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Hello and welcome to Left

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of Center, the only podcast

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where the camera is not centered. I'm

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your host,

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Phil Spector. He's

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a guy, right? Is he a criminal?

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Was he convicted of any crimes? Yeah,

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he killed someone.

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Yeah, he killed someone. Talk

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about left of center, man.

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What should what should what

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should Phil Spector do, you know,

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as a podcast character on the

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show? Well, well, he was he was

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very well known for having a really gigantic

0:56

hair when he was in court. He needs to play into

0:59

something because that was just like totally

1:01

out of left field. Remember that? That

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that's all I can think of when I picture him. I

1:05

mean, he's

1:08

a music producer, a composer.

1:10

What does he do? He was like, yeah, he was

1:12

a music producer. He was famous

1:14

for inventing what he called the wall of sound.

1:17

You know how like when you listen to music today, it's just

1:19

like

1:20

from the moment the song starts until it ends, it's kind

1:22

of just this wall of noise. It's the exact same

1:24

volume. There's no quiet parts. It's

1:27

all just maximum smack you in the face.

1:30

That was his invention to

1:32

try to get more airtime for certain

1:34

songs because it made people react to it better. Not

1:36

that it sounded better. It just got better reaction. You

1:39

know, people would stop what they were doing and listening to it. It

1:42

freaking went viral. Yeah,

1:44

but that's interesting. But you

1:46

know, it's hard to remember all that when all you can think

1:48

of is a court picture of

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him with the

1:53

fucking hair. You know,

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that I think was another invention of his, the

1:57

wall of hair. And there are like, maybe

1:59

if.

1:59

everybody's only talking about my giant hair,

2:02

they won't have the space to like react

2:05

to the fact that I killed someone, you

2:07

know?

2:07

You know, I think you're onto something there.

2:10

But I mean, even before that point though, he still had

2:12

some crazy hair, just wasn't quite that in your face.

2:14

Yeah, I feel like he had other hair styles

2:17

that were also lamentable.

2:20

But you know, that one

2:22

is the one. And it's like that

2:25

one was not, I don't, it wasn't his like

2:27

long-term haircut or anything as far as

2:29

anyone knows. I think it was just kind of like a

2:31

fluke. And then normally you see him with

2:33

other haircuts, right?

2:35

Yeah, but they all were unusual, I think. You

2:37

know, I don't remember ever seeing a picture of him that

2:39

he didn't have something going on that made you stop

2:41

and go, wait, what's happening here?

2:44

Yeah, for sure. Hold on. I

2:46

gotta send an alert to, oh, no, okay.

2:50

I have a bad Discord. Now my

2:52

Discord's the bad Discord. I

2:54

have a Patreon Discord and there's

2:57

an alert that you can send when the episode

2:59

is starting. And sometimes I send it

3:01

and sometimes other people in the chat send it. And

3:03

I was like, oh shit, I forgot to send the alert. But

3:06

it looks like Edward Fingerhands already

3:08

sent it. Edward Fingerhands, he's

3:10

in the good Discord. So join

3:13

the good Discord.

3:14

You're already on the good Discord, Shrove Home

3:16

Video Discord. There's no way you're not.

3:19

Man, I am

3:20

out of it?

3:21

I don't know. I

3:24

think I probably didn't eat enough today, but

3:27

I did just eat. But I don't

3:30

know. I had a bunch of

3:32

chickpeas salad. It's

3:37

a funny word, garbanzo

3:39

beans. And it's from Trader

3:42

Joe's. I've been looking for this chickpea salad and

3:44

I finally have found it. So I bought a bunch of it and

3:46

it's real good. It's basically just chickpeas

3:48

and vinegar. That's basically all

3:50

it is, but it just is really good. But

3:54

it's different than the chickpea salad I've been making because

3:56

their chickpeas are crunchier, they're

3:58

less soggy and kind of wet. waterlog, did

4:00

that make sense? Or is it the canned ones

4:02

are just kind of soggy? And I was like, man, do

4:05

I have to like start making my own chickpeas, like boil

4:07

them and actually make them right so they have like

4:09

a better texture than these canned ones? Because

4:12

it's a lot more satisfying,

4:14

these ones in the Trader Joe's salad. And I would

4:16

I would like to do that, you know, but

4:20

it's not

4:22

the soggy ones that you get like that skin

4:24

that comes off and then you have two pieces of chickpea

4:26

in your mouth, then like if you eat them one at a time, like it

4:29

separates into like two separate pieces in your

4:31

mouth. I just don't like that. I like chickpeas though.

