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- 0:00Eric: Matt, what do you know of Aesop?
- 0:04Eric: Aesop?
- 0:05Matt: And his fables.
- 0:06Matt: I was gonna say, of fable fame?
- 0:08Matt: Of of fabled fable fame.
- 0:11Matt: I know I I've known an ASOP or two.
- 0:14Eric: I've sipped a SOP.
- 0:15Eric: Could you could you like off the top of your head and sipped a fucking SOP?
- 0:20Eric: I've sipped a sop.
- 0:21Eric: Sometimes they they go through you and you've seen this happen in real time.
- 0:24Eric: Sometimes they go through my nog and they and they go out the ear, and then they do a lap and then they come right back in, and that's when I go.
- 0:30Matt: Ooh, got it.
- 0:31Matt: And by the by they, does that are you just applying that to things people say?
- 0:35Matt: Yes, thoughts, words.
- 0:37Matt: Yes.
- 0:38Matt: Okay, great.
- 0:38Eric: So so like, you know, let's let's let's talk about some of these the subjects of these fables.
- 0:43Eric: Or you've got like the the tortoise in the hare.
- 0:47Matt: Yeah, isn't it?
- 0:48Matt: I believe he's uh he's uh he's the he is the boy who cried wolf, yeah.
- 0:53Matt: The boy who cried wolf, uh uh and all those great ones.
- 0:58SPEAKER_01: And all and the rest here on Aesop's Fables.
- 1:07Eric: That's what Aesop was missing, was that was that Gilligan's Island like drip.
- 1:13Eric: At first I thought you were going for Gulagullah Island.
- 1:18Eric: We do love Gulligullah Island in this house.
- 1:20Eric: Here on Aesop's Fables.
- 1:23Eric: Matthew, one of my favorite fables is of the fox and the grapes.
- 1:29Eric: Do you remember this one?
- 1:30Eric: The fox and the grapes.
- 1:31Eric: I don't.
- 1:32Eric: Where there's this fox and he sees some grapes and he can't have them.
- 1:38Eric: So he says, Oh, I bet those grapes are really sour.
- 1:42Eric: Hence the hence the term.
- 1:44Eric: The the color.
- 1:45Eric: Sour grapes, sour grapes.
- 1:46Eric: Yes, sour grapes.
- 1:47Eric: When we when we're dissing something that we clearly we just we want it so bad and we're so mad that we can't have it.
- 1:54Eric: Which brings me to this the most beautiful Facebook status I have ever beheld in my life.
- 2:00Eric: I regularly go through cycles where I'm like, I'm just gonna fucking delete Facebook.
- 2:04Eric: I'm gonna get rid of it.
- 2:05Eric: It does not serve me, it depresses me.
- 2:07Eric: I scroll through it, and all I see is doom and destruction and drama.
- 2:12Eric: And then I then Matt, I just except for all my posts about baseball and soccer and movies.
- 2:18Eric: Precisely.
- 2:19Eric: Okay.
- 2:21Eric: So I'm cruising through Facebook.
- 2:23Eric: I'm doom scrolling.
- 2:24Eric: Don't we all?
- 2:24Eric: I see it.
- 2:25Eric: We all know it, we all love it.
- 2:26Eric: We all know it, we all love it.
- 2:27Eric: I see a status is by one of those what I would say tertiary acquaintances.
- 2:31Eric: Like, I I can just by looking at the mutuals, I can see how I know them, but I don't know them.
- 2:37Eric: Like, I don't like, oh okay, I met you through these humans.
- 2:39Eric: Yeah, sure.
- 2:40Eric: I met this person through uh magfest work, uh, that that whole scene, the music and gaming festival that I sit on the board for.
- 2:50Eric: Yes, no big deal.
- 2:51Matt: Uh I don't know a lot about this person, but what I should- Do you want me to like hop in and say it was a big deal?
- 2:57Matt: Was did you want me to like give you the pushback, like the support?
- 3:01Eric: I I mean I mean if you just like give me one like real quick, like just a like a like we don't have to make a day out of it, but you can Yeah, sure.
- 3:08Matt: Wow, board member man.
- 3:10Eric: I mean, don't be so fucking you're embarrassing me in front of everybody.
- 3:14Eric: It literally means nothing.
- 3:16Eric: So this person I know this person I know through Magfest.
- 3:22Eric: What I know about them is like they're around my age, so like early 30s.
- 3:27Eric: Yeah.
- 3:28Eric: They're a DJ.
- 3:30Eric: Uh-huh.
- 3:30Eric: Now, now picture this person.
- 3:32Eric: I will not, I will not say their name.
- 3:33Eric: And I want to be clear, I I I am familiar with this person.
- 3:35Eric: I know them.
- 3:35Eric: They're they're a one, I'm sure they're a delightful human being.
- 3:38Eric: I just don't know them terribly well.
- 3:40Eric: And I'm not about to uh I I I out them as secret DJ.
- 3:45Eric: I respect their their their profession as a as a chip tune and and just generally like kick-ass DJ.
- 3:50Eric: But my oh my.
- 3:52Eric: I can't wait.
- 3:52Eric: Um, I'm just gonna like hit you with some like statuses that they that they that they throw out, just to kind of give you a flavor of this human being.
- 3:59Eric: Um status number one.
- 4:01Eric: Yeah, it isn't Kojima's fault if you didn't quote get Death Stranding.
- 4:07Eric: Okay.
- 4:08Eric: Second status, man, I really miss Yu-Gi-Oh! All right, and then I'm scrolling, and then I just see really ready for Shrek Rave to fizzle out, tired of hearing about it.
- 4:23Eric: Sorry.
- 4:24Eric: Um what?
- 4:27Eric: Really ready for Shrek Rave to fizzle out tired of hearing about it.
- 4:34Eric: Matt I want to pause here real quick.
- 4:36Matt: Just I just want to make sure I'm understanding words coming out of your mouth.
- 4:40Matt: Shrek rave, my man.
- 4:42Matt: Not much to understand.
- 4:43Matt: I'm hearing Shrek Rave.
- 4:44Matt: Yup, and is the spelling is Shrek some word I am not familiar with?
- 4:49Eric: No, it is the exact word you believe it is.
- 4:52Eric: There's a huge like talking about an ogre?
- 4:55Eric: Fucking Shrek, yes, fucking Sir Michael Myers.
- 5:00Eric: Hey now, I'm an all-star, Shrek Rave.
- 5:03Eric: Do my my children, my my my siblings in Christ, just go to like Instagram, go to the internet, search Shrek Rave, and you will see.
- 5:12Eric: It is it is exactly what you would think it is.
- 5:16Eric: Alright, I'm doing it.
- 5:16Eric: I see my DJ putting it in.
- 5:19Eric: So at first, I see like my my DJ friend, uh, who I will now refer to as uh I'll give him the the moniker, Trey Fresh.
- 5:26Eric: Oh my yes God get in there.
- 5:30Eric: The water, the swamp is fine, Matthew.
- 5:34SPEAKER_03: Oh, it is it though, Eric.
- 5:37Eric: Oh, it is ooh, ooh, you can you it's a picture you can smell.
- 5:43Eric: It's amazing.
- 5:44Eric: Oh no.
- 5:46Matt: Here's one with Willie Wonka in the middle of it.
- 5:49Matt: Yeah, there are no rules, Shrek Rave.
- 5:52Matt: Oh, and it's not just a a singular event, it's like a a a thing.
- 5:57Matt: It's happening, like a craze.
- 5:59Matt: It's a movement.
- 6:00Eric: A movement, you say?
- 6:02Eric: Yeah.
- 6:03Eric: And and I gotta say, from my boy Trey Fresh, it's all ogre now.
- 6:08Eric: Because I'm scrolling through Facebook.
- 6:11Eric: I see the status.
- 6:12Eric: Really ready for Shrek Rave to fizzle out, tired of hearing about it.
- 6:15Eric: So I'm thinking, oh, maybe it's just like maybe amongst DJs, this is like uh maybe Shrek Rave is considered like lowbrow, like, ugh, like uh, how immature.
- 6:26Eric: Yeah, what a what a what an insult to the art that we do.
- 6:29Eric: I don't know shit about DJing, but like the the dinner theater to an equity actor, if you will.
- 6:36unknown: Exactly.
- 6:37Matt: Okay, got it.
- 6:38Matt: So at first I'm thinking it's that situation.
- 6:40Matt: No shade to dinner theater.
- 6:41Matt: I'm just making an example.
- 6:43Eric: So we so I so I click on the comment.
- 6:46Eric: I just kind of want to see like if there's more to this story.
- 6:48Eric: I open up one of Trey's friends comments, right?
- 6:53Eric: It's such a cash grab gimmick.
- 6:54Eric: And it and that's why I'm like, oh, okay, that kind of confirms what I was.
- 6:58Eric: It was like, okay, you know, they they see themselves as above Shrek Rave.
- 7:02Eric: It is, it is, it is.
- 7:04Eric: But that's when Trey hits me with, yeah, that and being ghosted trying to bring it to my town kind of blows.
- 7:12Eric: Oh, do you taste them, Matt?
- 7:15Eric: Uh the sour grape.
- 7:18Eric: Ooh, ooh, what's that?
- 7:20Eric: Oh my god, what's that?
- 7:22Eric: Oh I love sour grapes, by the way.
- 7:24Eric: Matt, I'm just gonna read you some selections from this screen.
- 7:27Eric: Matt, just oh, so yeah, we got I got ghosted.
- 7:31Eric: You got ghosted trying to bring it to his hometown.
- 7:33Eric: Another friend says, SMH.
- 7:35Eric: It's not even about the music or the artists either.
- 7:38Eric: Again, they're like, okay, yeah, cheat.
- 7:40Eric: Like the people who are not my DJ friend are just like, yeah, no, it's fucking cheap, bro.
- 7:45Eric: And he just comes back with, like, yeah, and it sucks that I couldn't get it to come to my town.
- 7:51Eric: So, Matt.
- 7:52Eric: Yeah, I mean he says, I'm stoked for the homies that got in on it, but I really just wanted one in the hometown with my hometown crew.
- 7:59Eric: We have all the equipment we need to host it ourselves.
- 8:02Matt: And it just, Matt, it keeps using the phrase homies in the same sentence as Shrek Rave is a choice to me.
- 8:10Eric: I I learned so much about DJ culture and just the music scene in general.
- 8:15Eric: Uh, another person comes in.
- 8:17Eric: This reminded me of something not at all related, but same mood.
- 8:20Eric: All right.
- 8:21Eric: Okay.
- 8:22Eric: A major furry con books DJs within the community for events every year.
- 8:26Eric: One time they get a DJ from the outside of the community, and they seem to do it as a way of legitimizing the rave in the optical sense outside the community, and this fails as the DJ in question isn't particularly well known within the furry community.
- 8:43Matt: Now, Eric, we have brought up furries and the furry community on the show and we love them.
- 8:51Matt: Somewhat surprising regularity.
- 8:53Matt: Yes.
- 8:55Matt: They are our homies.
- 8:57Matt: Are they?
- 8:58Eric: Do you know a furry?
- 8:59Eric: If I know a furry, I don't know about it.
- 9:01Eric: Bro, I know so many furries, it's unreal.
- 9:03Eric: You, I I guarantee you, Matt, you know furries.
- 9:05Eric: You just don't know you know furries.
- 9:07Matt: Well, no one's invited me to some sort of furry party.
- 9:11Matt: A furry furakus, as I assume they call them.
- 9:21Matt: Are you a furry?
- 9:22Matt: No, no, I am not.
- 9:23Matt: Have you dabbled in the fur?
- 9:24Eric: I I have not.
- 9:25Eric: I I I mean, like, I've I don't even want to say dipped my toes in the pool, but I've passed by the community pool and I've been like, oh, okay.
- 9:34Eric: What's going on there?
- 9:35Eric: Oh.
