I want to say this is like the last trick and
00:20:12
Speaker
Something happened where, um, the last trick of the show or your career? Yeah. Yeah. The great Stevie Nee did not make any, uh, but what happened was I, um, I, I, I had an assistant. I think I blamed it on him, but the, the, the container that was holding these balls. If you look, if you were to stand there and look down.
00:20:41
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or look inside, you could see what the trick is. There's something holding something else, and it's very obvious. But if the audience doesn't see it, because as long as it's in the one view, you're fine. But the assembly, the trick fell over, and all the balls fell out. And I think there was an audible gasp in the audience. And then nobody laughed, nobody anything. But then it's just quiet of me gathering the balls.
00:21:11
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Uh, I think I, I recovered. Maybe that was the middle one. Cause it was, um, that me, that might've been the middle trick because I feel like I had another chick after that. And, uh, it might've been okay. I don't remember, but you just kind of go through it. You rushed through it because my, my, my whole face and body starts feeling hot from embarrassment. And then, um, I had secondhand embarrassment. And there was another chick that was also really bad. And these were both gave me the, the, that whole do show thing that I'll still think about.
00:21:40
Speaker
The other one was I had a, um, one of my best friends, uh, in school, he, he hadn't, he wanted to be part of talent show, but he didn't have anything. He said, Oh, I'll help you. I'll be like your assistant. And so I have this big lumbering friend of mine. That's that's here. Uh, um, and he, he's like, so what do I, what's my trick? And so I, I, I think I got this from, um, from friends, like, uh, Phoebe did a trick where she had all the cards stapled together basically. And like you.
00:22:09
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You let it go and then they all fall down. They're all attached. So what I said was, I said, oh, this will be a little, you'll give me a chance to get ready for the next trick and you'll just start talking to the audience. So you'll start doing a trick where you take the deck of cards and you do card dealing tricks. You'll like flip it like a rainbow to the other hand, then to the other hand, then you can, you could like toss it up and then you catch the whole deck and it looks impressive. So you're going to be talking to the audience saying,
00:22:38
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Well, I learned this and this is like, and anybody could try it. All you need is 52 cards and a bunch of staples. And then you just, the big reveal, you let it go, you hold it open. And then it's like, they all kind of come down and they're all attached and it's like, ah, you laugh. But, um, but I think, uh, yeah, so, so that went okay. But, um, I think immediately after he did that, I'm like, Oh, that's good. Now I'm ready for the next trick. I think that, yeah, I think that's where he, he hit the,
00:23:04
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toppled over this thing and it fell over. So I, I blamed him for it. But I assume you're, uh, that was the end of the friendship, right? Cause you've never mentioned this person since then. Uh, yeah. Well, I don't know. I mean, I, who knows after elementary school, everybody went, it was a, it was a big elementary and then everybody went to a big, different junior high. So yeah, however you got to rewrite history, I guess. Yeah. But, uh, I remember my, um,
00:23:31
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in the talent shows, and even the choruses in school, the end of year assembly that they would do, all the different classes would do. You had all the adults, the parents. Back in that time, we had video records, but I don't know if you remember, the over the shoulder, pretty big. It was the- Oh, yeah. That was the actual VHS tape. Yeah. This was second generation or whatever because they got smaller in handheld, but I feel like that was more in high school or
00:24:01
Speaker
I don't know what, but at that time I clearly remember that the whole video court was in a case. It was almost like a, like a, like a, yeah, a carry on in an airport type of thing. And then you take this whole heavy thing and you put it on your shoulder. And my brother Bobby was like, you were doing like a local news broadcast. Yeah. So you have, you look in the audience and you got, you see all that. And my, my brother Bobby, he, he, uh, was in high school. So, but he, uh, came with my mom.
