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69 | Grimace is as Grimace Does · You Didn't Ask For This

• 0:00
  Matt: Eric, I feel like at this point in my life, I know the sorts of things that people turn to me for.
• 0:08
  Matt: Please go on.
• 0:10
  Matt: I'm saying like the content, the opinions that they actually want, as opposed to the ones I just levy at them.
• 0:18
  Matt: You know what I'm saying?
• 0:19
  Eric: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 0:21
  Matt: I have a particular set of skills.
• 0:24
  Matt: Or maybe they're not skills so much as they are uh obsessions.
• 0:28
  Eric: They make you a nightmare for people like me.
• 0:30
  Matt: Absolutely.
• 0:32
  Matt: They make me a nightmare for people.
• 0:34
  Matt: Now the one of them, as we've talked about on this show before, is I have a great love of America's favorite balladier, Billy Joel.
• 0:45
  Matt: Oh, oh, Will Joel?
• 0:47
  Matt: Old Willy Willie J.
• 0:49
  Matt: Willie J?
• 0:50
  Matt: Willie Jo Willy J sounds like a redneck name of some sort.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: Willie Jay.
• 0:56
  Matt: Anyway, recently somebody by the name of Fallout Boy decided they wanted to release an updated for the for 1989 through 2023, an updated version of one of Billy's worst songs.
• 1:17
  Eric: We didn't start the fire.
• 1:19
  Eric: And nothing against uh Mr.
• 1:22
  Eric: Out Boy, may I call him fall.
• 1:25
  Eric: Uh oh boy, may you.
• 1:28
  Eric: But yeah, oh may you ever.
• 1:32
  Eric: But I have a question.
• 1:33
  Eric: All right.
• 1:34
  Matt: Why?
• 1:36
  Matt: Well, it's a good question, Eric.
• 1:38
  Matt: It's a good question.
• 1:39
  Matt: Um, Billy Joel, for your reference, um hates that song.
• 1:45
  Matt: Uh it's one of my favorite Yeah.
• 1:47
  Matt: Oh it's one of my favorite parts of the concerts.
• 1:52
  Matt: I've seen him five times at this point, and when he plays it, he usually says something to the effect of like, this is a bad song.
• 1:59
  Matt: I regret writing this bad song, but if I don't play it, you people all give me shit.
• 2:05
  Eric: So here you go.
• 2:07
  Eric: Which also shout out to to BJ uh for like hitting the level of famous where he can actively look at a crowd of thousands of human beings and say, I hate this shit.
• 2:21
  Eric: Fuck you for making me sing it, but here it goes anyway.
• 2:24
  Eric: And he can just do that, he can just do that with zero repeat.
• 2:28
  Eric: He's earned that right.
• 2:29
  Matt: Yes.
• 2:30
  Matt: But the uh, and you know, it still slaps when he does it.
• 2:33
  Matt: But the um so so but the thing about but the thing about we didn't start the fire is, and it's interesting because I don't know if you noticed if or if this was um you're not always on Facebook, I know, but I recently uh put out a series of four educational playlists on Spotify that I've made public.
• 2:57
  Matt: I've called them Billy Joel 101, 201, 301, and 401, um, designed to take you, a novice, Billy Joel listener, to something surf.
• 3:08
  Matt: To something approaching me.
• 3:11
  Eric: Yes.
• 3:12
  Matt: Somebody who can share their love for piano man and moving out, but also be able to talk about sleeping with the television on.
• 3:26
  Matt: Or everyone's favorite.
• 3:28
  Matt: Where's the orchestra?
• 3:30
  Matt: What I'm saying is, Eric, I have a particular set of skills when it comes to Big Joel.
• 3:35
  Matt: And it was mentioned by a good friend of the pod at Dairy King 11, who asked us specifically, and I feel like mostly me.
• 3:45
  Eric: One oh yeah.
• 3:49
  Eric: They're really crawling to me for that sweet, sweet Beejles content.
• 3:53
  Matt: For my thoughts on Fallout Boys, we didn't start the fire.
• 4:00
  Matt: Now, Eric.
• 4:02
  Matt: Yeah, let me tell you something.
• 4:04
  Matt: Oh, I can't.
• 4:05
  Matt: I can give it to you real quick, okay?
• 4:07
  Matt: I I don't want we don't need to take all day with this, is what I'm trying to say.
• 4:11
  Eric: Okay.
• 4:11
  Matt: Here's the situation.
• 4:13
  Matt: Because you have you heard the song?
• 4:14
  Eric: Uh uh The Fallout Boy one by Mr.
• 4:17
  Matt: F Mr.
• 4:17
  Matt: Boys.
• 4:17
  Eric: By Mr.
• 4:18
  Eric: Boys, no.
• 4:19
  Matt: Yeah.
• 4:19
  Matt: No, okay.
• 4:20
  Matt: So, first of all, it sounds like a Fallout Boy song, You Lost Me Immediately.
• 4:25
  Matt: Okay, but that's me.
• 4:26
  Eric: That's just me.
• 4:27
  Eric: Okay.
• 4:28
  Eric: Second of all, it sounds like a Fallout Boy song, You Lost Me Immediately, by Panic at the Disco.
• 4:34
  Eric: Go on.
• 4:35
  Eric: Thank you.
• 4:36
  Matt: Um, and I say this with the authority of a Billy Joel expert.
• 4:40
  Matt: It's a bad song to begin with.
• 4:42
  Eric: So just you're already starting from the bottom, and there you are.
• 4:47
  Matt: Yep.
• 4:47
  Matt: Yep.
• 4:48
  Matt: There's it's way too pop culture heavy, in my opinion.
• 4:51
  Matt: Not enough uh juice from real life conflict.
• 4:58
  Matt: There is it there, it's there, but it the scale is too heavy on on pop culture.
• 5:05
  Matt: For example, uh and this is this is where I I got a little crazy.
• 5:09
  Matt: They managed to squeeze in references to Tiger King.
• 5:14
  Matt: Okay, and very specifically Keaton Batman.
• 5:20
  Matt: That okay.
• 5:21
  Matt: That phrase specifically, Keaton Batman, that little whiplash.
• 5:25
  Matt: Here are some things from 1989 to 2023 that I find to be a little confuse uh surprising that they left out.
• 5:34
  Matt: OJ, Anthrax, Hurricane Katrina, COVID 19, uh the recession.
• 5:43
  Matt: Like, there's plenty of missing pieces.
• 5:46
  Matt: Yeah, aren't there?
• 5:47
  Eric: Was there any I'm just gonna I'm just gonna ask it.
• 5:51
  Eric: Let's just get it out of the way now because people are wondering.
• 5:54
  Eric: Give it to me.
• 5:54
  Eric: Did they reference 9-11?
• 5:57
  Eric: They sure did.
• 5:58
  Eric: Okay.
• 5:59
  Eric: I think they almost got it right.
• 6:03
  Eric: You heard it here first, folks.
• 6:05
  Eric: Matt thinks they almost got 9-11 right.
• 6:10
  Eric: Didn't have that one on the bingo card.
• 6:13
  Matt: God, that I I I never claimed that Fallout Boy was responsible for 9-11.
• 6:20
  Matt: I never claimed that.
• 6:22
  Matt: All I said is it can't be proven.
• 6:25
  Matt: It can't be proven.
• 6:26
  Eric: Just look at the facts.
• 6:28
  Eric: Just do your own research.
• 6:29
  Eric: Matthew.
• 6:30
  Eric: Where were you searching?
• 6:32
  Eric: Where were you, Fallout Boy?
• 6:33
  Matt: Where were you, Fallout Boy?
• 6:36
  Matt: Anyway, the origin the original We Didn Start the Fire ends with JFK blown away.
• 6:42
  Matt: What else do I have to say?
• 6:43
  Matt: Poetry in motion, Billy.
• 6:45
  Matt: Yes.
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  Matt: I think it is appropriate to a generational equivalent, so to speak, in terms of where were you type events, yep, that they put 9-11 in the same spot as where JFK blown away was.
• 7:00
  Eric: That scans.
• 7:01
  Eric: That absolutely scans.
• 7:02
  Matt: But what their lyric is, and uh same beat, you know, same everything, it's just cover with different lyrics.
• 7:07
  Matt: What their lyric is world trade second plane.
• 7:13
  Matt: What else do I have to say?
• 7:15
  Eric: And here's what I would say.
• 7:17
  Eric: What what what what would you have done in fall in Mr.
• 7:20
  Eric: Boy's shoes?
• 7:21
  Matt: If you're going to put it there as an homage to like the uh the level of incident that the original song is referencing at that exact same spot part of the song, why with this particular event, and I don't mean to, you know, sound indelicate, yeah, why would you not keep it world trade blown away?
• 7:46
  Eric: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 7:48
  Eric: You know?
• 7:49
  Eric: Yeah.
• 7:50
  Eric: Also, they could they were perfectly set up to go with something like Osama Seal Teams, jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.
• 7:59
  Matt: Eric, Eric, that is so much better than any lyric in either version of the book.
• 8:05
  Eric: That was right off the fucking doe.
• 8:06
  Matt: Eric, you're a fucking bard, my guy.
• 8:09
  Matt: Thank you.
• 8:10
  Matt: Thank you.
• 8:10
  Matt: You're a fucking poet, my guy.
• 8:12
  Eric: Yeah.
• 8:13
  Eric: Who wasted a theater degree now, Dad?
• 8:16
  Matt: Yeah.
• 8:19
  Matt: Dad.
• 8:21
  Matt: Now, the other thing that he says that I think is interesting.
• 8:26
  Matt: This is Mr.
• 8:26
  Matt: Mr.
• 8:27
  Matt: Boy again.
• 8:28
  Matt: They reference Michael Jordan twice.
• 8:31
  Matt: Okay?
• 8:31
  Matt: Twice?
• 8:32
  Eric: Yeah.
• 8:32
  Eric: Please tell me at least one of those references was to the film like Mike.
• 8:37
  Matt: No.
• 8:38
  Matt: Fucking fuck off.
• 8:39
  Matt: I believe the lyrics, in fact, are that are simply just Michael Jordan 23 and then later Michael Jordan 45.
• 8:50
  Eric: Yes, that is literally what they just listed his names and his jersey number and other jersey number you've never heard of.
• 8:58
  Matt: But so they're referencing when he like came out of retirement, right?
• 9:02
  Matt: Yeah.
• 9:02
  Matt: And so what I would say is okay, you've got another precedent of we didn't start the fire for this in Richard Nixon, and then later Richard Nixon back again.
• 9:15
  Matt: So why wouldn't you keep Michael Jordan and match it with Michael Jordan back again?
• 9:21
  Matt: Do I have to do everyone's job for them, Eric?
• 9:25
  Matt: It was right there.
• 9:27
  Matt: It was right there.
• 9:29
  Matt: And they ignored all that.
• 9:31
  Matt: And also they threw in ever for the uh, as you may recall, Trouble in the Suez is featured in the first song.
• 9:41
  Matt: So I would say, hey, we've had Trouble in the Suez recently.
• 9:45
  Matt: You could keep the same fucking link.
• 9:48
  Eric: And that makes it funnier.
• 9:49
  Matt: It makes it funnier because we know what it is and we know what you're doing.
