Vaguely Inconsistent
Vaguely Inconsistent
Celebrating Legends and Laughs
Ever wondered how a floral design critique can lead to a discussion about backup quarterbacks and Comic-Con adventures? We're kicking things off with our thoughts on beautiful blooms and eye-catching team logos, before taking you on a whirlwind tour of the Rose City Comic Con. Then, we turn our attention to the NFL, dissecting the recent Buffalo vs. Miami game with a focus on Tua Tagovailoa's performance and his troubling concussion history. We ponder the potential long-term effects on his career and the critical role of backup quarterbacks like Ryan Tannehill.
Switching gears, join our birthday bash filled with laughter, nostalgia, and quirky gifts like a Darth Vader waffle maker. We share our experiences of modern party planning and the evolution of birthday celebrations, reminiscing about how these joyful moments bring people together. Expect a few chuckles as we discuss the best (and weirdest) party supplies and revel in the camaraderie that comes with celebrating milestones with friends who might just sneak in a nap or two amidst the fun.
In our final segment, we recap our action-packed weekend, from securing those coveted Comic-Con tickets to our excitement for an early showing of "Transformers 1" and the perks that come with fan events. Reflecting on the legacy of James Earl Jones, we explore the emotional impact of his career and the significance of maintaining connections, both personal and professional. With stories of gratitude, humor, and unexpected retail finds, this episode promises a blend of meaningful discussions and light-hearted moments.
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Right, it looks good for a floral. I'm not into the florals, but that one it pops very nicely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's why I?
Speaker 3:I hated the Denver one on principle it looked to me like the Bronco. That one looked like rocking a basketball team. That one, I can dig that shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's very.
Speaker 1:I need a friend for the Steel City Comic Con Dude for real.
Speaker 2:Hey, do it, dude. I mean, you know they'll have one if they're there, which I'm sure they will be Just suddenly get my government checks man Go myself. There you go.
Speaker 1:How you guys doing.
Speaker 3:Good, I mean football game is boring as fuck, but whatever.
Speaker 1:Well, it was a Thursday night Amazon Prime game, so that's a given. Yeah, no, whatever. Well, it was a Thursday night Amazon Prime game so that's a given. It wasn't Buffalo it wasn't Denver again, was it?
Speaker 2:Last week was good. The opening game's always good, though, because they always have a rematch of the NFC or AFC game, depending.
Speaker 3:Tonight was Buffalo-Miami and you were smart to bench Tua Jack. He had two picks and got knocked out with a concussion.
Speaker 2:Dude, that guy needs to stop playing. I'm sorry, Dude.
Speaker 3:I said the same damn thing After what happened in 2022?.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean what?
Speaker 2:This is his like fourth or fifth, like major concussion.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 2:Not even just like day-to-day concussions.
Speaker 3:They get, like you know dude, he had the whole fingers all out. Did you know he couldn't? Yeah, he's I. I understand that they'll probably clear him after a couple of weeks, but having four bad concussions like that man, you're done for I. He almost retired in 2022. I wouldn't be surprised after talking with his family, because he had a conversation with his family two years ago when all that shit went down. I would not be surprised if there's some announcement you know breaking news Tua retires. That would not surprise me.
Speaker 2:The NFL will try to spin it and have him use those Guardian helmets though.
Speaker 3:It's so funny. I actually said that and with the Magic group in our Discord I was like, well, maybe they'll put that ridiculous Funko helmet on his ass, that big-ass helmet. I mean, it's one of these things where I don't think he's going to want to quit on his team, and I get that. But, dude, your health is way more important than quitting on your team. Yeah, ryan.
Speaker 1:Tannehill, he should enjoy it.
Speaker 3:Well, he just got that paycheck too. He just got signed for most money in franchise history. But Ryan Tannehill used to play for the Dolphins. He's at home right now riding the couch. So, bro, give him a call. He's an experienced vet. Let him take over for your team, Assuming he fits the scheme and has the skill set to 1-2-3 throw, because it's like I'd call out two alts. I don't think he's a good quarterback. He did not earn his contract.
Speaker 2:He only was a starter for one year at Alabama right Two, I think they took over Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3:Well, because he only was a starter for like one year at Alabama right Two, I think, two, I think when they took over Jalen Hurts, ah, and he did all right there. But he's again. If it's one, two, three throw and it's there. Two is great. He'll do like last week and throw for 350 yards.
Speaker 3:But watching today's game, dude threw two bad picks in the first half or whatever it was A pick six to open up the third quarter. I think he threw a pick six. So, guys, he's not that good. I don't know why people think he is, but he's not. He's like. He gets to throw to Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle Okay, great. And people are like, oh well, yeah, but not anybody could do that. And I agree, not everybody could do that but him. When the play breaks down, there's not much else he's doing. So that tells you how I mean he's just not that good. Play breaks down with Josh Allen, patrick Mahomes, lamar, these guys they're going to make a play, Tua not so much.
Speaker 3:And when he tried to make a play, unfortunately he ran into a defender and concussed and he initiated a concussion. It wasn't like he got sacked or slammed to the ground, it was a fourth and four. He was rushing, got the first down While he was falling forward, ran into the chest. Matter of fact, I don't know if this is considered ironic or not, but whatever word you want to use, he ran into the chest of the dude who almost died on the field two years ago, freaking Hamlet. He ran into his chest and then she was out and, like I said, he's probably out.
Speaker 3:I would not be surprised. I think they have a buy. Dude ain't no joke, and I believe they have a bye. Both of them died. Dude ain't no joke, and I believe they have a bye week five. I would not be surprised if he misses weeks or week six, if he misses the next three games and then the bye week and then comes back week six or seven, whatever the hell it is. I think this is week two, right? Yeah, this is week two. So three, four, five, they have a game. Six is the bye. So seven, seven, I think, would be the soonest. If I'm the medical team, that's the soonest. I'm going to let your ass come back. You're sitting out a month after this.
Speaker 2:You're at home. You're not even coming in the stadium.
Speaker 3:And that's assuming that he just doesn't straight up retire His family's like dude. No, I know you just signed for $200 million. No, you just got to let it go, yeah.
Speaker 1:Concussion. Second game I'm out.
Speaker 3:Right, that's too much. Again, if it was just the first one or something like that, no big deal. But the way he looked in 20, I remember what he looked like and he was laying down on the ground and just couldn't move. I was like, dude, you've made enough money, you're done, it's okay to be done. Enjoy that shit, dude. Yeah, what the hell man.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, the chances of you going nutty 30 years from now are so much higher every single time that situation happens. Yep.
Speaker 3:And even one of those in 2012, remember, wasn't even diagnosed. They called it a back injury and that's what kind of started the whole controversy and why they brought in the third. They thought nfl fired that uh, third party unaffiliated neuro or neurologist, whatever neuroscientist, whatever. They fired that dude because they let him he cleared to go back in the game, even though he was clearly concussed. Everybody who was watching that game saw a dude was concussed and he was like, oh no, it was a back injury. He's good Like man. You're risking somebody's life now, which is why he got fired. But yeah, so it was a boring ass game. 31-10.
Speaker 3:The Dolphins missed four fourth down conversions but they had the backup in, who obviously didn't have a lot of practice, not as good as Tariq. Tariq should have got arrested again. Might have helped. That seems to be the good luck charm, even though it wasn't quite arrested, just detained. He needs to be detained every week, just like manstition man. You gotta be speedy.
Speaker 1:I'm sure he has a baby mama to beat or something To get some handcuffs slapped on him.
Speaker 3:Eight baby mamas Several Shit. Give him more credit than that he got at least three.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. He got hosed in different area codes. Probably has one in each town he could beat. That's a good point.
Speaker 3:He can be all 17 games. It don't have to be a home game, he can just be on the road, be good to go.
Speaker 1:Beating women is funny. Terry Kill getting arrested for beating women is funny.
Speaker 3:I mean, and he's still out there playing like nothing happened.
Speaker 1:I mean with the beating women part.
Speaker 3:The other bullshit about the speeding and the way he was treated that was bullshit too. It takes a lot to offend my ass. I can't remember if I've ever been offended. So I'm sitting walking around Boulder going to lunch one day and I can't remember if I told the story.
Speaker 3:It was lunch, it was a weekday. It was a weekday. I know now it was a weekday. It was a weekday. I know now it was a weekday. So it was lunch. And we're walking back I think it was me and the secretary or the front desk receptionist, whatever, who the hell cares. We're walking back and some crazy dude, some crazy white dude, no shirt you know, you could tell the demographic is what it was and he's riding his bike, he's riding by us and he's riding his bike, he's running, he's riding by us and he yells f you nigga. So I was like okay, and I just keep walking.
Speaker 3:And the girl, white girl, young as she was this is god 15 years ago, so she was probably 25 or so, um, and and. And she's like, oh my god. And she's getting all butthurt and bent out of shape and I'm just sitting there walking. It was like whatever. And she's like aren't you upset? And all this? I was like, no, I mean, technically, he has a right to say whatever the hell he wants to say, shit, keep talking there goes Cameron, there goes Cameron, keep going.
Speaker 3:But yeah, so I, I go through that camera.
Speaker 1:Keep going.
Speaker 3:But yeah, so I'm like. No, he can say whatever the hell he wants. As long as he's not trying to confront me, we're going to be okay. He can just mind his business, yell what he wants and keep on riding away. I'm all like, okay, whatever, I just kept on walking, but she was so damn offended and butthurt and I'm just sitting there like man. That was a good sandwich we just had at that deli. I mean, I didn't even care, you know, it was like whatever, the deli is still open. Oh, it is actually.
Speaker 3:That deli is still, that deli is still there, um and but, but again, if he had walked up to me or got off his bike and wanted you know, wanted to be confrontational, uh, I'm not the type who's going to just let that go. It's like okay, I will never start anything in the sense of physical violence. I will run my mouth as much as I need to to get somebody else to start it, but when it comes to actual putting hands on somebody first, that's not something I'm doing.
