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Episode 122 - A Very Italian Christmas
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E-cigarette Experiences and Misunderstandings
00:00:00
Speaker
But like, God is it tastes so unnatural, you know? Brother, it is an e-cigarette. What did you think? I never, I never used one before. That's, that's why this whole thing was insane. All right.
00:00:15
Speaker
So when do we start? No, no, we're going. Let's get into it, boys. Cheers. How you doing? How you doing? How you doing? We are wearing matching tracksuits for Christmas. You know what? We actually did pretty good on the colors. Yeah, I didn't think about that.
00:00:34
Speaker
Is this going to come out Christmas time? No, come on. Well, after Christmas, a little bit after Christmas. All right. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Happy Hanukkah. I think it's Hanukkah starts the day after Christmas. Kwanzaa Kwanzaa. I don't know. I think he's 26. Yeah. Happy Kwanzaa as well. That's it. Laundry in the basement. Yeah. Holiday theme. Holiday edition. Holiday edition. You're right. That's right. That's right. With some beautiful, beautiful Italian-American
00:01:00
Speaker
representation yes yeah yeah yeah and we said what is needed right now in these very trying times and what better way to do that than tracksuits and tracksuits gold chains yeah some pinky rings and carcinogens couple how you doing pinky up alright just cuz we're in New York
00:01:26
Speaker
Doesn't mean that all of a sudden we assimilate.
Queens, New York and Podcast Name Origins
00:01:29
Speaker
Do people say that outside of New York? No, I'm walking here. You're the New Yorker. Yeah, you are. No, no, no, we established this last time that I am not in fact a New Yorker. We did not announce that we are live in Queens, New York. Yes, we are live from New York. That's right. It's Saturday night. Saturday night, baby. Yeah. In the basement. In the basement. In the basement. Austin's beautiful apartment.
00:01:54
Speaker
Did you ever give context to the name of the podcast when you started? No, maybe I don't think so. Basically, it's Jeff. It was Jeff's idea. He was scrolling on like Craigslist looking for an apartment. And he saw like a lot of apartments, like a lot of a lot of listings would say like laundry in the basement.
00:02:16
Speaker
And that's where it was pulled. That's where I feel like we did talk about that, though. I feel like we talked about it, but I don't think on the show, which like, you know, it's a cool name. Yeah, I'm not going to give it up. I don't think I'm not saying that you should know. I'm saying like, you know.
Laundromats and Italian-American Culture
00:02:35
Speaker
Yeah, I like the branding. Did you patent it? Did you copyright it? I mean, we've been talking. We joked about doing an LLC before. We haven't done this and maybe we should.
00:02:45
Speaker
I think you should. Yeah. I mean, for the record, Austin doesn't even have laundry in the basement. You know, I didn't I did mine at the laundromat today. Oh, you don't have a laundry like in. No, that's no. But but I'll tell you what. Usually I'm pretty bougie about it. And I'll the laundromats offer a service now where you just drop off your clothes and they'll fold it for you. The wash. They'll try to do the whole thing. No. Yeah. That's very cool. But today I did the whole nine yards. I went there.
00:03:12
Speaker
I dropped off the laundry. I went and I got a bagel at the shop. I came back. Who's going to wait an hour for the clothes to dry? You know what I'm saying? I said, get me a everything bagel with a half a pound of cream cheese. The ackee way. The ackee way. Jesus. 100%. Oh my god. We're just going to hit all the New York stereotypes tonight. Dude. What in Rome? And tomorrow. How can we not? For the second episode that we're going to do. Yeah. Stay tuned for part two. Yeah. It's coming at you quick.
Stereotypes and Media Portrayal of Italian-Americans
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Speaker
The next episode is the regretting this episode No, no regrets never regrets. Well, what what what possibly could there be to regret? I mean we still got 45 minutes to figure that out, but I know No, we got like that's why you gotta change for ya. That's why you gotta change Alright, so let me just start out by saying by doxing me I
00:04:06
Speaker
It's not doxing you, no one's gonna know where you live. What I'm saying is, I don't. This is terrible. Yeah, when you when you texted me saying, Oh, I'm going, I'm going all you need to see what I bought for us. I was thinking, Oh, okay, he probably brought us my gold chains. We're wearing the track suits for this episode because I have the money.
00:04:25
Speaker
You could have bought in fake ones. That would have been fine. Yeah. It probably would have been a better use of your money than E6. I know. He texted me saying, I bought E6 for us. OK. I couldn't believe it. Hold on. Hold on. Just before Mike says anything, for clarification, he said, I've got the little one hitter disposable whatever. I thought it was like the vape like water vape. Right? Yeah.
00:04:49
Speaker
This is legit dude like I had to go through like 13 packages that said this is terrible for me But we say this now tomorrow morning we're gonna be like
00:05:04
Speaker
I need another one of those. Yeah, that's not good. That's not good. Yeah, we're going to check out the price of cigarettes after this. Yeah. Well, OK. So understand this, that we decided to do track suits, which was a great idea. Sure. Yeah. Come on. You didn't say no. I didn't say no. I'm in the track suit. We decided to do track suits. We wanted to go all out and do stupid things. But this was an idea that we had for a while about us just buying track suits and wearing matching track suits. Originally, it was Halloween.
00:05:34
Speaker
Yeah. And it was prior to us ever doing this podcast. So then we then we finally pulled the trigger on the tracksuits and this and that. And then so, you know, now we have, you know, we're wearing the glasses, we're doing the chains, we're doing this and that. So I was trying to think of anything that would stereotype like the Italian-American in a tracksuit in New York. And obviously a big one, you know, based on, you know, the the movies and the stories like Sopranos and Godfather, this and that. A lot of it's cigars and cigarettes. And we can't do that in Austin's beautiful apartment.
00:06:04
Speaker
So I went for the other viable option, which obviously is not a good option, but it's it's for the theme Yeah, listen, this is this is entry-level. What we're doing right now is entry-level. The next step is like we get the the velvet or velour I have one in Steelers. Yeah, if you want to give you the website for isn't that the the juicy couture
00:06:27
Speaker
Yeah, it says juicy on the ass. Yeah, I mean, can we bring those back? Those are great. Hey, these pants. Listen, that is, I credit. I put them on. It's like I put them on and I was like, I haven't wore pants these tight. This tight. It's like middle school. Right. Maybe baseball. But then baseball, maybe baseball. But I turned around. I was like, still got it. There it is, baby. God, there it is. Squats are paying on. That's America's ass right there.
00:06:56
Speaker
This one's for the lads, you know what I mean? Sometimes, you just gotta hype yourself up. Look, I'm all down for a good theme, you know? And I'm glad we did the theme. I think the E6 were a step too far. I think so. Yeah, maybe. My head is thropic. Yeah, man, stop smoking the E6. You don't have to smoke it. You know what? For some reason, I just can't stop it. You know what worries me right now is it tastes bad, doesn't hurt whatsoever.
00:07:23
Speaker
What have I done in my life that this is OK? Yeah, you guys should should just put them down. We don't need the six. I think I think the viewers. Here's the thing. The audio listeners can't even see you smoking the six. They're going to hear it right now. You know, that was so weak. I could barely hear that in the headphones. I don't know how to do this. Give it a little cough, you know, give it a little, you know, get the flame up.
00:07:54
Speaker
Oh man. I think it might just be a step too far. Maybe. And maybe touching on instead of cultural appreciation, cultural appropriation. Is this cultural appropriation? It's my own culture. Well, not the Esigs. Not the Esigs. Chill. I don't know. Maybe there's.
