Phil In The Blanks w/ Phil Berman

[00:00:38] Speaker A: Welcome back to another episode of Papa Don't Preach. I'm Ovi, and if you notice, this is not Bennett. He is not the size of Bennett, but the same hue. Ladies and gentlemen, we got Philip Berman in the house. What's up, Phil? [00:00:49] Speaker B: How you guys doing today? How you doing today? Thank for having me. Hey, it's nice. I've always wanted to do the longtime listener, first time caller, so we finally get to live that dream. This is amazing. [00:00:59] Speaker A: You listen to the pod? [00:01:00] Speaker B: Yeah, that's been great. [00:01:01] Speaker A: You don't donate. [00:01:02] Speaker B: Know that, not even a little bit. [00:01:04] Speaker A: That's fine. [00:01:04] Speaker B: I don't believe in donation, sir. I feel like you're out there. Get it on your. [00:01:08] Speaker A: Okay. All right, that's good. I was interested to see your Christmas list. [00:01:13] Speaker B: Shameless plug. Jason, momoa water. [00:01:14] Speaker A: Oh, yes. How are you liking our malinallu water? [00:01:18] Speaker B: Well, I can't pronounce the title, but. No, this is great. [00:01:21] Speaker A: I think it's mananalu, it's menana. [00:01:24] Speaker B: It tastes great. I big fan of it. Love that it's aluminum, and it's quenching the thirst. I was definitely parched. [00:01:31] Speaker A: I don't understand why all water is not in an aluminum. [00:01:35] Speaker B: I don't either, especially today. It's great. [00:01:37] Speaker A: I love it. It doesn't have that, like, tin taste either. It's fantastic. [00:01:41] Speaker B: It's funny because for what I do, I talk to a lot of packaging companies as well, and they produce basically only plastics. And I'm like, absolutely, let's get this deal. And I just walk out of it, like, oh, we're killing everybody. [00:01:56] Speaker A: Yeah, you feel dirty? [00:01:58] Speaker B: So dirty. [00:01:58] Speaker A: Oh, trust me, man. Working in production is like the most wasteful industry on the planet. It's wild. They're like, oh, yeah, we got to feed ten people, get 40 pieces of styrofoam. What do we do with the rest? [00:02:09] Speaker B: Just leave it. Throw it away. Leave it here. I swear to God, if anybody eats it, that's not part of the crew. Throw it away. Kill them. [00:02:15] Speaker A: A lot of networks are starting to do this thing where they have a green initiative, like an environmental impact tracer. [00:02:21] Speaker B: That's cool. [00:02:22] Speaker A: So you can see how much gas, how much plastic you use, how much paper you use, and it's impossible to track. And so being in charge of that sometimes and just like, grinding to get everything right, and it just sits on a file somewhere for them to use later. It's very frustrating. [00:02:39] Speaker B: See, if they took it serious, they could look at and say, holy shit, we spend a lot of money or we are wasteful and blah, blah, blah, and set standards up to protect themselves and change. But I think what they do is they have that in place. So they say, well, no, we do this. We have somebody that does that. We have somebody that checks it, and all it turns into is the fall goat. [00:02:58] Speaker A: That's me. [00:02:59] Speaker B: There's your fall person. [00:03:01] Speaker A: This gas was not inherent. [00:03:03] Speaker B: What do you mean? You spent $10,000 on this? This is ridiculous. [00:03:06] Speaker A: But some of this shit's impossible to trace. Like, how much gas did you use? I'm like, what the fuck does that mean? You turn in your gas receipts, but, like, a thousand gallons? Again, I don't know much. The generator. I don't know how much this location is used. I don't know how much this mall is used. [00:03:24] Speaker B: Obi, I'm looking at your carbon footprint, and it is off the charts. What are you going to do to fix this? [00:03:29] Speaker A: There you go. Little humor. All right. So I haven't seen you in a while. It's nice to have you on the pod. Thank you. Little Philly. Little Philly. You got a little Phil. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Luke? Yeah, Luke. He's seven years old now. Talking shit. Just a mile a minute. And it's been wild. [00:03:51] Speaker A: It's been a wild ride. [00:03:52] Speaker B: It's been a wild ride. [00:03:53] Speaker A: You're going to have another one? [00:03:54] Speaker B: I don't think so. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:56] Speaker B: Unless I decide to drink somewhere that I don't belong and impregnate somebody that isn't Amber. No. The answer is no. The answer is no. [00:04:06] Speaker A: All right. Lil Lukey seven. So Luke is just Luke, or is that short for something? [00:04:11] Speaker B: Lucas. [00:04:11] Speaker A: Lucas. [00:04:12] Speaker B: Yeah. We call him Luke. He hates it, so he goes by Lucas, but he wants to be Lucas. He's Lucas. And it's Lucas B. Because apparently there's like, 17 other Lucas's in his grade. [00:04:25] Speaker A: How did you come up with the name Lucas? [00:04:29] Speaker B: Funny story. So I think I was, like, 1516 years old. [00:04:35] Speaker A: Okay. [00:04:36] Speaker B: I always liked the name Lucas and Luke. And it happened because I saw this movie out cold. And I was never really into Star wars, really until recently. I just got into Star wars, but back know one of the characters on the movie is named Luke. And so I grew up thinking, oh, my. [00:04:53] Speaker A: Like, that guy's the cool? [00:04:55] Speaker B: Yeah, he's great. The main character, blah, blah. [00:04:56] Speaker A: Luke. [00:04:57] Speaker B: Luke. Well, I haven't even gotten to the best part yet. Oh, my God. Well, when I was 1516 years old, I smoked a lot of pot. And I saw that movie pretty high in theaters. Cult classic and Granada Hills, man. Nine obviously. And weft it. I was like, oh, my God, Luke. He's great. That's the name I want for my kid. And fast forward 20 years later, whatever it is. And I'm talking to Amber, and she's like, I really like that name as well. I was like, yeah, this is it. This is why I like that name. Not from Star wars, but from this movie. And she had never seen it. She's like, oh, this is great. So Luke comes around and what's your kid's name? Lucas Berman. Boom, that's his name. And then we go back home. I said, you know, I'm going to go watch that movie. I was so high, obi, that the main character's name is not Luke in that movie. Luke is Zach Gallifinakis's character, the comic stoner relief. And I was so mortified. And Amber was like, what the hell did you do? Oh, my God. She was like, I should have watched the movie. I should have background this checklist. It's my fault. I should have let you do this. And it was bad. Like, the main character's name is like, rick, I think, or something like that. It was bad, dude. Anyways, that's how Luke's name came to be. [00:06:13] Speaker A: So that's good. You thought you named your kid after a beloved character, but it turns out you named him after the comic relief in the movie because you were too stoned, right. To chant. [00:06:24] Speaker B: Okay, yeah. Not this professional snowboarder who like, main character captivating, blah, blah, blah. But no, it's definitely the, you know, it's Galfinalkas. [00:06:34] Speaker A: You. I could see you kind of gravitating to that character back, so that's actually very funny. All right, well, that's cool. [00:06:42] Speaker B: That was bad. [00:06:42] Speaker A: Well, now that our listeners get to know you a little better, could have. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Been Zach alphanagus or Seth Rogen. [00:06:50] Speaker A: Well, we were down for a couple of weeks after thanksgiving, and it's nice to come back. We got you in the studio. Xmas is coming up. Christmas Hanukah is coming up for you, right? [00:07:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:03] Speaker A: You were a proud jew. [00:07:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I forgot you were jewish. There's been times I forget that I'm jewish as well, but no, we're very excited about that. It's coming up. We're going to do the festival of lights, the prayers. [00:07:18] Speaker A: What is the festival of lights? Is that the eight nights? [00:07:21] Speaker B: That is the eight nights. [00:07:22] Speaker A: Okay. [00:07:23] Speaker B: If you don't know about it, it's the story of the Maccabees. The Maccabees. There you go. And it's something about escaping religious persecution, the whole thing, blah, blah, blah. Everyone does who has it, right? Come on. And we only had enough oil in our lamp, basically, to last a single night. And through the miracle and grace of God, we were able to make that oil last for eight nights while we were stuck in some cave. I don't know. I'm a badge. But we do get to eat a lot, and I'm looking forward to bringing the family together, doing the blessings over the candles, and dropping some presents for the kids. [00:08:03] Speaker A: I don't know what hanukkah food is, and that's the crazy. I've been to a bunch of Hanukkah parties, but it's just like, to me, it looks like Christmas food. [00:08:12] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:08:13] Speaker A: It's all the same. Do you know any? [00:08:16] Speaker B: So on our side, we do a brisket. Right? [00:08:21] Speaker A: I did know that. [00:08:21] Speaker B: A fun brisket. And I would say there's a fun brisket, which I think is like a smoked brisket with layers of bark and barbecue sauce and just mouthwatering good Texas south feel. Ours is definitely not like it is a brisket that's been soaking in, like, a very cheap red wine, onions, and it's just thrown in an oven and hope to God it works out. Right. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Sound like he's using some lowries up in there. [00:08:48] Speaker B: I remember talking to my pops about this. I said, we have brisket. It's a great cut. Like, what the hell? Why are we doing this? We should be smoking it. We should be putting some love into this. And he said, back in the day, brisket was super cheap. That's all the jews could afford because we didn't have any money. And in the northeast, it was like, this is it. Just throw some wine and onions and call it a day. And that's where that dish came from. Really? [00:09:11] Speaker A: Okay. [00:09:13] Speaker B: It's got a lot of broth around it. It is actually pretty good because you've been drinking the whole day most of the time, but it's been good. And then matzobal soup, of course. [00:09:21] Speaker A: Matzobal soup is disgusting. That is my unpopular opinion. [00:09:27] Speaker B: BP. [00:09:27] Speaker A: It's my get my opinion. It's my popular opinion. I think that. [00:09:35] Speaker B: How it's chicken noodle soup with dough in the middle like a dumpling. [00:09:40] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't like chicken noodle soup. [00:09:42] Speaker B: Oh, now you tell me I don't. [00:09:44] Speaker A: Like chicken noodle soup. I'm not a soup guy. So here's the thing. For some weird reason, I just grew up not liking drinking my food. [00:09:54] Speaker B: Oh, like the broth. That's what you mean. Okay. [00:09:56] Speaker A: Yeah. I wasn't a fan of it. Hot liquid is not my thing. It took me a while to get into tea. I don't drink coffee. And anytime anybody in my family ever had soup, I'd have stew. Like, stew was my shit. [00:10:13] Speaker B: Okay, so a bit thicker. Like a gumbo kind of thicker. [00:10:17] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't fuck around with matzobal soup. [00:10:21] Speaker B: Ridiculous. [00:10:22] Speaker A: I know. [00:10:22] Speaker B: Jewish penicillin. I don't know how you're going to climb up that upset about this right now. [00:10:27] Speaker A: Okay. You'll get over it. There was this react. [00:10:30] Speaker B: There was this shocked. [00:10:32] Speaker A: I don't know what it was called. Google. [00:10:34] Speaker B: Is it Google? Yeah. [00:10:36] Speaker A: Yeah, Google. Is that something for the holidays? [00:10:39] Speaker B: We don't have that. Is that a jewish dish? I think? Is it BP? It's jewish. [00:10:45] Speaker A: It's a Jewish to me. I remember there was a girl I went to school with, and I went to her house one day. They're like, oh, you should taste this. [00:10:59] Speaker B: It's cool. [00:11:00] Speaker A: And I remember I tasted it and I was like, this shit is amazing. And I've never tasted it before. And then I went to another holiday party at Google and they made it and it was the worst fucking thing ever. [00:11:11] Speaker B: Chocolate. Did it have chocolate in it? [00:11:12] Speaker A: It didn't have chocolate in it. I don't remember. It's like a casserole almost. So what are the ingredients for that? Sour cream and cottage cheese. [00:11:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that would give me a. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Egg noodles. Cottage cheese. [00:11:30] Speaker B: I would black the fuck out. [00:11:32] Speaker A: Sour cream. Yeah. It's basically like a big cheese dairy casserole. [00:11:39] Speaker B: Like Mac and cheese. Before it was Mac and cheese. Yeah. [00:11:41] Speaker A: But I remember, yeah. This girl, Jamie, her mom made one. It was the best thing ever. It was sweet, it was the best thing I ever tasted. And anytime I've ever had it after that, I was just like, yuck. It was gross. [00:11:52] Speaker B: Now, we haven't done a cougle. We keep it very basic, very simple. Like, it's the brisket, it's the soup. I started adding egg noodles into my matzoball soup because I turned my soup into. [00:12:05] Speaker A: It turned into a stew. Looks like this black dude is making some fucking sense. [00:12:11] Speaker B: I mean, as a larger man, I was angry at this smaller item on my plate. [00:12:19] Speaker A: I wanted something with a little bit. [00:12:20] Speaker B: More base in it. So I introduced egg noodles, wide egg noodles to it. And it's almost like a meal before a meal. It's not an appetizer, it's a meal for the meal. It's just great. [00:12:29] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:30] Speaker B: I also think I started doing that because my matza balls aren't as, like, large. Oh, shit, this sounds bad. Oh, they're not as large as what you'd get from, like, a deli typically, where it's like just this massive ball of dough in the middle of a soup. I have multiple dumplings around or multiple matza balls around the soup. [00:12:47] Speaker A: You got like a mountain range in your soup. [00:12:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I give it a little bit of character there. [00:12:50] Speaker A: Got you. I just don't see any of that food being good for leftovers. [00:12:56] Speaker B: Oh, I'll make the soup last, man. That's breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and maybe a little midnight snack. Yuck. Okay. [00:13:05] Speaker A: I'm a big leftover guy. Big leftover guy. I would say my style of cooking is like, what can I turn into, like, a quick rice or pasta topping or sandwich the next day? I'm a big leftover guy. [00:13:18] Speaker B: What did you do with the leftovers from Thanksgiving? Did you already cross that bridge? Are you done with all of it? [00:13:22] Speaker A: So we had a very mellow Thanksgiving because my brother just had a kid, so they were taking it easy. My sister, few days before, had, like, a big friends giving party. Family was out of town. My dad wasn't here. Shannon's parents weren't coming. So it was like this whole thing where it was just me and her. [00:13:42] Speaker B: Cool. [00:13:42] Speaker A: And my kid was with his mom, so we're just like, yo, let's rearrange the house. And I'm not a big fan of Thanksgiving food, so Shannon's like, I want to make Thanksgiving food. And I was like, yay. So she just made, like, some stuffing, and I had some leftover chicken. She got a pumpkin pie. She made, like, way more mashed potatoes than any human could eat. We just had a bucket of mashed potatoes. So good right now, but that's what we did. So she was munching on those leftovers, though. I think I just threw away the leftovers on Sunday. But it's not like anybody was eating it. That's the thing too. When your partner is just like, if I don't see it, it doesn't exist type person. There's some shit that creeps. You'll be like, what the fuck is this thing growing legs in the back of my fridge? [00:14:32] Speaker B: 2006, babe. What the fuck? [00:14:35] Speaker A: I can't tell you how many times I've opened the fridge and I'm like, what's this styrofoam thing that's in here? And I open, it's just like, kill me. [00:14:41] Speaker B: I'm like, oh my God. And then you open and the smell comes out. Now that's in your fridge, dude, the. [00:14:47] Speaker A: Smell, it's kind of like you remember call of duty when that flashbang was right next to you and you're just like all blurry and shit. Oh man. There's some things I open where I'm like, God damn, that is not chill, dude. [00:15:00] Speaker B: We did the whole foods thing. [00:15:03] Speaker A: The whole foods thing. [00:15:05] Speaker B: This is ridiculous. So let me start with this. I'm not a whole foods shopper per se because. [00:15:12] Speaker A: Motherfucker over here go back to food for life. $40 a bottle. [00:15:17] Speaker B: I mean, that's Erwan, but whole foods ain't for me anyway. But I will say they do a Thanksgiving feast because it's not a dinner, it's a feast. It's a feast. It's for twelve people. [00:15:26] Speaker A: What the fuck are you, we only. [00:15:27] Speaker B: Have eight there, so. [00:15:28] Speaker A: Winterfell over here. [00:15:29] Speaker B: God damn, dude, we got a turkey, we got a ham. Both of them come, this sounds terrible. They come precooked and then they're frozen and then you basically just take them. It's as simple. You throw them in the fridge or throw them in the oven, you reheat them, okay, and then they're done. But sides, I mean, turkey is fine. To be honest, I hate turkey in a sandwich. But like turkey by itself, it's always dry. I always fuck it up. I don't care. I'm sure there's a lot of haters out there. Be like, you can't cook a turkey. No, bitch, I can't cook a turkey. It is what it is. And ham is ham. I mean, you can't fuck ham up. But the sides, obi, I'm not kidding. It is stuffing. Cranberry sauce, which I wasn't really a fan of cranberry sauce when I was younger, but this is dynamite. [00:16:11] Speaker A: Like roast dynamite. [00:16:12] Speaker B: Dynamite. Oh jesus. Oh God. It was like a Mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, obviously turkey gray, all this shit. But I ordered. This is the third year we've done it. And the main reason I do it is because of the soup. The butternut squash soup. It's the stupid amount that we pay for this movie. But I'm so happy when I get the soup because they give it to you. Not just a vat of soup, but it's like done in three or four quart size plastic dishes that you can just like. And they're sealed so you can like, oh, I'm only going to open like two and serve it for everybody else. And fuck them peasants. And I'm going to save these in the fridge. And I just finished my last soup yesterday, obi, I promise you. I know you're not a soup guy, because you call it hot liquid, apparently, which is weird. You're like Nick Miller calling a panini a hot sandwich. Have you seen that? Anyways, yeah. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Fucking quoting new girl, dude. [00:17:11] Speaker B: I need somebody to tell me it's called a panini, not a hot sandwich. But. No, I'm telling you, obi, it's fucking life changing, dude. I loved it. Okay. Yeah. [00:17:21] Speaker A: All right. Butternut squash from whole foods. [00:17:23] Speaker B: Squash from Whole Foods, man. [00:17:24] Speaker A: All right. I'll take out a loan and go get it. [00:17:26] Speaker B: I mean, make sure you got that 401K. Just empty it a little bit. Get a loan on that, you're good. [00:17:30] Speaker A: So one more question I have about Hanukkah. It's pronounced Hanukah, right? [00:17:37] Speaker B: Yes. You got a piece of something. Get it up there. [00:17:43] Speaker A: The eight nights, there are gifts every night. Is that, like, something that's been commercialized or is that actually something that. Because I know, like Christmas, there's no gifts, that there's not supposed to be gifts. [00:17:55] Speaker B: We just did it because kids needed something. Yeah, I got it. So, I don't know the origin of the gift side, but, yes, traditionally, at least on our side, you're getting eight presents. But now our fathers, because it's always dads that usually kind of put this shit together, they get creative with the gifts. So I remember one year, the first night I got a golf ball, the next night I got a bag. So two nights have gone by, and I have a golf ball and a golf bag, but I don't have a club to hit it with. Right. So it's really sick, shit like that. Okay, so by the end, I've got a golf set, right? He did the same thing. It was like a remote control car or something that you built. And so, like, the first day I got wheels, and I finally got everything towards the end, but I didn't get batteries. Right. Okay, so it's really, again, sick shit. [00:18:44] Speaker A: So it's just really a gift, but they just give you pieces of the gift? Yeah, that's what I was talking about with Christmas. Because the guys that come with the gifts for Jesus, the three kings. Not the kings. What? The wise men. The kings. [00:18:59] Speaker B: Three kings. [00:19:00] Speaker A: I'm a bad Catholic. [00:19:01] Speaker B: I don't know if that went there. [00:19:02] Speaker A: So you have the wise men, they come, they bring gifts, and that know morphed. Know St. Nick, this big jolly guy sticking presents under the tree. And you would have the gift from your parents and the gift from Santa. The gift from your parents usually, like, some shoes, maybe a backpack, a sweater, a game that you liked. And then the gift from Santa is like that. Video recorders rolling, you open up a jedi. Yeah, it's just like that. But, yeah, this year, everybody's getting hugs. [00:19:41] Speaker B: It has been a rough year, and we're thankful for. [00:19:43] Speaker A: Yeah, everybody's getting hugs. One person is getting Cole. [00:19:46] Speaker B: There you go. [00:19:46] Speaker A: One person is getting cold. And he knows who he is. I know that. Is he at the age where he's asking? He knows what he wants for Christmas? [00:20:00] Speaker B: Yes and no. Some of the shit that he comes up with is just ridiculous. I'm trying to think of it right now, and it's like, I want my own phone. Like, no, dude, you're seven. Who the fuck are you calling? One of the things that I know he's going to, I mean, he doesn't have Instagram, obviously, or YouTube or anything, so I know he's not going to see this, but there's a Spider man remote control thing at target, and we got him that. And then we went to Disneyland the other day, and he really wanted an X wing fighter helmet thing or whatever, so we did the whole, damn. We'll see if Santa's happy about the. [00:20:43] Speaker A: Fuck he's going to do with a helmet. [00:20:44] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:20:45] Speaker A: Okay. [00:20:45] Speaker B: And so Amber's like, we'll just buy it online. It's fine. And then it's not sold online. And if you go to, like, eBay, what was once like $50 or $60 at Disneyland is now like 300 on eBay. And you're like, well, that's definitely not happening today. [00:21:01] Speaker A: God damn, dude. [00:21:02] Speaker B: It's rough. So, yeah, we did the normal thing and drove it to fucking downtown Disney and bought the thing. But no, to your point, it's like you get one gift from your parents, the other gift is from Santa. We tried to do something like that going back to that Nintendo 64 mug or the sega Genesis moment when we were kids. I don't know if that exists anymore. Maybe it's like, I don't know. I miss, obviously, that nostalgia side, that side of my life, that time where it was like early 80s, early, or late 80s, early 90s, where you're like, holy shit, this is what I've been waiting my whole life for. And then you get it. Do kids even get happy like that anymore? I don't know if that's a thing because they have so much information at their fingertips. That is excitement still the same for them? [00:21:56] Speaker A: Yeah, sometimes. I know that. I remember when I got my kid, like, this dino hot wheels elevator set, and he opened it and lost his shit. [00:22:08] Speaker B: He was just like, oh, there's a dinosaur. [00:22:11] Speaker A: He was so excited. I had it built, and he was just playing with that thing all day. Still loves it now. But one thing that he wanted was an oculus, like a headset, because I had my VR, the gen one oculus, and I'd stick it on him, and he loved it. He was just like, oh, my God. He would just mess around with it. He loved it. And last year, I gave it to some. We did adopt a family, and these kids were like, yo. I was like, yo, they wanted a Nintendo switch because they already had one, but they weren't sharing, so I got them Nintendo switch remotes. So I was like, hey, you guys can share. And when one of you is fucking around on the switch, you're the one. You could be here on the oculus. And they loved it. They were like, oh, my God. I had all the games that I already loaded onto it. It still works great. I could see them still updating their shit on my oculus app. [00:23:04] Speaker B: So it's cool. [00:23:05] Speaker A: They love it. Ozo was very pissed that I gave it away. We had to tell him about giving and showing him that it's like, there's more to life than just stuff. And so actually, he's been picking it up anytime. Here's an example. The other day, we're at the mall, there's a gumball machine. He's like, oh, it's a quarter. So I pulled out two quarters. I'm like, here's two quarters. Go get one. He's like, ran towards it, stopped, and I saw him just, like, looking at the quarters. He turned around and he said, how about you get one? And I get one? [00:23:37] Speaker B: Oh, that was like, all right. That is a cool dad moment. [00:23:41] Speaker A: That was awesome. I was like, yeah, because he's starting to do that shit. [00:23:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:45] Speaker A: And I know that it'sinking in, but, yeah, he's still not. I was saying, yeah, man, you might get one for Christmas. Because I was like, yeah, we're going to get the new Oculus for Christmas. But then fucking Disney and Sony fucking Disney, that strike fucked up the bank. [00:24:03] Speaker B: Account a little bit. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Yeah, we're taking it easy this year. Everybody's getting a hug. All the boxes that you saw when we're coming in, I got a bunch of boxes that I'm literally filling up with knickknacks from around the house, just so the Christmas tree doesn't look so depressing. [00:24:20] Speaker B: I think that's a smart move this year. So a bit about what I do. I work in freight and logistics, right? So I deal with a lot of stuff that's coming overseas into our ports, and then from our ports goes to the rest of the country. So when there is a recession that starts, it starts in freight. It starts in the freight brokerage sector, where companies were once spending, for round numbers, $5,000. To get this from point a to point b, and now it's $2,000. Well, the mom and pop shops that run that equipment or the product from point a to point b that were relying on $5,000, and now it's $2,000. They're not making enough. So it all starts at that point where not a lot of people are making as people are not making as much money. The country and logistics division is definitely taking a hit, right? Mean, this whole year has been shit, dude. So the writer strike was just fucking icing on the cake, in my opinion. [00:25:17] Speaker A: Dude, it was crazy for the writer. Just like, watch the writer strike and watch the actors strike, and then see the ups strike and the auto workers strike and see all these other strikes are like, no, we're going to fix this shit right now. But for some reason, when it came to actors and the writers are like, nah, fuck them. We're going to let them lose their homes. [00:25:33] Speaker B: Did you hear about the terrorist attack that hit MGM and the MGM properties? [00:25:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:39] Speaker B: So I think about that. Like, all, like, everybody's holding on to all the dollars that they have right now. Right now you have these big tourist destinations like Vegas that are relying on this boom of tourism to come in and say, fucking give us your money, right? Gamble and spend some money, and then this shit happens. You're like, whoa, whoa. There were, I don't know, the hotel company that did it, but they were like, fuck it. We're just going to pay them off and be done with this. [00:26:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it was Caesars, right? [00:26:03] Speaker B: Yeah, Caesars. [00:26:04] Speaker A: It happened to Caesars. And they're like, let's keep this shit wrapped. Let's pay them. Fuck it. Then it hit MGM, and we're like, see, we could be like those motherfuckers over there. And they're like, even walkie talkies in the elevator. I know, right? [00:26:13] Speaker B: I saw some of the stuff on Instagram, and I'm like, oh, this is ridiculous. The reporting on it. Plus they had the f one event going or that they were gearing up for. I was like, oh, my God. [00:26:22] Speaker A: That f one shit looked like a fucking disaster. [00:26:25] Speaker B: I saw something that was like, they were selling seats or tickets, whatever, in the certain area, and it was like, I don't know, like five grand or something, right? And they didn't sell shit. And you can get them for, like, pennies on the dollar. By the time the event rolled around, I saw this one clip where it was Paris Hilton walking into an after parties or something, and she shows up fashionably late, and the camera turns around, and there's nobody there. And she's like, just walks right behind. I was like, imagine her. You're supposed to be the lead talent. Like, you come in, and that's the. [00:26:57] Speaker A: One thing that's a uniquely american problem, is they try to bring shit to America to make it popular here instead of raising the things that Americans like to another level. And it's fucking stupid, but it does great on Netflix. [00:27:14] Speaker B: F one had the series or whatever. It was on the special on Netflix, which, yeah, that was great. It got a lot of views, and new eyes were on it. A younger generation was on it. America was on it. Why in the fuck did you pick Las Vegas to do that? When was the last time you drove down the strip? I have to drive to Vegas at least twice a month, and I absolutely hate driving down the strip. And yet they shut the whole strip down for just a race to go through it. Hell, no, dude. [00:27:42] Speaker A: They should have kept that shit in Long Beach. [00:27:43] Speaker B: Long beach. Or like, oh, I don't know, the thousand miles of desert of Las Vegas or outside of Las Vegas. Right there. [00:27:51] Speaker A: They have a motorway. [00:27:52] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:27:53] Speaker A: Motorway in Vegas. [00:27:54] Speaker B: You're right. [00:27:54] Speaker A: But it's indie. [00:27:56] Speaker B: Whatever, let them do it. [00:27:58] Speaker A: All right, well, guys, I hope you guys are sticking around. I got a lot to talk to Phil about. We'll be right back with more papa, don't preach. [00:28:23] Speaker B: It. [00:28:23] Speaker A: All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are back. We're just talking some shit about some good movies. Are there some movies that should be holiday movies that aren't holiday movies? [00:28:32] Speaker B: Oh, God, that's a good one. [00:28:33] Speaker A: Because I feel like there's, like, here on the pod, we tip our hat in a moment of silence for Thanksgiving, because it's the forgotten holiday, and people are like, it's built on blood. It's not true. I'm like, yeah, neither is Valentine's Day. Whatever. [00:28:46] Speaker B: That's true. [00:28:47] Speaker A: I don't give a fuck. What I'm saying is that it's during the holidays. And Christmas decorations go up on November 1. [00:28:55] Speaker B: November. [00:28:56] Speaker A: November 1. They go up like nobody's fucking around with Thanksgiving anymore. There's just a couple of turkey commercials and that's it. But are there any in your head, like Christmas movies that should be Christmas movies, but aren't Christmas movies? [00:29:10] Speaker B: So a movie that I always watch every Christmas or every time toward the. [00:29:15] Speaker A: Holiday or Hanukkah's is grumpy old men. Grumpy old men. [00:29:20] Speaker B: There is a Christmas scene in it, right? But it is not a Christmas movie. But that's one of my go to right there. And then I'm starting to, as I'm saying this, I'm thinking, is it any movie with snow in it? Because I don't think it has anything to do with Christmas. But yeah, grumpy old men's definitely on there. The family stone. But that's like a Christmas movie. [00:29:39] Speaker A: Family stone. Is that the one with Sarah Jessica Parker? [00:29:41] Speaker B: It is, dude, every year, man, that gets me right in the feels, man. [00:29:45] Speaker A: You're close to that hallmark shit, aren't you? [00:29:46] Speaker B: My God, dude, I cannot pass up. You tell me a woman that's coming in from New York at the big city job and she needs to save her family's blueberry farm and they're going to go sell a bunch of pies and try to get an account to save the deal? I'm telling you, I am stuck on that tv. [00:30:01] Speaker A: Okay? [00:30:01] Speaker B: I am hooked. [00:30:02] Speaker A: I love that. [00:30:03] Speaker B: My God, substitute blueberry farm for lemon wedge heels or whatever the fuck they sell. I am stacked. I cannot turn off a Hallmark Christmas movie. [00:30:11] Speaker A: Okay? [00:30:11] Speaker B: It's easier the better. Dude. [00:30:13] Speaker A: I would say, like, my two movies that I would watch during the holidays, I already put one together. We found out nobody watches this. So there's three. One is the Santa Claus, of course. Have you seen the Santa Claus? [00:30:26] Speaker B: 1980, 419, 84. [00:30:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it's with John Liftgow. [00:30:31] Speaker B: No. [00:30:32] Speaker A: And that dude played. Yeah, I forgot. John Lithgow is like the evil corporate dude. And the guy patches is an elf who gets, like, exile. He's like, I want to do something better. And so he leaves Santa's workshop and John Lithgow takes advantage of him and starts to commercialize his toys that he's making. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:30:53] Speaker A: There's no love in it. But there's these two kids that are also involved. Like, one's a little rich girl and one other one's like, he's literally a tramp. That's what they call. [00:31:01] Speaker B: He's like a guy eating out of the trash. [00:31:02] Speaker A: He leaves food under the doggy door and sneaks up on him, and he gets all feral. But nobody's heard of this movie. We did a poll, and nobody's ever heard of this movie. But there's this movie. There's curly sue. [00:31:16] Speaker B: I've never heard of this movie. [00:31:18] Speaker A: You've never heard of Santa Claus? [00:31:19] Speaker B: I've never heard of Santa Claus, the movie. [00:31:22] Speaker A: And for some reason, nobody's ever heard of it. And it's fucking good. [00:31:26] Speaker B: Never. [00:31:26] Speaker A: It's fucking great. It's a great old school Christmas movie. It has everything you need. It has Christmas, Santa Claus, Elves, reindeer. The reindeer play, like, a huge part. Mrs. Claus is in it, trying to whisper in his ear. It's got class, wars between rich and poor, and it's got everything. Corporate greed. [00:31:44] Speaker B: I got for. Especially with a John Lithgow movie. He's not a quiet actor. Everybody knows him. But this. Maybe he made Monty Python and the holy grail at this point because nobody knows what the hell this movie is. [00:31:57] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I suggest you watch it. But this movie, the Santa Claus movie, curly sue, that's another Christmas movie for me. I think that's because it just has snow in it and it's like a little bit. I was going to say the Batman. Fucking Batman is it returns with the Penguin. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Yeah. I got to fill her void, which I got to say him. Danny DeVito, right. [00:32:19] Speaker A: Batman villain. Hands down, he is the penguin. [00:32:22] Speaker B: Yes, I have. That was great. That was great. [00:32:24] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll see what's his fucking face. [00:32:27] Speaker B: Did you see the new one that they just did? [00:32:30] Speaker A: It's not out yet. [00:32:31] Speaker B: Well, the Robert Pattinson. [00:32:32] Speaker A: Oh, the Robert Pattinson. Yeah. [00:32:33] Speaker B: So who was that? [00:32:34] Speaker A: What's the. [00:32:35] Speaker B: Yeah, Colin Farrell's Penguin. Yeah. [00:32:37] Speaker A: So they're coming out with a whole series. [00:32:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:39] Speaker A: With Colin Farrell as the Penguin. We'll see how he does. [00:32:41] Speaker B: I mean, he's a great actor. [00:32:42] Speaker A: He's a great actor. [00:32:44] Speaker B: It's going to definitely be a different take than Danny DeVito, though. [00:32:46] Speaker A: Yeah, Danny DeVito. [00:32:47] Speaker B: Fish. Exactly. Right. Yeah, he's just, like, eating fish. I remember black. Something coming down from his face. [00:32:54] Speaker A: He had, like, the black goo coming down. [00:32:56] Speaker B: Was it supposed to be ink or something? Why was that happening from. [00:32:58] Speaker A: They just wanted to make it gross. They wanted to make fucking succeeded. Yeah, I remember. [00:33:04] Speaker B: What other movies? [00:33:09] Speaker A: Well, trading places is a holiday movie. I never look at that one as a Christmas movie. [00:33:13] Speaker B: How about anything from this millennium? Because everything you've listed is like, yeah, that's eighty s to early 90s, dude. I'm like, yeah, those are great, Obi. But there's like 30 years right now of movies that have. [00:33:24] Speaker A: You know what's funny about movies? They try to stay away from the holidays, not to get labeled as a holiday movie. [00:33:31] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:33:31] Speaker A: So I remember one that I used to watch when I had, like, my big lots. I do my big lots buys where you get five dvds for $5.01 was. I think it's friends with benefits. Justin Timberlake. Or maybe that's. [00:33:48] Speaker B: That is no strings attached. Or friends with benefits. [00:33:51] Speaker A: It's one of them, I think. Friends with no strings attached. [00:33:55] Speaker B: Ashton Kutcher. I think it's Ashton Kutcher. [00:33:57] Speaker A: And was it Jennifer? Natalie Portman. [00:34:00] Speaker B: And the other one is Mila Kunis. And. [00:34:05] Speaker A: Is. It's no strings attached is. Yeah, that's Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. So friends with benefits, which I don't. [00:34:14] Speaker B: Think is a Christmas movie. [00:34:15] Speaker A: Is it friends with benefits? [00:34:16] Speaker B: Just friends. [00:34:17] Speaker A: Just friends. [00:34:18] Speaker B: That's a classic movie. Absolutely. Hands down. [00:34:21] Speaker A: That's right. Yeah, that movie is great. [00:34:25] Speaker B: All three attractive white males. Absolutely. [00:34:27] Speaker A: Hello? [00:34:28] Speaker B: Joyce? [00:34:29] Speaker A: Joyce? [00:34:30] Speaker B: No, mom, it's me. What are you doing at Joyce's? No, mom, I'm in the kitchen. Oh, my God. One of my favorite movies, man. [00:34:39] Speaker A: Is it friends with benefits? Is that what it's called? With Justin Timberlake? Is that what it's. [00:34:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say FWB. [00:34:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Friends with benefits. [00:34:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:47] Speaker