Speaker 2:You won't start it, but you'll like it. Hang on.
Speaker 3:Oh man.
Speaker 2:Hold on, why did both of our cameras go out? Dude, what the hell.
Speaker 3:Is mine the only one that's on? Because mine's on on my side, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:For some reason. I don't see it. I got it. I think I got it.
Speaker 3:I think I got it. Oh, I got it, I think I got it. I think.
Speaker 1:I got it Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.
Speaker 2:Happy birthday, dear Louis.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday to you All right.
Speaker 2:I don't know if this is going to work.
Speaker 3:Yeah to you, I don't know if this is going to work. Yeah, that's not the first time I've seen Duke explode all over the camera Fellas. Y'all planned that really well. I'm all like what the hell is going on over here.
Speaker 2:I didn't put these on before right now and I can't see shit. Loose Vintage is even blacker.
Speaker 3:Looks good on you though.
Speaker 2:I like the black. I thought you'd like the cupcakes.
Speaker 3:It's got some. It's got some. Oh, by the way, for y'all watching, it is not a straight up black shirt, Just so you know. We're going to throw out some love to JEJ y'all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we haven't even gotten to that yet.
Speaker 3:No, not yet, but nah sweet y'all. No, seriously, if I wasn't black, y'all see me blushing. That's pretty badass Good looking out Happy birthday dude. Thanks man. Thank you Last year in my 40s. Think of that Next time next year when we're on episode 80, yeah, that's how old you'll feel Dude for real man with my shit. I already feel 80. We're already there. I'm taking naps during the day already. You'll be taking naps during the podcast For real. Give me 15. I'll be right back. I don podcast for real.
Speaker 2:Like y'all give me 15, I'll be right back. I don't even like this. I think this is supposed to stream her out, but it didn't oh yeah, I would expect that it would have.
Speaker 3:But that's you shoot, you shoot blanks, hopefully, hopefully blanks.
Speaker 2:Hopefully the rest of it came out. Hopefully it came out good on the. Uh. We'll have to watch it on film.
Speaker 3:Afterwards came Came out okay.
Speaker 2:All right, thanks, lou.
Speaker 3:Man, yeah, If I'd have known, I'd have been like oh, yeah y'all 49. Mm-mm-mm.
Speaker 1:I had a friend Darth Vader Party Hats. They don't make party hats like they used to Mm-mm.
Speaker 3:What you would think for kids' parties and shit, they'd have nothing but I went to Party City last night.
Speaker 1:They had nothing. I checked everything. I'm like okay, cool Star Wars, okay, maybe they're out. Princesses, peppa Pig, bluey, nothing.
Speaker 3:They didn't have.
Speaker 2:Bluey, it's all glasses.
Speaker 3:It's all glasses. It's the most popular thing right now it's all headbands. I don't know if that's sad or is the people just don't care. Wait, do the kids even have a birthday? No, yeah, they are. They do. Esso's little one went to four parties this summer.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Hmm, that actually makes me wonder what the hell is that about? That used to be the thing. Right, you'd go there, you'd have all the themes, anything else popular.
Speaker 1:They didn't have the hats. Yeah, everybody gets like, uh, grogu ears now, or or blue ears, no, no, no, it would be the they'll see.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking, when you have the theme, it's everything, including the hat hats balloons, napkins paper plates, uh, with the plastic, all of it, the running tablecloths, everything. It's like one section is all this IP, next section, it's all the same shit. Right, it's this tablecloth napkins, yeah, and that's not a thing anymore, uh-uh.
Speaker 1:I mean, it had everything except for the hats. Yeah, they still have the plates and the banners, so you can put the banner up.
Speaker 2:That being said, dude, your fucking Grogu behind your left shoulder is freaking me out. That's some creepy shit. I'm sorry, where do you see a Grogu? Yeah, you do, look behind your left shoulder, turn around.
Speaker 1:See, because it's up and down I don't have that. The way I'm looking at your screen?
Speaker 3:I don't see it. I'm like where's the? Oh? That's a little creepy, he ain't wrong.
Speaker 2:But it's just like right on the edge.
Speaker 3:So all I can see?
Speaker 2:is Grogu's dead eyes just like. Come with me, that is so wild.
Speaker 3:On my screen all I have is the width of Jack's shoulders, so I don't see Grogu. On one side I see it looks like a backpack, the edge of a backpack. I can see 80% of the backpack. No, up top above that, above, your minis Looks like above. There's four things stacked up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there we go. Yeah, so the backpack, that's what I could see on one side. The other side, dude, it's your left shoulder, or I think it's your left, so it's going up the edge of boxes. That's all I see. So, dude, how you see the other stuff, I have no idea.
Speaker 2:He's got big old gangster monitors yep, oh, that's right, I forgot he sure does. What is it? Hashtag? Uhhtag white screen life Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Because I'm just using my basic laptop monitor.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 3:I've got a second monitor. Okay, that makes more sense. I'm like what the hell are you looking at, dude?
Speaker 2:Right, I'm being said. How was your birthday, Lou? It was good.
Speaker 3:I mean you were up at 5. Before so I was tired, Didn't get my nap in again, so I was asleep by like 9.30, up at 5.30, watching sports shit all day. It's like get up at 6 and then first take at 8, and then all the shit at DVR. So came over, got me a Darth Vader waffle maker Darth Vader head waffle maker and made waffles with some.
Speaker 1:Wait, are you allowed to eat waffles though?
Speaker 3:Yeah, waffles are fine. Yeah, again I can have stuff. It's just, you know, don't overdo it. Moderation, yeah. So naturally I said fuck that. And had six waffles and they were Darth Vader shaped.
Speaker 1:They were Darth Vader shaped.
Speaker 3:I went with the syrup. I was like you know what. I took my blood sugar test this morning. I'm like I'll take it again tomorrow. I'm not taking it again. The rest of the day.
Speaker 3:Afterwards got the breakfast and it was fantastic. I had peaches and strawberries to go with it. I did do minimal syrup. I wasn't that crazy so I didn't go all out like I used to. And wasn't that crazy so I didn't go all out like I used to. Um, and then I went and ran some errands, came back and I came back with the new blizzards from derrick because they had a couple new flavors. So I I got her the uh, that was the french silk pie one, and I got the sea salt caramel truffle one or whatever, it was toffee one. Both were fantastic, uh, and it was like. I think it was that point when it was like, yeah, I'm not testing, I'm not testing later tonight.
Speaker 1:I did it this morning.
Speaker 3:I got my numbers this morning. I'll check it again on the 13th. We good, I'm like it's my damn birthday, I'm gonna go all out, and then I have. Then I have to obviously exercise some emails from all the various signups that gave me free desserts and bogos and free sandwiches, free burgers. I got to do all that. I have until the end of the month, for most of them, nothing. Bundt cake I got a two for one. Oh no, I got a free birthday cake from them and a bogo the same week. So I got to try that. Strawberry pop. So I got to give that a shot. I'll give that a shot. Did you know?
Speaker 1:nothing. Bundt cake is from Vegas.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh yeah. I remember that back in the day. Matter of fact, when I first moved out here, I had one sent to me for my first birthday out here in 2012. And it was from NBC, like 20 miles away. And then six months later, a year later, they put one here in Boulder. I mean, it's, it's, it's. If I want to walk to the grocery store, I actually have to go past the nothing but Bundt cakes before I get to it. So that's how close it is and the grocery store is not even half a mile. So there's one.
Speaker 3:I introduced my co when I was at the old job and I first moved back here. I introduced my co-workers when I was at the old job. When I first moved back here, I introduced my co-workers to Nothing but Cakes for birthdays. They used to do this other thing and after I introduced them, I bought a bunch of the little buntlets, not buntinis. I bought a 12-pack of the buntinis, the little minis, and they started switching over to doing birthdays using NBC after that because they were so good. Still are, man, it's still my jam. If I want a cake, it's either that I go to Nothing Bunk Cake or I go to any grocery store or whatever.
Speaker 3:I want that French silk pie. That French silk pie is happening. I like apple pie, but you know my gallbladder issues. I can't really handle apples. My stomach can't really deal with it. So if I'm a stick, if I know I'm gonna be home, oh, I'll tear up some apple pie, I don't care what happens it's like yeah, we're good, or guess what, lou?
Speaker 2:right now I'm gonna tear you up exactly yeah or or.
Speaker 3:I'll wait till I'm on my way to target and I'm about to give somebody some job security. They're gonna be good. You look at that chart.
Speaker 2:You're like oh, nobody's looked at the bathroom since 10 am this morning and I'm about to give somebody some job security. They're going to be good. You look at that chart. You're like, oh, nobody's looked at the bathroom since 10 am this morning.
Speaker 3:You regret it, they just made a mistake. Or go to one of the places like are our bathrooms clean? Text us that, blah, blah, blah, I'll go in there eat some apple pie. Go in there and just text him like y'all, look y'all, I need service you hit the button on the way out. Hit this button, oh yeah, how many times I gotta press it you just like a 20 on the wall.
Speaker 1:There you go right so here you go.
Speaker 3:It's like my bad, I know what's up, here you go, but yeah, so it was basically, you know, watch my basic routine other than the breakfast. That was new, that was awesome Ransom errands and then and then it was yeah, it was kind of like catch up with my shows leading up to the football game and, like I said, there was the early game as well. So I had I got three screens going. I've got the basketball, the WNBA game, on one screen, I got the college football game on one and then, you know, after that, an hour later, the pro game kicked off. It's like all right cool, until it got boring. The college games was really good. It was really weird. It was 28-28 at halftime and then the second half there was a field goal. One field goal, yeah, it was 28-28, ended 31-28. But, like I said, it was my team that I bet on that won. It got that field goal. So kudos to me.