- 9:36Eric: Oh, I see.
- 9:39Eric: All mostly all I can ever think of, like the only thing I can ever think of is like when I see people walking around fur suits, I'm like, how nasty is it in that suit right now?
- 9:50Eric: Isn't it it's mostly sex stuff, right?
- 9:52Eric: It's mostly well, it depends on who you ask.
- 9:55Eric: Uh much like Shrek Rave, it could just be a party or it could be a movement.
- 9:59Matt: But it all roads lead, much like the Shrek rave, all roads lead to the swamp, right?
- 10:03Eric: Oh yeah, all roads lead to the swamp.
- 10:06SPEAKER_00: All roads lead to the swamp.
- 10:09Eric: And fucking Yeah.
- 10:10Eric: Uh, but but apparently I did like do some learning on this.
- 10:14Eric: Apparently, those like the fur mascot suits, I've learned it's a rich kid's hobby, apparently, because some of those suits are upwards of like$16,000 because they have like built-in cooling systems and shit.
- 10:25Matt: I'm like, ah well, I know mascot costumes are notoriously super hot because uh we both know a a mutual friend of ours who was the mascot at Towson when we was in the college, and he played Doc the the Towson Tiger.
- 10:41Eric: The Towson Tiger and there was no cooling system that season.
- 10:45Matt: No, and he he would say, and I've also known who plays one of the birds at uh uh the Orioles, and they also say, You gotta be in there with tidy whiteies and nothing else, or you will die.
- 11:00Matt: You go in as God made you.
- 11:02Matt: So just next time you are at any sporting event and the Philly fanatics coming up to you, and God bless them, the internet's favorite mascot, gritty's coming up to you.
- 11:12Matt: There is a man in underwear inside that fighting for his fucking life.
- 11:17Matt: Doing his best, but damn do I love gritty.
- 11:20Eric: Um I don't give a shit about hockey, but damn do I love girls.
- 11:23Eric: Damn we love gritty.
- 11:24Eric: This is a gritty, we stand gritty in this house.
- 11:27Eric: Speaking of that, though, Matt, if you were gonna be furry, what would your animal be?
- 11:30Eric: Just like out of like this, isn't a trick question.
- 11:33Eric: Maybe a fox.
- 11:35Eric: I could definitely see I could definitely see you.
- 11:37Eric: You're foxy.
- 11:38Eric: You feel you're fox, you're fox.
- 11:40Matt: And then that would allow me to give some people some of my sour grapes.
- 11:44Eric: There we go.
- 11:46Eric: There it is.
- 11:47Eric: Sour grapes for all, baby.
- 11:49Eric: I will I will leave you with this about the Shrek rave.
- 11:53Eric: Yeah, please.
- 11:54Eric: Someone commented, LOL, not gonna lie, when I initially read this, I legitimately thought you were referencing one of those massive Shrek themed parties, and it really had me wondering what kind of tragic circumstances had to have occurred uh at one person to make you post this.
- 12:12Eric: To which Trey Fresh immediately replies, Yeah, me not DJing one of those raves, that's what I'm fussing about.
- 12:25Eric: LOL.
- 12:26Matt: Dude, just go out into a park and Shrek rave.
- 12:29Eric: And then the person kind of kind of backpedals, they're like, Oh, yeah, that's super valid and understandable.
- 12:36Matt: Oh my god.
- 12:37Matt: Yeah, just just the one event.
- 12:39Matt: That's what it was.
- 12:40Matt: Just the one.
- 12:41Matt: Ooh.
- 12:42unknown: Ooh.
- 12:44Eric: So not only, it's like the fox can see the grapes, like, man, I bet those grapes are real sour.
- 12:50Eric: And then like a crow comes by and they're like, Oh man, for a second I thought you were bitching and moaning about not eating those dumb grapes.
- 12:57Eric: Like, what idiot would want to eat those?
- 12:59Eric: And the fox is like, Yeah, I wanted those grapes.
- 13:03Eric: Oh no, bro, that's totally valid.
- 13:04Eric: You do you, I'll see you.
- 13:08Eric: And then he's just like, get out of my swamp! God, I love the internet.
- 13:19Eric: Nice.
- 13:20Eric: What a button that is.
- 13:22Eric: Yeah.
- 13:35Matt: Well, hello there, and welcome to You Didn't Ask for This, the podcast answering life's least pressing questions.
- 13:43Matt: My name's Matt Shea.
- 13:45Eric: My name's Eric Poach, and I would be a hyena, Matthew.
- 13:48Eric: Thanks for asking back there.
- 13:50Matt: Okay.
- 13:50Matt: Yeah.
- 13:51Matt: No, I uh you know what I should have asked.
- 13:54Matt: It's fine.
- 13:54Matt: Yeah.
- 13:55Matt: I should have asked.
- 13:56Matt: I was just distracted by the fact that you didn't ask this.
- 13:59Matt: I didn't ask that.
- 14:00Matt: I should have.
- 14:01Matt: I was only distracted by the fact that I did not care.
- 14:04Matt: Now, the oh, I blindsided him.
- 14:11Matt: Got him.
- 14:12Matt: Oh just kidding, Eric.
- 14:14Matt: You'd be a good hyena.
- 14:16Matt: I'd be a good hyena.
- 14:17Matt: You could I could also see you as go on, say it.
- 14:21Matt: I want to say an orangutan.
- 14:26unknown: Okay.
- 14:27unknown: Okay.
- 14:28Eric: I thought you were gonna say giraffe.
- 14:30Eric: No, no, but could see.
- 14:33Eric: You just need somebody else.
- 14:34Eric: Hold on.
- 14:35Eric: Has somebody tried to pull that off?
- 14:37Eric: Like the other ones kind of make sense, but like I feel like, oh man, Google completed that.
- 14:44Eric: Yep, there it is.
- 14:46unknown: Oh, there it is.
- 14:47Eric: Yep, giraffe fursuit.
- 14:48Eric: Oh, that's gotta be, man, that's gotta be a bitch to navigate in the hotel room.
- 14:52Eric: Okay.
- 14:52Matt: I bet you need somebody else to work the back legs.
- 14:55Matt: Yep.
- 14:56Matt: So uh so here we are, episode 62.
- 15:03Matt: No commentary from here.
- 15:04Eric: 62?
- 15:06Eric: That'll do.
- 15:07Matt: All right, maybe the bit's dead now.
- 15:09Matt: Yeah, it might be dead.
- 15:10Matt: Maybe that's what's going on.
- 15:11Matt: You know what?
- 15:11Eric: I think we let the bit die.
- 15:13Matt: Yep, I think it's gone.
- 15:14Eric: There you go.
- 15:15Eric: Not not seeing any signs of life.
- 15:17Eric: It'll come back one day.
- 15:18Matt: We need some solid questions, and we got them for you before we wrap up with part two of uh the second round of season two of Google Gripes.
- 15:32Matt: And Eric.
- 15:33Matt: I am nervous.
- 15:35Matt: I would be if I were you.
- 15:37Matt: I am nervous.
- 15:38Matt: You know what you did.
- 15:39Matt: Oh, I know what I did.
- 15:41Matt: And listeners, if you didn't listen to the last episode, uh uh first of all, do that.
- 15:46Matt: And uh uh third of all, at the very end of the end, I don't know how many of alls I skipped just now.
- 15:52Matt: At the end of that episode, I just want you to know, we'll talk about it in Google Gripes, but Eric abused me.
- 15:57Eric: We I Matt, I was talking to like friends of mine who listened to the show.
- 16:01Eric: I didn't spoil anything.
- 16:02Eric: I was like, oh man, you guys are gonna love this next one because we did Google Gripes.
- 16:05Eric: And and Matt, I was classy about it.
- 16:07Eric: I didn't I wasn't, you know, you wouldn't say like, oh, I did this, or uh I just said, man, Google Gripes was was was intense.
- 16:14Eric: Somebody got fucking destroyed, somebody had their career ended.
- 16:20Eric: Won't say who.
- 16:21Eric: But yeah, that's real sad.
- 16:23unknown: Oh, Eric.
- 16:24Matt: Now I'm worried I didn't go hard enough.
- 16:26Matt: I'm in.
- 16:27Matt: Anyway, we'll get to it.
- 16:29Matt: But first we gotta answer some questions, Eric.
- 16:31Eric: Yeah.
- 16:32Matt: It feels like it is uh it's almost it feels a little like it's been a while since we've done questions.
- 16:37SPEAKER_01: It's been a while.
- 16:38Matt: And on that note.
- 16:40Matt: Oh, I see what you did.
- 16:41Matt: You see what I did there?
- 16:42Matt: Oh, I see what you did.
- 16:43Matt: This comes from at this fucking good, baby.
- 16:48Matt: This comes from at Sarah Feldman on Instagram, our good good friend of the pod.
- 16:52Matt: And at Sarah Feldman asks, when you say, It's been a while, it's been a while.
- 16:59Matt: What is the longest it's been that it's still okay to use that phrase?
- 17:05Matt: What a wording of that question.
- 17:07Eric: Yep.
- 17:07Eric: But again, so like how what is it's been a while.
- 17:10Eric: What is the ma where does it max out?
- 17:12Eric: How much while can be before it's been too while?
- 17:17Matt: Well, I think it is a bit of a versatile phrase in the sense that if you imply it with a sarcastic tone of like, oh yeah, been a while since I've been on the Titanic.
- 17:30Matt: You know what I'm saying?
- 17:31Eric: Yeah, you could with with the sarcasm filter, you can really throw it in anywhere.
- 17:35Eric: But even then, I still feel like there's an upper limit.
- 17:38Eric: I'd also say I feel there's a sort of bell curve to the it's been a while.
- 17:43Eric: Um in that, okay, so if it's been like we ran into each other, we had a chat, you know, five minutes later, and then we run into each other again like five minutes later.
- 17:55Eric: And I go, Oh, it's been a while.
- 17:56Eric: It's been a while, it's been a while, it's been a while.
- 18:00Eric: Uh we all have a good giggle.
- 18:03Eric: Yeah.
- 18:03Eric: And then like, if I see you like later that day, same kind of thing.
- 18:07Eric: Oh, it's been a while.
- 18:09Matt: I don't think you'd say that though, in those circumstances.
- 18:12Matt: I feel that's where that's the sweet spot for hey, long time no C.
- 18:18Eric: Yeah, well that I use those interchangeably.
- 18:20Eric: It's been a while, long time no C.
- 18:22Eric: They are of equal value in my eyes.
- 18:25Eric: Then, but then it kind of like just immediately drops off.
- 18:29Eric: Or, or rather, if we're going with the bell curve, the awkward value suddenly starts to spike.
- 18:34Eric: If it's like I see you, you know, in the hallway in the morning on Monday, and then Tuesday morning, I see you like, oh, it's been a while.
- 18:43Eric: That that's weird.
- 18:44Eric: That's awkward.
- 18:45Eric: I'm like, oh, you saw me yesterday.
- 18:47Eric: Why would you say like it's just ugly and then that kind of stays there, stays awkward.
- 18:52Eric: But then if it's been like I'd say at least a week, I'd be like, oh, it's been a while.
- 18:58SPEAKER_01: And they're like, I haven't seen you in like a week.
- 19:00Eric: Yeah, like there we and and and that that we hit a plateau, actually.
- 19:04Eric: I feel we we kind of plateau.
- 19:06Eric: There's a like a long time where like weeks, months could go by.
- 19:10Eric: And then what really changes isn't the awkwardness of saying it's been a while, but the the kind of pitch you you toss to the to the phrase, sure, like kind of like your sart your sarcasm filter, the longer it goes, the less sarcasm you can put into it.
- 19:26Eric: If it's been like hours, you'll be like, oh, it's been a while, like immediately.
- 19:32Eric: But like at like the three or four month mark, you can start like, oh man, it's been a while.
- 19:38Eric: It's been a while.