• 9:53
  Matt: But they said ever given Suez.
• 9:57
  Matt: Okay.
• 9:57
  Eric: And I know wait, it's ever given and oh my God.
• 10:01
  Matt: Ever given Suez, ever given, comma Suez.
• 10:05
  Matt: And like what I would say is like, we all know what you're gonna reference.
• 10:09
  Matt: Why don't you keep the same structure?
• 10:11
  Matt: I would have written back up in the Suez.
• 10:15
  Matt: Boom.
• 10:15
  Matt: There it is.
• 10:16
  Eric: Or keep it as trouble.
• 10:18
  Eric: Trouble, trouble, trouble.
• 10:20
  Eric: Yeah.
• 10:21
  Eric: Um, oh, you could have you could have hit it with Morty Enrich Sanchez Backup in the Suez.
• 10:28
  Eric: Like it's right.
• 10:29
  Matt: Like you could have Morty Enric Sanchez backup in the Suez?
• 10:33
  Eric: Eric, fuck it.
• 10:34
  Matt: Thank you off the dome.
• 10:37
  Matt: Give me something else.
• 10:39
  unknown: Oh fuck.
• 10:41
  Eric: Um give me an OJ lyric.
• 10:46
  Matt: They didn't have an OJ lyric.
• 10:47
  Matt: Give me an OJ lyric.
• 10:47
  Eric: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
• 10:49
  Eric: Um oh, I've I've I've got it once I've got the second half, just gotta download the first half.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: Is this helping or hurting?
• 11:05
  Eric: No, this is this is yeah.
• 11:09
  Eric: Um wait, I have it.
• 11:11
  Eric: I have it.
• 11:12
  Eric: Give me a moment.
• 11:13
  Eric: Uh the best part is you can edit all this out so I sound way more clever.
• 11:17
  Eric: Um I can.
• 11:19
  Eric: Uh not gonna.
• 11:21
  Eric: You could hit him with hit him with this.
• 11:22
  Eric: Hit him with this.
• 11:23
  Eric: Uh Ron DeSantis, don't say gay, white Bronco, OJ.
• 11:30
  Eric: Eric fucking poach.
• 11:32
  Eric: Got you, baby.
• 11:33
  Eric: I got you.
• 11:34
  Matt: I'll bring it in.
• 11:36
  Matt: I don't I don't even know what I shouldn't have been.
• 11:39
  Matt: You know what?
• 11:39
  Matt: They approached me from Derry King asked me for my opinion, and you laughed.
• 11:45
  Matt: You said, ha ha ha, they're not coming to me.
• 11:47
  Matt: Let me tell you something, Eric.
• 11:50
  Matt: You are uh you are like a Billy Joel savant.
• 11:54
  Matt: You're like you're like a Billy Joel rain man over here.
• 11:58
  Eric: Like a Billy Joel piano man.
• 11:59
  Matt: You don't know what you know.
• 12:01
  Matt: So so Jilly Bowl.
• 12:02
  Matt: I don't like that one.
• 12:03
  Eric: Cheers to you.
• 12:04
  Eric: Jilly bowl.
• 12:05
  Matt: Oh, here's to you.
• 12:06
  Eric: Is that just um we're cheersing to Jilly Bowl?
• 12:09
  Eric: Cheers into Jilly Bowl.
• 12:10
  Eric: To to the man who most touched my life by being Dodger in Disney's Oliver.
• 12:16
  Eric: Is that true?
• 12:17
  Eric: Oh, yeah, he was Dodger in Oliver, bro.
• 12:19
  Eric: I don't think I've seen the the film Oliver.
• 12:21
  Eric: Oh, dude, watch it.
• 12:23
  Eric: You just get to see.
• 12:23
  Matt: Oh, why should I worry?
• 12:26
  Matt: Why should I care?
• 12:28
  Eric: Is that your Billy Joel?
• 12:30
  Eric: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 12:31
  Eric: It wasn't bad.
• 12:32
  Eric: Thanks.
• 12:33
  Eric: Man, maybe, maybe, maybe the two 2023, maybe Billy Joel is the artist for me.
• 12:39
  Eric: Maybe he is.
• 12:41
  Matt: And if so, listen, I got a series of four playlists that can help you for the for the price of a downloaded day.
• 12:50
  Eric: Can help you go from 33-year-old white dude, it's time for my Billy Joel phase.
• 12:54
  Matt: It's time for your Billy Joel upgrade, all right, everybody.
• 13:14
  Matt: Hello there, and welcome to You Didn't Ask for This, the podcast answering life's least pressing questions.
• 13:20
  Matt: My name is Matthew Shea.
• 13:22
  Matt: My name is Eric Poach.
• 13:25
  Matt: And this, Eric, is episode 69.
• 13:29
  Eric: Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, get it out, nice, get it right out of your system.
• 13:34
  Eric: That's pretty nice.
• 13:36
  Eric: Yeah.
• 13:36
  Eric: A lot of, a lot of it is a very nice episode, Matt, because uh as you know, we're we're from Maryland.
• 13:42
  Eric: And absolutely we are.
• 13:44
  Eric: As of yesterday, when you know, when we're recording this, a little plant, little plant got legalized.
• 13:53
  Matt: A certain plant, we're talking about hydrangers.
• 13:56
  Matt: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 14:01
  Eric: But yes, uh, they have officially Yeah, go for it.
• 14:04
  Eric: They have officially legalized the devil's lettuce, the jazz cabbage, the Johnny Red Eye.
• 14:10
  Eric: There it is.
• 14:16
  Eric: Like that it was thunderous applause, and then just a light hitter.
• 14:21
  Matt: I thought it would, I thought it would uh I thought it would play a pot, you know, I can't stop it now.
• 14:27
  Eric: One of those applauses was for lead be weed being legalized, the other applause was for uh records that are now able to be expunged, convictions that are able to be resentenced and must be if people apply for them.
• 14:40
  Eric: Uh it's it's it's a pretty pretty bitchin' day to be a Maryland citizen.
• 14:45
  Eric: Hell yeah.
• 14:46
  Eric: Not great for the rest of the country, of which Maryland is a part.
• 14:51
  Eric: Uh, but you know.
• 14:57
  Matt: Okay.
• 14:57
  Matt: I'm sorry that I decided to play with the soundboard finally.
• 15:01
  Matt: Um so there we have, there we have it.
• 15:04
  Matt: It's true.
• 15:05
  Matt: Everyone's high.
• 15:06
  Matt: And high on life, baby.
• 15:08
  Matt: High on uh high on life.
• 15:10
  Matt: Yes, smoke them if you got them, everybody, in Maryland, in your private domicile, of course.
• 15:16
  Eric: How many I I do wonder legitimately, because we're also dealing, uh uh uh for for non-Maryllanders who listen to the show, we're dealing with some piss poor air quality right now uh from the wildfires in Canada.
• 15:31
  Eric: How many dads do you think, Matt, yesterday?
• 15:35
  Eric: How many dads made jokes about how visibly hazy, smoky air, like the dads must have been frothing at the fanny pack.
• 15:47
  Matt: I gotta I gotta hey, wait a minute.
• 15:50
  Matt: You can't be making fun of dads with a fanny pack when you have suddenly in the middle of your 30s started wearing a fanny pack on it.
• 15:57
  Eric: Oh, I love my fan.
• 15:58
  Eric: I have two, I have two fanny packs now, Matt.
• 16:01
  Eric: One in the front, one in the back.
• 16:02
  Eric: One in the front, one in the back, baby.
• 16:03
  Eric: Belly pack, fanny pack.
• 16:04
  Eric: I'll also I'll I'll side saddle it.
• 16:06
  Eric: I'll have I'll give my package.
• 16:07
  Matt: So I've seen you side saddle.
• 16:09
  Matt: As I said to you the last time I saw you with it in a bar, you said I came up to you and said, Let me ask you something.
• 16:15
  Matt: What do you keep in there?
• 16:17
  Matt: What's going on in there?
• 16:18
  Matt: Okay, so your wallet's in there, sure.
• 16:20
  Matt: What else?
• 16:21
  Matt: Oh, yeah, we had a little unboxing.
• 16:22
  Eric: I was like, ooh, got a charging cable.
• 16:25
  Eric: Got a got I had some some fits, uh, a little piece of candy.
• 16:30
  Eric: Now a little piece of candy?
• 16:33
  Eric: I wish I had been doing this from the beginning.
• 16:35
  Eric: I have two fanny packs, one is the beginning of what?
• 16:38
  Eric: Your life?
• 16:39
  Eric: Yeah.
• 16:40
  Eric: Oh, bro, life would have been so much easier with a fanny pack.
• 16:42
  Eric: Are you kidding me?
• 16:44
  Eric: Uh I guess I'm I guess I'm not, no.
• 16:48
  Matt: Uh well, Eric, uh I I'd stand flabbergasted at uh at the altar of you.
• 16:55
  Matt: Fan fanny gasted.
• 16:57
  Matt: Fanny gasted, absolutely.
• 17:00
  Matt: So, Eric, we we already had a bit of a mer meandering cold open about Billy Joel.
• 17:06
  Matt: Should we get right into it now that we're you know approaching 20 minutes in?
• 17:11
  Eric: Oh, yes.
• 17:11
  Eric: Uh and and speaking of cultural touchstones, we're we're we're witnessing pop culture unfold in real time.
• 17:20
  Matt: An event is taking place in this country.
• 17:22
  Matt: And now, when this episode comes out, uh, we're actually only recording it a couple of days um before.
• 17:28
  Matt: So it's it's we're relatively up to date.
• 17:30
  Eric: Uh so you're getting the shit hot off the presses.
• 17:33
  Matt: It's hot off the presses.
• 17:35
  Matt: By that I mean four days old.
• 17:37
  Matt: So uh there is a there is currently a phenomenon sweeping the nation.
• 17:42
  Eric: Yep.
• 17:43
  Eric: Today being July 2nd, there's a pretty momentous birthday that's that's going to be occurring.
• 17:49
  Matt: The birth of a movement, the birth of of an idea, of a sweet dream, yes, that that blossomed into one of the most powerful forces on the earth in the history of time.
• 18:04
  Eric: We are speaking, of course, of Grimace.
• 18:07
  Matt: Happy birthday grimace.
• 18:08
  Matt: Happy birthday grimace.
• 18:10
  Matt: Watch out, watch out.
• 18:11
  Matt: We said it, watch out.
• 18:13
  Matt: Watch out.
• 18:14
  Matt: If you're uno if you're unaware of what's happening, Grimace, the once popular but sort of half discontinued mascot of McDonald's.
• 18:23
  Matt: Was he ever popular?
• 18:25
  Matt: The once uh around mascot.
• 18:30
  Matt: Mascot of McDonald's.
• 18:34
  Matt: He he is celebrating his birthday, and by that I mean McDonald's is in the form of a special meal that has a purple milkshake and nothing else special about it other than the packaging.
• 18:46
  Matt: I know that because I, of course, got one because I am a sucker for a good marketing pool.
• 18:52
  Eric: Oh, we love it.
• 18:52
  Eric: We love it.
• 18:53
  Matt: We love a good marketing place.
• 18:54
  Matt: And truly, the milkshake, you know, it's okay.
• 18:57
  Matt: It's I think it's blueberry, is the extra taste.
