Blockbuster, you go get a movie and you watch it as a family.

That's how I grew up like that was our family time.

I just remember buying law-abiding citizen, and the guy he was just waiting for this.

Let's just say this guy is not exactly a law-abiding citizen.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to the Slightly Above Average podcast.

My name's John Malecki, and I have the pleasure and blessing of being joined today by my good friend Sam Pula and the illustrious Mr.

Joe Minert.

We're super excited because, well, this is the first episode that you are probably ever seeing or hearing from us.

And uh, in order to make sure that it is a timeless, heartfelt piece of engaging and loving content, we've put together a show run in no less than 30 seconds so that way we can deliver on the deepest, darkest, and most interesting topics possible found throughout the world and the internet.

We actually did none of that.

We're Joe put a ton of time and effort into this.

Um I'm just making jokes.

So with that being said, we've got an agenda, and I uh and I'm pretty excited for it.

And uh being the first episode or public episode of the podcast ever, um, Sam always loves to kind of bring some treats for the boys uh in the building and the shop.

And I think you've prepared something for us today or brought something for us today.

I did.

I always look forward to so Mr.

Puller here has a very eclectic taste, I would say, um, in regards to a lot of things in life.

Um, and some of those he tends to ask us to consume from time to time.

So it's always fun going down the rabbit hole of what Sam w thinks we want to eat.

I know what these are, and I I I already don't like it.

I probably quadruple hate it.

You guys probably won't like this, but I've I've put together uh for you both here today a schmorgish board of uh 7-Eleven breakfast items.

So we have currently in front of us one cheesy three meat breakfast burrito, one unnamed biscuit.

Oh, it's on the other side.

One bacon, egg, and cheese croissant, and one sausage biscuit.

I'll let uh we can draft these hooks.

Before we even get into it, I'm just confused.

How did you turn it over and look at it?

But it took grabbing the other bagel to see the logo is on the side to then pick it up and look at the same thing you looked at.

That was incredible.

Did you like just walk in and just like like blindly pull some off a shelf?

Like no, I I selected these.

Uh I wanted to forgot immediately what you selected.

No, no, this is these are fine breakfast items.

Yes, you did.

You didn't remember any of them.

Well, I I only purchased them 15 minutes ago.

I don't know.

Great.

So they're probably still not bad, warm-wise.

7-Eleven.

The only reason I steer clear of them is those are loaded with calories.

They're awesome.

They're like hot.

Yeah, but Sheets is a little too like prim and proper.

Everything's a little too cleaned up, nice in there.

You have a community well for creamers.

Yeah.

I mean, there's no I wouldn't consider that like on that.

Yeah, but I mean, is the 7-Eleven.

Which one sanitary?

Yeah, I mean, these are pre-wrapped by the the the 7-Eleven food factory employees.

Which one's speaking to you?

I know one of them's calling you.

Quite any dag, so thank you for continuing to forget that.

Sausage biscuit.

Yeah, he got lucky there.

Did he name?

There's no way not at all.

Joe, there you go.

Fun sausage that face was 100% o.

I forgot that.

Can we get a replay?

Yeah, because I you 100% forgot.

You got so lucky that there's a lot of people.

There's no verifiable proof that I forgot.

Because you're looking at a nice sausage biscuit there.

So let's just go through the ingredients.

Talk to me that bagel.

And what's in a sausage biscuit?

So this is a biscuit too, not a bagel.

We um consistently like to let Sam know that I believe um that he is a cockroach and that this man could outlive a uh nuclear uh apocalypse.

Um, he can eat, drink, and consume literally anything and be unaffected.

He actually negatively feels uh impacted when he eats healthy things like salads or you know, like some something that is uh calorically um high in protein and potentially good for you.

I don't have you ever had a protein shake in your life?

Oh yeah.

I I thought when I was in college, I spent like a good six months going to the gym with a buddy of mine that was like a oh yeah.

How old are you?

20 six months of your life you've gone to a gym.

All right.

I'm gonna this is gonna be tough because it's really small and post, but the the the the volume of ingredients in this, this is two things.

It's literally just a biscuit with sausage on it.

That's all you need.

That is that's what you call a forever biscuit.

This thing is gonna live in me longer.

And then my disdain a lot of bread on there for the city of Cleveland.

Alright.

Cleveland under the bus.

This bus this is this looks awful.

I think I my dog's food looks more awful.

Mine's real soggy.

Like I'm not gonna lie.

Mine's got some s substantial weight to it.

I feel like it's about like a quarter pound.

So can you tell us why you thought this was a good idea?

We bite it in anything.

I think I locked it out.

I thought one of you guys were gonna select my new burrito, but I thought you might have went for the burrito.

I thought it was a bagel at first.

I love a bagel.

I did get some elite bagels over the weekend from uh local bagel spot.

This is a pile of salt.

It is it is um uh in disguise as a as a biscuit, as a sausage and biscuit.

I'll be consuming zero more of that.

Um very buttery, very I mean it's got a lot of flavor, a lot of salt flavor.

It's gross though.

Sorry about that.

I love sausage.

I I would eat the whole thing, I would have to probably be intoxicated.

Really?

See, unironically.

It's a lot of cheese on mine.

Do you like it?

No, not really, but that's a croissant.

I'd eat it if I didn't have like if I was in a rush.

I mean, you're like over you're like 60% through.

I think I'm just hungry.

There's not a minute though where I would ever choose 7-Eleven oversheets or there's like nine, I like I would even do McDonald's over 7-Eleven breakfast.

Yep.

Didn't you tell me you like a 7-Eleven pizza though?

Hell no.

What?

Bro, I drive an electric car.

When the f do you think I'm going to 7-Eleven?

I think it was I was talking to Jason.

Jason said, You know, John actually is guilty.

Maybe Jason was pulling one over on me.

He said, Your guilty pleasure was a 7-Eleven pizza, like a fresh one.

Absolutely not.

No, I've never eaten a 7-Eleven pizza in my life.

Jason, if you're out there, I remember.

I he might be getting confused because Sheets makes a breakfast pizza.

Okay.

But back in the day when, you know, I was uh eating way more gas station food, I would I would indulge in all the time.

It was fabulous.

Flavor-wise.

Packed with calories, salt, and much that you don't want to eat, but yeah.

7-Eleven.

Thank you for actually taking into consideration mine and Joe's health and wellness and long and and and you know, long longevity.

Can we do a saebulls one of these days or something?

Like some Saeeball.

I thought we were supposed to do some fun.

This is just like you got you like forgot.

That's what this is.

What nah this is a fun one.

This is a 7-Eleven treat in here.

A delectable treat.

Man, I was hoping for like if you would have came in here and gave me nine blends of like 7-Eleven coffee, which you constantly harp on and talk about, that would have been different.

I would have let it slide.

I'm disappointed.

This is a F tier from Sam.

F tier F.

I'll let this slide and give it a C tier.

The only reason is Sam truthfully loves 7-Eleven.

I know that.

You're right, he does.

But he didn't even go with the good stuff.

And he got lucky that there was one thing with no egg on it.

I didn't get lucky.

That was planned.

Yeah, it was planned.

For those of you that are wondering, I actually have an egg allergy, which I'm very upset about because I love eggs.

And it um they they tear me up pretty good.

I've I've developed it in my old age.

And uh you know, getting old sucks.

And speaking of getting old, how about a series of uh television, I guess you call it TV show, a series of show that's getting old that you don't kind of realize did get old, but that damn thing's been around for a decade.

Let me just Stranger Thing.

Stranger Things.

Right?

What a great TV show.

Have you guys watched last season?

I did.

I binged it the first night it came out.

Shut up.

Yep.

I binge.

Really?

That's very unlike you.

Well, not with shows I like.

It was Thanksgiving.

I didn't have anything to do with it.

I was gonna say the night it came out, I was like, Joe, you prioritize like your going to the gym.

Oh, I was drinking, I was having a realize it came out on Thanksgiving.

Oh yeah.

You got a little got a little twist.

Well, I haven't seen it.

I I honestly don't even know if I remember seeing last season.

You would like Straight.

Have you ever watched Straight?

I've watched the first couple.

Yeah, I did like them.

I will say, it's like most shows, first couple seasons, the writing was considerably better.

And then like I feel like the last one, at least from what I recall, started to like veer a little bit.

They're trying to like piece people into it.

They had like the death That was the Russian camp with his name, right?

Like it would they had the death writing in the middle, I I call it personally.

I don't know if anyone's referred to it as that, where like shows just get boring in those middle seasons.

Like we saw with Game of Thrones, a few other like there was some I was thinking I don't think you you mean House of the Dragon.

Yeah, yeah, sorry.

House of the Dragon most recently.

Like you just get to that point in the middle of a big TV series where like you know it's gonna go on forever, and so they just kind of like slack in the middle.

Yeah, they're just trying to I watched it.

Uh Ashley and I have been watching this show called Landman.

I heard it's incredible.

It is incredible, but like they're doing it now where they spent like a whole 30, 40 minutes of an episode at a funeral.

And there's backstory to it, but like I just relate to that as like it wasn't needed for like the yeah, like people were just throwing anything in shows nowadays.

And I don't know.

Well, so it was it's stranger.

What are we what are we thinking here, big guy?

I feel like uh well this season I thought so far it's pretty good.

Because they're doing it on the three, they're doing it on the trip three, a triple trickle, right?

Yeah, they're yeah.

Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, they're dropping five, five, and five or something, or three, three, three.

Another round?

No, I think it's just four and four, two and two.

I think I can verify that.

On the on on that uh on my drive-in that they're doing uh drop on New Year's final part, bleeding this forever.

Maybe it's the final episode because these episodes are an hour long.

Yeah, like they're incredibly long.

Episodic television shows.

Yeah, like our YouTube videos where we've gone fantastic.

Really?

The collective opinion, but mine too.

Like the first two seasons, pretty good.

The third, I think everyone agrees, is kind of a sour one.

They brought it back with the fourth, and I think everyone was scared for this fifth one because there was such a gap in time.

Yeah.

But it's the problem with kids being in content.

Kids grew up, I mean mega grown.

Yeah, yeah, you're right.

It is.

So they're the final episode is December 31st, New Year's Eve.

Oh my gosh.

Billy Bobby Brown's a mom.