- 19:39Matt: It become it starts becoming genuine.
- 19:41Matt: Is that what you're saying?
- 19:42Matt: Yes.
- 19:43Eric: Yes.
- 19:43Eric: As sarcasm drains, sincerity reigns.
- 19:47Matt: But I think where sincerity when when it's when it reaches full sincerity, I feel like it's been a while transforms into, wow, it's been so long.
- 19:58Eric: Yes, it does the it enters a chrysalis stage.
- 20:02Eric: Yes where and then and then the next time it's almost like it's almost like uh it's in a state of quantum uncertainty because like you can't, it's not like you're thinking about, oh, well, when I see this person again, I'm gonna hit them with, oh, it's been so long.
- 20:16Eric: You're not actively choosing that, but the seed is planted in your fucking brain.
- 20:20Eric: And there's like some kind of natural process going on in there, an internal clock that once enough time has passed, you just automatically reflexively go, it has been so long.
- 20:31Eric: So how so I guess to answer this question, what it what do you what do we think the time period is roughly where we our brains switch over to it's been so long?
- 20:42Eric: Because that's where it's been a while, and let's I think let's test it out.
- 20:45Matt: Let's put in some test scenarios, okay?
- 20:48Matt: Okay, okay.
- 20:49Matt: So we haven't seen each other for let's say a month.
- 20:52Matt: Okay, a month.
- 20:54Matt: You approach me, let's start with a month.
- 20:55Matt: Yeah.
- 20:56Eric: You say to me, Oh, hey, Matt, it's been a month since I've seen you.
- 21:00Matt: Yeah, yeah.
- 21:01Matt: Why wouldn't you use the phrase?
- 21:03Matt: Why didn't you Oh, oh, oh, sorry.
- 21:05Matt: What is wrong with you?
- 21:07Matt: I thought I was teeing you up to use the phrase.
- 21:09Matt: I didn't want to take it from you.
- 21:10Matt: How am I gonna come in with it's been a while after you say, hey, it has been 30 days?
- 21:16Eric: I needed to give exposition.
- 21:18Eric: They needed to know, I didn't want to assume anything in the scene.
- 21:22Eric: I wanted to live my truth.
- 21:24Eric: Thought you could handle some role play.
- 21:25Eric: All right, okay.
- 21:26Eric: Give it to me again.
- 21:27Matt: Let's try this again.
- 21:28Matt: Okay.
- 21:29Matt: Give it to me again.
- 21:30Matt: You're the one who started the scene.
- 21:32Matt: Uh we're reversing.
- 21:33Matt: Okay, I'm more reversing.
- 21:34Matt: I'm you can't handle this.
- 21:36Matt: You can't handle it.
- 21:36Matt: Okay, you're not mature enough to handle this.
- 21:38Eric: All right.
- 21:39Eric: Okay, so I'm I'm walking towards you, right?
- 21:42Eric: Right, you see me, and I'm like looking down at my day planner.
- 21:45Eric: I'm like, man, it's been a month since I've seen Matt.
- 21:47Eric: Oh.
- 21:48Eric: And that's when I looked up and I saw you.
- 21:50Eric: Is that is that Eric Poach I see?
- 21:52SPEAKER_03: Is that Matt Shea?
- 21:54Matt: Oh, Eric.
- 21:55Matt: Hey, it's been a while.
- 21:56SPEAKER_03: It's been a while.
- 21:57SPEAKER_03: It's been a while.
- 21:59Matt: When I see Said that just now, it didn't feel authentic.
- 22:03Matt: It didn't feel like I would use it's been a while in that situation because it hasn't it hasn't been long enough.
- 22:11Matt: I think we can rule out a month right off the bat.
- 22:14Eric: Yeah, it has not been long enough.
- 22:16Matt: Month rule uh let's let's let's try uh let's try do we want to say I see throwing I I was gonna say I see you throwing up two fingers, but what I would say is based on my gut feeling for one month, two months won't be enough time either.
- 22:31Matt: No, no, God no.
- 22:32Eric: All right, now do you think you can handle this now, Eric?
- 22:34Eric: I can handle three months.
- 22:35Eric: All right, all right, all right, all right.
- 22:36Eric: So you'll swap.
- 22:37Matt: I'm walking towards you.
- 22:38Matt: I've got got my nose down in a boba tea, a beverage I've never once consumed.
- 22:44Eric: Yeah, and I'm like, yeah, and I'm like walking around look like once again, I'm like looking at my planner.
- 22:48Eric: I'm like, oh man, what was the date three months ago?
- 22:50Eric: Oh, it's today's date because it's three months ago.
- 22:53Eric: Is that Eric Poach, Matthew Shea?
- 22:57Matt: It's been a while.
- 22:59Matt: Okay.
- 23:00Matt: That feels at home a little bit.
- 23:02Eric: That feels, I feel like we're getting there.
- 23:04Matt: It feels like I would authentically go, it has been a while.
- 23:08Matt: What's it been like?
- 23:08Matt: Check that date planner you're always looking at for some reason.
- 23:12SPEAKER_03: Exactly three months.
- 23:13SPEAKER_03: My God.
- 23:14Matt: Cross the date out.
- 23:16Matt: All right.
- 23:17Matt: Okay, three months feels appropriate.
- 23:20Matt: Let's leap to six.
- 23:21Matt: Let's leap to six.
- 23:22Matt: All right.
- 23:23Matt: Okay.
- 23:23Matt: Uh, are you gonna be bin awiling me?
- 23:25Matt: I can bin awile you.
- 23:27Matt: I'm trying to picture it.
- 23:28Matt: It's been six months.
- 23:29Matt: Maybe what your face looks like has started to get hazy for me.
- 23:33Matt: Yep, yep.
- 23:34Matt: You know, just how tall is he?
- 23:36Matt: I he certainly is not that tall.
- 23:38Matt: Like, really, what is six six?
- 23:40Matt: Like, what does that even look like?
- 23:41Matt: Yeah, and then I'm walking down.
- 23:43Matt: There's this like Sasquatch walking towards.
- 23:44Matt: Oh, wait a minute, that's not a Sasquatch.
- 23:46Matt: That's Eric, Eric Poach! Matthew Shea?
- 23:50Matt: Oh my god.
- 23:51Matt: Hey, how are you?
- 23:53Matt: Oh, dude, I'm great.
- 23:54Matt: Yeah, it's been a while.
- 23:56Eric: It's been a while.
- 23:57Eric: It's been a while.
- 23:58Eric: It's been a while.
- 23:59Eric: So I feel like this still works, and I feel like we're starting to like.
- 24:05Eric: Yeah, we're not quite touching the bottom of the pool, but we're like we're we're we're we're ready for it at any moment.
- 24:10Matt: We're not quite touching the bottom of the pool, but we are uh it is within reach of the toes.
- 24:19Eric: Yes, yes, yeah.
- 24:20Eric: I can feel the water like like when I kick my feet, I can feel the water like pushing back against me.
- 24:26Matt: I say, let's jump forward to a year.
- 24:29Matt: Yes.
- 24:30Matt: All right, yep, all right, hit me.
- 24:32SPEAKER_01: 525,600 minutes.
- 24:38SPEAKER_01: How can you measure matching?
- 24:42SPEAKER_01: Oh, poach.
- 24:44Matt: It has been a while.
- 24:46Matt: I it has been a while.
- 24:48Matt: I just heard right cascading across the park.
- 25:00Eric: Okay, so year, I feel like it's almost like I had to push it harder on that.
- 25:04Matt: Like the I feel like let's I'm gonna let's hit it again.
- 25:08Matt: Let's come back in.
- 25:09Matt: Um, all right, so here, I'll we'll switch rows a little bit.
- 25:12SPEAKER_03: We'll switch with you saying the song of angry men.
- 25:21SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, it's not an angry man.
- 25:23SPEAKER_03: Holy shit, are we overthrowing the French government?
- 25:27SPEAKER_03: Eric, how are you?
- 25:28SPEAKER_03: That shit.
- 25:29Eric: It's been so long.
- 25:31Eric: It has been so long.
- 25:33Eric: See, that feels right.
- 25:34Eric: It feels better, doesn't it?
- 25:35Eric: That feels better.
- 25:37Eric: So more than six months, less than a year.
- 25:39Eric: I feel like nine months feels like the maybe the kind of sweet spot for it's been a while.
- 25:45Eric: Yeah.
- 25:45Matt: Yeah, absolutely.
- 25:46Matt: Okay, so so let's do nine months.
- 25:49Eric: Let's do nine months, just quick nine months.
- 25:50Eric: We we're reversing time.
- 25:52Eric: We're rewinding it.
- 25:55Eric: Oh my god.
- 25:56Eric: I've done it.
- 25:57Eric: I don't know how, but I've done it.
- 25:58SPEAKER_01: I've managed to go back 90 days in the past.
- 26:01SPEAKER_01: Matthew Shay?
- 26:03SPEAKER_01: Eric Poach as I live and breathe.
- 26:05Eric: Holy fuck, it's been a while.
- 26:08Matt: It has been a while, hasn't it?
- 26:10Eric: Kind of fucking see.
- 26:11Eric: I mean, I think I just doomed the time space continuum.
- 26:14Eric: How are you doing, man?
- 26:16Matt: Oh, um, better than that, I guess.
- 26:19Matt: All right.
- 26:20Matt: Let's that's a weird scene we've started.
- 26:22Matt: That felt fine, though.
- 26:24Eric: It still felt fine, didn't it?
- 26:25Eric: I feel like at the six-month mark, that was peak.
- 26:28Eric: It's been a while energy.
- 26:29Eric: And now it's starting to peter out.
- 26:31Eric: And now we can feel like we can see where this is going.
- 26:34Eric: So I would say, I would say any any any day after this, too much.
- 26:40Matt: And I don't think we need to paint it, but to show you what 10 months would look like.
- 26:45Matt: If the last time we saw each other, right, January 1st, we're talking about October, Halloween.
- 26:52unknown: Yeah.
- 26:52Matt: You see someone New Year's Eve, and then you see them on Halloween.
- 26:55Matt: Do you say it's been a while?
- 26:57Matt: I feel like you said it's been so long.
- 26:59Matt: It's been so long.
- 27:00Matt: It's been forever.
- 27:02Eric: It's been forever.
- 27:03Eric: So I think nine months, that's nine months.
- 27:06Matt: Nine months is a sweet spot out, Sarah Feldman.
- 27:08Matt: There you go.
- 27:09Matt: That's the max capacity for its been aware.
- 27:13Matt: It's been a while.
- 27:15Matt: None of us know what the next part of that song is.
- 27:18Eric: No, not even a little bit.
- 27:20Eric: I guarantee Alyssa knows, but I sure as fuck don't.
- 27:23Matt: All right.
- 27:24Matt: Well, Eric, why don't you um we were on that question for a while.
- 27:28Matt: So why don't you go ahead and give us the next one?
- 27:30Eric: This one comes from our good friend at Abby Boone13 on Instagram.
- 27:36Eric: Abby asks, is it that the one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater is a creature that itself is one-eyed, one-horned, purple of color, and eats only normal human people?
- 27:48Eric: Or is it a creature whose diet is exclusively people who are one-eyed, one-horned, purple of color, and can fly?
- 27:58Eric: Abby, a question.
- 28:00Eric: I didn't know I had been wondering.
- 28:02Eric: I I've been wondering what was haunting me my entire adulthood.
- 28:06Eric: Turns out it was this.
- 28:08Eric: Now, right off the dome, Eric, right straight out of the heart.
- 28:12Matt: I want to say when I read this question, I realized I never once considered this to be referencing anything else other than a title of a person being the purple people eater.
- 28:25Matt: He is purple, he eats people, he flies.
- 28:28Matt: Not that he's eating purple people.
- 28:34Matt: Agreed.
- 28:35Matt: Now, I I I do want to say I pulled up the Wikipedia article on the purple people eater.
