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- 0:01Matt and Eric: you know when it's like for you probably like 12 am, for me like 2 am you're laying awake very good, thank you very good, very good, very good.
- 0:11Matt and Eric: Matthew, you get a treat.
- 0:13Matt and Eric: Thank you.
- 0:14Matt and Eric: Laying awake and like I'm laying awake at like 2 am and you know those things you replay from your life.
- 0:20Matt and Eric: You know those moments yeah, I do it nightly, thinking about something you did, you said or you fucked up just real quick, before we fall asleep, I want to review every mistake.
- 0:31Matt and Eric: Yeah, you've made but what I, what I, what I do think about and what does make me often laugh, because I wasn't alone in this uh-huh, the cringiest shit that theater majors would do.
- 0:43Matt and Eric: Okay, all right, like like you know again, if this one before you continue.
- 0:49Matt and Eric: Yeah, I want, I want you to remind you you're a theater major 100.
- 0:55Matt and Eric: I say this with full acknowledgement that these are my people.
- 0:59Matt and Eric: All right go on and they're monsters.
- 1:01Matt and Eric: Yeah, all right, continue matt picture it's, it's 8 am, I'm in my theater.
- 1:07Matt and Eric: Blacks, I'm ready to go you're in your theater, blacks, you're at class, it's on friday I've already cried you've already cried, like it is.
- 1:16Matt and Eric: You're a little but not good enough.
- 1:18Matt and Eric: Not good enough.
- 1:20Matt and Eric: Not good enough for.
- 1:21Matt and Eric: Not good enough for that is a fun me and matt I'll beep that, yeah, yeah me and matt had different theater.
- 1:29Matt and Eric: One teachers in college, uh, matt had uh, we'll call her d.
- 1:34Matt and Eric: I had my boy uh, we'll call him p.
- 1:39Matt and Eric: Now p and d had very different approaches to acting.
- 1:43Matt and Eric: When I went to P's class it was hello, we're going to explore and have fun Today you're going to learn how to fly.
- 1:53Matt and Eric: Legitimately.
- 1:54Matt and Eric: One of the first things we did in his class was learn how to fly.
- 1:58Matt and Eric: That was an acting exercise.
- 2:00Matt and Eric: As I understand it, you all were, and correct me if I'm wrong here you were all in the other room while we were learning to fly and learning games of whimsy, and and and and despair about, just let that just puke that out in front of her.
- 2:29Matt and Eric: That's what acting is.
- 2:30Matt and Eric: Meanwhile, p's over here like coming out of the gate with really wild ideas about how acting is.
- 2:38Matt and Eric: Just playing pretend, and we're pretending to be different people and having fun doing it, and then there's whatever the fuck d did to you.
- 2:47Matt and Eric: Yeah, yeah, it's true.
- 2:49Matt and Eric: So like we'd come floating out of our classroom, like we'd be walking on air and then we all went to the most chaotic breakfast possible yes you would.
- 3:02Matt and Eric: Y'all would trudge out of that room.
- 3:05Matt and Eric: We had to, so so.
- 3:07Matt and Eric: So imagine it's 8 am, you've just come out of that class with d and you're still a little you're, you're, you just cried, you're still a little hungover.
- 3:15Matt and Eric: Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe.
- 3:18Matt and Eric: And that's when, like cringy theater, kid shit.
- 3:21Matt and Eric: That's when, like that's when it starts.
- 3:23Matt and Eric: We're all hanging out in the hallway, a little hallway, outside of our classrooms, and, uh, someone would just start fucking singing show tunes and you're just trying to unpack all the fucking shit and someone's, like I'll carry you, like, just like, hit whatever the latest fucking thing on broadway.
- 3:43Matt and Eric: Like someone's singing fucking belton wicked, and now they're in a sing-off to see who gets to be elphaba.
- 3:49Matt and Eric: I think about that kind of shit.
- 3:52Matt and Eric: I think about my, my favorite category again.
- 3:55Matt and Eric: You're saying this as if you didn't participate.
- 3:57Matt and Eric: No, I, I well, I, I, I, I did, I was.
- 4:00Matt and Eric: I've always been very self-conscious about my side.
- 4:02Matt and Eric: You ever seen me?
- 4:04Matt and Eric: Okay, you weren't.
- 4:05Matt and Eric: You weren't singing show tunes, maybe, but you were doing the cringy shit.
- 4:09Matt and Eric: Oh I was doing the cringy shit, I was doing all the every impression I could think of I was doing, I, I was.
- 4:15Matt and Eric: I was like please love and accept me, dance and like just just you had to, yeah, you had to.
- 4:22Matt and Eric: Just you had to, yeah, you had to.
- 4:28Matt and Eric: This is what theater kids think they have to do.
- 4:29Matt and Eric: Um, my other favorite thing, though this is the one that it was cringy then, it's cringy now and a lot of people really never stopped.
- 4:35Matt and Eric: I'm listening and I'm ready to be offended.
- 4:37Matt and Eric: No, no, no, no.
- 4:38Matt and Eric: I think you know better.
- 4:39Matt and Eric: I I'd hope you know better.
- 4:41Matt and Eric: Well, we'll find out.
- 4:42Matt and Eric: Find out.
- 4:42Matt and Eric: You're in an audition, you're sitting and they have you sat in a room in the waiting room, the green room, with all the other auditionees.
- 4:51Matt and Eric: Yeah, I'm fine, you're waiting to get called in so you could do your fucking monologue.
- 4:55Matt and Eric: Yep your back pocket if you need to.
- 4:57Matt and Eric: I'm too contrasting, you're too contrasting.
- 5:09Zack: And then, like everyone's, just kind of sitting there, quiet, like everyone just kind of like rolled in.
- 5:11Matt and Eric: Every last person got in.
- 5:11Matt and Eric: We're all sitting, we're all waiting, we're reading, you know, filling out form.
- 5:14Matt and Eric: We're doing whatever we have to do, and then someone starts warming up.
- 5:15Matt and Eric: Yeah, I think we've talked about this before we, we might, we might have talked about this, you're sitting there.
- 5:20Matt and Eric: Everybody's socially quiet and awkward, and then somebody decides to go yeah, and then it always starts with a yawn it starts with the yawn because it starts with someone being like maybe I can disguise it as a regular yawn that has a pitch or the, and at a certain point the masks come off.
- 5:44Matt and Eric: Right, yeah, and now it's everyone.
- 5:47Matt and Eric: It's like watching a weird insane mating ritual where we are all trying to get with the, the beautiful mate that is the production.
- 5:57Matt and Eric: Yes, we all become birds.
- 5:59Matt and Eric: We all become birds.
- 6:00Matt and Eric: We all start preening and fucking doing, are like like, oh, oh and like, and then someone, now someone's on the ground, fucking stretching, stretching for their monologue, yes, stretching for their fucking monologue.
- 6:14Matt and Eric: And I'm just gonna say this hope it's not controversial, I don't know about you I prepare for the audition in the car before.
- 6:23Matt and Eric: Yes, the audition when I'm in the car and I can contain my shame now, eric I'm gonna I'm gonna double down on you so hard that I'll be the one who gets in trouble with friends.
- 6:33Matt and Eric: Thank, you.
- 6:34Matt and Eric: That's why you're my fucking bro, go on.
- 6:36Matt and Eric: I'm here for you because here's the situation in.
- 6:40Matt and Eric: For those of you who are not an actor uh, who are not actors and haven't been in an audition room at least in a while, this does happen.
- 6:48Matt and Eric: What Eric's describing is true.
- 6:50Matt and Eric: Someone starts the yawn, Then somebody else says to themselves like oh shit, I better, oh, I got to look like I know what I love.
- 6:58Matt and Eric: Their plumage gets up and they start their mating ritual by doing their stretches and whatever.
- 7:03Matt and Eric: And then there's a group of people who are just sitting around watching this and they are the good actors.
- 7:13Matt and Eric: They are the people who know what the fuck to do, because we keep our crazy to the car.
- 7:21Matt and Eric: If you're a professional actor and you end up in a fucking green room doing your To the car, okay, tell it to him.
- 7:28Matt and Eric: If you're a professional actor, say it.
- 7:29Matt and Eric: And you end up in a fucking green room doing your warmups and your Now listen.
- 7:31Matt and Eric: If it's a cattle call and you're around for eight hours, you gotta warm up again.
- 7:35Matt and Eric: That's fine, gotta warm up again, but you go out in the hallway.
- 7:39Matt and Eric: You go out in the hallway.
- 7:40Matt and Eric: You go behind the fucking building.
- 7:41Matt and Eric: You hide your shame, you.
- 7:46Matt and Eric: You go behind the fucking building.
- 7:47Matt and Eric: You hide your shame, you hide.
- 7:48Matt and Eric: You do your warm-ups.
- 7:48Matt and Eric: We all away from the eyes of god.
- 7:49Matt and Eric: We all fucking went to theater school.
- 7:50Matt and Eric: Okay, we all have the same goddamn warm-ups, except for mine because they're special, but everybody else has their own dumb bullshit and it's dumb and wrong and bad.
- 8:00Matt and Eric: it's dumb and wrong and bad and that's why you do it in the car.
- 8:04Matt and Eric: That's why you do it in the car.
- 8:07Matt and Eric: So the only people who see you is they'll look over and they'll see me doing the hung up, hung up going 85 on the freeway and they'll be like, oh my God, he must be an actor.
- 8:19Matt and Eric: That man's crazy.
- 8:20Matt and Eric: Get this man a role and they look over and they see me and I'm just screaming.
- 8:25Matt and Eric: I'm just screaming as loud as I can which, again, I I think you should choose a different monologue, but no, it's true, it's true.
- 8:36Matt and Eric: This is a cringy thing and I do want to distance myself from I do want to, and all my all, all for eons from now, when young actors are listening to this, when we have become a cultural phenomenon, if you were a young actor, please heed our words.
- 8:51Matt and Eric: Don't do that.
- 8:52Matt and Eric: And listen.
- 8:52Matt and Eric: I mean it has.
- 8:53Matt and Eric: It has real no bearing on it like it's, it's, it's sad, and listen I I know there's lots of friends of ours that listen to this podcast and who are actors, who are actors and maybe you do some of this stuff and maybe you feel like you want to jump, you want to, at me and say like, uh, whoa, I'm a musical theater actor, I've got to do listen.
- 9:16Matt and Eric: Okay, this is a comedy podcast.
- 9:18Matt and Eric: All right, we're doing bits, we're having a good time, we we're just having fun.
- 9:23Matt and Eric: And I just want you to know that when I said that the people who are warming up in the presence of other actors in the middle of a public green room are bad actors, I meant it.
- 9:36Matt and Eric: I meant it authentically, like the sincerity you can see it.
- 9:41Matt and Eric: The more I say it, the more I mean it.
- 9:44Matt and Eric: I can see him embodying it.
- 9:46Matt and Eric: I think I'm better than you and I am Okay, and he knows it and that's why I have a podcast.
- 9:54Matt and Eric: And that's why we're so fun.
- 10:02Mike: Hung on Hung, hung on hello no, mike whoa.
- 10:20Mike: Sorry, it's someone else's podcast Stop it.
- 10:24Zack: There's one job, mike, damn it.
- 10:26Zack: One job and you can't even be quiet.
- 10:29Mike: They introduced our podcast when we had them as guests.
- 10:32Zack: They haven't even introduced no one has introduced anything, Mike.
- 10:35Zack: The job was to be quiet.
- 10:37Matt and Eric: Hello everybody and welcome to you.
- 10:40Matt and Eric: Didn't Ask For this.
- 10:42Matt and Eric: I did not ask for this damn it, answering life's least pressing questions.
- 10:47Matt and Eric: Man, we're off to the races.
- 10:49Matt and Eric: My name's Matt Shea.
- 10:50Matt and Eric: My name's Eric Poach and joining us today is two-thirds of one of our nearest and dearest podcast friends.
- 11:00Matt and Eric: It's the Neatcast everybody.
- 11:03Mike: Guess who isn't here because they're too sleepy.
- 11:05Zack: Take a random guess based on everything you know about the neat cast for, first of all, if they're listeners of your daft, they don't know a damn thing about me you're right they have class because they're not gonna go back down to the neat cast.
- 11:16Mike: Have they been listening to your daft?
- 11:18Zack: they're not.
- 11:18Zack: They're not going down into the annals of podcast depths of the dirtiness of where we exist all right, calm, calm down.