She is, got married, had a kid by the time the next seasons came around.

That's not insane.

But you but it's good.

How do they make her look like a little kid?

They don't.

I they they play on it as like as if they're they've grown up almost.

Yeah.

They're they're still in high school somehow, but like even though they're all adults in real life.

Like uh, who's the who's the the the one kid?

Um, he's like 33.

Uh uh, the one with the the big hair.

Yeah, isn't he like older?

Oh, yeah.

Mohawk and the teeth?

I don't know.

Well, no, not Will.

Um the the one that s sang the song about Chicago, I think.

Steve Harrington.

Oh, Steve Harrington?

He's supposed to be like Caleb McLaughlin, too.

He's pretty old.

I thought Gayton I thought Gayton Matrazo was older.

He's 23?

Yeah.

How old's Caleb McLaughlin?

He has to be like 25, 24.

Okay.

I feel like one of them was mega old and they like played the younger.

Joey?

Yeah.

He's old.

Joey, 33.

He's 32.

He was actually in a band I saw was like kind of pretty famous.

Yeah, this guy, Charlie Heaton, he's older, 31.

Yeah.

David Harbour carries the show, let's be honest here, guys.

Jamie Campbell.

What a guy.

He's 37.

Jeez.

He looks young.

Isn't it completely irrelevant in regards to the show?

Oh, not that his character.

Yeah.

He is that there's no he's the main anti-bone can play that character.

Literally anybody.

You could go on set and play that guy.

But but his he, yes, he's what who he is, but like But his performances when he's not in the whole Vecna thing, like in that bottom right photo there.

I mean, he he does play kind of a creepy character.

In other shows?

No, in this one, because he's like a Well, dude, that doesn't he doesn't exist as non-Vecta until maybe this season, which you just spoiled for me.

No, no, no, no.

No, last season.

Last season he explained it.

Flashbacks, yeah.

So I also I'm getting real real f and ticked off with shows and flashbacks, dude.

Yeah, uh has been a big thing.

Dude, The Witcher, like I can one, I can barely get through it.

Love the property, like loved it, and I'm like I'm like two months into trying to watch it.

All these flashbacks, the story's gone to just pissing me off.

And then they just got bought this week.

They did Warner Brothers, yeah, yeah.

Netflix bought Warner Brothers, so like there goes everything.

Yeah,$82 billion.

A lot of people said I saw something interesting on the on the internet this week.

It was after the announcement, I got a TikTok from some dude that he had a suggestion.

He's like, what if Netflix actually created the next level of like a movie theater experience?

And instead of like you going to the theater with strangers, you could rent entire theaters to like go have parties and friends and stuff, but you can just stream, like you just pick it for four hours.

If there's a movie that came out, you get first access to it, but also you could go stream four episodes of Stranger Things in a theater or something.

Like I was like, that's not a bad idea.

No, that's it.

Warner Brothers just like has been struggling for a minute, they've got some good stuff.

Yeah, massive cash and stock deal valued at approximately$82.7 billion in total.

Um kind of cheap.

For Warner Brothers.

Warner Brothers was like the 82 billion premiere.

Uh you would think that'd be like a hundred billion dollars.

That there's only like three companies in the world that do that.

Yeah, I don't know.

If you go into tech and you look at like Apple and Google, they're multi- they're multi-trillion dollar business.

Wow.

Yeah, I guess that isn't bad then.

You mean Netflix is valued at$406 billion.

That's what I'm saying.

That's like that's why this means our prices are gonna go up, doesn't it?

No, eight dollars a month.

But like Warner Brothers, I I mean Time Warner, like that the I don't even there's only two companies in I think it's a monopoly now at this point.

There's only two companies in the world that that produce on that massive of a scale.

Probably is Monopoly now, but I'm excited Harry Potter will at least be on Netflix now.

But you can't see loves Harry Potter.

There'll be some good movies back on Netflix that you can watch.

Yeah.

If they do split it, I'm curious if they just own the property and it's a whole separate.

Well, they'll start they'll start rerunning.

Yeah, some some some rights they'll bring over and stuff.

Live action, and that's how that whole model works.

Dude, I like I might be weird in this regard, but like there's probably only like two properties that I go back and watch.

Like, I do not like watching old movies.

Like what?

I'm like, I'll watch a new movie or I won't watch anything.

Like, what are the properties?

I'll literally only go watch uh Lord of the Rings or something Christopher Nolan made.

Everything else, like I'm I don't care to go see a movie I've already seen again.

I'm not someone like my brother, Jeffrey, he will watch Jurassic Park on repeat every day of his life till he dies.

I feel like I just can't do it.

Like I'm I need new.

Oh man.

See, I got some movies like that.

Honestly, even no, a lot of movies.

I feel you'll go like five, six years without watching a movie.

It's like I'd like to see that again.

You get that same initial.

That's why I love uh I love watching a new movie fresh with someone that hasn't seen it.

Like I've seen a lot of movies, but sometimes I'll watch one with Kristen she hasn't seen, and I feel like I could get myself in the head face, like it's the first time I'm watching.

I'm just saying, like, if you run Harry Potter past me on the Netflix dashboard and there's a new movie I haven't seen, I'm taking the new one 100% of the time.

You you you said you've never seen Harry Potter the full way through.

No, I've seen them all.

Oh, you have?

Oh okay.

I just don't like you.

Your generation is just like obsessed with it.

It was so big when I was a kid.

Yeah, the books, the because the bits I was a little bit older.

Everybody fiend for the books, and the movies came after the books, and the movies did a pretty solid job.

It wasn't exact, but like it was a pretty good job, I think.

Good.

I'm just like just like not dying to like Yeah.

Interstellar's the only movie I'll I'll watch once a year.

I'll I'll watch that movie.

Like so good.

Such a great movie.

Inceptions up there for me.

Yes.

The Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises.

I would say for me, those ones And All Lord of the Rings.

Those ones are harder for me to watch multiple times because I feel like it's one of those movies you get so locked in on that it's like it's that's all I want to watch, though.

I don't want to waste my time watching like like like fluffy stuff that I don't want to get bought into.

Yeah, no, I I get that.

It's just I I think but watching one of those the first time through, like when I saw Oppenheimer the first time through, it was like, well, I'm so locked in, engaged.

I feel like his movies too, you need to be in well, you have a theater room, that probably helps, but I feel like it doesn't do it as much justice when you're just at home, like okay, I'm a 50-inch.

No, you're not wrong.

But then on the flip side of it, though, it's like, would so you're watching Harry Potter in the background, like you're cool with that.

I'm fine, yeah.

If you'll just turn it on and go like cook dinner and oh yeah, okay, yeah.

I'm not seeing I'm just not that kind of person.

I'm turning on like ambient noise.

Oh, really?

It's like I no, I'm it's actually, you know what it is?

It's probably a bad habit of making content as long as I made content.

Because I used to be like have a thing on in the background kind of a guy more often.

And then because you can't have noise in the background while you're filming, and I've been filming myself dude for 10 years, I just broke that habit completely.

And now I just like I like drive in silence.

Oh wow.

Like I everything I do is just I'm silent, just like because you can't have background noise when you're filming.

It's it's actually probably terrible for me now to have that deal with my own thoughts.

I mean it's probably honestly, it's probably better for you.

It's just I just uh it wouldn't be as enjoyable for me, like operating in silence like that so often.

There's some times I enjoy it, but I think most of the time I want something, whether it's like music, a show or something.

Maybe I gotta try to like reinstall.

What would be a what's like a background movie for you that you would be fine with it in the background?

Because I have to be locked in or I'm like displayed.

I can't I think my problem I'm kind of with you, I can't be like not for the noise, but rather the if I'm gonna be having a movie on, I need to be able to watch it to understand what's happening.

Yeah.

Even if I've seen it.

Like I want to be able to just mentally process what's happening.

I can't just I'll put YouTube on maybe in the background, like a a video and just play it if I'm trying to listen to something.

But even at that, I tried watching the Linus Tech Tips interview in um over the weekend um on what's his name?

John, I can't pronounce his last year or whatever.

Yeah.

I couldn't, I had tried playing it in the background while I was doing other work, I couldn't do it.

I had to like sit down and just actually watch the interview.

I couldn't just listen to it.

Yeah, no, I'm with you.

I'm I'm the same.

Like, I gotta be locked.

I don't know.

What are you throwing on in the background?

I like a good comedy.

I feel like a comedy is perfect because you don't have to be locked into the actual story.

Like you could have the scenes that pop up here and here and again, like you throw you throw like Norbit on or something, you pop in every half hour, see what Norbit's up.

I disagree with that more than watching a movie.

I think comedy, you have to be locked into like some of the jokes.

You locked into Norbit?

No.

Now the plots all messed up here.

What's point of comedy to you then?

Okay, so if you're not watching it, how are you gonna consistently emotional out of it?

Every like eight minutes or so there's a scene, so like you miss the first one, catch the next one.

Okay, but what happens if you catch it on the middle end of it and you don't know you don't know the context of the first half?

Movies you can kind of guess.

Like you're kind of like, okay, like the thing in the background I've uh I've probably seen five or six times.

There's nothing there's nothing surprising me in that movie.

So are you falling asleep with like the TV on?

A hundred percent.

What I actually fall asleep with with, I'll always put like a like an audio thing.

What I actually love are like the they make videos are like three hours long where it's like we're Dive into the history of the history of the Julio Claudian dynasty in Rome.

It's like, ooh, this is gonna be this is gonna be interesting.

Like I want to hear like a a story or something when I get a story.

You'd read two like a little kid.

Yeah.

You were that kid that woke up to the history channel as a kid.

You just would wake up and it's like talking about big boars and like lions and you might remember this.

I don't know, you're probably too old.

You know what I always remember waking up to as a kid?

No.

The George Lopez.

Yes, the George Lopez.

You at 2 a.m.

that's the whole family's jumping on the trampoline, they're playing ride.

Dude, it was always the intro that woke you up.

Thick at night.

Oh my goodness.

That's wild.

You've never watched George Lopez?

No, no, I have.

I have.

But you didn't experience that as we did?

Not that way, no.

Oh, it would wake you up at two in the morning because if you left.

In my generation, we had different things on the TV at two in the morning.