- 28:40Eric: Okay.
- 28:40Matt: So I do have some background, but you were drop that fucking knowledge, man.
- 28:44Matt: No, no, no.
- 28:44Matt: Please, I want to know your initial impression.
- 28:47Eric: My initial impression, uh, and mind you, this is all purely theoretical based on my uncomplete minor in English, uh, but grammatically, it feels like it is describing the s the subject of the song, the one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater.
- 29:03Eric: Yeah, incomplete, I think.
- 29:06Matt: You really didn't finish that mind.
- 29:07Eric: Uh, well, I mean, you know, disagree to agree, man.
- 29:12Eric: Uh irregardless.
- 29:14Eric: Irregardlessly, uh I believed the descriptor was always going to the monster.
- 29:20Eric: I am so ready for Wikipedia to possibly shed some light on the subject.
- 29:26Matt: Wikipedia says the purple people eater, the song, which is of course performed by the world-famous Sheb Woolley, poor one out in 1958.
- 29:37Matt: I don't know, he's probably dead.
- 29:38Matt: The purple people eater tells how a strange creature, described as a one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater, descends to Earth because it wants to be in a rock and roll band.
- 29:49Matt: The premise of the song came from a joke told by the child of a friend of Woolley's, and Woolley finished composing it within the hour.
- 29:59Matt: No one is surprised by that.
- 30:01Matt: The song establishes that the creature eats purple people, but not whether or not it itself is purple.
- 30:10Matt: And I have a problem with that.
- 30:13Matt: I have several issues with that.
- 30:16Matt: Let us consult the lyrics.
- 30:17Matt: The main lyric in question that that line is referencing is I said, Mr.
- 30:22Matt: Purple People Eater, what's your line?
- 30:25Matt: He said, eating purple people, and it sure is fine.
- 30:30Matt: But that's not the reason that I came to land.
- 30:33Matt: I want to get a job in a rock and roll band.
- 30:38Matt: He says he said eating purple people.
- 30:43Matt: So okay.
- 30:45Matt: I guess that does imply that he's eating purple people.
- 30:51Eric: But is he one-eyed, one-horned, and flying?
- 30:54Eric: I assume.
- 30:55Matt: He is definitely one-eyed, one-horned, one-legged, whatever the fuck.
- 31:00Eric: Okay, I was gonna have like an aneurysm otherwise.
- 31:02Eric: Like my my entire I I it all would have unraveled for me there, folks.
- 31:06Eric: Yeah, one reality is tenuous at best, and it hinges on the purple people eater being one-eyed, one-horned, and flying.
- 31:14Matt: He definitely is.
- 31:14Matt: So hold on, let me get the full lyrics here.
- 31:16Matt: Okay, so uh it was a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater.
- 31:24Matt: One-eyed, one horn, flying purple people eater.
- 31:26Matt: Sure, strange sure looks strange to me.
- 31:29Matt: One eye?
- 31:30Eric: Um okay, so then he's had to break real quick because I just like the the the the person who like hears this description, sees all this horrific shit happening, and just goes, Oh, one eye?
- 31:43Matt: That's what it says.
- 31:43Matt: One in parentheses, one eye question mark.
- 31:46unknown: One eye?
- 31:47Matt: One eye.
- 31:48Matt: That that's what drew you in?
- 31:50Matt: That's what made you lean in.
- 31:52Matt: Well, he came down to earth and he said in he laid in a tree.
- 31:56Matt: I said, Mr.
- 31:57Matt: Purple People Eater, don't eat me.
- 32:00Matt: I heard him say in a voice so gruff, I wouldn't eat you because you're so tough.
- 32:05Matt: Doesn't say anything about him not being purple.
- 32:07Matt: Yeah, okay.
- 32:08Matt: And then we get the fucking annoying chorus again.
- 32:10Matt: Then there's the thing we just heard.
- 32:13Matt: Okay.
- 32:13Matt: Yep.
- 32:14Matt: And then we go into well, bless my soul, rock and roll, flying purple people eater, pigeon toed, undergrowed, flying purple people eater.
- 32:23Matt: Wait a minute.
- 32:24Matt: This stanza is well, bless my soul, rock and roll, flying purple people eater, pigeon toed, undergrowed, flying purple people eater.
- 32:30Matt: In parentheses, we wear short shorts.
- 32:33Matt: Friendly little people eater, what a sight to see.
- 32:36Eric: What?
- 32:37Eric: What is happening in this?
- 32:39Eric: What?
- 32:40Eric: Sorry.
- 32:40Eric: Oh, by the way, I'm rocking these daisy dukes.
- 32:45Eric: I am just my whole ass dumpy is just, mmm.
- 32:51Eric: Purple people eaters about to clap so many cheeks.
- 32:54Matt: Yeah, and then it's just a lot of this over and over again.
- 32:57Matt: The I Like Short Shorts gets thrown in one more time.
- 33:00Matt: And then at the very end, well, he went on his way, and then what do you know?
- 33:05Matt: I saw him last night on a TV show.
- 33:07Matt: He was blowing it out, uh, really knocking him dead, playing rock and roll music through the horn on his head.
- 33:16Eric: I'm also imagining him, he's just like playing his horn like a fucking saxophone, but like also just twerking, just working them short, short and cheeks all the way.
- 33:27Eric: Sure.
- 33:27Matt: Just a point of contention from those of us from uh uh the band life, the uh saxophone is not a horn.
- 33:33Matt: Um and got him.
- 33:36Matt: Got him.
- 33:37Matt: Got him.
- 33:38Matt: I when you say a horn section, it generally does not include the saxophone, is all I'm trying to say.
- 33:42Matt: But now I'm thinking it is not a fucking unicorn horn sticking out of his head.
- 33:48Matt: It's a fucking trumpet.
- 33:49Matt: He's got a B flat trumpet sticking out of his head.
- 33:54Eric: He's got a horn.
- 33:55Eric: He's got a fucking trombone made a trombone.
- 33:58Eric: He's got a trombone coming out of his trombone.
- 34:04Eric: All right, all right, all right.
- 34:07Matt: So Daisy Duke wearing trombone slide.
- 34:12Matt: I'll give this to you though.
- 34:13Matt: Saxophone is a little bit more rock and roll.
- 34:15Eric: Oh, 100%.
- 34:17Matt: So I could I could see the saxophone being there coming out of it.
- 34:22Eric: Yeah, ska got trombone.
- 34:24Matt: Rock and roll got the sax.
- 34:27Matt: Okay, so I think it doesn't, we don't have any evidence suggests that he himself is purple.
- 34:34Matt: No, but I guess it does suggest that he's only eating purple people eater.
- 34:39Matt: Whereas because he explains that he's looking for purple people to eat, but the the title of his uh name, one eyed one horn, flying purple people eater, I always thought it was flying purple comma people eater.
- 35:00Eric: Thank you.
- 35:01Matt: But no, it I guess it isn't.
- 35:03Eric: I guess it's like at first I was at first I was in impressed.
- 35:07Eric: What was the name of the guy who wrote the song again?
- 35:09Matt: Oh, it's Sheb Woolley.
- 35:11Eric: Poor one out.
- 35:12Eric: Uh I am I at first I was impressed because like there is no comma.
- 35:18Matt: We it was a one-eyed, comma, one horn, comma, flying purple people eater.
- 35:25Matt: We wear shit.
- 35:26Eric: And that would imply that the people he's eating are flying and fucking eating.
- 35:29Eric: They gotta be purple.
- 35:30Eric: They gotta be purple and flying, apparently, if there's no hmm.
- 35:34Eric: No, there's flying, comma, purple people eating.
- 35:37Eric: There was a comma after flying.
- 35:38Eric: Thank fucking Christ.
- 35:40Eric: That's the last thing.
- 35:40Eric: I can't lose this.
- 35:42Eric: I cannot lose this.
- 35:43Matt: No, he's eating purple people.
- 35:45Matt: And to which I say, where are they at?
- 35:48Matt: Where are they at?
- 35:48Matt: Where are you finding them?
- 35:50Eric: I feel like he's trolling humanity.
- 35:52Eric: I feel like he's just fucking with us.
- 35:54Eric: Like he came down, like I feel like he landed, and people are like, oh no, are you a people eater?
- 35:58Eric: And like he's sitting there thinking, he's like, bro, I'm fucking vegan.
- 36:02Eric: And then, but but he's like, eh, I might as well fuck with him a little bit.
- 36:05Eric: Uh, I only eat purple people.
- 36:07Eric: And they're like, oh, I guess that's okay.
- 36:10Matt: But I mean our protagonist seems to identify that he's a purple people eater at sight.
- 36:18Matt: Immediately.
- 36:19Matt: At sight.
- 36:20Matt: Which implies that in the in the universe, in the woollyverse, there in the woollyverse purple people eaters are a common species.
- 36:33Matt: As common as pigeons.
- 36:35Matt: As common as pigeons, I tell you.
- 36:37Matt: As common as pigeons.
- 36:38Eric: Whoa, we come in the mail with packets of tide.
- 36:43Eric: Fucking everyone hands out copies of Dark Side of the Moon.
- 36:47Eric: My God, Sheb, what are you doing?
- 36:50Eric: Poor one out, babe.
- 36:52Eric: I yeah, originally I was kind of impressed.
- 36:53Eric: I was like, damn, he wrote that.
- 36:55Eric: He heard this joke from this child and then wrote that, cranked it out in like an hour.
- 37:00Eric: But it shows.
- 37:00Eric: I think we can acknowledge that.
- 37:02Eric: It shows when in the middle of the song, he's like, oh fuck, we need to we need to hit that like on the beat.
- 37:07Eric: We love short shorts.
- 37:08Matt: Okay, there it is.
- 37:09Matt: He also he is dead.
- 37:11Matt: He died in um 2003, but I have some important information for you.
- 37:17Matt: Oh fuck.
- 37:18Matt: He's also an actor.
- 37:20Matt: He played uh Cletus Summers, the principal uh in the 86 movie Hoosier's.
- 37:28Matt: Okay.
- 37:29Matt: He was in High Noon.
- 37:31Matt: Okay.
- 37:32Matt: He was Travis Cobb in the outlaw Joseph, Josie Wales.
- 37:36Matt: But get ready, Eric.
- 37:38Matt: He's also the voice actor credited with providing the Wilhelm Scream.
- 37:46SPEAKER_03: Are you fuck Wow?
- 37:49SPEAKER_03: That took you by surprise.
- 37:53SPEAKER_03: You can't just hit me with that, Matthew.
- 37:56Matt: Chev Woolley, the flying purple people eater himself, is Wilhelm Scream.
- 38:05Matt: Are you fucking kidding me?
- 38:07Matt: And if you're unfamiliar with the Wilhelm Scream, here it is.
- 38:12Eric: Oh my god, this is greatest day of my life.
- 38:17Matt: That's the Wilhelm Scream.
- 38:19Matt: That's our man is it such a leaperic to suggest that Wilhelm is the protagonist of this song, and the scream is the scream he makes when eaten by the purple people eater who is a liar.
- 38:39Matt: And he just eats people.
- 38:40Matt: He just eats people after he rocks and rolls with them.
- 38:44Eric: Wait, hold on.
- 38:45Eric: Matt, I can't hear you.
- 38:46Eric: Oh shit, I can't hear you anymore.
- 38:48Eric: I think it's because you just dropped the fucking mic.
- 38:51Eric: That's right.
- 38:52Matt: Holy fuck.
- 38:52Matt: I'm sorry, hold on.
- 38:53Matt: I mean to say.
- 38:55Matt: That's right.
- 39:00Eric: Oh god.
- 39:01Eric: Yeah, we just busted this thing wide open.
- 39:05Eric: Wide open, folks.
- 39:06Eric: It's a chasm.
- 39:08Eric: Fucking gang.
- 39:09Eric: Oh my god.