00:24:29
Speaker
And my dad was working so he couldn't make it, but he had the video recorder. I remember. And, uh, I was like, Oh man, this is going to be good. We're going to, you're going to, they're going to see this. And I remember feeling proud about it all before those, like those two things happen. And, uh, I, I don't know what happened to the tape. I know it was, it existed somewhere, but, um, you use your magic one last time. Just a fire, just the light throw the match at it.
00:24:55
Speaker
Oh, boy. That's that's pretty. You know, I remember I was going to say it was like, oh, it's crazy that you just stopped. But I distinctly remember you and Matt doing some terrible magic tricks like when we lived in the apartment. Yeah, that's right. We brought it back. Yeah, that's right. We made it one last revive of the of the career. I think Matt was doing he bought a bunch of
00:25:25
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He, yeah, he got, he bought some tricks and he never told me how he did some of these, these, uh, these tricks. But, uh, I think what I got were those, um, those thumb LEDs that you like, you have the ball that you go around. I remember that was like in junior year. I remember I had that. That's right. Yeah. That's a good, that's a good point. We did. Well, did Matt have the, somebody had like the fake thumb, right? Um, yeah. Maybe that was tough stuff into like the fake thumb or whatever. Yeah, that could have been.
00:25:52
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But the trick I remember, mainly because I remember it being, I don't know, like questioning what we're even doing at this point. But it was like you had like a cup full of coins and like the trick was to make water, put water in the cup and make the water disappear. And you did it by like pushing up the bottom of the cup. Like you had like you cut out the bottom of the cup and you would like push up on it.
00:26:17
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What's that mean? Because that was definitely a David Blain thing. That was one of the magician tricks that they revealed. I know it was during that time frame. Yeah, you end up pushing it up and then it gets past the water or the coffee cup. That was the thing. Like he gave it... Yeah, it was like a styrofoam coffee cup. Yeah, exactly.
00:26:33
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Yeah, that's a good visual trick. Yeah, I feel like you and Matt were doing that. Who are we doing it to? Who's the audience? All these were my questions. I'm like, what's happening? I think you just took over the kitchen for a little while. We got another one. And you gave us a fake golf clap. Oh, wow. Big, fake thumbs up. Yeah, just, yeah. Yeah, I was sad to see that didn't go anywhere. Oh, man.
00:27:02
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I don't know. It sounds like you have like a potential like retirement, like a retirement, uh, or like a, a golden year phase plan. Bring it back for sure. Why not? You know what else, what else are you going to do? Uh, that is pretty good. That's pretty, uh, pretty brutal. That's a devastating talent. It's hard to remember how that all went together, the timing of it, like how, how, uh,
Nostalgia for the 90s Wrestling Era
00:27:31
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Yeah. I haven't thought about that for a little bit, but that's definitely how that all went down. Did you ever watch, uh, like any sort of like wrestling in the nineties? Like we were big into it. Uh, yeah, same. Uh, the, uh, the attitude error, right? It was great. Uh, but if you, if you think back to some of the stuff that happened, uh, on those, like,
00:27:53
Speaker
you know, primetime network broadcast, like, and then now if you watch wrestling now, it's still very silly and very, you know, whatever. It's still kind of a similar thing. But I think most wrestling shows are now technically rated PG.