A lot of fuzzy TV screens and they shut down the TV.

He had cable.

You guys were already on internet.

But you know what you guys need to watch that isn't on at two in the morning.

You can watch it any other time.

But you have to be locked in to watch it.

What's that?

This new documentary on Diddy.

Get out of here.

No, no, John.

It is incredible.

I haven't fucking picking another patch.

Sean Combs allegedly did a lot of things.

I've heard of it.

Allegedly, it is pretty crazy.

I mean, but like the detail it it went into of his whole life and just how he built his career is next world.

I mean, it is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen breaking down someone's life that didn't even know the documentary was breaking down their life.

He's in jail and he has no idea half the stuff was released that was released.

How they acquired some of the footage is still up in question.

Like, it's absolutely like just mind-blowing.

I mean why are you?

I wouldn't hate I see the here like in my head, I'm like, I can't give that man another like uh second of my brain space or dollar out of my pocket, like because he's just such a scumbag.

Okay, but here's the best part it does nothing about building him, building him up, it's all about tearing him down for the things he allegedly did.

Not diddy exposed.

You gotta watch it, not Diddy.

Diddy ain't Warner Brothers.

It's hard to say.

It's hard to say.

It's not hard to start.

I will check it out though, because I'm I'm not someone to sit here and say no, I will never try.

So I if you say, if you say that, I'll I'll check.

But you're like in you've been into it since the day everything came out.

Now listen, I've realized fully that I I feel like I hate's a strong word, and I don't hate many people, but I realized the hate that 50 Cent has for Diddy makes me not hate people to the fullest that I could be doing.

Yeah.

Like I love 50 Cent.

Oh, I love 50 Cent.

And the way I watched him, he released a f a four-part documentary series about how basically it's his hate for this dude ruining his life.

So 50 made it?

50 was an he was the executive producer of watching it.

Yeah.

What started their initial beef?

It was uh the whole Tupac Biggie back at that time.

But I'm fairly positive 50 Cent came onto the scene and like slighted him in some way.

I don't know the whole lore of how they I did a brief Google search on it over the weekend of watching Cliff.

50 and M always beat their own path.

So did Dre.

They like just beat their own path.

And I think that that pissed off Diddy because Diddy wanted to hold the the keys of the kingdom when it came to hip rap and hip hop, especially in like the 2000s.

And I and I don't think that 50 ever was like, yo, I'm I'm you're gonna come near me, you know, kind of apparently I love that just 50 is so authentically himself.

Yeah, he's turned into like this incredible, just like entrepreneur, right?

Yeah, just love that.

I forgot in the documentary, I didn't forget, but a lot of it is the alleged allegations of um Diddy being involved inside Tupac and Biggie's murders.

So like it breaks that down, it's actually insane, and it made me believe that Diddy allegedly did it, but that's so sad.

Just gonna keep hammering this up to the city.

Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly.

All right, speaking of allegedly, we'll never now that we've gone full circle, because that's on Netflix, right?

Yes, it is.

So Netflix is I feel like Netflix used to be a powerhouse in regards to like access to good stuff.

Like they used to think like they used to be like you could only get good shows on Netflix.

Now I feel like they just have everything and it's kind of will this accu uh this accusation.

Will this um the the purchase of Warner Brothers and HBO and like those proper DC, does it bring them back?

I I think Netflix is going downhill.

I think all the streaming platforms are as far as like us being able to actually benefit from using the subscription.

I think Netflix's peak was 100% when you had to go on the website, put in an order, and they would send you physical discs of movies.

I grew up when I was a child.

That was peak Netflix.

You got three movies a month.

You'd go to a store and get it.

John, you would order three movies a month, the whole family had input.

We'd all be pissed if my mom got some movie no one else wanted to watch.

Held for too long.

Yeah, and you have to, you couldn't get the next three peak.

What's wild?

They used to, as I remember this, this was God, I don't know how long ago it was, but they still had the streaming back then, but it was horrible to use because the internet wasn't there for like be like, I'm gonna watch a movie, it would take like 30 minutes to get it to buffer long enough where it's like I could watch the first 15 of this and then hopefully it'll start loading as I watch.

Some of these news.

Sorry, go ahead.

Well, I was just gonna say, do you think that like besides like that?

Do you think the consolidation of properties is gonna work to their benefit, though?

Because it's like to their benefit when Disney bought Marvel and Star Wars, it kind of resurged Disney.

Yeah, I would say there's a lot of- ruining it, but there's a lot of negativity around like that with a lot of these properties.

Netflix could they have the power and capacity to like just say all, we're gonna do it our way, and we're gonna drive this thing home.

But I I pay ten dollars for uh I get ESPN plus Hulu and Disney a month.

That's awesome.

The only thing is I never touch Disney Plus, I only use it for Hulu.

It's because you you don't I have kids.

Also, like I love Marvel and I love it.

Yeah, like I've watched shows, but like Marvel went heavy towards like the show format, and it's just like so you watched The Mandalorian, you watched Andorra?

I did.

I used it, I used to use it way more.

Like I guess I just haven't done anything in the past couple.

No, I know.

I have, it just hasn't been any good.

See, I just hope that Netflix was good, actually.

Go back, you're not a Star Wars guy, but like go back and give Andor a shot.

It's really well written and right, and like the acting's actually good.

Solid.

Not like good, above solid.

Better than uh the Kylo Wren era.

Blows it away.

Blows it away.

See, I just hope that like Warner Brothers still gets to maintain at least like some level of autonomy because I just don't want them to ruin some of the properties.

Like, I feel like for the first time in a long time, like the DC universe in terms of like live-action film, it's like, all right, I think we're back on a good track here, guys.

Like, we can build something off this, and I'm so nervous that Netflix is like I saw this this.

You're only saying that because of Superman.

Yeah, that's the first good DC movie out in a while.

Well, no, no, no.

The the Batman Batman, yep, yep.

Batman was something.

Yeah, but but yeah, but that's like its own, it's like the Joker.

It was like its own movie.

They're like, we're not building a universe off this.

It was a great movie.

They're coming out with the second one.

Yeah, they came out with a second Joker, which was awful.

Yep.

Second Joker.

I think they were trolling the studio with that movie, but uh Yeah.

I think so.

I would blow$80 million.

I literally think they did.

I think they were like, they were like You had to be on drugs to enjoy that movie.

I literally And I mean weird drugs.

I think the director literally was like, let's make a movie, let's let's act as if the Joker received this amount of money to make a movie.

And you have to think that had to have gone through so many people where they're like, all right, green light, green light, green light, and they couldn't have been looking at it, they couldn't have been closely looking at it.

Do you do you think it had anything to do with um uh who's the main actor?

Joaquin Phoenix.

Yeah, Joaquin Phoenix, because he's always trying to push the limit on I I don't think it was solely him.

I think I think you get him Lady Gaga on that director in a room.

I think it was like, let's do it.

Lady Gaga.

Imagine a world where like, do you remember when Joaquin Phoenix like went off the deep end, tried to be a rapper, and made this like whole story up?

It was all fake.

That yeah, it was all for that movie.

He was method acting.

Yeah, he was on the Letterman show or something.

He did all this, yeah, it was all for this movie.

Yeah, he was he went like crazy deep into like his life was in shambles and blah blah.

It was wild.

I feel like that could have been like the start of like he was basically like I want to try to do a musical and do something psychedelic.

We're not gonna do it.

I'm not gonna do it unless you you do it this way, kind of thing.

Because he has that ability.

He's like one of ten actors left in the world that are like still like I'm so hard at method acting that if you want me to let me dictate.

Could you imagine being like such a invested in your career method like as a method actor is you are like super rich and you're like I'm broke, and you just like don't you just abandon everything.

That's so insane to me.

Like Daniel, dude, have you heard stories of Daniel Day Lewis?

Yeah, yeah.

Like like um uh the the Gangs of New York, um the stories of what he did in order to play the butcher in that movie like lived off of raw meat and like butchered his own pigs and like yeah, it was one like this crazy dude.

Yes, you gotta be on a different level to be a method actor at that time.

Have you guys ever seen uh well if you first have you ever seen the movie Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey?

Yeah have you ever seen Netflix did a documentary about him method acting for that?

That was like he almost lost it.

Like, oh yeah.

Jim Carrey was almost like never again.

Yeah, he was like a terror on set.

Everyone's like, man, what a great actor.

I'm like, Jim Carrey was in a bit of an awful set here.

Yeah.

So was um Andy, whatever his name was, the the guy who was trying to portray Andy Kaufman.

Yeah, supposedly he was like oh insane.

Yeah, he was nuts.

He was so he's hilarious, but yeah.

I think that's so cool.

Like, I I that's what I hope.

Like, and you know another thing that sucks about watching like a conglomerate of like Netflix and HBO and Warner Brothers, and like there's no original story that's like at least our original story is not as abundant as it used to be in media.

And when you buy a property like this, like the assumption's gonna be they're gonna spin up live action, they're gonna spin up like new series or spin-offs or whatever, kind of like based on properties that like HBO and whoever else just didn't have the time, the people, the capacity, the funding, whatever it might be to do on their own.

Um, and so it's gonna be like an unfortunate tide potentially.

At least I I hope not, but you can see it coming because it makes sense to the business model.

Where they're just gonna roll out some average out for a minute.

Well, if it's anything like these like Netflix produced like Christmas movies or just garbage.

The worst the crux of the world for film.

They're they're so terrible.

Some of these shows they produce themselves.

Yep.

And and I uh like you're uh we we forgot who's in the room.

What this man loves just bottom barrel garbage trash television.

Oh like love is blind?

No, see, not that sort of thing.

See, if I'm gonna watch trash TV, there has to be drama.

See, I Joe doesn't want me to bring it up.

I literally said let's bring it up.

600 pound life?

No, well, I wish it was all that.

No, see Chris, go ahead.

So we were sitting there the other day and we're like, we're like out of trash TV shows.

What should we watch?

And we're like scrolling through uh Hulu, and I was like, should we try the Mormon Wives?

She's like, Let's watch the Mormon Wives.

I'll tell you what about the Mormon Wives.

Most trash TV shows, I'd consider myself somewhat of a connoisseur, these things.

There's usually a pattern they follow where it's like, okay, we'll introduce you to everyone.