- 39:10Eric: Sorry.
- 39:10Eric: Sorry.
- 39:11Eric: Put those cups up.
- 39:12Eric: Pour one out.
- 39:13Eric: Pour one out for Wooly.
- 39:15Matt: For Wilhelm.
- 39:16Matt: For Wilhelm.
- 39:16Matt: Pour one out for Wilhelm.
- 39:18Matt: Yeah.
- 39:19Matt: All right.
- 39:19Matt: Well, I think we solved it.
- 39:21Matt: First of all, he claims to eat purple people, but he is in fact going to eat whoever the fuck he wants.
- 39:26Matt: And when he does, the last sound to leave your body will be.
- 39:33Matt: God bless you, Sheb Woolley.
- 39:36Matt: Bless you, Sheb.
- 39:37Matt: National treasure, I want to say now.
- 39:39Matt: Oh yeah.
- 39:40Matt: National treasure.
- 39:42Matt: Thank you for the Wilhelm Scream, above all.
- 39:45Matt: And thank you for the Purple People Eater.
- 39:47Matt: Now, Eric, we got one more question before we get to a certain other uh topic that I think everybody is eager to get to.
- 39:57Matt: But this comes from at AJ underscore Stiegler on uh uh Instagram AJ Stigman the big the Stiegman The Stiegler Stigmeister The one-eyed one horned flying purple He's never gonna submit a question again.
- 40:14Matt: If Hercules was given a thirteenth impossible task in the modern era, what would it be and could he do it?
- 40:26Matt: Now now now I don't wanna I don't wanna pick a bone with Mr.
- 40:33Matt: Stegs.
- 40:35Matt: I believe they're normally referred to as the labors of Hercules.
- 40:38Eric: Yeah, okay, Mr.
- 40:40Eric: Labors?
- 40:42Eric: Alright.
- 40:43Eric: What what now I'm the asshole?
- 40:45Eric: Alright, Sisyphus.
- 40:47Matt: You just keep pushing that boulder up the hill.
- 40:50Matt: Don't you Sisyphus me.
- 40:53Matt: Yeah I am Sisyphus, Eric.
- 40:55Matt: You want to know what?
- 40:56Matt: I am Sisyphus, and you are my fucking boulder, okay?
- 41:00Matt: So let me You carry me.
- 41:04Matt: You raise me up.
- 41:09SPEAKER_03: Can you take me no now to a place where AJ Steaks?
- 41:20Matt: Now keep that in mind.
- 41:22Matt: Uh so just for those not familiar with the tasks of uh of of Hercules there, you see how I humbled myself, Eric.
- 41:33Matt: Yes, yep.
- 41:33Matt: Uh-huh.
- 41:34Matt: I'm gonna run through them real quick.
- 41:35Matt: Rapid style, rapid fire.
- 41:36Matt: Are you ready?
- 41:37Matt: Yep.
- 41:38Matt: One, slay the Nemean lion.
- 41:41Matt: Two, slay the nine-headed Lernaan hydra.
- 41:45Matt: All right.
- 41:46Matt: Three, capture the Sir Sir Syrenaean hind.
- 41:51Matt: Sensing a theme here.
- 41:53Matt: Capture the Er Erythmane erranthian.
- 42:00Matt: Yup.
- 42:01Matt: Go on.
- 42:02Matt: Capture the Irmanthian boar.
- 42:04Matt: Cl this is one of my favorites.
- 42:06Matt: Clean the Iegean stables in a single day.
- 42:10Matt: Really broke the mold there, because then we're going right back to slay the Stimphalian birds.
- 42:17Matt: Seven, capture the Cretan bull.
- 42:20Matt: Eight, steal the mares of Diomedes.
- 42:23Matt: Nine, open the girdle of Hippolydia, the queen of the Amazon.
- 42:27Eric: Obtained the girdle.
- 42:28Eric: Open that girdle, boy.
- 42:30Eric: Get in there.
- 42:31Eric: Just bust it open.
- 42:32Eric: It does say obtain.
- 42:34SPEAKER_03: I said open.
- 42:38SPEAKER_03: Obtain the cattle.
- 42:40SPEAKER_03: Amazonian strain, Hercules.
- 42:43Matt: After you slay Hippolydia.
- 42:46Matt: Obtain the cattle of the three-bodied giant uh Gireon.
- 42:52Matt: Eleven, steal the three golden apples of Hesperides, and 12.
- 42:58Matt: Capture and bring back Cerberus.
- 43:03Eric: So definitely a theme here.
- 43:05Eric: Yes.
- 43:06Eric: Big old animals.
- 43:08Eric: Yeah, yes.
- 43:09Eric: Do do either capture, kill, or return home safely because they're a good, good boy, some kind of animal.
- 43:17Eric: Uh with the exception of the girdle.
- 43:20Eric: Two of these.
- 43:21Eric: The girdle, opening the girdle of hip.
- 43:23Eric: Sorry.
- 43:23Eric: Oh, obtaining.
- 43:24SPEAKER_03: I wasn't a bitle.
- 43:27Eric: Bless open that girdle, boy.
- 43:29Eric: Girl, let me get that girdle.
- 43:32SPEAKER_00: Now you've slayed the bull.
- 43:34SPEAKER_00: Now you gotta lay Hippolyta.
- 43:37Matt: Um Hippolyta is probably how you said it.
- 43:40Matt: However, the fuck I said it's wrong.
- 43:42Eric: Hippolyta, Hippolyta, however we say it, her girdle and the three golden apples.
- 43:47Eric: Um, well, actually, wait, what are let me let me look up what the okay, yeah.
- 43:51Eric: The Hesperides are are are are nymphs.
- 43:53Eric: So those are the like the only two that aren't directly related to animals.
- 43:57Eric: Because even cleaning the the all Algae and Stables.
- 44:00Eric: That's where it was.
- 44:01Matt: They're big, those stables.
- 44:03Matt: That's the whole challenge.
- 44:04Eric: And I and I notice I no yeah, a lot of theft in these Herculean tasks.
- 44:10Matt: To lift a that to me feels like the modern equivalent of to lift a lyric from Weird Alyankovic, cleaning all the bathrooms in Grand Central Central Station with your tongue.
- 44:23Matt: Yes.
- 44:24Matt: Or a toothbrush.
- 44:25Eric: Or depending on, you know.
- 44:28Eric: Lifestyles.
- 44:29unknown: Sure.
- 44:31Eric: So I feel like we definitely gotta lean into animal adjacent.
- 44:37Eric: Or at the very least, stealing something from from zoning debate.
- 44:41Eric: So they're all mythical.
- 44:43Matt: So I think we need a current mythical beast, a cryptid.
- 44:49Matt: Oh yeah, yeah.
- 44:50Matt: Man.
- 44:51Matt: So Hercules, uh, here's one that jumps to mind.
- 44:54Matt: Yep.
- 44:55Matt: I'm debating whether to say kill, but I'm gonna say find and slay Bigfoot.
- 45:03Matt: Find and slay Bigfoot is good.
- 45:05Eric: Bigfoot's got legs.
- 45:07Eric: Bigfoot's got legs a little bit, I think.
- 45:09Eric: Um, I do want to look up Alternatively, the Flying Purple People Eater.
- 45:13Eric: The Flying Purple People Eater.
- 45:15Eric: If if this is kind of a bittersweet thing, because I'm glad it doesn't need to be done, but if it was still around, and kind of to give these tasks a little bit of a progressive, like a little, a little bit of a modern, like little, let's uh let's zhuzh it up a little, make it a little more, you know, less killy, uh, to free shamu.
- 45:33Eric: But shamu is no longer with us.
- 45:35Eric: So dead.
- 45:36Eric: Long dead.
- 45:37Matt: Long dead, but free the shamus.
- 45:39Eric: Uh, yeah, to find to to find and kill Bigfoot.
- 45:44Eric: I I do uh the problem is Bigfoot's not really hurting nobody, and I feel like a lot of these creatures were Cerberus is just sitting outside Hades minding his three-headed business.
- 45:56Eric: Yeah, but he doesn't let anybody leave.
- 45:58Eric: Yeah, he's just like chilling.
- 46:00Eric: Um, what I will say though, but like, you know, people say Cerberus.
- 46:05Matt: Up here in the overworld, we're not I'm not bothered by Cerberus on the daily.
- 46:10Eric: No, but like the lion and the hydra and the hind and the boars oh my, they were kind of fucking shit up.
- 46:17Eric: Uh and the horses kind of watching pooping all pooping all over the place.
- 46:21Eric: Let me hit you with this.
- 46:22Eric: Alright.
- 46:23Eric: So, what if Hercules had to slay at a creature, right?
- 46:26Eric: A beast.
- 46:27Matt: That's what I said, yeah.
- 46:28Eric: But yeah, this both gives us a little modern spin, but also calls back to the original tasks, right?
- 46:37Eric: It's got that new and old uh, you know, east meets west.
- 46:41Matt: Something new, something old, yes.
- 46:43Eric: Yes.
- 46:44Eric: Um what if he had to slay a mythological beast that is an actual mythological beast in our time and has caused great harm to many a people?
- 46:56Eric: I speak, of course.
- 46:58Matt: Can I guess?
- 46:59Eric: Guess.
- 46:59Eric: The chupacabra?
- 47:01Eric: No.
- 47:02Eric: Okay.
- 47:03Eric: The bull of Wall Street.
- 47:05Eric: The Hercules of Wall Street, Hercules is given the task to take down Wall Street.
- 47:12Eric: His Hercule his impossible labor is like Hercules, our our economies are in the are in the grips of the Bull of Wall Street.
- 47:22Matt: The Bronze Bull of Wall Street is just a statue.
- 47:25Matt: It's not it is.
- 47:26Matt: It's a metaphorical down.
- 47:29Matt: It is not a statue of a bull that's running through Manhattan at every day at 242.
- 47:35Eric: No, but man, if he could just bring it all down.
- 47:39Eric: Yes.
- 47:40Eric: If he could, he, if he could, if he could, if he sl Hercules, slayer of hedge funds.
- 47:45Eric: Hercules needs to break up the electoral college.
- 47:50Matt: Yes.
- 47:52Eric: That's a that's a Herculean task.
- 47:55Eric: Yes.
- 47:57Eric: Fucking slay the beast of slay the beast of special interests in capitalism.
- 48:02Matt: He needs to find and recover Sally Miscavige.
- 48:11SPEAKER_03: He needs to steal the Declaration of Independence.
- 48:16Matt: Well, wait a minute.
- 48:17Matt: Why would it Shelley Miscavige?
- 48:19Matt: I knew I was getting something wrong there.
- 48:21Matt: Um, why would he need to steal the Declaration of Independence?
- 48:25Matt: I mean, if anyone could.
- 48:27Matt: Sure.
- 48:28Matt: I mean, yes, he he's capable of it.
- 48:31Matt: But my point is why I know why he's bringing down Wall Street.
- 48:34Matt: I know why he's finding Shelly's.
- 48:35Eric: I mean, I feel like it's just in line with like a lot of a lot of Greek myth.
- 48:39Eric: Like a lot of Greek myths is like a lot of dudes, like big sweaty Greek dudes, well-oiled, muscled uh Greek dude, just so sweaty and oily, just doing just doing things because they they they fit they they can.
- 48:53Eric: They're like, I you oh, you see that tree that's growing on top of that mountain that only bears fruit every once 1,000 years, but if I pick it, I'll gain immortality.
- 49:02Eric: But like 10,000 things could kill me.
- 49:04Eric: I'm gonna go do that.
- 49:06Eric: And so he might see like, ah, you see that piece of paper written by a bunch of dead white guys?
- 49:10Eric: I'm gonna go steal that.
- 49:12Eric: I don't know why he talks like this.
- 49:14Eric: Like he talks like a stun.
- 49:15Eric: I'm gonna I'm gonna go do that.