A: So I have mentioned on this pod before, but the reason that one lives, this movie lives in my mind, rent free because there's a running joke in that movie that has no place being in that movie. And it's so fucking random, but it's that Justin Timberlake is bad with numbers and they make subtle references at it. I'm not good with math. I'm bad with numbers. There's one part where they're at the Hollywood Hills and she's like, oh, let's go to the Hollywood side. No, I'm not going to jump over this fence. She's like, are you sure? You get. [00:35:19] Speaker B: It's like 12ft. [00:35:19] Speaker A: She's like, it's like 6ft. [00:35:21] Speaker B: What's wrong with you? [00:35:22] Speaker A: And keep going over it. But fucking chef's kiss. Great writing. Great fucking great writing. [00:35:28] Speaker B: Not sure. I have no idea how that would be a Christmas movie for you, but great writing. [00:35:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. But yeah, that one, for some reason, I would just watch it during Christmas and I guess rom coms, all of them have, like, a Christmas feel. [00:35:40] Speaker B: That makes sense. [00:35:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Because I would say there was like, a good era of romantic comedies that came out a little bit like 40 year old virgin. Along came Paulie couples retreat. [00:35:59] Speaker B: I think that was also in that. [00:36:00] Speaker A: Same area right there. Forgetting Sarah Marshall. [00:36:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, that's always. [00:36:04] Speaker A: Are you going to throw doodle paper at me? [00:36:09] Speaker B: Which, by the way, that scene. I wonder if that's actually Mila Kunis right there. Or if that's like a stun double. Like, did she actually take her top off for that picture right there? [00:36:17] Speaker A: Possibly. [00:36:18] Speaker B: I mean, that's a big scene right there. [00:36:20] Speaker A: It's a picture, though. [00:36:22] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. Like, it's a picture, but it's like a flat. [00:36:25] Speaker A: Okay. Who knows? [00:36:27] Speaker B: I'm not saying this is like a Mr. Skin opportunity right now where 1 hour, 37 minutes, you see a boob. Like, that's not where I'm going with this. But interesting that she did that. [00:36:36] Speaker A: Oh, what was that? I forgot about that other. There's another movie that I associate with Christmas. [00:36:42] Speaker B: Fuck. [00:36:42] Speaker A: I can't. [00:36:43] Speaker B: So just friends was always a classic that we used to watch. [00:36:46] Speaker A: Fucking King Kong. Jack Black's King Kong. For some reason, I just associate with Christmas. And I think it's just the one scene where, by the way, if you haven't seen King Kong with Jack Black, go see it. It's a fucking treat. That movie is all over the fucking got. It's got your magical black dude who's just, like, trying to help this kid. And every time he talks, it's just like a slow push in, like, no, you don't want this. [00:37:13] Speaker B: I've. I don't think I've seen this. [00:37:15] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:37:17] Speaker B: When you said it, I immediately went to Kong Skull island with. Right. [00:37:24] Speaker A: Is it after that? [00:37:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:25] Speaker A: So King Kong movie. So I'm telling you, I would call it a romantic comedy. Because there's Adrian Brody's character and. Was that Naomi Watts? Is it Naomi Watts? So Adrian Brody and Naomi Watts'character like, they're actors who've never met. And he has to know once he gets taken by Kong, he starts to fall in love with her for no reason whatsoever. But then she falls in love with Kong as, like, this pet. But Kong wants to protect her because he's like, oh, she's my, you know, Jack Black's like this sadistic director that will do anything to get the shot. Multiple people get. Yeah, multiple people get killed. And on this island, there's dinosaurs, there's giant bugs. And they have to fight to get off this fucking thing. And then the reason I associate with Christmas is because King Kong gets captured. They finally capture him, and they bring him to New York to display him. He breaks out of it and finds Naomi Watts. And they just have a little fun on an ice. Like, he's just sliding on a frozen lake with Naomi Watts. [00:38:34] Speaker B: I feel like I just want to watch Skull island. [00:38:36] Speaker A: I'm telling you, you got to watch this movie. It's fucking hilarious, dude. [00:38:43] Speaker B: As you're talking, I'm still trying to think of, like, a Christmas movie that. Because I kind of go through the. I do all the Santa Claus movies, right? Like, big Tim Allen fan. So, like, I like his stuff. The series that came out right now. Have you seen the series the clauses? [00:38:56] Speaker A: No, I have not. [00:38:57] Speaker B: It's kind of random, but, like, I. [00:38:59] Speaker A: Would never, ever watch that. And I'm hoping today you say that. [00:39:03] Speaker B: I'm going to ask you questions, and then we'll bring it up on next week's podcast. [00:39:05] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll bring it up. Oh, shit. Here's the scene. He captures her, and then they're just, like, hanging out on the ice. [00:39:13] Speaker B: What year did this come out? [00:39:14] Speaker A: Like, 20 08. 20 05. 20 05. [00:39:19] Speaker B: See, I look at this, and I'm sad at this. I watch this. I'm sad. I'm watching a gorilla that shouldn't be here trying to skate. He doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. This is the first time he's learned what ice is. I'm assuming there is no ice on Skull island. [00:39:32] Speaker A: No ice. But, like, look at this scene of her. Just, like, staring into the eyes of this gorilla as they're having fun on the ice. [00:39:40] Speaker B: She is about to die. Dude, this is not safe. [00:39:43] Speaker A: I'm not sure if the whole clip will show how this gets interrupted, but it's just when I'm talking about random ass scenes. And what the fuck were you thinking apart, like, for telling a story? This is what I'm talking about. [00:39:55] Speaker B: How much do you think that gorilla weighs? [00:39:57] Speaker A: It definitely cannot sit. That's the thing. It's, like, there's no way it can sit on a block of ice. [00:40:02] Speaker B: How's his ass not going through that ice? [00:40:04] Speaker A: He would have stepped on it. It would have went right through. [00:40:06] Speaker B: I don't know, man. Charlie Conway's mom would not allow this. She didn't even let fucking Milio Estevez drive onto the ice. And he's been around ice his whole life. [00:40:15] Speaker A: But look at to this whole thing that's happening of them trying to paint this as some moments where they finally understand each other. It's not there. [00:40:28] Speaker B: I'm not a fan of this. [00:40:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it lasts way too long. How long is this clip? Like, this whole scene? [00:40:35] Speaker B: It feels like a year, dude. The fact that it's still on is ridiculous. [00:40:38] Speaker A: Like two minutes long of them just like. And so that's how it ends. It's just a fucking mortar goes off in the middle of the lake. [00:40:47] Speaker B: How is there a bomb down there? Who put a bomb down there? Is that answered at all in there? [00:40:52] Speaker A: No, they were just shooting at it, but they know that there's a woman in his hand. They're like, hey, blast, that motherfucking monkey just like, blew up the fucking lake in the middle of Central park. But that's my Christmas movie. [00:41:06] Speaker B: Home alone. Those are also good Christmas movies. [00:41:08] Speaker A: Home alone. But those are Christmas movies. [00:41:10] Speaker B: Yeah, those are Christmas movies. [00:41:11] Speaker A: Those are Christmas movies. So there's been a big argument that's been lasting about Diehard. [00:41:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:17] Speaker A: And they're like, diehard is a Christmas movie. It is not a Christmas movie. [00:41:20] Speaker B: Diehard. I don't believe Diehard's a Christmas. [00:41:22] Speaker A: It's not a Christmas movie. It didn't come out during Christmas. It's just during Christmas. It's actually an action movie. It's not a Christmas movie. [00:41:35] Speaker B: By that standard, any movie that has a pine tree in it should be a Christmas. Yeah, we're not having it. [00:41:40] Speaker A: They broke up a Christmas party. So it's a Christmas movie. No. [00:41:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Is that a Christmas movie? What? Office Christmas party. [00:41:47] Speaker B: Is that a mean. [00:41:48] Speaker A: It's called office Christmas party. [00:41:50] Speaker B: Office party. What's office party? [00:41:53] Speaker A: You've never seen holiday party? [00:41:54] Speaker B: Oh, dude, it's raunchy as shit. [00:41:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I think I've seen. It's TJ Miller's in that, right? Yeah, man, that movie's terrible. [00:42:00] Speaker B: TJ Miller. Yeah, that's true. [00:42:01] Speaker A: That guy seems terrible to be around, but that's right. Yeah. So the movie's called. It's called office Christmas Party. So it is a Christmas movie. [00:42:09] Speaker B: What do you have? This is a little off topic. We'll just go with it right now. Is there a series that you just turn on at home where you're just like. It's back on it. [00:42:20] Speaker A: Everybody who listens to this pod knows what it is. [00:42:21] Speaker B: Is it going to be the office? [00:42:23] Speaker A: No, it's law and order SVU. [00:42:24] Speaker B: Get the fuck out of here. Really? [00:42:26] Speaker A: Yeah. It's an hour. [00:42:27] Speaker B: Not just sit back and watch that, dude. [00:42:29] Speaker A: Well, because it's been on for 25 years. [00:42:32] Speaker B: Yes. [00:42:33] Speaker A: And I've seen every single episode multiple times. [00:42:38] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:42:39] Speaker A: You can pull up a scene. And I could tell you exactly how it ends. [00:42:43] Speaker B: Jesus, dude. [00:42:44] Speaker A: I could tell you exactly what the whole episode is about. If you just pull up a scene, a random scene, you show me a screenshot, I'm like, I know that's from. And it's. That's the one. The reason I have that running is because you can pop in at any season. You can look at Marishka's hair and you know exactly what season it. It's. It's an hour long, and it's just in the background. You just bump, bump, bump. [00:43:06] Speaker B: But you don't put the office on or anything like that. Right? [00:43:09] Speaker A: So the office, it used to be, I'm taking a break from the office right now. I'm taking a break from the office right now. But I would say my background would be like, something that I don't need to watch. What's yours? [00:43:20] Speaker B: My background is modern family. [00:43:22] Speaker A: Modern family. [00:43:23] Speaker B: Always rain, shine, sleeping, not sleep. It's always on. [00:43:28] Speaker A: Okay. [00:43:30] Speaker B: What'S hilarious about this, which I didn't connect this at all, okay. My sister. So Luke was. And, you know, like three weeks had gone by and I was like, holy shit, being a dad, whatever, blah, blah. My sister comes over, she'd been there obviously already, and she said, oh, yeah, phil and Luke, right, from modern family. And I was like, I love that show. Never even connected to never. I'd never thought about that. I was like, son of a bitch. [00:43:57] Speaker A: Funny. [00:43:57] Speaker B: And now I've started to think like, well, maybe I don't tell my kid that he's named after some stoner snowboarder. Maybe I should just say, hey, Luke and Phil, dumpy. There it is. [00:44:06] Speaker A: No, I'm going to play this episode for him. Don't worry about it. I'll play this episode for him. [00:44:10] Speaker B: No, it's always modern Family. But recently we've been getting into Chicago fire. I know I'm late to this, but Chicago fire? [00:44:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't watch any Chicago shows for some reason. Any good. [00:44:24] Speaker B: So, yeah, Chicago fire is a. It's always covered in crossovers, right? So they have like, Chicago PD, Chicago med, and it's like, oh, that's a doctor over here. It's great. And I kind of, like, think that that's pretty a. Back in the day when they did like a TGI Fridays lineup or, you know, you'd have Sabrina, the teenage witch on boy meets world or whatever it was, right? Something like crossovers. So they did a crossover episode with one. And I don't know her name, but you probably would because she's on law and order. It's like SVU unit or some shit where she's like, some. I don't know. She's like, I came on, like, ten years ago and this case was happening, and it's a serial arsonist or some shit, part of this whole thing, and I was like, oh, shit, law and order. [00:45:03] Speaker A: Is she a brunette or blonde? [00:45:05] Speaker B: Brunette. [00:45:05] Speaker A: Brunette. It was probably Marisha. Are you talking about Benson? It better not Benson. [00:45:08] Speaker B: Honestly, dude, I don't even remember. She's brunette. That was the first word that came to my mind. [00:45:12] Speaker A: I remember there was a Chicago PD crossover on SVU, and I was like, great. I hate these characters. Get them off