There's a little bit of drama, a little bit of this.

Yeah, this it's like from the first second, it's like drama, drama, drama, drama, like non-stop, crazy.

And I will say I've made it through the first season, half the second season.

And and they're the Mormon housewives.

I have not heard too much discussion of church in any of these.

There's not, they're like, our faith is very important.

Anyway, here's my I just got they got their brand deal.

She's like, I don't know if I should take this brand deal.

They're gonna give me$30,000 to hold up this vibrator in an Instagram post.

And I was like, could you imagine a world where it's just like 30 grand?

Here I am, 30 grand, please.

Oh man, it's it's a wild, yeah.

Oh man, I get I get I see the shorts and I immediately like skip and I tell my tell my algorithm like do not want to see more, like not interested.

Because like I you can it's gotta be fabricated.

Like there obviously there's some truth in it.

Oh yeah, like elevation.

But but but the point being of where I'm going is like Netflix has tossed a ton of that garbage out there, and that's really where I was like, yeah, this stuff sucks.

There's also a couple shows that people love.

You guys really like that one with the like mystery on the island with the murder, and what's that show?

It was Big Last Summer, White Lotus.

I thought you liked the White Lotus.

I didn't watch White Lotus.

No, I thought White Lotus was absolutely terrible.

I wasn't a huge fan of it, especially once they got rid of uh all my friends argue with me about it.

Once just because there's like titties in it.

Once they got rid of Stifler's mom, what's her name?

Yeah.

Once they got rid of her, she carried that show.

She was hilarious.

But they like love it, and I was like, dude, this show is like not good.

No.

Also, I'm gonna say it again because uh because this is episode one, we talk a lot, you know, about this is how these conversations work, and I will say again that wicked sucks.

All right, next.

Whoa!

Oh the first one was great.

Second one, we were back to that way later.

It was disappointing, complete and under disappointment.

Come on, couldn't get through it.

So I hope that Netflix doesn't put out more garbage like that.

Um, especially with the holidays this time.

Yeah, the holidays.

Holidays now, here's the thing I will say Netflix Netflix.

I you guys are talking about like getting the physical discs, and like that was the peak.

I gotta argue against it because I love having access to things that like you're just kind of like curved in the back of your head, and then when you're ready for it and it pops up because of an algorithm, like I'm not gonna lie, I'm the guy now at this age that banks on an algorithm of an app to tell me what to do.

Here's the thing, John.

Like, tell me what to watch.

Give me home alone too.

Boom.

Right now, this time of year, holidays, home alone, elite.

See, I don't I don't want the algorithm telling me.

I like that.

You want to hold that in your memory and be like, these are the things that I must watch and do every year.

People were talking about movies you want to see, so you're going home asking if we can order it, you're getting told no, so you find another movie.

Like it was You just want to argue with your family.

No, but like it was like you spent time with your family that way.

No, no, we didn't know.

Fucking the hell no.

Well, I'm just saying, like, I I was forced to watch a movie with my family because it was too old at that point.

We we were going to Blockbuster, we were going to the state.

But like, so you did that at Blockbuster.

You go get a movie and then you watch it as a family.

That's what I mean.

Fight with Jeffrey.

That's how I grew up.

Like, that was our family time, getting a movie from Netflix.

There was a there's a pro and con to getting physical media.

I remember there was a local place uh where I grew up.

It wasn't a blockbuster.

Giant Eagle?

No, it was called QuiFlix.

And it was like, and like the place was great, but there was a guy that worked there that just knew way too much about movies, and it was always like every time you bring a movie up, it's like, here we go.

He'd always give like his unsolicited opinion.

I'll never go to buy wood or going to buy tools now.

Yeah, but it's just I I guess I don't know.

I'll never forget.

I just remember buying law-abiding citiz or getting law-abiding citizen.

Great movie.

Yeah, yeah, it is, but then renting it.

I remember putting it down on the counter, and the guy he was just waiting for this all day.

He's like, Cardi.

Let's just uh let's just say this guy is not exactly a law-abiding citizen.

Like, just please, sir, ring me out.

I don't want to further this anymore.

I didn't ask for this.

I mean your salesman uh judgment of my movie select.

You're not wrong though, because so we used to we used to do video games in the same way as kids.

So, like I will say that was a peak experience as a kid.

More the video games for me, less the movies, but the movie it was for our generation, like the millennials, that was that was like a peak life experience.

Your parents would get you a video game, they'd get you a movie, you'd get a pizza and a two-liter pop, whatever, have a friend over, neighbor play video games till your eyeballs hurt, or you got you were getting screamed at to go to sleep, right?

Your parents could go be in another room watching a movie, and then uh you'd but you'd literally smoke that disc as long as you possibly could could have it for, um, and then get pissed off when you had to take it back.

And I'm talking all the way back to like N64 cartridges.

Those those were glorious times.

Yeah.

Glorious times.

It's sad to know that people will never experience that again.

You told me they don't even have disc slots anymore.

They do.

You just have to they're going away.

Everything's such a like on a cloud nowadays, but like you can get a PlayStation or Xbox with a disc slot, it just happens to cost more.

It's wild to think that that is like historical now and traditional.

It's like for me, right?

It's like I'm like putting a cartridge into a video game console is now like an element of like the history of video game console.

Now you just click a few buttons and you're yeah, you just sit there and watch it download.

Now the big thing is storage because it's all cloud-based.

It's like, oh no, my console only has 500 gigabytes, mom.

I need the one with two terabytes.

See, I'm surprised they don't push the cloud-based stuff.

Like, you don't need a hard drive, you could store it on our servers, pay us forever.

Well, they want you to download it under so like the big thing, these games, I have a theory that these games are getting so large because like the graphics are improving, but they only want you playing their game.

Like they don't want you playing, I mean, if they're not owned by the same company, they want you playing their game, so like they're a hundred gigabytes.

So you have limited options.

Now, if they were smaller file sizes, I'm sure it would be less quality.

There's I'm sure some back end, but like there has to be a reasoning for why some of these are so large, or why can't I only download the campaign for some games and not like I have to download the multiplayer and everything.

That's that's what I'm saying.

Like, so I didn't Call of Duty started doing that.

I didn't play a video game for like eight years, right?

Jeffrey moves home and he likes to play Call of Duty.

So we were playing Call of Duty together, and when they make you download the campaign, seven years of Call of Duty multiplayer, yeah, I campaigns from the early 2000s, and you're like, that just took up 250 gigs.

Yeah.

Like, why did I need and then you don't use any of it except for multiplayer for one game?

I was like, this is this pissed.

I am upset.

I am physically and emotionally upset with this.

So you said they changed it?

So Call of Duty now, you can download just the campaign or just multiplayer, but like the only problem is now they're like kind of all intertwined.

Yeah, they have like Warzone camos and gun skins and like like the characters you can use, they're all intertwined.

Fortnite ruined video games.

That's that's my hot take.

Fortnite ruined so much for consumer.

I've I've only played it once and I hated it, but I got buddies that like they play with their kids and they love it.

They love that it's just like pretty much like a free-for-all, right?

It's awesome, yeah.

I used to play it when I was younger.

Yeah, I'm not into that.

It's cool, but they just definitely ruined the auto ruined it.

I feel like Call of Duty started it.

They were the first one I remember where it's like you gotta buy their DLC.

And then the people at Fortnite, it's it was I just learned that it's free, and I was like, this is terrifying.

They're like, oh no, you come in here for free.

We'll get we'll get the money from you.

You don't have to buy the game.

We're gonna sell you so much in here.

Yeah.

You guys use as kids?

Yeah, that's free, but then so the problem with Fortnite, Fortnite changed the game because you had companies like like Call of Duty where they would like, okay, let's get$20 out of them and get like a DLC so you got content out of it.

You could go play DLC downloadable content.

So like I don't know what that actually stands for DLC.

It just sounds like outloadable content.

But regardless, I think for example, you played zombies.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They would they would come out with new zombie maps and it would be twenty dollars, and you get a new zombie map, a new multiplayer map, of additional content.

Fortnite changed it in the sense of they're not giving you anything new.

The only thing they're giving you were like non um I forget what you could say.

You're getting skins and gun skins and nothing to change the gameplay or the map.

Yes.

And it just completely so every little kid now, Mom, can I get V-Bucks?

Because that's their online currency.

A lot of games start.

What?

Is that Gary V?

No, Fortnite owns V-Bucks.

It's like their online currency.

You take real dollars, get V-Bucks.

Bitcoin?

No, it's just V-Bucks.

Give me some Ethereum, please.

I'd like to plug Fortnite.

It's only usable in the Fortnite shop.

On the Silk Road?

No, we're getting off topic here.

Yeah, anyways.

That is that's a good point.

That that's some wisdom right there from a young man.

We could dive into that in another deep Fortnite conspiracy.

So like I grew up, I yeah.

All right.

So for for listeners, I grew up, I was a I was a jock, but then in the winter, I was a video game kid.

Like you couldn't go outside.

We snowboarded and stuff, but then I got to a point where it was like, I'm gonna break bones, kind of want to play sports, can't do that.

So I played video games and then also played sports.

But video game culture was so different back then.

Like I'm like a very avid, like Halo Lamb party guy.

Okay.

Right?

So for those of you listening, like what did video games mean to you kind of growing up?

Like, what what what what are your like top top games or like what do you think?

Like, literally leave a comment on on anything.

We'd love to hear it.

Um, because what we'll end up doing down the line here, Joe is we could definitely do some rankings.

I'd love to talk like classic video game rankings, console.

We'll do some kind of stuff like that.

Um, and speaking of that, you've got some rankings prepped for us that are a little bit more tempo, a little bit more based on the season of which we're sitting right now.

Based around the holidays, we're in the time of year.

I like it.

We get Thanksgiving, we get Christmas, we get New Year's, we get pummeled, we get family, we get it all, choice or not.

I mean, it it's there.

Um, and so I thought we could go through some fun stuff, some top holiday foods, best holiday drinks, some traditions, and some movies for Christmas to talk about.

Hell yeah.

I'm actually very, very interested.

So this will be what the third third holiday season us three have got to spend together.

Yeah, right?

Where's the time go?

Where does the time go?

Time flies when you're a piece of those married all of a sudden.

I've reproduced uh three children in that time.