- 49:17Matt: Why does he talk like a roided up gym goer?
- 49:20Eric: What the fuck is he would be like a TikTok like gym rat streamer?
- 49:25Eric: Like he was just like, what the fuck is up, chat?
- 49:27Eric: We're today we're stealing the Declaration of Independence.
- 49:32Eric: But not before we hit the leg day.
- 49:34SPEAKER_01: Come on, people.
- 49:35Eric: Crunch, crunch, and like when he's getting tackled by like Capitol Police, he's like, F in the chat, boys, F in the chat.
- 49:45Eric: Jesus.
- 49:46Eric: We've made Hercules very unlikable.
- 49:48Eric: He's made him so unlikable.
- 49:49Eric: Well, he'll be really likable once he brings down Wall Street and slays the Electoral College.
- 49:54Matt: I think there is something nice about him breaking up the Electoral College, breaking up Wall Street, and stealing the Declaration of Independence.
- 50:02Matt: But I do think he needs a proper sleigh.
- 50:06Eric: He does need a proper sleigh.
- 50:08Eric: He needs a proper I have look look, I killed it.
- 50:11Matt: And Chupacabra and Bigfoot stick out to me.
- 50:16Matt: They do.
- 50:17Matt: Perhaps also The Slenderman.
- 50:21Eric: Oh man, if anyone could take on Slenderman.
- 50:24Eric: Slenderman.
- 50:26Eric: Slenderman.
- 50:26Eric: Slenderman.
- 50:27Eric: Anyone Slenderman.
- 50:29Eric: Well, Mr.
- 50:30Eric: Slenderman.
- 50:31Eric: The Slim Gent.
- 50:33Eric: Uh old Slim Jim himself.
- 50:36Eric: Yeah.
- 50:36Eric: No, Hercules.
- 50:37Eric: Hercules fucking battling Slenderman.
- 50:39Eric: Because yeah, he battles many mighty things.
- 50:41Eric: Like he battles giant boars, lions.
- 50:44Eric: He hasn't really fought an existential, extra-dimensional terror.
- 50:49Eric: And I feel like there's like fertile ground there.
- 50:52Eric: So I can.
- 50:52Eric: Ooh, Mothman?
- 50:54Matt: Mothman.
- 50:55Eric: Hercules takes on the Mothman, though.
- 50:58Matt: Mothman was just trying to warn you about the bridge.
- 51:01Matt: Yep.
- 51:02Matt: That's uh at the end of the day, that's all he was trying to do.
- 51:05Matt: He was trying to prevent those lives from being lost.
- 51:07Eric: Yeah, no, Slender Man looks scary.
- 51:09Eric: I think he was trying to hurt.
- 51:11Eric: I think Slender Man.
- 51:11Eric: So Hercules could could slay Slender Man.
- 51:14Eric: Well, there's a Eric, we've provided like a variety of these tasks.
- 51:18Eric: We've given so many bitchin' tasks.
- 51:20Eric: And I would actually say I the more I think about it, the more I like the Slender Man task because Hercules is like diametrically opposed by because Hercules thick.
- 51:29Eric: Hercules is not a slender gentleman.
- 51:31Eric: He is he is dummy thick.
- 51:33Eric: He's got that tight waist though.
- 51:35Eric: He's got like he's waist training.
- 51:38Matt: Canonically not fast.
- 51:40Eric: No, not not very fast.
- 51:42Eric: He's like a walking triangle of muscle.
- 51:45Matt: Yeah.
- 51:46Eric: Very uh Dwayne the Rock Johnson of very Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
- 51:50Eric: Yeah.
- 51:51Eric: Which in this in our mod that's just who I'm picturing now.
- 51:54Eric: Like I hope that's okay.
- 51:55Eric: That Dwayne the Rock Johnson is our Hercules.
- 51:58Eric: He's like the closest we're gonna get.
- 52:00Eric: Or, you know, Dave Batista.
- 52:02Eric: But yeah.
- 52:03Eric: But uh but yeah, I think I think Hercul either 13th Impossible Labor, either Hercules brings down the Electoral College slash Wall Street slash.
- 52:14Eric: No, I think he's gotta do them all.
- 52:15Eric: He's gotta do them all?
- 52:16Eric: Yeah I think these are his new set of tasks.
- 52:19Eric: These these are his new tasks.
- 52:21Eric: To bring them up to speed.
- 52:22Eric: Yes.
- 52:23Eric: To kind of get it like get them in on the ground floor of 2023.
- 52:27Matt: Absolutely.
- 52:28Matt: Well, at AJ Stiegler, I think we've answered your question tenfold.
- 52:34Matt: Oh, 100%.
- 52:36Matt: And Eric.
- 52:37Matt: We're killing this.
- 52:38Matt: We're killing this.
- 52:39Matt: We're moving.
- 52:39Matt: We're grooving.
- 52:41Matt: We were anyway, because we are entering the closing segment that I am very eager to get to.
- 52:49Eric: And and so am I.
- 52:50Eric: And Matt, I am so nervous.
- 52:51Eric: I think my body is responding.
- 52:53Eric: I need to poop so badly.
- 52:55Eric: I think that's my body reacting like, bro, you need to be light on your feet for this.
- 52:59Matt: All right.
- 53:00Matt: Well, here a very brief intermission.
- 53:02Matt: Intermission music.
- 53:04unknown: Go.
- 53:11Matt: Previously on You Didn't Ask for This, Eric chose Violence.
- 53:18Matt: And he came in last round with, let's be honest, Eric, be honest with me.
- 53:23Matt: Three locations, and looking back on them, looking back on them, I'll give you Chernobyl and Moulin Rouge as things I could have gotten.
- 53:37Matt: There's no way I could have gotten that fucking Hadron Collider bullshit.
- 53:40Matt: No way.
- 53:42Matt: You know that world famous Swiss.
- 53:47Matt: There is Eric.
- 53:48Matt: There is no international.
- 53:51Matt: There's no way you saw that and said, Eric, be honest with me.
- 53:56Matt: When you saw that, did you say, in fairness, there's a chance he can get this?
- 54:02Eric: I mean, well, I had the thought.
- 54:04Eric: I was like, oh, CERN, that's okay.
- 54:06Eric: Well, I was like, but I thought, no, Matt Matt is a worldly man.
- 54:10Eric: A renaissance gentleman.
- 54:11Eric: Sure.
- 54:12Eric: Okay.
- 54:12Eric: Uh a learned.
- 54:14Eric: How many straws you grasped at now, Eric?
- 54:17Eric: I I find like I understand in the future.
- 54:20Eric: I'll just cool down a little bit.
- 54:22Matt: Folks, if this is your first episode, the point of Google Gripes is supposed to be three well-known places with three one-star Google reviews of each, and we guessed the location.
- 54:35Matt: That's what we're going to do here, Eric.
- 54:37Matt: And let me tell you, I have three locations for you that I sat with myself, a fairer person than you, and said, It is possible from these three reviews to get these locations.
- 54:51Eric: I've done that for you, Eric.
- 54:52Eric: He's like laying the foundation of like when I knock this out of the parking be like, well, you know, I made it easy.
- 54:58Matt: No, what I'm doing is I'm saying I'm a better person than you.
- 55:02Matt: I made it fair.
- 55:03unknown: Okay.
- 55:04Matt: Whereas you came for blood, but I have chosen reviews that while I think, give you the information you need, so if you get some of these, I won't be shocked.
- 55:14Matt: I won't be shocked.
- 55:16SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 55:17Matt: But Eric, I made it difficult.
- 55:20Matt: There were easier reviews I could have pulled.
- 55:24Matt: Because you gave me a goose egg, Eric.
- 55:26unknown: Okay.
- 55:26Eric: I've just I I I appreciate your concern.
- 55:31Eric: Eh?
- 55:32Eric: Remember that place you couldn't guess?
- 55:34Eric: So you ready, Eric?
- 55:35Eric: Yes, I'm ready.
- 55:36Eric: I'm so ready.
- 55:37Eric: God damn it.
- 55:38Matt: Good.
- 55:39Matt: First location, first review.
- 55:42Matt: Yep.
- 55:43Matt: It is very beautiful place for visiting to the visitor.
- 55:47Matt: We enjoy with my family on that day.
- 55:49Matt: In that particular visit day, a Hollywood move shooting was running.
- 55:54Matt: We are all very enjoy that day and also seen the nearest place.
- 55:58Matt: Very beautiful Nazara was at the end of the sea.
- 56:02Matt: Thanks.
- 56:03Matt: Okay.
- 56:05Matt: Okay.
- 56:06Matt: Review number two.
- 56:08Matt: Genuinely love how all tourists take picture of this giant dish rack as if they've never done dishes before.
- 56:16Matt: Amazing.
- 56:17unknown: Okay.
- 56:19Matt: Finally, Blank, located near the harbor bridge, has the aesthetic of a confused sailboat.
- 56:25Matt: Many tourists are mesmerized by its nature and overpriced tickets.
- 56:30Matt: Standing on the entrance steps will give you the thought of how pointless your life is, and you will feel overwhelmed by the Chinese hordes surrounding you.
- 56:38Matt: My God.
- 56:40Eric: This has everything.
- 56:42Eric: Hollywood.
- 56:43Eric: Racism.
- 56:45Eric: Yes.
- 56:46Eric: Okay.
- 56:48Eric: So fuck.
- 56:50Eric: Okay.
- 56:50Eric: So I'm getting I'm getting a sense of water.
- 56:53Eric: Some sort of uh And once again, just like you, I put these, I want you to know, in order of least difficult to most difficult.
- 57:01Eric: Okay.
- 57:02Eric: Getting a nautical sense.
- 57:03Eric: Film was being shot there.
- 57:05Eric: Lots of tourists, harbors.
- 57:10Eric: Oh, some guy mentioned end of an ocean or something.
- 57:13Matt: I feel like I think you're gonna get it.
- 57:15Eric: Damn it, I think you're gonna get it.
- 57:16Eric: Hold on.
- 57:17Eric: Hold on.
- 57:18Matt: I should have I should have gone hardest to not hardest because I feel like you're gonna get this.
- 57:22Matt: And if you go one up on the first one, I'm gonna hold on.
- 57:26Eric: I uh don't put too much faith in me now.
- 57:29Eric: I don't have any faith in you.
- 57:30Eric: Glorified dishwreck.
- 57:32Eric: Some sensing some kind of strange structure, either some kind of vessel or a thing built on the water where they would shoot Hollywood films.
- 57:45Eric: Glorified dishwreck.
- 57:47Eric: Lots of Chinese tourists.
- 57:51Eric: Am I allowed to pull up the dock of previous locations we've done?
- 57:55Eric: I'd say no.
- 57:56Eric: Okay.
- 57:57Eric: Fair, fair, fair.
- 57:58Matt: I'd say no, but I can tell you if you want to ask me if we've done a location, I can confirm or deny because I do have the dock open.
- 58:06Matt: Have we done Sydney Opera House?
- 58:08Eric: We have not.
- 58:10Eric: My guess is the Sydney Opera House.
- 58:12Eric: Sydney Opera House.
- 58:15Eric: I fucking knew you'd get it.
- 58:16Matt: God damn it! Yes!
- 58:18SPEAKER_03: Yes! God, I am the greatest!
- 58:22Matt: Oh one fucking one nothing.
- 58:28Matt: God damn it.
- 58:29Matt: Alright, Eric, you're one for one.
- 58:32Matt: Alright.
- 58:33Matt: You're one for one, and I'm mad about it.
- 58:36Matt: But that's okay.
- 58:37Matt: That's okay.
- 58:37Matt: I thought you might get that.
- 58:40Eric: You prepared for this eventuality.
- 58:43Matt: It was the confused sailboat, wasn't it?
- 58:45Matt: It was too good to not include.
- 58:46Eric: Honestly, it was the dish rack line.
- 58:49Eric: I was like dish rack.