00:08:17
Speaker
I just, when I read that text saying, oh yeah, I'm not just, you said, oh, I bought us something like so cool to enhance the outfit. And then I was waiting for the picture message to download at work. And the second I saw the like, oh, he said, I just couldn't believe it. It honestly was less about smoking the Esig and just more about the aesthetic of bringing out more of the tracksuit. You know what I'm saying? Interesting. Yeah, but I feel like almost because they're, they're not going to get that.
00:08:46
Speaker
we're like we're teetering into the like the Slavic territory like Russian you know like Nico Bellic yes like you know yeah GTA fans out there in fairness that I think track suits and cigarette smoke is more Eastern European like the times that I went to Italy was very the track suits ain't it nobody's wearing tracks no this is like this is an Italian American that's
00:09:11
Speaker
Eastern European French almost too French please but I mean but this is why we did this in New York you know I'm saying we're doing this in New York for a reason you know we're doing the tracksuits we're doing the how you doings we're doing the you know wife beater shirts the glasses the whole mind which by the way
00:09:31
Speaker
i feel like if it wasn't for social media this would no longer be a thing because you got the guys going out there right now on tiktok with the how you doing and doing the deli and everything like that but never do i see people terrorizing like this which is sad really come on it's not real and that's why i don't like
00:09:54
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so this is my this is my great this is why i don't like mafia movies so much like the godfather was the grow one of the greatest religious of all time i thought you were about to say it was bad i was ready to hit you with this microphone it was great and i've and the sopranos obviously was one of the best shows written but like
00:10:10
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I think it's a bad reputation to like actual Italian culture. Like, yes, did that stuff happen? Did mafia era happen and all that? Yes, but it's a bad representation. So now you get douchebags walking around in track suits and ordering gabagool and all this. And it's not how Italian. Yeah, like actual like Italian American culture.
00:10:29
Speaker
Yeah, it's not the best representation. But like, for what those people like are and what it like actually is, it is like a pretty good representation. No, yeah, it's, it's, it's true that that kind of stuff happened in mafia area and stuff. But like, I hate that, like, we hone on that. Because that's not all about it. I just I want to recognize the hypocrisy of this moment right now. Why?
00:10:53
Speaker
You were the one that said, God, we got to get the track suits that we got to throw on. We got to get all this stuff. And now you're out here is being like, I think it's a bad representation of my people. No, as wearing as we're wearing. No, I want to eat. Did you bring us on here for this publicity stunt right now? I keep smoking this. Stop smoking the essay. How you doing?
00:11:17
Speaker
For all the children that are watching this show, you're putting on a bed. Yeah, put down the vape. That's it. This is gonna get demonetized on YouTube. Well, you don't even post the videos. It's more so than it already does. Our 13 listeners aren't gonna watch me smoke disease. Yeah, they're gonna hear you smoke for a little bit.
00:11:35
Speaker
Oh god, speaking of Italians, how about that Luigi Manjoni guy, huh? Oh Jesus Christ. We didn't even make it halfway through. It's like an unavoidable topic. Sort of. It is unavoidable. I can't wait to post up in that guy's spot tomorrow at the Midtown Hilton. When you send me that text, dude. When you send me that text, that was nuts. That was nuts.
The Luigi Manjoni Case and Media Criticism
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It's not that far of a walk from where we're going tomorrow. I cannot wait. I'm posting up. If we drove there right now, it would probably be about 20 minutes to get right to that Hilton. Also, 14 cops probably just hanging out there right now. Someone did a reenactment.
00:12:13
Speaker
What did they really yeah, they did a joking reenactment daily and there was no security It was like it was a joke where it was two dipshits like I know I understand it's a joke and the kid was going black black black and the guy like his friend fell over and The people outside who are going into the Hilton were like, oh, that's that's messed up. I
00:12:33
Speaker
I thought you said they were I thought you were gonna say they were clapping. I was like, that's horrendous No, well, I think there was one person laughing but like there was this old dude outside of like, oh, that's that's messed up So distasteful. Yeah, let me tell you he was and I didn't read up on the whole thing But he must have been escaping far to get caught in Altoona, Pennsylvania
00:12:53
Speaker
Because you ain't doing nothing in Altoona. Well, all the information hasn't come out yet, right? We're just kind of we're scratching the surface. They're doing all those exclusive stories and getting background information and stuff like that. And they're doing just incredible thing. They're charging him with terrorism there. Did you guys see like, I mean, I had it posted on the the things in working, but like I was going to put us into like show the photo. But like, do you see how they were like perp walking them yesterday?
00:13:20
Speaker
where they had 10,000 guards in SWAT suits behind them. It's incredible the lengths that they'll go. I'm sorry. That is so ridiculous. Don't get me wrong. Murder is wrong. To the nth degree, whoever. But to treat this kid, because he's a kid, right? He's like our age.
00:13:47
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Which like I still don't consider myself grown up, you know what I mean? And maybe that's maybe that's just there, you know skewed but whatever like to walk him down like that and to vilify him the way that they are. Don't get me again. Like I said, not good. What he did is not good. Not saying it's good. Not saying it's good, but compared
00:14:12
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to the other atrocities that have happened in the recent past to treat this guy the way that they're doing sends a pretty clear message to me.
00:14:28
Speaker
what America values and who they value, comparatively to everyone else. Again, not that it's a good thing that he died, but United Insurance is one of the most evil companies in America. Yeah, their denial rate's over 30%, 40%. Double the average denial rate of an insurance firm. They implemented an AI system to do their claims. Right.
00:14:53
Speaker
and like figure out what denials would be and it was an incredibly flawed system that they already knew was flawed and they did it anyway well yeah and and and even though it's indirect if you could pull out the receipts for even a handful of the people that have been impacted by oh yeah 100 percent financially yeah or physically because maybe they couldn't get the coverage that they needed or whatever it is right it seems 10 times worse than
00:15:22
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I would bet my life savings of $37, that's double mine, that thousands of people have died.
00:15:34
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like using you like being denied like medical attention medical 100% hey brother I bet you that's this year yeah 100% if not the last six months tens of thousands of people have died this year in the past decade past 25 years easy at the hands of not just United but all insurance companies like it's incredible to like
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I think
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threatening passengers, so he took it upon himself to choke the guy to death. Which, I get it. If you want to restrain the guy, I still think that's a little bit too far. Something like that happens on the New York Subways every single day, and no one ever brings it to a violent. You heard that they brought that guy for food on the way? No. Yeah. They picked up food for that guy. And fact check me on that, because I just saw that in passing.
00:16:50
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Yeah, it's just like, again, he's getting like, you know, he went to like the, the latest college football game, I think army navy or whatever, whatever it was last week and like sat in a press box with like Trump and JD Vance. Yeah, they invited him. Yeah. It's like he's being treated like he's like some sort of hero for
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taking it too far and kill, like again, I get it. The guy was threatening passengers or whatever. You can restrain him, but you can't bring it to a point where you kill the guy and like choke him to death. That's insane. Yeah. And he's getting paraded around like he's some sort of hero. And at the same time, they're bringing out SWAT teams and like.
00:17:32
Speaker
I don't know. It's like an incredibly fucked up system and it just shows you kind of how rigged society is against like Your normal average like person. Yeah Listen think it was funny though. I will say I did think it was funny that I
00:17:47
Speaker
No matter what kind of media you consumed, whether it was like right wing or left wing media, almost everyone was in like agreement that what Luigi did was like a good thing. Not that I'm saying it is.