4:34

Yeah, I don't love that. But I don't think it's deal

4:36

breaker or anything. But that happens like just the

4:38

skin kind of comes off and now you're like, Oh, I

4:40

got a fly's wings in my mouth.

4:44

Yeah, it's, it's not

4:46

super good. But I don't know, I think it's still

4:48

fine. But that was happening. I want to say that

4:51

was happening more with the Trader Joe's

4:53

chickpea salad than the ones I was making myself

4:55

with the canned chickpeas. So I don't know. I don't

4:58

know what the deal is there. But

5:01

yeah, that was like breakfast. And then

5:03

I just didn't have lunch. I was like trying to take

5:05

a nap and the nap wasn't working. It's

5:08

hard for me to take naps. Sometimes

5:10

your body like I don't know. So here's the thing

5:12

I do. What a great podcast. You

5:15

guys, you could just turn off. Honestly,

5:17

I know like I have the agenda

5:20

of what we're going to talk about on the podcast.

5:24

It's not good. I'll let you guys know. It's not good.

5:26

Yeah. So I think yeah, feel free

5:28

to just yeah. But anyway,

5:31

what I do is I watch anime on my phone. I

5:33

don't know why I have a TV, but I

5:36

just watch anime on my phone. And

5:39

I have this little stand that

5:41

I put my phone into. And then

5:43

I'm like watching it. And it makes me

5:45

fall asleep to watch anime on my phone.

5:48

And but the thing is, I don't

5:50

just want it to auto play. So

5:53

if I'm like falling asleep watching anime, I have to like

5:55

turn it off and then I'm awake

5:57

and I'm not going to sleep. It's like I definitely would.

6:00

I have fallen asleep if

6:02

I just let the anime keep playing and I just

6:04

fell asleep with it on. But the

6:06

act of turning it off or whatever

6:09

and taking off headphones or whatever, that

6:12

wakes me up and then it's like, well, God damn it. So

6:15

yeah, so I tried and failed

6:17

to take a nap and so I didn't eat lunch and then I

6:19

ended up trying to get food and I did

6:21

get food, but I don't think it's digested enough

6:24

for me to have energy yet, if that

6:26

makes sense. Yeah. See,

6:28

when I'm trying to fall asleep, I put YouTube on

6:30

of just the most boring thing I can find and

6:34

just click auto play and then just

6:36

sort of fall asleep and then at some point during the night, I usually

6:38

wake up and just turn it off. But

6:41

I've had to stop doing that because it keeps just playing the

6:43

weirdest, I don't know, YouTube lately just thinks

6:45

I'm into the craziest,

6:48

it's generally some kind of conservative

6:51

talk show that will pop on after eight

6:53

or nine shows and no matter how much I had to go, I don't

6:55

wanna hear that. That happens and

6:57

then also I think I might have been so bored

6:59

too, before too, but there

7:01

was one night where literally, just after

7:04

doing the block of shows with all

7:06

of you guys, I go to sleep and

7:09

then several hours into the

7:11

night, it just randomly picks Kelly

7:13

Fonteccio giving a speech at a college and

7:17

that weirdly worked its way into whatever it was

7:19

I was dreaming about and that was just so unusual,

7:21

so I've kind of had to stop doing that now.

7:23

That's very strange. When

7:26

is someone gonna ask me to speak at a college?

7:29

What would you talk about?

7:31

College, right? What do you talk

7:34

about?

7:35

She was talking about color theory to a bunch

7:37

of artists.