- 11:27Matt and Eric: So so we'd like to welcome everyone to the jare memorial episode of.
- 11:33Matt and Eric: You didn't ask for this, yes jare could not join us.
- 11:37Matt and Eric: mike and zach are both with us, thank god, but poor, poor jare had some last minute business.
- 11:43Matt and Eric: he had to attend to Eric oh sorry, you said that is if I was going to explain his business.
- 11:49Matt and Eric: All of his organs, all of his organs exploded, and so Jer got into some real rough legal trouble with God, I hope this isn't real.
- 12:02Matt and Eric: Yeah, it's real bad.
- 12:02Matt and Eric: God, I hope this isn't real.
- 12:03Matt and Eric: Yeah, it's real bad.
- 12:04Matt and Eric: The state legislator actually censored him, not censored they can't do that.
- 12:11Zack: If someone censors, jer, that'd be great.
- 12:13Matt and Eric: No, they censured him.
- 12:15Matt and Eric: Something about money laundering, gun running, that sounds right, that sounds like things he would do.
- 12:21Matt and Eric: Yeah, so unfortunately he's not here, but we dedicate this episode to his honor.
- 12:29Matt and Eric: He actually killed several people in the.
- 12:31Matt and Eric: All right.
- 12:32Mike: Yeah maybe it's in poor taste to dedicate this to him.
- 12:35Mike: I don't know.
- 12:36Matt and Eric: Oh is it.
- 12:37Mike: Would you dedicate a podcast to Hitler?
- 12:38Mike: I don't know you just equated Germany to.
- 12:43Zack: Oh wait, I'll tell you what.
- 12:44Matt and Eric: I'm not saying anything, but for the amount of time you have been on this podcast, the number of times Hitler has been mentioned In our transcript has skyrocketed.
- 12:58Matt and Eric: It's like if you're watching the ground, it just fucking spikes Every now and again.
- 13:04Matt and Eric: It's called being a hack absolutely so something I just some eric.
- 13:12Matt and Eric: I don't know about you, but something just in my bones tells me we should maybe just jump right into it.
- 13:17Matt and Eric: Yeah yeah, yeah, let's, let's get in there for the sake of time, but, uh, for those who might not be familiar with the neat cast, uh, would one or both of you like to tell us a little bit about the show and why they should listen?
- 13:31Matt and Eric: yeah, mike would love to do that oh, you want me to do it well, zach has been on the show before, so, mike, why don't you take it away?
- 13:37Mike: okay, so we're three buddies and we each talk about something that interests us in our own little segment.
- 13:46Mike: Zach talks about pop culture news, jeremy talks about weird headlines because he loves reading headlines not necessarily articles and I talk about cryptids in my segment, which is called beyond the pale.
- 13:58Mike: And then the last segment we just do like an improv game or something.
- 14:02Mike: It's fun.
- 14:03Mike: It's four segments and it's three and a half hours long every every week it is a great time.
- 14:10Matt and Eric: I love it, particularly when you release mini suds that are like 80 minutes long we can't, we can't go short.
- 14:17Matt and Eric: It's of which we were a part, I think of.
- 14:19Matt and Eric: Yes, we've, we've been on a couple of times We've had a grand old time.
- 14:24Matt and Eric: Oh yeah, we always have a hoot.
- 14:25Matt and Eric: We're also usually shit-faced when we're on your show.
- 14:30Matt and Eric: I feel like, of the times we've been on your show, we're usually shit-faced.
- 14:33Matt and Eric: Speak for yourself, eric.
- 14:35Zack: You need to be to deal with us.
- 14:36Zack: It's a requirement.
- 14:38Mike: I'm getting there, I'm close.
- 14:40Matt and Eric: Listen.
- 14:40Matt and Eric: You just flashed the amount we Listen.
- 14:41Matt and Eric: You just flashed the amount.
- 14:43Matt and Eric: We both have whiskey right now and yours significantly fuller.
- 14:47Matt and Eric: Oh you got a big old cube in there.
- 14:50Mike: Yeah, yeah, I got a big square cube.
- 14:51Mike: If I took that cube out, well, it'd still be.
- 14:54Matt and Eric: You'd still probably be beating me just a little bit, but I did get a head start.
- 14:58Matt and Eric: So, as you know, we answer life's least pressing questions and we on this show On our podcast.
- 15:07Zack: On our podcast On how we do things.
- 15:09Zack: This one Okay.
- 15:10Matt and Eric: Yeah, one thing that we absolutely hate doing is coming up with our own content, so what do you got?
- 15:17Mike: for us.
- 15:17Mike: Yeah, what questions do you have?
- 15:18Mike: Oh, Zach, did you bring questions?
- 15:22Zack: Were we supposed to bring questions?
- 15:23Zack: Fuck, oh Fuck.
- 15:27Mike: Oh, bring questions.
- 15:27Mike: Were we supposed to bring questions?
- 15:29Mike: Fuck, oh this, oh this, that's right.
- 15:30Mike: This is about answering the word.
- 15:31Zack: Ask is in the fucking title you but you didn't ask didn't usually throws people who who asked us to bring questions.
- 15:37Zack: I guarantee it was matthew.
- 15:38Zack: I'm gonna start.
- 15:39Mike: I'm gonna start, okay, and uh I I don't know what kind of questions you normally ask on this, but I don't listen.
- 15:44Mike: But here's my first question.
- 15:46Mike: Told you, poach five bucks two trains are driving toward one another.
- 15:54Mike: The first train leaves town a at 5 am, traveling at 60 miles per hour.
- 15:59Mike: The second train leaves town b at 7 am, traveling 70 miles per hour.
- 16:03Mike: The distance between town a and townb is 455 miles.
- 16:07Mike: What is the exact time the collision will occur?
- 16:11Matt and Eric: okay, okay, um, all, right now.
- 16:14Matt and Eric: There's a trap here there there is a trap, I can sense it, I can trap would be figuring it out, the trap, the trap would be figuring it out.
- 16:23Matt and Eric: Let's talk about these towns, man.
- 16:25Matt and Eric: Okay, yeah, we're talking about two towns, town a and town b, was it?
- 16:29Matt and Eric: Yeah, that is their.
- 16:30Mike: That is their legal name on the map and they don't communicate with each other, so their trains just fucking collide all the time.
- 16:35Matt and Eric: Yeah, they, they, we've established the lore.
- 16:37Matt and Eric: There's no communication.
- 16:39Matt and Eric: So this is, this is, during a time when there are trains but not easy mass communication.
- 16:45Matt and Eric: I'm thinking like, not names either and not names or like.
- 16:49Matt and Eric: So this is, this is probably like early, like settling the old west times or possibly Ireland.
- 16:56Matt and Eric: This could be the town that you two sang about.
- 17:00Matt and Eric: That had no names.
- 17:04Zack: Yeah, it could be sang about that had no names.
- 17:08Mike: Oh yeah, it could be.
- 17:09Mike: And also that song ends with just a train crash sound effect that plays for 20 minutes 20 minutes.
- 17:13Matt and Eric: It's very Layla-esque, if you will.
- 17:16Matt and Eric: Speaking of Matt, did I ever tell you the story of how one of the only times I was ever sent out of the classroom in high school was because I said U2 was just okay?
- 17:25Matt and Eric: First, first of all, I refuse to believe you were only sent out of the classroom once it was like I hit like, uh, like, two or three times.
- 17:35Matt and Eric: I was actually a very well-behaved child okay, I, I believe that, you believe that I just was a shitty student, um, but no, I.
- 17:46Matt and Eric: I had a teacher who legit loved my english teacher.
- 17:49Matt and Eric: She loved you two so fucking much and when she told us this I was like yeah, they're okay.
- 17:54Matt and Eric: And she said don't utter those words again or I will send you out of the classroom.
- 18:00Matt and Eric: I thought she was being joking, she was being sarcastic.
- 18:03Matt and Eric: I said what?
- 18:03Matt and Eric: No, I'm just saying they're you know they're fine, they're okay horrible I she.
- 18:11Matt and Eric: I literally watched the, the color rising in her face as she said eric, get out of my classroom and we are dear friends to this day.
- 18:20Matt and Eric: It sounds like it was for your own safety it was.
- 18:22Matt and Eric: It was for my own safety.
- 18:23Matt and Eric: Now that has nothing to do with tony.
- 18:25Matt and Eric: She probably would have thrown me through a window town, a town b 3 pm.
- 18:30Mike: Oh it's 3 pm no, I just I just made up to to save us, I just made up and I did not write down an answer.
- 18:36Mike: I have actual questions.
- 18:38Mike: That was the bit.
- 18:39Mike: It wasn't real but you guys launched into it and I I'm really proud of you guys for trying to figure it out.
- 18:45Matt and Eric: We'll we'll we'll revisit it throughout the episode I'll tell you.
- 18:48Matt and Eric: I'll tell you what mike this is.
- 18:49Matt and Eric: This is very refreshing, because my mind was racing to come up with something funny I, I know, I know I could see you poor guys struggling.
- 18:57Mike: I was like it would just be really funny to give them like a three sentence long math problem.
- 19:03Mike: We, we'll come back.
- 19:04Matt and Eric: We'll come back.
- 19:05Matt and Eric: It'll be like our inside joke for the road trip.
- 19:08Mike: Okay, yeah, this is fun.
- 19:10Mike: We're all having fun.
- 19:11Mike: Train crashes People dying.
- 19:15Zack: My favorite type of road trip is the kind with train crashes.
- 19:20Matt and Eric: Hit us, you beautiful son of a bitch.
- 19:22Mike: This is a question that I thought of, when you know that one Simpsons Halloween where he's like could you pass the donuts?
- 19:30Mike: And they're like there aren't any donuts, and he's like, ah, and he runs and then it starts raining donuts.
- 19:35Mike: Yes, my question was if it could rain anything other than water, what would you want to fall from the sky?
- 19:42Mike: What's the best and worst thing?
- 19:44Mike: I want the worst thing as well as the best thing, Okay.
- 19:48Matt and Eric: Our worst thing.
- 19:49Matt and Eric: First thing that comes to mind is molasses.
- 19:51Mike: Molasses.
- 19:53Matt and Eric: Thick, thick, heavy Sticky, thick, sticky.
- 19:57Mike: I was trying to avoid an obvious answer like venomous snakes, because obviously oh.
- 20:02Matt and Eric: I'm sorry, was molasses too obvious for you.
- 20:07Mike: No them as snakes, because obviously oh, I'm sorry, was molasses too obvious.
- 20:09Matt and Eric: No, no, no, no, that was good, that was, that was great.
- 20:10Matt and Eric: You saw that coming from a mile away, going 60 miles an hour from town a to town b well he actually left town b um that, that is true.
- 20:18Matt and Eric: Um so it's going 60 miles an hour leaves.
- 20:24Matt and Eric: Come on back come on back, come on back uh, yeah, best and worst thing.
- 20:29Matt and Eric: Oh, best thing, best thing I like just how, how horrifying and cool it would look every single time, little parachute army men like time every time you look up.
- 20:45Matt and Eric: It just starts.
- 20:45Matt and Eric: It looks like you're getting invaded by toy story, Like it is D day saving private Andy and saving private Andy, where the toys have to go behind enemy lines and then in in Nazi Germany to to save Andy.
- 21:01Matt and Eric: Alternate timeline big.
- 21:04Mike: what if storyline that's good Toy Story 5.
- 21:07Matt and Eric: That's what's happening.
- 21:08Matt and Eric: Little parachute guys.
- 21:09Matt and Eric: I do like the idea.
- 21:11Matt and Eric: I was trying to think of substances, but you introduced an object, which is very fun.
- 21:19Mike: Would they fuck up your tires If the ground was carpeted with army men?
- 21:26Matt and Eric: Oh yeah, I mean they'd fuck up everything actually.
- 21:28Mike: Would it be?
- 21:28Matt and Eric: worth it.
- 21:30Zack: I mean, every time I mow my lawn, my blades would just be caked with army men.
- 21:34Matt and Eric: Oh yeah, that's true, the cleanup would be.
- 21:37Mike: The problem is choosing something good that isn't going to fuck up the whole world.
- 21:42Mike: It's so fucking difficult actually.
- 21:45Matt and Eric: What if it was?
- 21:46Matt and Eric: Yeah, man, now I see why we went with water.
- 21:48Matt and Eric: What if we?
- 21:50Matt and Eric: give it the magnolia treatment, and it's frogs.
- 21:54Mike: Frogs.
