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- 0:00Eric Poch: Matt, I want to talk about vice Vice, specifically one of my vices.
- 0:06Matthew Shea: Oh, okay, I thought, maybe Miami vice.
- 0:09Eric Poch: No, no, no, no.
- 0:09Eric Poch: All right, we'll all shoot.
- 0:11Eric Poch: I am a fool, a sucker, 100% agree.
- 0:15Eric Poch: A simp for Benjamin Gerald's ice cream.
- 0:21Matthew Shea: Uh-huh sure who is not.
- 0:23Eric Poch: Which quick straw poll and know there is no wrong answer.
- 0:26Eric Poch: What is your favorite Ben and Jerry's flavor?
- 0:29Matthew Shea: I think one just want to say I think this might be the earliest I've ever said this.
- 0:34Matthew Shea: We have talked about this before.
- 0:36Matthew Shea: Excellent, on this show we have, I'd say, the tonight dough.
- 0:40Matthew Shea: It's the Jimmy Fallon branded, which I know feels a little mainstream, but it's so goddamn good.
- 0:47Matthew Shea: I love the tonight dough.
- 0:50Eric Poch: I actually tried it in honor of you.
- 0:52Eric Poch: I did enjoy it very much.
- 0:54Matthew Shea: It's fucking delicious Chubby hubby's up there.
- 0:56Eric Poch: Chubby hubby is top tier.
- 0:57Eric Poch: I shift back and forth on my favorites but, like my trio, my holy trinity is chubby hubby.
- 1:04Eric Poch: There's s'mores ice cream is phenomenal S'mores is good.
- 1:09Eric Poch: And everything but the, because everything but.
- 1:14Eric Poch: Have you had everything but?
- 1:15Matthew Shea: that the kitchen sink yeah.
- 1:16Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:17Eric Poch: I don't think so.
- 1:18Eric Poch: So let me walk you through this journey.
- 1:20Matthew Shea: It for my.
- 1:21Eric Poch: ADHD brain.
- 1:21Eric Poch: It is a like delight of sensations and stimulation, because there's like just it's chocolate ice cream, vanilla ice cream, and then you've got motherfucking peanut butter cups, chocolate covered almonds, chocolate covered bits of toffee and humps of white fudge, like there's just the gamut Love that.
- 1:41Eric Poch: So I just want to walk you through this kind of like emotional lazy river that I was on.
- 1:49Matthew Shea: I wouldn't call them emotional roller coaster.
- 1:52Eric Poch: The stakes weren't high enough.
- 1:53Eric Poch: An emotional lazy river.
- 1:56Eric Poch: Yeah.
- 1:57Matthew Shea: Interesting.
- 1:58Eric Poch: Now I had started my journey on my, on my everything but that I had my pint.
- 2:02Eric Poch: There you go.
- 2:02Eric Poch: I.
- 2:03Eric Poch: I don't know about you, but when I'm eating a pint of Ben Jerry's ice cream, I'm kind of like taking stock of what I encounter.
- 2:09Eric Poch: I feel like a dwarf, like delving into the minds looking for rich veins of, of flavorful goodness, sure.
- 2:18Eric Poch: So I'm like ooh, ooh, what's this?
- 2:19Eric Poch: I pry this up out of the.
- 2:21Eric Poch: This is like my fear, I feel like I'm excavating toppings.
- 2:26Matthew Shea: Just to clarify, eric when you say eat a pint, are you suggesting that you just pop the lid off and eat an entire pint of Ben Jerry's ice cream in one go?
- 2:34Eric Poch: No, no, no, no.
- 2:34Eric Poch: Much like a good book.
- 2:35Eric Poch: I do it.
- 2:36Eric Poch: I do it bits at a time.
- 2:37Matthew Shea: It's a journey, but but you don't take it out and like you don't scoop it into a bowl, oh fuck no, yeah, you go you eat that shit straight off the dome.
- 2:47Matthew Shea: No, I don't think you put it in a bowl.
- 2:49Matthew Shea: You mean ice cream.
- 2:50Matthew Shea: Yeah, typically I do.
- 2:52Eric Poch: Matthew, this isn't a fucking tub of briars, Eric, we had a whole.
- 2:57Matthew Shea: We had a whole episode about not a whole episode, but a very early on conversation about my favorite ice cream scoop.
- 3:04Eric Poch: Yeah, but yes, valid, and it is a fine ice cream scoop, but there's like ice cream.
- 3:09Eric Poch: And then there's Ben and Jerry's.
- 3:11Eric Poch: Ben and Jerry's I feel like they nailed it.
- 3:12Eric Poch: They're like look, this is everything you need, right here.
- 3:15Matthew Shea: If there's not enough for there to be any saved after, you know what I'm saying.
- 3:20Matthew Shea: Like you're down to the last third of it, oh, I'll just eat that out of the Ben and Jerry's.
- 3:25Eric Poch: For sure, oh, I, I, I from the get Okay.
- 3:30Matthew Shea: Are you the only one who would eat it, though, like is anyone else?
- 3:32Matthew Shea: Oh yeah, it is.
- 3:33Eric Poch: If I get a pint of Ben and Jerry, that is, it is understood.
- 3:35Eric Poch: That is my Ben and Jerry's.
- 3:37Matthew Shea: A personal.
- 3:37Matthew Shea: Okay, Well, that that's.
- 3:38Eric Poch: That makes them a little bit more sense, oh yeah, If I was sharing this with other human beings.
- 3:42Eric Poch: I'm not a.
- 3:43Eric Poch: I'm not a Neanderthal, I'm not?
- 3:45Matthew Shea: Yeah, Generally in our house we share things, so I was.
- 3:48Matthew Shea: You see where I was confused.
- 3:49Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah.
- 3:50Matthew Shea: Yeah, okay.
- 3:51Matthew Shea: Well, now that I'm clear on your process.
- 3:53Eric Poch: Yes, so there I am, I'm excavating the toppings, I get it like ooh, like minecraft, like I'm like prying out a fucking peanut butter cup with my spoon, like excavating a slab of white chocolate.
- 4:06Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and, and I get about, like my first sitting with this pint, I get.
- 4:12Eric Poch: I get about a third of the way through it and I'm like that's odd.
- 4:15Eric Poch: I have not had a single chocolate covered toffee piece yet.
- 4:19Eric Poch: But surely, thinks I, surely it's coming due, like I, like, I have to get, I have to get it, it's listed on the package.
- 4:28Eric Poch: And Matt, I see I ate this pint over three days a third of it a day and at the end of each day I got like further down.
- 4:37Eric Poch: So I was two thirds of the way through this fucking thing.
- 4:40Eric Poch: Yeah, not a single chocolate covered toffee piece.
- 4:43Eric Poch: And now I'm realizing like I was legitimately getting so mildly anxious like this background anxiety that I'm like, yeah, well, what, what, what?
- 4:58Eric Poch: what if they forgot?
- 4:58Eric Poch: What if they forgot to put it in?
- 5:00Eric Poch: What if I don't get a sink?
- 5:01Eric Poch: Cause that's my favorite part of everything about those, the chocolate covered toffee.
- 5:04Eric Poch: And I'm sitting and like at a certain point I hit a point where I'm like, look at this point, I don't even care if there's none in here, I just need to know.
- 5:13Eric Poch: And like on that third day I was just like fucking going in on it.
- 5:17Eric Poch: And then I met.
- 5:19Eric Poch: It's like in the movies where, like they're digging for fucking treasure and then you hear the thunk.
- 5:24Matthew Shea: Thunk yeah, oh, oh, what's this Could this be I, smat I.
- 5:30Eric Poch: my patience was rewarded.
- 5:31Eric Poch: I lifted like I had half of a goddamn Heath bar.
- 5:36Eric Poch: I knew it, I knew it, it was all going to be at the bottom, just fucking hanging out at the bottom, and then I hit another one.
- 5:43Eric Poch: So like I got, like my toffee dreams come true, I was so happy and that was immediately just so ashamed of myself, for what being anxious.
- 5:54Eric Poch: No, I was ashamed is the wrong word.
- 5:57Eric Poch: I'm not like oh, you're terrible.
- 5:58Eric Poch: I was like how fucking hilarious is this Cause I was legitimately getting.
- 6:03Eric Poch: I was legitimately getting like that background anxiety of like what's going to happen, where's my toffee?
- 6:11Eric Poch: And then, as soon as I had, my toffee.
- 6:14Eric Poch: I was like, oh yeah, well, I'm like a 33 year old adult and I could have just gone to ROFO and bought like 10,000 Heath bars.
- 6:20Eric Poch: I could have emptied my life savings.
- 6:23Matthew Shea: No, eric, but but you paid Okay For an experience and you were worried you weren't going to get that experience.
- 6:29Matthew Shea: I get that.
- 6:30Matthew Shea: It's like when you, you know you go someplace expecting a great view or something and it's a foggy day, you know.
- 6:39Matthew Shea: It's something like that.
- 6:40Matthew Shea: Yeah, you don't.
- 6:41Matthew Shea: You don't want that kind of experience to be tainted.
- 6:43Matthew Shea: So you were getting worried that what you paid for and what you were excited for wasn't going to happen.
- 6:49Matthew Shea: That's the source of almost all of my anxiety.
- 6:53Eric Poch: Yeah, I feel like that speaks to the human condition.
- 6:55Eric Poch: Right, like that's all of us.
- 6:56Eric Poch: It's like there I was, elbow deep in a pint of delicious vanilla and chocolate ice cream with scrumptious peanut butter cups, delicious chocolate covered almonds amazing.
- 7:06Eric Poch: Every component is doing its job, but all my caveman brain could think of is, like me, what Heath bar.
- 7:15Matthew Shea: Yeah, I mean.
- 7:16Matthew Shea: Well, this is something that I think you and I might share as performers, but I know I share with a lot of people and Conan talks about this all the time.
- 7:26Matthew Shea: Conan can't like read reviews or doesn't want to hear anything, because if there's a crowd of, you know, a thousand people and he's getting a standing ovation, but there's one guy on the left who's sitting down and not clapping, he's only thinking about the one guy.
- 7:44Matthew Shea: Yeah, and I'm much the same If I have a like.
- 7:47Matthew Shea: It happened just recently with the 39 steps.
- 7:51Matthew Shea: We had a great house.
- 7:52Matthew Shea: This was at Next Up Theater a couple of weeks ago, if you're just joining the pod, but I was in this production.
- 7:59Matthew Shea: It's a comedy and so you know lots of laughter every you know, very funny.
- 8:05Matthew Shea: Thank you Everyone's having a great time.
- 8:07Matthew Shea: We authentically think we.
- 8:09Matthew Shea: You know I am a big enough performer to say not every show I've done has been great.
- 8:14Eric Poch: They can't all be bad.
- 8:15Eric Poch: They can't all be bangers.
- 8:16Eric Poch: They can't all be bangers.
- 8:17Matthew Shea: This one was great.
- 8:18Matthew Shea: The cast was hysterical, it was a great time.
- 8:19Matthew Shea: Yeah, I would have done that show for a year straight if could have done.
- 8:24Matthew Shea: The point is we had, you know, many great houses and we had this great house.
- 8:30Matthew Shea: But there was one dude in this house in the front row, who was like looking at his program and clearly like bored, and I was just like I'm going to fucking get you.
- 8:42Matthew Shea: I was like everybody, everybody else is laughing hysterically.
- 8:46Matthew Shea: I see the one guy who hasn't laughed at anything yet and I'm like, oh, I'm going to get you that becomes your universe.
- 8:54Eric Poch: Yeah, I'm not thinking about anybody else except one hundred percent.
- 8:58Eric Poch: So the moral of this story, kids, the moral of this story don't think about the toppings you don't have, Think about the toppings you do have.
- 9:07Eric Poch: Because, Matt, if my life was like a pint of Benjamin Gerald's ice cream, yeah, you'd be the Heathbars bud.
- 9:14Eric Poch: Thanks, buddy.
- 9:15Eric Poch: Yeah, I got the Heathbars I need.