7:39

A bunch of artists at artist college,

7:41

so she's talking about college. Well

7:44

true, true. Someone

7:47

did ask me at some point to give

7:49

a talk, but it fell apart, it didn't come

7:51

together, but that happened once in my life

7:54

and yeah. I

7:56

was asked to be a Paizo con, but that sucked. I

7:59

mean Paizo. I'm just like a loser

8:01

and I was like, I'm not good

8:04

at this. This is bad. This is not something

8:06

I have talented So

8:09

think about that next time you think I'm good at DMing.

8:11

I really shit the bed of Paizo con Would a

8:14

good DM do that? I didn't think so

8:18

Yeah, no, I don't know man, it's

8:20

not good. It's not everything's not good,

8:23

but you know, it is good The

8:25

sag strike is over. Oh I

8:29

was waiting for you to applaud Rock

8:33

is cheers No,

8:38

no, I just I just imagined you

8:41

being an entire audience as opposed to

8:43

just one person in the conversation And

8:46

I was like what gift But

8:49

yeah, the sag strikes over It

8:52

seems like the agreements good we pulled

8:54

up on my phone I had

8:56

it because they haven't actually released the

8:59

legitimate deal sheet and

9:01

I was also curious about like what the stuff

9:04

happening on the lead-up to

9:06

it was because there was the last final offer

9:08

and Then they

9:10

said no and then there was actually the good offer

9:12

that came through or whatever But I kind of wanted to

9:14

see the content like the information that

9:16

sag was putting out During the

9:18

last final offer and stuff, but

9:22

it seems like since the strike ended they've

9:24

kind of like scrubbed their Like

9:27

most of their strike communications or it's just like

9:29

their sites not working properly I'm not I'm

9:31

not super sure But I

9:33

can't find like anything other than

9:36

the big email saying like oh we did or

9:38

the big like newsletter saying like oh we

9:40

did it but okay,

9:43

so Here's

9:45

here's the things that they say they won in this

9:47

big newsletter e kind of press

9:49

release or whatever There's meaningful protections

9:52

around the use of AI including informed

9:54

consent and compensation Whether

9:58

they're actually created on set through filming

10:00

or if they're licensed for use like in a

10:02

separate management filming. It

10:05

includes a new wage

10:07

pattern with two wage increases in the

10:09

first year of the contract, 7% upon ratification

10:13

of the contract and 4% that

10:16

happens in July 2024. So, you know, that's I guess an

10:20

effective increase of 11.28% increase in wages. And then

10:23

there's also another 3.5 increase in 2025.

10:31

So that's, you know, in the ballpark of a 15% pay

10:33

raise, which is interesting. And I think

10:35

that's minimum rate. I don't know if

10:38

that's like all wages or whatever. Background

10:41

actors also go up a similar

10:44

amount. It looks like they even go up like 17

10:46

or 18%, which

10:48

is pretty good because background actors get really shafted.

10:51

But there's a lot of people who work background and stuff.

10:53

It's a, you know, a decent way

10:56

to do work. You know,

10:58

if you can't get other gigs, you know, you can kind

11:00

of, I don't know, but they've not even really using

11:03

background actors as much as they used to. That's

11:05

something people have been talking about online lately.

11:09

What else?

11:13

I guess there's, I don't know what that means. There's

11:17

a 43% increase to the contribution cap for

11:19

one hour. And so this is about contributions

11:21

to the healthcare and pension funds.

11:24

So it means that if you're working on smaller

11:27

productions, you don't get, you

11:29

get an increased amount of contribution.