Uh that is crazy.

It is crazy.

When we met you, you had one.

No, two.

Two.

You just had you just had Gracie.

Yeah.

Well, it could happen.

Okay, well, let's start with this.

Including every holiday, what are your guys' top three foods?

We have three separate holidays.

Give me your top three foods.

Can just be from overall.

Overall?

All right, you first.

Thanksgiving.

Oh, Thanksgiving?

Start with Thanksgiving.

We'll go Thanksgiving first.

Definitely turkey.

Um boring things.

We just do one food from each?

Yeah, one food from each.

Okay, so you're taking turkey.

Turkey's your top.

Oh, I love because that's probably uh like the only time of year I have like an actual fresh turkey.

Like, I don't even know if I'm making a turkey any other time of the year.

I'm not gonna warn you against that, but I'm also like, there's there's other things.

You need to condition the body.

You gotta train for Thanksgiving.

I've got a good one for Christmas.

Not yeah, thank Thanksgiving.

All right, what's your Thanksgiving, John?

Pumpkin pie all day.

Pumpkin pie is the most unique pie that's the pinnacle of pies.

I will die on that.

With whipped cream, though, right?

With or without.

A great pumpkin pie doesn't need it.

Whipped cream will elevate it.

Wow.

I don't know.

My mom made homemade whipped cream this year.

She usually doesn't do that.

Uh, I love it.

You know, Sarah likes the can of Ready Whip.

Yeah.

But pumpkin pie.

Like I when I was playing for the Steelers, my mom would uh my mom makes a makes a phenomenal pumpkin pie.

It's like a dense pie, though.

Right?

So it's like you got a lot of a lot of flavor punched in there.

Heavy.

She's done it all from you.

Feel full after eating it?

No, that's the thing.

Wow, you feel great.

You feel like enriched, you feel like I can have a slice of cornucopia of joy and and and nourishment after you eat it.

But um, when I was playing for the Steelers, we're all fat in the offensive line room, right?

So uh our offensive line coach was one of them, and he would have us bring uh just like something in because one people one thing people don't realize about uh like the NFL and playing sports at that level, like you don't really get a lot of holidays, you go to a lot of holiday events and stuff, but you're not spending a ton of time with your family, you're still working 15-hour days, and so to bring a little bit of joy into the locker room, you know, you would kind of like throw some stuff like that in there, like, oh, we're gonna have you know, for film today, we're getting you know Thanksgiving dinner brought in because some of the holidays are blah blah blah, whatever.

So we did um Thanksgiving dinner, and my mom wanted to make the pie.

So I brought the pies, um, whatever it was, we brought them in and they got cooked, like absolutely.

So we did an we did a a pie, um, a pie, like a blind pie eating test through the whole room.

And Angie's pie took the crown.

Um, it was it's an elite pie, I'm telling you.

So hers is good.

My mother-in-law also makes a good one.

Hers is a little bit lighter, it's a little bit less in the dense texture-wise, but fool.

Tell me if I'm wrong.

He just mentioned it's three years we've been here almost spending home.

Never had it.

Never had that pie for some reason.

That's don't do that one.

There we go.

Don't do that.

Actually, I eat all that when I throw this up in the house.

You're just gatekeeping the pie.

That's what you're doing.

You know what?

Hey, often ask Joe, you're constantly watching your figure because you're trying to get more jacked, which is insane because you're jacked.

But I'll bring you some pie.

I won't ever disrespect somebody's mother's cooking.

Yeah, you're right.

I will always eat if someone's mom cooks and offers me food, I will eat it.

You're a man of integrity and respect, especially when it comes to family.

I appreciate that.

Yeah, pumpkin pie, bar none, the pinnacle of Thanksgiving.

I think Thanksgiving elite, a good mac and cheese.

I think it's the one time of year I I I love mashed potatoes, but I think like if you have a good mac and cheese at Thanksgiving, it's like game changing.

Yeah, I'm uh when I started smoking like meat cooking in a smoker, I should say that.

Um I like started smoking mac and cheese, and that was like an absolute I for the decade plus now that I've been like cooking on a smoker, that's like the number one requested thing I make.

Yeah.

Is like, can you bring smoke mac and cheese?

You bring smoke smoke a good mac and cheese.

It's probably it's in my top three for sure.

So moving on to Christmas.

What do you guys eat at Christmas?

Is that like a big meal for everybody?

Uh yeah.

I mean, I usually do like a ham or something, but I would say my top Christmas food, my grandma used to make them ladylocks.

You're a lady?

Oh, my grandma loved to make ladylocks.

My mom called me the other day.

She has like a deep freezer at her house and she was like, I'm like getting rid of this deep freezer.

She's like, You won't believe what I found at the bottom of this deep freezer.

I'm like, what?

She's like, Some of grandma's Ladylocks.

My grandma's been Do you dare?

Well, no, what I said was like, maybe we send this to a lab or something, see if they could break down what was in there.

Like, these things have to be like like 15 years old.

I'm like, if we could send them out to get uh like the recipe's lost, so we might be able to salvage it here.

Man, I was thinking like four or five years, but you're like, no.

No, I was in high school.

I was like, how long?

Like, she this is deep freezer, she's never used it.

It's just it's not that's our next eating challenge on Unscrewed.

15-year-old ladylocks.

Oh, you just heat them up, it'd be fine.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Is that a ladylock?

Yeah, that'll be frozen.

There's dairy in that.

I don't know.

You gotta warm it up.

I'm not eating that cold.

You know, freezing it also kills bacteria.

It's okay, we'll be fine.

Just conditioning the body, that's all it is, right, Poola?

Come on.

So, Johnmy, Christmas wise.

So I'm all right, this is a complex one for me.

Christmas, um, I come from a my my uh my mom's parents are straight off the boat, you guys know that.

So uh we used to try to do the seven fishes thing, but children aren't really into eating all that fish and seafood and stuff.

So uh we don't do all of that, but my my grandmother, um Irma, you know, bless her soul, bless her four foot ten, foot, four foot, ten inch tall soul.

Um very tiny like run of the mill, but quintessential Italian woman um makes an incredible or made an incredible like uh Christmas Eve fillet.

So Christmas Eve is the bigger day for us because um Christmas Day was a lot of running around.

And she also makes a covodale is what it is, but it's like a gnocchi, but it's a little mud it was a little bit there's some difference in that for some reason, or they called it different or whatever.

But like um those two things for me are just like interchangeable.

Now I've learned how to make the the fillet.

So like now I'm like I really miss her her covodale or her gnocchi.

Yeah, like because her sauce, she's just like cooking with love, right?

You like just can't get anywhere near tasting like it does.

There's like I don't know what it is, and now she's she's got pretty bad dementia.

So she just stands there and asks the same question over and over.

So like you can't get it out of her, but she's there, she'll taste it, be like, you know, and then she'll two minutes later say to add the same thing.

I'm like, no, no, no, no, you just we just put that in there, no, no, like we don't even, but yeah, so I'm uh I'm giving it another shot this year.

I gave it a shot last year.

They liked it, but it's nowhere close to hers, her like um her cabodel or gnocchi.

Like that's uh my get like my it just give me that lump of of voluminous carbohydrate in my stomach on Christmas Eve.

One of those uh quintessential foods.

You can make a good gnocchi.

Oh yeah.

Game changer.

I can just like taste the pillows in my mouth now.

Easy now.

And that's what that's what it's one of those things.

Like I'm 37 years old.

Yeah, like in my entire life, she was making them, and then she just got to a point where it was like too much.

You gotta go get one of those Elon chips or something, John.

You gotta get that information out of it.

Well, here's the other crazy thing, right?

So she's straight off the boat from Italy, right?

You ask her for a recipe, half that is in Italian, but it's in like scribbled Italian dialect, and then you got English on the other half.

So she'll rip some ingredient out in Italian and it won't make any damn sense, and my mom will interpret it and give it to me, and then I'll get the English part after that.

And you're like, none of this is like none of this makes this does math, doesn't math.

You gotta take it to Italy.

Someone can it's not you got so there's so many dialects in like the way Italians speak.

You get a better chance over here, over there than in the States.

No, that's the thing.

You get a better chance in Pittsburgh because they're all like bocking it up.

I mean, you gotta walk around Bloomfield and you're like asking her you a bruteese, what does this say?

You know, you Napoli oh, what does this mean?

Like, that's how that works.

No, no, no, no, take it down to La Prima, always this old guy at the Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But my mom and I are like on a mission to figure it out because they've got like her pizzells, there's a couple other cookies and stuff that are in there that are traditional that she they've they've pulled them out of her, but can't get her pasta sauce and can't get her covered though.

What do you got, big dog?

My mom used to do the seven fishes.

Then a couple years ago, this is very specific to my family, but she started making prime rib on Christmas.

Every Christmas, bold.

Very, but it has like changed my life.

I look forward to Christmas so much every year now.

Because of the prime rib.

Prime rib.

And she's so good at cooking prime rib.

It is like uh you know, prime rib is like not a hard meat to cook.

No, it's not, but like we just never cooked it, I never experienced it.

My mom's never cooked a prime rib.

Oh, it's phenomenal.

That's incredible.

It's much more of like a New Year's meat though.

Almost, but with New Year's, we do my uh my grandma was very German.

Ham and peas.

We used uh oh sauerkraut, and we it was just bread with a quarter in it for good luck.

Give me what going into New Year's, what do you got for New Year's?

Oh, New Year's?

I don't know if I have a New Year's a New Year's food tradition.

So I guess don't do it.

Oh, you know, oh no, you know, I guess New Year's uh usually some sort of seafood.

It's different every year, though.

Sometimes like do some lobster tails, sometimes you just could do like uh do some shrimp, you could do Sam's still coming out of like getting faced on New Year's.

Yeah, I feel like so he hasn't quite hit the uh yeah.

New Year's, I feel like I don't have any real like tradition, usually just some sort of seafood.

Yeah, blacking out on champagne.

Yeah on New Year's falling asleep on the floor.

I could drink some champagne, let me tell you.

I I'm I uh I personally never did anything but get based on New Year's Or New Year's Day of just mend the hangover.

And then I met my wife, and her family is like a little bit more traditional in like the Polish side.