- 21:55Matt and Eric: Frogs fall down.
- 21:56Matt and Eric: Frogs.
- 21:56Matt and Eric: Pelted in the head by a frog A lot Listen, but once it's.
- 22:00Mike: Is this your wishful thinking or the bad one?
- 22:02Matt and Eric: Think about this If it starts raining frogs and it's known that frogs are coming the forecast is frogs.
- 22:09Matt and Eric: They are a known fact 80% chance of frogs.
- 22:12Matt and Eric: You have to cancel work.
- 22:13Matt and Eric: You got to cancel school, like everything's got to shut down.
- 22:16Matt and Eric: If the frogs are coming, man, what's?
- 22:18Matt and Eric: it going to smell like out there.
- 22:21Matt and Eric: That's what I'm saying.
- 22:21Matt and Eric: You're going to get days off of work for this.
- 22:25Matt and Eric: Yes, it's basically a natural disaster every time it rains.
- 22:30Matt and Eric: It's pretty much a natural disaster every time it rains.
- 22:32Matt and Eric: Well, army men, but god damn, it looked cool, it could lead to getting off for all of frog season.
- 22:39Zack: So question about these frogs Are these frogs?
- 22:42Zack: Since this would be a natural phenomenon, would they have adapted to survive the trip?
- 22:49Mike: from the clouds, so they're not just exploding on the beach.
- 22:52Mike: No, they just explode.
- 22:53Mike: They explode on your face.
- 22:55Zack: No, no, no, Mike, this isn't you, this is.
- 22:58Matt and Eric: Matt, I think they would just extend what they've already got going with their webbed hands and feet.
- 23:03Matt and Eric: They'd just get little webbing between their, their pits.
- 23:07Matt and Eric: They're like old, old-timey spider-man, thin enough that they can parachute, you know okay they can glide down.
- 23:15Zack: Yeah, exactly, okay, all right yeah, then they can wreak havoc, and then they can wreak havoc.
- 23:20Zack: Then they can, you know, chase after pigs and become muppets and whatever else they feel like doing, hop onto train tracks and cause collisions I love it.
- 23:29Mike: Your, your best option for what's raining.
- 23:31Mike: This is the good option, right?
- 23:33Mike: I think so I know what.
- 23:34Mike: Yeah, I like that.
- 23:36Mike: It's a literal egyptian plague.
- 23:38Matt and Eric: Yes, I think it, yeah, but but it's a literal Egyptian plague.
- 23:44Matt and Eric: But I have gone to the extent of thinking of the frogs and giving them autonomy in this situation.
- 23:51Matt and Eric: You're right, so they can live.
- 23:53Matt and Eric: But also world hunger Gone.
- 23:55Matt and Eric: Oh, that's true.
- 23:57Zack: Oh, I thought you were going to say world hunger falls from the sky, because that would be awful.
- 24:00Zack: That was going to be mine.
- 24:01Zack: I don't want world hunger to fall from the sky.
- 24:03Zack: I think that's pretty bad.
- 24:12Zack: Oh, you know it'd be bad.
- 24:13Zack: Sand, sand, sand, yeah, yeah anakin taught me that gets everywhere and he hates it.
- 24:14Zack: Earth, earth entering its dune phase turns you into an angry jedi I?
- 24:18Matt and Eric: I thought of my bad one also.
- 24:20Matt and Eric: It would end all war.
- 24:22Matt and Eric: Who?
- 24:24Matt and Eric: Who can summon the fucking chutzpah to like bayonet another guy when it's raining frogs?
- 24:30Matt and Eric: You can't feel cool or badass doing that.
- 24:33Matt and Eric: You can't feel like a fucking warrior when it's raining frogs.
- 24:40Matt and Eric: You don't think you can.
- 24:41Matt and Eric: You'd be slipping, you'd be slipping, you'd look like a fool.
- 24:44Matt and Eric: It'll get in your visor.
- 24:47Matt and Eric: So what are you going to do your visor, so you're bringing my frog thing back to the Middle Ages.
- 24:53Matt and Eric: I mean, I would Modern day Fuck, Try to steer a drone through frogs.
- 25:00Mike: I'm going to say, if it rained frogs, they'd bring back the visor.
- 25:02Mike: The visor would make a strong.
- 25:03Matt and Eric: Yeah, at 100%.
- 25:05Matt and Eric: Would come back, mike, I would have to.
- 25:07Zack: I live far enough North.
- 25:08Zack: We're going to have to change our snow blowers over to frog blowers, which sounds weird, but we're just going to have to be clearing driveways.
- 25:15Matt and Eric: You got to do, I mean it's you got when, when you got to blow frogs.
- 25:18Zack: You got to blow frogs.
- 25:19Zack: You gotta blow frogs.
- 25:20Zack: You gotta blow frogs.
- 25:22Mike: He's gonna turn back into a prince so fast.
- 25:24Matt and Eric: I thought of a bad one.
- 25:25Matt and Eric: Okay, hear me out, harmonicas.
- 25:32Mike: They would whistle the whole way down.
- 25:33Mike: They would whistle the whole time.
- 25:34Matt and Eric: They'd be all different keys and shit.
- 25:35Matt and Eric: It'd be the loudest, most horrific sound possible.
- 25:39Matt and Eric: They are light enough to not kill you if they hit you, but heavy enough to fuck you up.
- 25:46Zack: Well, if they hit terminal velocity, they'll kill you.
- 25:50Mike: They'll probably kill you, but like yeah, I won't die from a harmonica, I'll find a way.
- 25:56Mike: I'm built different.
- 25:56Mike: It'll just sound like a.
- 25:57Matt and Eric: Peruvian death whistle.
- 25:59Matt and Eric: You'll die from a harmonica that would be, fucking.
- 26:01Mike: Imagine Peruvian death whistles falling from the sky.
- 26:04Mike: That would suck.
- 26:05Matt and Eric: I have a new answer, the souls of the damned outside.
- 26:09Matt and Eric: But I mean, you know how sometimes when you're out you can kind of get the vibe that's about to snow, about to rain.
- 26:15Matt and Eric: There would be no mistaking it, because you'd be taught you'd have wait, wait, wait, what's that, what's that, what's that?
- 26:20Matt and Eric: And then it would just bam.
- 26:25Mike: You'd see blue singers tapping their foot like oh no, a storm's coming.
- 26:30Matt and Eric: Storm's coming.
- 26:31Matt and Eric: I don't know how to play the harmonica.
- 26:35Matt and Eric: Could have fooled me, but I do have one I do.
- 26:41Zack: You sounded like a professional right there.
- 26:43Matt and Eric: Thank you, I was in jazz band as a child.
- 26:48Mike: Can I throw out my answers real quick while you guys think Please, please baby, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 26:51Mike: Okay, well, my bad one.
- 26:54Mike: I'm not too happy with my bad one, but the worst thing I could come up with is scalding hot coffee.
- 26:59Mike: I think that would be terrible.
- 27:01Matt and Eric: Oh yeah, we didn't even think about that.
- 27:03Mike: If it just rained just scalding like McDonald's coffee, the kind that melted that lady's vagina horrible.
- 27:12Matt and Eric: Oh, yes, yep, yes, indeed, yeah, that'd be awful.
- 27:16Mike: The best is really fucking hard, because I didn't want to have something that would fuck things up, because I'm thinking about car tires.
- 27:24Mike: If you think about your favorite food falling from the sky, you're not going to pick it up off the fucking sidewalk like a freak Kazam style.
- 27:32Mike: No it turns evil, and also money that would fuck up the economy.
- 27:38Matt and Eric: You can't do that.
- 27:39Mike: You can't, and also the 1% would have control of the rain in no time.
- 27:44Mike: That's true.
- 27:45Matt and Eric: There'd be a rain tax.
- 27:47Mike: So I chose the middle ground.
- 27:50Mike: I think the best possible thing that it could rain besides water is coupons, but not good ones, not very good ones.
- 27:57Mike: Coupons but not good ones, not very good ones, just coupons.
- 28:02Mike: Just just it rains like okay, five dollars off dominoes.
- 28:03Matt and Eric: It composts.
- 28:03Mike: That's not gonna, that's not gonna freak anyone out.
- 28:05Mike: The society isn't gonna crumble because you can.
- 28:07Matt and Eric: You can get some half off cat food oh yeah, I'll stick this in the junk drawer and we'll get back to it and then forget all about it.
- 28:15Matt and Eric: What?
- 28:15Matt and Eric: would the world's religions have to say about that?
- 28:19Matt and Eric: Because that does immediately establish an intelligence beyond our comprehension and understanding.
- 28:27Matt and Eric: Yeah, it does, and it also implies that they're thrifty with spending and that they know what the best deals are.
- 28:35Matt and Eric: But Mike's saying that these are not good coupons.
- 28:40Matt and Eric: Oh, sorry, yeah, they're mids deal, so is that the message?
- 28:44Mike: well, they're also not bad let me, let me specify, they're also not bad okay, so it's like it's a buy one, get one, like hat 60 off yeah, yeah, it's, yeah like things like that or not.
- 28:57Matt and Eric: Sorry, 40 off there we go.
- 29:00Mike: It's like it's enough to make it worth it like you wouldn't use them all the time, but there would be thrifty people would be like you don't use your sky coupon at that point it does become a societal.
- 29:10Matt and Eric: That's the.
- 29:10Matt and Eric: What the religions like burn people at the stake over is like if you're not observing the coupons, if you're not using them, that's where the zealotry comes in.
- 29:17Matt and Eric: If you're not observing the coupons, if you're not using them, that's where the zealotry comes in if you're not using them, because god gave those deals to us yes, the lord, the lord gave you that bogo for cheese sticks on this exact date.
- 29:32Matt and Eric: On the eighth day, the lord said let there be savings.
- 29:36Matt and Eric: Let there be savings, let there be savings.
- 29:38Mike: What would it mean if you got free boneless wings from a sky coupon and you choked to death on them?
- 29:44Mike: Would that mean God wanted you dead?
- 29:46Mike: It means God killed you.
- 29:48Zack: Yeah, it's a test Did he fucking kill you, but you forgot to chew.
- 29:52Zack: I mean, that's on you, that's not on God.
- 29:55Zack: Unless it's on God.
- 29:58Matt and Eric: Nice.
- 29:59Zack: Nice, nice.
- 29:59Zack: Now we got Gen Z in the pocket.
- 30:02Mike: Yep, damn On daddy, that is no cap.
- 30:08Matt and Eric: Nailed it, nailed it.
- 30:10Matt and Eric: Good job like that.
- 30:11Mike: You probably think that I'm 13 because of the way I'm speaking.
- 30:15Matt and Eric: Well that's your preferred age Because of my n, I'm speaking Well.
- 30:18Matt and Eric: That's your preferred age Because of my nomenclature.
- 30:20Mike: These guys, they got Riz out to here, riz, is when people want to have the sex with you.
- 30:27Matt and Eric: I guess that yeah, I guess that is true.
- 30:29Zack: I mean, when you look at Michael's drip, can you really help yourself?
- 30:33Mike: Do you guys have that?
- 30:34Mike: Those trees that smells like Riz?
- 30:37Matt and Eric: The trees that smell like Riz.
- 30:38Matt and Eric: The trees that smell like Riz come every spring.
- 30:40Zack: Oh man, I hate.
- 30:42Matt and Eric: Riz trees.
- 30:42Matt and Eric: Oh boy, yeah, spring has indeed sprung, has it not?
- 30:46Matt and Eric: When the Riz trees come to town?
- 30:49Mike: Did we all come up with a good and bad rain?
- 30:52Matt and Eric: Not Zach.
- 30:53Matt and Eric: I don't think no, no.
- 30:55Matt and Eric: Wait, I've heard Mike's good.
- 30:56Matt and Eric: What was your bad, Mike?
- 30:58Mike: My bad was scalding hot coffee.
- 31:00Mike: Oh yes, that's perfect, good answer.
- 31:03Zack: Zach.
- 31:03Zack: So I had my bad and now I forgot it among all of our talking but maybe it'll come back to me.
- 31:10Zack: You know, to have fun and also to go along with kind of the harmonica that you could hear coming would be a good old, nostalgic 1990s Nerf football, like the screamers, and that would be coming down.
- 31:26Zack: I mean, do you know how much fun?
- 31:27Zack: You remember how much fun it was to chuck a screamer and you get it just right and you'd hear that fucker just whizzing through the air.