00:18:03
Speaker
But everyone was celebrating it and kind of laughing and dunking on the CEO. But that's it, right?
Insurance Industry and Class Disparities
00:18:13
Speaker
Based on what we were saying before, how can you not expect people to react this way, right? No matter what, it's simple.
00:18:27
Speaker
It's not a transcends politics. It's a class issue at that point, where everyone who is in the middle and lower classes have dealt with like medical problems have dealt with insurance, having to pay crazy premiums to still have to pay out of pocket for anything that you have like any visit any meds. Like right now, like my dad is being denied his meds by an insurance company. Oh, yeah.
00:18:53
Speaker
And I think he pays over $300 a month in his insurance premium, but yet still can't get the medication he needs. And luckily, you know, it's not dire to the point where he like he's gonna die. But for some people it is for a lot of people it is.
00:19:10
Speaker
And so like, like, I don't know if you guys saw it, but like Ben Shapiro was like, the fact that every everyone on the right or the left, he's like the fact that the left are celebrating this, as if it's some good thing is so wrong and so disgusting. And then you have everyone in his comments being like, Hey, Ben, conservative here. What Luigi did was good, actually, and hilarious. And you're wrong and out of touch.
00:19:32
Speaker
I'll tell you who's the big winner out of all this. I think the big winner is the American people, because immediately after Luigi Manjoni did what he did, and we don't condone that, is McDonald's came out with a snack wrap again. Jesus Christ. I think him getting caught in Altoona was a marketing move to re-release the snack wrap.
00:19:50
Speaker
I hope Altoona starts fixing their pizza, too, because I saw trash. It's they do cheddar cheese slices on top of regular pizza. That's so egregious. Yeah. So, you know, that's the real Italian American discrimination right there. Yeah. No, they think you're going to buy that shit. That's probably why he got caught in Altoona for being real. They hate Italians. That's it. Look at their pizza.
00:20:12
Speaker
Did we go when you were in Pittsburgh? Did you go to? Sarah's candy Okay, so right next to Sarah's candy and they advertise it and they get a lot of money is Pizza, but it's not pizza. It's pizza fine Italian bistro
00:20:29
Speaker
What? That's what they market. That's the sign is Pizza Hut fine Italian Bistro. But the food's different or it's the same. I mean, I never had it and nor will I touch it. But like, that's like, well, hold on. Italian cuisine in those areas. Oh, OK. I mean, I will say I was not a Pizza Hut fan for the longest, but I have had some.
00:20:52
Speaker
in the recent past, and it's been pretty good. Listen, the personal pan pizzas that target that cross goes so hard. I don't know what they do to it. I told Austin this before you came, and I think it's Papa John's, but I am all down to try a Papa John's stuffed crust pizza and just relive some middle school days. I think it's that good. I think I can imagine it's great. Was the stuffed crust pizza in middle school good, too? I mean, for what it was, I thought, hold on. No, I love. Here's here's the problem, though. We're teetering.
00:21:22
Speaker
on that edge, right? Because once you hit 30, it's like all of your inner gastrointestinal problems. Oh, buddy, we were there in January 2024, buddy. Getting a shake tonight was an awful idea. I'm holding on by the seat. Let me tell you something. Don't you ruin it? I had such bad.
00:21:40
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the the
00:21:55
Speaker
I was in so much pain that I was going in and out of consciousness, on my bathroom floor. Isn't that crazy? To a point where I had so many tests and endoscopies and stuff, I hit my deductible in March. That's crazy. I've never hit my deductible before in my life because I go to an occasional doctor here and there or whatever. I go to the dentist every five years. Hit up the doctor every 10. Wash my hair every 12 years. I actually finally got an actual doctor this year. I'd been putting it off for a while.
00:22:25
Speaker
for the foot? Oh, no, no. Well, the primary foot's going to get the foot's going to get x-rayed soon. All right. So wait, hold on. Did you go a full like two solid years with no insurance or did you get insurance and then not go? I went one year without insurance, but I hadn't been to a doctor since 2016.
00:22:43
Speaker
Oh my god, Victor. Dude, you gotta go now. Wait, wait, wait. Oh no, I have a regular doctor now. I have regular doctor's appointment. Jesus, guy. Jesus, dude. And when you showed up, did he go, so when was the last time? When you go to confession, it's like when was the last time? Yeah, I was like, yeah, 2016 probably. And he's like, oh, OK. He's like.
00:23:03
Speaker
Well, we're going to have to do some blood work. We're going to have to do the running through the garden. Is it bend over? No, no, not yet. Not yet. But that's it's common. It's common. Tell me tell me that you guys aren't like.
00:23:16
Speaker
just kind of so nervous about the day where you gotta get a colonoscopy. Really? Yeah, I get to see if I'm at the butt play or not. Ooh, yeah. Oh my god. Hey, listen. What the fuck? Well, listen. Oh my god. Some of us don't get to explore like that in college, and you gotta take every opportunity that you can.
00:23:34
Speaker
God, that's just, that's terrible. That's terrible. You understand? Oh my God. You know, I've said some shit on this podcast, but what the fuck was that? He's done. He gets done and he's like, this is, thank you, doctor. You think I can, I think I can get pegged. Oh my God. Not by the doctor, by, you know.
00:23:56
Speaker
Yeah, by who? Hopefully some some beautiful, beautiful woman off of hinge. That's hilarious. No, we've tried that. Doesn't work. That doesn't work. And that's your that's your fault. That is my fault. Doug steps away and he's like, all right, you're good. I didn't I didn't I didn't feel anything. He's like, are you sure? Can you go back in there? Yeah, can you check? Can you double check?
00:24:18
Speaker
I think you didn't hit the left side. OK, Victor, we're going to put you under anesthesia. No anesthesia. Listen, hey, it's too expensive to recover. Do you guys see that the day before the shooting?
00:24:34
Speaker
I think Blue Cross Blue Shield was like, yeah, we're going to stop coverages on like anesthesia. Yes. And for a bunch of different like, like Connecticut was one state, there was a couple other bits like, yeah, like it will cover to a certain time. And then after that, you have to pay for it. And then the day after, like the day after the shooting, Blue Cross Blue Shield was like, hey, guys, we're going to walk that back, actually. Yeah. Sorry. But you don't mean that. Like I hate that we're like I don't want to keep looping back to the subject, but it's like, isn't it so sad?
00:25:02
Speaker
that it takes something like that to happen in this country for things to change.
00:25:09
Speaker
And again, they might not change. Like, I mean, like they're trying their hardest to suppress it. Sadly, there are like, there have been copycats. Like, I don't know if you guys saw it, but I think like this week, some dude stabbed his boss in a meeting just because it was like, oh yeah, I'm pulling that Luigi shit. Which is like, all right, probably not good. Not good at all. But then there's also a woman who like,
00:25:38
Speaker
i think got denied coverage in florida and she said the three words that were on like the bullets like deny defend depose or whatever and like she got arrested for terrorism yeah it's again because it's trying to get all those like people back yeah under control in a way but
00:25:59
Speaker
I don't know it's under control is a crazy statement too because it's like what does that really mean under control like no we're gonna punish people for speaking up or I think that's that's pretty much what is gonna you know is happening if that's the case that's fucked up yeah but at the same time people people are gonna be more attentive now
00:26:21
Speaker
and policies like that that different companies put out, like the Blue Cross Blue Shield, I'm sure would have gone unnoticed if somebody wasn't monitoring their coverage now and being like, yo, am I gonna get screwed over too? And it's one of those things where it's like, oh man, that sucks, what can we do about it? Nothing. Nothing. I mean, one guy did try to do something about it and it immediately got the other thing repealed, but maybe we shouldn't keep doing that.