my show. [00:45:18] Speaker B: Get them. [00:45:21] Speaker A: So there's a lot of Chicago law and order crossovers, and I don't. Don't. They don't mesh with me, bro. [00:45:28] Speaker B: Well, you're fucking missing out, okay? [00:45:30] Speaker A: You're missing out. You should get on SVU, man. Benson and Stabler. [00:45:33] Speaker B: It's too real, man. [00:45:35] Speaker A: I'm telling you. [00:45:36] Speaker B: I mean, anything that deals with fucked up things that happen to kids or anything, I can't watch it, dude. [00:45:40] Speaker A: It's not really fucked up things that happen to kids or anybody. [00:45:44] Speaker B: Now that I have a kid, I am super sensitive now to any sort of violence on television and stuff. I enjoy watching it, but in the back of my mind, I'm like, oh, shit, I hope his parents are okay. Something like that. Thought that was never there before. Is there now? Like, son of a bitch. [00:46:00] Speaker A: Yeah, that did happen. I would say that normally happens to somebody. It's like once you get older and you have kids, you start thinking about, man, that poor family. [00:46:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Your whole life has changed, right? [00:46:12] Speaker A: I think about. So you've seen the mummy, right? Of course you've seen the mummy, yeah. For those of you at home, yes, I'm talking about Brendan Fraser, the. You know, when they get married in the mummy two and the mummy three, they end up having this kid in the mummy three. You're like, okay, what else you can do? But they have this kid that's supposed to be taking after and all this shit, and I'm just like, you're such a bad father. Oh, yeah, absolutely bad father. Like, you are rich beyond belief. [00:46:43] Speaker B: You put your family through this shit because you missed the adventure. Hang it up. Fuck it up. You. Yeah. Did you know that Brennan Fraser is, like, some sexual icon to women our age? Did you know this? [00:46:55] Speaker A: What? [00:46:56] Speaker B: Brennan Fraser and Ian. Not Ian Callan. Jesus, what's his name? [00:47:01] Speaker A: Ewan McGregor. [00:47:02] Speaker B: No, the guy the guy in Jurassic park who had the glasses. What's his name? Dr. Ian whatever. [00:47:09] Speaker A: Oh, you mean Jeff Goldblum. [00:47:10] Speaker B: Jeff Goldblum, yeah. [00:47:11] Speaker A: Well, Jeff Goldblum has been a sexual icon for a long time. Didn't you see how he was dressed in Jurassic park? [00:47:17] Speaker B: Yeah, but I didn't notice anything about it. But even when he broke his leg. [00:47:20] Speaker A: And he's, like, he crawled out on the table. [00:47:23] Speaker B: Who was that? Burt Reynolds or Tom Selleck or whatever. [00:47:26] Speaker A: He'S been a sexual icon. Dude, fun fact about Jurassic park, which I did not know. Do you know that the fucking sound of the T Rex is actually a koala? [00:47:36] Speaker B: No. [00:47:36] Speaker A: Yeah. I had no idea koalas made this sound. But koalas make two types of high chirps, but when they're going up, they have this deep, rumbling growl. So they just recorded that and laid it over itself. And that's the roar of the sound of the Trex when it's, like, rolling down, and it's, like. Not like the actual screen. [00:47:57] Speaker B: Not like that noise. Yeah. Okay. [00:47:59] Speaker A: No, not that one. But, like, the actual growl of the Trex, like, walking by before it. That's just a koala, which is fucking hilarious. [00:48:10] Speaker B: I didn't fact check this, but I remember seeing, like, a gif. Gif. Whatever. [00:48:15] Speaker A: The meme. [00:48:16] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:48:16] Speaker A: I always called them gifs. And people are like, no, it's a gif. [00:48:19] Speaker B: That's what I called it. I thought it was a gif because it's a g and an. I don't know, man. [00:48:23] Speaker A: This is one of those things. [00:48:25] Speaker B: It was weird. So, anyways, I saw this meme ish, whatever the fuck it is, and it's a picture of the credits from Jurassic park, and there's a line position in it, and it is. I think it's something like Velociraptor supervisor or dinosaur supervisor. And his name is, like, philip something. And then the caption under it is like, God damn it. [00:48:47] Speaker A: Still. [00:48:48] Speaker B: You had one fucking job. There were velociraptors in the kitchen. [00:48:50] Speaker A: What the fuck? [00:48:51] Speaker B: Like, something like that, right? And it was, like, one of the funniest things that I thought of that I had seen on it. [00:48:56] Speaker A: I love little Easter eggs that they put in movies like that and, like, little shows like that. It makes me very happy to see that. It shows that through all these sweat and tears, people can still have a humor when they underpay their staff. [00:49:06] Speaker B: There it is. [00:49:07] Speaker A: It's very good. [00:49:08] Speaker B: Anything to put a smile on their face. [00:49:10] Speaker A: Anything to put a smile on their face. Have you seen that show on Amazon called Invincible? There's a show on Amazon, Invincible. It's an adaptation of a comic book. Just know. It's pretty much a fucked up Superman story. Like, a guy from another planet comes to save the world, but ends up being a bad. But is he bad? Is he good? Whatever. So the name of the show is called Invincible, and there's this fucking hilarious Easter egg that they throw in there. But the kids, the high school that they go to is Reginald Bell Johnson high school. And the name of the principal is principal Wilslow. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Oh, God. Okay. [00:49:49] Speaker A: Who is voiced by Reginald Bell Johnson? [00:49:52] Speaker B: I was going to say, are any of the writers or creators part of family matters? Oh, my God. [00:49:57] Speaker A: It's just, like, a very funny tidbit. I'm sure somebody was like, this is hilarious. Let's put this in. [00:50:02] Speaker B: Let's see who gets it. Yeah. [00:50:03] Speaker A: And I was like, oh, that guy sounds like Carl Winslow. And they're like, yeah. And then he said, principal Winslow. And I'm like, oh, yeah, they go to Reginald Bell Johnson High School. [00:50:11] Speaker B: I'm noticing a lot of kids movies that are coming out now. They're putting, we'll call them adult jokes in some of them, so they know the parents that are dragging their kids to these movies or anything like that, and they're okay. Like, the kids are going to love this because it's slapstick funny, whatever. But the parents are going to recognize it. Like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Did you see? [00:50:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Great. [00:50:31] Speaker B: So, like, when I think it's one of the scenes, Michelangelo runs into the car and he's like, wrestling somebody or whatever. And the song that's in there is the vanilla ice. Go, ninja, go, ninja, go. And I was like, son of a bitch. [00:50:42] Speaker A: They did a great job of that. [00:50:45] Speaker B: Great job. Rocksteady, bebop. That was. [00:50:48] Speaker A: I was telling Bennett, too, like, how much I loved it because I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan. And when Master Splinter started to fight, it was all Jackie Chan style, like, him using the entire environment and then hurting his back and then pretending he's hurt. A guy comes, he kicks a can in his face. That's Operation Condor. That's Mr. Nice Guy. That's rumble in the Bronx. It's literally, like, his fighting style. They put that in there. [00:51:09] Speaker B: It was great when they do the transition from Master Splinter, what he is today, where he's old as shit, but, like, when he first found the turtles, and he's this typical 80s dad with the afro, that was my dad. That looked identical to my dad. I screen grabbed it and sent it to my pops. I was like, this is you, short shorts. Fucking afro out. That's my dad right there. I was blown away. I told my kid, I was like, that's your grandfather right there. [00:51:33] Speaker A: If you can get a picture of your dad, I want to do a side by side. [00:51:35] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Yeah, please. You'll see it. [00:51:37] Speaker A: Get me a picture of your dad. [00:51:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Full blown afro dude. [00:51:40] Speaker A: But, yeah, they've been doing that. They've been putting so those little jokes for the older. So people who remember they've been doing that for a while. And I always love that. I've always loved that. And I love that the adult jokes are in movies that kids don't understand. Like, I don't know if you remember happily ever after, trek ever after when they do the high speed chase and the guy who does. I forgot the guy. [00:52:04] Speaker B: We got a white Bronco. [00:52:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, it was in the carriage, and it was like a white carriage going down the freeway. But the guy who does America's most wanted did the voice. [00:52:12] Speaker B: They're peeling down. Oh, God. [00:52:14] Speaker A: So he started doing that voiceover, and it's hilarious. And when they pulled him, they. They're like, wrestling down, like, oh, you can't contain me. He's like, what is this catnip? He's like, oh, I swear it's not mine. [00:52:25] Speaker B: I'm holding that for a friend. How did that get? [00:52:26] Speaker A: Yeah, it's all that stuff is just very funny. [00:52:29] Speaker B: That was great. That was a really good scene. [00:52:32] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:52:33] Speaker B: Yeah, because he says it right there and he goes, yeah, we've got a white Bronco heading south. [00:52:36] Speaker A: Yeah, the blimp is like the helicopter. It's fucking great. It's a great scene. [00:52:44] Speaker B: Oh, my God. How did that get there? [00:52:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:50] Speaker B: That'S funny. [00:52:51] Speaker A: He use the pepper cracker. [00:52:55] Speaker B: Oh, that's great. [00:52:57] Speaker A: It's great stuff. [00:52:59] Speaker B: Oh, my God, dude. [00:53:02] Speaker A: That's one of the funniest. It's great stuff. So I don't know if you heard about this, which is really funny. Fucking, I didn't know they had this. So I've heard of lobster fest at Red Lobster. You ever been to Red Lobster? Lobster fest? [00:53:14] Speaker B: Not to the festival itself, no. [00:53:16] Speaker A: But you just been to. [00:53:17] Speaker B: I've been to a red lobster, so. [00:53:18] Speaker A: I've been to Red lobster and I've gone to lobster fest and I've thought, too much lobster. Okay. Nobody would say too much lobster or anything, but I've been like, okay, this is too much lobster. [00:53:27] Speaker B: What is it like an all you can eat thing? [00:53:29] Speaker A: It's just everything you have is lobster. So you want a lobster burger? Great. Lobster grilled cheese, great. Lobster Mac and cheese. Fantastic wraps, lobster Pat. Everything's lobster. [00:53:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:40] Speaker A: But they thought, hey, a good way to drive up business is $20, all you can eat Shrimp. [00:53:47] Speaker B: Oh, God. [00:53:48] Speaker A: Apparently, they lost $11 million. [00:53:52] Speaker B: Damn. [00:53:53] Speaker A: They lost $11 million. [00:53:54] Speaker B: Damn. [00:53:55] Speaker A: Because, I mean, if I said, here, $20 for all you can eat shrimp, how much shrimp are you really going to eat? [00:54:01] Speaker B: I know that when I do get a shrimp cocktail, it's gone. So I don't know what $20 of shrimp equates to, but I'm getting my money's worth, right? [00:54:12] Speaker A: That's what everybody went in here thinking was like, all I can eat shrimp. Great. Bring. [00:54:16] Speaker B: So dumb. [00:54:17] Speaker A: I'll tell you right now how much I fuck with shrimp. I went to playa del Carmen, like, an all inclusive result years ago in Mexico, and I kept trying to test how inclusive it was, and the guy at the desk was just like, as long as you got money, we'll do anything. I'm like, get the fuck out of here. I'm starting to think, like, django and chains, like, can I get these motherfuckers to fight for my entertainment? Like, what the fuck? So we're at the bar. So I'm at the bar, and the guy come up to like, hey, make sure your drinks are good. Everything's fine. I'm like, yeah, can I get some grilled shrimp? He's like, yeah, no problem. He leaves, he comes back with grilled shrimp. It doesn't cost anything. So I give him a dollar. Like, thanks, man. Give him a dollar. He's like, oh. So now he's like, oh, this guy will give me a dollar if I get him anything he wants. Everywhere I went on this resort, just like, get me grilled shrimp. I was on the canoe that goes around this little canal and anything before you guys need, I'm like, can I get some water and some grilled shrimp? The guy's like, yeah. Comes back, and he's got me this little hot dog saucer plate of paper with six grilled shrimp on it so I can just eat. And then I put the paper in my little bag. [00:55:21] Speaker B: Jesus. [00:55:22] Speaker A: I'm on the beach, grilled shrimp. They had a little dance party. It's fucking midnight. Grilled shrimp. [00:55:28] Speaker B: Grilled shrimp. [00:55:29] Speaker A: So if red lobster is going to be given $20, all you could eat grilled shrimp. I can't believe I didn't hear that. They had all I know, I was. [00:55:34] Speaker B: Going to say, you