Speaker 3:I'm all like man I don't know if I want to wait for the government check.
Speaker 1:Let me just get my Roosevelt's now with my winnings Right. So what did you do with your unemployment? I gambled. I bet on sports.
Speaker 2:Right, what did you?
Speaker 3:do let's see. Let's see, I slept, I slept. I had a really. I had really weird hours where I'd wake up and I'd be no, no. It's funny, though, because this whole new going to bed early, quote-unquote proper time, waking up 536, whatever. That's new for the last week. Before that, man, I'd be up all night, go to bed at 7 in the morning, wake up 2 in the afternoon. It was just like I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden, last week, I'm back to quote-unquote regular schedule. Somebody's ready for a job, dude, not even kidding I actually.
Speaker 3:I was like you know what, let me go ahead and apply for this one, john I and I did too. I was like, because I'm like man, as much as I could sit here and watch all this shit and could play video games. Well, now there's football season, I'm catching up on fantasy football shows and nfl live, and it's like man, man, ah, the timing just was like why did it have to be during football season? I want to catch up on all this shit, like Star Wars games and like I was going to do, and all of a sudden it's like no, if the extra time I have, it's basically uh, I'm not packing up something for eBay. I'm watching sports news or something close to it.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I did. It's not even kidding, it's like yesterday. It was actually yesterday I saw this. I was on LinkedIn Went and saw it. I was like, well, that's not too far, they're only 15 miles away and they do that whole hybrid work from home, go to the office. So I was like, okay, that's fine. And I was like, let me just don't get me wrong. I did not make a huge effort about it. I half-assed the LinkedIn application, didn't even copy my resume. I was like I'll just fill out these questions and we'll go from there. I was like, if they call, great, if they don't great.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was like I'm not trying that hard. Maybe in a couple of weeks, but I imagine in two weeks I'll get through next weekend, because next weekend is Comic Con tickets go on sale so. I'll get through tomorrow, which is Hasbro.
Speaker 3:I think Duke was cross eyed, there we go you survived it for like 20 minutes, so kudos to you. I don't know how Dr Disrespect does it dude for real. I did for like 20 minutes, so kudos to you. I don't know how Dr Disrespect does it Dude for real, but yeah, so I'll get through tomorrow's Hasbro PulseCon thing, whatever it's called I think it starts at 11.
Speaker 2:Hey, one of the guys I do is pay a patron for him. He's going to be on that, oh right on. Yeah, Sorry go ahead, luke.
Speaker 1:No, no, no that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3:What's his role.
Speaker 2:From his Instagram post, it looks like he's going to be talking about GI Joe. They do action figure stuff. He's a. He's a.
Speaker 3:What's his name when he's rolling? I'm going to text him.
Speaker 2:Hey, your boy's on Dan Larson.
Speaker 3:Oh, there we go. That's less creepy. Actually I like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, way less creepy.
Speaker 3:It looks like.
Speaker 2:Rugu just went on Jimmy Fallon, actually because the silver moon and all that. No, I can see that Because the silver moon and all that, never mind. I can see that.
Speaker 3:I got that tomorrow. On Friday and then Saturday I went ahead and did that early showing of Transformers 1. I was watching matter of fact, I was watching one of my sports shows and a commercial came up. God, a commercial came up. Um, god, a commercial came back for four. It was like it comes out friday, but you can see it now at select theaters like a fan event thing or something they'll give you like a poster or some shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well I didn't know all that honestly, I just thought it was just an early viewing. So I went to you know it's like century or cinemark, whatever's doing this. So I looked it up, put in my zip code and a theater. I went to go on to a Monday to go to that blind movie, whatever Was it whatever the surprise, or whatever.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there was a name, a specific name for it, but yeah, so it's the same theater, about about 40 minutes away, and I was like, well, I don't have plans Saturday, so why not? So I I had, you know, I got seven free tickets still, so use one. Got me a five o'clock show on saturday and I'll watch transformers one a little bit early, and then the week will be quiet and then um, saturday is will be comic. Saturday will be morning comic-con ticket attempt and then evening Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Symphony.
Speaker 1:So hopefully, I'll be going to that symphony with a smile.
Speaker 3:I know right, if I don't go to the symphony with a smile because of tickets, I'm at least going to leave the symphony with a smile because of the show, exactly so. It'll be good, and you know how it is. I ain't going to sweat it. If I don't get tickets on Saturday, there's always October registration to try again.
Speaker 3:Knock on wood you know we're going to be all right. We got one, two, three, what four of us that are able to get tickets? Yep, or to attempt tickets anyway, womp, womp, sorry, guys get tickets, or to attempt tickets anyway, I think only. Duke and your SO Jack are the only ones who can't do it right Everybody else got legit ticks this year.
Speaker 3:So it's like four of us we need technically, we only need one of us to get through because the pro can handle the other ones. So it's like all right, we'll only need one out of four. Hopefully two out of four, um, so it's like all right, cool.
Speaker 2:And then there's October.
Speaker 3:And then yeah, and then, worst case scenario, it's like, ah, and we've done it before where we've gotten Sunday, thursday tickets, and then we jumped in and was able to finish the last set of tickets during open registration. So it's like, okay, sounds good I'm honestly not stressing it too much and it's like, okay, that's cool.
Speaker 2:Also, I thought I picked all that up, but I just looked under my desk and realized like half of it's under my desk. Story of your life, yep.
Speaker 3:Yep Think.
Speaker 2:I've cleaned up my mess. Nope, I looked under my desk. Story of your life.
Speaker 3:Yep Think I've cleaned up my mess. Nope, I looked under the desk, so kind of backtracking just a few minutes. So the movie that my Old Ass, some Sundance film, your Old Ass.
Speaker 1:That's what the movie was called.
Speaker 3:Correct. We're not talking about even though it's my birthday. We're not talking about my Old ass, your old ass went to watch my old ass. My old ass went to go watch my old ass.
Speaker 2:So much ass, so much old.
Speaker 3:Oh, dude, the philosophical conundrum that's going here. Stop making assumptions. But it was a pretty good, it was pretty happen. It was like I good, it was pretty happy, it was like I thought I'm not gonna lie, I thought it was going to be the killer's game movie or the, or the one with the creepy, that McAvoy movie uh, because those both yeah speak no evil or killer's game, cause they have both come out this week, right, uh, so I was like, okay, it'll be one of those two.
Speaker 3:And then the way they do it, they do it just like a regular commercials, your trailers, and then you don't know what the movie is until literally it starts. And the movie starts and it's like what the heck is this? And it's like my old ass comes up. I'm like I haven't heard of this movie, uh, and it was like all right, cool, so you watch it and it's actually pretty good it's. You know, it's the first thing that came to mind with the first 10-15 minutes of this movie. It's not quite like clerks, but it reminded me of clerks only because the first part of the movie is these three friends. The three friends are are basically just chatty. They're like they're just on a boat for a few minutes. They're going to go boat for a few minutes. They're going to go grab some supplies and go chill on an island, you know, do their camping thing, and they're just talking.
Speaker 3:And the dialogue was written so well. It was like I could totally see this conversation happen. It doesn't feel like it was a staged conversation like clerks, right, when you watch clerks, or clerks too, you're like, yeah, I could see people having this conversation and and and it was like, okay, I, I'm gonna give this a chance. I'm digging this already just because of that. The writing was was well done and and how and how the dialogue played out and it was like, okay, cool, it turned out the movie was pretty damn good. So you know, life lessons type thing and uh, I don't know, I again one of these movies. I would not have went to see this movie. There's zero chance. No for sure I would have went. And then I watched it and was like I'm glad I watched this movie, I, and I have no problem recommending it to anybody to say, yeah, it's. I don't even think it was an hour and a half, like an hour and 25 minute movie hour, 20 minute, it wasn't not very long at all.
Speaker 3:I didn't even know they could do that. I thought movies had to be like 90 minutes to be considered. You know I'm fine with that. Get to the point. If you need more to fill in more, fine.
Speaker 2:Don't force it, Don't force a two hour movie just to force a two hour movie. And I'm fine with a big blockbuster being two hours or two and a half hours, but that should be the exception and not the rule.
Speaker 3:I mean, like I said, for me it just has to make sense. It needs to be two hours because you're filling in somebody's character, you're filling in this stuff. For some movies, some movies, hour and a half is all you need these popcorn movies. You don't need 120 minutes, 90, 95 minutes. Get in, get out Adjacent state of the movie. You know what I mean and I'm good, but yeah, all good all good, not that we have a transition for it.
Speaker 2:You know what I was going to say we do have a transition.
Speaker 3:I want to hear about your freaking Comic-Con trip.
Speaker 2:Oh, all right, I mean we can talk about that, sure, so last weekend was Rose City Comic-Con, so it's probably it's the biggest one. It's probably second to Emerald City. Emerald City's up in Seattle, that one is huge, that one's like, I think. As far as West Coast goes, I think it comes close to WonderCon, second to San Diego. As far as West Coast, rose City has always taken some form. For the last, I remember when I lived here before 1990s, mid-90s, late-90s, it used to be known as the Stumptown Comic Con, because that's one of Portland's. 1990s, mid-90s, late 90s it used to be known as the Stumptown Comic Con because that's one of Portland's nicknames, the Stumptown. But then it became bigger. Reed took it over for a little bit. Now it's this other company, but it's not one of the ones that I'm familiar with. I looked at the bottom of the page for who was running it, because I think we had that conversation at one point and I couldn't yeah about who runs all the Comic-Cons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, these guys are, I think, a smaller group, so they're not like the fandom, because there's the fandom ones that are around Wizard World. Is that still a thing anymore?
Speaker 1:No, they all turned into Fan Expo there we go it's Fan Expo. All the Fan.
Speaker 2:Expos.
Speaker 1:Or World Wars, or Worlds.
Speaker 2:Okay, except for Denver.