11:32

So like one of the big things about

11:35

how SAG works is like how

11:37

much you work, how many like hours and

11:40

days you work directly translates

11:42

into like whether or not you get healthcare

11:44

benefits and stuff. And so

11:47

this is saying for a really, really short productions,

11:49

it gives you more than just that

11:52

like time amount of

11:54

retirement and health and pension

11:56

funds. Because, you

11:58

know, if

11:59

you're doing a lot of short stuff and not

12:01

like a decent sized role then you're

12:03

kind of not getting as much contribution

12:06

so there's

12:10

residuals for streaming which is

12:12

really crazy I wonder

12:15

if that affects me because I get residuals but

12:19

you know they're really man the residuals I get

12:21

are shitty it sucks I've

12:23

basically done two things one is community

12:26

and the other is Brooklyn 99 and

12:28

the Brooklyn 99 was like

12:32

a barely speaking role I might have had

12:34

one line I'm not sure and

12:38

then the community role was you know I was in a whole

12:40

B plot basically although I didn't have

12:42

a lot of lines but man the Brooklyn 99

12:45

gives me away from them

12:48

the community one I have no idea

12:50

how that works but it looks like they're streaming

12:53

residuals man I did not actually

12:55

expect them to win and who knows what

12:57

the strings are on this but I did

12:59

not expect them to win streaming

13:01

residuals for actors just because that's

13:04

like so many people you know

13:07

like at least with writers there's

13:09

you know a handful of writers per thing

13:12

so if you add up all the things it's like oh we're only

13:14

handing out you know this amount although I assume like

13:16

writer residuals are higher but for actors

13:18

it's like there's so many actors in every

13:21

single thing you know so it just seems

13:23

it seems like a lot of money so that was something I didn't

13:25

even expect us to win necessarily and

13:28

by the way I'm in sag but whatever who cares

13:30

not like a real actor they made gains

13:32

in hair and makeup I don't know

13:35

what that means and

13:37

then this is just a bunch of access

13:39

to services you

13:42

know sexual harassment trading aggregate

13:45

statistics on diversity getting

13:48

rid of loopholes and then

13:50

there's also minimums for high budget

13:52

made for a OVD programming I was

13:55

supposed to look up what a OVD is

13:57

but let's just say it stands for advanced

14:00

video on

14:03

there's also like protections

14:06

in the casting process that

14:09

they can't give you like a really

14:11

quick turnaround something that happens in the

14:13

casting process is they'll say oh

14:15

can you shoot a tape of

14:17

this script or whatever and

14:19

send it back to see you know we want

14:22

you for this part so can you record this and

14:24

send it back and then they'll say like

14:26

and send it back

14:28

tomorrow

14:29

and that's not that's

14:32

like it's not feasible it's pretty hard

14:34

to do self tapes in general and

14:36

to be able to do them in that time

14:39

with the with the script and you memorize the script

14:41

good enough to perform it and stuff and

14:43

so this is putting a 48 hour

14:46

and a 48 hour like

14:48

minimum on the turnaround time for that and

14:51

for minors it's 72 hours which I

14:53

mean honestly I don't seem seems still

14:55

pretty small to me but hey it's

14:57

something and

15:00

it's like a limit on how many pages you can

15:02

do for a self tape eight or

15:04

twelve pages so you can't just do tons and

15:06

tons and tons of stuff and then this says

15:09

if memorization is inquired so you're not

15:11

just reading off the script if you have to memorize the lines

15:13

for the tape then you get paid you

15:15

have to get paid and

15:18

you can't be asked to be nude or wear

15:21

super revealing clothing in a self tape which

15:24

you know this is about dignity

15:29

and then there's some stuff for like

15:31

accommodations for disabilities and seniors

15:35

and minors in the self tape

15:37

audition process what else

15:40

relocation allowance so if they

15:42

want you to relocate there's money you

15:44

get for free well

15:46

not for free for the job so that

15:49

looks like it's the kind of broad

15:51

strokes of everything again I don't think we've actually

15:53

seen a deal sheet but it's

15:55

impressive who knew but

15:59

yeah it's good It's good. It's good

16:01

time to be in unions. It seems like there's

16:03

been a lot of union games Didn't the United

16:05

Auto Workers just make huge wins, too? It's

16:08

uh, yeah Yeah

16:10

in general all that stuff. I think the print

16:13

like builds political power So

16:16