Um and so they do like uh Potsky or something is what it's called, or they do this these like cheesy breads.

They also do like the ham and and uh they do fresh ham and and and some other thing, peas or something, right?

And they pretzel and like my mother-in-law does a phenomenal job, but I'm not into any of that.

Yeah, I could do out I could do without all of it.

Yeah, sauerkraut, kibbasi.

I mean, we would do my father-in-law loves it.

I'm not into it.

Once a year is too much, even I'm into the prime rib though.

She kill she makes a killer prime rib on New Year's Eve, which we've spent a few New Year's Eve with them.

And yeah, that's what I'm about.

Big old, big old hunk of meat.

New Year's is like if my mom makes uh this once again.

I go back to my mom makes I don't make anything.

I've just got married.

I just got learning to cook.

Yeah, not learning to cook, just I've never needed to cook my whole life.

Yeah, I neither lived in college, and what am I preparing a Thanksgiving meal in college?

I did.

Yes.

Dorms home.

Dorms give.

I did too.

I'd go home and then I'd also cook.

I don't know.

It was why it was weird.

Like to cook.

French toast, though.

Breakfast?

Yeah.

You guys do like a big breakfast on Christmas?

Yeah, yeah.

Christmas morning, this French toast.

She does it on New Year's specifically, too, but it's like it has apple slices, cinnamon.

It's used Hawaiian bread thick.

Thick.

It's juicy.

It is the I tried bringing it in my first time here for Black Friday and no one touched it.

So I just took it home and you hit it by accident.

No, I put it up right on the table.

No, no, you put it in the uh you put it in the warmer.

Well, you were making a statement.

No, I left it.

Damn.

You sure it didn't?

Were we drinking that year?

Oh, you know.

You were all drinking, yes.

Wow.

You know what I thought I forgot about Serbian Christmas?

Have you guys ever had a baccala?

Yeah.

That's good.

My grandma would make bacala.

It's that salted fish in a box.

You wash it off, and you have to soak it in water for days.

Sorry, his dad talks about that.

Oh, yeah.

You douse it in some vinegar with some potatoes.

Oh my god.

Bakala's nasty.

Yeah.

Nope.

Never had it.

Never had it.

There you go.

Yeah, bakalah.

But I do, I will say, like, I I now that I'm getting older, it's like as a as a younger person, I didn't really care for the traditional aspect or the traditions of the holidays.

And then as I've, you know, I have kids now and you get into routines and you see that like how impactful those can actually be, just in regards to like giving like to Joe's point, like giving you something to look forward to.

Like you look forward to the prime rib now.

And like your mom probably like loves that you look forward to it as like a parent.

Yeah.

Like that's where my brain goes.

My kids are like like non-on couches corners and stuff still.

So like they don't really appreciate it yet.

But they would yeah, you should have seen the goo dang yesterday.

She uh but um I like now that now Sarah and I are trying to implement more of that into our parenting, like it's just like kind of create some of our own traditions and then bring our bring our families along with them as our families have kind of meshed, and uh, you just kind of get a little bit more wise and appreciative of it.

So I I do think that's a cool part.

I will say one thing that I've never been like a participant in is the holiday drinks.

Do you guys do like drinks like you guys like eggnog for me?

Never had it.

Literally still just could never have it.

I don't like eggnog.

Um no holiday drinks.

Really?

Specifically, we just drink to get drunk, that's all it is.

See, I love a nice, nice Christmas hot toddy.

But I I don't know if it's like the it's probably like the conventional hot toddy.

You'll get a Lipton black tea bag and make that tea, fill it with some old granddad till your heart's content, a little bit of honey, a little bit of lemon, and you just suck them down like all night long.

That's one never my my family wasn't big drinkers, still aren't.

I was the only big drink.

Wines.

Um Christmas is a time I drink a lot of wine.

Crush it, yeah.

Red wine, prime rare bread wine.

I mean, I I crush probably like three bottles of red wine between like two days by by myself.

Yeah, it's uh it's like uh it turned into an alcoholic.

Yeah, I don't judge me.

We opened some good bottles around Christmas.

Now that's we wait all year to open some good stuff, so like see that's what I'm talking about.

It's like you you get a good bottle, someone gifts it to you, whatever, then you hold it, you're like, this will be a great Christmas.

A lot of bottles from um Argentina, France, like a lot of we it's so weird, but we try to like if it's made in the US, drink it all year round.

If it's foreign in the like a good bottle, yeah.

I like that.

So I like that.

I I we should we should try and establish a uh uh a holiday tradition around here.

We did.

You said you weren't attending.

Did I?

We're smoking cigars in the veranda.

Dude, I threw up last time we smoked a cigar.

I'm not smoking any cigars.

Well, you will, but we'll it be in better states on the veranda.

Get you a black and mild, we'll do the cigars.

I'm gonna get us nice, Maduro's cigar.

I was telling a buddy of mine that we smoked that cigar last weekend, and he was like, Whatever cigar you smoked, I guarantee that's why you puked.

Yeah, probably.

He's like, Yeah, he's like, it's probably way too dark or like way too, like, you're just you're just a little puppy dog, you're a little novice.

Sam's out there.

I don't know.

You're like, oh, I was in my element.

You know what he was smoking.

Awesome.

It was an honor to witness.

I was over there like, oh, I'm dying here.

I will say that when I got that uh that Uber home, I will say once it once I got in motion, I felt like uh I felt like Rachel and the uh the Christopher Nolan Batman when she's poisoned and he's driving her back there.

I was in there like holding her, like, come on, just make it back.

Dude, you should have called Charlie Brown.

I know Charlie Brown.

He wouldn't speak of the we I want to say with the holiday themed stuff though, because there's some good stuff that we didn't get into.

We're gonna rapid fire these though.

All right, okay.

Um movie.

You ready?

All right, Sam.

First, top Christmas holiday movie.

Planes, trains, automobiles.

Really?

Oh yeah, that's a good one.

What do you mean?

What?

Your best?

Oh, yeah, it's probably one of the best.

It's like one of the best John Hughes movies there is.

So good.

You get Steve Mark.

Great movie.

I just didn't expect you to say that.

I thought you'd be like another.

I'm pretty sure I've heard that on the end.

I think actually, I'm pretty sure that's like Jason Kelsey made that his top movie.

Oh, really?

Man of good taste.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm going Home Alone.

I love Home Alone.

I think uh I don't know why, it just has a lot of nostalgia.

I think that I like that one.

Home Alone's a great option.

Watch it with my kids.

I don't really have to worry about, you know, is anyone in the room or stuff because it's too lewd or too not too vibe.

Like, I was gonna go home alone.

Die hard, you know, and like watch out with my daughter in the room.

It says Bruce Willis.

You know, I'll I'll say elf just because you said home alone.

I was gonna say home alone.

You know why I love elf though?

Like elf is fine.

I love John Favre.

See, I don't even like Elf.

I just said it because someone needs to say it.

I actually watches Elf every year and I'm screwed.

It's one it's one of Sarah's favorites.

I don't like it though.

That even what's that other one?

Love actually?

Yeah.

I refuse to watch that with her.

I elf was great the first time I watched it.

I can't watch it every year.

You know what you should do?

Do a little bit of digging.

The way they shot Elf and the budget they shot it on is the most impressive part of the movie.

Really?

Because it's all shot in like perspective.

There's no like green screen or after.

Like it's pretty, pretty interesting stuff.

John Favreau.

33 million.

Wow.

Yeah.

It was it was yeah, pretty cheap.

But John Favreau, love that man.

He's amazing.

All right.

So we got movies out of the way.

Any music?

Yes.

I just discovered this song a couple years ago.

It's like the best holiday song.

Uh, you've heard it's the fairy tale of New York.

The original's good.

The Kelsey brothers did a rendition of one, and now Good Charlotte just did a rendition of it.

It's even better.

I'll have to listen to it.

I will say Good Charlotte has a they suck, but they like pull me way back in 2000.

It's a great one.

I don't I'm so bad at Christmas songs, like names of them.

Like I know them all if they play, but none of them really kind of jump out at me.

Um, I will say though, I love a country rendition of a of a Christmas.

I like all right.

I like hearing like a country take on a traditional kind of uh uh Christmas song.

I got a hot take for you.

Oh boy.

I love Elvis's Christmas album.

Oh, that's not hot.

That's a good thing I listened to it.

Your age it is kind of a hot take 'cause it because I wouldn't have caught that.

Yeah, that's yeah, I love his Christmas.

Yeah.

I um I'm

Yeah, I'm not gonna I got nothing to say about that, good or bad.

Spelling against the colonel during all that.

Oh you colonel.

I'm gonna sing this Christmas song.

My boy would be a good one.

All right, so we covered food, we covered drink, we covered uh movies, music.

If you guys got anything that you like, I'd love to hear them as well.

Um moving on.

Sam and I now sorry, I'm laughing.

Last week, I don't know, I I think this episode will be out after we after that comes out, or right around the same time.

But we did a challenge on Unscrewed, and I had a specific request for this challenge.

The the losers of this challenge had to uh consume entire happy meals.

And Sam went and grace gracefully and gratefully purchased these happy meals.

45 happy meals.

What was the one thing I asked for?

Uh plain bur one plain cheeseburger, no ketchup, no condiments.

Because I knew I knew that the problems with the volume of these happy meals were gonna come from the condiments.

No, it was the bread.

It wasn't the condiments.

It was not, it was the condiments, it was the ketchup the entire time.

The onions didn't help anything.

Sam then well so during during the the shooting of this, yeah, it came out that that Sam here believes ketchup is the most elite condiment to ever exist in the history of mankind.

It's at least the most universal.

So my question for you is uh we'll start with Joe, is can you name a better condiment?

I can name one like one better condiment.

So you've seen this game around the internet.

Yeah, I can name I can name two better condiments.

Two?

What are they?

No, like the you how many can you name?

I haven't seen it.

No, I haven't seen that.

Okay, so the way it works is like we'll all keep going until one of us feels like they actually can't name it.

Right?

So think about like you know, anything that's easier for you to think of.

I mean I can think of three that are that I would enjoy more than ketchup.

I could think of seven.

Oh man, I I I can't go more than seven.

You can't?

I th I think se like I want to hear your seven because I do that.

I don't think I could do seven.