Speaker 3:Denver was actually Denver Comic Con. Now it's Fan.
Speaker 2:Expo Denver. And then there's all the ones that Reed does. And then there's a third one and I think I don't remember their name off the top of my head. I used to be way more embedded in it when I was volunteering at celebration, because we'd always have conversations about who was running it, because then we would know kind of how the politics and stuff like that were going to work as far as with getting money and that type of thing with them. Uh, not the point. So these guys are one off.
Speaker 2:There was a ton of people there, um, katie sackoff was there, sim Simon Pegg, nick Frost were there, tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum. So I mean they had a lot of couples. The big ones as far as we were concerned was Hayden was there and Rosario was there. Their autographs were a little on the spinny side and getting pictures with them was outrageous. But the rest of the tickets. So I went on Friday. So it was 50 bucks for the entire weekend. I think it was 130. So not terrible as far as prices go. They even tried to upsell me for the whole weekend. When I was in the queue for Friday they were saying for 44 bucks we could give you all three days. So even then they think they still were.
Speaker 2:But I had plans for the rest of the weekend. The only day I could go is friday, so I didn't, was like I'm not gonna. It'd be one of those things like I'd have the ticket and feel the need, like I was like I had to use it so that I would have like raced to go for an hour and then you know type of thing, and I'm like I'm not gonna do that. So, uh, I went with my friend morgan. We went on Friday. We met downtown, walked to the convention center. Friday was like the perfect day to go. It was super chill. There wasn't a ton of people signing. The weird thing was that Katie Sackhoff, bo-katan she was only signing on Friday as opposed to the whole weekend, which I thought was kind of interesting, because usually she lives up there and she lives in Portland, when was she from here?
Speaker 3:Was she only signing on Friday, but there or not even there Saturday? I?
Speaker 2:don't even think she was here. The rest of the weekend. I think it was only signing and only doing stuff on Friday.
Speaker 3:Well, it could be.
Speaker 2:You know how actors' schedules. But then, like also, patton Oswalt was here all weekend and he wasn't an official signer but he was signing in like the dark horse booth because he's doing a comic with oh yeah, one of the bloom guys and stuff like that like a horror comic, so he was signing in their booth all weekend, so but if you would have went to the page, you would have seen him as like a special guest, but you couldn't buy an autograph or anything from him well, I get that.
Speaker 3:Two years ago, when I was in colorado springs, that same thing happened with Timothy's on. Uh, he was not listed, but he was doing something else in a booth signing, like you know, obviously, his novels.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so um the night what I liked about this, what I liked about the Rose city, was that there was a ton of artists. It wasn't a ton of like. I feel like comic-con. The number of vendors that they have even just spread out through the entire exhibit hall, the number of people selling stickers, is just like you're all fucking doing the same thing, guys we don't need 50 sticker vendors, come on.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:But there are different stickers. But even at Rose City there was like I think there were like eight of them that were all doing bumper stickers stickers for your car, stickers for your water bottle, that type of thing and I can't remember his name off the top of my head. He did all the art for all the Marvel zombie stuff. He was kind of the big, the big, the big artist that was there, the one that wasn't Kirkman, yeah, the one that wasn't kirkman, yeah, the one that wasn't kirkman. So he did a bunch of walking dead after, I think, the original guy, charlie, the original artist, charlie, charlie adelaard at.
Speaker 2:I mispronounced yes, no, you're right yeah uh, after he left, uh, I think, uh, this guy I'm gonna look him up while we're talking, while I'm talking left, I think this guy I'm going to look him up while I'm talking. He took over and did a bunch of stuff. But then he also did all of the covers for Marvel Zombies, the Marvel Zombies comics, and did a ton of Marvel Zombies stuff. So we went and bought a couple 11x18s from him he had done a bunch of. I bought one where it was like a zombie Zombie, clint Eastwood, and then the cover of that. So all of the. For those that don't know, which I don't know why, you would be listening to this if you didn't know but all of the original Marvel Comics covers were all spins on famous covers that had come out before. So, like the spider-man in the web, the spider-man saving the person, uh, the one that I got was the wolverine where he was fighting the wolf. Yeah, yeah, claws were out. That's one of my favorite, yeah uh, and so election yeah, yeah, um, come on.
Speaker 2:Arthur's Sudan Arthur's Sudan, I think, is how you pronounce it, but he did. He had like four tables for his booth. Most of the rest of the people had half a table, if not a quarter of the table. It was actually pretty crazy when you saw him and he just has this giant booth and you're like, oh okay, and you see the person next to him and there's four people crammed shoulder to shoulder next to each other and you're the person next to him and there's four people crammed shoulder to shoulder next to each other, and you're like this seems weird, but um, but no, I mean, we walked through the entire thing in like four hours and we were, we were done, um, picked up a couple small things.
Speaker 2:Uh, roosevelt's was there, that's where I picked up the shirt. They also had a star wars shirt. Um, that was, uh, that was exclusive to. Well, I think it was exclusive to Rose City, right, the Star Wars one, they're not selling All three of those shirts were here, All three yeah.
Speaker 2:And then they had a third one which was the Batman the colorway. Yeah, so Roosevelt's was probably the biggest vendor there, which was kind of interesting. There were a bunch of smaller vendors doing things. Uh, bb create was there. I got to talk to that guy for a little bit, which was kind of cool because I had my wolverine and deadpool shirt on, and so I got stopped by a couple people, I think. So I think I talked to the owner of bb create because the way he was talking was he knew way more.
Speaker 2:But it was nice to walk up and not have to wait in line for 45 minutes and then get rushed through. Like I just talked to him and he was like hey, and I'm like hey, man, like cool, I'm glad you guys are here. And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, um, he's like were you at San Diego? And I go, yeah, and he me that they, you know this story. And he was saying like how?
Speaker 2:I guess they originally asked for, like, a corner booth and I guess they gave them one, but then they took it away at like the last minute, so they had. That's why their booth was so screwed up, because the booth, the booth, was set up to be in a corner, but then they put him like in the middle of an aisle, which, yeah, so that totally made sense, because I was like, yeah, dude, like I wish that layout would have been better. He's like oh, yeah, me too, like we tried, and so I was like that's, it was cool to get that story. You know, again, you're not going to get that story in San Diego because they're just like get through the line. You know, yeah.
Speaker 3:So that's the nice thing is and I'm sure Lou will agree with this that that's the nice thing about some of these smaller cons is that you can stop and interact with people a little bit more and get even even about other cons you know, even even the autograph area, with denver being smaller than san diego there's a lot of opportunity where, where people have gone through somebody's line and you can just chat with somebody for a minute you know it's actually chat. That's super cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just picked up a few small things. Nothing to you Too crazy. Used your Wild Bills mug, so thank you again for that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, seven bucks for the day, which wasn't terrible Not considering, one drink is like seven bucks if you want to buy a bottle of soda.
Speaker 2:And my friend Morgan. They never had sarsaparilla before, so he got to drink sarsaparilla for the first time, Did you?
Speaker 3:have a favorite flavor.
Speaker 2:I only did the root beer because I only brought one cup.
Speaker 3:I thought you were bringing a water bottle to pour in.
Speaker 2:I did I did, but then he didn't bring a water bottle, so then I drank the root beer out of my bottle, while he drank the sarsaparilla out of the cup.
Speaker 3:Oh, gotcha Okay.
Speaker 2:Did you go back?
Speaker 3:for refills.
Speaker 2:We went back twice. Oh okay, but I was like I didn't want to mix the flavors and stuff.
Speaker 3:Oh, you didn't want to rinse the cup. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, I think the strawberry cream was my favorite in Denver. Yeah, yeah, the sarsaparilla obviously is good. The root beer I think the root beer is better than the sarsaparilla.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like sarsaparilla normally more than root beer.
Speaker 3:But their root beer I like better than their sarsaparilla.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I should have picked up the. They had a Rose City Comic Con mug there. I should have picked one up for you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, honestly, like I told you, wherever they go, your cup is useful, even the smaller events out here in Colorado. How was Roosevelt's booth? Was it busy, was it not?
Speaker 2:busy Walk up dude. I think the second time I went up there to get my third Star Wars shirt with my friend, which I probably could have except for the fact that I interacted with them. So that was my fault. Because when I walked up they were like, oh, you went to San Diego. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you went to san diego. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm trying to get two shirts for my friend and the girl's like, well, you could go to the, the, whatever their little fan club is. And I'm like I just want one more shirt. Man, like, come on. Like so thankfully, I had a friend who was volunteering there, so I went and grabbed him and said, hey, can you walk with me for a minute? My, what I should have done is just grab somebody walking by and said oh, hey hey, bud, how's it going?
Speaker 2:Here's my other friend. Can I have my third shirt now, you assholes.
Speaker 3:See, I didn't understand that in Denver either. If there's no line at that point, just freaking sell to whomever wants one. That's ridiculous to me.
Speaker 2:I get having allocations.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they had pins, but they didn't have anything exclusive. The blind, the blind pins yeah, just one ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they had those and I get the daily allocations, but I mean, if I'm showing up at six o'clock and they're closing at eight, like that's my thing if it's half an hour an hour before closing.
Speaker 3:It's like, like Denver, okay, we're going to give people a chance, people showing up late, whatever, we've got their ticket, no big deal. But when you're like we close at 8, or Denver, we close at 7, and it's 6 o'clock, at that point, no limit, yeah, especially since the very next day, it's no limit.
Speaker 2:It's like come on they need to work on that, uh. But then, yeah, my that same friend, I had him go and pick this up because this was a saturday oh, that's right saturday.