it's not just like oh we're getting more

16:18

money And I think it like has knock-on effects

16:20

that we will hopefully you know

16:23

start to see in the future, too I think it

16:25

could be good But

16:27

yeah, so that's sag Speaking

16:32

of sag I get

16:34

residuals like I said, they're not very much

16:37

and I Don't

16:40

know how it works but When

16:43

I tried to apply for unemployment one time

16:46

They're like, what are you talking about? You're employed. You just got

16:48

a sag check And I was like yeah sag

16:50

check for like three dollars like

16:53

that's not employment And

16:55

they're like oh so you're unemployed so you want to

16:57

make like oh like let's give you residual

16:59

or let's give you your Unemployment like what you were making

17:02

before at that sag job Will

17:04

send you three dollars

17:06

or whatever like I'm like no what the fuck so

17:08

I don't know if there's like a way to maneuver that or whatever,

17:11

but it's like Wish I could just

17:13

turn off my residuals, then I could get like

17:15

real-ass unemployment or whatever, but

17:17

it's probably too late for that I don't know but man

17:20

make it Harmon Quest money unemployment on

17:23

that or something I'd probably hit the cap But

17:26

whatever it's all good. I've never done unemployment You

17:30

know they say that unemployment like If

17:33

you use it it runs out right? It's like

17:35

there's some I don't I guess it's probably different your state

17:37

right now But you every case rules

17:39

are a little bit different But yeah, yeah But

17:41

if you use it and then it runs out and then

17:43

you can't get more until some amount of time

17:46

and when I was younger I thought

17:48

that meant like in your entire life So

17:51

it's like you should never be taking unemployment

17:53

unless you like really need it because then you'll

17:55

never get it again Which is like

17:58

not how it works as far as I understand now. But

18:01

so I missed out on unemployment

18:03

probably could have gotten in

18:05

money, big monies. But

18:07

hey, if anyone knows what

18:10

I got to do, let me know because

18:12

I'd like to turn off my residuals so

18:14

I can get real unemployment but I don't even know

18:16

if that's possible. Like

18:18

do you tell them? In Illinois

18:20

I know that they will never punish

18:22

you for getting work. Like if you

18:25

make a little bit of money they just pay you a little bit less.

18:27

It's not that you did nothing.

18:29

Well that's interesting. Yeah I have to look all these

18:31

systems are like so hard to navigate. I

18:34

signed up for Medi-Cal ages ago. Well not ages

18:36

ago but because I've not been making money I signed

18:38

up for Medi-Cal and that's

18:40

a pretty weird process too but at least they

18:43

like give you a person or a line or something

18:45

you could call and they'll walk you through every step of

18:47

it. Then that's the thing is like there

18:49

are people that can help but it's hard to find

18:51

those people to help. It's all the services

18:54

are so hard. I imagine they

18:56

could be better funded but even beyond like

18:59

funding them higher I think it's like

19:01

you gotta make it make more sense

19:03

and be more approachable. Like do

19:06

you know how easy it is to get a credit card? You

19:09

just snap your fingers and get a credit card and fuck

19:11

your life over forever. And it turns

19:14

around it's like it feels very difficult

19:17

to get a you know essential

19:19

government services that the government ostensibly

19:22

wants you to sign up for. But

19:24

hey the SAG stuff that's

19:26

not the only victory that happened. Another

19:29

victory is that Kevin came to

19:32

America. Kevin

19:35

to America. Yeah. Kevin to America I think.

19:39

Should we call him? But

19:42

uh well what's up? Well

19:45

you have some fun here? We hung out

19:47

a little bit. I wish we hung out more. Me

19:49

too. I know our schedules just didn't match up very

19:52

well but we went for a good walk actually. I kind of

19:54

enjoyed that. Because everybody every

19:56

single other person I met I think

19:57

wanted to go out to like lunch or dinner or something. eating

20:00

like four meals a day, you know,

20:03

on top of me eating breakfast in the morning and then, you

20:05

know, so I ate a lot,

20:07

but yeah, we were gonna, we were

20:09

gonna meet for lunch and then you had two

20:11

more lunches after that, but then we didn't end up

20:13

meeting for lunch. We just went for a walk, which yeah, then

20:16

you just only had two lunches.

20:18

And then after those two lunches, it immediately went to dinner with

20:21

somebody else. Oh yeah.

20:23

So who'd you meet? You

20:25

met like Rob twice, right? Didn't you

20:27

hang out with Strob or something?