- 9:18Matthew Shea: If you, if you can't be with the topping, you love honey, love the top and you're with God damn it.
- 9:26Matthew Shea: Yes, yes, that's a great place to end this cold open.
- 9:31Matthew Shea: I'm aware of that, I sense it.
- 9:32Matthew Shea: But Heathbar or score bar, oh, I can never decide myself.
- 9:41Eric Poch: I'm honestly torn because every time, like I, I've never gotten both at the same time and like did a side by side.
- 9:49Matthew Shea: Yeah, and maybe we need to do a comparison.
- 9:51Eric Poch: I think we need to do a comparison.
- 9:54Matthew Shea: But I'll tell you why score.
- 9:55Matthew Shea: Not everybody knows about score bars, so I know I'm glad to hear you do.
- 9:59Matthew Shea: And if you don't you tell me if you think my description is bad or inaccurate.
- 10:06Matthew Shea: A score bar and a Heathbar are the exact same bar, except the score feels a little ritzier.
- 10:13Matthew Shea: Yes, it, yes, it's a little thinner.
- 10:17Matthew Shea: It's a little thinner, but I think the toffee in the score bar is is stickier, is like richer.
- 10:25Matthew Shea: We love a rich, sticky toffee, I think.
- 10:27Matthew Shea: I think the Heathbar is slightly cheaper toffee.
- 10:31Eric Poch: I mean knowing Hershey yeah.
- 10:36Matthew Shea: Yeah, also, my grandmother used to get a score bar, so you know I've got that like core memory soft spot for score.
- 10:42Matthew Shea: Okay.
- 10:43Eric Poch: Okay, start the show.
- 10:45Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do it.
- 10:47Eric Poch: Let's do it Honestly.
- 10:51Eric Poch: That should be it, yeah.
- 11:05Matthew Shea: Well, hello there, everyone, and welcome to you.
- 11:08Matthew Shea: Didn't Ask For this, the podcast answering life's least pressing questions.
- 11:13Matthew Shea: My name's Matthew Shea.
- 11:14Eric Poch: My name is Eric Poach.
- 11:16Matthew Shea: Now we're recording this pre-Turkey Day.
- 11:19Eric Poch: It's coming out post-Turkey Day, so how do you feel so, to keep with the verisimilitude of the episode's release.
- 11:24Eric Poch: I ain't so much food, I'm so stuffed.
- 11:33Matthew Shea: Yeah.
- 11:33Eric Poch: That's how I sound after Thanksgiving.
- 11:36Matthew Shea: I just I think you've done a great job.
- 11:38Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
- 11:39Eric Poch: I'm just going to call this shot now because I know my mom's making her sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving.
- 11:45Eric Poch: I'm just going to say, on behalf of future Eric, that sweet potato casserole, oh my God, it was so good, it was so delicious and amazing and perfect, and I could just eat fistfuls of that every Thanksgiving for the rest of my life.
- 12:00Matthew Shea: Have you heard of something called Speaking of?
- 12:03Matthew Shea: I just want to point out that we're talking about Thanksgiving right now.
- 12:06Matthew Shea: Yeah, when the last episode came out on Thanksgiving and we didn't mention it one single goddamn time, we didn't.
- 12:14Matthew Shea: We talked about that.
- 12:16Matthew Shea: We didn't make a single reference to the fact that it was coming out on Thanksgiving, and good for us, good for us.
- 12:22Matthew Shea: But anyway, speaking of Thanksgiving traditions that I know I'm going to have because we're going to Lindsay's parents for Thanksgiving this year and Lindsay's mom always makes something that I'm told is like a Midwest staple, but I only know it as a thing that her mom makes have you ever heard of something called five cup salad?
- 12:44Eric Poch: That sounds made up.
- 12:46Matthew Shea: So five cup salad.
- 12:48Matthew Shea: I might get myself in trouble.
- 12:50Matthew Shea: I know a good amount of the bars out there are listening right now and you enjoy your core memories and your good time dishes.
- 12:58Matthew Shea: But let me just run down the ingredients here.
- 13:00Matthew Shea: This is a recipe.
- 13:02Matthew Shea: This is not Lindsay's recipe necessarily, but it is chunks of pineapple, mandarin oranges like clementines or something.
- 13:12Matthew Shea: I think her mom uses clementines, I'm not sure Sour cream, coconut flakes and, what I'd consider the dominant ingredient, marshmallows.
- 13:24Eric Poch: So the okay.
- 13:25Eric Poch: So this is the ambrosia salad, just called something else.
- 13:29Matthew Shea: Yeah, it's just.
- 13:30Matthew Shea: I just wanted to know if you heard about it.
- 13:32Matthew Shea: I'm not necessarily going to give my review of it, because I do.
- 13:36Matthew Shea: It's got.
- 13:37Matthew Shea: So the coconut for me is a deal breaker for me.
- 13:39Matthew Shea: You know me, I'm not a coconut boy.
- 13:41Eric Poch: You're not a coconut fan.
- 13:42Eric Poch: I personally, I'll fucks with coconut.
- 13:44Eric Poch: Coconut fucks with me.
- 13:45Matthew Shea: It's just in the wet, especially coconut flakes.
- 13:48Matthew Shea: It's always like it's like pulp in orange juice.
- 13:52Matthew Shea: Can't fucking stand it.
- 13:54Matthew Shea: Get it out of there.
- 13:55Eric Poch: That's my it gets.
- 13:57Eric Poch: So I like coconut, but my thing is like, if I'm eating coconut, I want it to be like pillowy, soft and velvety, or I want it to be like cooked and like crits, like crunchy, like crunchy.
- 14:09Eric Poch: Yeah, coconut.
- 14:10Matthew Shea: I like toast coconut.
- 14:12Eric Poch: Yeah, love toasted coconut when they just throw in fistfuls of raw coconut confetti in fucking in anything it becomes it.
- 14:21Matthew Shea: I'll be picking that out of my teeth for sure, but like a Samoa, I'll eat for days on end dog, I will fucking destroy some, I will.
- 14:29Matthew Shea: I will take them down.
- 14:31Matthew Shea: Whenever Girl Scout Cookie season comes along, I always we get like we get two boxes of Samoas, we get two boxes of thin mints and then what else are we getting?
- 14:41Matthew Shea: Like those are the base order.
- 14:43Matthew Shea: So I'm good with it.
- 14:45Matthew Shea: I'm good with it cooked.
- 14:46Matthew Shea: But and listen, I always get some of this five cups out, always.
- 14:50Matthew Shea: I always partake of it I got to.
- 14:53Matthew Shea: It's a signature dish.
- 14:54Matthew Shea: I respect that, yeah, and honestly, when you look at it, it's not what a man in the 50s might call a looker.
- 15:02Matthew Shea: You know what I'm saying.
- 15:03Eric Poch: Oh yeah, it looks weird, it looks like it should be gross.
- 15:07Matthew Shea: It looks like it should be gross.
- 15:08Eric Poch: You can't you can't make it look good, and that's the thing I actually admire about Midwestern cooking is they're like look aesthetics Fuck that we don't need them.
- 15:16Eric Poch: You're gonna yeah, you're gonna like what you put in your mouth.
- 15:20Eric Poch: I guarantee it, yeah.
- 15:22Matthew Shea: It's what I would say is, and we, we gave this to take five as well.
- 15:28Matthew Shea: It's an adventure You're going through that.
- 15:31Matthew Shea: No, no, two spoons fulls are the same you know the ratios all over the place.
- 15:37Matthew Shea: Yeah, so I'm sure I've just had some fresh five cup salad and and and good times.
- 15:42Matthew Shea: So here we all are.
- 15:44Matthew Shea: Her mom also makes a bang and green bean casserole, which better be there.
- 15:48Eric Poch: If it's not there, I'll be upset.
- 15:50Matthew Shea: I might have to make it myself, Ooh.
- 15:52Eric Poch: I could.
- 15:52Eric Poch: I could legitimately eat like French's fried onions.
- 15:57Matthew Shea: Yeah, oh yeah, that's what's on top.
- 15:58Eric Poch: Obviously it must be.
- 16:00Eric Poch: If it's not, the fuck are you doing, and that's another one.
- 16:04Matthew Shea: I hate raw onions but I love, like a caramelized onion or a fried onion, a blooming onion.
- 16:10Matthew Shea: I love a blooming onion, oh onion rings.
- 16:12Eric Poch: Things I have done for a blooming onion.
- 16:15Matthew Shea: When I get a Big Mac and I forget to say get the onions off of there, I'm always like God damn.
- 16:22Eric Poch: Oh, because if they're on there you're not escaping.
- 16:25Eric Poch: No, they can't get out.
- 16:26Eric Poch: The mince is so fine, it's like in the DNA of the sandwich, it's become part of the sandwich.
- 16:32Eric Poch: Yes, truly, that was my mom, and back in the day she would eat a lot of Chick-fil-A.
- 16:38Eric Poch: I say back in the day because, oh, she stopped.
- 16:41Eric Poch: She stopped Good reason.
- 16:43Eric Poch: A lot of people stopped.
- 16:44Matthew Shea: Of course, we don't need to discuss it Well they hate gay people Okay.
- 16:49Eric Poch: We can say the quiet part out loud.
- 16:50Matthew Shea: Yeah, no, this is an anti Chick-fil-A podcast.
- 16:53Matthew Shea: I think that goes without saying this.
- 16:55Eric Poch: This was the.
- 16:56Eric Poch: This was the struggle when she would order chicken sandwich.
- 16:58Eric Poch: My mom does not like pickles.
- 17:00Eric Poch: Get the fuck out of here.
- 17:02Eric Poch: I know I love them, but my mom can't stand.
- 17:05Eric Poch: My mom is a very picky eater and it would be like a whole like event because if she got the sandwich and they forgot to remove the pickles, we can both agree.
- 17:14Eric Poch: Just taking the pickles off at that point is is an is an exercise in futility.
- 17:20Eric Poch: That shorts has soaked into every strata that brine has spread its roots.
- 17:27Matthew Shea: Yes, yes, lindsay's getting into pickling right now.
- 17:30Matthew Shea: Lindsay's getting into pickling.
- 17:31Matthew Shea: Yeah she's been pickling, oh hell, yeah.
- 17:33Matthew Shea: Yeah, she just made some pickles the other day.
- 17:35Matthew Shea: We haven't cracked them open yet.
- 17:36Matthew Shea: This is the second round, but her first round of pickles.
- 17:39Matthew Shea: Very good, this is a very pro pickle household especially.
- 17:42Matthew Shea: Pat Pat fucking adores.
- 17:45Eric Poch: Pat loves making pickles.
- 17:46Matthew Shea: While we're sharing core childhood memories and not at all getting close to starting our show, no, the one of my core memories is Stalphers of Kissel Hill was my grocery store growing up and when we'd go to Stalphers I don't know, this is probably back because it's Stalphers in Lancaster, pennsylvania but I thought these types of things in COVID would go by the wayside.
- 18:08Matthew Shea: They'd have like free samples throughout the store but not like Costco, sam's Clubs free samples where somebody is like manning a station.
- 18:17Matthew Shea: They just have like open containers, yep and so like.
- 18:22Matthew Shea: But one thing they always had was a pickle barrel where you could pick out like full pickles and on top of that would be like a big bowl of pickle spears that you could just take.
- 18:34Matthew Shea: And I would always go right there when I was a kid, grab a pickle spear and just follow my mom around grocery shopping, happy as a clam, with like two pickles hanging on my mouth.
- 18:42Eric Poch: Dude, I know the exact barrel you're describing.
- 18:45Matthew Shea: Yeah, yeah.
- 18:46Eric Poch: Mars supermarket that we would go to when I was growing up.
- 18:49Matthew Shea: They had the same thing Got like a plastic lid.
- 18:51Eric Poch: Yep, yeah, clear plastic lid.
- 18:53Eric Poch: Pop that shit open, just shove your elbow deep in there.