Speaker 2:But I mean overall, like I would totally go back again for for four hours or six hours on a friday and just walk around like I mean it's a, it's a really big space and so they're the aisles are really wide, like they did have some cool things I that's one thing too that that I was like I was talking to Morgan about with San Diego is like I don't feel like you get a chance to like just meander and look at things Like you're always like being pushed, like it's like a wave, so you never get a chance to like pause and like look like they had a few. A couple of the booths had like the wood, paint the wood, uh, 3d etched um maps, right like the relief maps, and I I'm sure those were at san diego never fucking saw them. Because, like you're, unless you like, unless there's a point, like if it's somebody that you're going to see, I feel like it's really hard to just get those random like oh, like this is different, it's just I. To me it was. It was a lot easier on friday to just meander and just walk slow and just look both sides. You know it's san diego, you're looking at one side and you're just like, okay, I'm just looking on this one side.
Speaker 2:Okay, pins, I don't care, okay, same art prints that we saw before, like, uh, the the fallout, the one that we did, the for the fallout, the bottle cap thing, jack, those guys were there at comic-con, the tentacle kitties, people were there, so I mean there was a fair amount. I was actually kind of surprised at the number of crossover that there was in diego, yeah, but then I also felt like it was way easier for me to just walk around and look at their stuff as opposed to feel like, oh, we gotta go, got to go, we got somewhere to be, we have pressure to go do things.
Speaker 3:Portland 2024 was San Diego 2000. 25 years ago yeah exactly 100%. That was my first year. I went was 2000 was the very first year I went.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I think you guys would enjoy it. Is it always early September? Yeah, 7th through the 9th next year, I think is when they get some good panels.
Speaker 1:Their panels are shit, dude.
Speaker 2:If we're doing it as a Portland trip we just build that one night.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's like a day to go.
Speaker 2:Then Saturday we go to the gorge, and Sunday we go to the beach or whatever. Then at least we do something as like a I'm sorry, did you just say the beach?
Speaker 1:Lou threw up in his mouth a little bit.
Speaker 3:You know what's funny? As soon as I heard that, what my brain said to me was oh cool, they're going to the beach. I'll have a second day at the con.
Speaker 2:So that's what.
Speaker 3:I heard I'll get the Roosevelt shirts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like do you guys need Roosevelt from the other?
Speaker 3:day. Yeah, I'll get your Saturday Roosevelt shirts while you guys are at the beach. Here's the rub.
Speaker 2:When you're in Oregon, you never actually go to the beach. The beach is you drive up to, you drive along the one and you stop at all the breweries and the Tillamook cheese factory and that's it. You never actually touched the beach, cause the beach sounds like, yes, we'll go to the beach.
Speaker 1:then I'm like, hey, beach sounds great.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I didn't know, I was a beach guy.
Speaker 2:Like we could go to Tillamook, go to the cheese factory. There's a big ass winery that has a billion different wines we could go to, and then there's a giant. Get me a cheese factory, bro.
Speaker 1:Get me a cheese factory.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, and there's also a big military museum there too.
Speaker 1:Do they have any saving private ranch stuff?
Speaker 3:Yep, they actually have the Jeep that he was saved on you don't know what the store's going to be like in the first 10 minutes.
Speaker 2:That would be cool if we could. The nice thing is that it's far enough away from San Diego. It doesn't feel like it's like, oh shit, we've got to do this again. We were just there.
Speaker 3:No, no, it's a good one. It's as simple as that. It's a good idea.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that was San Diego, portland, sorry yeah, Portland, rose City, wow, so that's much more Dang, yeah Are we going back. Can we go back? So that was my experience. It was a good time. I enjoyed myself Like you said Jack it's been years, it's been a long time.
Speaker 1:Just that wasn't your first time, was it? No, but it had been years it's been a long time.
Speaker 2:The first time in forever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just because every weekend, every time it comes up. There was music.
Speaker 3:Exactly. I was like, oh, that's a Frozen reference.
Speaker 2:Every time I think, well, every time it comes up I haven't thought about it. And then I always have plans, and so it's one of those things like until you guys actually mentioned the Roosevelt stuff, I was kind of like, eh, maybe I'll go. But then when we started talking about the Roosevelt thing, I was like, okay, now I have a reason to go, like I needed something to push you, but I enjoyed myself.
Speaker 1:There was a lot of people there, a lot of different types of art, and now we can be twinsies in Japan.
Speaker 2:Yep 100%.
Speaker 1:With our weird Watchmen colored Star Wars shirts.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that whole bottom half of the shirt. I was like what is going on with that? Whatever, Still look cool, I ain't gonna lie, I still like it.
Speaker 1:Still exclusive Ain't, nobody else got it.
Speaker 3:It'll be me, it'll be that, and a bunch of ropers that I'll have. Still exclusive, ain't nobody else got it? It'll be me, it'll be that, and a bunch of ropers that I'll have. Dude, I should do that Now that I won that money. You know what? Happy birthday to me. I'm going to go buy myself that rover, the Robin Hood one.
Speaker 1:Robin Hood one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Well, assuming it's not sold out, because I know the 2X, 3X and 4X were all sold out.
Speaker 2:If the. X, so 50-50 XL I mean, it is a nice shirt though. Yeah, Speaking of shirts you guys are representing tonight, because the worst news of the year- Worst news.
Speaker 1:Ugh Cannot. James Earl Jones. Pro-wrestling 93. He was alive when our parents were born, doing his thing.
Speaker 2:He was only three when my dad was born, so you know he was alive.
Speaker 3:Still a true statement, yeah that shit. That shit was not pleasant news. I saw it pop up on Twitter About 30 seconds before I texted you guys. I saw it. Then it was like oh, that's not true. I saw it on Twitter. Then, 30 seconds before I texted you guys, I saw it. Then it was like a last, not true. I saw it on Twitter. Then I went to go cuz diss trackers posted it right. And then I went to go like see if anybody else was like tell me, this is not real.
Speaker 3:I need to yeah, I was like I need more than just this, and then I confirmed it, and then I texted you guys, and then I kind of just I was like I need more than just this, and then I confirmed it, and then I texted you guys, and then I kind of just I was in the bedroom listening to sports radio. I only listen to sports radio when the Broncos are here.
Speaker 2:I don't want to hear all the positive happiness In the bedroom. With your pants off, You're just like oh yeah, I did not have pants on I was like I did not have pants on.
Speaker 3:With the salty Bronco tears.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, I keep the orange and blue jersey just for this reason it's standing up on its own.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I kind of just stayed in the room for a bit because SO was out here watching something. I was like you know what, I don't really want to be bothered.
Speaker 1:I need a minute.
Speaker 3:And I just kind of stayed in there, kept it to myself, didn't tell her anything. I was like this sucks, sucks, and it was like man. I was like man. I think I told you guys like I wasn't, I wasn't this bad off of my grandma died three years ago. Right, it's like what the hell, uh, but yeah, so, yeah, that was some brutal news. I'm sort of going. I. Then all of a sudden I'm going through, I'm like, oh, lion, king and conan the barbarian obviously Wars, and it was like other things Fill the Dream. All these things was like what the hell.
Speaker 1:Well as I was reading about him. He's one of the few people that have gotten an EGOT Emmy, grammy, oscar and Tony.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because he was a stage actor years ago.
Speaker 1:It's a handful of people that have ever done that, and he was one of them.
Speaker 3:Right on and, yeah, I did not know that that's pretty badass. And then, after all that, then I went I'm not going to lie, it was like 20 minutes later and I was like how old was he? I had no idea. I was like so I went and looked it up. As a matter of fact, I looked it up about 30 seconds, jack, before you texted and said now he was 93. I was like so funny, because I just looked it up, uh, 30 seconds before you, before you sent that text.
Speaker 3:So I was like all right, cool dude, I mean 93.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he can't be mad at 93 nope, I was like all right, cool, um, and then it was like all right, uh, what I'm gonna watch, it's gonna be, it's gonna be lion king. Is it gonna be star wars? Is it gonna be conan? I went with conan, uh, because that was the first movie I saw in the theater and it's, what I want to watch is going to be Lion King. Is it going to be Star Wars? Is it going to be Conan? I went with Conan because that was the first movie I saw in the theater and it's not one you normally go to for James Earl Jones Exactly.
Speaker 1:You have so many more options for him.
Speaker 3:For real. So I picked that one and I knew I was doing Star Wars next weekend anyway with Empire, which means I'll watch A New Hope on Friday, to watch Empire on Saturday, then I'll come home and watch Jedi.
Speaker 1:I already have a plan. I read that a few years ago he sold his voice to Disney to use it as Darth Vader forever. He hooked up with Matt Wood at Skywalker Sound and they recorded to train the AI to be his voice. Somebody asked well, why didn't they do that with Mufasa? Because he only sold it to be Darth Vader Right, which I think there's oh 100%.
Speaker 3:It's such. I mean you can't, I don't know, you can't really. I mean he came back to do Rebels. I mean come on now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just thinking. I can't picture anybody else.
Speaker 2:And they used a shadow of his voice in Kenobi right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there was an overlap. Yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 1:There was an overlap, yeah it was him and Hayden.
Speaker 2:It was. It was, yeah, it was him and hayden, it was when his, when the mask was chopped, yeah, and then it was like breaking, I thought. I thought I read something that they had like altered hayden's voice a little, they made it modular but then also brought because it was almost like james earl jones was vader and so with the vader coming in, like then it was that transition point. You know, I, if I remember correctly, I could be wrong no, that that's exactly what they. I mean that they, I I think it was that transition point. You know, if I remember correctly, I could be wrong.
Speaker 3:No, that's exactly what they I mean. I think it was the James Earl Jones digital voice.
Speaker 1:It wasn't him, no, yeah, but it was a digital version that they used with Hayden's.
Speaker 3:That is correct. I read that too. So that did happen and it was well done too. Honestly, I mean there wasn't a lot of good about us, about the obi-wan show, but that was good, um, but yeah, so yeah, for me it was just like I mean I should hit hard and it's like even now, it's like okay, like if we, if we weren't doing pod tonight, I might have watched another, you know, yeah, jj movie. So it might. It might have been lion king, especially when the new one's coming out soon. Might have been filled with dreams. I haven't seen it in a while. Lion King was basically top three of my Disney movies. That one I've seen a lot, conan every couple years, filled with Dreams, every couple decades.