• 19:00
  Eric: Otherwise, it's just a vanilla milkshake.
• 19:01
  Eric: I've heard like wild berry, blueberry.
• 19:04
  Eric: We got some berry going on in there.
• 19:06
  Matt: We got some berry going on.
• 19:08
  Matt: Uh you know, I don't not recommend it.
• 19:11
  Eric: In that grimace milk.
• 19:12
  Matt: But what has really made it a movement is what the good people at TikTok are doing.
• 19:18
  Eric: Oh, and we oh, if if you haven't, pause the episode.
• 19:22
  Eric: Good.
• 19:23
  Matt: Check out this app called TikTok.
• 19:25
  Eric: You yeah, it's it's it's nuts.
• 19:27
  Matt: You kids can believe the some of the things they're doing.
• 19:31
  Eric: It's like vine but longer.
• 19:34
  Matt: Yeah.
• 19:35
  Matt: Sometimes it's YouTube.
• 19:37
  Eric: Yeah.
• 19:38
  Matt: But vertically.
• 19:40
  Eric: Yes.
• 19:40
  Eric: Verd vertical, vertical YouTube.
• 19:42
  Matt: So what people are doing are making like art films surrounding the concept of going, it's Grimace's birthday, I got the milkshake, happy birthday, Grimace.
• 19:53
  Matt: And then as soon as they take a sip, the the film changes from your typical TikTok visage to like a truly like an indie horror movie.
• 20:04
  Eric: It's like A24 is directing TikTok.
• 20:06
  Matt: It's like it is like an A24 Flim Flam.
• 20:11
  Matt: A24 Flim Flam.
• 20:13
  Matt: And they transform into people like frothing purple at the mouth and bad things happening.
• 20:19
  Matt: People uh being dragged by grimaces on the side of the road.
• 20:25
  Eric: A single purple hand coming around the corner to clutch the doorframe.
• 20:30
  Matt: A single purple hand coming around.
• 20:32
  Matt: So to honor this trend that is indeed sweeping the nation, I thought it would be appropriate to on Twitter put out a call for some uh questions about Grimace.
• 20:48
  Matt: And oh boy, did we get some.
• 20:50
  Eric: Oh, yeah, they asked and answered.
• 20:54
  Matt: And the first one, in fact, let's double up right away, comes from at Dairy King 11.
• 21:00
  Matt: Hail to the king, baby.
• 21:02
  Matt: Hail to the king.
• 21:03
  Matt: Welcome back at Dairy King Eleven.
• 21:06
  Matt: At Dairy King11, Eric DeErico asks, What is Grimace?
• 21:11
  Matt: Hamburglar, Fry Kids, Mayer McCheese, Birdie, etc.
• 21:15
  Matt: They all make sense, but what is a grimace?
• 21:20
  Eric: First thing I I do want to know.
• 21:22
  Matt: And there's some there's some pylon to this, Eric, too.
• 21:25
  Eric: Okay, okay.
• 21:26
  Matt: Because then, hey, wow, it's Mike, also known as Neatcast underscore Mike on Twitter.
• 21:32
  Matt: Hey Mike.
• 21:32
  Matt: Hi Mike.
• 21:33
  Matt: Hi, Mike.
• 21:34
  Matt: He wants to know the biology of Grimace.
• 21:36
  Matt: What color is Grimace's blood?
• 21:38
  Eric: How do a grimace how do Grimace in the wild mate?
• 21:42
  Eric: Okay.
• 21:42
  Eric: Uh two things.
• 21:44
  Eric: One, uh, I do like Mike that you did uh you did eventually land on the proper terms of a d address for Grimace.
• 21:51
  Eric: I'm gonna get this right out of the gate.
• 21:53
  Eric: Grimace's pronouns are grimace.
• 21:56
  Eric: Yeah.
• 21:57
  Eric: No, he, him, she, her, they, them.
• 22:00
  Eric: Grimace's pronouns are grimace.
• 22:02
  Matt: Grimaces is grimace does.
• 22:03
  Eric: None of this the grimace.
• 22:05
  Eric: None of this a grimace.
• 22:06
  Eric: Just grimace.
• 22:07
  Eric: Just grimace.
• 22:08
  Eric: Grimace is grimace.
• 22:10
  Eric: Second thing.
• 22:10
  Eric: Dairy King.
• 22:11
  Eric: Quick rewind.
• 22:12
  Eric: I'm sorry.
• 22:13
  Eric: Hamburger.
• 22:13
  Eric: Back it up.
• 22:14
  Eric: Back it up.
• 22:14
  Eric: Back it up.
• 22:15
  Eric: Things that apparently make sense to you.
• 22:17
  Eric: Hamburger.
• 22:18
  Eric: Okay, I'm with it.
• 22:19
  Eric: Fry Kids, got it.
• 22:21
  Eric: Birdie, dope.
• 22:22
  Eric: Mayor McCheese.
• 22:24
  Eric: Mayor McCheese made sense.
• 22:26
  Eric: Mayor McCheese, mayor of the place where they eat cheeseburgers, where his head is a giant cheeseburger.
• 22:32
  Eric: Eric.
• 22:34
  Eric: That wasn't on that wasn't but Grimace crossed the line.
• 22:38
  Eric: Eric.
• 22:38
  Matt: Yes.
• 22:39
  Matt: You gotta remember you're speaking to the king.
• 22:42
  Matt: I my liege.
• 22:44
  Matt: I beg of you.
• 22:45
  Matt: He operates.
• 22:47
  Matt: He operates on a level we can only dream of.
• 22:50
  Matt: That is true.
• 22:52
  Matt: So yeah, it made sense to him, Eric.
• 22:54
  Matt: Okay.
• 22:55
  Eric: Okay.
• 22:55
  Eric: Okay.
• 22:56
  Eric: Let him go.
• 22:56
  Matt: You just gotta let it go.
• 22:58
  Matt: He's not asking us about Mayor McCheese.
• 22:59
  Matt: He's asking us about Grimace.
• 23:01
  Matt: And for that purpose, Eric, I'm happy to announce that I do have up the McDonald's wiki.
• 23:07
  Eric: Oh, thank God.
• 23:08
  Eric: Uh, okay, so wait, does McDonald's have their own wiki, or are we on Wikipedia?
• 23:13
  Eric: No.
• 23:15
  Matt: You heard me the first time.
• 23:16
  Matt: This is on fandom.
• 23:17
  Matt: It's the McDonald's wiki.
• 23:18
  Matt: The Micpedia.
• 23:19
  Matt: The McPedia.
• 23:20
  Matt: Where I'm Nikpedia.
• 23:21
  Matt: Why isn't it called McPedia?
• 23:22
  Matt: Why the it's right there.
• 23:25
  Matt: Once again, do I have to do everyone's content?
• 23:30
  Matt: Grimace is a character featured in McDonald Land commercials.
• 23:35
  Matt: Now known as Oh, he is, Izzy?
• 23:38
  Matt: Now known as Ronald McDonald's best friend.
• 23:43
  Matt: He was introduced as any villainous character called Evil Grimace, who stole people's shakes, but he quickly morphed into someone known for sharing joy of shakes with his friends.
• 23:58
  Matt: Towards that end, he is occasionally portrayed as having birthday parties involving several McDonald Land characters, including those attending Grimace's birthday in 2023.
• 24:09
  Matt: Is that why the horror film comes in?
• 24:12
  Matt: I also love that the listen to this.
• 24:16
  Matt: I'm gonna hit you with another fact right away.
• 24:18
  Matt: Please, please.
• 24:19
  Matt: Because one of the questions is what is a grimace?
• 24:22
  Matt: That's the main question from Dairy King.
• 24:24
  Matt: And and uh Mike wants to know the biology.
• 24:27
  Matt: And here we go.
• 24:28
  Matt: Grimace is a large purple creature of indeterminate species.
• 24:33
  Matt: Okay, he's super lovable and in touch with his emotions.
• 24:39
  Matt: It's obvious his birth sign is Gemini.
• 24:43
  Matt: Again, yikes.
• 24:44
  Matt: This is yikes from the Mycpedia, as it should be called.
• 24:48
  Eric: A Gemini, you say.
• 24:50
  Matt: Yes.
• 24:51
  Matt: Uh okay.
• 24:52
  Matt: In the 70s and 80s, he was often seen sporting a mullet and braces.
• 24:58
  Matt: Shut the fuck up.
• 24:59
  Eric: No, he wasn't.
• 25:00
  Matt: I wasn't around.
• 25:02
  Matt: But let's in a 1999 episode of the animated series The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, he was portrayed as being from Grimace Island.
• 25:12
  Matt: He came from a large family, including his grandma Winky, his aunts Millie and Tilly, his brother King Gunga, and his Irish uncle, O'Grimacy.
• 25:29
  Matt: A green version.
• 25:31
  Matt: A green version of Grimace, who is associated with the Shamrock Shake?
• 25:37
  Eric: Of course.
• 25:38
  Eric: Okay, this explains so much.
• 25:40
  Eric: So Grimace got that Shamrock shake money.
• 25:44
  Eric: He's a legacy.
• 25:45
  Eric: Or sorry, Grimace is a legacy.
• 25:47
  Eric: Also, Matt, I think we might be getting.
• 25:50
  Eric: Okay, I'm starting Grandmother named Winky.
• 25:55
  Eric: These names.
• 25:56
  Matt: Millie and Tilly.
• 25:57
  Eric: Is Grimace a part of the Teletubby's universe?
• 26:02
  Matt: Ooh, Eric.
• 26:03
  Matt: Well, he listen, he loves to dance and skateboard and sing karaoke style.
• 26:08
  Eric: Bruh.
• 26:09
  Eric: Bruh, I think we just cracked this shit wide open.
• 26:12
  Matt: He could be a teletubby.
• 26:13
  Eric: I think Grimace is a teletubby that might have come out the oven too early.
• 26:19
  Eric: Because he has no teletub.
• 26:21
  Eric: No, no teletub, uh, no neck.
• 26:24
  Matt: Uh or and no, no, you know, ashen face.
• 26:29
  Eric: Yeah, yeah.
• 26:30
  Matt: He's deform, he's a deformed teletubby.
• 26:32
  Eric: Yeah, they they they brought him out before his screen fully developed.
• 26:36
  Eric: Yeah.
• 26:37
  Matt: And that's why he had to go to McDonald Land.
• 26:41
  Matt: Yeah, they sent him to work at McDonald Land, where he was he, you know, he's maladjusted, so that's why he's stealing people's shakes originally.
• 26:49
  Matt: I also love Before Ronald McDonald calmed him down.
• 26:53
  Eric: I also love the idea that when like Grimace first showed up on the scene and people beheld Grimace, they're like, Hey, hey there, stranger.
• 27:02
  Eric: Who who who are who are ye?
• 27:05
  Eric: And Grimace's answer apparently was I'm evil Grimace.
• 27:13
  Eric: I love that that they're like, no, we need to make sure everyone knows this is evil grimace, which does suggest the existence of a second grimace, of a base grimace.
• 27:26
  Eric: Oh evil grimace.
• 27:27
  Matt: So that's interesting.
• 27:29
  Matt: That's interesting.
• 27:30
  Matt: Because he I think one of the questions we we also got a question about um what would Grimace's like like shadow version be?