- 31:34Zack: But Jimmy didn't and it fucking killed him.
- 31:38Matt and Eric: But he was great.
- 31:38Matt and Eric: Do those kill you at terminal velocity?
- 31:42Zack: Oh, anything kills you at terminal velocity.
- 31:44Zack: That's why it's terminal Eric.
- 31:48Matt and Eric: Fair.
- 31:52Mike: Matt, I'm going to need you to take that comedy bar and lower it right.
- 31:53Matt and Eric: The fuck back down into the mud with the rest of us.
- 31:55Matt and Eric: You get that high class shit out of here.
- 31:59Matt and Eric: I'm so sorry, the wordplay is above the bar.
- 32:04Matt and Eric: Come on, matt, pool around in the mud.
- 32:08Matt and Eric: Scale it back, come on I thought one of us should be sitting on a log.
- 32:14Zack: Think about also how we're and he is like Bilbo Baggins Smoking a long pipe pipe we're gonna be expanding the, the sporting.
- 32:21Zack: Speak one day, zach, we'll be.
- 32:24Zack: We will be able to expand the, the, the pool of sports people, because you're gonna constantly be out there practicing, you're catching, you're throwing, you're dodging people are gonna become really the shape of their lives.
- 32:37Matt and Eric: We're going to become an athletic people.
- 32:39Mike: We will, and for americans that is a change with soft skulls, soft skulls made, made very soft by being hit by a thousand nerf balls do you think that make it soft?
- 32:52Matt and Eric: do you think that would toughen it up over time?
- 32:54Mike: no, I think it would tenderize you, I think you would be fully tenderized.
- 32:58Matt and Eric: But evolution would say those with the strongest skulls would survive.
- 33:03Mike: I think evolution would throw up their hands at that point evolution just flips the table if you need us, we'll be in the galapagos.
- 33:12Mike: Yes, falling from the sky.
- 33:14Matt and Eric: Fuck it it's over for a humanity uh, in the, in the development of this, of this new dystopia where, like we, like, like the united states absolutely dominates at not dying to the nerf rain, I think our country adopts a new motto, uh, which becomes it's us or nothing.
- 33:41Mike: That took me a minute.
- 33:43Zack: Eric's always at another level that I have to catch up to.
- 33:45Zack: He's like I'm looking at it and then I go oh, I've got to up my understanding of words to get where.
- 33:52Matt and Eric: Eric is.
- 33:52Matt and Eric: It's like a plane that goes really fast.
- 33:54Matt and Eric: You see it and then you hear it.
- 33:59Mike: Is that like the new don't tread on me flag.
- 34:00Mike: It's us or nothing.
- 34:01Matt and Eric: 100 like an angry snake wrapped around a nerf ball I like to think it would replace the pledge of allegiance in schools.
- 34:08Matt and Eric: Everybody just stands up and says it's us, or nothing yes that goes so hard the 60s like love, peace, protest Is like what they hand to the Nerf soldiers.
- 34:21Matt and Eric: Like, instead of like, a Dandelion.
- 34:23Matt and Eric: It's a koosh, a koosh.
- 34:27Zack: Fucking hold on a second.
- 34:29Matt and Eric: Pour one out for the koosh ball.
- 34:30Matt and Eric: I love koosh.
- 34:33Matt and Eric: I have.
- 34:34Zack: We have kooshes All over my office, because we have people that are like they have sensory issues and it helps them calm down when they start to have like an anxiety attack.
- 34:45Matt and Eric: They like need to feel stuff.
- 34:46Zack: So we have kush balls in, like every studio.
- 34:49Matt and Eric: They are so satisfying to hold.
- 34:52Matt and Eric: If I can make a suggestion to that as somebody, somebody who has similar issues Silly Putty.
- 34:57Matt and Eric: Silly Putty is another good one.
- 34:59Matt and Eric: Silly Putty is pretty nice, silly Putty is a good one.
- 35:02Zack: It's all stuff that we've started acquiring here at our house as well from my kid, so it helps him when he's starting to feel a bit energized and out of sorts.
- 35:12Zack: Yeah, absolutely.
- 35:18Mike: Also something I can't believe none of us have said yet yet.
- 35:20Mike: But maybe the absolute best answer for what the worst thing would be is what the song said and men I think it was raining men oh god damn awful that just sucks.
- 35:27Matt and Eric: For so many reasons it would be funny and ironic for literally a second, and then you'd be like oh, no Christ.
- 35:35Matt and Eric: Reigning men sucks for two reasons.
- 35:39Matt and Eric: Exactly two reasons.
- 35:41Mike: Blood and viscera everywhere coating the ground.
- 35:45Matt and Eric: These trees really smell like Riz now yeah not only would it be carnage up front, like nose of carnage, but then there'll be some that are coming down on on umbrellas, like mary poppins just well, actuallying left and right, oh my god.
- 36:02Matt and Eric: Yeah, coming down and being like did you know?
- 36:05Matt and Eric: vigo mortensen broke his foot in that one take in uh, have you ever seen the godfather like they would not be able to shut the fuck up for the entire?
- 36:18Matt and Eric: truly a cinematic, and some of them falling you read about people who, like, fell from planes and lived, so some of them would survive they'd be croaking there on the on the sidewalk and be like actually I, I would say better calls all is better than Breaking Bad in many ways, that's all.
- 36:40Mike: They just have terrible TV opinions.
- 36:41Mike: If they live.
- 36:42Mike: If they live, they just become fucking insufferable.
- 36:46Matt and Eric: It's reigning libertarians?
- 36:48Matt and Eric: Oh no, oh God, why?
- 36:52Mike: isn't the age of consent younger.
- 36:54Matt and Eric: Whose tax dollars are going to pay for this?
- 36:57Zack: Mike, don't say that into a podcast.
- 37:00Mike: That's what libertarians do.
- 37:01Mike: They try to get younger age of consents to pass.
- 37:06Matt and Eric: That's what libertarians do All right, hold on, let's not go there to all our libertarian let's not tell the truth.
- 37:14Mike: Does this podcast only have 85 libertarian?
- 37:18Mike: Possibly?
- 37:19Matt and Eric: possibly to all our libertarian listeners out there.
- 37:22Matt and Eric: I'm sorry that your political party literally combusted upon itself and that it no longer exists to libertarians out there.
- 37:34Matt and Eric: I'm sure you can't hear me because you're living off the grid until a fucking grizzly bear.
- 37:41Matt and Eric: Do you know that happened?
- 37:42Matt and Eric: there was like a libertarian commune and a grizzly bear first of all, I think the word you're looking for is cult continue, basically they, they bought it, they.
- 37:54Matt and Eric: They got a huge fucking chunk of land.
- 37:56Matt and Eric: They set up this comp like where they'd have it worked great, until someone forgot that bears live in the woods and a lot of them were attacked and killed by bears because, hey, that's what?
- 38:08Matt and Eric: The invisible hand of the free market.
- 38:11Matt and Eric: I was just going to make a free market.
- 38:12Matt and Eric: God damn you.
- 38:14Matt and Eric: It's so funny.
- 38:15Matt and Eric: Yeah, all right, so I think we've got him back.
- 38:19Matt and Eric: God damn you, it's so funny.
- 38:20Matt and Eric: Yeah, libertarian humor, I think we've.
- 38:21Mike: We got him back, we lost him.
- 38:23Matt and Eric: but we got him back.
- 38:23Matt and Eric: Now that we've just slid into the libertarian humor, I think we have answered the question.
- 38:28Matt and Eric: We have answered the question.
- 38:30Mike: Yes, yes.
- 38:30Mike: The worst thing is that libertarians fall from the sky.
- 38:32Zack: That was it.
- 38:33Zack: Ironically, that was my answer.
- 38:36Zack: It's so weird, Good we.
- 38:36Zack: That was it.
- 38:37Zack: Ironically, that was my answer.
- 38:38Matt and Eric: It's so weird.
- 38:38Matt and Eric: Good, we can move on Ironically.
- 38:40Matt and Eric: Yes, so, zach.
- 38:41Matt and Eric: So we got a question from Mike.
- 38:42Matt and Eric: How about we get a question from you?
- 38:44Zack: So here's one.
- 38:45Zack: It's not as creative as Mike's is, but it actually came up on one of our previous episodes, because sometimes I'll find a list that will make Mike and Jeremy irate, which they blame me for.
- 38:59Zack: I'm not the one who found this list in this ranking, but I found a ranking of nostalgic snacks which they did not agree with, which was fine, okay.
- 39:09Zack: But the question that came up because on this list of snacks were some beverages, and can a beverage be considered a snack 100%, which Jeremy and Mike were 100% saying no, there's no way it could, but other people say that it is.
- 39:27Zack: So I submit to you can a beverage be a snack?
- 39:31Matt and Eric: Absolutely, absolutely, not Absolutely Eric.
- 39:35Zack: Perfect.
- 39:36Matt and Eric: This podcast is split.
- 39:37Matt and Eric: I love it.
- 39:38Matt and Eric: I would bet, zach, what is your take.
- 39:40Zack: So my take is that it could be.
- 39:44Zack: Yeah, I think a beverage could be a snack.
- 39:47Matt and Eric: It depends in the presentation.
- 39:49Matt and Eric: You might be winning me over, come on.
- 39:52Zack: Okay, is this just Zach saying it Shut the fuck up, eric, fuck you Fuck you Zach, go on, baby Eric, we have guests.
- 39:59Mike: He does have a chocolatey voice Not in front of.
- 40:01Mike: Zach, even when he's wrong.
- 40:04Matt and Eric: Don't do Mike like that.
- 40:05Zack: first of all, First of all, Mike is the most popular person from the Neat cast.
- 40:11Zack: He gets more requests, emails, comments, compliments than anybody else.
- 40:16Zack: They're always asking for more Mike and talking about how great Mike is.
- 40:20Mike: It's true, it's because of my sexy voice?
- 40:23Mike: That can't be true.
- 40:24Mike: It's because every time Zach talks, I go.
- 40:26Mike: That was me as fast as I can.
- 40:28Mike: So, people think it's me.
- 40:31Matt and Eric: Zach, you've got at least one other podcast here.
- 40:33Matt and Eric: That's just mentioning you pretty much every episode.
- 40:37Zack: Yeah Well, I throw a lot of shit at you guys, just you do.
- 40:40Matt and Eric: but you throw gold anyway.
- 40:42Matt and Eric: You were saying where you come down on this, so I'm coming down with.
- 40:45Zack: It depends on the beverage.
- 40:47Zack: If I'm just gonna grab some water.
- 40:49Zack: No, I don't consider water a snack but, maybe I am having some sort of fruit smoothie or something that has a little bit more substance to it, I grant I would say that is a a snack.
- 41:00Zack: Now I didn't 100 agree with this list because they first of all they were listing the favorite nostalgic um snacks and they listed crystal pepsi, so this was already kind of a skewed uh that's not a snack, crystal pepsi.
- 41:15Matt and Eric: I know it's not also not Crystal Pepsi is not a snack.
- 41:17Matt and Eric: It's not Also not nostalgic, so, Eric.
- 41:19Zack: Not many people like Crystal Pepsi.
- 41:21Matt and Eric: Alright.
- 41:21Matt and Eric: So, Eric, you came so hard on.
- 41:25Matt and Eric: Yes, it is a snack.
- 41:26Matt and Eric: I'd like to hear your wrong opinion first.
- 41:30Matt and Eric: So I'm aligned with Zach in that not every beverage is a snack.
- 41:33Matt and Eric: But instantly the second I heard can a beverage be a snack?
- 41:36Matt and Eric: I saw in my head boba, you've ever had boba tea, you?
- 41:40Matt and Eric: You suck up little boba pearls.
- 41:41Zack: You have to fucking not if I have to chew my drink it's a snack, eric.
- 41:46Matt and Eric: Well, okay, first of all, I would say, if you have to chew your drink, it's not a fucking drink, I would say boba is it has little it's a confection.
- 41:55Matt and Eric: It's a beverage with a snack inside of it.
- 41:59Matt and Eric: It's boba tea, it's boba tea.
- 42:01Matt and Eric: It's like it's a liquid Cracker Jack.
- 42:04Matt and Eric: Okay, there's a prize inside and it is a drink and it is a snack.
- 42:08Matt and Eric: It is a drink and it's a snack, yes, but it is not a snack by itself.
- 42:13Matt and Eric: Oh, I didn't realize it was a one or the other.
- 42:16Matt and Eric: I mean.