Speaker 1:You're not putting CNN on or anything.
Speaker 3:If I can. That's the first thing that comes to mind. Sometimes MSNBC just takes over and it's got to be MSNBC. But yeah, I mean, it depends. It depends. We got to see how the cats are doing.
Speaker 3:You know what's funny, though? What's funny is I've seen like videos from that town that people are actually saying that Haitians are doing that stuff. So it's like I don't know what's real and what's not Like. Is it real, is it not real? Is the story fact or fiction? It's like Trump said all that crap because it's all over the Internet, right?
Speaker 3:Well, if you guys haven't seen on some YouTube videos, there are people at the town hall saying, hey, these Haitians are doing this, the parks and the ducks, and all this Not so much with the pets, but it's more with the wild animals that are out there pigeons, ducks and stuff that are at the lakes. Not too many stories about dogs and household freaking cats and like that. That, to me, is a little bit exaggerated, but I don't know how not true it is. So it's like are they doing it? Are they not doing it? But at the same time, I don't want it to ruin my fun, so I don't want to go look it up and see it's like no, no, let's enjoy this. This is so silly. Did you guys watch the debate at?
Speaker 1:all a little bit. I was at work for most of it, so I I didn't get to see a whole lot of it I.
Speaker 3:I saw the beginning and I lasted. I remember what time it was 7.33. So I lasted 33 minutes and it was putrid. Both of them were horrific. The very first question to Kamala was is the economy better now than it was four years ago? She spent six minutes, or whatever it was. It seemed like not answering the question. It was well, we're gonna do this and I have this plan and I have this plan. I'm thinking the whole time. I'm just like that was a. That was a yes or no question. Can we get an answer? And then we switch over to trump and he won't answer. Neither one of them were answering the questions that were asked of him.
Speaker 3:I got frustrated and it was like okay, kamala's lying about this. She's trying to put project 2025 on him, which he is not a part of. He started that way back until they went off the fucking rails and he was like what are you guys doing? You're supposed to come up with a decent plan. You're coming up with this ape shit over here. So he distanced himself from them once they went off the rails. So, and kamala's like, oh, you're part of this 2020. He's like, no, I'm not. So she's lying about so much stuff. You've got the two moderators who on her side, uh, it's three on one with trump. It's like you know what this whole thing is. Bullshit, and not just the three-on-one, because I heard about that after the fact. I was already irritated the first half hour when neither one of these assholes would answer questions. It was, oh I enjoy it.
Speaker 1:Get a couple of good memes out of it, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3:I enjoy it because I enjoy pushing buttons and you know how it is. But at the end of the day, I don't care all that much where it's like it's not the end of the world, but I like to push buttons more than anything else. So it's like oh, it could be the other way around. If I hear a conversation where people are all like pro-Trump and all this, I will take the other side just so I can push the damn button. It's like what You're going to do this.
Speaker 1:You won the argument 10 minutes ago. I'm just trying to keep you mad.
Speaker 3:Dude, for real, I've been there, I've been there. It's like man, that's a good point, I'm on their side, but fuck it, let's keep going with it. I've definitely done that a few times we should run for opposite tickets, Lou. Right, oh my god, we'd have so much fun with it too. Duke's all like, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and I was in the middle of this game before politics started. I'm going to go back to finish my game. I was looking at what else, james Earl Jones?
Speaker 2:was in the middle of this game before politics started.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go back to finish my game. I was looking at what else James Earl Jones was in. Oh, what stood out? No, no, no, that's a good switch.
Speaker 2:What are the ones that are like either?
Speaker 3:oh yeah, he was in that, or you know what I mean. I remember he was in, like the first three Jack Ryan movies. I was just going to say, yeah, I was going to say, wasn't he in?
Speaker 2:like Hunt for.
Speaker 3:Red October Clear and Present.
Speaker 2:Danger and.
Speaker 1:I don't remember Patriot Games Patriot.
Speaker 2:Games. Yeah yeah, he was in all three of those. So yeah, so sorry, I was on that.
Speaker 3:Did you guys watch the?
Speaker 1:the Jack Ryan TV show.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no. Was the black dude that was in that TV show? Was he the James Earl Jones character? Was he going to eventually? I don't think so. No, that wasn't the same name.
Speaker 2:I don't think it was the same character. His name wasn't the same. Okay, I wasn't sure if his name was the same. Let me check real quick.
Speaker 3:I can't remember what the name was, Greer. Oh no, he was.
Speaker 2:Yep, same guy, james Earl Jones, was Admiral James Greer. Wendell Pierce. Yes, wendell Pierce, it's a good show, jack.
Speaker 3:Totally worth the watch All three seasons. Yeah, it was absolutely worth the watch. You're right, I forgot about those three. A lot of people dogged the Batman one, the Affleck one, some of All.
Speaker 2:Fears. I thought it was pretty good. Let's see, yeah, he was in Rebels Coming to America.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, king Jaffe Jafar or something like that, whatever he was in Doctor. Strangelove, hold on Back it up to Coming to America. Was it him and his wife, the king and queen and lion king also? Yeah, and his wife, the king and queen and lion king also. Wasn't the wife also the mom?
Speaker 1:I think so yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, I think you're right, that was kind of cool.
Speaker 3:I was like it worked, you know. But you're right, I forgot about it. Yeah, it was the king and coming to America, I never saw the second one Coming to America.
Speaker 1:I don't think anybody did Right, kind of like Beverly Hills Cop 4.
Speaker 3:You know what? I heard people talking good things about that one, but I think they're talking good things because they're comparing it to 3. Well, yeah, everything's good compared to 3. Exactly so. I was like 1 and 2 were good, but then they made 3. And it's like so you come back with 4. A lot of people are like go one, two four skip three.
Speaker 1:I mean three did have George Lucas in it, that is true. What?
Speaker 2:else, duke you going. Let's see what else. There was one that. Give me a second. Let me bring it back up.
Speaker 3:There's a boxing one way back in the 60s or something let's see His first credit as far as an actor goes.
Speaker 2:He was in Guiding Light and as the World Turns Wow, that was probably the end In 1966, he was in Guiding Light as a doctor. What did he win? The Oscar for?
Speaker 3:Was that the boxing movie that I'm thinking about?
Speaker 2:The Great.
Speaker 3:White Hood.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's what it was. I think so. I mean that would make sense. Does IMDb give you awards for what it was?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does.
Speaker 2:If you scroll down.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's see. Yeah, no, I guess he kind of faked his Academy Award. Great White Hood. He was nominated, okay, in 2011,. He got a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award. Oh okay. So that's what his Oscar was in. For Emmys he won for Gabriel's Fire and Heat Wave. In the 90s he won the Golden Globe for Great White hope for new promising actor male oh easy promising actor.
Speaker 3:I've never okay.
Speaker 1:No see how that worked he got a grammy for spoken word album great american documents. I would let that man read me the bill of rights not to look that up tony's. He won for great white hope Fences and a Lifetime Achievement Award and then a shitload of other Broadway awards. He was a very well-awarded man.
Speaker 2:According to IMDb, he made $9,000 for A New Hope.
Speaker 3:That sounds like five things I was going to say. To be fair, he didn't really have a lot of lines in that one, so the ship apart I want them alive.
Speaker 2:Star wars, the holiday special, hell yeah, legendary, the short of beauty and the beast, oh, wait a minute, doesn't that lego movie come out today? Yeah, yeah the series. Yeah, it's the 13th, it's four episodes.
Speaker 3:Wait. It's four episodes all dropped at once. Or do we have to wait? I think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, they all drop at once.
Speaker 3:Okay, alright.
Speaker 2:I guess I'll be watching that tomorrow. He was in Highway to.
Speaker 1:Heaven. It's a four-piece miniseries.
Speaker 2:With Michael Linden.
Speaker 3:He was in Highway to Heaven, yeah.
Speaker 2:He was in LA Law. I liked LA Law.
Speaker 3:That was a good show. Hey, jimmy Smith was in that too.
Speaker 2:So you got to deal with a couple of Star Wars guys. He was in Sneakers. The movie Sneakers with Redford Wasn't.
Speaker 3:Kurt.
Speaker 1:Russell in that you know, what the first thing that came to my mind was obviously that's Jolie. Maybe, I'm thinking of the computer War Sneakers.
Speaker 2:Sneakers was Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sammy Pontier, David Srehera, Tristra Thiem. He was in the Stargate SG-1 as a voice, the TV series.
Speaker 3:What? Somebody just hired him for his voice. That's rude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's weird. He actually was in the Monopoly Star Wars video game as Darth Vader. Oh's weird, unas. He actually was in the Monopoly Star Wars video game as Darth Vader.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, there was a Monopoly Star Wars video game Dude it was bomb dude.
Speaker 2:I love that thing. He did three episodes of the Simpsons.
Speaker 3:I remember that. I remember the three episodes. He was the jazz dude that was with Lisa Lips.
Speaker 1:Leading Gums. Leading Gums, leading Gums Murphy.
Speaker 2:He was a voice in Command and Conquer Tiberian Son, a video game. He was in the TV show Recess, which I did not know. He was Santa Claus In two episodes.
Speaker 3:I love that show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that show is baller. It's on Disney Plus. It's about these kids and all they do is recess. It's a really good show.
Speaker 2:He was in the Sandlot 2. Okay, I remember him in the Sandlot. Yeah, he was in the Benchwarmers. His Darth Vader voice Scary movie.
Speaker 3:Wait, was it even one of the? He was like in high High. What Dazed and Confused. Even one of the. It was like in high High. What Dazed and Confused was one of the. Was that one of the freaking drug marijuana movies?
Speaker 1:What was the other one?