• 27:39
  Eric: Yeah.
• 27:40
  Matt: This I'm pretty sure we did, but I don't see it on my spreadsheet.
• 27:43
  Matt: So whoever asked that question, apologies.
• 27:45
  Matt: Uh, but I know it was asked.
• 27:47
  Matt: It was like, what is the what is the uh the inverse of of it?
• 27:52
  Eric: Well, that's what I'm gonna get for fans of the pod and more specifically fans of uh a little cultural touchstone known as Dragon Ball Z, Grimace's character arc follows alarmingly closely to that of Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z, because as you all know, Dragon Ball Z Piccolo originally shows up as evil king Piccolo, who wants to dominate the world.
• 28:16
  Eric: But when Goku, as a child, defeated young Piccolo, he was basically split in two, and from that point there were two Piccolo's.
• 28:24
  Eric: There was Piccolo, who was like the bad boy, and then there was Kami, who was good Piccolo.
• 28:29
  Eric: So now we've got Grimace and Evil Grimace.
• 28:34
  Eric: And eventually Piccolo became a good guy.
• 28:36
  Matt: Isn't that um I feel like you're describing the Mew Mewtwo plot?
• 28:42
  Eric: Oh yeah, oh 100%.
• 28:44
  Eric: I think I think Evil Grimace, yeah, was the was the Mewtwo to Grimace's Mew.
• 28:51
  Eric: Yeah.
• 28:52
  Eric: But this begs the question: what the fuck happened to to to if if who would is Grimace, formerly Evil Grimace, what happened to the other grimace?
• 29:04
  Eric: Where's the other grimace?
• 29:06
  Matt: And what is his name, I think, is part of the question that I can't find.
• 29:09
  Matt: I think is that not uh what what would his name be?
• 29:13
  Eric: I feel like it would just be Grimace.
• 29:15
  Matt: No, I'm sorry.
• 29:18
  Matt: Yeah, but that could be he could be talking about like, oh, I'm an evil grimace, as opposed to like a happy giggle.
• 29:26
  Matt: He might be the in he might be the shadow of happy giggle.
• 29:29
  Eric: Might be the shadow of happy giggle.
• 29:31
  Eric: Um, what is the opposite of a grimace?
• 29:33
  Matt: Because like a grimace is I thought it might be a happy grima, gri griggle.
• 29:36
  Eric: A happy giggle.
• 29:38
  Eric: Um, evil grimace, uh good good, good smile.
• 29:43
  Eric: Good smile.
• 29:44
  Eric: Happy smile.
• 29:45
  Eric: I'm just cool.
• 29:48
  Eric: I know.
• 29:48
  Eric: I spent it all on Billy Joel.
• 29:50
  Eric: I spent it all on Billy Joel.
• 29:52
  Eric: Good smile is what you came up with, huh?
• 29:54
  Eric: It is only now at the age of 33, I'm realizing the reason they probably went with the name Grimace at all is because McDonald's thing was serving up smiles, and then the bad guy comes along and is like, I'm grimace.
• 30:04
  Matt: He's a grimace.
• 30:05
  Matt: He's a grimace.
• 30:06
  Matt: But why wouldn't they just call him Father Frown and make him a priest?
• 30:12
  Eric: Yeah.
• 30:13
  Eric: And they didn't make him look terribly evil.
• 30:16
  Matt: No.
• 30:18
  Matt: First of all, I thought he was just a purple chicken nugget.
• 30:20
  Matt: That's what I thought he was.
• 30:22
  Matt: Oh, interesting.
• 30:24
  Matt: I thought he was a purple McNugget, but now he's just now I know he's not.
• 30:28
  Matt: I know he's a rejected teletech.
• 30:30
  Eric: Everybody wants the chicken nuggies, but no one wants to know how they're made.
• 30:38
  Eric: But we can firmly establish there is another grimace.
• 30:41
  Eric: They might not be named Grimace, but there is another.
• 30:43
  Matt: No, they're not named Grimace.
• 30:45
  Matt: I think they're specifically named something like Mayor McCheese.
• 30:49
  Matt: Mayor McCheese.
• 30:51
  Eric: Is he the is are they the related?
• 30:53
  Eric: I don't think so.
• 30:54
  Eric: I don't think no.
• 30:55
  Eric: No.
• 30:55
  Eric: Mayor McCheese, and in a sentence I didn't think I'd be saying in 2023, Mayor McCheese looks too human to be related to Grimace.
• 31:05
  Eric: And it's not, and uh Grimace has family, which means they do reproduce virtuous smirk smirk, virtuous smirk virtuous smirk?
• 31:14
  Eric: Love that.
• 31:16
  Eric: Virtuous smirk.
• 31:17
  Eric: Virtuous smirk.
• 31:19
  Matt: He could have been the original.
• 31:21
  Matt: Can you actually can you imagine a character just called Smirk?
• 31:25
  Matt: That sounds awesome.
• 31:26
  Eric: Smirk would fuck all Virtuous Smirk would be a good one.
• 31:29
  Matt: What up, ladies?
• 31:30
  Matt: I'm smirk.
• 31:31
  Eric: Yeah, you could call me Virtuous Smirk if you I it also just has that very that nice naming convention.
• 31:38
  Eric: Like we have Virtuous Smirk, I'm gonna need to get Thelonious Monk on the phone.
• 31:42
  Eric: I'm gonna need alternative J in this room immediately.
• 31:46
  Eric: The the possibility The possibilities are endless.
• 31:50
  Eric: And I think I have never in my life heard of a more bad the possibilities are endless.
• 32:00
  Eric: Mid yawn.
• 32:06
  Eric: You're like the fucking in-gen scientist who discovered how to clone Grimace.
• 32:12
  Eric: Possibility.
• 32:18
  Matt: I want you to know.
• 32:19
  Matt: I want you to know.
• 32:20
  Matt: I said it again with the intention of cutting the yawn version.
• 32:24
  Matt: Oh, it's no, here comes Poach, the yawn police.
• 32:29
  Eric: Matt was safely pulling off into the shoulder, and I'm just like, where the fuck do you think you're going?
• 32:35
  Eric: You've got to live in this.
• 32:36
  Eric: Ah, God.
• 32:37
  Eric: Oh, yeah.
• 32:39
  Eric: You thought so long about whether or not you could have ever thought if you should.
• 32:44
  Eric: Okay, now I'm yawning again.
• 32:47
  Matt: All right.
• 32:48
  Matt: Well, listen, that's offensive that you pointed out my flaws.
• 32:51
  Matt: And I think I think that's quite rude of you.
• 32:59
  Eric: On this, the day of Grimace's ascension.
• 33:02
  Matt: On this, what could be no one knows for sure what day is Grimace's birthday?
• 33:08
  Eric: What is it listed?
• 33:09
  Matt: It's just like two weeks of Grimace Grimace time.
• 33:12
  Eric: Do they you're on the you're on the Mikpedia?
• 33:15
  Eric: I'm on Wikpedia.
• 33:16
  Matt: Do they have Grimace's birthday objectively explained?
• 33:21
  Matt: No, they don't.
• 33:22
  Matt: They just say he's celebrating.
• 33:23
  Matt: Well, hold on.
• 33:24
  Eric: He's celebrating his birthday for two weeks, and we just don't even know what day it is.
• 33:29
  Matt: All right.
• 33:29
  Matt: There's an article for Grimace's birthday was a term applied mainly to a nostalgic 2023 campaign celebrating the birthday of Grimace.
• 33:39
  Matt: The dates are June 12th through July 9th of participating McDonald's.
• 33:44
  Matt: Okay.
• 33:44
  Matt: So we just have a window.
• 33:46
  Matt: Okay.
• 33:47
  Matt: Oh God.
• 33:47
  Matt: In lieu in lieu of gifts.
• 33:50
  Matt: In lieu of gifts for Grimace.
• 33:53
  Matt: McDonald's guests were asked to help drive a donation to a charity near and dear to Grimace's heart.
• 34:01
  Matt: What do you think that charity is, Eric?
• 34:03
  Eric: Oh, something with for the children.
• 34:06
  Eric: Oh, it's probably like the Ronald McDonald houses thing.
• 34:09
  Eric: Got it in one, Ronald McDonald's house charities.
• 34:12
  Eric: Oh yeah, with the the little the little change basket they have every under every window.
• 34:17
  Eric: Absolutely.
• 34:17
  Eric: I really need a phone number I can call.
• 34:20
  Eric: I need to call McDonald's.
• 34:22
  Eric: I need to call McDonald's.
• 34:23
  Eric: And say what?
• 34:24
  Eric: And do what?
• 34:25
  Eric: I don't think you're upset about this enough because we need I need what day is it?
• 34:29
  Eric: What we're celebrating his birthday and we oh hold fucking crate.
• 34:34
  Eric: What?
• 34:34
  Eric: Alright, I I hear I know what you're saying.
• 34:36
  Eric: I'll look.
• 34:37
  Eric: June 12th is a is a date I've gotten.
• 34:39
  Eric: Okay, it starts June 12th.
• 34:41
  Eric: I'm guessing that's his birthday.
• 34:43
  Eric: I need that to be his birthday.
• 34:45
  Matt: No, I think I think you're absolutely right.
• 34:47
  Matt: We need to we should know, you would think, definitively, what his birthday is.
• 34:54
  Matt: He's gonna catch a sleep.
• 34:55
  Matt: And I'm trying to find a phone number for McDonald's that might work.
• 34:59
  Eric: Yeah, I get plenty of they've unfortunately reached that that level where they don't need a phone number anymore.
• 35:05
  Eric: They just they just are.
• 35:06
  Matt: And we Yeah, I thought we could have a little moment like when we called the Hooters that one time.
• 35:11
  Eric: Oh, hold on.
• 35:12
  Eric: Uh there's McDonald's headquarters, Chicago.
• 35:15
  Eric: They're closed.
• 35:16
  Matt: I got an idea.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_01: What's your idea?
• 35:17
  Matt: We're just gonna call any old McDonald's.
• 35:19
  Matt: They should know.
• 35:20
  Matt: Oh, they should know.
• 35:21
  Matt: They should know.
• 35:33
  Eric: Come on.
• 35:37
  Matt: Pick up Ronald.
• 35:42
  Matt: Okay, we're oh fuck that McDonald's.
• 35:44
  Matt: We're calling another one.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: Are you kidding?
• 36:08
  Matt: This is number three.
• 36:13
  Eric: Good Lord.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_02: What the fuck?
• 36:22
  Matt: Hi, yeah.
• 36:22
  Matt: Quick question for you.
• 36:24
  Matt: Um, what day is Grimace's birthday?
• 36:29
  Eric: Sorry.
• 36:30
  Matt: Grimace's birthday.
• 36:31
  Matt: Uh you know what you're advertising with the uh with the milkshake there and the everything on the TikTok.
• 36:37
  Matt: What day is Grimace's birthday?
• 36:43
  Matt: Sure.
• 36:44
  Matt: Thank you.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_02: Hello?
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_02: Hello?
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_02: There might have just been a background portal.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they might have just been just been some background porving.
• 37:08
  Eric: Yes.
• 37:09
  Matt: Hi, yeah.
• 37:10
  Eric: I was just June 12th.