- 42:17Mike: I think it definitely means closer to drink than snack.
- 42:19Matt and Eric: I thought this was a square rectangle situation.
- 42:22Mike: I think in the case of boba tea, the boba is a snack.
- 42:27Mike: The tea is almost irrelevant, it's just a carry-on of us.
- 42:31Matt and Eric: It's right there in the name who the?
- 42:32Matt and Eric: fuck, do you all know walks down the street with a fucking.
- 42:36Matt and Eric: Ziploc bag full of boba just going in by the fist and just cramming it in their face like popcorn.
- 42:43Matt and Eric: I have never seen a human fucking being in my life consume a boba outside of the fucking drink.
- 42:52Matt and Eric: Let me just say one thing about boba tea real quick.
- 42:54Matt and Eric: I don't know how other people feel about it.
- 42:56Matt and Eric: You're about to make a whole lot of enemies.
- 42:58Matt and Eric: I hope know this, matthew yeah, because you can't mention it without somebody happening.
- 43:02Matt and Eric: But all I want to say is I haven't had enough boba tea to really have an opinion about it.
- 43:07Matt and Eric: But what, what I do know for a solid opinion.
- 43:10Matt and Eric: What I?
- 43:11Matt and Eric: do know for a solid fact is that one day of my life boba tea didn't't exist, and the next day, 50% of the country loved it.
- 43:22Matt and Eric: That's what I know.
- 43:25Matt and Eric: And that's why it's important.
- 43:26Matt and Eric: And when I had the audacity to be like what's Boba Tea, they'd be like what's Boba Tea.
- 43:31Matt and Eric: You've never had Boba.
- 43:34Matt and Eric: Tea, Matt.
- 43:35Matt and Eric: This is why you need to get on the train.
- 43:38Matt and Eric: Leaving town a at 5 am going it's boba town, town, town town b is boba town.
- 43:45Matt and Eric: Town b is boba town.
- 43:46Matt and Eric: It is now established.
- 43:47Matt and Eric: The lord rose, okay, but to answer your question, I think a beverage can be a snack, but it's still also a drink.
- 43:56Matt and Eric: Can be a snack and it can still be a drink.
- 43:57Matt and Eric: Yes, and I think the smoothie milkshake.
- 44:02Matt and Eric: You know what?
- 44:02Matt and Eric: I'll give you eggnog too.
- 44:03Matt and Eric: I'll give you eggnog.
- 44:04Matt and Eric: That's in the snack family.
- 44:06Mike: You see, matt is way easier to convince than me, because I say no on all of these.
- 44:10Matt and Eric: But soda, for example.
- 44:12Matt and Eric: Soda is not a snack.
- 44:14Matt and Eric: It might as well be no.
- 44:16Matt and Eric: No, I mean like nutritionally, it's basically drinking candy.
- 44:19Matt and Eric: Like, but Eric now be serious, but it's not a snack.
- 44:23Matt and Eric: Now be serious with me, eric.
- 44:24Matt and Eric: If you say oh, I'm just going to, you know what?
- 44:27Matt and Eric: I'm feeling a little peckish.
- 44:29Matt and Eric: I'm going to run upstairs and get a snack.
- 44:30Matt and Eric: Are you really grabbing a liquid?
- 44:41Matt and Eric: Matt, the fuck did you watch me chug literally before we started recording this episode.
- 44:43Matt and Eric: What did you see?
- 44:43Matt and Eric: Me open on camera and chug down my fucking gullet?
- 44:47Matt and Eric: you chugged some, like you, called it like an instant breakfast it is an carnation instant breakfast, matthew.
- 44:54Matt and Eric: We're not sponsored by them but I wish we were well actually no carnation might be one of those horrific like child soldier fucking.
- 45:02Matt and Eric: Well the genocidal companies like pulling johnson and johnson shit might be libertarians might be libertarian.
- 45:08Matt and Eric: The problem with your example there, eric, oh hey zach, hey mike, when'd you get here?
- 45:12Mike: go on, hey sorry I'm just, I'm just so enwrapped by this boba argument.
- 45:18Mike: It's a problem man.
- 45:19Matt and Eric: It's a problem, man.
- 45:19Matt and Eric: The problem is that you were drinking that because you said I forgot to have dinner.
- 45:27Matt and Eric: And I just want to say on the record that is a problem I've never, once experienced.
- 45:37Matt and Eric: Eric.
- 45:37Matt and Eric: I start thinking about dinner during lunch.
- 45:39Matt and Eric: Yeah, yep and I can appreciate, never forget lunch.
- 45:42Matt and Eric: We'll see matthew uh for my executive dysfunction known as uh adhd.
- 45:48Matt and Eric: There it is.
- 45:49Matt and Eric: I'm prescribed a medication that makes me forget all hunger for several hours that's the price I pay for this rate for my legal amphetamines.
- 45:58Matt and Eric: That is the price I pay.
- 45:59Matt and Eric: Let me tell you, let me tell you a good rate if you're gonna go down that route.
- 46:03Matt and Eric: I think it makes you forget a whole lot more than just dinner.
- 46:05Matt and Eric: Oh, recording time oh yeah can you come up with a cold?
- 46:10Matt and Eric: open.
- 46:11Matt and Eric: Hey look, improved focus, not memory.
- 46:13Matt and Eric: I focus on a lot of things.
- 46:19Matt and Eric: So I think that's where we come down.
- 46:20Matt and Eric: On that, which is it's money, I think we can give it a solid.
- 46:28Matt and Eric: It depends.
- 46:30Matt and Eric: A solid.
- 46:30Mike: It depends, I agree with I think we asked for a little more than that.
- 46:35Matt and Eric: You're right, that's not what we do.
- 46:37Matt and Eric: We do definitive.
- 46:41Matt and Eric: And it depends on what you fucking value and I value that drinks can be.
- 46:43Matt and Eric: Fuck this.
- 46:44Matt and Eric: Drinks are snacks.
- 46:44Matt and Eric: Now drinks are snacks.
- 46:54Mike: No, no, no, love that he's using the harmonica like a, like a judge uses his gavel yeah no he's using it.
- 47:01Zack: Like every time I speak, you play the science sucker song on our podcast.
- 47:05Zack: That's what matt's doing, eric you've I, you know what.
- 47:09Matt and Eric: You had me on the ropes, and then that, just you you cut the skin of my eyes just now.
- 47:13Matt and Eric: Now I'm back in, well now.
- 47:15Zack: You're now, you're just now, you're just, you're matt, you're just, you're striking back because you, you feel attacked.
- 47:21Zack: That's understandable, eric, eric is just, he's pleading his case.
- 47:24Zack: Yes, thank, don't take it don't just asking questions it's 3 am.
- 47:29Mike: You walk to your fridge a train is colliding outside yes, there's two trains smashing into each other while frogs are falling from the sky.
- 47:38Matt and Eric: You know damn well, that's 12 hours from now, god damn it, it's raining human men who have terrible TV decisions.
- 47:47Mike: There's a train crashing.
- 47:48Mike: I'm starving.
- 47:50Mike: You open your fridge, yeah, and inside is a cookie and a high C.
- 47:55Mike: What do you take the cookie?
- 47:58Matt and Eric: First of all, thank Okay, mike.
- 47:59Matt and Eric: First of all, thank you, mike.
- 48:00Matt and Eric: First of all, here's what I do.
- 48:01Matt and Eric: I reach under the counter where I keep the Glock duct taped to the bottom of the thing.
- 48:07Matt and Eric: I put it to your head.
- 48:08Matt and Eric: I say, mike, is there mayonnaise or Miracle Whip in my fridge?
- 48:11Matt and Eric: Is there mayonnaise or Miracle Whip in my fridge?
- 48:13Matt and Eric: Mike?
- 48:14Matt and Eric: You're my friend, you know right who whip in my fridge?
- 48:19Matt and Eric: Mike?
- 48:19Matt and Eric: You're my friend, you know right.
- 48:19Matt and Eric: Who have you become?
- 48:20Matt and Eric: Which one is it, mike?
- 48:20Matt and Eric: Which one?
- 48:21Matt and Eric: Is it mike, eric?
- 48:21Matt and Eric: What are you talking about, right?
- 48:23Mike: now don't tell me, you're a miracle whip man are you?
- 48:25Mike: Are you miracle?
- 48:26Zack: whip, don't.
- 48:26Matt and Eric: Don't ask him about his peanut butter thank god, I chamber the round and then I reach into the fridge I'm like it's my I needed to know if mike had been body snatched if you had said it's miracle whip, eric, I just want you to know if Mike had been body snatched.
- 48:38Matt and Eric: If you had said it's Miracle Whip, eric, I just want you to know.
- 48:39Matt and Eric: Not anything else you say can be trusted.
- 48:46Matt and Eric: Last, like a few weeks ago, pat bless him he went to the store and bought and got grocery stuff and when he came home he was like, yeah, I got mayonnaise and stuff for sandwiches I go in in.
- 48:56Matt and Eric: He accidentally bought miracle whip no, that doesn't happen by accident, eric, that's a terrorist.
- 49:01Matt and Eric: No because he hates it too, because it's a bad.
- 49:03Matt and Eric: No one in this house likes miracle whip.
- 49:06Matt and Eric: It's dog shit.
- 49:07Matt and Eric: No one likes miracle whip.
- 49:09Matt and Eric: But to answer your question, mike is the high c ecto cooler flavored no it's not, yeah, that that plays a part.
- 49:17Zack: You know what does play a part.
- 49:17Zack: Fine, it's ecto cool, high flavored.
- 49:18Zack: No, it's not.
- 49:18Zack: Ooh, yeah, that plays a part.
- 49:18Zack: You know what.
- 49:18Zack: You know what it does play a part.
- 49:18Mike: Fine, it's Ecto Cooler.
- 49:20Matt and Eric: High C.
- 49:20Matt and Eric: Final answer oh God, yeah, Gotta go with the Ecto.
- 49:22Mike: Cooler Drinks a snack, Drinks a snack Wait, okay, no, no, no, hold on a second, so it's a gross scream, amazing, thank you.
- 49:34Matt and Eric: Zach.
- 49:35Matt and Eric: So you're taking Ecto Cooler, the best high C.
- 49:38Matt and Eric: You're taking that instead of the cookie.
- 49:43Zack: Yes, no, I can always get a cookie Ecto Cooler.
- 49:48Mike: You can always get a cookie.
- 49:50Zack: You don't turn down Ecto Cooler Eric.
- 49:55Matt and Eric: Zach, are you both experiencing gas leaks in your home simultaneously, are you?
- 50:00Matt and Eric: motherfucker, because you're the one coming in here with crazy opinions.
- 50:04Mike: Because I would choose a cookie over an Ecto cooler.
- 50:09Matt and Eric: I just want to say shout out to Zach Deuce, getting on the right side of history.
- 50:13Matt and Eric: Zachy D, the ally for me in these dark times, zachy he did not say.
- 50:19Matt and Eric: He did not say that he was hard and fast in this every liquid I was willing to compromise, and then I was asked to take a fucking stance.
- 50:28Matt and Eric: Okay, so water's the snack then no water's water matt no so water, it's water, it's the, so water is the thing that rains from the sky what miracle whip is a snack.
- 50:39Matt and Eric: Tomato v8, that's a snack now, v8 is a snack, miracle whip is a condiment, milk is a snack, every soda is a snack you're saying, you're now saying, you're doubling down and saying that all liquids are snacks no, just that's what I'm hearing.
- 50:55Matt and Eric: Then you are compromising all drinks.
- 50:58Matt and Eric: You're saying you were gonna compromise and now you're not, but the thing is, eric, you still are compromising, because if all liquids are not snacks which they fucking aren't- would well hold on, would you say.
- 51:09Zack: All solids are are a meal, then, and all solids are food would you say all liquid?
- 51:14Mike: No, if all's okay, you're getting into a whole other thing if you say all salads are food, so all solids must be food, matt.
- 51:22Matt and Eric: Is that your stance, eric, please?
- 51:23Matt and Eric: Zach is speaking.
- 51:24Matt and Eric: Zach please, yeah, take away.
- 51:26Matt and Eric: I hand off the talking stick.
- 51:28Zack: It's just one of if we're gonna draw a line in the sand like this, where liquids are snacks.
- 51:34Zack: If all liquids are snacks, all solids then, have to be.
- 51:37Zack: We're getting a big paintbrush out.
- 51:40Matt and Eric: If we're doing that you know what You're right.