Speaker 3:High, something with high in it.
Speaker 1:He was in one of those. Oh High.
Speaker 3:No, I don't think it was that one, but he was in one of those. He was in one of those too, in man and Method man. No, I don't think it was that one, but he was in one of those.
Speaker 2:He was in one of those too in the 90s, I can't remember which one it was, and nothing jumped out at me when I was looking through them. I'll have to get back to you on that one. He was in the Second Civil War. I don't know what that is 1997, it was a weird time man.
Speaker 3:He was in Two and a Half Men as James. Earl Jones, as he should be he was in House, he was in the Sheldon show as James Earl Jones. Big Bang Theory.
Speaker 2:That shit was hilarious.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was hilarious. He hasn't really done a whole lot.
Speaker 2:I think his last year that he has multiple Credits for was 2015.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, I mean, at that point he's 83, so I mean 84 or something.
Speaker 2:Makes sense. Instantly recognizable voices. What about you?
Speaker 3:Jack, I mean I had my day and week and Duke had his Anything going on with you. Yeah, we're an hour and a half into the podcast.
Speaker 2:Jack, let's talk about you.
Speaker 1:What the fuck can do is work Like Rihanna over here, Work, work, work, work, work. I thought you were going to say umbrella my umbrella.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Last weekend we worked on cleaning out the garage. So yeah, rihanna's going to sue us For real right.
Speaker 2:No we just got a copyright claim.
Speaker 3:We just got a strike, we're going to be debilitated.
Speaker 1:I think Solder's coming out on Monday. I think our closet's finally going to get done this week, so it's probably time to start moving out, we cleaned out the garage, probably like 30, 40% of it. We moved shit over there Mostly so I can get to the storage above the garage to get my boxes for my statues and shit, because that needs to be packed. I spent too much money on the Cobra Rattler.
Speaker 2:You owe me both. How about you end up closing on?
Speaker 1:I don't even know.
Speaker 3:When I went to go get mine it was at $21,000 or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it blew.
Speaker 3:Oh it blew. That always happens Once it gets close and hits it. Then everybody jumps on board. It usually goes about another. It's stupid logic.
Speaker 1:20-30% above, it will unlock all the tiers if you would just buy your shit early. People always wait until it hits the tiers and then buy.
Speaker 3:Then it's like okay, now it's guaranteed.
Speaker 1:I only went to as well $28,000.
Speaker 3:If I had a job, I might have went all five. Let's see.
Speaker 2:How much would that be? $28,000. $28,096.
Speaker 3:That's what it ended at, yeah, oh. That's what it ended at. Yeah, wow, oh my God. That's like $10,000 in the last day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so they made $9,130,919 for it. That is disgusting. I mean I guess there's a world where that would cost $9 million to actually develop, but I don't know, that would cost $9 million to actually develop, but I don't know. I mean we can have this conversation on another podcast, but I have a really hard time with these big companies doing like Kickstarters. They're like, hey, Don't, but we'll have a conversation about it later, that's you know. But yeah, so I mean I'm glad they're doing it and I'm glad it's doing well.
Speaker 3:But, like I mean we'll have this conversation next. Yeah, Matter of fact, we'll make a point of it to make sure we have this conversation next. I'd love to hear your points.
Speaker 1:Right, as some, I respect multiple Kickstarters. I want to yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, his premise was big companies doing it right, I don't have a problem with Kickstarter at all. The three of us came up with a great idea and we do a Kickstarter. I'm good with that. Did you guys do your gratitude project?
Speaker 3:sort of I mean, yes, but I didn't get a response yet, same, so so my gratitude. I'm not sure if we're gonna get one. Who was? I didn't get a response yet, same, I'm not sure if we're going to get one who was your.
Speaker 2:You don't have to give a name, but the relation of the person that you sent it to as far as. I guess try to be as vague as possible.
Speaker 1:I sent it to my dad. You know how my dad is. I was like 70-30 not getting a response.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and honestly Okay, you should have sent it Ten minutes writing this big-ass paragraph.
Speaker 1:Make sure it's all right and pretty and nothing. Fucking crickets.
Speaker 2:You should have sent it to his or her two units, but it felt good to write it, to put it out there.
Speaker 1:I know he read it. It felt good to write it to put it out there. I know he read it. So whether he responds or not, whatever, but at least it's out there, you know it's if something happened, if he something happened to him, something happened to me, I put it out there. So I feel good about that.
Speaker 3:Right, my, mine, mine was, I mean, only a handful, SO will know, you guys will know Danielle, because she's always, even with everything, she still reaches out. She still makes an effort to like Christmas birthday send, like some Amazon little knick-knack here or there or a box of chocolates or whatever. So she still tries to make sure she keeps us close and everything tries to make sure she keeps us close and everything. And and I never really thought about it that she's they're not kind of like guiding, that uh. So it's kind of like reaching out to her, to her, and it was like, but to be fair, I think she's, she's uh out of town, she's on, she's been out of town in florida with family, so I'm guessing it's like whoa. She's looking at this is like whoa. I'll deal with this when I get back. That's, that's what I think is where she's at right now.
Speaker 3:She's like I don't want to hear this right now. Not that it was anything. That is all positive and everything but it's like but then she's like.
Speaker 2:I was about to jump off the bridge and then I thought about you just kidding, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3:My first thought and even without a response, my first thought was going to be I'm going to get a text back that says are you dying? That?
Speaker 2:was the first thing You're like.
Speaker 3:Actually I was like well after my last month. That's not far from the truth. What about you, duke?
Speaker 2:Mine was on a smaller level, kind of a little micro. I did a bunch of micro gratitudes.
Speaker 1:Also a good thing.
Speaker 2:We had our last big pool party here after softball on Sunday and so invited the softball team and then invited a bunch of other people who are around the area and that type of thing. I have a mailing list that I call my events and shit list, where anytime I'm putting something on whether it's a movie or karaoke or whatever that way I don't I was having this huge problem where I'd send email out and I'd be like lou, so and so, so and so, so and so send it, and then all of a sudden you'd respond and be like, uh, did you send that to jack? And I'd be like so I put the list together and I send it out for all these things. And I've been making more of an effort to be more responsive to people who reply, because I'll send that email out to 35 people and I'll get five people will respond. Right, and again, I don't, I don't care if you're not coming or not, but I just appreciate knowing.
Speaker 1:RSVP Right, like just say hey, no sorry.
Speaker 2:I'll be out of town I. So I made a, I doubled down on my efforts to make sure that I replied to all of those emails, regardless of whether or not they were coming with something positive saying you know, thank you for emailing back. I appreciate it Like it means a ton. I hope you have fun doing whatever you're doing. We're gonna miss you, that you know.
Speaker 2:And again, I right, I tailor, I I don't have like in my head, I always have like the three or four things, but then I always try to make sure to you know, personalize it to one degree or another, right, but you know, and then thanking them when they do show up, like because I'll, you know, I'll order pizza and I'll you know, I'll order pizza and I'll get you know over the course of the week I'll get a couple of Venbo's and that type of thing, and then I'll reply and just say, hey, thanks, because I don't ever ask people for money. I'm just not that way, you know, and I'm paying for that to one degree or another right now, but that's not for here, but never complained and I never asked people for money. You know, like, if I order pizza to me, it's just, I guess, if you're gonna eat pizza, like in my head, it would be assumed that you would like, but people don't.
Speaker 1:You know it's right, yeah, it's there's. There's two ways to look at it. You invited me, you bought the pizza, cool, yeah, but also I shit, you just bought like 20 pizzas, bro, by yourself. Yeah, yeah, what's your bill? Let's go pay for a pie.
Speaker 2:And I'm not out here buying Domino's, like I'm buying decent stuff. You know, like it'd be one thing if I spent 15 bucks on five Domino's pizzas and I used a coupon to get me free cinnamon twist or whatever you know but like I'm going to like local, you know, again, supporting local, so trying to support local, and that that is always prohibitively more expensive, you know, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, you know it's. It was mostly just making sure that I tied up both ends because, again, not everybody replies and so, just, you know, giving that personal response, it's not that much out of my day to respond to you and say, hey, man, thanks for replying. Like it sucks you can't be there, but I understand, I hope you're having fun at the beach or at the uh mountain or whatever you're doing, right, you know. So, you know, that's. That was I. I just tried to make sure that I was very thorough with that, because there was a period of time where you, I wasn't getting like any responses back and then you just kind of go like what am I doing? Why am I bothering? But I'm trying to get past that and get to the point of like that's not the point. The point isn't to get attention for myself. The point is to invite people to come and have a good time together, exactly.
Speaker 3:So a little gratitude, know exactly, yep, so yeah, so a little gratitude. I was gonna say it's interesting because because when you, when you first started with the whole, I sent this out, the rsvp part of the conversation. I'm very literal, so, uh, every once in a while I'll go to pub quiz, um, on tuesday night, just a group, group of the friends out here in colorado that'll go Tuesday night. But they'll say hey, what is it? Who's going? The way it's phrased, it's phrased for people. The way the question is phrased, if you're going, respond. So I don't respond. I think they mean to say everybody, like they want to know everybody's answer. But that's not how the question is phrased. So I go by exact. It's like well, why didn't you tell me you weren't going? It was like because that's not what the question said. The question is to let you know if you are going.
Speaker 2:Yeah so again it's. I. I had a not to make this any longer but any longer.
Speaker 1:But I had an epiphany with a couple hours, 20 hours, whatever.
Speaker 2:Well, and again. Now we're getting into the deep shit right like I've had. I had an epiphany over the last couple months that I have some people in my life who who express that they do this thing for for everybody. I want to make sure the the whole like. I want everybody to have a good time, right, but the reality is they want you to know that they're the ones that you're having the good time because, like, they're the reason you're having a good time does that make.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and to me that really bothered me, because that's a fucking selfish way to view it right because, everybody's gonna have.