missed out. [00:55:35] Speaker A: I missed out, man. I'm the type of person they want to keep away from that type of shit. [00:55:39] Speaker B: I always wonder, all you could eat anything, always. To me, as a business. Sounds like a ridiculous idea, right? [00:55:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:55:46] Speaker B: We went to fogo de chow two days ago. [00:55:48] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:55:49] Speaker B: And I thought it. [00:55:51] Speaker A: Well, before I say this, you just fucking triggered Shannon. Shannon's going to listen to this? [00:55:54] Speaker B: I fucking thought it was stupid. I am not a fan of this, bro. Me neither. [00:55:59] Speaker A: Did you got the meat sweats? [00:56:01] Speaker B: Yeah. My health aside, yes, it was a bad move for me. But the thing that pissed me off the most was. So I come from a decade of hospitality and restaurant life and all this bullshit, and I'm sorry. You're walking around with a sort of meat with. Yes. Looks great. You've got a plate at the bottom and it's awesome. You put this down between myself and the person sitting next to me. So the person sitting next to me, we're having a conversation like this. There's a sort of meat right here. I spit. You spit. We've drenched this piece of meat, right? Well, that piece of meat, before coming to us, circled the entire fucking restaurant. Okay. Then you came to me to hack off some fillet or whatever the fuck it was, right? And now I'm going to eat this. I. Rookie mistake. Filled up on sides early. So by the time the meat came around, I was like, yeah, exactly. I fucked up. Can't pass up on a cheese curd. It was that and a take on mexican street corn, which was fire. But the all you could eat beef experience, you shouldn't have that. That shouldn't be an option because all that stuff costs money. So I know in order for you to make this worth it for you as a restaurant, you have to have a lower quality of whatever the fuck it is you're serving me. Hopefully it's a beef. Hopefully it's something edible, right? And you're just going to consume all this and consume all this. But the amount of just. It's disgusting. I was gone from. I was just. I don't know. [00:57:22] Speaker A: How does Shannon, like, went? Like. It was me, my budy, his. His wife, Amber. Just me and Shannon. And we're like, let's go to de chow. Let's go to Fugu Chow. We kept on talking about it. We finally got around to going. We went. And the first time I went to fugu de Chow, I went there with some business people. So I was on my best behavior I wasn't like, I'm going to fucking throw down. So the second time I went, I'm like, at least I can let loose a little bit. I'm around my friends and we're just chilling. [00:57:50] Speaker B: Get some food. [00:57:51] Speaker A: Yeah. So we got high. We smoked, like, can't we? And, bro, the silence at this table, like 15 minutes in, after the meats were circling, we were just kind of like, oh, fuck, this is not good to eat this much fucking meat. And they had everything but the little. [00:58:12] Speaker B: Thing where you flip over. [00:58:13] Speaker A: Yes or, yeah, yes or no? They don't listen to that shit. No, the thing was, I had my thing. No. Which means don't come around me because my willpower is not strong enough. So the thing said no. And this dude comes over, like, this rack of lamb, and I'm like, bro. He's like, oh, sorry. I'm like, no, you're not. You need to get rid of that shit. [00:58:30] Speaker B: Dangle this fucking meat in front of my face. [00:58:32] Speaker A: Yeah, all you can eat is one fucking cricket. [00:58:35] Speaker B: Sushi spots. You do those all you can eat sushi spots? [00:58:37] Speaker A: Do Korean barbecue sushi. [00:58:39] Speaker B: Damon's a big fan of that, man. I don't do a buddy named Damon, and he's into that. [00:58:44] Speaker A: Well, yeah, he comes from a line of, I'm getting my money's worth and I get it. That's why I'm not going to fugot a child. If somebody ever takes me there, it's going to happen again because I need to get my money's worth. I would need to make sure I eat at least 50 to 100 pounds that night. [00:59:01] Speaker B: So it doesn't take much for me to be like, fuck, I'm going to need a tums later. And that's the level that I'm at now. And if you add fucking meat to this thing, I'm like, yeah, the meat sweats are there. I can't breathe. Definitely sleep apnea is kicking in, and hopefully I wake up in the morning because I'm a fucking black the fuck out. [00:59:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it's bad. See, I really became conscious. Conscious of how I eat now and what I'm eating because you can hear my heavy breathing now. [00:59:30] Speaker B: God. [00:59:30] Speaker A: Yeah, that's just my body's reaction to hearing meat. [00:59:34] Speaker B: I'm, like, looking behind me, like, is he behind me? The fuck are you? You're over my ear. [00:59:40] Speaker A: I'm everywhere. But, yeah, all you can eat. I stayed in a hotel till I need to check out. I'm packed up and they're like, checkouts at eleven. And I'm ready to go at 930. Don't care. [00:59:51] Speaker B: No, I'm going to sit here and watch four episodes of the office right off. [00:59:54] Speaker A: Two svus, baby. And you know that the hotel, it's on USA or TBS. [00:59:59] Speaker B: Right there, man. [00:59:59] Speaker A: There it is. [01:00:00] Speaker B: There it is. TBS for sure. [01:00:02] Speaker A: But yeah, that's one of the things that I kind of sit with. And when it comes to all you can eat. But what a fucking terrible business. Do you think a CEO got fired for that shit? [01:00:14] Speaker B: All you can eat shrimp easily. Well, I mean, that's a lot of money, but yeah. Whoever made that decision, you had to spend money to buy that first, right? Yeah, I guess. Here's another thing. This so much shrimp for your restaurant to not be busy enough to eat that amount. Like, it's one thing if you overordered, right? [01:00:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:32] Speaker B: Okay, we overordered. [01:00:33] Speaker A: Fuck. [01:00:34] Speaker B: We've got this extra leftover. We're going to put this on special and try to push it out. But if this was a special and you overordered everything, and that's your waste right now, you're fucked. That's a lot of money to waste on that. [01:00:45] Speaker A: It makes sense for, like, olive garden to do, like, all you can eat pasta, because there's only so much. Two plates of pasta, you're good to go. Give me a white sauce and a tomato sauce. I'm good. I'm going home. Olive Garden's got it figured out, but once you include, like, a premium meat, you're fucking up. [01:01:03] Speaker B: Right? So shrimp, right. Even if you ordered a shitload of shrimp, you got to create dishes to go with it. So you got your shrimp pasta, shrimp salads, things like that, cocktails, whatever. But you can't do too much with shrimp because shrimp by itself is great. So that's why you do the all you could eat thing. Yeah. [01:01:17] Speaker A: Well, it's fried shrimp, right? [01:01:19] Speaker B: Fried, grilled, and what? [01:01:21] Speaker A: Fried, grilled maybe. Yeah. [01:01:22] Speaker B: Boiled, sauteed. Yeah. At that point, you're fucking. Do I use it as bait? [01:01:26] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:01:26] Speaker B: Am I fishing in the fucking lobster tank? [01:01:28] Speaker A: There's just a string of shrimp in the front. Just grabing it solid. I'm like, oh, my gosh. [01:01:33] Speaker B: It's like the marathon. You run for water, but instead of water, they give you shrimp. A cup of shrimp. No, but you go to Olive Garden. They do all you could eat pastas, but they're so many different types of pasta, know, so you can kind of make all that work because maybe people aren't getting the all you can eat pasta, but you're going to get the fucking italian trio or whatever that's called, and you're going to still be able to sell it off. Yeah, that's what I got. [01:01:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I got you. [01:01:56] Speaker B: Promotional consideration is brought to you by Olive Garden, where bread baskets alone will fucking kill you. [01:02:03] Speaker A: Wait, speaking of bread, still red lobsters, cheddar biscuits, have you ever tried to make them? Got to. It was funny. They brought up in the last pod, and Bennett brought it up, not knowing that I made some earlier that day. [01:02:19] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [01:02:22] Speaker A: And the best thing is when Shannon, she fucking puts the cheese in there. [01:02:27] Speaker B: And they're good, dude, I bought the box. I fucked it up. I don't know how, because it's basically like bisquick. You're just putting that in there. You mix it up, you do your thing, you bake, and you're done. Mine, you fucked it up. I went to Red lobster and just got some, although this is fucking stupid. And I left the house. I remember telling Amber, I'll be back in 30 minutes. [01:02:45] Speaker A: Dude, I'll tell you right now, there is nothing more frustrating than fucking up a dish. [01:02:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:02:51] Speaker A: Like the time that you put into something, and then it comes out and you're like, fuck, yeah. It fucking defeats you a little bit. [01:02:56] Speaker B: So I had this conversation with Amber, and what are we going to have for dinner? What are we going to have? And I was like, all right, well, we got to try to save money right now, right? And she's like, yeah. And I was like, okay, so Luke wants pizza, we'll eat pizza. I don't want to do, like, delivery Pizza, right? Because that's going to be like, bonus charge and delivery charge. And then I got a tip because. [01:03:13] Speaker A: I'm cheap as fuck. [01:03:15] Speaker B: So I was like, fuck it. I was like, let's go to the grocery store. We'll get some dejorno. We'll throw it in the oven. We're done, right? Frozen pizza. It is what it is. Let's roll. We throw it in, and, like, it takes, like, 45 minutes or whatever to bake. What, 35 minutes to bake. [01:03:27] Speaker A: It's like 18 minutes. [01:03:29] Speaker B: Okay, whatever minute it was. I'm sorry. So I'm watching Amber, and she's pulling it out of the thing. She puts it on the oven, puts on the rack, and what she tried to do was put the pizza on the rack and close the door at the same time with her other hand. Usually you would just take the pizza out, you put it up on the thing, and then you close the thing. Well, she tried to one and one it. Pizza slid right off of them, right on the floor. She was already super pissed. Like, she's hangry. She's mad. And she dropped the pizza. We're fucked. I looked at her and I was like, I just grabbed my keys. I left. I sat at Domino's and waited for the pizza to be ready because I was like, I'm not going to pay for this delivery charge. I fucking went there, grabbed my pizza and fucking went home. They got rid of little caesars. So, like, you can't do the hot and ready. [01:04:07] Speaker A: Hot and ready, man. There is nothing like the anger of a woman who is hungry. And then something goes terribly wrong. [01:04:16] Speaker B: I saw the red in her face, and I was just like, not even doing this. Fucking turn around and left because it's happened to me. [01:04:22] Speaker A: And sometimes I'm like, fuck. And I'm like, whatever. I'm over it. But I've seen it happen to Shannon. Or like, bro, she was like, I'm hungry. I'm hungry. All I want is this. I just want this. All I want is this. And she'll order a ramen or something. Or, you know, the ramen will come and then the broth will spill. [01:04:40] Speaker B: Oh, no. [01:04:41] Speaker A: And she's like, fuck it. [01:04:42] Speaker B: Fuck it. [01:04:43] Speaker A: I'm going to kill myself. [01:04:45] Speaker B: I'm like, damn. [01:04:45] Speaker A: Hold. [01:04:47] Speaker B: Whoa. There's other options. [01:04:48] Speaker A: I could go get you a crepe. Relax. So doordash is something. I fucking hate. Doordash is something like, I need to go to the supreme court, and I need to sit on the floor. Talk about Doordash has taken us all for a fucking ride. Because why? So let's say I'm drunk as shit and I order from McDonald's. [01:05:10] Speaker B: Classic, all right? [01:05:12] Speaker A: And you have your option, and you're like, all right, blah, blah, blah. It's $30 for two Big Macs. [01:05:18] Speaker B: Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Yeah, but you're drunk. You'll do it. [01:05:21] Speaker A: Yeah, it's whatever. And I just check past it because it's at the default of 10% for tip. Fine. Now, if I order from, like, let's say. Actually, you know what? This is a bad example. Volcanoes. [01:05:33] Speaker B: Volcanoes. [01:05:33] Speaker A: I'm familiar with volcanoes. For those of you not familiar with volcanoes, it's kind of like a fusion asian restaurant. Fancy. Whatever. If I order from volcanoes and I get, like, two sushi rolls. $40. [01:05:46] Speaker B: Yes. [01:05:46] Speaker A: Comes to the house. A 10% tip. [01:05:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:49] Speaker A: Now, let's say I order fried rice, short rib, garlic noodles, and two sushi rolls. It's like $150. [01:05:56] Speaker B: Yes. [01:05:57] Speaker A: And then it's defaulted to 10% tip. [01:05:58] Speaker B: $15. [01:05:59] Speaker A: Yeah. And I'm like, no, I'm not going to tip a driver for going