00:28:11
Speaker
Yeah, they went through a big a change and it was, um, they went completely away from that attitude era. Yeah. I mean, if you, like, I get a lot of, uh, a lot of those, a lot of clips from that period, like in like Tik TOK and YouTube reels or whatever, like all these different places and they're all very fun, but some of them are like, Oh man, that's crazy. That was on network television. Yeah. In terms of everything, everything was ratcheted up. So, um,
00:28:41
Speaker
When, when, um, yeah, probably because it was so big and prominent, like stone cools, he lost and the rock and all, they were, they were, uh, like everywhere, even now, you know, with, with the rock, where is where he's at and Dwayne Johnson, like you, like my, my son will knows who he is. You know, he's, he's, uh, you know, that famous I'm pronounced, but then yeah, you look back at that. Does he call him, does he call him Dwayne or does he call him the rock? I think there's a meme or something going on. There was two weeks ago, probably, uh,
00:29:12
Speaker
saying not even with any type of a punchline, not a type of context, but the meme is to say Dwayne The Rock Johnson out of context. It's just like, oh my God, this food was so great, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. And you're like, what? What do you mean by that? Nothing, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. It's just, I don't know where it comes from, what the origin of it is, but he starts saying that, and I asked, do you even know who that is? And I stopped short of, I was going to show him old clips that I remember from a kid,
00:29:41
Speaker
none of them are appropriate when you show it to him. And the best thing I did, because he likes Maui from Moana. And then just last night for family movie night, we saw Jungle Cruise and he actually liked it a lot. And I told him now after the past two weeks, I said, cause he's laughing at certain things and he's like closing his eyes and certain things. And when the guy's doing some of his stunts, I said, you can say that now and it's in context. You could just be like,
00:30:11
Speaker
It's like, Oh my God doing the rock Johnson. It finally made sense. And, but he, he was saying this whole time and he, and he knew, uh, who he was, but he just had nothing else to go with. Um, but yeah, so that's kind of the newer thing, but I think you're right about, um, uh, the, the, it's, uh, that, that time that the nineties and that, um, in the 2000s, that's when it was, uh, predominant, like that, um, at WWE. And there was, uh, something called, uh, I don't know how, how
00:30:40
Speaker
deep into it you got, but there was also, there was the competitors, there was WCW. I'm just looking up at my stone cold poster on my wall right now. I had the Austin 316 shirt and then I had a red Austin 316 shirt where he had rattlesnakes on his arms and he was like, put the arms up and I had that. But yeah, me and my brothers, my two older brothers, they were like eight years older.
00:31:06
Speaker
We grew up, me and my brother, Rich grew up watching it with them and they were watching like the eighties, late eighties wrestling. So that was like Colgan and macho man and ultimate warrior. So I remember seeing all that and it was like cartoon characters and all that. And then we, I continued to watch it and then he got into all this other stuff. It was like, it was like Bret Hart and Sean Michaels and then Undertaker. And then it was like all these, then it was the attitude area era and teenage years. And that was like,
00:31:32
Speaker
Oh my God, this is the best at that time. Watch it better. Yeah. And then, um, not too many kids in my school, like at high school, I remember we were watching it, but, um, I remember I was, I made a couple of friends that were like, they, they had like old, old, um, matches from like the seventies and stuff. Some people were like really into it, but yeah, it goes like the wrestling. There's like a lot of, um, there's a fan ship out there and it gets very, um, uh, like obscure, like there's like different territories and there's like,
00:32:01
Speaker
ECW was like the one, like the really, the only cool people know about. And that's like super violent. I remember watching that too. And then, um, there's a, there's a new one that's true for, uh, there. Oh, I don't think they've been bought by the WWE yet, but there is like, uh, a spin-off group. Yeah. That's very popular. The ones that are in right now are, um, yeah, same thing. I saw like I got, I got clips sent over to me. It's, it's, uh, it's AEW.
00:32:29
Speaker
That's the new one. And, uh, and there's another one, um, there's like a Japan one called new Japan wrestling. Um, but yeah, those there's, ah, man, when I tell you, I was telling Betty my, how much time I spent watching it where it's another one of those things where like you mentioned, like your parents just make it happen. And yeah, it got expensive because we would watch the cable program on Mondays and then it'd be on Wednesdays. And then it'd be a Thursday show. I was watching every single day, me and my brothers.
00:32:59
Speaker
And then every three months, there'd be a pay-per-view. And I believe it was $50 or $60. And my poor dad would work his ass off, wake up at 3.30 in the morning, go to work. He just wanted to relax on the weekend.