- 18:56Matthew Shea: Just get your nasty hand right there, pick it out like you're bobbin' for apples, stalphers feel the bribe.
- 19:03Matthew Shea: The bribe?
- 19:04Matthew Shea: Yes, no, stalphers, I do love Stalphers.
- 19:08Matthew Shea: They had a great candy aisle too, like a self-serve, like fill a bag candy.
- 19:12Eric Poch: Yes, we had the same thing, and they always had like a little box you could put like a little change in.
- 19:18Matthew Shea: Yeah Well, I'll tell you the difference that I know right out front.
- 19:22Matthew Shea: Did your grocery store growing up have a stall for horses outside?
- 19:28Eric Poch: No.
- 19:29Matthew Shea: No, I didn't think it did.
- 19:31Eric Poch: Stalphers does.
- 19:33Matthew Shea: It's Amish friendly.
- 19:34Eric Poch: It just had some people who would like occasionally yell things at the sky.
- 19:39Matthew Shea: Yeah Well, that's a thing about Lancaster that when people like when I brought Lindsay there, like I had to point out, like I was like, oh yeah, this like shed thing on the side of the parking lot is for horse and buggies and it's extremely common sight in my account.
- 19:54Eric Poch: Now, how many horse and buggies can it hold?
- 19:57Matthew Shea: Oh, probably, like I don't know, six, 10, something like that Okay, okay, okay.
- 20:02Eric Poch: So it's like there's never going to be an issue where an Amish family is clopping on up to the supermarket and they see the stall was full.
- 20:12Matthew Shea: I mean it's like I said, it's Amish friendly.
- 20:14Matthew Shea: I don't know that it's the Amish prefer destination.
- 20:17Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah, okay, yes, god, I would love to see that interaction.
- 20:21Eric Poch: I just want to know what happens.
- 20:23Matthew Shea: There was near that Stalphers not at that Stalphers, but near that Stalphers when I was in high school and Amish DUI Yep Eric, once again, is just expressing himself with large eye expressions.
- 20:35Eric Poch: I know I was a gog to yes, he was a gog yeah.
- 20:40Eric Poch: Tell me more.
- 20:43Matthew Shea: Amish teen got himself a handle of Jack Daniels, got all liquored up and fucked up and went out on a rampage with his horse, I guess, and is lost his horse and the buggy just went careening down the road and crashed into a nearby business and did more damage to the buggy than the business.
- 21:04Matthew Shea: But yeah, they found him in there and this I will never forget.
- 21:07Matthew Shea: He was in there with an empty bottle of Jack Daniels and like a boombox, because there's not like he was a blast in the radio, yeah, yeah.
- 21:16Matthew Shea: So he just had like a boombox with him playing the radio and the horse had come loose so the horse had to be rounded up.
- 21:24Matthew Shea: He's just like, as I recall, the horse was fine, the horse was just loose galloping across just having himself a lovely little stroll.
- 21:33Matthew Shea: Yeah, the horse thought maybe he could, you know, become a free horse.
- 21:36Matthew Shea: But no, he was rounded up.
- 21:38Matthew Shea: He was rounded up, don't worry.
- 21:40Eric Poch: Finally the nightmare is over.
- 21:41Eric Poch: No, no.
- 21:43Eric Poch: What are you doing A?
- 21:44Matthew Shea: whole sketch.
- 21:45Matthew Shea: I don't know why it's a British horse.
- 21:47Matthew Shea: Anyway, should we start the?
- 21:49Eric Poch: show.
- 21:50Matthew Shea: Yeah, let's do that, let's do that, let's do that.
- 21:52Matthew Shea: So the first question we have and this sort of goes along with our sort of fairy tale theme we had going last time with Humpty Dumpty, but this comes from our good friends over at FnCultured.
- 22:04Matthew Shea: That's FnCultured, the podcast.
- 22:06Matthew Shea: Go check them out wherever you get your fine podcast.
- 22:09Matthew Shea: Love you boys and you Eric.
- 22:12Matthew Shea: Let's see when does this episode come?
- 22:14Eric Poch: out.
- 22:15Matthew Shea: This is coming out December 7th.
- 22:16Matthew Shea: You will.
- 22:18Matthew Shea: You had just recorded.
- 22:21Matthew Shea: I don't know if it's come out yet, but you, I was unable to be there, but you were just at the rant, or not the rant, the roast.
- 22:29Eric Poch: Yes, roasting Santa Claus.
- 22:31Matthew Shea: Yes, so go check out that episode of Humpty Dumpty I love.
- 22:35Eric Poch: Their roasts are a fucking hoot.
- 22:38Matthew Shea: Yeah, we both joined them last year or last spring for the roasts of Mario Mario, but I was out of town.
- 22:46Matthew Shea: But, poach, you were here and yeah, by all means go listen to that episode.
- 22:53Eric Poch: Good, good, cross promotional Matthew.
- 22:55Matthew Shea: Thank you.
- 22:56Matthew Shea: Anyway, fncultured asked us a question, and it is what was so appealing to that spider crawling up the water spout.
- 23:05Eric Poch: Let's just get it out of the way.
- 23:06Eric Poch: The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.
- 23:12Eric Poch: Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
- 23:18Eric Poch: Out came the sun and dried up all the rain and the itsy bitsy spider crawled up the spout again.
- 23:30Matthew Shea: Again, again, again, again.
- 23:32Matthew Shea: The itsy bitsy spider crawled up the spout.
- 23:35Matthew Shea: Yeah, yeah.
- 23:36Eric Poch: Give me that fucking breakdown, open this pit up.
- 23:40Eric Poch: So I think it's fairly clear that the spider is a metaphor for sycophus.
- 23:46Eric Poch: Oh, you think so?
- 23:48Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah, I think the spider is sycophus.
- 23:51Matthew Shea: Damn Eric.
- 23:52Matthew Shea: I had never considered that, but the way you, I don't know you can't again.
- 23:55Matthew Shea: I did a visual.
- 23:56Matthew Shea: I was sent back just now from the microphone.
- 24:00Eric Poch: I was blown away by that revelation and and honest to God, that just that didn't occur to me until I had to sing the song for the first time.
- 24:09Eric Poch: I have not sung that song since I was in elementary school, so I'm glad I remembered it.
- 24:15Matthew Shea: What we know is that the the spider is not being killed by the rain.
- 24:20Matthew Shea: No, it's not enough to drown him.
- 24:24Eric Poch: No, just enough to knock him down.
- 24:27Matthew Shea: Yes, merely knock him down a peg.
- 24:28Matthew Shea: But the spider, our friend.
- 24:31Matthew Shea: The spider says no, says nay, I'm on a mission, and goes right back up.
- 24:35Matthew Shea: That is very sycophus-esque.
- 24:37Eric Poch: And what is his mission?
- 24:39Eric Poch: I would assume, because when I hear water spout, I'm imagining like a, like a gutter, like a you know, that's what I've assumed.
- 24:45Eric Poch: I always assumed it was like a, like a gutter spout.
- 24:47Eric Poch: So I'm guessing what else would?
- 24:49Eric Poch: It be, I fuck if I know I mean.
- 24:51Matthew Shea: I'm going to Google water spout and see what we get Interesting.
- 24:59Matthew Shea: A water spout is an intense column nerve vortex that occurs over a body of water.
- 25:05Matthew Shea: Some are connected to a cumulus congestus cloud, some to a cumuliform cloud and some to a cumulonimbus cloud.
- 25:14Matthew Shea: But like, look at what you get.
- 25:16Eric Poch: Like it's a little like oh that the little they're talking about like hurricane, basically Of a little mini tornado over the body of water A hurricane, tornado of water, so is-.
- 25:26Matthew Shea: Now I think it's safe to say no one thinks they're talking about that.
- 25:31Matthew Shea: No, but if they are If they are, and if there is a spider that is crawling up the eye of an oceanic water spout, I hope that spider drowns, because that's a monster.
- 25:43Eric Poch: Yeah, well, that that spider needs to die and actually, at that point I'm cheering for that spider, Because it's still oddly enough Absolutely not.
- 25:49Eric Poch: It stays within Greek mythology, because at that point he's battling Neptune.
- 25:54Eric Poch: Well, sure that spider is fighting Poseidon.
- 25:58Matthew Shea: Okay, but imagine he gets to the top of the water spout.
- 26:00Matthew Shea: He gets spouted out onto the lands.
- 26:03Eric Poch: Yeah.
- 26:04Matthew Shea: Now, now he's a human issue.
- 26:05Matthew Shea: We're looking at a six foot tall spider.
- 26:08Eric Poch: Get the fuck out of here Because he has to be.
- 26:10Eric Poch: He has to be.
- 26:11Matthew Shea: But I hate spi you know about my thing with spiders right, I know I don't like spiders.
- 26:14Eric Poch: Did we talk about this?
- 26:15Eric Poch: I we I know we have.
- 26:17Matthew Shea: But have we talked about it on the show?
- 26:18Eric Poch: Oh God, matt.
- 26:19Eric Poch: Well, the reason that I hate You're right, Well who am I doing Matt?
- 26:24Matthew Shea: Well anyway, just real quick, it doesn't need to be a big thing.
- 26:26Matthew Shea: I had all those spiders on my butt.
- 26:27Eric Poch: Hold on so the-.
- 26:28Eric Poch: Stop the podcast.
- 26:30Eric Poch: Sure Spiders in your butt.
- 26:34Matthew Shea: During my Eagle Skeptics, I had the pleasure of going into and using many an outdoor latrine.
- 26:44Matthew Shea: Okay, and so this was-.
- 26:46Matthew Shea: This incident happened at Phil Mon, which is a scout ranch in New Mexico.
- 26:50Matthew Shea: It's generally a two week trip of backpacking in the New Mexican desert.
- 26:53Matthew Shea: Absolutely love it.
- 26:55Matthew Shea: That sounds dope.
- 26:55Matthew Shea: Recommend it.
- 26:56Matthew Shea: It is dope.
- 26:57Matthew Shea: You could never go.
- 26:58Matthew Shea: You're not a Boy Scout, I'm just saying you can't go.
- 27:00Matthew Shea: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, i'm-.
- 27:02Eric Poch: I'm I don't make the rules.
- 27:03Eric Poch: I am acutely aware of my scout status.
- 27:06Matthew Shea: I Eric, I do not make the rules, okay, I'm just saying, because you're not a Boy Scout, you can't go to the Boy Scout Ranch.
- 27:14Eric Poch: And that's that.
- 27:15Eric Poch: You know what?
- 27:16Eric Poch: Not every speaking as a white man, not every space is for me, yeah.
- 27:22Matthew Shea: Not.
- 27:22Matthew Shea: Every space is for you.
- 27:23Matthew Shea: And let me just say again you know I love you, I know you love me.
- 27:28Matthew Shea: I don't make I didn't make that rule, no you don't make the rules, you just-.
- 27:31Eric Poch: God you love you love just draping them over my the corpse of my dreams.
- 27:38Matthew Shea: I was not in the position to make that rule.
- 27:40Matthew Shea: Maybe, if I was, I'd make the exact same rule, but I didn't.
- 27:50Eric Poch: Matthew Shea.
- 27:51Eric Poch: In a fucking nutshell Look, I didn't make the rule, but it is my privilege to tell you that I knew you did not that you make the rule.
- 28:03Matthew Shea: You did not.
- 28:04Matthew Shea: You agree with it implicitly, but I did not make it.
- 28:08Eric Poch: I was just following orders.
- 28:09Eric Poch: They were orders I agreed with, but I was just following them.
- 28:13Matthew Shea: They were orders I agreed with and believed in my soul.
- 28:15Matthew Shea: But I was told, you see, it was a job.
- 28:18Matthew Shea: Anyway, sometimes when you go into a latrine you gotta do a fun thing where you have to bring a stick with you because there could be bugs in there and you gotta give it a good little little little rattle like you're an old timey police officer with your Billy Club rattling on the on the bar to wake the drunks.
- 28:38Matthew Shea: Actually, you do have to do that first.