• 37:14
  Matt: June 12th?
• 37:15
  Matt: June 12th.
• 37:16
  Eric: Yes.
• 37:17
  Matt: Oh, great.
• 37:18
  Matt: Thank you so much.
• 37:19
  Matt: It's good to have that information in the back pocket.
• 37:21
  Matt: You have a great day.
• 37:23
  unknown: Thank you.
• 37:24
  Matt: So pissed at me right now.
• 37:26
  Eric: From God's lips to your ears.
• 37:28
  Eric: There you go.
• 37:29
  Eric: It's June 12th.
• 37:30
  Eric: June 12th.
• 37:31
  Eric: Happy very belated birthday, Grimace.
• 37:34
  Matt: Happy, very belated birthday, uh, Grimace there.
• 37:37
  Matt: And uh evil Grimace to use your Christian name.
• 37:40
  Eric: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:42
  Eric: To use your government name.
• 37:43
  Matt: Yes.
• 37:44
  Matt: Uh, Eric, I think I think we've answered these questions about Grimace.
• 37:49
  Matt: Um, I will say, against all oddities did respond with a question of he the Against All Oddities there was wondering if he had a special toilet made to fit him, or if his body was so efficient that it metabolizes everything, and then he gave it the 100% emoji.
• 38:12
  Eric: Uh I yeah, I don't think Grimace I uh I don't think Grimace poops.
• 38:18
  Eric: Uh there's really because Grimace seems to subsist entirely on a diet of milkshakes.
• 38:25
  Matt: It so far that's the only evidence we have.
• 38:27
  Eric: Which one uh Grimace living Grimace's best life.
• 38:32
  Eric: Yeah.
• 38:32
  Eric: Two, that doesn't really lend itself to a lot of solid waste.
• 38:38
  Eric: Um it's gotta go somewhere.
• 38:40
  Eric: Does it does it?
• 38:43
  Matt: What if he just converts it, as they're saying, to energy?
• 38:46
  Matt: Like he just become I mean, he is a blob.
• 38:49
  Matt: Like, what if he's just radiating his maybe that's his biology to speak to Mike's question?
• 38:55
  Matt: Maybe he is some sort of radioactive entity that is able to convert matter without waste.
• 39:04
  Eric: E equals MC Donald squared.
• 39:09
  Eric: Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice.
• 39:15
  Eric: Uh or in this case, E equals MC Shakespeare McShake squared.
• 39:20
  Eric: Uh MC Shakespeare DJ name.
• 39:23
  Eric: DJ pick that up, just laid that down on the ground for you, pick it up at your leisure.
• 39:28
  Eric: Uh also consider that Grimace's hair might also like the purple fuzz, that might be how Grimace excretes.
• 39:37
  Eric: It could be.
• 39:38
  Eric: That could because Grima Grimace Grimace drinks shake.
• 39:41
  Eric: All Grimace do is look at they phone, eat cold shake, and grow hair.
• 39:48
  unknown: Okay.
• 39:48
  Matt: Okay.
• 39:49
  Matt: I'm not sure where you're getting that itinerary, but I'm with you.
• 39:53
  Eric: Yeah.
• 39:53
  Matt: I'm with you.
• 39:55
  Matt: So and then he when the then the hair is his poop.
• 39:57
  Eric: Is that what the hair, the hair is the poop.
• 39:59
  Eric: Uh the hair is the poop.
• 40:01
  Eric: Or if we want to think of very slow sweat.
• 40:05
  Eric: I see.
• 40:06
  Eric: I see.
• 40:07
  Eric: Interesting.
• 40:07
  Matt: Eric, uh, once again, your mind is a wonderland.
• 40:12
  Eric: Veritable playground.
• 40:14
  Eric: God, what happens up there?
• 40:15
  Eric: I wonder.
• 40:16
  Eric: Someone did ask uh what color uh this was.
• 40:19
  Eric: Oh, hey, wow, it's Mike from the Neatcast.
• 40:21
  Eric: Hey Mike, uh, what color is Grimace's blood?
• 40:24
  Matt: Yes.
• 40:25
  Matt: He he did ask, and then how would a grimace in the wild mate, of course, was the other part.
• 40:30
  Matt: Mike's question.
• 40:31
  Matt: And I think his blood is gotta be purple.
• 40:35
  Eric: It's got like it's gotta be.
• 40:36
  Eric: Like, we can't even get cute about it.
• 40:38
  Matt: Like we can't, it's just gotta be.
• 40:41
  Matt: Imagine if you cut open a grimace, and what comes out of a grimace is red or yellow or any other Resident Evil game.
• 40:51
  Eric: So upsetting.
• 40:52
  Eric: I like to think the the inside of a grimace, grimaces have grimaces are basically like an avocado.
• 40:57
  Eric: They have a single bone, it's the pit inside of their tongue.
• 41:02
  Eric: That's and like once they die, I I feel like that's how they they made like a grimace die.
• 41:08
  Eric: The avocado gets a little too uh-oh.
• 41:12
  Eric: Hold on.
• 41:13
  Eric: My my laptop's about to die.
• 41:14
  Eric: One second.
• 41:15
  Eric: Oh shit.
• 41:17
  Matt: Folks, this might become a very interesting episode.
• 41:21
  Matt: Eric has thought of everything except the crucial moment of plugging in his laptop.
• 41:31
  Matt: And now he has left me alone.
• 41:34
  Matt: Will this content be left in?
• 41:36
  Matt: He's coming back.
• 41:39
  Matt: He's still here.
• 41:41
  Matt: He's rushing underneath his computer.
• 41:43
  unknown: Oh, there it is.
• 41:44
  Matt: He's plugged it in.
• 41:46
  Matt: He hasn't surfaced yet.
• 41:50
  Matt: Much like a unfortunate submarine of recent notes.
• 41:55
  Matt: He has not surfaced.
• 41:57
  Eric: Oh, there we go.
• 41:58
  Eric: This one's the one.
• 42:01
  Matt: This one's the one.
• 42:02
  Matt: What are you doing?
• 42:04
  Eric: Stay with me.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_02: Stay with me.
• 42:09
  Matt: Plug it in, plug it in, baby.
• 42:11
  Matt: And we're good.
• 42:14
  Matt: Okay.
• 42:15
  Matt: Oh wow.
• 42:16
  Matt: What talk about an adrenaline rush?
• 42:19
  unknown: Whew!
• 42:20
  Matt: And I'm just happy I could be here for it, folks.
• 42:23
  Matt: I'm just happy.
• 42:24
  Matt: Oh yeah, yeah.
• 42:25
  Eric: Where was I?
• 42:26
  Eric: God on the show.
• 42:26
  Eric: Oh, right.
• 42:27
  Eric: So when the the when the avoc when the grimace avocado, once it eventually gets a little they they if they don't drink shakes for long enough, they start to shrivel up like an avocado and they die.
• 42:38
  Eric: And then they just kind of peel away, and then the the little pit in there, yeah, the baby grimace.
• 42:43
  Eric: Baby grimace.
• 42:45
  Eric: Baby grimace.
• 42:46
  Eric: Wow, Eric.
• 42:47
  Matt: Yep.
• 42:48
  Matt: Once again, you just you just are connected to a different plane than the rest of us.
• 42:55
  Matt: My third eye is wide open.
• 42:58
  Matt: It better be.
• 43:00
  Matt: That's all I gotta say.
• 43:01
  Matt: It better be.
• 43:01
  Matt: Because otherwise, where where are some of the things you say coming from?
• 43:05
  Matt: I know.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: Man, they they're state legalized weed and they spent the whole next episode talking about Grimace and Billy Joel.
• 43:12
  Matt: Yeah, what else do you need?
• 43:14
  Matt: Now, I do think we've kind of hit um hit the the the Grimace episode box.
• 43:22
  Matt: Don't you?
• 43:23
  Eric: Oh, we've oh, it has been checked.
• 43:25
  Eric: Let's take the first exit off the bit highway, shall we?
• 43:28
  Matt: I think we shall.
• 43:29
  Matt: I think we've answered the various questions and we thank you all for them.
• 43:34
  Matt: And on that note, Eric, I think we it is already time to exit to an important circle back follow up.
• 43:43
  Matt: Oh, yeah.
• 43:44
  Matt: Uh we had a collection of questions there.
• 43:46
  Matt: We kind of bundled them all together, but uh it's time for the closing segment because Eric, June is over.
• 43:54
  Matt: June is over.
• 43:56
  Matt: The first six months, the first half of the year.
• 44:00
  Eric: In a flash.
• 44:02
  Matt: And this year we started a beautiful new tradition of creating our own bingo cards for the year for the 2023 year.
• 44:14
  Matt: And I think it's time, Eric, that we check in on those bingo cards, see how we're doing.
• 44:19
  Matt: Call those numbers.
• 44:21
  Matt: All right.
• 44:21
  Matt: So, how do you want to do this, Eric?
• 44:23
  Matt: You want to go through my card and then your card?
• 44:25
  Matt: Yeah, yeah.
• 44:26
  Eric: And then we can we can see if we both and there, yeah.
• 44:29
  Matt: Okay, I'm gonna start.
• 44:31
  Matt: I'm gonna start top left, go down.
• 44:34
  Matt: So and you can see these on our Instagram, folks, if you wish to, uh, and see how we're doing.
• 44:42
  Matt: Um the first square I have is Tony Bennett dies.
• 44:46
  Matt: Still kicking.
• 44:47
  Matt: He's still kicking.
• 44:48
  Matt: That one can't be marked off.
• 44:50
  Matt: Fist fight in Congress.
• 44:53
  Matt: Pretty sure.
• 44:54
  Matt: I think you tell me what's on your card, too, by the way.
• 44:59
  Matt: We can just check them off as we go.
• 45:00
  Eric: Yeah, I have I have uh I'm pretty sure I have fist fight in Congress on here.
• 45:05
  Eric: Yep, I do have fist fight in Congress.
• 45:06
  Eric: I'm pretty sure that happened.
• 45:08
  Eric: I think there was a scuffle in Congress, was there not?
• 45:11
  Matt: I don't think there was a fist fight.
• 45:13
  Matt: I mean, other not this year.
• 45:15
  Eric: Okay, no.
• 45:15
  Eric: Our most recent one was 2017.
• 45:17
  Eric: So no fistfights in Congress yet.
• 45:19
  Matt: Yeah, so it hasn't happened yet.
• 45:21
  Matt: The fist fight has not happened yet.
• 45:23
  Matt: Um, next on my list is major casual dining chain will close.
• 45:29
  Eric: Also on mine.
• 45:30
  Eric: It's if I think it's one of the only ones where we both had it in the same spot.
• 45:35
  Matt: I let's see.
• 45:36
  Matt: Yes, it is in the same spot.
• 45:38
  Matt: Has it happened?
• 45:40
  Matt: I don't think so.
• 45:41
  Matt: Nothing has been newsworthy enough that I have heard heard, oh, did you hear Jimmy Johns is closing?
• 45:49
  Matt: You know what I mean?
• 45:50
  Eric: Yeah, um, let's see.
• 45:52
  Eric: No, yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't look like any major chains have closed.
• 45:56
  Eric: And folks, of course, as you're listening to this, if we're like, oh, there's an event, and you're like, uh, it has, please send us that info.