- 58:50Matt: Interesting.
- 58:51Matt: Yeah.
- 58:52Matt: Okay.
- 58:53Matt: The fun is over.
- 58:55Matt: Location number two.
- 58:57Matt: Yes.
- 58:58Matt: Yes.
- 58:59Matt: That's enough.
- 59:00Matt: Fucking can't believe you got that, you piece of shit.
- 59:03Matt: Have we done the Sydney Opera House?
- 59:05unknown: Yeah, have we done the Sydney Opera House?
- 59:06Matt: My friend Gomez walked into one of the columns.
- 59:10Matt: I think it's not necessary to have columns.
- 59:13Matt: Did you know that nowadays they could build something that spans the entire street like leaving it open?
- 59:20Matt: It's a lot safer.
- 59:22Matt: My friend looks hideous now and is no longer married.
- 59:27Eric: What the fuck?
- 59:30Eric: Alright, a home wrecking location.
- 59:32Eric: Got it.
- 59:33Matt: Review number two.
- 59:35Matt: Once this was the symbol as the door for freedom from East to CV the West.
- 59:42Matt: Unfortunately, far too less people to reach this feeling of cohesion.
- 59:48Matt: Okay.
- 59:49Matt: Review number three.
- 59:51Matt: No actual doors.
- 59:53Matt: Not safe.
- 59:54Matt: Can't keep intruders out.
- 1:00:00Matt: Yeah.
- 1:00:01Matt: Chew on that one.
- 1:00:02Matt: Chew on that one.
- 1:00:03Matt: I'm just gonna throw it out there.
- 1:00:04Eric: Is this the Great Wall of China?
- 1:00:07Matt: Is there anything else you want to ask me?
- 1:00:10Eric: Um have we done the Great Wall of China before?
- 1:00:14Eric: Yes, we have.
- 1:00:14Eric: Okay, then never mind.
- 1:00:16Eric: Uh okay.
- 1:00:18Eric: Okay.
- 1:00:19Eric: So columns keep people out, stretching, not enough people.
- 1:00:24Eric: Ooh.
- 1:00:25Eric: Yeah, what do you got for me?
- 1:00:26Matt: You got something cooking.
- 1:00:28Matt: I'll say I've already given you more than you gave me because for both of these, you've had thoughts.
- 1:00:35Matt: You've had, could it be this?
- 1:00:37Matt: As opposed to me out here drowning in an ocean, going, I got nothing at all.
- 1:00:42Matt: Matt is the do I tell you?
- 1:00:45Matt: If you get I'll say, Eric, if you get it, I'll be very impressed.
- 1:00:48Eric: Okay, I think I have a guess.
- 1:00:49Eric: Alright.
- 1:00:50Eric: Um I'm ready for it.
- 1:00:52Eric: Matt, is it the Berlin Wall?
- 1:00:55Eric: Is it the Berlin Wall?
- 1:00:57Eric: Final answer.
- 1:00:58Eric: Final answer.
- 1:00:59Eric: I know there are chunks of it still up that like they use for like display.
- 1:01:03Eric: Eric.
- 1:01:05Matt: No, it's not.
- 1:01:06Matt: Okay.
- 1:01:07Matt: But you are close.
- 1:01:11Matt: What is it?
- 1:01:12Matt: So close, you're in the same city.
- 1:01:15Matt: What is it?
- 1:01:16Matt: We're talking about the Brandenburg Gate, Eric.
- 1:01:20Matt: Oh my god.
- 1:01:21SPEAKER_00: Brandenburg Gate.
- 1:01:23SPEAKER_00: The Brandenburg what?
- 1:01:26Matt: The Brandenburg Gate.
- 1:01:28Eric: Okay.
- 1:01:28Matt: The symbol of the separation of East and West Germany.
- 1:01:33Matt: Germany.
- 1:01:34Eric: Was this built after the wall was torn down?
- 1:01:36Matt: Or uh oh no, I'm pretty sure the Brandenburg Gate's been around since the 1800s.
- 1:01:42Matt: Look at him.
- 1:01:43Eric: Look at I could see him like, oh, I'm pretty sure it's been around.
- 1:01:46Eric: Open Wikipedia tab.
- 1:01:47Eric: Since the 1800s, Eric.
- 1:01:49Matt: I don't have it open.
- 1:01:50Matt: It's a famous landmark.
- 1:01:51Matt: Okay.
- 1:01:53Matt: The one thing that survived bombings of World War II.
- 1:01:56Matt: Okay.
- 1:01:56Matt: People know the Brandenburg Gate.
- 1:01:58Matt: People don't know the Hadron Collider, you piece of shit.
- 1:02:03Matt: Location number three.
- 1:02:05Matt: Yep.
- 1:02:07Eric: All right.
- 1:02:08Eric: God.
- 1:02:09Eric: And this is okay Brandenburg Gate into whatever the fuck this is gonna be.
- 1:02:13Matt: Well, now I I do want to make sure it is the same city.
- 1:02:16Matt: I I'll feel bad if I got it.
- 1:02:18Eric: Well, I'm assuming the city would be Brandenburg, or unless that's the name of the person who built it.
- 1:02:23Matt: No, it's in Berlin.
- 1:02:24Eric: Okay.
- 1:02:25Eric: Yeah.
- 1:02:26Matt: Worldly men on this podcast.
- 1:02:28Matt: 18th century neoclassical monument in Berlin.
- 1:02:32Eric: Oh, that oh, Brandenburg Gate.
- 1:02:35Eric: Yeah, no, I got it now.
- 1:02:36Eric: Shut up.
- 1:02:37Eric: Sorry, it was Brandenburg Gate.
- 1:02:39Eric: Okay, sorry.
- 1:02:40Eric: I thought you said Brandenburg Gate.
- 1:02:41Eric: Okay.
- 1:02:42Matt: Third location.
- 1:02:45Matt: Good and Miracle Place.
- 1:02:48Matt: That's it?
- 1:02:49Matt: Review number two.
- 1:02:50Eric: Holy shit, Matthew.
- 1:02:52Eric: That was it?
- 1:02:54Eric: Good and Miracle Place.
- 1:02:55Eric: I'll give it to you.
- 1:02:56Matt: Okay, yeah.
- 1:02:56Matt: Give it to me again.
- 1:02:57Eric: Give it to me again.
- 1:02:58Matt: Good and Miracle Place.
- 1:03:00Matt: Okay.
- 1:03:00Matt: Review number two.
- 1:03:02Matt: Fuck.
- 1:03:04Matt: Ratings are for things or places which can be compared to others, but priceless places are far away to be rated.
- 1:03:13Matt: Who can rate blank?
- 1:03:16Matt: One star, I will remind you.
- 1:03:20Matt: And number three, overcrowded.
- 1:03:23Matt: So hot, not well organized.
- 1:03:26Matt: People at duty, not cooperative, need to be more sympathy with your quests.
- 1:03:33Matt: Okay.
- 1:03:35Eric: Okay, I think I know what this is.
- 1:03:38Eric: I fuck.
- 1:03:38Eric: I can't.
- 1:03:40Matt: You've come in you've come so hot out of out of me saying the third one.
- 1:03:45Matt: I am nervous, you know.
- 1:03:47Matt: I I had an additional hint, and I'm not giving it to you now.
- 1:03:52unknown: Fuck.
- 1:03:52Eric: Uh no, I think I know what it is.
- 1:03:55Eric: I'm trying to remember what it's actually called.
- 1:03:59Eric: Um I I I I I I I think I know where it is.
- 1:04:04Eric: I ain't saying shit.
- 1:04:05Eric: Is is are we talking about the Holy Land?
- 1:04:09Eric: Are we talking about Jerusalem?
- 1:04:10Eric: I'm not giving you anything.
- 1:04:15Matt: You can like if you want to submit that, you can submit that.
- 1:04:18Matt: No, but like there's just Jerusalem, Jerusalem as a whole.
- 1:04:21Matt: Is that what you're saying?
- 1:04:22Eric: No, because like there's the there's like the holy site.
- 1:04:24Eric: There's the whole thing.
- 1:04:25Matt: Tell me what you're trying to think of, and I'll tell I can help you.
- 1:04:29Eric: There is like there is the site it in in in like it is like the fucking it's the place where everyone makes the fucking pilgrimages and goes and like touches the the the the the thing.
- 1:04:44Eric: Fuck.
- 1:04:45Eric: Oh, what's it called?
- 1:04:47Eric: And like there's a whole bunch of people there.
- 1:04:49Eric: The quests made me think of people going on pilgrimages to this place.
- 1:04:52Eric: What religion are you working with here, Eric?
- 1:04:54Eric: Help me out.
- 1:04:56Eric: I'm pretty sure it's uh uh Give me something.
- 1:05:00Eric: What does it look like?
- 1:05:01Eric: I'm trying to help you out.
- 1:05:02Eric: It's like a giant tomb, it's like a giant like fucking like monument slash tomb that everyone goes up and fucking touches.
- 1:05:10Eric: Like they all stand around it.
- 1:05:12Eric: I'm f showing my my worldliness here or lack thereof.
- 1:05:16Eric: I think we're dealing with it, it's a it's a I think it's like a I think it's a Muslim cult like cultural site.
- 1:05:24Eric: I think it might be like what what's generally understood to be like the tomb of Muhammad or something like that.
- 1:05:30Eric: Uh but I I don't know if it's in Jer- I can I don't think that's in Jerusalem.
- 1:05:34Eric: Or it might be in Jerusalem.
- 1:05:36Eric: That's why I asked what religion you're working with.
- 1:05:38Eric: I know.
- 1:05:42Eric: I'm just gonna go, I'm gonna go like a little bit specifically.
- 1:05:45Eric: I'm gonna say the tomb of Muhammad.
- 1:05:49Matt: The tomb of Muhammad.
- 1:05:51Matt: Yes.
- 1:05:52Matt: I wanna I have to do a Google.
- 1:05:54Matt: I have to do a quick Google.
- 1:06:01Matt: Okay.
- 1:06:03Matt: I I I am confirming that there is a tomb of Muhammad.
- 1:06:08Matt: Okay?
- 1:06:09Matt: It's referred to as the Green Dome.
- 1:06:13Matt: That is what I'm thinking of.
- 1:06:14Matt: The Green Dome.
- 1:06:16Matt: I'm gonna show you a picture.
- 1:06:17Matt: Yep.
- 1:06:18Matt: Are you thinking of this?
- 1:06:22Matt: No.
- 1:06:23Matt: I don't know what to tell you.
- 1:06:24Matt: Okay.
- 1:06:25Matt: That is my guess.
- 1:06:26Matt: You said tomb of Muhammad.
- 1:06:27Matt: I said tomb of Muhammad.
- 1:06:29Matt: Now I am going so you're locking it in.
- 1:06:33Matt: You're saying tomb of Muhammad.
- 1:06:35Eric: I have to.
- 1:06:35Eric: I've committed.
- 1:06:36Matt: But I've shown you a picture of the Tomb of Muhammad and you've told me that's not what you're thinking of.
- 1:06:40Matt: That's not what I'm thinking of.
- 1:06:41Matt: I know.
- 1:06:42Matt: I am I am doing the right thing.
- 1:06:45Matt: I have a fe here's I'm having a moral conundrum, Eric.
- 1:06:49Matt: Yep.
- 1:06:50Matt: I thought I gave you a gotcha.
- 1:06:52Matt: And I think you got it.
- 1:06:54Matt: You just don't know the name of it.
- 1:06:56Eric: I don't know the name.
- 1:06:57Eric: I know.
- 1:06:58Eric: We're in the fucking like I we both know that what place I'm talking about.
- 1:07:03Eric: I know, I know what you're thinking of now.
- 1:07:06Eric: But I would also argue, Matt, it is on me to know the name of the place.
- 1:07:11Matt: I have helped you out to the point that I have I want to talk about fairness.