20:29

Yep, about to see Strob's new house and then

20:32

met up with him and Harmon and

20:35

Callie and just everybody really,

20:38

you know, for those who watched Harmon

20:40

Town, our old director Nolan

20:43

Fabricus and then our director before

20:45

that Chris Boroff, I met up with them too.

20:48

Wow, what did Boroff want?

20:50

Just say hi. I haven't seen him in forever.

20:53

Yeah.

20:55

How was he? He's

20:56

doing good. He works for Game Drumps now.

20:59

He's working for a while.

21:01

So he's doing good though and

21:04

his wife Sarah Hill that also

21:06

worked for Harmon Town, she was our production

21:08

coordinator, met up with

21:11

them and did, you know, just saw

21:13

everyone I could but I was in LA.

21:15

Yeah, Chris also got me involved

21:18

in Commander at Home. I've now been on Commander at

21:20

Home twice, but he was working on that and

21:22

I think he suggested they

21:24

contact me to have someone fill in and

21:27

I did a decent job and so they were

21:29

like, hey, because I was a stranger, I don't know if

21:31

they knew me or knew my deal or anything,

21:34

but I guess I charmed everybody

21:36

enough where they were like, oh, you know, it

21:38

wasn't just the one time feeling like

21:40

we'll have you back and that was pretty cool.

21:42

Man, oh, speaking of which, I don't know if I talked about

21:44

this so much, but my new episode

21:47

of Commander at Home just dropped on YouTube and

21:50

it's like an amazing episode. There

21:52

was Ben Brodon who's like one

21:54

of the creators of Marvel Snap and he

21:56

had an unglued deck and I had his edger

21:59

deck and it was just... super wacky, you gotta check

22:01

it out, Commander at Home. Even if

22:03

you don't like magic, it's probably worth

22:05

checking out, but maybe not so much. But

22:08

there's definitely moments that you'll like, but the whole thing

22:10

is like an hour and 20 minutes. So I

22:12

don't know if you'd wanna watch a whole hour, 20 minutes of

22:14

the game that you don't understand, but I don't think it

22:16

was super complicated. Well, it was super

22:18

complicated, but kind of like nothing

22:21

was happening. And all of us were talking about

22:23

like, wow, this is being super complicated

22:25

right now. So I don't think you miss a lot by not

22:27

understanding the rules of that makes sense. But

22:30

it was pretty funny. You gotta

22:32

check that out. I'd love to come back

22:34

on that show sometimes. But back to Kevin.

22:37

Kevin, you hung out at a shrub's house,

22:40

you saw his house.

22:41

And- I did. Why

22:43

didn't he want me to hang out? I

22:47

don't know. Do you wanna, have

22:49

you seen his new house?

22:50

Yeah, I have.

22:52

Okay, well, then you

22:55

were done. I don't know.

22:58

All you did, you looked

23:00

at his house and you said good house and then you left,

23:02

is that what happened?

23:04

Or did you have fun with a friend of yours? I

23:08

mean, Kate was there too, and his

23:11

dog, Lolly was there. Oh, Kate

23:13

was there, who cares? And

23:17

watched an early edit

23:19

of Kate and Aaron's upcoming

23:22

show, Action Explosions. So I started to see a preview

23:24

of the next episode of that. But

23:28

yeah, that was, yeah.

23:30

I would have loved to have seen a preview

23:32

of that. Okay,

23:34

is this your way of saying, next time I go hang out with Shrob,

23:37

you wanna come along? I mean, yeah,

23:39

but it's not like, I'm not mad at you.

23:41

I'm mad like, I don't know. It's

23:44

all, everything that happens reasonable. But

23:46

I don't know. And I'm so

23:49

rarely in a way, everyone kind of feels like they have to like

23:51

get their time in with me while I'm there.

23:53

Yeah, yeah.

23:55

I just, Shrob, Shrob,

23:58

Shrob, Shrob.

23:59

Shrob we're friends

24:02

He says But

24:05

uh, so yeah, I went to his house once, you

24:07

know what and shrob had kovat

24:10

And they're like, hey come over have kovat. It's

24:13

great. I'm like, what the fuck?