- 28:39Matthew Shea: In Fillmont, this is called a red roof inn.
- 28:42Matthew Shea: You can just all of red roofs, it's the whole that's all that is.
- 28:45Matthew Shea: But because it's enclosed, there's three types Eric, let's talk about poop real quick.
- 28:49Matthew Shea: Let's talk about poop.
- 28:50Matthew Shea: There's three types of latrines in Fillmont.
- 28:53Matthew Shea: Okay, there's the red roof inn, okay.
- 28:55Matthew Shea: And then there's a pilot to copilot, which is two toilets that do not have a surrounding thing and they're right next to each other.
- 29:02Matthew Shea: Yep, yep, but they're just in the woods.
- 29:05Matthew Shea: It's just two toilets connected in the woods.
- 29:08Matthew Shea: There is no walls around them, okay.
- 29:11Matthew Shea: No privacy, okay.
- 29:12Matthew Shea: And then there's the pilot to bombardier, which is back to back, and again, no sort of protection from the elements.
- 29:20Eric Poch: I like that.
- 29:21Eric Poch: I'm also getting a very good I'm getting a very good read on your entire bathroom schema.
- 29:30Matthew Shea: And why I have such drama.
- 29:31Eric Poch: Yes, why you are the way you are?
- 29:34Matthew Shea: Yeah, I did once use the pilot to bombardier with my dad.
- 29:37Matthew Shea: We did approach and then leave from complete opposite directions, yeah, and tried to make it as bitless as possible.
- 29:47Matthew Shea: And thinking back on it, I'm not sure what kind of time restraints would have required the two of us to have done that, but anyway we did do it, okay.
- 29:55Matthew Shea: Anyway, with a red roof inn, you do need to knock on the side of it because there could be a bear inside.
- 30:00Matthew Shea: That's a real thing.
- 30:01Eric Poch: No, so before you go on, you got to go boom boom, boom to see, if any Make sure you piss it off before you knock it out.
- 30:07Eric Poch: You got to make it real pissed off.
- 30:10Matthew Shea: It's in there trying to get that.
- 30:11Eric Poch: Charmin experience and you're just-.
- 30:14Matthew Shea: And you're just denying it.
- 30:16Matthew Shea: Anyway, I didn't do the stick thing.
- 30:18Matthew Shea: I sat down, a bunch of spiders crawled up my butt.
- 30:20Eric Poch: Oh, that okay.
- 30:22Matthew Shea: So now I have arachnophobia.
- 30:24Eric Poch: Yeah, no, and valid.
- 30:25Eric Poch: That'll do it, won't it, I think?
- 30:27Eric Poch: Speaking on behalf of our listeners, matthew, I think we're all with you on this where if that was any one of us.
- 30:33Eric Poch: Fuck that Fuck that forever.
- 30:35Eric Poch: That would put spiders on my shit list.
- 30:38Matthew Shea: I know there's a growing movement, and probably among our listeners, about like you find a spider in the house, you can just gather that guy up and like bring him outside.
- 30:47Matthew Shea: That's what I do.
- 30:47Matthew Shea: Yeah, and I just want to say I can't be woke about everything.
- 30:54Matthew Shea: No, yeah, okay, but I can't be woke about everything.
- 30:56Matthew Shea: And I kill those spiders and I don't do it with any kind of guilt.
- 30:58Matthew Shea: Okay, matt, because they came from my aides.
- 31:00Matthew Shea: Here it is here it is, let it out, okay, and I know the type.
- 31:05Eric Poch: Look Matt.
- 31:06Matthew Shea: I'm going to say another quiet part out loud.
- 31:09Eric Poch: You can't be woke on everything, and if you're going to be not woke on something, I feel like that's a pretty good choice.
- 31:16Eric Poch: There are a lot of things that human beings choose to be shitty about.
- 31:22Eric Poch: Yes, and I think this is a valid choice.
- 31:23Eric Poch: I give stinkbugs.
- 31:26Eric Poch: I'll put a cup over them and let them outside, but that's only because they've been smart enough to develop an evolutionary defense mechanism.
- 31:34Matthew Shea: If I may, tangent on our tangent by all means, one day we'll get to the questions.
- 31:38Matthew Shea: Yeah, talking about the-.
- 31:39Matthew Shea: This might be a questionless episode.
- 31:40Eric Poch: This might just be us talking.
- 31:44Matthew Shea: This might be us talking and honestly, happy Thanksgiving, happy Thanksgiving my thing, so you know, like you were talking about the method of oh, spider in the house, pick it up, take it out.
- 31:56Eric Poch: That's what I do.
- 31:56Eric Poch: I also do that with the wasps at work.
- 31:58Eric Poch: Oh, wasps at work, you work in an office.
- 32:04Eric Poch: Yes, I do, Matt.
- 32:04Eric Poch: I work underground in a fucking facility.
- 32:08Eric Poch: I hate the underground wasps.
- 32:10Eric Poch: I hate the underground wasps, I hate the underground wasps.
- 32:14Eric Poch: I hate the underground wasps.
- 32:16Eric Poch: I hate the underground wasps.
- 32:20Eric Poch: We get wasps season.
- 32:22Eric Poch: It starts sometime around mid-summer and lasts until wintertime.
- 32:28Eric Poch: But where my office is located and this is the same reason we have four or five space heaters in the room under our desks is we're on the corner and we are closest to the external walls.
- 32:44Eric Poch: That are like outside, so it gets freezing cold in there, and there is some pathway, some thing, that every now and again I just come in and oh, there's a wasp, and the same thing happens every time.
- 32:58Eric Poch: There's a little plastic cup, a Dixie cup, that I keep on my desk for this purpose.
- 33:04Eric Poch: I grab it, grab a notebook, scoop a little guy in there, walk him out, set him free.
- 33:10Eric Poch: I've done this three or four times now in the past year and I like to think.
- 33:15Eric Poch: I like to think it's the same wasp every time.
- 33:19Matthew Shea: You think you'd like to think you've made some sort of bond with this wasp?
- 33:23Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the moe tossing.
- 33:26Eric Poch: You know Barney Gumbel out of the bar.
- 33:28Eric Poch: I see, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 33:28Eric Poch: And then he's right fucking there.
- 33:31Eric Poch: Wow so spiders.
- 33:33Matthew Shea: So the spider he's going up the water spout, Down came the rain washed, spider out.
- 33:37Matthew Shea: Could it be as simple as he's after the view from the top.
- 33:41Eric Poch: Could be from the view from the top.
- 33:42Eric Poch: I'm also imagining.
- 33:44Eric Poch: I imagine that sand's water, which seems to be the part that the spiders like struggling with.
- 33:50Eric Poch: That's what he has difficulty with yeah.
- 33:52Eric Poch: Sand's water, the inside of the water spout of the gutter.
- 33:55Eric Poch: That's a pretty ideal place for a spider to set their shit up.
- 33:58Eric Poch: Like it's enclosed, they can spin webs, they can.
- 34:02Eric Poch: It's like they don't have to worry about predators, so like it's pretty dope.
- 34:08Eric Poch: No, but they want.
- 34:10Matthew Shea: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole idea behind the spider web is to catch prey.
- 34:14Matthew Shea: How much prey is really coming down the old spout there?
- 34:18Eric Poch: Well see, that's the thing.
- 34:19Eric Poch: Like I guess it depends.
- 34:21Matthew Shea: We need a general contractor on this show.
- 34:24Eric Poch: They need a general contact, can you tell?
- 34:28Eric Poch: I just bought a house, but what I'm imagining is I know spiders also like, and this depends on the species of spider, because there are, you know, millions of them.
- 34:38Matthew Shea: So I'm told all the same to me.
- 34:41Eric Poch: I imagine it's kind of a situation where, like, oh you know, the spider's sleep inside the water spout but has web coming like out of, like you know, has a situation where, like, half the webbing is inside the spout, half the web comes out, so that way you can just catch things and drag them back inside to his house and eat them.
- 34:57Eric Poch: Yeah, but then it rains.
- 34:59Matthew Shea: Yeah.
- 34:59Eric Poch: And honestly now it's kind of fucking me up because, like, even if it didn't rain, it's actually worse if the spider doesn't get washed out while it's climbing up, because the alternative is the spider crawls up, takes root like, spins its web, builds its little house, maybe catches some flies.
- 35:17Matthew Shea: Yeah.
- 35:17Eric Poch: Things are looking real good.
- 35:18Eric Poch: Maybe settles down meets a spousal spider.
- 35:23Eric Poch: They get bumping leggies and then they got like a few billion kids in a sack and then it rains Come on and it rains, matthew.
- 35:33Eric Poch: That's too much, don't you think that's too much?
- 35:35Eric Poch: That's fucking heartbreaking.
- 35:37Eric Poch: Man, I feel for the spider so fucking hard right now.
- 35:42Eric Poch: But like should I Is the spider like.
- 35:45Matthew Shea: And that's my question.
- 35:46Eric Poch: Yeah, the spider hasn't given up.
- 35:49Matthew Shea: No, he's not given up and he's not dead.
- 35:51Matthew Shea: He's persistent, he's determined, he's ambitious.
- 35:55Eric Poch: Bro, what if he's enjoying this?
- 35:59Matthew Shea: Oh, he's masochistic.
- 36:00Eric Poch: What if the no, not even masochistic.
- 36:02Eric Poch: What if the spouse just like I think about this all the time like animals that just discover fun things that like we can identify with, like what if this is just like the water slide for this spider and he's like I'm having a hoot that?
- 36:16Matthew Shea: that is true, but the the verbiage of the poem there does say washed the spider out, and that I think generally is a negative connotation.
- 36:27Eric Poch: That is.
- 36:27Eric Poch: That is implies destruction and ruin.
- 36:31Matthew Shea: So, sisyphus, to go back to your original plot, sisyphus is rolling the stone because of a punishment yes, punishment.
- 36:39Matthew Shea: He has no objective other than to roll up the stone, and he's obligated to do so because of an eternal punishment.
- 36:46Matthew Shea: Yes, the spider, on the other hand, does not have this, as far as we know, this sort of spiritual directive.
- 36:57Eric Poch: Yeah, he doesn't have a literal God as his parole officer.
- 37:00Eric Poch: No, like the spider could go any numb.
- 37:04Eric Poch: Oh man, I think we're the spider.
- 37:06Eric Poch: What do you mean?
- 37:06Eric Poch: I think we're the spider, bro.
- 37:08Eric Poch: I think it's no.
- 37:08Matthew Shea: I don't like that.
- 37:09Matthew Shea: What do you mean?
- 37:10Eric Poch: Well, I think it's like a metaphor for, like human beings like we, we are compelled to seek things out, even when it's something that is objectively like not good for us.
- 37:22Eric Poch: Like we just wash out, but like we keep doing it over and over, thinking well, maybe, maybe this time, maybe this time, maybe this time the universe will just fucking alter its DNA to fit my situation, and it doesn't, and then we get washed out.
- 37:38Eric Poch: But then we get washed out, and here's the fucked up part.
- 37:41Eric Poch: The sun comes out.
- 37:43Eric Poch: It always does.
- 37:43Eric Poch: The sun comes out and fucking dries up all the rain.
- 37:47Eric Poch: We get hope.
- 37:48Eric Poch: We like it is.
- 37:50Eric Poch: We cling to that hope there's like, oh, the sun will stay, and we go right the fuck up that water spell and say you can't keep me down God.
- 37:59Eric Poch: Yes, zeus, to be specific.
- 38:05Matthew Shea: But oh right, Sorry, I wasn't having some sort of internal conflict?
- 38:13Eric Poch: But yeah.
- 38:13Eric Poch: So like I think the moral of the story isn't don't try, it's hey, maybe it's OK to accept that the water spout ain't it.
- 38:24Matthew Shea: Oh, interesting.
- 38:25Eric Poch: The water spout ain't it, and it's OK to admit that and be like man.
- 38:29Eric Poch: Maybe I make a web and a little treat.