• 46:03
  Matt: But absolutely, we need to know what's happening in the world.
• 46:07
  Matt: Absolutely.
• 46:08
  Matt: So, but for right now, we we have to leave that one, I think.
• 46:10
  Eric: Here, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 46:12
  Matt: The next on my list is an Amanda Bynes tell all.
• 46:16
  Matt: Yep.
• 46:17
  Eric: I don't, I don't think that's happened, right?
• 46:21
  Eric: Nope.
• 46:21
  Eric: Um, but I am okay, good for her.
• 46:24
  Eric: Looks like Amanda Bynes said she she recently checked out of uh a psychiatric facility and is looking for a fresh start after uh she's got a plan in place for recovery.
• 46:33
  Eric: Good on you, Amanda.
• 46:34
  Eric: Wishing you well.
• 46:36
  Eric: Absolutely.
• 46:37
  Matt: I think the so Amanda's doing great.
• 46:40
  Matt: Well, she's doing all right.
• 46:43
  Matt: Under that, I have wholesome celebrity cancellation.
• 46:49
  Eric: We've gotta there.
• 46:50
  Matt: Now, our initial prediction here was we said on air that Zachary Levi canceled.
• 46:58
  Matt: But the thing about that is he wasn't really.
• 47:01
  Matt: He kind of got away with it.
• 47:03
  Matt: Uh, which being an anti-vax piece of shit.
• 47:07
  Matt: But like his movie still came out, did bad, but still came out.
• 47:10
  Matt: And the, you know, I don't think people really care.
• 47:14
  Matt: But a certain tongue-sucking Dalai Lama.
• 47:19
  Matt: Oh, I think he's gonna have a hard time bouncing back.
• 47:24
  Eric: That he I I can tell you this much amongst Buddhist communities, he's already bounced back.
• 47:30
  Eric: He's already bounced back.
• 47:31
  Eric: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 47:34
  Eric: Really?
• 47:34
  Eric: Yeah, because the the the mom of the kid and the kid themselves were interviewed and they were like, oh no, that wasn't weird for uh that that was just they didn't care.
• 47:44
  Eric: So everyone's like, oh.
• 47:45
  Matt: So everyone's just letting the Dalai Lama get away with asking kids to suck his tongue, huh?
• 47:51
  Matt: Yeah, you know.
• 47:52
  Matt: So we can't call him canceled?
• 47:53
  Eric: I don't think we can call him canceled.
• 47:55
  Eric: He's still So who is canceled?
• 47:57
  Eric: Anyone?
• 47:57
  Eric: Someone had to get canceled.
• 48:00
  Matt: Celebrities who this is from Ranker.
• 48:02
  Eric: Okay.
• 48:02
  Matt: Celebrities who were canceled for bad behavior.
• 48:06
  Matt: Number one on the list right now is Tiffany Haddish.
• 48:09
  Matt: Haven't heard anything about this.
• 48:12
  Matt: What was she allegedly canceled for?
• 48:15
  Matt: I don't think anything.
• 48:16
  Eric: No, and they gotta be wholesome.
• 48:18
  Eric: That's the that's kind of that is the thing.
• 48:20
  Matt: They needed to be wholesome.
• 48:21
  Matt: Not that Timothy Tiffany Haddish is not.
• 48:24
  Eric: Um, but why do I feel like there's a big one we're we're we're missing?
• 48:28
  Matt: Like it's so big that we we we well force Ezra Ezra Miller was canceled previous to 2022.
• 48:36
  Eric: Okay, that don't count.
• 48:37
  Matt: What about Rick and Morty, dude?
• 48:40
  Eric: Oh, Justin Royland?
• 48:42
  Eric: Yeah, voice.
• 48:44
  Matt: I don't think he was wholesome.
• 48:45
  Eric: I wasn't necessarily call him a lot of things, wholesome not being one of them.
• 48:50
  Matt: We were we were focused on like a Mr.
• 48:52
  Matt: Rogers Bill Messetti kind of person.
• 48:56
  Matt: And I don't think we've got that yet.
• 48:58
  Matt: I don't think we can mark it off.
• 48:59
  Matt: No, not yet.
• 49:00
  Matt: Not yet.
• 49:00
  Matt: I don't think so.
• 49:01
  Matt: So then I'm gonna move on to Little Shop Live announced, meaning like uh the live TV adaptation.
• 49:10
  Matt: That has not happened.
• 49:11
  Eric: Nope.
• 49:12
  Matt: I don't believe a politician has been arrested on live TV.
• 49:16
  Eric: Uh Trump was indicted and and arrested, but he wasn't like in cuffs or anything.
• 49:23
  Eric: Like he went into a building and then left the building.
• 49:27
  Eric: It wasn't on live power.
• 49:29
  Eric: Yeah, that's it.
• 49:30
  Matt: He was so close.
• 49:33
  Matt: Have we had an insane clown posse arrest?
• 49:37
  Eric: Let's see how the boys are doing.
• 49:39
  Eric: ICP arrest.
• 49:42
  Eric: Ooh, nope, that's 98.
• 49:45
  Eric: Yeah, it doesn't look like any of the members of Insane Clown Posse have been arrested recently.
• 49:51
  Matt: Uh perhaps this is something our friends at the Neatcast can help with.
• 49:55
  Matt: Has there been a notable Bigfoot incident?
• 50:00
  Matt: I don't think so.
• 50:01
  Eric: Because again, they're announcing a Harry and the Hendersons reboot.
• 50:05
  Matt: No.
• 50:05
  Matt: When well when we talked about this originally, we said like it has to be like mainstream NBC nightly news level.
• 50:13
  Eric: I I need a government official giving a statement to reporters.
• 50:17
  Matt: I agree.
• 50:17
  Matt: And I don't think that's happened.
• 50:19
  Matt: We would have known about it.
• 50:20
  Eric: Yeah.
• 50:20
  Matt: I think.
• 50:21
  Matt: So that leads me to the end of my second column.
• 50:25
  Matt: Pete Davidson dates a new smoke show.
• 50:29
  Matt: Might as well have been the free space.
• 50:33
  Matt: Because he's currently dating Chase Suey.
• 50:39
  Matt: I I don't know if that's how you say this person's name.
• 50:43
  Matt: But that, you know, definitely qualifies as a smoke show, as does oh yeah, all of his uh Oh, damn it, Matt.
• 50:52
  Eric: They've been dating since December 2022.
• 50:56
  Matt: Oh no, I thought it was March.
• 50:58
  Matt: Nope.
• 50:59
  Matt: Okay, so we can't mark it yet.
• 51:01
  Matt: He hasn't dated a new smoke show.
• 51:03
  Eric: Nope.
• 51:04
  Eric: Nope.
• 51:04
  Eric: Wishing them nothing but happiness in in their relationship.
• 51:08
  Eric: May they both thrive.
• 51:09
  Matt: Now I'm gonna mark this one in red because it not only hasn't happened, it can't.
• 51:15
  Matt: It can't happen.
• 51:17
  Eric: Do we have the same one again?
• 51:19
  Eric: Oh, The Simpsons announce the end?
• 51:21
  Matt: Yes.
• 51:21
  Eric: No, but I'm just looking at yours to keep track along.
• 51:24
  Matt: Oh, nice.
• 51:24
  Matt: The Simpsons announces the end.
• 51:26
  Matt: The Simpsons, I believe, has already been renewed for two seasons.
• 51:30
  Matt: And also, I heard a rumor that the new episodes of The Simpsons are good again.
• 51:37
  Matt: Oh, good.
• 51:38
  Matt: I heard a rumor.
• 51:39
  Matt: I heard a rumor it's good.
• 51:40
  Matt: Now that being said, that being said, I haven't turned it on yet to see.
• 51:44
  Matt: What about an alien contact slash acknowledgement?
• 51:48
  Eric: So this actually, yes.
• 51:51
  Matt: I mean, there has been a lot of government statements surrounding UFOs.
• 52:00
  Eric: This is the frustration point because they have acknowledged the existence of UFOs in that they have acknowledged they're like, these are things that we did not make and we do not know where they are from.
• 52:13
  Eric: That is not the same as acknowledging aliens.
• 52:16
  Eric: No, no, it is not.
• 52:18
  Eric: And I cannot count that as such.
• 52:20
  Matt: I I respect it breaks my heart.
• 52:24
  Matt: Speaking of breaking our heart, now we get to what was a free space on a typical bingo card, but is our goal space.
• 52:32
  Matt: Your Daft reaches the top five on good pods.
• 52:36
  Matt: And I'll tell you, folks.
• 52:38
  Eric: Well, actually, uh yeah, it hasn't happened yet, but it maybe it did.
• 52:42
  Eric: Who can say?
• 52:42
  Eric: Maybe you should all go to good pods right now.
• 52:45
  Eric: Check us out, drop some likes.
• 52:48
  Matt: Drop some likes, drop some listens.
• 52:50
  Matt: That like and subscribe button.
• 52:52
  Matt: Please do.
• 52:53
  Matt: Please do.
• 52:54
  Matt: And tell your friends too.
• 52:55
  Matt: But we just said top five.
• 52:58
  Matt: I believe we said overall, but in a later episode said we would count the top five comedy chart as well.
• 53:06
  Matt: We are the all-time leading pop culture chart podcast for reasons not known to us.
• 53:14
  Eric: Listen to our cold open again and tell me we are not the masters of pop culture.
• 53:19
  Eric: Play, play the tape back and tell me that we're not hip.
• 53:23
  Eric: Play us out, BJ.
• 53:24
  Matt: Not yet.
• 53:25
  Matt: We're not ready for that.
• 53:26
  Matt: Keenan leaves SNL.
• 53:28
  Matt: He has not said as much, I don't think.
• 53:32
  Matt: I think he said he wanted to go through the 50th season, I think.
• 53:37
  Matt: But I don't think he's announced the departure.
• 53:39
  Eric: Uh nor I, yeah.
• 53:40
  Eric: I think he's still going, still going strong.
• 53:43
  Matt: What about a celebrity redemption arc, Eric?
• 53:46
  Eric: That's what I'm desperately googling right now.
• 53:50
  Eric: Who's been redeemed?
• 53:52
  Eric: Damn, I was hoping I could say the Dixie chicks, now known just as the chicks.
• 53:56
  Eric: Just the chicks, yeah.
• 53:57
  Eric: Were canceled by very angry people who were very upset that the chicks were not about, you know, war.
• 54:05
  Eric: They got canceled.
• 54:06
  Eric: But they but the the chicks have been doing great.
• 54:08
  Matt: The chick the chicks have been been thriving, it seems I didn't yeah, I don't think the chicks were ever canceled, Eric.
• 54:13
  Eric: They well, no, they're they're it it was real hard for them for like a good decade or so uh after certain comments at a 2004.
• 54:22
  Matt: Yeah, but I feel like they've been good for a bit.
• 54:24
  Eric: Oh, yeah, they've always been good.
• 54:25
  Eric: They're their chicks, they're they're fucking amazing.
• 54:27
  Matt: No, no, no, no.
• 54:28
  Matt: I mean like they've been okay uh on the r reputation.
• 54:33
  Eric: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 54:35
  Eric: The but maybe the ones the the ones who matter don't mind, and the ones who mind don't matter and all that.