- 1:07:17Matt: I have because you let me Google a name in the last episode.
- 1:07:22Matt: That was wrong, because of course you let me Google it.
- 1:07:24Matt: Yep.
- 1:07:26Matt: I, and that was Brandcastle.
- 1:07:29Matt: I Googled it, I gave it to you, you accepted.
- 1:07:32Matt: Yep.
- 1:07:33Matt: Okay?
- 1:07:33Matt: Yep.
- 1:07:34Matt: So, in fairness, I will allow you a Google.
- 1:07:40Matt: Okay.
- 1:07:40Matt: Look at how humble I am, Eric.
- 1:07:43Matt: Okay, I am I'm you get one Google search.
- 1:07:46Matt: So choose your fucking words wisely.
- 1:07:49Matt: In fact, I want you to tell me what your Google search is before you make it.
- 1:07:53Eric: I am Googling Zion, Jerusalem.
- 1:07:56Matt: Okay.
- 1:08:00Matt: I'll remind everybody that my Google was Dracula Castle Real.
- 1:08:05Matt: Okay?
- 1:08:05Matt: So I c comparable, one might say.
- 1:08:08unknown: Fucking.
- 1:08:10Eric: You know what?
- 1:08:12Eric: I think I will say it.
- 1:08:13Eric: I feel better about this guess, even though I'm pretty sure it's still wrong, but I think it might be there.
- 1:08:17Eric: I'm going to say Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
- 1:08:20Matt: Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
- 1:08:22Matt: Yes.
- 1:08:22Matt: Eric, I've allowed you a Google.
- 1:08:24Matt: You have allowed me a Google.
- 1:08:26Matt: Would you say I've shown you a picture of an original guest that you've done?
- 1:08:30Eric: You have given me locked in.
- 1:08:33Eric: You have given me so much, Matthew.
- 1:08:36Eric: Have I been fair to you, Eric?
- 1:08:38Eric: You have.
- 1:08:40Matt: This is before we have.
- 1:08:42Matt: Have I not been great?
- 1:08:44Matt: I will tell.
- 1:08:44Matt: First of all, you've already won the round, okay?
- 1:08:47Matt: You're gonna take the lead in round two.
- 1:08:49Matt: We tied 2-2 in round one.
- 1:08:51Matt: Now it's it is at minimum one nothing.
- 1:08:55Matt: Okay?
- 1:08:55Matt: Yep.
- 1:08:56Matt: So this is ego rev rev removed from me.
- 1:08:58Matt: This is I just want you to tell me if I've been fair to you.
- 1:09:01Matt: You have been more than fair, Matthew.
- 1:09:04Matt: You're fucking wrong.
- 1:09:07Eric: What was it?
- 1:09:08Eric: What was it?
- 1:09:09Eric: God free me from this hell.
- 1:09:11Matt: We are talking about it, its proper name, which I did not expect you to get.
- 1:09:16Matt: So I was I was gonna accept the common name, of course.
- 1:09:19Matt: And I'm gonna butcher it.
- 1:09:20Matt: Majid Al-Haram is the proper name of the great mosque at Mecca.
- 1:09:28Eric: Yes, the gr- that's the word I couldn't remember.
- 1:09:31Eric: Fucking Mecca.
- 1:09:32Eric: Fucking Mecca.
- 1:09:33Eric: That would have been.
- 1:09:35Matt: And so I and I did include quests so you'd get it.
- 1:09:38Matt: You're thinking of this.
- 1:09:39Matt: Yes.
- 1:09:39SPEAKER_03: Yes, yes, yes.
- 1:09:41SPEAKER_03: God damn it, yes.
- 1:09:43Matt: If all the pilgrims go.
- 1:09:45Matt: Here, I want you to tell me.
- 1:09:46Matt: I want to, I mean, I want to tell you.
- 1:09:48Matt: Had you said something related to the black box, I would have given it to you.
- 1:09:54Matt: Gotcha.
- 1:09:54Matt: I would have given it to you.
- 1:09:56Matt: Gotcha.
- 1:09:57Matt: And I will show my ignorance because I wanted to Google Tomb of Muhammad because I was like, wait, is that what that is?
- 1:10:03Matt: I don't think that's what it is.
- 1:10:05Matt: Yep.
- 1:10:05Eric: And it's well, we both learned a lot today.
- 1:10:08Eric: We both learned a lot today.
- 1:10:09Eric: We learned how much we don't know.
- 1:10:11Eric: We learned how much we have yet to know.
- 1:10:13Eric: Oh my god.
- 1:10:14Eric: And you know what's funny?
- 1:10:15Eric: At one point I just wanted to say, oh yeah, the big fucking box, but that sounded disrespectful in my head.
- 1:10:20Eric: So I didn't say that.
- 1:10:21SPEAKER_03: And and indeed, I think it probably is disrespectful, but I would have accepted it because I would have known what you were talking about.
- 1:10:29SPEAKER_01: I got uh I tried so hard and got some, but in the end I couldn't go to Mecca.
- 1:10:38Matt: My hint, my bonus hint to you would be what I was prepared to say because I was thinking about this.
- 1:10:45Matt: I thought it was really hard, but no, you came out of the gate knowing what it was, but you couldn't get there.
- 1:10:51Matt: I was prepared to say, this is a place, Eric, that I guarantee you know, and guarantee you will never go to.
- 1:11:01Eric: That might that would have helped me a lot, actually.
- 1:11:03Matt: And I thought about that wording because what I would, because I originally I I told you I thought a lot about this.
- 1:11:09Matt: What originally was gonna say is, and would guarantee you're not allowed to ghost.
- 1:11:15Matt: And I thought, no, no, that will give too much away.
- 1:11:19Eric: Yeah, and apologies to any of our logicless listeners.
- 1:11:25Eric: I am very uh please know I am very aware of how much I've butchered so much knowledge.
- 1:11:32Matt: Apologies to just all the religions, just all of them, just all of them, just all each and every one of you.
- 1:11:38Eric: Sorry about it.
- 1:11:39Eric: Scientology, you can go stand in the corner, but everyone else.
- 1:11:44Matt: That is a cult.
- 1:11:45Matt: We will not uh address them.
- 1:11:47Eric: Sorry, Westboro Baptist Church, you just go hang out with the Scientologists.
- 1:11:51Eric: Everyone else, though.
- 1:11:52Matt: Second Scientology reference of this episode.
- 1:11:54Matt: Amazing.
- 1:11:55Matt: Yep.
- 1:11:55Matt: Uh so anyway, Eric, at the end of round two, you get one, I get none.
- 1:12:03Matt: The overall score for season two.
- 1:12:06Matt: Give it to me.
- 1:12:06Matt: Give it to me.
- 1:12:08Matt: Three to two, Eric.
- 1:12:10Matt: Three to I didn't care for that.
- 1:12:14Matt: I didn't care for that.
- 1:12:15Matt: I kind of want to censor that with a Wilhelm screen.
- 1:12:20Eric: Do it.
- 1:12:21Matt: Uh I won't censor it, but I I will have thrown one in, and that will about do it for this episode.
- 1:12:27Matt: If you didn't ask for this, folks, you know there's one thing in this world Eric and I love more than anything else, and that is answering your questions.
- 1:12:35Matt: God, please, babies.
- 1:12:37Matt: My babies, my my darlings, my angels.
- 1:12:40Matt: So send them in.
- 1:12:41Matt: You don't have to wait for us to post something on Instagram or Twitter soliciting questions.
- 1:12:48Matt: And listen, I haven't been good about it posting them lately.
- 1:12:51Matt: I'll admit, but listen, you don't have to wait for me.
- 1:12:54Matt: You don't have to wait for the invitation.
- 1:12:56Matt: Your invitation is right here, right now.
- 1:12:58Matt: Yeah.
- 1:12:59Matt: Go ahead and submit them to us, Eric.
- 1:13:01SPEAKER_01: No day but today.
- 1:13:07Matt: And you can do that at you didn't ask for this at gmail.com, all spelled out, or you didn't ask pod.
- 1:13:13Matt: That's the letter you didn't ask pod on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, wherever the fuck you want to put them, you give it to us.
- 1:13:22Matt: Also, it was announced this week that uh YouTube is gonna be rolling out YouTube podcasts.
- 1:13:27Matt: How about that?
- 1:13:28Eric: Okay.
- 1:13:29Eric: Oh, we need to get it on the ground floor.
- 1:13:31Matt: Absolutely.
- 1:13:32Matt: I mean, I think there's plenty of podcasts already on YouTube, but nevertheless, we're gonna we're gonna just plug in that.
- 1:13:38Matt: I just plug in YouTube, I guess.
- 1:13:40Matt: Yeah.
- 1:13:40Matt: Just plug in YouTube, and of course, to listen to us on good pods.
- 1:13:45Eric: Uh we currently sit, number one, top 100 indie podcast, pop culture.
- 1:13:51Matt: Yeah, actually, just pop culture, not even the indication.
- 1:13:53Matt: Just pop culture, not even indie.
- 1:13:54Eric: Yeah, we are the culture.
- 1:13:56Matt: Last I checked, we are the culture.
- 1:13:58Eric: We, we, oh yes.
- 1:14:00Eric: Uh we two men.
- 1:14:03Eric: It's a privilege.
- 1:14:04Matt: We two white privileged men are the culture.
- 1:14:07Matt: Lily white.
- 1:14:09Matt: Lily white men.
- 1:14:11Matt: Ooh, man.
- 1:14:12Matt: Both of us avoiding the sun.
- 1:14:15Matt: Now, now then.
- 1:14:17Matt: Uh I think that's all the stuff.
- 1:14:19Matt: Leave us a review on Good Pods, leave us some listens, help us crawl crawl up the charts, if you will.
- 1:14:25Matt: And this past weekend, we had the distinct pleasure of being guests on Effin Cultured for their biannual roast episode.
- 1:14:34Matt: We were roasting Mario, weren't we, Eric?
- 1:14:37Eric: Yeah, we're hoping, unlike our NES cartridges growing up, you know, it doesn't blow.
- 1:14:42Eric: Yes.
- 1:14:42Eric: So go ahead and give that a listen.
- 1:14:44Eric: That episode is out now and called the effing roast of Mario and friends on Eff Cultured.
- 1:14:50Eric: So go ahead and listen to that wherever you are listening to this podcast right now.
- 1:14:55Eric: Nice.
- 1:14:56Eric: Good work, Eric.
- 1:14:57Eric: Did we miss anything?
- 1:14:58Eric: My brother, you gave them the business so good.
- 1:15:01Eric: I I can't.
- 1:15:02Eric: No notes.
- 1:15:03Eric: No notes.
- 1:15:04Matt: I gave them the business just like fucking you gave me the business last time.
- 1:15:08Matt: Anyway, I'm gonna leave it behind.
- 1:15:10Matt: I'm not bitter.
- 1:15:11Matt: I'm I'm fair.
- 1:15:13Matt: I'm fair.
- 1:15:14Matt: I'm a fair and balanced person.
- 1:15:15Matt: Oh, don't like that phrase.
- 1:15:17Matt: Anyway.
- 1:15:19Matt: So it's privileged.
- 1:15:20Matt: It's privilege for all of us here.
- 1:15:22Matt: You didn't ask for this.
- 1:15:23Matt: My name's Matthew Jay.
- 1:15:24Matt: My name's Eric Poach.
- 1:15:26Eric: And listen, you didn't ask.
- 1:15:28Eric: But fun fact, if you go back and listen to the episode, like the Google Gripes, where I absolutely destroyed Matt, I was sprinkling in secret hints throughout our entire conversation.
- 1:15:37Eric: And I was wondering if he was gonna pick up on it when he was editing the episode, like when it was Mulan Rouge at one point, I said, You can do this, Matt.
- 1:15:44Eric: You can, you can.
- 1:15:46Eric: Can can.
- 1:15:48Eric: A bad person and a bad friend.