- 38:32Matthew Shea: But the spider does not admit that.
- 38:35Matthew Shea: The spider is saying no, no, I'm going to make this fucking spot work for me.
- 38:39Eric Poch: And that's the tragedy of the song.
- 38:41Eric Poch: The tragedies were like bro, it's going to happen again.
- 38:46Eric Poch: What are you doing?
- 38:47Eric Poch: And he just doesn't know, he just doesn't see, he has no idea.
- 38:51Matthew Shea: And so often I feel like often this story is said to children.
- 38:55Matthew Shea: Now again, I don't have children myself, but I feel like this is generally told as posited as the lesson of fucking don't give up kid.
- 39:06Matthew Shea: Yeah, this is how I'm going to talk to my child when, when we have children Fucking don't give up kid.
- 39:11Eric Poch: Don't you got this?
- 39:12Eric Poch: And then I like I'm in the next room, I'm like listen to your fucking father.
- 39:15Eric Poch: He's right, don't worry about that man.
- 39:17Eric Poch: Who is he Daddy?
- 39:19Eric Poch: Why is he here?
- 39:20Eric Poch: Don't worry about him.
- 39:21Eric Poch: I was going through a rough patch.
- 39:23Eric Poch: I'll get back on my feet.
- 39:24Matthew Shea: That's Uncle Poach.
- 39:25Matthew Shea: We can't call him Uncle Eric, because you have a real uncle Eric.
- 39:30Eric Poch: And then I'm like what the fuck do you mean real uncle?
- 39:32Eric Poch: What the fuck up.
- 39:34Matthew Shea: Poach, I'll come get you when I have questions.
- 39:38Eric Poch: Love you, love you.
- 39:40Eric Poch: Son don't ever go in there.
- 39:42Eric Poch: What about that dark, shadowy room?
- 39:46Eric Poch: That used to be the pod pod.
- 39:47Eric Poch: You must never go in there.
- 39:48Eric Poch: Don't ever go in there.
- 39:51Matthew Shea: You know how we saw the son of the dead and his friend is kept in the shed at the end of it.
- 39:58Matthew Shea: That's.
- 39:58Matthew Shea: That's the situation we're working with here.
- 40:01Matthew Shea: Boy, Boy.
- 40:02Eric Poch: Now I'm doing it in jacrados.
- 40:06Matthew Shea: Boy.
- 40:06Matthew Shea: Man that niche reference after niche reference.
- 40:09Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're killing it.
- 40:11Eric Poch: We're killing it, oh boy.
- 40:15Eric Poch: So, honestly, that's the answer to the question is like there is nothing worth going up that spout for for that spider, but he will continue to go because he's driven, driven by his craving and need, and it's.
- 40:33Eric Poch: You can just let go, babes.
- 40:34Matthew Shea: Yeah, I think to answer the direct question from effin cultured what was so appealing to the spider about crawling up the water spout?
- 40:42Matthew Shea: I think that there is something waiting at the top like a fucking Hershey bar prize.
- 40:47Matthew Shea: I think it's more of the world told him he couldn't and he said much like John Locke and lost.
- 40:57Matthew Shea: Don't tell me what I can't do.
- 40:59Eric Poch: Despite the fact that it will end the same way every single time.
- 41:02Eric Poch: He's Sisyphus baby, I think you nailed it right.
- 41:06Matthew Shea: The very first thing out of your mouth was correct and we should have stopped there.
- 41:08Matthew Shea: We should have, but I'm glad we didn't.
- 41:10Matthew Shea: I'm glad we didn't too.
- 41:11Matthew Shea: The first thing to me it's occurring to me as being odd about my hatred of spiders yeah, my favorite superhero is Spider-Man.
- 41:20Matthew Shea: Oh, I love Spider-Man.
- 41:22Matthew Shea: In fact, I'd say it's a tie between Spider-Man and Batman.
- 41:25Matthew Shea: Like my favorite Marvel superhero unarguably Spider-Man.
- 41:30Eric Poch: Yeah, that's a very good choice.
- 41:31Matthew Shea: I think, unarguably favorite DC superheroes Batman.
- 41:34Eric Poch: So I feel like they're on the same plane for me.
- 41:37Matthew Shea: Yes, I have poor memories of watching both those animated series.
- 41:41Eric Poch: Yeah, yes.
- 41:42Matthew Shea: But I just did a free trial recently and decided to start paying money for it of Marvel Unlimited, specifically so I could start reading the entire Spider-Man canon from his very first appearance.
- 41:55Eric Poch: Oh, hell yeah.
- 41:56Eric Poch: Okay, I didn't know that was a thing.
- 41:58Eric Poch: Is this just like an e-comic?
- 42:00Matthew Shea: thing?
- 42:00Matthew Shea: Yeah, it's a digital comic service.
- 42:03Matthew Shea: It's like five bucks a month.
- 42:04Matthew Shea: It's not that bad, goddamn.
- 42:07Matthew Shea: And I've just been reading all these fucking Spider-Man comics from the 60s.
- 42:09Matthew Shea: Yeah, I'm on episode.
- 42:11Matthew Shea: I'm on issue eight of the original run of Spider-Man.
- 42:16Eric Poch: Fuck, yeah, it's pretty great.
- 42:18Matthew Shea: I mean this iteration of Peter Parker.
- 42:20Matthew Shea: If I'm being honest, kind of a piece of shit, but yeah.
- 42:24Eric Poch: Does he say real old-timey thing?
- 42:26Matthew Shea: Yeah, he sure does, yeah yeah, yeah, also, he's illustrated to look like he's supposed to be in high school, but he looks like a 45-year-old man.
- 42:35Eric Poch: Yeah, yep, yep.
- 42:36Eric Poch: So there is that weird elevator Well it costs more to illustrate child actors because they got all these union rules.
- 42:46Matthew Shea: you got to get them right, yeah and in the 60s, but I'm still very much in the era where he's got the webbing between his pits.
- 42:54Eric Poch: Oh hell, yeah, yeah, I'm still in that era of Spider-Man design.
- 42:58Eric Poch: In that era where it missed being called man Spider by a coin flip.
- 43:04Matthew Shea: Yeah, for sure.
- 43:04Eric Poch: They were still figuring a lot of shit out.
- 43:07Matthew Shea: But yeah, I think that's kind of funny that I do love Spider-Man.
- 43:09Matthew Shea: But yeah, send us your Spider-Man questions by the way.
- 43:14Eric Poch: Oh yeah, send us your Spider-Man questions.
- 43:16Eric Poch: I'd love to do a Spider-Man episode You've seen into the Spider-Verse and across the Spider-Verse, correct?
- 43:21Matthew Shea: As a matter of fact, I actually have not.
- 43:24Matthew Shea: I really want to, because right now I'm playing Spider-Man 2 on PS5.
- 43:29Matthew Shea: Yes, it's fucking and phenomenal.
- 43:31Matthew Shea: I know you don't have a PS5, so you can't play it, but it's phenomenal.
- 43:34Matthew Shea: The first game's phenomenal.
- 43:35Matthew Shea: The Miles Morales game in the middle is essentially just a DLC, but it is also phenomenal.
- 43:41Matthew Shea: But I love Miles Morales.
- 43:43Eric Poch: Oh yeah, Miles Morales fucking.
- 43:44Eric Poch: Oh dude, you will love Spider-Verse.
- 43:46Matthew Shea: I know I will.
- 43:47Matthew Shea: It just hasn't happened for me that I sat down and watched it.
- 43:50Matthew Shea: But yeah, I do love Spider-Man and I love a Spider-Man, be it Peter Parker or Miles Morales, under that mask.
- 43:56Eric Poch: Hell yeah, I do consider them two very different Spider-Man.
- 43:59Eric Poch: Oh yeah, of course, if they were the same, that makes them both suck.
- 44:05Matthew Shea: But I'm not saying I'm not out here being one of these hashtag, not my Spider-Man people.
- 44:10Eric Poch: Which is to say racist.
- 44:12Matthew Shea: Yes, just to put a button on it.
- 44:15Matthew Shea: Should we do the next question?
- 44:17Matthew Shea: We should do the next question which is Since we're almost at end segment time and we've only done one question.
- 44:23Eric Poch: This is from at Simply Lindsay.
- 44:27Matthew Shea: AKA.
- 44:28Eric Poch: Matthew's beloved Dr Lindsay Barr.
- 44:32Eric Poch: Yes, lindsay.
- 44:33Matthew Shea: Barr, please.
- 44:35Eric Poch: If time is money, are ATMs time machines?
- 44:38Eric Poch: Now, matt, I was given to understand that this question is a hot button topic in your household, in that Lindsay really, really, really, really, really wanted us to do this one.
- 44:50Matthew Shea: Well, I kind of said something to the effect yesterday of being like, well, we're recording tomorrow and the queue is a little light and I'm not sure what we would do for questions.
- 44:59Matthew Shea: And Lindsay said I gave you a question.
- 45:01Matthew Shea: I was like, yeah, it's in the queue, we just haven't found the right moment for it.
- 45:06Matthew Shea: And I'm not you know, I'm not sure, but I haven't given enough thought to it of like oh, here's a bit I could come in with.
- 45:14Matthew Shea: And she basically said so you're saying my question's not good enough.
- 45:18Matthew Shea: And I said that's not what I said.
- 45:19Matthew Shea: So here we are.
- 45:20Matthew Shea: Ooh, and here we are.
- 45:22Matthew Shea: So, eric, if time is money, is an ATM a time machine?
- 45:27Matthew Shea: She likened this also to being like, well, you got the hot tub time machine, to which I said but the hot tub time machine is a time machine.
- 45:37Matthew Shea: That just so happens to be explicitly designed to go through time.
- 45:42Matthew Shea: Yes, it was explicitly designed to go through time.
- 45:43Matthew Shea: The DeLorean is a car designed to go through time.
- 45:47Matthew Shea: The original back to the future time machine, as I'm sure you know, but I'll say just in case you don't was a refrigerator.
- 45:54Eric Poch: Yes.
- 45:55Matthew Shea: That was the original intention was to have it be a fridge.
- 45:58Matthew Shea: Hg Wells is the time machine, is essentially a stationary bike.
- 46:04Eric Poch: Yeah, essentially a Bellatom.
- 46:06Eric Poch: Yes, the forbidden Bellatom, the forbidden Bellatom.
- 46:11Eric Poch: So if time was money?
- 46:13Eric Poch: In fact, that's kind of how I want to approach this question.
- 46:15Eric Poch: Let's approach it from that angle.
- 46:17Eric Poch: Time is money, time is money, time is money.
- 46:20Eric Poch: So ATMs are time machines.
- 46:22Eric Poch: What does that look like?
- 46:23Eric Poch: So if I take money out, yeah, do I?
- 46:28Matthew Shea: go to the past.
- 46:28Matthew Shea: I think we need to.
- 46:30Matthew Shea: Before we do that, I think we need to first break into the first part.
- 46:34Matthew Shea: If we're doing this question, which we are, I think we need to break into the first part of the sentence.
- 46:39Matthew Shea: If time is money, lindsay, are you listening?
- 46:43Matthew Shea: Time as money, as a concept to me, has always been trying to state that time, our time on this planet, is really the only actual currency that matters.
- 46:59Matthew Shea: Yes, that we have In order to yes.
- 47:02Matthew Shea: Yes, because, as we've talked about many times before people, I think it's very important that you remember money is fake.
- 47:11Eric Poch: Not real it doesn't mean anything, we all collectively agreed to the same delusion that this has value.
- 47:18Eric Poch: It doesn't mean a goddamn thing other than what you can buy, and for those of you out there doing crypto, you'll get it.
- 47:28Eric Poch: You'll get there.
- 47:29Eric Poch: You'll realize Crypto's even less real.
- 47:32Eric Poch: Yes, that's kind of what makes a lot of crypto shit like.
- 47:39Eric Poch: It's like an embarrassment multiplier.
- 47:42Eric Poch: Yeah, absolutely, because we already have a made up thing that we agreed has value and you're out here trying to get us onto a new delusional kick.