- 51:42Matt and Eric: You're right.
- 51:42Matt and Eric: I'm getting a little heated.
- 51:44Mike: I can feel myself getting I think I'm about to throw off.
- 51:47Mike: I think I'm about to throw up.
- 51:49Mike: I'm going to blow up the whole debate right now.
- 51:51Matt and Eric: Okay.
- 51:51Mike: What about soup?
- 51:53Zack: Ah, fuck Yo, Mike, you're not, I gotta calm myself down over here a little bit.
- 51:59Zack: Okay, You're pissing him off more Mike.
- 52:02Mike: He has to go to the crossroads and sell his soul to become the greatest blues singer.
- 52:06Matt and Eric: In a better world.
- 52:08Zack: In the train yard.
- 52:09Zack: When soup is a snack, he's a hobo.
- 52:12Zack: Now when the Campbell sits you back at least has food in it.
- 52:16Mike: At least the food in a soup is enough to be a meal.
- 52:19Mike: The broth is just flavor.
- 52:22Mike: It's just like salt.
- 52:24Matt and Eric: So soup would become a drink.
- 52:26Matt and Eric: In this new dichotomy, what Soup would stop being considered a?
- 52:32Matt and Eric: Well, it really.
- 52:36Zack: Jesus Eric, I just noticed you have a hand in your hand.
- 52:41Matt and Eric: Yeah, I just like to do this sometimes.
- 52:44Zack: Did you steal that from one of those Nazca fucking mummies?
- 52:47Zack: Where did you get that?
- 52:49Mike: Eric has a silicon hand he's using to rub his head while he thinks, yeah, soup he thinks Soup becomes dinner.
- 52:58Matt and Eric: Soup becomes snack.
- 52:59Matt and Eric: No, soup becomes a drink.
- 53:02Mike: I thought you were about to be like when it's Campbell's and then we were going to go to commercial.
- 53:07Matt and Eric: You guys remember the Campbell's soup and hands Do they still do that.
- 53:11Matt and Eric: The soup and hands.
- 53:11Matt and Eric: Oh, you mean the drinkable soup?
- 53:13Matt and Eric: Oh, the drinkable soup, matt, the soup that was designed in a sippy cup for adult humans to drink out of.
- 53:20Matt and Eric: Eric, what are you?
- 53:21Matt and Eric: First of all, your eyes are wild right now.
- 53:25Matt and Eric: Yes, the soup that you drink, just like you drink other soup.
- 53:30Matt and Eric: Just like you drink the rest of your snacks.
- 53:35Matt and Eric: I gotta go back to the boxcar.
- 53:36Matt and Eric: Okay, okay, okay.
- 53:40Mike: I always blend up my Doritos.
- 53:42Matt and Eric: So, mike, while I have you, they're 485 miles apart.
- 53:47Mike: That was the Okay, you're making me scroll up 455.
- 53:52Mike: One is going 70.
- 53:54Mike: The other's going 60.
- 53:57Matt and Eric: Okay, okay, so town Boba, town Boba is going 60.
- 54:00Mike: Yeah, they're 455 miles apart.
- 54:02Matt and Eric: The Boba express town.
- 54:03Matt and Eric: Alpha is going, going, going Okay.
- 54:06Mike: Yeah.
- 54:07Matt and Eric: Okay, so that, I think, is about the meaningful discussion.
- 54:13Matt and Eric: We'll get from that.
- 54:13Matt and Eric: Okay, that I think think is about the meaningful discussion.
- 54:15Matt and Eric: We'll get from that.
- 54:16Matt and Eric: Okay, that I think is.
- 54:16Matt and Eric: But here's the compromise.
- 54:17Matt and Eric: I would like to say Okay, okay, I'm meeting you on the battlefield.
- 54:21Matt and Eric: If it is hearty enough not necessarily thick, but hearty enough a liquid, a drink could be a snack.
- 54:33Matt and Eric: Can we agree on that?
- 54:34Matt and Eric: Don't leave me like this.
- 54:34Matt and Eric: Here is my counter compromise hearty hearty, hearty and or uh-huh, chunky deal deal deal put it there you, son of a bitch well then, that's a food.
- 54:48Mike: If it's chunky, it's a food.
- 54:50Mike: No, no, don't, don't, don't shake his hand don't yeah, eric.
- 54:54Zack: When you do that in front of the camera, I enjoy it oh, a little bit of a.
- 54:59Matt and Eric: We got a little tube in the situation here.
- 55:00Mike: Hold on um, I have another question.
- 55:04Mike: I brought another one.
- 55:05Mike: Oh, please, mike.
- 55:06Mike: Yes, please, okay, this one starts strong.
- 55:09Mike: If you were a wizard, so imagine you're a wizard love this already you have to.
- 55:14Mike: You have to.
- 55:15Mike: Okay.
- 55:15Mike: This is this question has a lot of caveats, a lot of explaining.
- 55:19Mike: So you're a wizard, we're starting off there.
- 55:21Mike: You have to send your best friend on a quest that they need to complete the rules are sending joey on a quest.
- 55:29Mike: The rules are it would have to involve an actual quest, no, like going 10 feet down the road to Walmart.
- 55:35Mike: It has to be.
- 55:36Mike: The Council of Wizards has to agree it's a quest.
- 55:39Zack: We are the.
- 55:40Mike: Council of Wizards Okay, okay, you cannot join them.
- 55:43Mike: You're a wizard, so you wait someplace else and you smoke some kush.
- 55:48Zack: Wow, fuck yes, while they're doing this Okay, okay, sounding good.
- 55:51Mike: So far they have one year to complete and the world hangs in the balance.
- 55:55Mike: No matter what it is, the world hangs in the balance.
- 55:58Mike: Sauron is going to jerk off all over Middle-earth and destroy it with lava.
- 56:04Zack: It's a weird way to do it, but it tracks.
- 56:07Matt and Eric: So it's got to be an actual quest.
- 56:08Matt and Eric: Were there any other parameters other than it's got to be a quest and I can't?
- 56:12Mike: help you.
- 56:12Mike: You can't help them other than it's gotta be a quest, and I can't help you gotta you can't help them.
- 56:16Mike: It's gotta be an actual quest.
- 56:17Mike: They have to be able to complete it in a year or okay, or it's a failure and the world is plunged into darkness does it have to take the whole year?
- 56:23Mike: No, they, that's just their time limit.
- 56:26Matt and Eric: That's their time limit is this taking place in our world as it exists right now?
- 56:31Matt and Eric: Like I, yes, okay, I can't create a whole like magical mountain.
- 56:35Matt and Eric: Okay, okay, okay, all right.
- 56:37Matt and Eric: I think I, I think I, I think I got it, I think I got it.
- 56:40Matt and Eric: What I would do is I'd call over these, these disciples.
- 56:44Matt and Eric: We'll call them disciples, I'll call them over and I'll say all right, listen, this is my wizard persona.
- 56:50Matt and Eric: All right, listen.
- 56:52Matt and Eric: Ah, the hour is late.
- 56:55Matt and Eric: The hour grows late and the air grows thin.
- 56:58Matt and Eric: So listen closely the tidings grim, listen closely to what I guess.
- 57:03Matt and Eric: Eric and I are together.
- 57:05Mike: Yeah, you're delivering this together, this man.
- 57:08Zack: Yes, listen, listen Okay.
- 57:10Matt and Eric: I'm committed.
- 57:10Matt and Eric: It's very important that you get this down, okay, so take out your little scrolls and take some notes.
- 57:16Matt and Eric: Familiar fetch mind quill.
- 57:19Matt and Eric: You see, there are two trains, okay, one is B, one is E.
- 57:28Mike: Ah, perfect the town of Alvewell.
- 57:31Matt and Eric: I have heard of such.
- 57:33Mike: I have heard of such as these.
- 57:35Mike: My king lives in town B.
- 57:39Matt and Eric: From the Boba kingdom yes.
- 57:41Matt and Eric: They send their freight train of goods up the turnpike every day.
- 57:48Mike: They're shipping kobolds to town A Absolutely Hopefully there isn't an accident hey, absolutely.
- 57:58Matt and Eric: Hopefully there isn't an accident and and the prophecy proclaims there shall be tragedy, unless you can step in my children, yes yes, uh, I, I see, uh, oh, yes, I see our fellow wizards here dac, zeus and michelle.
- 58:09Matt and Eric: What, miki, michelle?
- 58:12Matt and Eric: It's like the french spelling it's like, it's like it's got like the elvin tilde.
- 58:16Matt and Eric: It's a.
- 58:17Mike: It's an elvin name, oh I thought it was like the only like french wizard also that you're a french elvin wizard, so that's the quest you would send them on.
- 58:29Matt and Eric: You would send them on.
- 58:29Matt and Eric: That is the quest I just send them on there to stop the train collision from happening so my quest, uh, this would be for my bestest friend, joey, uh, who listens to this podcast.
- 58:40Matt and Eric: Uh, who's very good.
- 58:43Matt and Eric: Um, hey, joey, my what quest?
- 58:45Matt and Eric: So this is the funny thing, is this?
- 58:48Matt and Eric: This actually kind of works, because joey is legitimately the only person I know who most closely in in nobleness of bearing and and goddamn zealot adherence to, to his, his objectively correct principles.
- 59:07Matt and Eric: He's a paladin, he's a fucking paladin.
- 59:09Matt and Eric: He's an actual literal paladin in everything that he does.
- 59:14Mike: You better give him a tough quest.
- 59:17Matt and Eric: So I need to send him.
- 59:18Matt and Eric: He's got to go on like a bitch.
- 59:20Matt and Eric: He's got to get like a cool weapon.
- 59:22Matt and Eric: He's got to like slay.
- 59:24Matt and Eric: I want Joey, I hope you're listening, Joey?
- 59:30Matt and Eric: To assassinate Holy shit.
- 59:32Zack: 200th episode Pay attention.
- 59:38Matt and Eric: Elon Musk.
- 59:39Matt and Eric: I want Joey to assassinate Elon Musk oh my god.
- 59:44Zack: I think, if we gave him a year.
- 59:46Matt and Eric: He's like he and I, I mean and.
- 59:52Matt and Eric: I want to be clear.
- 59:52Matt and Eric: Just to make it clear, that's not the position of the podcast.
- 59:56Zack: That's the position of Promote.
- 1:00:01Matt and Eric: That's definitely a quest, that's definitely a quest, inarguably a quest.
- 1:00:05Matt and Eric: I can also establish good motive, not personal motive, but I think I've talked about this on the show before.
- 1:00:14Matt and Eric: Let's do a little quick thought exercise.
- 1:00:17Matt and Eric: All right, everyone, close your eyes.
- 1:00:18Matt and Eric: Imagine two trains.
- 1:00:20Matt and Eric: Yeah, no.
- 1:00:23Matt and Eric: Imagine, okay, imagine, how much it would cost to hunt human beings for sport, so like the cost of abducting them, the cost of getting away with it, the cost of transporting them to a remote location over which you have domain, uh, the cost of paying off all kinds of like government officials and stuff to like look the other way, so you can get away with it, so you can, on your own little private island, hunt human beings for sport.
- 1:00:55Matt and Eric: You know, we've lost him, we've lost.
- 1:00:57Matt and Eric: I don't know where he's gone, but think about how much money that would cost.
- 1:01:01Matt and Eric: This is a movie.
- 1:01:01Matt and Eric: Think about it A lot of money and let me, let me ask you this question.
- 1:01:06Matt and Eric: I've watched it Does Elon Musk have that much money?
- 1:01:10Zack: Oh, yes, one hundred percent, he does.
- 1:01:11Matt and Eric: Oh 100 percent he does.
- 1:01:13Matt and Eric: He has so much money that not only do I believe Elon Musk has hunted human beings for sport.
- 1:01:19Matt and Eric: I think he's gotten bored with it by now.
- 1:01:22Mike: Definitely.
- 1:01:22Matt and Eric: This is why him and Bezos got into the space race.
- 1:01:25Matt and Eric: They wanted to hunt human beings on the moon, the final frontier.
- 1:01:29Matt and Eric: So I think that's what Joey's quest is OK.
- 1:01:32Matt and Eric: So I'm going to, I'm going to change it.
- 1:01:34Matt and Eric: Joey, you do not have to assassinate anybody, okay, but you have to stop Elon Musk, whatever that means to you, and only the heart of a warrior, of a paladin will know.