00:26:51
Speaker
What's crazier is that people pay boatloads of money just to have stuff like that happen on a, you know, on a monthly basis. Just Oh, yeah. Like, again, paying like my. Someone I work with, like she pays, I think on three hundred and thirty dollars per month for her insurance, for her family, and they don't cover like her meds. Yeah. Like, dude, you know, imagine paying that much money to not like to still have to pay like a thousand dollars out of your pocket for your medication. You know what I'm saying? That is.
00:27:21
Speaker
you know I looked it up the other day and this is only by happenstance individual coverage for blue cross blue shield minimum coverage for an individual seven hundred and fifty dollars a month that's why it's insane insane
00:27:40
Speaker
Luckily, I pay like 60 bucks a month, you know? Well, and that's why it's good to get your coverage if you can through like a larger corporation that has an established relationship. And that's not it's not the case for most people, but yeah. Anyways, can I say something? Yeah, we've been at it for 30 minutes and all we talked about is fucking insurance. Well, I mean, but I feel like it's an important topic.
00:28:06
Speaker
Come on, we're young. I mean, listen, we have better things to worry about. You're sure you're right. And I'm not saying like, yeah, we got to talk about it or this and that. But we just did a 65-year-old thing. So we're going to be like, they're going to take Social Security out of me. I mean, they're going to. I mean, they are. Listen, fine. We'll end up with this.
00:28:28
Speaker
If only I could say what I truly feel about the situation, I think this podcast would be a lot funnier. And I also think a lot shorter. You can't. OK, I can't to a point because I still have a job to keep. That's right. It didn't stop you guys from having me about, you know, what do you mean? All the stuff from prior podcasts. Listen, those were all jokes. And we said that there were jokes out loud. I did not be joking if I truly said what I felt about the situation. And I'm going to leave it at that.
00:28:58
Speaker
Plus, you really did all those things that we were talking about. Jesus. Oh, okay. Hard pivot. Is that okay? Hard pivot? Please. Mike is trying to do everything to get out of this conversation. Did you notice you guys were the grunt of that conversation for a solid 25 minutes? I know, I know. I'm sorry. Did you not pick up my transition about the reason why he totally was the reverted right back?
00:29:28
Speaker
Yeah, crazy transit. This is the lowest grossing episode. That's not on me. Hey, I think I think that people will actually. People understand what we're saying. Well, and and care to listen. Yeah, I feel like because they're going to be feeling some type of way about it, too. But anyways.
00:29:44
Speaker
have you guys ever played the like hear me out like hear me out again or at least seen like a video on it no have you no okay so the the concept is that you get together with other people and you bring like a handful of characters or actors or whatever but it has to be from like a movie or a show or whatever yep
00:30:09
Speaker
and it's like the questionable, I'm attracted to this character, but it's questionable, right?
Games and Cultural Phenomena Discussions
00:30:16
Speaker
Like one of the most popular ones I've seen is like Nick Wilde from Zootopia. You can't be attracted, like it's a fictional fox. I mean you can. You can be, I guess, but you know. But it's like a weird thing, right? And so people run through those and they're like, all right, hear me out. And then they give the character, or the person. So what's yours?
00:30:36
Speaker
Well, I wasn't gonna say well, actually, I kind of agree with this one. But I was listening to the basement yard the other day. And they had said that theirs was Professor McGonagall from Harry Potter. Okay.
00:30:54
Speaker
And I was like, you know what? Maybe she did. She did kind of have that. She's she's pretty. She got that authoritative figure. Yeah. You know, for some reason, I almost thought the evil one. Oh, Bellatrix. Yeah. Yeah. Fair teeth are a little messed up. Yeah. But, you know, hey, listen. Hey, listen, hear me. Hear me out. Hear me out.
00:31:17
Speaker
So Mike, who's who's someone that comes to mind when we say here? Yes. Yeah. What's your here? You hear you out? I truly I've never heard of that. I have to think about it. Yeah. So you're saying like a fictional character, fictional character, any real life character, really, if you want to. One of the ones I saw was this girl put the other girl's dad in there as a hear me out. Wow. Little spicy. This is your time. Yeah.
00:31:42
Speaker
Who would what would you do? No, no, no hold on pause. This is for you. I think I have to think so think So think yeah, we're gonna sit in silence for seven minutes. Well, I think I don't know
00:31:55
Speaker
You ever, see my mind always goes to who frame Roger Rabbit. But that's not really a hear me out. Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing of like, you know, like, like Lilo and Stitch, the older sister. Dude, absolutely. I can't think of her name. But then somebody, a real hear me out would be like, yo, Pleakly. Hear me out, hear me out. Squidward's house.
00:32:19
Speaker
Dude, it's got a mean nose. It's got a mean nose. Got a schnoz on it. And multiple holes. Yeah. Speaking of multiple holes, SpongeBob Squarepants. Hey, man. Listen, it's a sponge. It's ambiguous. That's right. You guys are far fetching. And I think for some reason, I don't know if this is true or not. I have to look it up. But I think the creator of SpongeBob or like SpongeBob's voice was like, yeah, honestly, SpongeBob's bisexual. I believe that.
00:32:46
Speaker
Did you guys hear the other day that there was an interview with the creator of Hello Kitty and they asked her if Hello Kitty was a cat and she said no.
00:32:55
Speaker
like hello kitty's not a cat did she say what yeah what it is I don't remember specifically what it is oh but hello kitty's not a cat that's okay all right that's crazy but is that you hear you out or that is not that is not my hair have you been able to think of one for some reason because no matter what I pick you guys gonna roast me
00:33:19
Speaker
Vicky the babysitter from fairly I get that 16 what the fuck? Yeah, what's wrong? Disgusting I get that and I pivoted me He goes I get that I get that no you're right is God man who else? Ivanka
00:33:42
Speaker
Ivanka Trump. Yeah, that's not a him. That's yeah, that's even Donald said he would too. I know. So like it's cosine. It's cosine by her own dad. That's gross dude. I don't know. I don't know. Nothing else. What about? What's your name from the Incredibles?
00:34:09
Speaker
Oh, she go. I mean, that's not. Let's see. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Edna Edna mode. Oh, oh, incredible. I thought he said impossible for some reason. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah. I mean, yeah, she goes. She's feisty with it. Listen. Yeah, she she's small, small, but she's she's got your name in a lot of these movies and things I've never seen. I've never seen it. I've never seen it. I've never seen Harry Potter. Why? I've never seen it. You guys know this.
00:34:37
Speaker
That's crazy. I forget every single time because it is that absurd every single time. I will say I didn't watch Harry Potter until like last year either. Oh my God. This hurts so much. Are you serious? I didn't technically finish the series. I stopped on the seventh movie.
00:34:53
Speaker
Seven movies. There's eight. No, no. Okay, then I saw it on the well, I guess it's seven as part one and part two. So that's what I'm saying. Eight. Yeah. So I stopped on the seventh one. So you you still haven't seen the end. So I haven't seen the end. A lot of a lot of stuff happened. This is true. You know, the reason why I never finished that. That's here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:16
Speaker
But yeah, that's that's unacceptable. I know. I want to go back and rewatch all of them and then finish the series because they're I think they were great. I loved the the first six and then the seventh movie. I think I was too drunk to really remember. And then the eighth movie I just didn't watch.