- 47:52Matthew Shea: You have created crypto people, a made up thing, and this is the important part, that does not matter.
- 48:00Eric Poch: Yes, the made up thing.
- 48:02Matthew Shea: The made up thing that we've made physical representations of.
- 48:06Matthew Shea: That's a made up thing that matters, unfortunately, and that's the horrifying bit about capitalism right.
- 48:13Matthew Shea: Yes, because it's a completely made up thing.
- 48:15Eric Poch: Yes, none of it is real, but it absolutely matters.
- 48:20Matthew Shea: And then there's NFTs, so that's what I think that time, as money means, is a phrase.
- 48:28Eric Poch: Yes, so time is the ultimate currency, is what you're saying?
- 48:31Matthew Shea: So if we're extending this to say, if time is money, is an ATM a time machine?
- 48:38Matthew Shea: The answer that would make that yes for me is you have to get something out of the ATM.
- 48:45Matthew Shea: The only thing coming out of there is money that will actually Be getting you time in some capacity.
- 48:54Eric Poch: Are we veering into the plot?
- 48:56Eric Poch: What was that fucking movie where, literally, time was currency?
- 49:00Eric Poch: I do not know.
- 49:01Matthew Shea: Oh, I don't know what film you're referencing there.
- 49:05Eric Poch: It was like this sci-fi.
- 49:06Eric Poch: I don't think it was good because I've never heard about it after it came out, but it was like was it Brad Pitt or someone else?
- 49:12Eric Poch: Or where they had literally like watches built into their fucking arm and like when you bought something it cost like five minutes of your life.
- 49:20Eric Poch: You had a clock and, like I think it, I assume that if you hit zero you die.
- 49:24Matthew Shea: Okay, but somehow you live longer if you get more okay, first of all, there is a film called from like the 50s or 30s, called like time is money, but I think you might be referencing in Time starring Justin Timberlake.
- 49:40Eric Poch: Yeah, it was J Tim's.
- 49:42Eric Poch: It was J Tim's.
- 49:43Matthew Shea: I don't think anyone calls him J Tim's by the way we do now.
- 49:46Matthew Shea: I think we call him JT Among other things, all more derogatory, tim's.
- 49:50Eric Poch: Well, jimmy, tim's.
- 49:52Matthew Shea: I'm not taking you to the in sync reunion concert.
- 49:54Eric Poch: Have we talked about this?
- 49:55Eric Poch: I have.
- 49:56Eric Poch: I love coming up with cute little nicknames.
- 49:59Matthew Shea: We haven't talked about it, I just just something I know.
- 50:02Eric Poch: John leg was Ammo, as Johnny legs you didn't come up with.
- 50:05Matthew Shea: Johnny legs.
- 50:06Matthew Shea: Johnny legs, eric, I got bad news for you.
- 50:08Matthew Shea: He is popularly called Johnny legs.
- 50:11Eric Poch: He's.
- 50:11Eric Poch: He's popularly called Johnny legs people call John leg.
- 50:14Matthew Shea: Was Ammo Johnny legs?
- 50:15Matthew Shea: Yes.
- 50:17Eric Poch: There's no fucking way.
- 50:18Eric Poch: Oh, I'm just gonna.
- 50:19Eric Poch: I'm just gonna Google search Johnny legs real quick.
- 50:22Matthew Shea: I'm just gonna see yeah, see what comes up when you do that bud.
- 50:25Eric Poch: How would you look at that?
- 50:26Matthew Shea: Is it the profile of John leg was Ammo, because that's what came up for me.
- 50:30Matthew Shea: Damn, I mean.
- 50:31Matthew Shea: No, you didn't trust me.
- 50:33Matthew Shea: You had to look at, you had to do your own research.
- 50:35Eric Poch: Matt trust, but verify all right.
- 50:39Matthew Shea: That's fair.
- 50:40Eric Poch: But also it speaks to what a good nickname it is, because, like, I had literally never heard it and then I just decided to start calling in that one day, because I was watching and can't, oh well you.
- 50:50Eric Poch: Where in can't, oh with hashtag justice for Johnny legs if they do my boy so fucking dirty in that movie.
- 50:58Eric Poch: They can do they, do they do Bruno so fucking dirty in that movie.
- 51:03Eric Poch: But that's a topic for another day.
- 51:05Matthew Shea: I'll say this about Johnny legs hashtag my Luigi.
- 51:08Matthew Shea: That's what I'll say.
- 51:10Eric Poch: What that is, my Luigi hashtag my Luigi.
- 51:12Eric Poch: While while I'm gathering my soapboxes.
- 51:15Eric Poch: If you don't think, the Super Mario Brothers movie rips.
- 51:19Eric Poch: Give the original.
- 51:21Eric Poch: You mean yeah, yeah, yes, the original, with.
- 51:24Matthew Shea: Bob.
- 51:24Eric Poch: Hoskins, bob Hoskins and Johnny legs and fucking Dennis, dennis Hopper, baby hopper.
- 51:30Eric Poch: Yeah, denny hops, fuck, see, this is that.
- 51:34Eric Poch: I enjoy doing this, I love.
- 51:36Eric Poch: But it's Blade Runner.
- 51:37Eric Poch: But Mario with Bob Hoskins and Johnny legs, what more could you ask for?
- 51:43Eric Poch: I don't know exactly see others, there's, there's, hop, hop scotch Hop Scott.
- 51:51Matthew Shea: you know hops scotch absolutely loathe that movie and was like drunk, oh, most of the time because he had to to get through it.
- 51:58Eric Poch: Yes, oh, my he was.
- 51:59Eric Poch: Yeah, he was drunk on set 100% 100%.
- 52:02Eric Poch: Where the fuck were we?
- 52:05Eric Poch: Time is money.
- 52:06Matthew Shea: I don't know fucking knows bud.
- 52:08Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah, it's, it's one of them's, it's one of them's, it's one of them.
- 52:12Matthew Shea: It's one of those, and we've leaned all the way into it.
- 52:14Matthew Shea: So what I'm saying is is do we think the cash that you're getting out of an ATM is that buying you Time in any capacity?
- 52:25Matthew Shea: If so, then yes, we can say it's a time machine.
- 52:27Eric Poch: Otherwise I think it's a no, yeah, and, and, and, where I was imagining it is.
- 52:32Eric Poch: So you're seeing it as you take out a pretty money and your, your bank of time for your life, is expanding and contracting Like is that?
- 52:41Eric Poch: Is that, is that accurate?
- 52:42Matthew Shea: I think so because for really time is money.
- 52:46Matthew Shea: What it's really saying is time is currency, time is of value, and I think that's the only way this phrase applies to a time machine.
- 52:56Matthew Shea: I mean to a, to an ATM.
- 52:58Eric Poch: I think that's so much better than what I had, because I was imagining well, if I take out a hundred bucks, so I go back a hundred years in the past, at which point I've technically taken out a lot more money due to inflation, but then I can't even use that money because all I have to see is like 2023 on a bill, and then I'm burned as a wish.
- 53:13Matthew Shea: But sure, and we would still burn you as a wish if we could.
- 53:15Matthew Shea: But that's not the.
- 53:18Matthew Shea: That's not what happens when you get Money on an ATM.
- 53:20Matthew Shea: You don't suddenly turn around and you're a hundred years in the past.
- 53:23Eric Poch: Yeah, yeah, that that well, that that's what I'm saying.
- 53:26Eric Poch: If we were working from the premise that time, literally, is money.
- 53:29Eric Poch: How does that affect an ATM?
- 53:31Matthew Shea: now if time was literally money in the J Tim's universe.
- 53:35Eric Poch: Yeah, I Know it complicates, then I guess it is yeah, in that capacity and if you put money in, do you go to the future, at which point your money has already paid off?
- 53:46Eric Poch: Because you saw the movie, not me.
- 53:48Eric Poch: I did, I never saw it.
- 53:50Eric Poch: I just remember the trailer everything I'm telling you is based off of Trailer with J Tim's in it from 12 years ago.
- 53:56Matthew Shea: Okay, so the if if you are receiving time, yes.
- 54:01Matthew Shea: If you get time in a bottle From the ATM, yes.
- 54:06Matthew Shea: Then I think you have to call it a time machine, because it'd be an automatic time machine, not an automatic teller machine.
- 54:13Eric Poch: Oh, oh, so okay, so, so okay.
- 54:18Matthew Shea: So we're basically just talking about look like if you get time in a bottle and you what, what, what happens?
- 54:25Matthew Shea: How do you use it?
- 54:26Matthew Shea: How?
- 54:27Eric Poch: do you use it, crochi?
- 54:28Eric Poch: I like at that point, I, at that point we know magic's real magic has to be real for this to be like feasible, fuck.
- 54:35Eric Poch: And at that point, what do you need money for, if you?
- 54:40Matthew Shea: are a magician, yeah.
- 54:41Matthew Shea: Why do you have a wallet?
- 54:43Eric Poch: No, matt, we agonized for minutes before this podcast, discussing what the fuck we were even going to talk about.
- 54:52Eric Poch: And you and you, you wait till now To pull that fucking gold, that fucking Treasure if you're a wizard Harry, why do you have a wallet?
- 55:04Eric Poch: I feel like if you're a wizard and you have a wallet, that is you basically having a TSA for everyone else, in that this Doesn't do anything and you're not safer from me, but it makes you feel better to see me pull a 20 out of my wallet sure, but are you, are you not capable of just hypnotizing the, the person, to think that you paid them?
- 55:24Eric Poch: Oh, so you don't even need a while.
- 55:26Eric Poch: You just hypnotize everyone think you have one and that when you're pulling money out of it that it's actual money, but it's like you're literally you could be flipping them off just Jedi mind tricking.
- 55:34Matthew Shea: Yeah, I already paid I, I paid for these droids yeah.
- 55:43Eric Poch: Damn damn.
- 55:44Eric Poch: Be on the lookout for wizards, folks.
- 55:47Eric Poch: If a wizard ever pulls out his wallet in front of you, you are being ensorcelled.
- 55:51Eric Poch: Let's just get that out of the way.
- 55:53Eric Poch: Sourcelled is one of my favorite words in the English language definitely a word I've never heard before it's so good, it is an actual word.
- 56:03Matthew Shea: I had no doubt.
- 56:04Eric Poch: I had no doubt sir ma'am, have you been ensorcelled?
- 56:08Eric Poch: If you or a loved one has been ensorcelled, please call the law offices if you or loved one have been ensorcelled by Eric poach.
- 56:17Matthew Shea: Don't wait.
- 56:17Matthew Shea: You might be entitled to financial compensation.
- 56:20Eric Poch: And then, like a second commercial comes on because I know this is happening.
- 56:23Eric Poch: So it's me as a wizard like, coming with my contingency commercials is like, ah, and if you take a single action, I'll cast a spell of mesothelioma on you.
- 56:31Matthew Shea: I love the idea that you pulled apart the commercial.
- 56:34Matthew Shea: Like you, you emerged from it like Jim Carrey and ace Ventura 2 coming out of the rhinos.
- 56:39Matthew Shea: But and if you think you can get away with this, you think you can escape me.
- 56:46Matthew Shea: Mesothelioma for you, my friend.
- 56:49Matthew Shea: We have gone so we have gone so far off the rails, we might as well be the opening scene of the fugitive.
- 56:59Eric Poch: Lizzie, what are you doing to this podcast?
- 57:03Matthew Shea: Okay, so decision time.
- 57:05Matthew Shea: Eric, what do you say?
- 57:06Eric Poch: I like yours better.
- 57:14Matthew Shea: Siri, that you know what that's perfect.
- 57:17Eric Poch: Yeah, yep, there it is.
- 57:19Eric Poch: That's all that needs to be said.
- 57:23Matthew Shea: We kind of scripted.
- 57:25Matthew Shea: We couldn't scripted a better end.
- 57:27Matthew Shea: So, lindsay, I do not think we necessarily answered the question, but you know what?