• 54:41
  Matt: Yeah, I don't think so.
• 54:42
  Matt: So now next we have on my list anyway, try to make NFTs a thing again under a different name.
• 54:53
  Matt: Has that taken place?
• 54:55
  Matt: Let's see.
• 54:56
  Matt: I don't I mean, no, we would know, right?
• 54:59
  Matt: Like, I don't think there's any let's see to be Googled.
• 55:02
  Matt: Like, has there been something that's basically NFTs again?
• 55:08
  Matt: And I don't think so.
• 55:09
  Matt: No, not yet.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_01: Never too late.
• 55:12
  Matt: It's never too late.
• 55:13
  Matt: Now, next on my list, we have Yad celebrity guest, and I do believe that guest a green marker for me.
• 55:22
  Matt: We had a two-time Emmy winner on the show.
• 55:26
  Matt: Two Emmys in Talent Booker Anthony Conway.
• 55:30
  Matt: Go listen to the last episode.
• 55:31
  Eric: Anthony Conway, two-time Emmys.
• 55:33
  Matt: I'm marking that off as good to go for me.
• 55:37
  Eric: Oh, yeah, we're we're solid.
• 55:39
  Matt: Okay, then I'm marking that off.
• 55:42
  Matt: Let's see.
• 55:43
  Matt: The what what do I have next on my AI generated art imprisonment?
• 55:48
  Matt: I don't think that's happened.
• 55:49
  Matt: There was I know there was a story about, you know, a couple stories actually about people like submitting AI art to a competition.
• 55:59
  Matt: Uh yes.
• 56:01
  Matt: Because there's no rules against it.
• 56:02
  Matt: But nobody's been put in prison, I don't think.
• 56:04
  Eric: Nope.
• 56:05
  Eric: No one's no one's gone to jail for uh having too many fingies.
• 56:08
  Matt: Now, ha the next question or the next uh square I've got is will and Jada get divorced.
• 56:14
  Matt: This hasn't happened.
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 56:16
  Matt: This hasn't happened.
• 56:18
  Matt: Nor has an apple bottom jeans comeback taken place.
• 56:22
  Matt: You can't come back if you never went away, baby.
• 56:27
  Matt: Absolutely.
• 56:28
  Matt: So let's uh let's see.
• 56:31
  Matt: The next question, I I don't think this has taken place, but let me just make sure.
• 56:37
  Matt: The next thing I think Cannon have another kid.
• 56:40
  Matt: Nick Cannon having another child there.
• 56:44
  Matt: I don't think so.
• 56:46
  Matt: No, I do have all of his kids here.
• 56:49
  Matt: With you in the studio?
• 56:50
  Matt: They're right here in the studio.
• 56:52
  Matt: Halo Marie Cannon was born December 14th, 2022.
• 57:00
  Matt: So that is his 12th child, uh, the second by Alyssa Scott.
• 57:08
  Matt: Um there were one, two, three, four other canons in between in betwixt Zen S Canon and Halo Marie Canon, the kids he had with Alyssa Scott there.
• 57:21
  Matt: Um I don't believe there's been any talk of him expecting a 13th kid yet.
• 57:29
  Matt: Yet.
• 57:30
  Matt: He's got half a half a thing, half a year left.
• 57:33
  Matt: Recall on Greek yogurt, Eric.
• 57:35
  Eric: Oh, Matt.
• 57:36
  Eric: Oh, sorry, what's this?
• 57:36
  Eric: Coming in hot off the press.
• 57:40
  Eric: Recall alert, Greek yogurt recalled over undeclared egg products.
• 57:45
  Eric: Written April 27, 2023.
• 57:48
  Eric: Giving it a green, baby.
• 57:49
  Eric: Where are we?
• 57:50
  Eric: Alanos Real Greek is recalling vanilla bean Greek yogurt in four-ounce cups sold in Costco because it might contain undeclared eggs.
• 57:59
  Eric: What's that mean?
• 58:00
  Eric: Two in a row for me.
• 58:02
  Eric: For another episode.
• 58:04
  Matt: I I need in that line now, I need fist fight in Congress, politician rested on live TV, and alien contact acknowledgement in a row.
• 58:12
  Matt: That's gonna be a tough row to complete.
• 58:14
  Matt: But nevertheless, the next episode.
• 58:17
  Matt: Why do I keep saying anything that's other than what it is?
• 58:21
  Matt: What's wrong with me?
• 58:22
  Matt: The next little grimace square.
• 58:24
  Matt: Major sports team moves.
• 58:28
  Matt: Now, basically, the the transition of the Oakland A's from Oakland to Las Vegas is basically complete, but it hasn't actually happened yet.
• 58:40
  Matt: It isn't a hundred percent official, I don't think.
• 58:43
  Matt: Let me double check.
• 58:44
  Matt: I don't think it's officially going to take place yet.
• 58:48
  Matt: Yeah, no, the Oakland A's are probably moving to Las Vegas, but it hasn't been confirmed yet.
• 58:56
  Matt: Okay.
• 58:57
  Matt: Has there been I don't think there's been any other major sports team announcing that they're moving?
• 59:02
  Matt: No, not that I'm aware of.
• 59:05
  Matt: And then I want to uh I'm looking down for any joint chicken war press conference, meaning a chicken war marketing thing between two separate blur brands together.
• 59:17
  Matt: I I can't find a trace of it.
• 59:19
  Eric: This next one, this is a big, well, let's see how this shakes out.
• 59:24
  Matt: Yes, my last one on my card is Twitter dies or is rebranded.
• 59:30
  Matt: It hasn't been rebranded.
• 59:32
  Matt: Nope.
• 59:33
  Matt: You could consider it dead in a way.
• 59:36
  Matt: A lot of its uh spirit has died, uh, but it itself is is uh against all odds still there.
• 59:44
  Eric: And they they did like I think this past week announce that they were yesterday, yeah, yesterday, limiting how many tweets unverified accounts could view.
• 59:54
  Matt: Yeah, all of a sudden I saw I hit a limit or whatever.
• 59:58
  Matt: I got this, I Googled the error, saw the story, tweeted about Elon Musk.
• 1:00:04
  Matt: What an idiot.
• 1:00:05
  Matt: I mean, how to kill a brand.
• 1:00:07
  Matt: Like, does he he wants to kill this company?
• 1:00:10
  Eric: Oh, yeah, he's gonna try to make it a subscription-based service and then it's gonna tank.
• 1:00:14
  Matt: Yeah, I mean, if he does that, then yeah, like totally it's done.
• 1:00:17
  Matt: Like, I'm gone.
• 1:00:19
  Matt: So that's mine.
• 1:00:21
  Matt: Yep.
• 1:00:21
  Matt: And as part of this episode's photos, we'll put up the updated cards onto the uh Instagram there.
• 1:00:27
  Matt: So go check them out.
• 1:00:28
  Matt: Eric, we got to look at your list.
• 1:00:30
  Eric: And I'll just address the ones that were not on your list.
• 1:00:34
  Eric: So yeah, go down top left corner.
• 1:00:37
  Eric: Let's see, top left corner, see politician arrested live, nope, alien contact, maybe nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
• 1:00:46
  Eric: I'm if I'm saying nope, it means we've already covered it.
• 1:00:48
  Matt: Yeah, but you've already you've already wrong, because we did have a celebrity guest, so I'm giving you a green there.
• 1:00:56
  Matt: Notable Bigfoot incident, no, no, Simpsons, no, no, recall and Greek yoga.
• 1:01:03
  Matt: Yes.
• 1:01:04
  Eric: Okay, okay.
• 1:01:05
  Eric: Now you're getting three more in this fucking column.
• 1:01:08
  Eric: Oh, wait.
• 1:01:09
  Eric: You can't.
• 1:01:09
  Eric: Oh, of course.
• 1:01:10
  Matt: Because Simpsons is blocking you.
• 1:01:12
  Matt: Damn.
• 1:01:13
  Matt: You can't.
• 1:01:13
  Matt: So again, you'll see these on the Instagram for visual references.
• 1:01:18
  Matt: In your A column, you've got AI generated art.
• 1:01:22
  Eric: Nope.
• 1:01:22
  Eric: Uh Pete Davidson New Smoke Show.
• 1:01:24
  Eric: Nope.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_02: Ya Daft reaches top five, not good ponds.
• 1:01:28
  SPEAKER_02: Nope.
• 1:01:28
  Eric: Yeah.
• 1:01:29
  Eric: Amanda Bynes tell all, nope.
• 1:01:31
  Eric: Oh, here we go.
• 1:01:32
  Eric: Uh, this is one new one.
• 1:01:34
  Eric: JFK conspiracy revelations.
• 1:01:37
  Eric: Trump has been threatening to release the JFK files.
• 1:01:42
  Eric: No.
• 1:01:42
  Matt: Trump ain't releasing shit from his bathroom files.
• 1:01:46
  Matt: No.
• 1:01:46
  Matt: And no, we we are not interested in that stinkiness.
• 1:01:50
  Matt: I mean, we are.
• 1:01:50
  Matt: We are interested in it.
• 1:01:52
  Matt: But no, as far as I can tell, and I would know, I uh I don't believe there's been any kind of notable disclosure.
• 1:02:00
  Matt: We can't count it.
• 1:02:01
  Eric: We've got Keenan leaves SNL.
• 1:02:04
  Eric: No, Morgan Freeman dies.
• 1:02:06
  Eric: Thankfully, no.
• 1:02:07
  Eric: No.
• 1:02:08
  Eric: Trip pants make a comeback.
• 1:02:10
  Eric: Now, granted, as of the time of this podcast, you can't trip trip is still selling trip pants, but that's not a comeback.
• 1:02:19
  Eric: I need a comeback.
• 1:02:20
  Matt: You need a comeback.
• 1:02:22
  Matt: And they didn't if you're not giving me apple bottom jeans, then I can't give you trip pants.
• 1:02:28
  Eric: For sure.
• 1:02:29
  Eric: Uh insane clown posse arrest.
• 1:02:32
  Matt: No.
• 1:02:32
  Matt: No.
• 1:02:33
  Eric: I just realized there's a typo there.
• 1:02:35
  Eric: My bingo card it says insane clothes posse.
• 1:02:37
  Matt: It says that on mine as well.
• 1:02:39
  Matt: Healy's comeback.
• 1:02:41
  Eric: No.
• 1:02:41
  Eric: As of yet, no.
• 1:02:43
  Eric: I don't well.
• 1:02:44
  Eric: I'm sure they're still being sold.
• 1:02:47
  Eric: I I think this is gonna be an Apple uh an Apple Bottom trips situation.
• 1:02:51
  Eric: Apple bottom trips, one of my many DJ names.
• 1:02:55
  Matt: Have you here's a question.
• 1:02:57
  Matt: Since January 1st, 2023, have you seen a single Healy in the wild?
• 1:03:04
  Matt: No.
• 1:03:05
  Matt: Neither have I.
• 1:03:06
  Matt: Neither have I.
• 1:03:07
  Eric: So that means not a comeback.
• 1:03:09
  Eric: Uh for my T column, war in Ukraine will end.
• 1:03:15
  Eric: Nope.
• 1:03:15
  Eric: Nope.
• 1:03:16
  Matt: We said this at the time.