the same distance. That has nothing to fucking do with this order. So the fact that these things are built off the price of what you're getting, if you can hold my order in a bag, you're getting $5. That's it. [01:06:19] Speaker B: See, the percentage came from the amount that the servers and bartenders and anybody had to tip out on. Right. So at the end of the night, your sales that were attached to you were $1,000. You owed the government x percentage because the government is assuming that you made at least x percentage on this. Yes. So that's where it was. So they took that model and they put it into Doordash or Grubhub or anything like that. And I agree with you. I don't think that's right. Because when Doordash or Grubhub drivers at the end of the year are filing their taxes, they're not saying, you had $70,000 in sales this year. No, you fucking didn't. You moved product from point a to point b. Your other expenses are your fuel. And that's what you're capital. [01:07:03] Speaker A: And this is the thing that it's kind of crazy, is. [01:07:08] Speaker B: Gig economy. [01:07:09] Speaker A: The gig economy is such a terrible business model because you're exploiting people who need to make money right now, but not compensating for that. And you're putting it on the community, on other people, to subsidize their fucking payment. And that's fucking bullshit. [01:07:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:28] Speaker A: I'm glad I can experience a restaurant on the other side of town if I wanted it, especially living in LA, because that drive, boy, oh, boy, sucks. That's terrible. That's terrible. But the fact that even with Instacart, I remember I had a guy come because I had no idea about this at Instacart. Like, here's something that I didn't know. So in Instacart, do you know that the person shopping isn't necessarily the person driving? [01:07:49] Speaker B: Correct. Yeah, I do that. [01:07:50] Speaker A: So it took me a while to figure that out. And when I figured that out, I was like, what the fuck? Who am I tipping? [01:07:56] Speaker B: Yeah, who am I tipping? I thought it splits. I thought if you have one versus the. Like, if it says, joanne is shopping for you, and then Joanne. Yeah, Mark. Mark drops off. [01:08:08] Speaker A: When I look it up, it's like, how are your delivery? Tell Mark how he did. And I'm like, I don't get why I'm tipping Mark when somebody else who picked all the worst items. [01:08:18] Speaker B: You know what I think the shopper. Sometimes the shopper is actually an employee at the. [01:08:23] Speaker A: Okay, so. [01:08:24] Speaker B: And I don't know who said that to me, but they had mentioned that if you're doing it from Ralph's or something, like that employee is Ralph's. He's collecting everything they're putting in an area, and your Instacart driver is just grabbing and going. That's what was explained to me before. But I know there are drivers that are selecting options as well. So I don't know. [01:08:44] Speaker A: So this is one thing that I don't like about grocery stores, because when I know what I need, and obviously, this is a bad business model for grocery stores because they won't make enough money with you catching your eye with something. Oh, I didn't know I needed fucking Pillsbury dough. But I wish that rouse had, like, a Google Maps built in so I could just put in what I want to get, and it just routes out. So, like, first you can go down aisle one. [01:09:08] Speaker B: God, that'd be great. Like, a ways for your grocery store. [01:09:11] Speaker A: I'm just sitting there, and I can just get everything off my list and I can get the fuck out. Like, I'm not trying to walk around like, okay, why isn't the bread here? Why isn't the bread. Oh, because it's featured. It's over here. Get the fuck out of here. [01:09:21] Speaker B: Route XL for grocery stores. Yeah, awesome. [01:09:24] Speaker A: That'd be great. For Home Depot. [01:09:25] Speaker B: God, that'd be great. [01:09:26] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:09:27] Speaker B: Route XL for the world fucking ao. I think you're onto something. [01:09:31] Speaker A: All I do is complain about things that make my life. I don't want to invent it. I don't have the willpower or the tenacity or drive or focus to get these things done. I just want to exist. [01:09:43] Speaker B: Yeah, no. Route excel for your life. I fucking love that, dude. [01:09:46] Speaker A: I've been saying this shit, too. For Apple. You heard it here, Apple. Get your shit together. There should be a fucking app or something. A notification. If I'm typing a text and then I get a phone call or I start talking to Philly and I forget to press send, it should pop up and say, hey, do you want to send message waiting? Because I can't tell you how many times I forgot to press send on something and, like, half the fucking population has add. Come on, bro. [01:10:11] Speaker B: Did it to me a week ago. [01:10:12] Speaker A: I did. [01:10:13] Speaker B: I don't know if you forgot that. But you did it to me a week ago. I'll send you a text to remind you. No, I agree with you. [01:10:20] Speaker A: These things need to exist. [01:10:22] Speaker B: Yeah. I keep thinking about rad excel for your life because all I'm thinking is like, fuck, I hate when I have to go to, when I go shopping with Amber, it's like grocery shopping or just in the world shopping. You end up at a department store like Target. Yeah, fucking target. She's like, well, we're going to browse around. Like, no, we're fucking not. We needed four things. And yes, sometimes four things can turn into ten things, but that's, as you know, you need them. But I don't need to go down an Aisle. I know I don't need anything out of. I don't need to go down the kitchen aisle. We have everything in our kitchen area. But you want to look at another appliance that you may or may not want, but maybe you want it. So now you're telling me it's an impulse buy, which clearly means we definitely don't fucking need it. That's a journey we're going on right now. [01:11:09] Speaker A: It's something that happens to every single couple. There's always going to be the one that wants to browse around, and there's always the one that needs to get in and get out. I want to let you know, I went to little Tokyo market with Shannon, and we had a list. We know exactly what we wanted. I wasn't trying to fight. I didn't want to get an argument. She's like, sometimes, I don't know, I want to look at the labels and I want to, I'm like, okay, fine. Just so you know, little Tokyo market, you can validate there with them for 2 hours and it's free. It's free parking for 2 hours. We went to little Tokyo market and then we left. And I had to pay $6 because I was there for two and a half fucking hours. [01:11:46] Speaker B: That sucks. [01:11:47] Speaker A: I had to make this point. I pulled over the car and I was like, look. I'm like, we were there too long. Do you understand? We were there too long. They have pulled their audience and they're like, okay, this is their customer base. No one will surpass 2 hours. [01:12:04] Speaker B: Right? And we fucked up. And we fucking, we fucked up. [01:12:07] Speaker A: So, yeah, I get it. [01:12:09] Speaker B: Amber says, you're not fun shopping with. You're not fun shopping. I was like, no, I am. When I know what I want, I don't need to walk around and go, oh, but look, at the sweater. Look at this. Look at that. I don't need to do that. And so when I'm sitting there with my arms around my corner or when I'm fucking around on my phone, it's because we're done here. I'm bored. We need to move on. We have shit to do. We can't just be lolly gagging in this aisle. There's no reason for us to be in. [01:12:32] Speaker A: That's a. See, I know the difference. So there's times where I'm like, hey, yo, I got to go to target because I got to get something. I'm not telling Shannon. I'm not even bringing. [01:12:41] Speaker B: No. Yeah, because that's going to invite. [01:12:44] Speaker A: But I do know when I'm like, yo, we should go to target on Saturday. Because I do know one thing, and I know she just likes fucking. So, like, I know what that is going to be like. I know I'm going to be there for 2 hours. And she's heard me say this before, but sometimes she puts shit in the cart. I'll just take it out and she won't. [01:13:01] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, weird. [01:13:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll just take it out of the cart. I do the same shit with ozo. [01:13:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:04] Speaker A: He'll fucking like, oh, can I get this? I'm like, yeah, okay. He turns around like, God, they're both the same, man. They don't see it. It does not exist. [01:13:10] Speaker B: Dude, Luke, on Friday nights or Saturdays, he'll be like, hey, guys, are we to do anything fun this weekend? And Amber and I, who work all fucking week, and the last thing we want to do is anything fucking fun. We're like, yeah, man. No, we've got errands to do. Because, you know, errands are important. We got to get you set up for this, blah. Make a bunch of shit. And then he goes, well, can we go to target, bro? That's when, you know, we go there too much is when your kid is asking you to go to target. [01:13:34] Speaker A: If you can go to target. [01:13:35] Speaker B: No, because I know what you want there. You want a toy? I don't want to get you a toy. I don't want to get you shit there. [01:13:40] Speaker A: My kid is the fucking best. Because everywhere we go, I'm like, all right, you can get one toy. And he's like, bro, he picks out the cheapest shit. Like, he'll go see a little ball that's sixty cents at the food for less. Or he'll get a hot wheel at target, which is like $0.65. [01:13:56] Speaker B: That's good. [01:13:56] Speaker A: He's like, oh, what about this? And I'm like, it's not even a toy. It's just like a little button that he found. He liked somebody's clothes. Where the fuck did you get this? You could keep it. I don't even know where you found it. [01:14:06] Speaker B: What about this? That's a gun wrapper or gum wrapper? [01:14:09] Speaker A: Because I remember when I was five, I found the biggest thing in the store. I'm like, mom, what about this bike? And she's like, put it back, idiot. I'm like, okay, all right. Hard eye. You said, pick a toy. What about this power wheel? She's like, are you dumb? [01:14:23] Speaker B: God, are you dumb? [01:14:25] Speaker A: And I'm like, to the contrary. I thought I was smart. I thought this was a smart thing. This is one big thing. But apparently I was dumb for thinking I'd get away with it. [01:14:35] Speaker B: You said hard eye, dude, that's one of the funniest fucking things you've said, bro. [01:14:38] Speaker A: I'm telling you, that is a hard eye. It was a very hard eye. People in the next aisle were like, oh, shit. Somebody about to get beat. Somebody's about to get beat. But anyway, yeah, we've been going for a minute. I want to take another break, and then I want to come back with Papa's pulpit. I really want to see what's grinding your gears. It's great to have you on. [01:14:57] Speaker B: Appreciate it. [01:14:57] Speaker A: Everybody. Please stick around for more. Papa don't pre. [01:15:00] Speaker B: There we go. [01:15:16] Speaker A: And, ladies and gentlemen, you know what time it is? It's that time again. You've reached the end of our pod. Thank you so much for sticking with us here. It's that time for Papa's pulpit. Yep. Phil is going to sticking around to help us. If you want to know one thing about Phil, I think Papa's pulpit was curated for you. [01:15:36] Speaker B: Oh, God. Yes. [01:15:37] Speaker A: It's just, you know, every. We go through these lives being a certain way, and sometimes things just piss us off or things amaze us. That's what this is for. Papa's pulpit is just to take the time to get something off your chest, whether it's something you want to praise or something you want to fucking throw in the ground, okay. Whatever it is, I want you to let loose. I'm going to pass the pulpit right over to you. [01:15:58] Speaker B: Oh, I get to go first? Yeah. [01:15:59] Speaker A: Tell me what's on your mind and what's irking you. [01:16:04] Speaker B: I mean, this is tough, because this is going to age the shit out of me. [01:16:08] Speaker A: We're old men. [01:16:09] Speaker B: This is going to be tough. Tech technology in general, I fucking hate. I sound so fucking old when I say that, but on a podcast, too, it is so bad. I just want to be like. Every time I say fucking tech, it grinds my gears. I feel like I'm this old guy on his porch yelling at some neighborhood kid, get off my stoop, you son of a bit. I feel like that's where I'm at in life right now. The other day, we bought a brand new printer for the house, and it worked from home. It's been fine. I finally figured out how to change the background on my team's thing, but that's been whatever. But we set up this printer, and I'm following the fucking directions. Everything. My wifi works. I'm reading the english side of the thing. Everything is fine. I've matched, I've paired. It's done, okay? Today I can print from my phone, but I can't print from the fucking computer that it's hard. I plugged into. I'm not even Bluetooth into it. I'm not even wifi into it. I've done every option. I have bluetooth, I have wifi, I have fucking