Speaker 2:I used to have a hard time when I would invite people over or we would have parties at the house. One of my biggest things was I felt like I needed to get time with every single person Right, and that was exhausting. It's so exhausting. And I was having a conversation with somebody and they're like no, like you don't have to do that, that's not your job. Like you're providing the space for them to come. Have to do that, that's not your job. Like you're providing the space for them to come. If their expectation is that they're going to spend time with you, then they need to do that on their own right. There shouldn't be an expectation that you'll work the room and talk to every single person and give everybody attention. Hopefully they're coming and engaging with other people they may or may not know, and to me, that made that whole thing so much easier.
Speaker 2:Right now I don't feel pressured if somebody shows up to like, oh, I gotta go make sure I spend five minutes with lou because he showed up. You know, no, either lou's gonna have a good time or he's not, and that's on him. I have no control over that. So and I jack same thing. You know, if we're hanging out and you know I'm not giving all the attention to you, like, if you're offended by that, you know I'm not giving all the attention to you, like, if you're offended by that, then that's kind of on, you like. And so to me I was able to flip that around in my head and work through that, yeah, yeah and right. And so then realizing this over the last couple months has helped me to get through that where it's like, oh, I don't have to get a response from everybody, but I want to make sure that I show appreciation for the people that do you know all right, so that was kind of so, mike, yeah, no, I hear you I.
Speaker 3:I learned I learned that whole social party shit a long time ago, where it's like look you, show up. Things will happen if, over the course of whatever event it is, our paths cross where we can have five minutes, great, if it doesn't, also great. And I've been at somebody else's where I could see them trying to do that. And if we don't run it, I'm not offended man, it's like okay look you're going to be shocked to hear this.
Speaker 3:I'm not shy. If I go to some strange-ass party and don't know anybody there, I'm gonna know 10 people before I leave. I'm gonna be best man at somebody's wedding. I'm gonna be on some destination trip with somebody. We're vacationing together. By the time that party's over, I've met enough people where it's like and then what is it next day? Hey man, sorry I didn't get a chance to to chat with you. Actually I'm all like oh all good, I was chatting. I was chatting with your friend Harry and his wife Monica. I'm just making shit up Talking. I was fine, you know, but it goes to your point, dude. I am okay and I was fine entertaining myself or finding ways to be entertained by chatting and hearing stories from other people. You know it's like oh, how do you know? Especially if somebody's hosting some event, how do you know this person?
Speaker 2:And then you get to hear their story and how they met and then sometimes no, no, no, that's my default answer is.
Speaker 3:It's like well, it's like how do you, how do you know? You know Mike and Jill. It's like oh, they needed a third, you know yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you didn't see the upside down pineapple at the kemp over there, mike's a cuck, it's a real temple.
Speaker 3:There was a bowl. I was told to put my keys in it and this is what happened, and I woke up in the morning. I don't know what happened between those two periods of time.
Speaker 1:I told you that happened when I invited your ex-wife over, when we had our husband for this. Do you know how? We are the two of?
Speaker 2:us are right?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, for sure. So my wife's friends are like are you guys swingers? Because Jack is very friendly with that girl.
Speaker 2:And then you're like, oh, you should see him with her husband.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's right, that ain't you. You know, it's just weight. That's hilarious.
Speaker 3:But yeah, some people honestly outside looking in if you don't know, I could see it's freaking funny. But yeah, I will admit I didn't. Again, the whole concept of it all, I'm with you. I was like you know, I don't know that I would have done this if you hadn't suggested it and given us this homework assignment, and it's like I don't know. There's this kind of like that's sad I should have done this. At the same time there's also the oh, I did this. This feels kind of good. So I'm with you on the whole, it felt good to do it thing. Um, but yeah, I can, absolutely. I have no problem admitting that. I don't think I would have without the push.
Speaker 1:So yeah, cool, yeah, it's just something, like I said, to help change our mindsets a little bit. Like duke said, in the last couple months he's realized that being grateful for you know people that do respond to his fucking newsletter. You know yes or no I'm coming, but you know they took the time to say yes or no I'm not coming. So it's like okay, cool, thank you, I appreciate that. And, um, like I said, the class I took, the, the studies show that if you participate in more gratitude kind of things, it does help rewire your brain so when something bad does happen, you can handle it better. You actually have health benefits just because you're not pissed off because everything sucks all the time. So, yes, you do have to go to work, but there's also the flip side. You get to go to work. You get also the flip side. You get to go to work you get to have this job that pays your bills.
Speaker 1:So you know, you know like, uh, I gotta take my kids to school. You got kids, they're in school, you know. So it's more of a being appreciating what you have yeah, for sure I mean to take that shit morbidly.
Speaker 3:It's like, oh, I have to take my kids to school. I'm like there are people who wish that they they wouldn't have been in whatever trauma they were in and still had their kids to take to school.
Speaker 1:So quit bitching exactly yeah, so it's just been like hippy dippy about it, but just grateful for you know the good things in your life and yeah and I imagine showing appreciation for it.
Speaker 3:I was going to say yeah and I imagine on Duke's side, the people that are being showed that appreciation, they're all like huh. I'm sure it made them feel good.
Speaker 2:Exactly. I guarantee it made them feel good.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then also yeah, yeah, exactly. So, to end on a good note, do we have homework this week?
Speaker 3:I was just about to ask the same thing Is your class given to you?
Speaker 1:There's another one called habit stacking. So every day you brush your teeth before bed, right Morning brush.
Speaker 2:So while you're brushing your teeth, allegedly so.
Speaker 1:When you brush your teeth every day before bed or whatever, you think of the things that you are grateful for that happen throughout the day, or whatever. Just because you're brushing your teeth every day, you have that downtime, so you just think about you know instead of just like damn, look at that sexy bitch in the mirror. Yeah, oh, that toothbrush went down too far.
Speaker 3:Wait, wait, wait, wait. You kept your mirror up. I had to take mine down.
Speaker 2:It was too good looking Eyes down just brushing away my mirror's cracked. Literally it is, but yeah.
Speaker 1:So have a second While you're brushing your teeth just something that you do every day in the shower. When you're done, jerking off. You know, when you have that euphoria you're like ah, life is good.
Speaker 2:Jack is so looking forward to having the casita that he doesn't have to hide in the shower. Why do you take a 45-minute shower every day, Jack? I?
Speaker 3:put a bottle of Rayno in here. A new one every other week.
Speaker 2:And that's not even for the drain, he's just kinky like that All right. So when we're done, jerking off, so just think that yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:Just think of three things that you're grateful for that happened this week, this day in general in life, I can drink off in the shower. I suppose Exactly. I have hot water to drink off in Grateful. It still works Cold water. I'm glad I'm mansplaining, so I'm not pulling my pubes out while I'm doing it. Yeah, 2.0.
Speaker 2:Lawn trimmer 2.0. Manscaped sponsor. Us 3.0. Manscaped sponsor us 3.0. 3.0, you're right.
Speaker 3:I'm going old school. And you're sold at Target. Now I had to get new clippers. I was like I'm not even kidding, I was walking to Target. I'm like, wow, they sell this here in the store now Only seen on TV. I was going to say I'm used to YouTube guys pushing it I never realized it was going to be in the store. Walking to Target was like four days ago. I saw vibrators at Target now too.
Speaker 3:Dude, I saw that shit at Walmart that threw me for a fucking loop. I was like I'm over in the condom section, right, and I'm just like what the fuck? I'm looking up top and there's just toys. I'm like when did this happen?
Speaker 2:So yeah, I did not know that was a thing. Customer service to the dildos, please.
Speaker 3:Man right, I thought that shit was just all out of an eve.
Speaker 2:They had a big box too. Hit this button if you need help, Nah.
Speaker 3:They do a big box too. Hit this button if you need help. Nah, they do too. They do have that button there too. You're not even lying, it's. I mean it's like what the fuck? Oh, that's dope, that's a whole new topic, it's funny.
Speaker 1:Just buy a bunch of that shit and go to like some old ass lady or something at the checkout. Oh, the checkout.
Speaker 3:Tons of those, all those, and lube, lube and a fucking duck tape and a dog leash.
Speaker 1:And then she slips you her number. She's like let me just write a number for you, Hold on.
Speaker 3:Would you like your receipt, sir? Yeah, hang on.
Speaker 2:Smiley face.
Speaker 3:Right, knock the dust off that.
Speaker 2:That's what the Drano's for.
Speaker 3:It's Halloween.
Speaker 1:The cobwebs are on track.
Speaker 2:Call me the swiffer I get in all the corners, oh shit I still got my buffet and me man from vegas.
Speaker 3:All you can eat, let's go.
Speaker 2:Grandma, you got both of that the buffet and the grandma you got you. Check both those man from vegas. All you can eat. Let's go. Grandma, you got both of that the buffet and the grandma you got you. Check both those boxes from vegas. Go, she can play slots, you'll be like you'll be like, oh you in the diamond line. Oh shit, you're right.
Speaker 3:Oh my god let's pull that handle. I'm not winning anything. Just keep pulling, you will eventually I got you baby.
Speaker 2:I'm about to cash out his face is all wet.
Speaker 3:You hit the jackpot, baby looking like Winnie the Pooh going after a bucket of honey and you're standing above her with your cell phone, with the flashlight on. Oh man, and then we clean up and go play bingo, mr.
Speaker 2:Handpay wins again oh.
Speaker 1:So this is what happens when we pod for two hours. Yep, I was like that's probably a good time to stop right, Yep.
Speaker 3:And then Jask had to cut this to two episodes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no shit, we're good for two weeks. Damn boys, have yourselves a good weekend. I'm seeing David Cross tomorrow, so that should be fun. What'd you do to upset him? I'm gonna so many things, so many things.
Speaker 3:Fellas appreciate the birthday love.
Speaker 1:That was freaking awesome we'll see you on this week people.