Ketchup's like it's up there in like the it's in everybody's fridge.

Everybody has ketchups.

I know, but like seven condiments.

I mean, you're gonna be don't say relish in this mix, please.

No, I okay.

Relish isn't I actually relish.

Alright, go ahead.

Rip it, go.

Seven.

We can't name more.

Okay, so are we Are dressings on the table?

Yeah, let's see why not.

Do you put it on fries?

Yes.

It's in the car.

Alright, sure.

So that's it.

The rule is if you put it on fries.

Yeah, I'd say we go off that.

That's fair because you're putting ketchup primarily on fries.

A lot of other things, but I'm just in this instance, we'll say fries.

Okay.

Ranch, blue cheese, barbecue, an aioli.

Or like the the get like a garlic aioli.

Oh, come on.

Tell me you haven't been.

Do I get a line of aioli, please?

You want what?

You're candy.

I've definitely been to breweries or places.

You've got some french fries that comes out with like a garlic or a spicy aioli.

They're in.

I gotta write these down.

Voluntarily more.

We've got a specific one here, Chick-fil-A sauce all day long, right?

Honey mustard, and uh I'll just throw out there.

Oh see, I was gonna go with like mayonnaise is a super mayonnaise is superior, but I was gonna try to be more specific.

But yeah, you you'd be a savage to dip your fries of mayonnaise, but mayonnaise.

No, Joe, mayonnaise is up there.

You're dipping fries and mayonnaise.

Oh, yeah.

I've been in where I've done that.

Barbecue sauce, I'll give you that one.

Yep.

You didn't say mustard?

You don't like mustard?

You said honey mustard.

Oh, honey mustard.

Okay, okay, gotcha.

Honey mustard.

Mustard is a better condiment, but you said dippable.

Yeah.

I was going with dip.

Like, I'm not gonna dip in random mustard in mustard, but like mustard on a sandwich is You said a weird one.

What was the few other ones you said?

Aeoli.

I said an aioli.

Aeoli was barbecue.

Barbecue.

I said Chick-fil-A sauce.

I said ranch.

I said blue cheese.

Blue cheese.

Dressings.

I don't know about blue cheese being better than ketchup as far as like fries.

Oh dude, you haven't had a good like buttermilk kind of blue cheese.

If you're eating wings or something, what else are you throwing that blue cheese on?

He's saying you're dipping your fries in it.

Like it's better than ketchup.

I disagree.

I'll give you the problem with ketchup.

Other than that, for me, we're Pittsburghers.

Yeah.

Like Heinz Ketchup is the most elite superior ketchup.

I'm going to say that all day.

Um, but with that being said, it's just so overused everywhere.

Like, and then I love like it's and it's also tastes so processed at this point.

No, no.

They have the all-natural hinds if you want it.

If you told me we were going ketchup that isn't Heinz ketchup, probably can name like 20 better condo.

I think I think Heinz is just so far more superior than other ketchups.

You know the worst ketchup?

You ever have read gold?

Dude, I'm I I won't first off, I won't earn another ketchup, so I probably only tasted one, spat it out, and MF the person that handed it to me.

We were in Greece, they didn't have Heinz ketchup.

Yeah, that's why you just don't eat the ketchup.

I didn't eat the ketchup.

That's my god, that's what we're talking about.

Ate that plain oil two bots.

Yeah.

Here's a crazy question.

Crazy ketchup question for you.

Tongue twister.

As two avid ketchup fans with your fries, are you squiggling that all over the fries on the plate, or are you are you putting it in a cup or a pile in the corner and dipping?

You're pivoting in a pile.

You're putting it.

Yeah, definitely the dip.

Yeah.

Well, who's what if you want to put some fries on your burger or your sandwich?

Oh, so you get the Heinz dip and squeeze.

I got there's a there's a man I respect and love in my life.

Stop.

He's all about the squiggle pile puddle.

Oh my goodness, it's my father-in-law.

Oh, right.

Really?

He's real big into it.

It's the most despicable action I think I've ever witnessed a grown man make.

It's that Westminster College education.

It might be.

He probably's on to something though that we're not realizing.

He he says it's because he's too lazy to dip.

He just wants it already covered.

Hey, that's a great explanation.

No, it's not.

It's disgusting.

What about all the ones at the bottom in the middle then?

Yeah, that's right.

You lose me at when you get to the bottom.

There's never a moment where dipping isn't a superior method of across the board.

Like, I don't need it like well, you're kind of cross-dipping.

Think about nachos, right?

Right?

Yeah.

You got a certain point, nachos, I'd rather dip that cheese.

Yeah, but nachos, that's one where I do, I think that is the move to just layer it all on.

Yeah, but you have to, or it's not a nacho, it's just chips.

Yeah, but my point is like there's a in in any layered thing where you're putting stuff all over it, you get to a point where you're like dipping this is just a better move.

Yeah, but it might be, you know, they say you eat with your eyes first.

If someone presented me with the fries and the ketchups all on there, it looks like it looks like it's gonna be a lot more fun than just a side cup of ketchup.

Oh, I don't know, man.

I don't know.

I'm I'm I'm I'd much rather get like a like a garlic parm dusting or some like like uh that fancy, what do they call it, truffle oil on my fries and then let me dip it in a nice beautiful air.

Sometimes you just I will say though, sometimes you go, you get a burger at some place, it's late, you get a drink or not.

You just need ketchup and fries.

See, I'm not I'm it just fuels the body, John.

I'm I'm I gotta argue against.

I'm just not in the uh never really got I'm not I'm not a big condiment guy at all.

Like I'm very much meat and cheese, like period.

Everything I'm doing is I I argue this all the time.

I do so much barbecue that great barbecue does not need barbecue sauce.

If you take if you take someone's food and they put the time and effort into cooking it, and then you go and lather it with salt and pepper and ketchup and immediate sign of disrespect, especially in barbecue, but any cooking at all.

Yeah, well, the barbecue, if you're layer, you're saying just like ketchup and the weird condiments, but what about like sauces and stuff like that?

Like I used to go to the side.

Served with a sauce, but like a good barbecue joint?

Like you go down to Texas, South Carolina, they always had something.

South Carolina makes barbecue.

No, sir.

Fight me.

Sir Fight me up fight me.

Texas barbecue elite all day.

You won't disrespect South Carolina like that.

South Carolina makes out of everything.

There you had enough good barbecue down there.

I have.

I go to South Carolina every year and I've yet to eat barbecue.

I'm not talking about that Hilton Heads uh barbecue.

I'm talking about low country, that barbecue.

That is low country.

Well, I'm not low, low country.

The lower country than the low country.

Low low.

You gotta go out with locals to get barbecue, and then you're like this, this is nothing, it has nothing on Texas.

You're not going out the right locals.

Locals to the area.

You gotta go out to locals.

You gotta go down big difference.

I'll give you a big difference.

My point being though is that it's you should never have to lather something in sauce in order to make it good.

Like, all like I stand by that.

I don't know.

I feel like there's a few things.

Like what?

Like a toaster strudel?

Wait, what?

That's not sauce.

I know, but like you're still lathering it to make it be saucer.

Desserts.

I mean, you could you I mean you're tying in aioli to to I'm not lathering aioli, it's nice little dressings.

You're you put dressings in the bucket.

Um barbecue is different than like a steak.

Like someone busts out some ketchup with a steak, that's a problem.

My dad does that.

It's probably why.

Dude, wait!

The last thing I'll say about this.

I love my wife dearly.

She thinks it's normal to put ketchup on steak.

No.

We've gotten into it.

No, yeah.

Rip.

My dad asked for that at my wedding, at his wedding.

Like it is We'll go out to a fine restaurant.

You have any ketchup?

No, don't bring her any ketchup.

That's exactly what I do, Joe.

Like, thank you.

You know what though?

I would have more respect for someone that busts out the ketchup instead of the A1s.

No, that's where I just because I'm like, at least get all the sauces out of there.

I agree.

I agree, but if you're gonna take one, it's almost like with the ketchup, it's like, you know what?

You're making a statement.

The A1, it's like there.

I love A1, so I used to.

I don't eat it anymore, but I used to acceptable steak sauce as a horsey sauce, some sort of horseradish sauce with the steak.

Everything else, get it out of there.

But you get a bad steak when I was in college.

I couldn't cook steak for I would get some A1 sauce and it made it taste a little better.

Yeah.

I wasn't thinking, let me grab some ketchup squeeze it on there.

I was at Heinz uh practice, like our facility was the Heinz facility.

They had Heinz saucy one.

Heinz has their 57 sauce, which is their version of a steak sauce.

I mean, I tried it.

Hate it.

But then I was like, I need to make a steak so good, I need to learn, that I never need to put a sauce on it again.

That's what you need to be thinking about.

That's how we do flip that joke.

Yeah.

I'm gonna teach you some stuff.

I'll I'll try, but I I think that leads us into our our last segment, our game we're gonna be playing every episode where we answer, is it normal?

Okay.

You got some good questions today.

The first one is very hyper-specific to us in the shop because I noticed something.

We have tape measures in every single room here.

I you're always looking for them where we need them most, both of you.

We never can find them, but I've noticed they're literally there's a tape measure under there.

Is it normal to have a tape measure in every room?

In your house.

What's what hold on?

Give us the box.

Yeah, what's the box?

Is it the house?

Is it the shop?

Your house and workshop.

Well the house, I don't think it's normal, but I wish it was.

Uh the shop.

I don't have a multi-room shop, but if I did, I think it should be normal.

You work one.

Yeah, this one, it should be normal.

I'm gonna say it is normal, but I'm gonna I'm gonna change it.

Not every room, it's every floor or area.

Yeah, I guess floor I can agree with.

So, like in our house, I do keep tape measures on every floor because I don't want to go up and down the stairs to do stuff, and I just keep it in the junk drawer if I can, or whatever.

There's one in the garage, there's one in the kitchen, there's one upstairs, and one and then here though, we do keep them in like there's one in the studio, there's one in their your office, there's one in the metal shop, there's one in the food shop.

There's but here's the thing.

I don't think it's intentional.

I don't think I think you guys we don't intentionally keep them everywhere, like because that's the way God wanted it, dude.

He said every room, every area, designated tape.

Moving on, it's normal.

All right, second one.