00:35:35
Speaker
Hey, that's that's a that's a an episode right there. Yeah. Like watching the movie and talk about it. Yeah. Talk about it. That'd be pretty fun. Harry Potter. Yeah. You would have to watch all you especially because you have a unique perspective. Yeah. That you guys are going to just shit on every time I present. What do you mean, dude?
00:35:56
Speaker
What do you mean? What do I mean? Have we have you like, have we belittled you so much? It's not. Yes. That's that's wild. Yes. That's crazy. Because we could do so much work. We could. We absolutely could. And we're we're really holding back. Remember when we played that game? The Buzz Tower and somebody pulled the card and said, if you cried in the past 24 hours, put a block. Why was I the only one that put a block?
00:36:19
Speaker
Anybody understand? You never told us why. We did not make you cry in the past 24 hours. You don't know. But you don't know. I know for a fact that we didn't. I know for a fact. I know for sure. So are you are you on validating my feelings? Yes, absolutely. I'm not on validating your feelings. I'm on validating the cause of your feelings. Yeah, that okay. Yeah, that's a better way to feel. Listen, man. I'm, I'm here for you. If you want to talk about it, you know, obviously, I love you.
00:36:44
Speaker
I know for a fact that Austin and I did not make you cry in the past 24 hours. We didn't. But I tell you what, we could. We could cry in the next 24 hours. We got a long day ahead of us, buddy. Mike, I guess what we're saying is we're trying to create a space for you where you feel comfortable. I can't say too much because last episode we talked about is depression and I started laughing. You know what's really funny is
00:37:11
Speaker
I was listening to that episode last night. I was driving somewhere. And that was the first part of that episode where we talked about men's mental health, depression, all that. And then we were talking about the bakery. And I said, I didn't want to do XYZ because I didn't want to blow it up. And you were like, oh, you could have blown it up in other ways. And then I was like, that's probably why he's on the SSRI. I was like, that's probably why he's on the drugs.
00:37:39
Speaker
I said that's the depression. Jesus Christ. That's the depression right there. No, it's the depressors are just being funny. That's it. Yeah. I think he's just good. Yeah. You know, timing. I've got a lot of time in this game, you know? I mean, that's the whole that's the whole thing here is what's real and what's fake. Yeah. You know?
00:38:03
Speaker
A lot of the things I said during the Ouija take were fake. Yeah, me too. What's the real take? I cannot say the real take. I think we all know that. Yeah. For the sake of our job. Mike, we work for the same company, technically. I think for the sake of our jobs, we got to.
00:38:18
Speaker
Say the company, say the address. Absolutely, absolutely not. Say your boss's name. Not ever. I'll believe that. Mike understands what I'm talking about. She also doesn't work for the company, so it's OK if that goes out. No one, no one that knows what that means will hear this. I won't even get there. I won't. That's hilarious. Oh, God.
00:38:47
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's rough. You know what I'm saying? What's what's rough? I don't know. You guys just talk about all these movies. I have no clue. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you got to catch the hell of the file, man. Yeah, I know what letterboxed is. No, it's like you watch a movie and then you give a little review on it. You do it like a little numbers. It's like good reads. But for movies. Wait, hold on. Isn't that what like
00:39:14
Speaker
IBM or IBM Jesus Christ IMBD. Yeah, kind of like that. But it's a little bit more of a social app. Oh, I see. Yeah, just strictly about I think you guys should hop on letterbox will all follow each other will watch movies separately will log will like read everyone's reviews or whatever. It's a fun thing. That sounds like a platform that could either be really good or extremely pretentious.
00:39:37
Speaker
Oh, no, it gets really pretentious for sure. Like 100%. I try and like make as many, like my usual review will either be like one of my favorite quotes from the movie or it will be like an actual like, oh yeah, this is like pretty funny. I'll try and make a joke, you know, whatever. Oh, you use this already now. Yeah. Frequently. I log every movie. I can tell you how many I've watched. I think I'm in the 80s for this year, which is really low, in my opinion. My bad. You watch 80 movies this year? Dude, that's low. That's low numbers, dude. 73 this year.
00:40:06
Speaker
How many of those movies are repeats? None. I don't I don't read movies because there's so many like that's the thing about letterbox is that there are so many great movies, maybe one or two saying none is kind of crazy. Maybe one or two. It tells you the movies to watch or you pick a movie and you post about it gives you every movie that like you can look up movies on here like it will show you movies that are like
00:40:29
Speaker
You know, X, Y and Z will show. Yeah. A bunch of different stuff. So like Atticus, like his watch list, like because that's like saving a movie to watch it later. Yeah. I think he said he's like in like the 1500s for what's on his watch list.
00:40:44
Speaker
Jesus. Just on his watch list or on his watch list? What he's watched, I think he's like in the hundreds for movies this year. Oh, OK. Hold on. Sorry. I was real thrown off by those numbers. Yeah. I want to be able to do that. He's only logged 65 this year, but I think he's watched more. He takes he takes time with his like reviews and stuff.
00:41:03
Speaker
But yeah, I've watched like 73. I plan to watch a couple more over the next few days, especially like a football sucks, man. I'll just turn football off and I'll stealers play tomorrow. Sunday, I might just watch like five movies. Speaking of, can I go back to the guru tomorrow? Let me down the last two weeks, but I'll tell you what, I was competitive.
Gambling Reflections and Philosophical Musings
00:41:23
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's good.
00:41:27
Speaker
Yeah, such a fraud. We'll cook up some parlays tomorrow morning. That'll be that'll be the podcast we do in the morning. It's just 30 minutes of us talking about player fucking props. I'm surprised you're not betting on Indian cricket right now, to be honest. No, I mean, I've you know, I've I've marked it out on my my gambling. I may I play it up for the show because it's funny, but I really. Have not gambled that much in the past, like a couple of months. What do you think about that? I think I think he's telling the truth, but I don't think it'll be a consistent thing.
00:41:57
Speaker
No, I mean, I literally have to like stop. I have to curb my gambling. Yeah. Oh, obviously it's a bad. Yeah. Or we can just go to Resorts World Casino right down here in Japan. That's different. That's different. I honestly, honestly.
00:42:12
Speaker
will have to see what the numbers are
00:42:27
Speaker
Not good, but it's not bad. It's all relative. Folks, there it is for you. I think one of the biggest like one of the biggest reasons why I've like slowed on my gambling obviously is last year when we did go to Pittsburgh, we went to the casino and I think I lost like $100 and like maybe 13 minutes. Which one did we go to the one I can't remember. It's near the outlets, I think.
00:42:52
Speaker
Oh, the Meadows. We went to the yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So literally in 13 minutes, I like lost one hundred dollars and I was like, all right, well, we've been here for twenty five. I think we should just walk out because I don't want to pull out more money. Yeah, we did sneak in there. We literally we were literally there for like 20 minutes. Doesn't that hurt? Like, I don't know how people can go in there and throw five hundred dollars, thousand dollars. Oh, yeah. I can't listen. The last time when we went to Atlantic City together for your birthday a while ago,
00:43:17
Speaker
We went there. And as soon as we got there, like you guys wanted to hit the craps table or something, which was whatever. There was a roulette table over there. This guy.