- 1:01:45Matt and Eric: So you have to stop him and you're not saying you have to kill him.
- 1:01:49Matt and Eric: But like whatever it means to you Open to interpretation.
- 1:01:53Matt and Eric: Yeah, whatever it means to you, open to interpretation.
- 1:01:59Matt and Eric: Yeah, joey, your your quest.
- 1:02:00Matt and Eric: stop elon musk which also sounds sounds like an evil wizard's name.
- 1:02:02Matt and Eric: It really does.
- 1:02:03Matt and Eric: Oh my god, this is quality, absolutely well.
- 1:02:06Matt and Eric: Again, I'm not quite sure what's happened to Eric this episode where he went just now.
- 1:02:13Matt and Eric: But putting that thought exercise aside for a second, we are, I think, getting down to the wire here with the time we have, because we don't just record for like four hours.
- 1:02:27Zack: That's weird.
- 1:02:27Matt and Eric: Thank you, you're smart.
- 1:02:29Matt and Eric: I know that's a shift, so are there any other questions that you want to ask us?
- 1:02:37Mike: Zach, did you have another one Because I'm fresh out?
- 1:02:40Zack: Oh yeah, Just if you could go back.
- 1:02:44Zack: Oh also, sorry, Sorry.
- 1:02:46Mike: Before you go real quick, Thanks.
- 1:02:47Mike: I would send you and Jer to go infiltrate Area 51.
- 1:02:50Mike: I think you could do it with enough pressure.
- 1:02:52Mike: If you knew the world was going to blow up, I think you and Jer could get in.
- 1:02:57Zack: Okay, oh yeah, I should answer the question.
- 1:02:59Zack: You should answer the question.
- 1:03:00Zack: That's also a very good answer, mike.
- 1:03:01Zack: Thank you, I would send Mike and Jer to go find irrefutable proof that Bigfoot exists.
- 1:03:10Matt and Eric: The problem is that they'll?
- 1:03:11Mike: fail and the world will explode.
- 1:03:13Mike: So that'll suck I don't know.
- 1:03:17Matt and Eric: I have an ungood authority that there's been plenty of evidence I, I've seen a boy.
- 1:03:24Zack: Now.
- 1:03:24Zack: If matt edits in that sound effect I'll be impressed, but I've seen this this evidence on a weekly basis and it's shoddy at best.
- 1:03:32Zack: What's your fucking fucking question?
- 1:03:34Zack: All right, all right.
- 1:03:35Zack: If you could go back to any place in time to correct A classic Our timeline, to be in the correct universe, what would it?
- 1:03:45Matt and Eric: be To be in the correct universe.
- 1:03:47Matt and Eric: Yes, Is that implying that this universe is not correct?
- 1:03:50Matt and Eric: Do you think it is God?
- 1:03:54Matt and Eric: I hope not.
- 1:03:58Matt and Eric: Assuming we had the desire to change the timeline.
- 1:04:00Matt and Eric: Uh-huh, assuming, no, that's kind of me establishing the parameters of the equation matt.
- 1:04:03Matt and Eric: Let's assume we have a desire to change the timeline.
- 1:04:05Matt and Eric: Let's assume it.
- 1:04:06Matt and Eric: What if we had to change something?
- 1:04:08Matt and Eric: Yeah, what would it be?
- 1:04:11Matt and Eric: okay, there's the obvious.
- 1:04:12Matt and Eric: I was gonna say it's a bit basic.
- 1:04:14Matt and Eric: The first thing that jumped to mind was preventing the the fire at the library of alexandria oh, I was gonna say holocaust, you fucking monster I was gonna say oh, eric, thank you, thank you the fucked up thing is.
- 1:04:32Matt and Eric: I also thought of Library of Alex and Jerry.
- 1:04:37Mike: Motherfucker, you know what I would do.
- 1:04:40Mike: I would warn the train drivers at Town A and Town B.
- 1:04:46Matt and Eric: Because they're about to fucking hit each other.
- 1:04:50Matt and Eric: No Library of Alex.
- 1:04:53Matt and Eric: You know what?
- 1:04:53Matt and Eric: It's an old bit, but it checks out.
- 1:04:55Matt and Eric: It's good, that's good, can't hold that bit, it's an antique.
- 1:05:02Matt and Eric: But that's why I was going to say, like there's obvious answers.
- 1:05:08Zack: We're going to not do that.
- 1:05:09Zack: Yeah, don't do the obvious ones.
- 1:05:10Zack: No, of course not Be creative.
- 1:05:12Zack: That's why I come to you guys.
- 1:05:16Mike: I'd find that first fish crawling out of the ocean and step on it.
- 1:05:18Matt and Eric: It might be for the best.
- 1:05:19Matt and Eric: It might be for the best to take that out I think overall it would be for the best what I would do.
- 1:05:25Matt and Eric: Okay, I would go back.
- 1:05:27Matt and Eric: It would be like midway through dexter season five uh important and I would pull the showrunner over and say listen, you're about to make a lot of mistakes for multiple years in a row and I would like to help you.
- 1:05:45Matt and Eric: I would like to prevent what is the worst final season to a great show.
- 1:05:51Mike: No, but I have this great finale where he becomes a lumberjack after he drives into a hurricane.
- 1:05:54Mike: No, but I have this great finale where he becomes a lumberjack after he drives into a hurricane?
- 1:05:55Matt and Eric: No, you don't.
- 1:05:56Matt and Eric: You're going to have to make an.
- 1:05:57Matt and Eric: You will have to make.
- 1:05:58Matt and Eric: You will eventually make a great correction series where you fix it, but it's going to take like a decade to get there.
- 1:06:05Mike: I forgot they did the correction series.
- 1:06:08Mike: More shows need to do that.
- 1:06:08Mike: Yeah, it's good.
- 1:06:09Matt and Eric: It's good.
- 1:06:10Matt and Eric: I would recommend watching.
- 1:06:10Matt and Eric: It's good, I would recommend watching.
- 1:06:12Matt and Eric: Hell yeah, I still haven't watched Dexter.
- 1:06:14Matt and Eric: And you lent me I remember you lent me your box set.
- 1:06:18Matt and Eric: I did and I had it for years.
- 1:06:19Matt and Eric: Yep, and then I returned it.
- 1:06:20Matt and Eric: That's why I don't let the people borrow things, does anyone?
- 1:06:22Mike: manage to get Dee Dee to not come to his laboratory Because she's breaking in all the time.
- 1:06:27Matt and Eric: Nice, nice.
- 1:06:28Mike: That's pretty good Doctor.
- 1:06:30Matt and Eric: Doctor, we need you over here.
- 1:06:31Matt and Eric: It's a deep cut, oh man.
- 1:06:33Matt and Eric: I have my answer.
- 1:06:40Matt and Eric: Tell me, eric.
- 1:06:42Matt and Eric: So this one does not go out so much to theater nerds as it does to Shakespeare and literature nerds, because, I'll remind you, I almost completed an English minor.
- 1:06:53Matt and Eric: Holy shit, check out the big completed an English minor.
- 1:06:55Matt and Eric: Holy shit, check out the big dick in the room.
- 1:06:57Matt and Eric: My God.
- 1:07:00Matt and Eric: I would go back in time to the late 1500s around.
- 1:07:04Matt and Eric: I believe it was 1598.
- 1:07:06Matt and Eric: I would stop Christopher Marlowe from dying in a fucking fight in England, because Christopher Marlowe is the guy we would probably be learning about instead of Shakespeare had he not died under insanely sketchy circumstances.
- 1:07:28Matt and Eric: That is a hot take.
- 1:07:30Zack: That is.
- 1:07:30Matt and Eric: Shakespeare killed him.
- 1:07:31Matt and Eric: No, there's so many fucking theories because record keeping is sparse.
- 1:07:36Matt and Eric: There was a theory that Shakespeare and him were lovers.
- 1:07:40Matt and Eric: There's a theory that he was Shakespeare.
- 1:07:42Matt and Eric: Yes, this one isn't even a theory.
- 1:07:46Matt and Eric: This was known.
- 1:07:47Matt and Eric: He was a spy for the crown.
- 1:07:49Matt and Eric: That's true.
- 1:07:50Matt and Eric: Oh my God.
- 1:07:51Mike: He's so much cooler than Shakespeare.
- 1:07:52Matt and Eric: Dude fucking ruled.
- 1:07:53Matt and Eric: He wrote Dr Faust.
- 1:07:55Matt and Eric: He was brilliant, amazing, he was the top tier dude and then he fucking died and he was like 27?
- 1:08:04Matt and Eric: .
- 1:08:04Matt and Eric: There's also a theory that he wrote some of Shakespeare's plays.
- 1:08:09Matt and Eric: Yeah, or that he helped with a lot of his plays Fascinating dude.
- 1:08:14Matt and Eric: I'm so sad he died under incredibly sketchy circumstances you want to get to the bottom of that little miss.
- 1:08:22Matt and Eric: I really just want to know.
- 1:08:23Matt and Eric: I would literally go back, watch him get murdered and then go back again and save him.
- 1:08:30Mike: I I gotta know what happened, what, what if you were about to save him and he was like oh, thank God, I was about to go finally molest some children I've been trying to molest for the last week.
- 1:08:38Matt and Eric: Oh my God, he's a libertarian.
- 1:08:40Matt and Eric: No, a different time I didn't have any ideas.
- 1:08:44Matt and Eric: A libertarian.
- 1:08:45Matt and Eric: We gotta get this guy in the clouds, yeah that's what I would just love to have seen the shit he would have wrote, or like what would have happened had he not been killed?
- 1:08:54Mike: What if he just wrote exactly the Fast and Furious movies.
- 1:08:57Mike: I was just honestly his entire work.
- 1:09:02Zack: You know I'll say the first 17 aren't that bad.
- 1:09:05Mike: There you go, then it goes down 17 of them takes.
- 1:09:08Matt and Eric: It takes a brave man.
- 1:09:11Matt and Eric: Now before we let you guys go, I do have a question for you that I actually legitimately, uh have wondered for a while, because you guys are like very far apart, right, like so, like physically.
- 1:09:25Matt and Eric: Yeah, like did you guys?
- 1:09:27Matt and Eric: Did you go to school?
- 1:09:30Matt and Eric: Together like what's the backstory here?
- 1:09:31Mike: how'd you meet up?
- 1:09:32Mike: This is this is the the least cool thing about us.
- 1:09:36Mike: We met on world of warcraft.
- 1:09:39Mike: Nice, fuck, yes, that's.
- 1:09:42Mike: Uh.
- 1:09:42Mike: I was calling him chev because that was his character's name for 10 years yeah, you did like it took so long to start calling him zach that is so funny what was your character name mike.
- 1:09:54Matt and Eric: Sorry, mike, what was your character?
- 1:09:56Mike: my character's name uh was changed because I was a gnome named little shit and they made me change my name.
- 1:10:03Mike: Nice, and then I I don't even remember, it was just a mishmash of consonants.
- 1:10:07Mike: They're like here's your new fucking name, you piece of shit kinder shits.
- 1:10:12Matt and Eric: Now this.
- 1:10:13Matt and Eric: This is kind of funny because I have an, oddly, and so is Jer in the group too.
- 1:10:19Matt and Eric: Like is that?
- 1:10:19Mike: how all three of you came together.
- 1:10:20Mike: Well, I knew Jer from high school.
- 1:10:22Mike: Me and Jer both were playing World of Warcraft, so that's how we both knew.
- 1:10:26Zack: So the way that I got suckered into it was I was playing WoW and I ended up jumping servers, um, and I ended up jumping servers and um that I just happened to be in the main city of uh shatra during the second expansion and jeremy was saying hey, we need a shaman to join our guild.
- 1:10:46Zack: And I was.
- 1:10:47Zack: I'm a shaman, I guild.
- 1:10:49Zack: What do you need me to do?
- 1:10:51Zack: Can you you heal?
- 1:10:52Zack: I can, I don't want to.
- 1:10:53Zack: He's like.
- 1:10:54Matt and Eric: God, you're hired, so.
- 1:10:55Zack: So, you're a healer, yeah, so I was but I went enhancement for a while, um, and I did that for a while.
- 1:11:02Zack: And then at one point I took a motorcycle trip out to Rome, new York, and I looked at the map and I was like, oh, only like two hours from where these guys live out in new york.
- 1:11:13Zack: So I met up with our friend justin and from there he invited me back for his halloween party and I met a bunch of the other people that that gamed with us mike chair, uh, brendan, the leonettis, but we don't speak of them.