- 57:39Eric Poch: Shall we do a closing segment.
- 57:41Matthew Shea: Yeah, are we skipping our last question yet again?
- 57:44Eric Poch: I think we're on our bound at this one at this point.
- 57:46Eric Poch: Yeah, that is the price we pay for our juicy, juicy tangents.
- 57:50Matthew Shea: Okay, we'll push that to the next time.
- 57:51Matthew Shea: All right, in that case, it is time for season 3, round 2 of Google gripes.
- 58:02Eric Poch: All right, let me adjust my screen to be in Google gripe formation while Matt's doing that, the current score this season is to me Three, matthew, I got two out of three of Matt's gripes.
- 58:14Eric Poch: Matt got three out of motherfucking three of mine last episode.
- 58:19Eric Poch: So now we're gonna see if I can Flip the script.
- 58:23Matthew Shea: Yeah, absolutely.
- 58:24Matthew Shea: And if you, this is your first episode and I feel like I say this often, what an episode to have joined.
- 58:31Matthew Shea: But Google gripes is a segment where we read each other one star Google reviews of well-known places.
- 58:38Matthew Shea: We keep it vague intentionally and see how many we can get right.
- 58:42Matthew Shea: So, as Eric already said, I'm currently leading the season score after round one three.
- 58:47Matthew Shea: Yeah two, two.
- 58:48Matthew Shea: So, eric, are you ready?
- 58:51Eric Poch: I was ready, as I am ever going to be, let's fucking go.
- 58:55Eric Poch: And, matthew, if I remember correctly, we did agree.
- 58:58Eric Poch: We had a gentle, a gentleman's agreement, that you know.
- 59:02Eric Poch: First round was us kind of like.
- 59:04Eric Poch: You know, we would say not Easy mode, but it was.
- 59:10Matthew Shea: It was, you know and I'm gonna up it to medium Difficulty now we're turning up the heat, Okay and round three will be tough.
- 59:18Eric Poch: It'll be.
- 59:18Eric Poch: It'll be intentionally tough.
- 59:20Matthew Shea: I think I in fact.
- 59:21Matthew Shea: Yes, I kept that in mind when I gathered these and, eric, I'll tell you this and I do not mean to mislead you.
- 59:27Matthew Shea: I'm just being honest.
- 59:28Matthew Shea: I Am a little worried.
- 59:30Matthew Shea: I actually made these too easy in an attempt to keep them from not being too hard.
- 59:36Eric Poch: Well, to be a good friend.
- 59:37Eric Poch: I'll make mine that much harder when I come for you.
- 59:39Eric Poch: Great Well, fuck you?
- 59:41Matthew Shea: Okay, great, are you ready?
- 59:43Matthew Shea: Yes, all right.
- 59:44Matthew Shea: This is location number one.
- 59:46Matthew Shea: Review number one Okay, okay, the monument Amazing.
- 59:50Matthew Shea: The nighttime light show Pretty cool, but could we go up it as planned?
- 59:56Matthew Shea: Nope, because of the strike.
- 59:58Matthew Shea: But here's the real issue.
- 59:59Matthew Shea: You can't find anything online indicating that that's the case, including on their official website.
- 1:00:06Matthew Shea: Between this and the construction due to next year's Olympics, tourists should be prepared not to see everything they hoped for while here.
- 1:00:18Eric Poch: Okay, also just as a comment to the review lever.
- 1:00:22Eric Poch: Yeah, I don't imagine management would be terribly jazzed about plastering all of our workers or striking on a website.
- 1:00:31Eric Poch: But that's just me.
- 1:00:33Matthew Shea: Probably not, and just for clarity I will say that review was left in 2023.
- 1:00:39Matthew Shea: Okay.
- 1:00:40Matthew Shea: Review number two what a waste of time.
- 1:00:44Matthew Shea: Use your money and time to get a great meal and buy a picture of it.
- 1:00:49Matthew Shea: Blank is a disgusting city.
- 1:00:51Matthew Shea: Go to London or Scotland and save yourself from wasting time and money to be disappointed.
- 1:00:57Matthew Shea: The food is divine if you can get past the smell outside.
- 1:01:01Matthew Shea: I'll leave you some pictures to decide for yourself.
- 1:01:04Matthew Shea: Blank is also under construction and won't be available to tour for years.
- 1:01:09Matthew Shea: I'll never go back.
- 1:01:11Matthew Shea: Okay.
- 1:01:12Matthew Shea: Review number three Ugly clunk of metal ruining the view of the park.
- 1:01:18Matthew Shea: Looks like it was made by a homeless man.
- 1:01:21Matthew Shea: Thought it was weird scaffold at first.
- 1:01:24Matthew Shea: And those are your reviews.
- 1:01:26Matthew Shea: Oh man.
- 1:01:28Eric Poch: What you thinking?
- 1:01:29Eric Poch: I'm thinking this, so it sounds like this is something that was so.
- 1:01:33Eric Poch: This is a.
- 1:01:33Eric Poch: This is a famous location.
- 1:01:36Matthew Shea: This is a famous location.
- 1:01:39Eric Poch: Or sorry, a well-known location.
- 1:01:41Matthew Shea: This is a well-known location and a famous location.
- 1:01:45Eric Poch: Okay, okay.
- 1:01:47Matthew Shea: I'm giving you.
- 1:01:47Matthew Shea: I feel like that's a pretty good hint.
- 1:01:49Eric Poch: Because, yeah, because I'm getting the sense that there's something already famous about this place.
- 1:01:54Matthew Shea: I'll put it this way Eric, there is a 0% chance.
- 1:01:59Matthew Shea: You don't know this location, okay.
- 1:02:02Eric Poch: I'm getting the sense this is in Europe and or the UK Could be, while that I have to make that distinction Could be Sounds like there's something already famous here, but because of the Olympics they're building, I assume they're building a new stadium for the Olympics.
- 1:02:22Matthew Shea: I think that's true, but I'm not sure.
- 1:02:24Matthew Shea: It's not like a Qatar situation with the World Cup, where they had to full-on make stadiums that do exist, okay, okay.
- 1:02:34Matthew Shea: This I'll give you a bigger hint, since I did include that one review, not knowing if you'd know where the next Olympics were going to be?
- 1:02:46Eric Poch: I do not, I know, I see.
- 1:02:48Matthew Shea: I'll give you a hint.
- 1:02:49Matthew Shea: This city has hosted the Olympics before.
- 1:02:52Matthew Shea: Okay.
- 1:02:54Eric Poch: My inclination, and this is also I don't know if we've done this before, but that might be what you're counting on, because it feels like something we should have done.
- 1:03:06Eric Poch: Is this I'm just going to get?
- 1:03:09Eric Poch: Is this the Eiffel Tower?
- 1:03:12Matthew Shea: Is that your final answer?
- 1:03:13Eric Poch: That is my final answer.
- 1:03:15Matthew Shea: This is the Eiffel Tower.
- 1:03:17Eric Poch: Oh, thank God, this is that almost got me because it felt like this sounds like the fucking Eiffel Tower.
- 1:03:24Matthew Shea: It felt like I had to check the list to make sure we didn't do it.
- 1:03:27Eric Poch: Yeah, I was like, and I was thinking it was like there's no way we haven't done the Eiffel Tower but we haven't.
- 1:03:33Eric Poch: Fuck yeah, also, weirdly enough, joey, if you're listening, dj Joey G, he helped me in a way because he went to Paris when he was in I think we were in high school and I remember he's.
- 1:03:46Eric Poch: I asked him how Paris was and he was like, oh yeah, it was great, but the entire place smelled like piss.
- 1:03:50Eric Poch: Yeah, that's interesting.
- 1:03:52Eric Poch: He commented on the weird sewer smell that was just present throughout all of Paris.
- 1:03:57Matthew Shea: Interesting.
- 1:03:58Matthew Shea: Okay, all right.
- 1:03:59Matthew Shea: Well, you're one for one.
- 1:04:01Matthew Shea: And now, at this exact moment in time, the score is even at 3-3.
- 1:04:05Matthew Shea: Okay, all right, are you ready for location number two?
- 1:04:08Eric Poch: Oh yeah, we're on the board.
- 1:04:09Eric Poch: Baby, let's go.
- 1:04:10Eric Poch: It's a rock.
- 1:04:12Matthew Shea: I've lived in and around Blank my whole life and my favorite memory of the rock was when the newspaper had a picture of somebody graffitying that red, made in China, on it a made-up, pointless landmark.
- 1:04:26Matthew Shea: Okay, review number two we went to see Blank as a family with young children.
- 1:04:32Matthew Shea: The kids found Blank extremely uninteresting.
- 1:04:35Matthew Shea: It was simply boring.
- 1:04:36Matthew Shea: I personally did not enjoy it either.
- 1:04:38Matthew Shea: The Blank had 1620 carved on it, which made no sense in my opinion.
- 1:04:44Matthew Shea: Obviously, the Blank didn't carve that Laughing, crying emoji.
- 1:04:48Matthew Shea: If you do like plain rock, I'd recommend, otherwise not really Okay.
- 1:04:53Matthew Shea: And the last review you have to push your way through tons of protesters spewing politics at your face, all to look at a tiny rock.
- 1:05:03Eric Poch: Plymouth Rock.
- 1:05:03Eric Poch: Final answer Plymouth Rock is correct.
- 1:05:06Eric Poch: Yes, Because there was no actual Plymouth.
- 1:05:10Eric Poch: I do remember the rock at Plymouth Rock was not there, like they brought it in.
- 1:05:17Matthew Shea: And it is just a fucking rock that they put cage around.
- 1:05:22Eric Poch: Yes, they're like.
- 1:05:22Eric Poch: Well, we need a rock.
- 1:05:23Matthew Shea: It's like a two foot long rock.
- 1:05:26Matthew Shea: That's it.
- 1:05:26Matthew Shea: Yeah, yeah, interesting, okay, eric.
- 1:05:29Matthew Shea: Well, right now you're in the lead 4-3.
- 1:05:32Eric Poch: We are on the fucking board, See.
- 1:05:34Matthew Shea: I was a little worried.
- 1:05:35Matthew Shea: That was too easy.
- 1:05:36Matthew Shea: You came very quick.
- 1:05:37Matthew Shea: All right, here we go.
- 1:05:38Matthew Shea: Last one Really gross and disappointing.
- 1:05:42Matthew Shea: So many rats.
- 1:05:43Matthew Shea: You know there's rats in blank, so it's not a shock to see one or two once in a while.
- 1:05:49Matthew Shea: But in the middle of the day they were just all over the place, running through the fields like squirrels, even running on the playground while there were kids on it.
- 1:05:58Matthew Shea: They need to introduce some natural predators because it's clear they are overrun and aren't avoiding people at all.
- 1:06:06Matthew Shea: There's so many great things to see in the blank, but too eeked to stay out too long.
- 1:06:12Matthew Shea: Playground rats running through the bushes and around and inside the playground.
- 1:06:17Matthew Shea: Dog friendliness I was concerned about the amount of rats with my dog being there, as if the rats would band together and eat the dog.
- 1:06:29Eric Poch: Local dog mugged by rats.
- 1:06:31Matthew Shea: Okay, that's your first review.
- 1:06:33Eric Poch: Oh the god damn, yeah, Hell yeah.
- 1:06:35Matthew Shea: Second review.
- 1:06:36Matthew Shea: Honestly, it deserves five stars.
- 1:06:39Matthew Shea: They have recycling and trash receptacles.
- 1:06:42Matthew Shea: It's a beautiful area, but until they ban the use of horses for horse-drawn carriage rides, this place will forever have one star.
- 1:06:53Matthew Shea: Damn okay, final review.
- 1:06:56Matthew Shea: This strip of land over a mile long is horrible.
- 1:07:00Matthew Shea: This is prime real estate that is being unused.
- 1:07:03Matthew Shea: Bulldoze all of blank and place houses.
- 1:07:07Matthew Shea: We can use the resources from the destruction of blank to construct Jeepers and solar panels for Bitcoin farms.