00:43:27
Speaker
He in in one and a half spins because you don't have to certain time to start spinning. They stop betting. Yeah, he was through a hundred dollars. Seventeen hundred dollars in on one and a half spins. That's and he lost it all. So he has a lot of hundreds and he's throwing it down and he was ready to throw more. And they said no more bets, no more bets, no more bets. And then that one went. So that was his first spin. And then he was just throwing him in. And then they said no more bets, no more bets, no more bets. He lost again and he left.
00:43:54
Speaker
100, I counted he threw down 17 times. That's that's why I don't feel that bad. Like, listen, I joke about what my gambling edition is. It's not great, but it's also. Yeah, you're not bad. If I'm losing 20 dollars in a weekend like that sucks, but like that's 20 bucks. I'm not. Blowing like hundreds of dollars of my paycheck each week. No, I'm like a fan dual sportsbook, which is like that's great. There are like strategies like that where you play roulette.
00:44:24
Speaker
And the whole goal is like, I'm going to lay out, you know, $100 here, $100 here, $100 here all across this spread. And then if I hit on one of them, then that's that's worth it for me. Yeah. But you have to lose like two thousand dollars to get to the point where you got to lose, you know, if you win 10. I mean, you know, when you go to a casino, you just got to be like, yeah, this money's gone.
00:44:49
Speaker
I'm walking with $200. I'm not walking out with it. If I walk out with anything in my pocket, I feel good. Yeah, that's your that's how you have to like look at it. And that's how I approach it for every time I go to a casino. You got to be ready to lose it, man. Otherwise, I would go nuts. Yeah. Okay.
00:45:07
Speaker
So I missed a really good, really, really good opportunity for a bit. Just for the three of us. It would have been a fun little joke. I have to bleep the names, obviously. Do we have to bleep the names? Yes. No, no, no. You'll see why we have to bleep the names. All right.
00:45:27
Speaker
But a couple days ago on Hinge, I came across profile. And I immediately just, I looked at it, I was like, I'm glad she's doing well, whatever, X. And then I thought to myself, I was like, fuck, that would have been a really, really good opportunity to ask her if she works at Longhorn Steakhouse. Ooh. I could have sworn she does. She doesn't. She doesn't. Doesn't. Well, I was sweating for 40 minutes for nothing. No, it wasn't. Yeah, it was not.
00:45:54
Speaker
But it would have been a great opportunity. I literally had gotten past your profile. And then I thought I was like, oh, my God, if I'd screen recorded.
00:46:04
Speaker
popping up on her profile, then clicking on a photo and then typing out, hey, are you a waitress at the Sovington Longhorn Steakhouse? And then sending it to you guys, I wouldn't have actually sent it to her, but it would have been really, really funny as a joke between the three of us. I think that it's better, you just bypass all that stuff, go right to direct messaging on social media. I don't wanna do that. I absolutely do not wanna do that. Hit her up and say, hey, listen,
00:46:31
Speaker
Mike wants to know. Do you work? Do you work at Longhorn Steakhouse? You guys have ever been in a situation where you're just like you like what you didn't expect is exactly what happened. Like you ever go in a situation you just did not expect something like you didn't see it coming? All the time. That is a hundred percent. Like I was so thrown off that like in a hundred years I didn't think I would see
00:46:54
Speaker
X person at X location at X time. Yeah. And boy, was I wrong. Like very. Yeah, it didn't happen. Yeah, you were wrong. It didn't. Which we found out that we're pretty confirmed. We're not 100 percent. I think I think it's pretty close to 100 percent as it could be. Like I have other confirmation from like other people that like she does not work at Longhorns. They have.
00:47:14
Speaker
But for a while, I was like, just just look straight. You know what I'm saying? Just look straight and and and eat your eat your filet mignon, you know, getting filet mignon at Longhorn Steakhouse is crazy. It's a steakhouse. Yeah. Well, what else would you get? I would just get a regular like we get the strawberry salad. I mean, that's what the fucking old people get at the I love that stuff. I mean, the strawberries. That's good. But I'm there for the steak. I'm there for the steak. Just a filet mignon. I don't know.
00:47:41
Speaker
Listen, do I go to Texas Roadhouse for the steak? Absolutely not. I'm there for the for the rolls and the butter, the butter. Yeah. Texas Roadhouse menu is trashed up. Yeah. Yeah. They don't have a good selection. What's that? What's that thing called? I used to get it in high school when I was like really low on money and we were just going to Texas Roadhouse.
00:47:59
Speaker
I think it's called like the roadkill where it's just a hamburger patty with gravy and mushrooms. Oh, yeah, it's $10. It's literally the cheapest thing you can get on their menu. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That good time. Not great. But hey, for 10 bucks, not bad. No, I think out of the all the chain steakhouses, right? What do you what do you have? Longhorn, Texas, Outback, Outback. I think long is the best. Don't forget Applebee's.
00:48:29
Speaker
OK, listen, there's only one Applebee's left in Connecticut. Really? Yeah, which is Plainville. And the dollarita is back.
00:48:40
Speaker
and how come we are not there hold on I'm I'm not gonna fall for that bit unless it's not a bit that's it's bad I mean at one point it was back tell me when they have strawberry daiquiris Oh buddy and then we go I know a great restaurant not too far from my place we can go for some DAX 99
00:49:03
Speaker
99's get the little popcorn as the appetizer. Is that still open? I don't think there's one. There's one in New York that I know of. I think the one in Bristol is still open. In Bristol? Where is that? Like on Park Street? Where that stop? Oh, maybe right next to the strip club. Oh, yeah. Really? No, I know. It just seems like a good location.
00:49:41
Speaker
but you know what happens is remember when we were in high school and after every like event it was like we're going to Chili's you know we're going to Chili's and you get like 20 kids rolling up Chili's baby back ribs baby back ribs
00:49:47
Speaker
it just seems like that would be the case
00:49:59
Speaker
Can we recreate that right now? I think that one or O'Reilly auto parts. No, that one we can't. We could. It's too late for that. It is tomorrow. Tomorrow we can do it. I feel bad for the downstairs me. I don't need to. You know what? Yeah, you go downstairs and tell them. Are you are you cool with them? Just quick question. Yeah, I'm cool with them. They give me watermelons. Are they like young people? How older?
00:50:25
Speaker
I want to say that they are late 30s, early 40s. Not bad. Not bad. Very nice people. Cool. And yet they go to Costco and they buy too much watermelon and they give us some. That's a win. Yeah, that's pretty sad. That's a win. It's actually pretty great. We went and we bought them some some little buns like little cakes for Christmas.
00:50:46
Speaker
So you could say we're best friends. No, we don't have any issues. Nice. So when we record another episode, are we going to have, I'm going to wear the tracksuit. I'm not. I'm going to wear it, but I also think. I'll match the vibe.
00:51:02
Speaker
I think we should have a nice espresso, a little slice of ponidone, a nice tracksuit on. I think it's a great start to the day. That would be a better Italian-American representation than buying E6 and doing that. Probably. Did you notice how I stopped smoking it because my head
Caffeine Tolerance and Food Comparisons
00:51:20
Speaker
still hurts? I'm glad you stopped smoking it. That was a very dumb decision.
00:51:23
Speaker
Yes. The guy half of my decisions I make are dumb, but it's again, I love a good theme. If we're doing a theme, we're doing the theme. That's barely part of the theme. Yeah. If you came out here with like espresso, I don't know. I think that would have been I mean, you shouldn't have. It's one a.m. in the morning, but you can fall asleep right after a shot of espresso. Damn right. I cannot. Amen. I had a cut caffeine out past like three p.m.