- 1:11:29Matt and Eric: We pour one out for jare yeah, yeah, he's dead, unfortunately.
- 1:11:32Zack: So that's when I first met everybody from from new york, and so every once in a while I'd make a four hour trip Out there and see them and have some fun.
- 1:11:40Mike: What I love about Zach Is we met on World of Warcraft and one thing even though that game is largely Forgotten, one thing that still pisses Zach off Is the moment he stopped playing.
- 1:11:50Mike: If you mention the fucking panda race, he gets so mad when they introduce the talking pandas.
- 1:11:54Mike: I've never seen Zach moment he stopped playing.
- 1:11:54Mike: If you mention the fucking panda race, he gets so mad when they introduce the talking pandas.
- 1:11:57Mike: I've never seen zach more viscerally angry at a video game.
- 1:12:00Mike: He's like like he would literally get on voice chat be like fucking pandas got it was the word verisimilitude bandied about at all.
- 1:12:13Matt and Eric: It was.
- 1:12:13Matt and Eric: That's incredible, I know I.
- 1:12:15Matt and Eric: I love and appreciate those.
- 1:12:17Matt and Eric: I.
- 1:12:17Matt and Eric: Those are my favorite kinds of hot takes the, the lowest stakes, fucking.
- 1:12:21Matt and Eric: This is fucking bull.
- 1:12:22Mike: This is what's wrong with this fucking mr panteria, bullshit, fuck that expansion it was stupid, like it was like they released kung fu panda in the next week.
- 1:12:32Mike: Blizzard was like oh my god, we gotta get on this yeah.
- 1:12:35Zack: Yeah, wrath was the last good expansion.
- 1:12:39Matt and Eric: Go back to Second Life.
- 1:12:43Mike: And that's where me and Zach met again.
- 1:12:44Mike: I didn't even know he was playing that game.
- 1:12:46Mike: Yep, he was trying to catfish people as a sexy lady on Second Life.
- 1:12:51Zack: Exactly.
- 1:12:52Zack: I figured I need a little bit of excitement in my life and I didn't realize it was Mike.
- 1:12:56Zack: And then we met up and it was like oh hey, you want to go meet behind those Cracker Jacks or whatever.
- 1:13:00Mike: I know you guys are, I know we're going long as hell, but the one thing about Zach is, if he visits you, it might not be fun at all.
- 1:13:08Mike: Because did I?
- 1:13:09Mike: I don't know if you guys heard this, but if you guys heard this, but there was one time he came to north carolina, exactly so far away.
- 1:13:18Mike: He came to north carolina and just was like I'm outside and hid from me.
- 1:13:19Mike: He never showed up.
- 1:13:21Zack: He never revealed his hiding spot there's a really from an hour and he left.
- 1:13:26Zack: There's a really good.
- 1:13:27Zack: There's a really good episode where that sums it all up.
- 1:13:31Matt and Eric: Just I don't think I've heard that one.
- 1:13:32Matt and Eric: He just came, loitered in the bushes and left Wait, really, Zach, that's the funniest fucking bit I've ever heard you are the coolest fucking person.
- 1:13:45Matt and Eric: I have ever known.
- 1:13:47Zack: You're the coolest motherfucker on the planet.
- 1:13:50Matt and Eric: Zach, I'm gonna tell you right now If you show up in Maryland and say I'm here, come find me, there will be no rock Poach and I will not overturn.
- 1:14:01Mike: I was crawling under cars.
- 1:14:03Mike: He was, do you?
- 1:14:03Zack: understand he was crawling under cars and then he would go and tear through his apartment.
- 1:14:10Mike: I checked every closet the power move.
- 1:14:13Matt and Eric: That's so fucking dope.
- 1:14:15Matt and Eric: And then you're like it's my departure time.
- 1:14:18Matt and Eric: Goodbye.
- 1:14:19Matt and Eric: This is healthy masculinity.
- 1:14:22Matt and Eric: This is.
- 1:14:22Matt and Eric: We found it.
- 1:14:23Matt and Eric: You know what this is.
- 1:14:26Mike: He flew 400 miles to play hide and go seek with me, that's not 100% true.
- 1:14:30Zack: That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
- 1:14:31Zack: I was in the state for another reason and I decided to fuck with Mike.
- 1:14:37Matt and Eric: It's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
- 1:14:39Matt and Eric: That's so good.
- 1:14:40Matt and Eric: I got Wonka Vader.
- 1:14:41Matt and Eric: It's so funny it's still sinking in.
- 1:14:46Matt and Eric: I will find the episode and I will send it to you, gentlemen Mike's retelling is one of my favorite episodes, but also it was fucked up.
- 1:14:55Mike: Have any other time would have been like he's lying, but he was like, as I'm looking around, he's like not by the red car texting me that shit, I'm like how's he?
- 1:15:02Mike: Know, and it was so scary.
- 1:15:05Matt and Eric: So that required so much skill on his part to observe you.
- 1:15:10Matt and Eric: I love it.
- 1:15:13Matt and Eric: Oh God, I absolutely love it.
- 1:15:16Mike: It's the best bit I've ever heard I don't know how he did it because, like I came inside and didn't text him a goddamn thing, I opened my closet to see if he was in there, and he goes not in the closet how?
- 1:15:25Matt and Eric: did he know, when we get mad maxed and it's like thunderdome out there.
- 1:15:31Matt and Eric: Zach's gonna be fucking warlord.
- 1:15:34Zack: Zach is going to be running this shit.
- 1:15:38Matt and Eric: Anyway, now your story about meeting on World of Warcraft did remind me of.
- 1:15:44Matt and Eric: I have a similar situation with a gentleman who a friend of mine in the early days of Fortnite when people played it In the early days of Fortnite when people played it.
- 1:15:55Matt and Eric: A friend and I were playing, and you know just, we were two people, so we were constantly going in and out of groups and we finally got into a group with a guy named Soup Du Jour and great name Was he a snack?
- 1:16:11Matt and Eric: Yes, he was, and he was.
- 1:16:18Matt and Eric: You know he was not only was he good, good, but he was funny and it was just he was a good dude.
- 1:16:20Matt and Eric: So we were like, hey, you want, and everybody else we were playing with sucked.
- 1:16:22Matt and Eric: So we were like, hey, you want to like jump ship here?
- 1:16:25Matt and Eric: And so we'd play together for a while and we all friended each other on playstation and you know like we'd.
- 1:16:30Matt and Eric: We'd be online, we'd jump on fortnite where we dropping boys, you know back in the good old days Out there, grittying on them Absolutely.
- 1:16:38Matt and Eric: And one day it was just my friend wasn't with us and it was just me and Soup, as I took to calling him.
- 1:16:45Matt and Eric: So me and Soup were playing for a while and I made some off comment about the town I lived in and he was like where in the town do you live?
- 1:16:55Matt and Eric: And I was like, uh, this is, this is getting a little, this is getting a little weird.
- 1:17:00Matt and Eric: My guy like, uh, I, I I don't want to give you a specific name he was like I live on Conti road, where do you live?
- 1:17:08Matt and Eric: And I was like holy, fucking shit, shit.
- 1:17:18Matt and Eric: And I was like I live on conti road.
- 1:17:19Matt and Eric: Oh my god.
- 1:17:19Matt and Eric: He was like where do you?
- 1:17:19Matt and Eric: And I was like hold on, you're soup.
- 1:17:20Matt and Eric: You're kind of freaking me out.
- 1:17:21Matt and Eric: And then he gave me his exact address and he was like do we live down the fucking street from each other?
- 1:17:26Matt and Eric: and indeed we did holy shit awesome follow-up question every time he online did you say soup's on, I did.
- 1:17:38Mike: I did indeed, that's delightful.
- 1:17:41Matt and Eric: Fucking nuts.
- 1:17:43Matt and Eric: We've lost touch a while ago.
- 1:17:44Matt and Eric: But, soup, if you've been silently listening to the show and not telling me, shout out to you, man, pour one out.
- 1:17:49Matt and Eric: Pour one out.
- 1:17:49Matt and Eric: For you and Jer.
- 1:17:50Matt and Eric: For you and Jer.
- 1:17:51Matt and Eric: This is the Jer and Soup Du Jour Memorial episode, absolutely so that'll about do it.
- 1:17:58Matt and Eric: That'll about do it For this episode of you Didn't Ask For this.
- 1:18:02Matt and Eric: As always, we do need some questions.
- 1:18:05Matt and Eric: Send them to us at youdontaskforthis at gmailcom.
- 1:18:08Matt and Eric: That's all spelled out.
- 1:18:09Matt and Eric: Or you didn'taskpod just hit my microphone with a harmonica.
- 1:18:12Matt and Eric: That's the letter.
- 1:18:13Matt and Eric: You didn't ask pod, instagram, twitter, facebook, etc.
- 1:18:24Matt and Eric: Etc.
- 1:18:25Mike: Um, uh yeah, or call the thought line at 410-929-5329 and leave us a message.
- 1:18:28Mike: That's right, yeah, and if you know the answer to my math problem, send a message out there to their hotline, to their thought line, absolutely and they'll send you free swag, no matter where you live.
- 1:18:36Mike: They'll send you their most expensive free swag we will.
- 1:18:39Matt and Eric: We will make swag and send it to you if you take the time to solve that math problem we, we will, I matt, I will, pinky, swear to this with you, to the listeners.
- 1:18:48Matt and Eric: We will, we will the first person to call in and answer that question correctly.
- 1:18:52Matt and Eric: We, yeah, we which will require us to check the fucking math.
- 1:18:56Matt and Eric: But we don't currently have swag, but we will make.
- 1:18:59Matt and Eric: We will make swag like.
- 1:19:00Matt and Eric: You'll be the reason we have.
- 1:19:01Matt and Eric: So you'll be the you'll have a but, but you won't get the first piece of like the line of merch.
- 1:19:08Matt and Eric: You will get a custom thing you'll get a good, you let's.
- 1:19:13Matt and Eric: Let's temper expectation.
- 1:19:14Matt and Eric: Oh no, no, fuck it our harmonica.
- 1:19:14Matt and Eric: Sorry, let's bring.
- 1:19:15Matt and Eric: You're right, I'm getting, I got, you'll get a good, holy shit.
- 1:19:16Matt and Eric: Let's temper expectations.
- 1:19:16Matt and Eric: No, fuck it Our harmonica.
- 1:19:17Matt and Eric: Sorry, let's bring.
- 1:19:17Matt and Eric: You're right I'm getting.
- 1:19:18Matt and Eric: I got too themed.
- 1:19:19Matt and Eric: I'm so sorry.
- 1:19:20Matt and Eric: We'll see if we there's got to be a harmonica.
- 1:19:23Matt and Eric: You know they have t-shirt printing services harmonica printing services.
- 1:19:28Matt and Eric: Anyway, for all of us here you didn't ask for this my name is matt shay, my name's eric poach, my name's mike.
- 1:19:38Matt and Eric: I'm zach and listen.
- 1:19:39Matt and Eric: You didn't ask, but uh the whole fucking episode eric I had the whole fucking time.
- 1:19:45Matt and Eric: I had the whole time.
- 1:19:46Matt and Eric: I thought, for sure you had something prepared.
- 1:19:49Matt and Eric: You'll have something I was lost in zach's eyes look at those eyes and tell me no, all right, hold on.
- 1:19:54Matt and Eric: Hold on, erica.
- 1:19:55Matt and Eric: Oh, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it.
- 1:19:57Matt and Eric: Okay, we'll just, yeah, I'll just patch it in real cleanly and won't keep any of this.
- 1:20:01Matt and Eric: Yeah, no.
- 1:20:02Matt and Eric: So here I'll give you again.
- 1:20:03Matt and Eric: Are you ready for the Q&A?
- 1:20:08Matt and Eric: Oh yeah, I'm ready, don't screw it up in the arms of what's this for, and then the text comes up on the fades, up on the screen, in in memoriam jare, so in like 1964 to 2024 yeah, he was born in 64 and then, like it just shows, like a shot of a sad puppy in a cage for some reason.
- 1:20:35Matt and Eric: Yeah, he was born in 64.
- 1:20:41Matt and Eric: And then it just shows a shot of a sad puppy in a cage for some reason.
- 1:20:45Matt and Eric: How dope would it be?
- 1:20:46Matt and Eric: if I could play it on harmonica Dude, if you just had that in the fucking back pocket the whole time.