- 1:07:17Matthew Shea: Also, this would probably slightly decrease the housing costs in blank.
- 1:07:22Matthew Shea: Just a little bit.
- 1:07:23Matthew Shea: Honestly, this is prime real estate and the fact that it has remained unused for this Now, let's be honest useless piece of land.
- 1:07:33Matthew Shea: I can already see a Walmart supercenter in the middle of this and it takes you to make it happen.
- 1:07:42Eric Poch: Are there no prisons?
- 1:07:43Eric Poch: Are there no workhouses?
- 1:07:45Matthew Shea: Jesus Christ, I read this and honestly can't decide if it's a joke.
- 1:07:53Matthew Shea: I yeah because I've met people who talk like this.
- 1:07:58Eric Poch: Yes, on ironically.
- 1:08:00Matthew Shea: I do not know if this is an ironic posting or not.
- 1:08:05Eric Poch: Is this Central Park, New York City?
- 1:08:07Eric Poch: Final answer.
- 1:08:08Matthew Shea: Not again, not even a discussion.
- 1:08:10Matthew Shea: You just have a guess ready to go.
- 1:08:12Matthew Shea: Yeah, and your guess is Central Park of New York City.
- 1:08:16Matthew Shea: Yes, well, it's right, I can't blame you.
- 1:08:20Matthew Shea: That's it, baby.
- 1:08:21Matthew Shea: You got it Three for three and got them quick.
- 1:08:24Matthew Shea: In fact, you struggled the most with the Eiffel Tower, which I thought was almost a good Arguably the easiest one.
- 1:08:32Eric Poch: It was so easy it threw me off.
- 1:08:34Eric Poch: I know.
- 1:08:35Matthew Shea: Wow, eric.
- 1:08:36Matthew Shea: Okay, I got to say I feel like my initial impression that I went too easy in an attempt to achieve medium might have been the case.
- 1:08:45Matthew Shea: But hey, you got them fair and square, buddy, good job.
- 1:08:50Matthew Shea: So the score at the moment going to be five to three, before I, of course, get to my second round.
- 1:08:59Eric Poch: Makes for a juicy second round, because you have to get two to tie.
- 1:09:05Matthew Shea: Three to maintain my one answer lead, but I only need two to keep it even, stephen, and if I do that it sets up a juicy final round if we go in tie, doesn't that?
- 1:09:19Matthew Shea: Ooh, oh, baby, baby.
- 1:09:22Eric Poch: And man, I hope you know I respect you enough.
- 1:09:23Eric Poch: I will never engineer a result, God.
- 1:09:27Eric Poch: No, I will come to you.
- 1:09:28Eric Poch: God, I love you way too much to ever do that.
- 1:09:30Matthew Shea: No, don't come in here next time with two easy ones and a super difficult one.
- 1:09:34Matthew Shea: Don't do that.
- 1:09:35Eric Poch: No, I think the most disrespectful thing I could ever do to you in Google writes is let you win anything.
- 1:09:42Matthew Shea: The most disrespectful thing you or anyone else could do is underestimate me.
- 1:09:46Matthew Shea: Yeah yeah, yeah, so don't.
- 1:09:49Matthew Shea: No, that's my word of warning to you and indeed to you all.
- 1:09:54Matthew Shea: And then I'm about to do it, for this episode of you Didn't Ask For this.
- 1:10:03Matthew Shea: As always, we do need your questions.
- 1:10:07Matthew Shea: I think this episode is a glorious demonstration of that point.
- 1:10:10Matthew Shea: But also send us your local legends.
- 1:10:14Matthew Shea: Send us, for the love of God, your neighborhood dramas.
- 1:10:18Matthew Shea: We haven't had a neighborhood watch in a long time.
- 1:10:21Matthew Shea: I want to know your next door gossip.
- 1:10:24Matthew Shea: I want to know your Facebook group gossip.
- 1:10:27Eric Poch: Pour the fucking tea, babies Pour the tea.
- 1:10:30Matthew Shea: We will read it, we'll read those tea leaves.
- 1:10:32Matthew Shea: Kettle's on, kettle is always on.
- 1:10:35Matthew Shea: Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby boy, babs, baby, baby, baby, mmm.
- 1:10:42Matthew Shea: And don't forget, you can call the thought line to share your thoughts stream, a consciousness style, that is, at 410-929-5329.
- 1:10:53Matthew Shea: And again, say whatever you want.
- 1:10:55Eric Poch: Say whatever the fuck you want.
- 1:10:58Matthew Shea: In the moment that you are leaving a message on the thought line, you have a podcast.
- 1:11:02Matthew Shea: Yes, yes.
- 1:11:04Matthew Shea: And the best thing about a podcast is you really can just, there is no license for a podcast, you just get a microphone, say whatever the fuck you want.
- 1:11:11Matthew Shea: That's obviously what we do, so you should do it too.
- 1:11:14Matthew Shea: Yeah, absolutely yeah.
- 1:11:18Matthew Shea: But listen, we got a lot of new segments that we're thinking up all the time.
- 1:11:23Matthew Shea: We've got a good one that we can't wait to uncork for you all Real excited about this.
- 1:11:29Matthew Shea: Not exactly a sure one.
- 1:11:30Matthew Shea: We'll have the equipment ready to do it.
- 1:11:33Matthew Shea: That's just a little teaser for you, but we do have some ideas.
- 1:11:38Matthew Shea: But hey, if you got an idea for a segment you'd like us to do or a game you want us to play, this podcast is as much yours as it is ours.
- 1:11:47Eric Poch: Is it not?
- 1:11:47Eric Poch: God damn right?
- 1:11:48Eric Poch: God damn right.
- 1:11:49Eric Poch: Baby, this is our podcast.
- 1:11:50Eric Poch: When you want, if you ever talk to someone about our podcast which hey hope you do, it's okay.
- 1:11:55Eric Poch: If you don't, but I really hope you do Feel free to say hey, you want to listen to my podcast, and then your friend's going to be like you got a podcast.
- 1:12:02Eric Poch: Yeah, it's called.
- 1:12:03Matthew Shea: you didn't ask you look off wistfully into the distance and say in a way, in a way, in a way you said just say hey, yeah, my friend's Matt and Eric helped me.
- 1:12:11Matthew Shea: Because, make no mistake, you're our friend.
- 1:12:15Eric Poch: Oh, oh yeah.
- 1:12:16Matthew Shea: You got a friend in us.
- 1:12:18Eric Poch: You took an hour and some change out of your day to listen to our podcast buddy.
- 1:12:24Eric Poch: There you are working out or sort of laundry or driving or you could have spent your time, money, any other way and you chose us, and that's really sweet.
- 1:12:34Matthew Shea: You chose us, and we are forever grateful to you for it.
- 1:12:38Matthew Shea: So Eric.
- 1:12:40Eric Poch: So give us some good goddamn content, okay.
- 1:12:43Matthew Shea: Give us some good goddamn content.
- 1:12:44Matthew Shea: Leave us a review if you're so pleased on your pod listening device of choice and if you got some time, go over to Good Pods.
- 1:12:53Matthew Shea: Try out Good Pods.
- 1:12:54Matthew Shea: We, when we're recording this, the last week we were flirting.
- 1:12:59Matthew Shea: We were flirting with a top spot and didn't quite get there, but we were cut down in our prime.
- 1:13:07Matthew Shea: So, by all means, leave us some listens and reviews on Good Pods.
- 1:13:11Matthew Shea: It's a good place to be with a great community of indie podcasters dominating the platform.
- 1:13:17Matthew Shea: Eric, have we missed anything?
- 1:13:19Eric Poch: I don't think it's possible for us to have missed anything.
- 1:13:22Eric Poch: You were so thorough and good.
- 1:13:24Eric Poch: God damn it.
- 1:13:25Matthew Shea: Well then, in that case, for all of us here you didn't ask for this.
- 1:13:28Matthew Shea: My name is Matt Shea.
- 1:13:30Eric Poch: My name is Eric Poach.
- 1:13:32Matthew Shea: And listen, you didn't ask.
- 1:13:34Matthew Shea: You've been real bad about this lately.
- 1:13:38Matthew Shea: I gotta tell you, I know, I know.
- 1:13:41Eric Poch: Usually it's around the time you start giving them the business that I started like.
- 1:13:43Eric Poch: Oh.
- 1:13:44Eric Poch: That's why I remember the thing we do at the end of every single episode.
- 1:13:47Eric Poch: I'm like oh, god damn, I really should have had something 78 times.
- 1:13:50Matthew Shea: We've done it before this 78 times I've done this.
- 1:13:53Matthew Shea: Yeah.
- 1:13:55Eric Poch: Is this my water spout?
- 1:13:57Matthew Shea: No Am.
- 1:13:57Matthew Shea: I the spider no, because there is a goal it's to end the show.
- 1:14:00Eric Poch: Oh, there is a goal and it is easily achievable.
- 1:14:03Eric Poch: I just have to remember that it exists.
- 1:14:04Matthew Shea: Yeah, dope, dope, dope.
- 1:14:05Eric Poch: So note for next time, Do the thing oh so you're just giving up on this one.
- 1:14:10Eric Poch: No, no, I think this has become it.
- 1:14:12Eric Poch: Oh, this is it.
- 1:14:14Eric Poch: Oh yeah, we're in it.
- 1:14:15Eric Poch: To quote the very first episode right now.
- 1:14:20Matthew Shea: That's very good, eric, that is from the beginning of the first episode.
- 1:14:23Eric Poch: That was a fucking poll.
- 1:14:25Matthew Shea: That was a poll.
- 1:14:26Eric Poch: That was a poll, do you?
- 1:14:27Matthew Shea: think, let me ask you something Do you think the?
- 1:14:28Matthew Shea: Fade out has already begun.
- 1:14:30Eric Poch: If it hasn't, I think it'll start right about now.
- 1:14:32Eric Poch: And oh yep, there it is, there it is.
- 1:14:35Matthew Shea: No, I think it's earlier.
- 1:14:36Matthew Shea: I think this was not great necessarily in terms of content.
- 1:14:39Matthew Shea: There's no way.
- 1:14:43Matthew Shea: It's still there, oh what.
- 1:14:45Eric Poch: Well, what if?
- 1:14:46Matthew Shea: it didn't, I don't.
- 1:14:47Matthew Shea: Well then it'd be like a very awkward like post credit music.
- 1:14:51Eric Poch: And they'll be thinking like is this meta?
- 1:14:53Eric Poch: Are they being meta right now?
- 1:14:54Eric Poch: Did he forget to fade it out?
- 1:14:56Eric Poch: Oh, did he?
- 1:14:57Eric Poch: What if we forgot?
- 1:14:58Eric Poch: What would happen?
- 1:15:00Matthew Shea: Would they just Does it go on and on into infinity, just?
- 1:15:02Eric Poch: become an audio of like my day and just take our mics with us.
- 1:15:07Matthew Shea: Yeah, what do you want to talk about?
- 1:15:09Eric Poch: Oh, dude, I'm excited to watch soccer with you.
- 1:15:12Matthew Shea: Yeah, we've been going over soccer.
- 1:15:13Matthew Shea: What's your soccer question of the day?
- 1:15:15Eric Poch: Oh, my soccer question of the day.
- 1:15:17Eric Poch: Yeah, I like answer.
- 1:15:19Matthew Shea: If you like me answering these soccer questions for you, I'm going to keep answering.
- 1:15:23Eric Poch: I love it so much and I love how excited you get, because it's very clear like you really enjoy answering these questions.
- 1:15:28Eric Poch: I really enjoy answering soccer questions.
- 1:15:31Eric Poch: Um, oh, here's a question.
- 1:15:33Eric Poch: So I know in, this is just a.
- 1:15:34Eric Poch: Do they do this?
- 1:15:35Eric Poch: Also, do they have different uniforms for away versus home games?
- 1:15:39Matthew Shea: I'm stopping recording, yeah, because I do think we have it, oh yeah.