00:51:52
Speaker
Yeah. Plus, you spill your Starbucks. That was my. Yeah, I haven't. You're right. I think about it. I haven't had caffeine today. I should be able to fall asleep right away.
00:52:02
Speaker
If I had a shot of espresso right before bed, it wouldn't affect my sleep. I would just have to be, you know, on the John. Mm hmm. Right through. Yeah. Right through me, dude. Before I hit bed. Yeah, it goes right through. Otherwise, you know. You go to bed and you don't and you got a shit and you don't do it. You get nightmares, brother. Yeah, nightmares.
00:52:28
Speaker
What was the one thing that I wanted to mention? For the pentatone. You said there was a thing about Hazelnut. Okay. What is that? And I'm glad Victor's here because he was the one that...
00:52:40
Speaker
recommended me this restaurant, I went to a wedding in New Jersey, that Victor's been to that venue. And so we stayed there like the night before, you know, had a hotel and all that. So I texted Victor, I was like, What do you know, like, what are restaurants that will get us through, you know, so he sent us this one. And I can't remember the name of it, but it was a set day. I think it was because it's more like a pizza shop than a restaurant. Yes. And so
00:53:09
Speaker
We go there and I thought the food was good. I had the pizza. The pizza was good. The food was good. And I went with somebody who frequently goes back and forth to Italy. So they just came back before they went to the wedding and they had gelato there. And he goes.
00:53:24
Speaker
I'm going to try the hazelnut gelato. He goes, you know, in in Italy, the hazelnut gelato is more hazelnut. And in the States, it's more chocolate here, which is true, because I've heard the theory. I have a cousin, Luigi, that his theory is the Nutella in Canada is better because it's more hazelnut. They make it more hazelnut than Nutella here. They make it with more chocolate. The Luigi that we were just talking about. Yeah, like our boy. Yeah. Yeah. He's out in Altoona. I should give him a call. You should. Yeah. He needs some help right now.
00:53:54
Speaker
anyway so now okay so he wants to try this gelato because he wants to compare it to what he has when he goes to italy and so he gets the hazelnut and i get the hazelnut too i wanted to try and i usually don't get things hazelnut like that but i was like let me try and i had it i thought it was okay you know and stuff like that and he had it he goes just as i expected he goes it's better in italy it's too chocolate it's too hazelnut this and that and i'm and i'm thinking to myself
00:54:23
Speaker
What did you expect in America? When you go to Italy every two, three months, he goes very frequently. Obviously, you're getting the best of the stuff qualities more. What did you think coming back to the small town in New Jersey that I was just going to taste like back home? What were you thinking? And I'm not saying he was sitting there trashing it, but he was just very like, no, see, this is why the hazelnut gelato in Italy is better. And I'm thinking to myself,
00:54:53
Speaker
No shit, it's better initially. Like, why did you think this was going to be in comparison? So you have the hails or not? It's going to be good. But now every time I see hazelnut, I just have this guy engraved in my brain. It's like, I could tell it's hurting you, dude. It just it just, you know, it would annoy me too, though.
00:55:09
Speaker
And there was another thing that he he did the next day at the wedding that again, I'm not trying to shit on people. So there was other factors on why he's like, oh, I fucking hate this guy. Yeah, definitely. Again, he just needed a reason. Yeah, he's like, oh, the hazelnut. Truly, truly a nice guy. But he was just like just going on about like, it doesn't taste the same like in Italy, because when I went the other month to this and then I'm just like, what did you expect? Yeah, for people like that, you just got to you got to nod your head and nod your head or you got to mess with them a little bit. Be like, listen.
00:55:39
Speaker
You want really you want really good dessert food go to TGI Fridays That's right and I've been to Italy six times this month And I know it's gonna be dog shit compared to this that is that day is my favorite pizza spot like I think of all time
00:56:01
Speaker
I didn't expect it to be more pizza shop than restaurant. So that was surprising. But the food was good. You know what I'm saying? The food was good. I think we had the Arancini. And then I ended up getting the pizza and splitting it with some people, which ended up being good. So I was OK with it. But some people were there just like, oh, this, all that. It's New Jersey. What did you think it's going to be? What did you think this was going to be? And then that wedding venue place, right? So we went the next day. And the hors d'oeuvres are literally shanks of lamb.
00:56:31
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? Raw bar and all this and that. Like, I know it's great. It's like it's an insane. Dude, I couldn't believe the lamb like I've seen, you know, the raw shrimp, the raw clams like this and that, you know, they're doing the sliders, this and that. Shanks of lamb as an appetizer. Yeah. I said, are you for real? You listen. I couldn't believe it. Did you finish your dinner?
00:56:54
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. No, I did. And then they open. They open up that that area again for the dessert. And they're frying. What are they frying? Oreos. They're frying like whatever you want. Those are delicious. They're fine. Like they were frying candy bars or whatever. Yeah. You pick it off of the thing and then they go fry it. Sorry. I am I misremembering this at the. Have you guys ever been to the biggie? Yes. No. OK. Did they ever have a fried stick of butter at the biggie?
00:57:25
Speaker
Ooh. That sounds like something they would have, right? I don't know the answer to that question. Would I doubt that they had it? No, I would not doubt that they have it. I mean, because basically, I mean, I got I got kangaroo burger at the freaking biggie. You know what I'm saying? They literally have anything that's anything. You know what I'm saying? But am I looking for fried butter? No. Would I doubt that they had it? No, they probably have it. It's somewhere. I swore that I had seen that one time at the biggie and I tell people about it all the time.
00:57:54
Speaker
And the last time I told it, I was like, is that really true? Is it really true? But it seems like something that would be at the beginning.
00:58:01
Speaker
No, usually when I go to the big and I've only started to go in the past couple of years because I don't know. I just never really went before until I started working at the hospital and everybody was going and stuff. But like you usually just hit the state houses. You know what I'm saying? Like if you want to claim chowder, you go to Rhode Island. If you want the lobster, you go to Maine. They have the potato. I think the potato is a bunch of. If you want the lobster, you go to Maine, huh? No, you go to New Hampshire, Panera. Brad, let me tell you.
00:58:25
Speaker
Fucking Christ, dude. How Austin talks about drinking espresso before he goes to bed would have been me after eating that lobster roll. Of course. Dude, that would be literally any human being after eating that lobster roll. Yeah. Listen.
00:58:40
Speaker
it's all about guys this this wraps up the episode so well as we talked about it earlier it's all about the theme the tracksuits are the theme all seafood weekend the theme yes guys but no no no no no yes no you're right it wraps it up perfectly because i think it paints the picture that you take the theme too far i agree i love a good theme yes i think you do
00:59:03
Speaker
But you take it too far, but you can either beat them or join them. You know what I'm saying? Who beating who? Yeah, you got a headache and how to put your essay down. Who really brother? I'm throwing it out. You're talking. You're talking like people that are doing all seafood weekend at Panera are doing it right. And all of a sudden you got to join them. Oh, you can't beat them. You can't beat them. You got to join them. Have you guys ever been to Maine? Yes. Yeah. Where? I'm just curious.
00:59:32
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I think just over the border. This is I would never go to Maine to like actually stay and like hang out. I think maybe I had done it once. But one of my friends who had like came out with from time to time growing up his dad.