This one is inspired from Pola specifically.

I can give more context to it, but is it normal to hide in your garage from your significant other not doing real work?

When it's phrased like that, it makes it sound like you're scurrying away.

But I I do think it's normal to perhaps extend the work in your garage a little time.

A little far past what maybe you need, you know.

Oh goodness, how did how did these fine beverages find their way in here?

I guess I should probably drink these before I go back to the house, you know.

Yeah, very normal.

I'm I don't I mine I've told you guys this before.

Mine's more like in the bathroom.

Um yeah.

But the uh my my my wife would say that her dad back in the day, when he would instead of smoking cigs in the house, he would go smoke them in the garage.

And she would just find him out in the garage, just sitting on a chair by himself, getting a break, smoking a heater.

So I'm like, yeah.

My dad used to do it when we grew up.

He would just be outside, he would be in the shed or the garage by himself, just getting away from us.

Now that I'm a dad, I'm like, all of this makes sense.

I I had a great aunt where she always claimed that her husband, she's like, My husband's so great, he doesn't drink.

I love Paul.

He doesn't drink, he doesn't drink.

Paul passed away, they went into his shed.

This man had like 200 empty bottles of whiskey, just like every nook and cranny, just every crevice.

I'm not an advocate for lying to your spouse and then going and doing nefarious things that you do not tell them about, but I will I'm definitely thinking it's a handful of catch moment in the garage with the shit.

Yeah.

The only reason I brought that up, uh, we were he called me a couple Sundays ago.

We were trying to figure out an idea for unscrewed, and he's like, hey, hold on.

I'm putting it first thing he said was I'm putting in my earbuds, put his earbuds in.

He's like, Can you hear me?

I'm like, Yeah, he's like, sorry, I was walking to my garage, wanted to come take this phone call and get away for a few minutes.

I was like, Why couldn't you just take the call to your house?

He's like, Well, you know, I I could have, I just you know, I wanted to give you more time and attention.

I feel like a lot of people misconceive that and they think it's like a negative thing, but no, not negative.

But no, if they understood, like for dudes, for uh for for guys, like the little bit of time that you need to just kind of refill and fill back up and get a little charge, if you were just allowed to do that like more often, that's all that is.

It's just go get a little fill up, go check a box on some dumb thing that's been bothering you in the back of your head, like organize this drawer, right?

Or hang this thing or or fix this little doodad or do hickey.

That's what that those moments are for.

Then it's out of your head.

You come back, you're mildly refreshed, you accomplish something.

Yeah, it was that sick, maybe it was that beer, maybe it was that phone call to that your friend or something you wanted to do, like whatever.

I'm a fan of it.

Yeah, saying don't be a liar, don't lie.

We could cut that off.

You like polla?

I just thought that was a funny thing.

Don't cut that out.

That was glorious.

All right.

This pol this question, sorry, is from Pola.

Is it normal to honk right when the light changes at an intersection?

Like they're paused.

One, two, three.

Are you honking to be like, hey, it's time to move?

100% of the time.

I very normal.

I do not do that.

And I one time I was in high school and I was driving my buddy home, and I've just I'm not a fan of the road rage stuff at all because it could just go south so fast.

This man was tailgating us.

He like rolls the window down, he's like, I'm gonna flip him off.

I said, Don't do that, don't do that.

Just let him let him tailgate.

Sounds interesting.

Yeah, well, I see the window start to roll up, and this guy starts tailgating me real hard.

And it's like a little 17-year-old Sam.

I'm like, Oh, this is interesting.

No, I remember teaching about the brake check.

It's what it wasn't the I don't know if the brake check would have helped.

We got to the stop sign.

This man comes out, he's all of like six, five.

He's like walking up to the driver's side, like, oh god.

He's like, flipped me off.

Like, sir, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, like everything's gonna be okay.

And he was like, I've got boots older than you.

And like he had this whole spiel, it was going super well, but then he's like, Do you know who I am?

And then I was like, Who are you?

And he went, I have boots older than you.

I'm like, You lost it here.

But I from that day forward, I'm like, it's not worth it.

I'll wait the extra five seconds.

You don't know who's gonna pop out, what they're gonna have when they pop out.

That's why you just gotta have it before them.

I guess that's not my hill to die on.

See, I'm I'm much more the opposite.

People are just stuck on their phones nowadays.

So yeah, that's the problem.

Hold on, just look up.

Like, if you get pissed off at me for honking at you, right?

I will tell you all day long it was like the light turned green.

Like, and and by no means am I trying to have conversation conf confrontation.

I am I am anti-road rage though, because I do believe you should be able to like your emotions.

But I'm honking just because I'm like, hey, they're probably looking at their phone.

But you're in a lifted truck, like my truck's a little higher than yours, Pula, but still I can see when people are on their phones.

Most of the time.

And so I'll if I see you just sitting here on your phone and like lights change.

I I will I'm just until it's a move.

Joey's an incredibly aggressive driver.

We're the most aggressive driver here.

Fizz in driving, you the way you vocalize how you're driving, you Yeah, I obviously him up a lot.

I don't know if trucks hate those.

I will say, once you said about laying on the horn, that reminded me my other reason I don't honk.

I'm not on my phone, but like Kristen always says, I drive like an old man.

Like sometimes I'll just be zoning out at a red light, like, I'm feeling good.

I'm just gonna sit here for a minute, it'll flip green, and then someone hits their horn.

And the second someone hits their horn, like I said, I don't get road rage, but I'll do passive resistance.

I'm like, all right, maybe I'm gonna go even slower now, and I'll just make sure we're gonna go five under.

Like, oh, you're in a rush.

All right, let's take our time here.

That's par for the course.

All right.

Flat lap last two here.

Uh is it normal to watch movies on your phone?

No.

Under under the right circumstances, right circumstances.

Yep, agreed.

Under the right circumstances.

What circumstance?

What if you're just trying to watch something coming out of your mouth so easily?

Yeah.

We were talking about it earlier, actually.

Um I got one.

Go ahead.

Give them your example.

It was actually there's only two, but go ahead.

It's like if I'm laying in bed, like there's been times I've Yeah, 100% no.

Next.

What?

I am middle of the day on a weekend.

I want to watch something, but there is cleaning being done, and my headphones are needed to watch said film.

So I will throw it on my phone and watch it on my phone.

Yeah, nope.

It's either you're on a plane or on a treadmill.

That's it.

A treadmill?

You gotta run and a plane or a treadmill?

Yeah.

So you like when you want to go on a flight, you download a movie, that's a good time to watch it.

All right.

Right?

That's it.

Or you're at the gym, your public gym, and you want to watch a movie and you don't, you know, you put it on your phone.

That's it.

I'm not gonna argue your pin here.

The only thing I will say is YouTube has ruined how I watch movies because I do watch them on my phone and I find myself skipping through boards.

Yeah.

I I I'm also like uh I just don't watch a movie.

We go back to the beginning of the show.

I don't watch a movie unless I have the time to watch a movie.

So like I'm not trying to squeeze it in.

I I will agree with what you're trying to do there, Joe.

Like you want to watch it.

Yeah, do it while you're doing something else.

Yeah, I'll usually go like podcast though, or a YouTube video, yes.

But I you said movie, movie specifically, no, but like a YouTube, right?

If I'm watching something on YouTube, or maybe an episode of a TV show, perfectly fine there.

One could say we make movies, yeah.

They could I would argue against it.

We're putting out two-hour long feature films.

You want to um play with some boxes?

Last one.

Is it normal to pretend you didn't hear someone so they repeat themselves and give you time to think?

Like you don't understand what they said, or you need an answer, you don't have it, and so you just say, What did you say?

Don't do this to me.

Wait, say that one more time.

I'm not understanding what you're saying.

What?

Who came up with this question?

I'm just sometimes it it gives you the right buffer you need, and uh it helps me a lot.

I've already established the the reputation that I don't think Sam could hear very well.

Maybe I can, maybe I can't.

Damn it!

But I will the right move that'll, you know, especially I don't know if you guys have ever been hit by a question where it's like, ooh.

I know, I know.

I f up there, like and then you know, you get that extra five seconds.

What did you say again?

Uh you know, you get that five seconds, get your thoughts in order, come up with your best defense.

Is it normal or not?

Yeah, it's normal.

I'm I'm not gonna say I agree with it, but it is definitely normal.

I think it's normal.

I don't think it should be normal.

I like I I will I'm more likely to be like, what what'd you say?

Like, can you rebu like what?

Like not share the thought, but like just because I want you to say it again.

Because here's the thing that I've learned is that a lot of people ask piss poor questions.

And if you ask them to ask again, they can usually tighten it up to actually ask the real question.

So that's why I do it.

But I'm also not gonna be like I didn't hear you.

Say again now.

I feel like that does happen to me though.

Huh?

Like, Sarah.

What?

Sarah, can you uh do this?

Crickets.

Hey!

What'd you say?

I did ask actually ask my wife to go get her ears cleaned recently.

I've been asking Sam for two years.

To get there, uh I was like, I feel like you're gonna you're you're having trouble hearing me.

Let's uh eliminate any uh medical reasoning.

Never isn't wow, never she's just ignored 100%, as I deserve.

She's dulling enough going to the doctor too still.

I don't know.

You know, that's funny.

Oh, that's all I have.

Yeah, so I mean, so I I dig it.

Got some good ones there.

I will say it's uh this is episode one.

Also, we're coming right into the new year.

So um, we'd love to hear, you know, from you guys out there.

Any topic suggestions, any questions, comments, concerns?

We're a very uh um laid-back group of guys here, just trying to have some fun conversations.

Um, talk about some very normal guy stuff.

Maybe some abnormal guy stuff from time to time.

Maybe some abnormal guy stuff.

But um, yeah, just going back on it.

Uh, Netflix buying HBO, absolutely ridiculous.

I need to go watch Stranger Things and the Diddy Doc and argue about it.

Also, the Diddy Doc.

Thank you.

Um pie is by far the most superior uh thing about Thanksgiving, specifically pumpkin pie.

And Sam needs to um eat some better Thanksgiving food.

I think that's what the takeaways were today.

Come on now.

Agreed.

Agreed.

All right.

Well, next episode, I have no idea what it's gonna be about.

But if you guys got something, let us know.

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