00:33:15
Speaker
his dumb ass kids would want to buy all these family sized Doritos and sodas. And we just want to watch and pizza and just want to watch our attitude era Stone Cold versus Triple H match. And it was four hours and it was on a Sunday. And all he wanted to do is go to sleep, wake up on Monday. We were like,
00:33:38
Speaker
We'd get so upset. I think there was one time where he was like, kids, I, we can't, we can't keep on buying these things. And we got like so upset that he eventually relented. It's like, we're his kids and Hey, we're not, we probably were like, you know, 14, 15 and we weren't going out and drinking or drugs or anything like that, but we wanted to watch our wrestling and we would spend so much time on it. But I told Betty the amount of hours we, we, uh, spent on that is like,
00:34:05
Speaker
ridiculous how much we watched. Yeah, it used to be on all the time. I mean, it's coming to Netflix in 2026. WWE is right. Yeah, that's going to be Netflix's big like live stream. So they'll have it on live every Monday and Wednesday and Saturday or whatever. I don't know how that I obviously know how Netflix works and you know, but how I don't even know how that would would work because they're they're a they're a
00:34:35
Speaker
a live show that that they would be that they have or would have or currently have right where it's like a Monday and Thursday at least I think so how does that work on
00:34:45
Speaker
when you're streaming on demand with Netflix, I don't know. So I think it was always delayed like an hour or something to cut out any effect that they shouldn't show. They didn't do like a live delay. So it was never technically live live. It was, I mean, within like an hour or whatever. But yeah, I think it's just like, depending on where you live, you might see it at some crazy time.
00:35:12
Speaker
So I got you. OK, which is I think that was true. Or maybe not. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they will delay it because I think I was in the West Coast at that time. And yeah, I think it was the broadcast was just delayed three hours. So. Oh, man. But that's not true of like normal sports, like normal sports on the West Coast are
00:35:37
Speaker
broadcast live, which means that all sports are real early on the West Coast. So like Sunday football starts at like 9am. So yeah, I don't know how they're going to do it, but I was talking to Chris about it. I was like, I don't have the time or the desire to get into another thing.
The WrestleMania Bucket List Dream
00:36:01
Speaker
But that level of convenience, I'm like, ah. You might give it another go. I don't think so. Although I will say I do think there's a there's just couple like random like I do have like a list of just events that at some point I would like to go to once in my life. And I do think WrestleMania.
00:36:22
Speaker
It was just here. It was just in Philadelphia weeks ago. I only went to one live event. And again, it was my, my poor dad. He's just like, he went to Madison square garden and we went and it was not even a tape show. It was like a road show, but I can't imagine how, um, the live thing must be in WrestleMania. It's like a long, I remember being like, it's two days, right? Yeah. I remember being like a two and a half to three hour thing when I was watching it like religiously. And then now it's two days.
00:36:52
Speaker
Uh, so I don't, yeah. And I don't know what the tickets are like or what it would be, but it's, yeah, it's, it's crazy. Uh, I think what I looked like bad seats were like 600 bucks or something. Like if you want bad seats to the super bowl, it's probably like $2,400. So when I was thinking for the amount of time that I, I, we, we put it into it, like it, like wrestling and we'll always have like,
00:37:21
Speaker
Like I'll have a soft spot for it. Like it's, it's, it's funny. It's nostalgic. It's like, uh, I like that it's still around, even though I'm not into it. Um, but I always, I never went to similar. I never went to any shows. I think WrestleMania would be too much to bite off on, but I remember thinking like, yeah, cause I remember, um, I'm like, Oh, you know, it'd be fun if we went to like, uh, to Mexico and saw like a Lucha Libre thing. Cause that's like almost like a cultural thing. And it's like, I have no idea who these characters are, but I kind of know what it's about. Um,
00:37:51
Speaker
or then, or even like a hot show or something like that. So it sounds like we're, we're making rough plans to go see a live wrestling shows, what it sounds like.