ethernet into it. Nothing works. And I fucking can't stand it. Okay? It's not just the printer that we just fucking bought. [01:17:22] Speaker A: Preach, bro. [01:17:22] Speaker B: It is. Whether it's touchdicken's phone, whether it's my own fucking car, that I just fucking figured out that I have some sort of navigation system in it. I've been using Apple math and wave, so I kind of feel like I'm ahead of the game with that a little bit. Compared to, like, my 70 year old dad, I feel like I'm ahead of the game, but my car is very intuitive. I still don't really know what I'm doing with it. It's not some crazy fucking BMW. It's a Ford Fusion, okay? It's a used Ford fusion that has air conditioned seats. And that's, truth be told, it's the only reason why I got the fucking car. [01:17:56] Speaker A: That's swamp ass. I get you. [01:17:57] Speaker B: Oh, my God. It's a life changer. That tech I love. Keep it going. That's a fucking fan. Not some digital imprint footprint coming out of my fucking face at it. [01:18:06] Speaker A: You're one of the guys that missed the iPhone home button. [01:18:08] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Or the fucking headphone jack. God. I've gone through multiple pairs of Airpods that the Airpod pros, this, that whatever. The best one I have right now is the Airpod Max because they come over and because I can't hear shit anymore. It's the only thing I could hear on. [01:18:25] Speaker A: I can't lose those in the couch. [01:18:26] Speaker B: Exactly. [01:18:27] Speaker A: That's not. [01:18:27] Speaker B: Won't accidentally wash that in the fucking laundry. [01:18:29] Speaker A: It won't fall down the drain. I lost one down a sink. [01:18:33] Speaker B: I lost one down the toilet. Okay. I done turned around. It was in my ear. Fell right out into the thing. But I was mid flush. One pod went right down, so I got a left ear. I don't think you can be, like, righty or lefty in the ears, but I feel like I'm definitely not lefty. [01:18:51] Speaker A: You're not a lefty? [01:18:52] Speaker B: I'm definitely not a lefty. But, yeah, that got me good. I've gone through multiple pairs of those, pairing them. I hear it. It jings. This tells me it's paired. And I can't hear shit. I'm so angry at technology. I cannot wait for the robots to rise and fucking destroy us all. [01:19:15] Speaker A: Okay, well, thank you, Phil. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I'm glad. Do you feel a little better getting it off your chest a little bit? [01:19:21] Speaker B: I feel stars right now, but that's just probably because of my heart rate and my overweight, my cholesterol, everything on it. I have to call a doctor. [01:19:28] Speaker A: What's your apple watch day? How you doing? [01:19:31] Speaker B: Sudden spike. Are you having an anxiety attack? I don't know. It's weird. [01:19:37] Speaker A: All right, well, thank you, man. I'm going to slide the pulpit right on to know. I did enjoy your rent. I'm all about slowing down tech. I don't think they need to replace buttons. There's some things that just need buttons. I don't like trying to dial up the temperature on my stove with my finger level. Just getting. Just give me a knob. [01:19:56] Speaker B: Because what if you got fat fingers? That shit's sliding all the way over there. [01:19:58] Speaker A: I agree. Trust me, I'm with you. So mine is a little niche because I know that malls are going away. Big areas are going away. But I like to shop at H Mart. I like to go to some of these gallerias in Koreatown. Sometimes I go to these little plazas in little Tokyo or on the west side, I'll go to those little strip malls, pick up a couple things that I need, because sometimes they just have these mom and pop stores that got everything you need right there. What I have seen is an increase in content creators fucking everywhere. I don't care. I appreciate the grind. Do you get you. I appreciate it. I'm not a hater. I mean, I'm a little bit of a hater, but not on that right now. There's two interactions I can have in this situation. And I realized how much it bothered me over my last one when I was at Hmart, because did you go. [01:20:50] Speaker B: Off on a kid? [01:20:52] Speaker A: Mind you, I'm one of the first motherfuckers there. So it's like 930 in the morning. I just dropped my kid off at school. I'm like, I'm going to swing by Hmar. This interaction was so annoying. [01:21:02] Speaker B: Oh, God. [01:21:03] Speaker A: And I lost my shit. I went full Karen that I didn't even go. I left and went downtown because I'm like, you know what? Fuck. I'm just going to go to little Tokyo market because I know they'll have what I need. So the first interaction, if there's a content creator there and I walk through their shot or they're trying to sing or dance or they're doing something, I walk through their shot. The first reaction where I always assume I'm at fault, and a guy goes, oh. I'm like, oh, I see his camera. Oh, my bad. That's the first thing is out of my mouth, right? It's my bad. [01:21:29] Speaker B: Like a normal human. [01:21:30] Speaker A: Like a normal human. And this person's like, oh, no, don't worry about it. Blah, blah, blah. It's a digital, it's fine. And I'm like, okay, great. I get it. Cool. There's a second interaction that I'm not a fan of, and that's when I cross a shot and I go, my bad. And this person looks at me like I'm a hard r. I am daft in my head. And it's like, you didn't see my camera there? And I'll be like, what? I didn't see your camera. [01:21:58] Speaker B: The fuck. [01:21:59] Speaker A: Where's your pd? Where's your city permit? Let me see your film permit. Where's the call sheet? What the fuck do you mean I didn't see your camera? The fuck, you are in a walkway. Everybody here is walking. You're sitting here fucking whipping it like, no, what the. Get the fuck out of here. [01:22:14] Speaker B: Died. [01:22:15] Speaker A: I see your camera. I wanted to smash this motherfucker's camera. I wanted to smash him. Get the fuck out of here. I literally walk past, I'm giving him this look. I'm like, I'm sorry. There's people walking here. He's like, did this motherfucker just scoff at me? [01:22:28] Speaker B: Oh, my God, did this teenagers just fuck. [01:22:30] Speaker A: I'm like, shouldn't you be in school? What the fuck is happening? What the fuck is happening? And so I'm looking at him, and he just, like, rolls his eyes, fixes his hair, and starts recording again. And he's doing this little dance. He goes, hey, hi. Introduces himself, and I'm like, looking at this motherfucker, and I start to fucking film. And I'm like, you know what? This is turning me into a bad person. [01:22:48] Speaker B: Yeah, you can't have that on your phone. [01:22:49] Speaker A: I left because I was going to videotape and me ruining his shot again. [01:22:53] Speaker B: Nice. [01:22:53] Speaker A: And like, oops, motherfucker. [01:22:57] Speaker B: Way to take the high road, Obi. [01:22:58] Speaker A: Yeah, but see, I'm mature enough to let myself calm down and leave that situation. And that was just an interaction I had the whole time I was driving. I'm like, there's somebody else that's going to walk in front of this motherfucker and I hope they slap the shit out. [01:23:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:23:14] Speaker A: Sometimes I wish I had my mom, because I know how my mom would have handled that, and my mom would have fucking just put hands on this motherfucker. Nigerian woman. Like, do you not have respect? [01:23:27] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [01:23:27] Speaker A: I was like, my mommy. Because I'm not going to try and start a fight. I got a kid, but my mom didn't care about a kid. Now the cops will take these kids home. I need to teach this motherfucker a lesson. [01:23:36] Speaker B: It's almost like the youth right now, man. It's like the generation. It's this TikTok generation bullshit that there's no, what is it? Common sense? Spatial awareness? [01:23:45] Speaker A: Fucking. I don't want to go that far. [01:23:47] Speaker B: They're a bunch of dumb asses. [01:23:48] Speaker A: I don't want to go that far because I told you, I've had interactions where I cross something, I'm going, my bad. They're like, don't worry about it. No, there's no shade. Because everybody, they're in their own world. I get it. But to act like you're owed your own space in a public space is fucking wild. [01:24:04] Speaker B: That's shitty. [01:24:05] Speaker A: That is fucking wild. There's times where I've ducked in when somebody's, like, sitting there and like, oh. And as you can see here, they got all the ramens, and I'm just, like, doing the matrix out of the shot, right? But then I can't tell you how many fucking people have gotten me making weird demon faces in the back of the shot. I turn into that kid. I turn into that kid, I'll be like, walking by and somebody's like taking a group photo and I'll just be grabbing my cheeks, like doing something stupid. [01:24:31] Speaker B: Right. [01:24:31] Speaker A: But yeah, that's my pulpit. That's the thing that gets on my fucking nerves. [01:24:36] Speaker B: I think it's the goddamn youth. I cannot, man, you don't have to be a genius or anything like that, but just spatial awareness, common sense, acknowledging that you are not the only person on this planet right here. I mean, it's just little things like that. And I think that that particular thought is just not in their minds anymore, man. It's just. Nope, it's all about me. It's all about me and my likes and blah, blah, blah and TikTok and fucking. And that's great. Look, maybe I'm a little jealous because I can't fucking dance like that. It is what it is. I get able to move at one point. [01:25:11] Speaker A: Hold on. [01:25:12] Speaker B: Do you remember, do you used to. [01:25:14] Speaker A: Be able to move? [01:25:15] Speaker B: Do you remember the time, Obi, when we were younger? [01:25:19] Speaker A: Are you going to talk about the tryouts? [01:25:21] Speaker B: The tryouts, thank you. The tryouts. Thank you. [01:25:25] Speaker A: Do you talk about putting pictures on the Internet? Those are out there. [01:25:28] Speaker B: Those are out there. I would tell you right now. [01:25:29] Speaker A: So just remove so you guys know it doesn't look like it now, but me and this gentleman over here, we played football and we were in pretty good fucking shape. [01:25:39] Speaker B: I like to toot my own horn. I want to say that there was, at one point, there was abs that were visible. [01:25:44] Speaker A: Those weird little b don't. [01:25:46] Speaker B: Now they're under layers upon layers of dormant muscle. But they are. There. They are. [01:25:56] Speaker A: Can't. I can't tell you how much I complain. Like, I suck in most of the day. And you think that would develop one ab. [01:26:02] Speaker B: But no. Nicole Rodriguez actually said that if I suck in all day, I'll actually get skinnier. It was the most hurtful thing she ever said to me. [01:26:09] Speaker A: Yes, that's a funny lady. Little Enya's got some jokes. [01:26:15] Speaker B: She got me on. Good. Shout out to Nicole. [01:26:17] Speaker A: Yeah, shout out to Nicole. But yeah, for all you. Hopefully they never surfaced. But apparently when we were younger, looking for money, we got hit in a bad time. It was like right before the financial crisis. We were looking for to make some money. [01:26:32] Speaker B: Definitely before eight. [01:26:33] Speaker A: Absolutely before right before eight, trying to get some money. We had jobs. It just wasn't enough. [01:26:39] Speaker B: We needed more money. We were the hustlers out there. [01:26:41] Speaker A: We were the hustlers, hustlers. Before hustling, we decided to apply to Hollywood men and like, yo, man, I got mad respect for strippers. Like, why can't I do that? [01:26:53] Speaker B: Exactly. [01:26:53] Speaker A: I get some tips. I can move. I got a great body. Why the fuck not? [01:26:57] Speaker B: There are pictures of Obi and I on the Internet somewhere where we are not clothed, trying out for Hollywood men or USA strippers or something like that. [01:27:06] Speaker A: Some shit. [01:27:07] Speaker B: They never called us back. Never got a. [01:27:10] Speaker A: They took the pictures, though. [01:27:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:27:12] Speaker A: Thank you for your application. [01:27:13] Speaker B: We'll get in touch that at one point, I don't know if you decide to run for president or something like that comes out, these incriminating photos come up. But I'm just there in the background. [01:27:24] Speaker A: Take a look at me, guys. That's the only reason I'll get a tattoo. Be like, I had this shit for years. [01:27:30] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know what y'all talking about right now. [01:27:32] Speaker A: That's what I would do it. But, yes, this has been great. Thank you, Philly. Thank you so much for stopping by. Really appreciate it. I think we might have you on in the next couple of weeks again. [01:27:43] Speaker B: I'll be here. [01:27:44] Speaker A: You'll be stopping by. Big shout out to our producer, Blaine Pierre. Aaron Mossow does our music. DNA does our music. Ladies and gentlemen, it's always a pleasure. We're going to be back before the holidays. This is Papa, don't preach. I'm Obie. This is Phil. We'll see you all next week. [01:28:01] Speaker B: Take care, everybody.