00:59:47
Speaker
would get the water for their house from up like the springs in Maine like you would go up there with like you'd go just like with like gas cans no like the whatever you put in like water coolers you go up with the water cooler jugs we'd go up he would get like you'd find just a river are you serious absolutely then truck it back and he would he would put it in the water fill him up and then we drive that how we wait how how much water did he take
01:00:13
Speaker
I think maybe like 10 or 12 of those big gallons. That would be the water in the house. The five gallon jugs that you put in a water cooler. And wait, hold on. Did he just do that as a special occasion or that was their main source of water? That was their main source of drinking water. That was the stuff that was in their house. Yeah. I mean.
01:00:31
Speaker
kind of tough but at the same time that's that's a long haul for water I've gone on at least two trips with them in his family to do that they're not paying for the water they're just getting that's the most punty thing I've ever heard it's the I know like we did Vermont in a day we went up we left early went up to Vermont did the water got food drove back that was one day I think maybe might have stayed one
01:00:55
Speaker
So I was gonna say, I don't think you could do that. You can't do a whole round trip. It's four hours from where we live in Connecticut to the Maine border, you know what I'm saying? So. So I think Maine, we probably stayed for a day. But I know like we've I at East done like two or three trips with him and his family and like Vermont, we did in one day. But why Maine?
01:01:15
Speaker
like Poland Spring is from Maine, allegedly. Yeah, but you got to read the bottle because although it's from Maine, like what's the water source they use bottled in Maine, but it but it's shipped here from China. Hey, man. That's the truth. It's some good. Listen, I love Poland Spring.
01:01:33
Speaker
Paulins brings delicious. It's the worst
Bottled Water Debate and Episode Tone Reflection
01:01:35
Speaker
one. What? Dasani's the worst one. Yeah, well, we know that. I did see they changed their formula somehow. They did. I didn't know you could do that for water. Yeah, I didn't know you could do that for water. No, iron added. So let's see what Dasani's coming out with. But Paulins brings us. No, Paulins brings us delicious, bro. Out of the little ones, Deer Park is better. Deer Park is so much better. Deer Park? Yeah, Deer Park is better. Come on, bro. And no, that's Crystal Rock. Crystal Rock or Saratoga Springs water is so much better.
01:02:03
Speaker
Really? Like the brand, Saratoga Springs? I still fuck with Poland Springs. Poland Springs till I die. Almost exclusively Poland Springs. Yeah. Actually, I'll tell you. Kirkland brands sometimes. I was going to say, I'll tell you what, whatever Costco has on sale. Yeah. That's what I'm getting, baby. Kirkland, hey, listen, the Kirkland, what is it, $40 for $8, including your bottle return? They don't got that in New York, do they? Bottle return?
01:02:26
Speaker
They do. Oh, they do. That's not bad. People using it every single time I go by the way. Yeah. Hey, money is money. Yeah. Is it $20 is $20? How is the dollar? Listen, it's it's like 10 cents in Connecticut now to return it. Is it really? Yeah, it is in New York. It's still five. I don't know 10 here. Yeah, 10 cents to return it. So basically, yeah, one case of water from Costco is costing you double. It's 40 bottles at 10 cents.
01:02:53
Speaker
There are even people that that roam through the neighborhood here and pick through like the garbage I get because so it must be paying. Yeah, pretty good. They're putting more of those redemption things up. But now now I went to see the other day and they got bottle returns over there. Bottling can return in the CVS. That's pretty cool. So they're making it more accessible to redeem. You know, good. That's I mean, they should if we want to recycle it.
01:03:22
Speaker
listen and it's not even the like I used to see the people with like the carts that they would push around to collect all the bottles and stuff like that now it's people with cars yeah like roaming around and throwing it in the back of their fucking car yeah there's I followed a truck a couple weeks ago that had like maybe the whole bed basically was as tall as like it was over the cab by like a bag or two so just
01:03:48
Speaker
I don't know, I got to estimate like 20 to 30 bags of bottles and cans and one like flew off and almost hit my car. It was hilarious. Awesome. Yeah. Got to love that. I thought I like genuinely thought it was funny because it's like he had so many bottles on there. He probably won't even notice that that one bag is gone. Yeah. But, you know, I don't know. I feel like those people are the type to be like, I'm missing 20 bottles. Where the fuck did they go? That's two bucks. Hey, you know.
01:04:14
Speaker
$2 is $2 we established that we did yeah, we did establish that pretty early dollars a dollar You have any other sayings that you want to sprinkle in there for for the audience. Yeah, maybe next episode It is I feel like this one was the Smooth yeah, it wasn't as chaotic as the other ones. It wasn't I'm actually surprised
01:04:40
Speaker
What do you mean? Like how engaged? Yeah, me too. Did I speak closer to the mic this time? You did. Yeah, you did. I feel like an announcer.
01:04:51
Speaker
I just feel like I just hope I don't fall asleep listening to this episode. I feel like we feel like some mistake. No, I just feel like it was very dull. And yes, we have adult conversations, but you know, like it wasn't like it was an area. You know, we're talking about hard topics in the world. You know, man, that's that's that's what you got to do sometimes. That's how it goes. Listen, I can't.
01:05:13
Speaker
Can't talk about taking a shit every episode, you know what I mean? I mean, you did exclusively say that if you drank an espresso right now, you'd land on the toilet. Yeah, but but once in a matter of an hour that we talked about poop. You know, yeah, we'll try and bump our numbers up tomorrow morning. Yeah, we'll bump the poop numbers tomorrow. No, I'm not saying it was a bad episode. This is again. This is where this is what we do. We come here with no topics. We talk at this. And I just felt like this was a little serious. And, you know, it's nice to get serious every now
Social Media Promotion and Work Ethic Critique
01:05:40
Speaker
and then. But, you know, me not my not my style, you know,
01:05:43
Speaker
I think, I think, Mike, that you should poll the people. Solicit some comments, see how they feel. Why are you guys not advertising this on your Instagrams? Like, I don't understand. Why don't you download Instagram again? And, you know, I made it. I made a choice to move past that. So. All right. So make a new one. It's very adult. Just just to promote the just for business. Yeah. Just for business. No. And also I'll give you the podcast log in and you could promote it.
01:06:11
Speaker
There you go. Yeah. OK. Should do it because I think why are you not? I don't understand. You have all the tools. Amen. It takes a lot. All right. It's a lot of work. You're going to find out that it's a lot of work. I used to do this when I played music like a full time. Like, you know, dude, he's telling you it's fucking easy. It's easy. Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:30
Speaker
Fucking millennials don't want to do anything. People don't want to work anymore. And I certainly don't want to. You know, this is what Joe Biden did to this country for the past four years. OK, we are mere guests on this show. OK, we are. Right.
01:06:46
Speaker
So I left it up to the man in charge to do what they gotta do. Santa? Yeah, dude, no. Is that who runs this thing? Well, I mean, it's Christmas. You know, he's usually the man with the bag or whatever. So I assume he's in charge. And we do have a Christmas village going on in the back. He's actually skiing as we speak if you look at it. That's right. This episode brought to you by Santa Claus and his elves. All right, guys. Well.
01:07:14
Speaker
another banger in the books. That's right. I'm like banger. I thought it was a great episode. Yeah. Why don't you let us know? Because I feel like this is Mike's feeling real insecure. I feel like this is the other guys where he's like, look, they're not going to all be first round picks. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, I'm you know, we'll take the episode. It's still a good episode.
01:07:33
Speaker
I feel like you're you're you're killing the horse before it even started the race You know what I mean if that's a saying I don't think it is but you know what I mean you get what I'm coming from No, actually I feel I feel like 10 years younger See you guys later