• 1:03:18
  Matt: Feel like it's very much gonna be the opposite.
• 1:03:20
  Eric: There was an almost coup that had promise, but that didn't uh quite pan out the way uh the way we envisioned here on the podcast.
• 1:03:29
  Eric: Absolutely.
• 1:03:30
  Eric: Twitter Dyser is rebranded.
• 1:03:31
  Eric: Nope.
• 1:03:32
  Eric: Legalized dueling effort.
• 1:03:35
  Matt: I don't, I don't know.
• 1:03:37
  Matt: Let's give it a quick Google, but I don't think so.
• 1:03:40
  Matt: You gotta no, just a bunch of Reddit posts about how it should be legal.
• 1:03:46
  Eric: Oh, okay.
• 1:03:46
  Eric: Well, in Oregon, it's now mind you, these are the only states that call out mutual combat specifically in their laws.
• 1:03:56
  Eric: Uh, because everywhere else it's just assumed no, you can't legally murder each other.
• 1:04:00
  Eric: Uh Oregon, they explicitly state it's illegal.
• 1:04:05
  Eric: Texas and Washington, legal.
• 1:04:08
  Eric: Really?
• 1:04:09
  Eric: Yep.
• 1:04:10
  Eric: Damn.
• 1:04:10
  Eric: Yeah, mutual combat is legal in Texas.
• 1:04:13
  Eric: They can engage in a people can engage in a consensual fight without facing criminal charges as long as no deadly weapons are used.
• 1:04:20
  Eric: Oh, well that doesn't know.
• 1:04:23
  Eric: I I I I need I want need to have skin in the game.
• 1:04:27
  Eric: Yeah, no, that's that does not account.
• 1:04:29
  Eric: All right, so that's so so that's a no unlegalized dueling.
• 1:04:32
  Eric: Speaking of which, fist fight in Congress.
• 1:04:35
  Eric: Nope.
• 1:04:35
  Eric: Uh oh, here we go.
• 1:04:38
  Eric: Last one on my bingo card.
• 1:04:40
  Eric: 98 degrees reunited.
• 1:04:44
  Eric: It's gonna be a no.
• 1:04:45
  Matt: I gave it a check.
• 1:04:46
  Matt: Dang.
• 1:04:47
  Matt: The uh they have not reunited in 2023, uh, as of yet.
• 1:04:53
  Matt: So I'm afraid we can't we can't give it to you, Eric.
• 1:04:57
  Matt: Now, just so those are our two bingo cards.
• 1:05:03
  Matt: Okay, the ones we published on the thing.
• 1:05:06
  Matt: I think though, there there were some extras that we didn't include on our cards.
• 1:05:13
  Matt: The first one, I'm looking at your rejects, um, have been covered everywhere except for ragtime movie announced.
• 1:05:22
  Matt: Not to my knowledge, no.
• 1:05:25
  Matt: Nope.
• 1:05:26
  Matt: You also had Kate McKinnon named the late late show host.
• 1:05:31
  Matt: And in fact, the late late show itself is not gonna exist anymore after James Corden.
• 1:05:37
  Matt: So that cool, cool, great.
• 1:05:39
  Eric: Ruined that for us too.
• 1:05:40
  Eric: Awesome.
• 1:05:41
  Matt: Grew it, he ruined it for everybody, yes.
• 1:05:44
  Matt: This next one here is about Leo DiCaprio breaks up with another 25 year old.
• 1:05:50
  Matt: Now, the situation is as follows.
• 1:05:54
  Matt: I'm trying right now to find a chronicle of Leonardo DiCaprio.
• 1:06:00
  Matt: Girlfriends.
• 1:06:00
  Matt: I know it's possible, and I'm gonna find it.
• 1:06:04
  Matt: Because there's the rumor, I do remember the rumor of him dating like a 19-year-old.
• 1:06:09
  Eric: He's apparently currently dating the 19-year-old Israeli model Eden Palani.
• 1:06:14
  Matt: Okay.
• 1:06:15
  Eric: But I think there it says they're still together.
• 1:06:18
  Matt: Yes, and I'm reading an article that says his dating timeline.
• 1:06:24
  Matt: It doesn't look like he has bro had an official relationship end in 2023 yet.
• 1:06:31
  Matt: And even if he did, uh she's 19 and not 25.
• 1:06:36
  Matt: So we did specifically say it's to break up with a 25-year-old.
• 1:06:40
  Matt: So that's not gonna count.
• 1:06:42
  Matt: Uh on my list, I think we've covered everything.
• 1:06:47
  Matt: Yes, we have.
• 1:06:49
  Matt: So between the two of us, there are the cards.
• 1:06:52
  Matt: I will publish the updated.
• 1:06:54
  Matt: But right now, I've got two in a row that'll make it very difficult to complete a column, uh, a row.
• 1:07:02
  Matt: You have two in the same column, but the Simpsons announcing the end negates that column.
• 1:07:08
  Matt: So we both we both have the same two.
• 1:07:11
  Matt: I'm technically better positioned in terms of bingo, but I don't feel good about the two I have in that row.
• 1:07:18
  Matt: Uh, I mean the other three.
• 1:07:20
  Matt: So it is looking tough.
• 1:07:22
  Matt: But hey, the main point here is to come up with these.
• 1:07:25
  Matt: Anyone's game.
• 1:07:26
  Eric: Anyone's game.
• 1:07:26
  Matt: You know, it can you imagine if we do this for a couple of years, how the excitement, the buildup of one of us actually completing a bingo card.
• 1:07:35
  Eric: When someone finally gets a bingo, it it it's all it's all over for you, folks.
• 1:07:40
  Eric: It's we're we're gonna we're going off the rails.
• 1:07:43
  Eric: Forget about it.
• 1:07:44
  Matt: Okay, so we'll check back in.
• 1:07:46
  Eric: Losing our minds.
• 1:07:46
  Eric: I'll go full.
• 1:07:47
  Matt: We'll check back in at the end of the year here on the old bingo cards.
• 1:07:51
  Matt: And if there's a if there's an important update, like if we got one left or something to complete a big go, we'll let you know.
• 1:07:57
  Matt: But I think for the time being, that will about do it for all of us here.
• 1:08:03
  Matt: And you didn't ask for this on this particular, particularly nice episode.
• 1:08:10
  Matt: Nice.
• 1:08:10
  Matt: Nice.
• 1:08:12
  Matt: Matt, give them the business.
• 1:08:14
  Matt: I will give them the business for this nice episode.
• 1:08:18
  Matt: Nice.
• 1:08:18
  Matt: We need your questions, folks.
• 1:08:21
  Matt: They can be about anything you want.
• 1:08:23
  Matt: We also need your local legends you want us to cover, your neighborhood urban legends, your neighborhood gossip that you want us to cover in neighborhood watch.
• 1:08:34
  Matt: Give us a call on the thought line, babies.
• 1:08:37
  Matt: Give us a call on the thought line.
• 1:08:39
  Matt: Give us questions.
• 1:08:42
  Matt: Give us whatever you want.
• 1:08:43
  Matt: Give us the content you want us to experience with you, and we will do it.
• 1:08:48
  Eric: We are the wall.
• 1:08:49
  Eric: Throw spaghetti at us.
• 1:08:51
  Matt: Throw spaghetti at us, metaphorically only, please.
• 1:08:54
  unknown: Yeah.
• 1:08:55
  Matt: Uh, you can submit these questions to us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, et cetera, et cetera, at you didn't ask pod.
• 1:09:02
  Matt: That's the letter you didn't ask pod.
• 1:09:05
  Matt: You can email them to us at you didn't ask for this at gmail.com, or as Eric said, you can leave us a voicemail that we will probably play on the show at 410-929-5329.
• 1:09:19
  Matt: That's the number for the you didn't ask for this thought line.
• 1:09:23
  SPEAKER_02: The thought line.
• 1:09:25
  Matt: Absolutely.
• 1:09:25
  Matt: Now, Eric, did I miss anything?
• 1:09:27
  Eric: You didn't miss a single thing, Bubby.
• 1:09:29
  Matt: You got anything you want to promote while we're at it?
• 1:09:32
  Eric: Oh man, I would like to promote uh that everyone has, you know, this will be after 4th of July.
• 1:09:40
  Eric: I hope everyone had a safe, good time.
• 1:09:42
  Eric: I would like to promote uh for all my Marylanders, now that uh, you know, that good, good, that loud has been legalized, have a good, safe time out there.
• 1:09:54
  Eric: Yeah.
• 1:09:54
  Eric: Um, hydrate or digrate.
• 1:09:56
  Eric: That's all I want to promote.
• 1:09:58
  Eric: Nice.
• 1:09:58
  Eric: Just hydration.
• 1:09:59
  Eric: Hydration.
• 1:10:00
  Eric: Just water.
• 1:10:01
  Eric: Just a quick plug for water.
• 1:10:03
  Eric: Relax your jaw, take the tension out your shoulders, sit up straight, drink some water.
• 1:10:08
  Matt: Eric with a health advice at the end of the episode.
• 1:10:10
  Matt: Well, look at this.
• 1:10:11
  Matt: A new segment.
• 1:10:12
  Matt: A new segment was born.
• 1:10:14
  Matt: So we will be back for uh the 70th episode of this little podcast.
• 1:10:21
  Matt: Uh, thank you all for being with us, supporting us, listening to, and enjoying the show.
• 1:10:27
  Matt: I mean, truly, we when we started this thing, we didn't we honestly we didn't know how many episodes it would last.
• 1:10:34
  Matt: So the fact that we've gotten here, it's all thanks to you, babies.
• 1:10:39
  Matt: Yep.
• 1:10:41
  Matt: That's it.
• 1:10:41
  Matt: That's all you wanted to contribute was yep.
• 1:10:44
  Eric: Oh, my baby babies.
• 1:10:46
  Matt: No, it's fucking too late.
• 1:10:47
  Matt: No, it's too late.
• 1:10:49
  Eric: You know it's from both of us.
• 1:10:50
  Matt: Oh, sure.
• 1:10:51
  Matt: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:10:53
  Matt: Well, while Eric's relying on me, I'll go ahead and say that'll about do it.
• 1:11:00
  Matt: From all of us here at you didn't ask for this.
• 1:11:03
  Matt: My name is Matthew.
• 1:11:04
  Eric: My name's Eric Poach.
• 1:11:06
  Eric: And listen, you didn't ask.
• 1:11:09
  Eric: But Panama Dark Money, Roger Klotz, Doug Funny.
• 1:11:16
  Eric: I shugging this shit out.
• 1:11:19
  Matt: Shugging it out.
• 1:11:20
  Matt: We don't even need to drag it on.
• 1:11:22
  Matt: That was beautiful.
• 1:11:23
  Matt: Play the music.
• 1:11:24
  Eric: Get us out of here.
• 1:11:25
  Eric: Get us out of here.
• 1:11:26
  Eric: Eric.
• 1:11:27
  Eric: Eric, unless you got another one.
• 1:11:28
  Eric: You gotta squeeze it in quite Northern Light, Northern Lights Blue Dream, Washington football team.
• 1:11:34
  Eric: What the fuck?
• 1:11:35
  Eric: How does he do it?
• 1:11:37
  Eric: Ah, wait.