24:16

So it's a shame that you know He

24:19

doesn't invite me over when he's not trying to infect

24:21

me with something. I Came

24:24

over there. I actually bought a like a literal

24:26

gas mask or I guess it's not like I

24:29

don't think it's like a million Military grade or anything.

24:31

It's called like a respirator, but

24:33

it's like the plastic with the two scrubbers

24:36

on on either side of the face and

24:38

I I wore

24:41

it as a bit When I

24:43

got out of the car and I had the that

24:45

on and I think that

24:48

They kind of took it as more Serious.

24:51

I mean I took it off immediately after I had

24:53

it and I was just wearing a normal mask But

24:56

I don't know but shrub was there and he was

24:58

he was having kovat and cooking

25:00

and I was like I guess we could you know,

25:03

I talked to Kate and shrub a little bit on

25:05

the The veranda.

25:08

I don't think it was the veranda. It was like the backyard

25:10

area and they have a great

25:12

yard great backyard it was awesome and

25:15

and then the whole time I was

25:17

just talking to Kate because shrub was like

25:19

just going away and I was like Why

25:22

doesn't shop want to talk to me like it was

25:24

like it was really weird But

25:27

I think it was because he was sick and he didn't want

25:29

to you know, get me sick But you know,

25:32

I was wearing a mask and we were outside so it seemed

25:35

okay But I don't know. I don't think I've really

25:37

been around someone who's actively sick

25:41

With kovat, you know even

25:43

wearing a mask, so I'm sure he was being thoughtful.

25:46

But hey, this isn't about why

25:48

shrubs good It's about why I'm mad

25:51

Okay,

25:54

well

25:56

This episode I will be back in LA soon and

25:58

all of us can maybe hang out somewhere together Anytime

26:01

anyone asks you to do anything, be all

26:03

like, is it close to Spencer Gomes? Okay.

26:08

He's kind of my ride. Then

26:12

we show up separately and they're like,

26:14

what, he was your ride? Like,

26:16

I don't know. We'll figure

26:18

it out. Okay. So I

26:22

have a job and I work a lot.

26:26

Which is why we did the same more time together, by the way.

26:28

No, I know. That's the thing.

26:31

I would have rather hung out. But yeah, I had to work

26:33

a lot.

26:34

But, you know, jobs suck. Every

26:37

job is bad. That's not true. And

26:39

this one's not bad either. But working

26:41

is bad. Working

26:44

sucks.

26:46

We had to fucking email. That

26:48

email, you know, I think I was trying to play

26:50

it off pretty well, but we had an email

26:53

last week that really stuck in my craw. Like

26:56

the guy was saying, like, oh, you know, one of the

26:58

reasons Harman Town's interesting is because Dan

27:01

would like talk about his life and stuff.

27:03

And it's like, yeah,

27:04

he's a fucking rich guy who works in

27:06

television. He has an interesting life. Like,

27:09

he can't not do interesting stuff.

27:11

You know, I talk about my life too and it sucks.

27:14

It's not interesting in any way

27:16

because my life is very uninteresting.

27:18

It's like, oh my God, like, do you believe

27:21

that my cat? Oh, look, you can see the

27:23

cat. Oh, and Jason

27:25

threw up.

27:26

Yeah, yeah. And Jason liked you. Jason

27:28

usually hides from guests, but she did not hide from you.

27:32

But she threw up. Is that the kind of story

27:34

you want? Is that the interesting

27:36

parts of Harman Town? Is Spencer talking

27:39

about his life where his dog threw up? Jason's

27:42

a dog? Jesus Christ.

27:46

I don't know what's wrong with me. This is a problem.

27:49

But so, sorry,

27:51

Jason. You can throw up wherever you want. But

27:54

you know who can't throw up wherever they

27:56

want? Soda. That's

27:59

right, folks. The main reason

28:01

Kevin hung out with me is not because he's

28:03

excited to see me and wanted to hang out with me it

28:05

was actually to hand deliver

28:08

several drinks and snacks and I

28:13

We're gonna try to get through all five of these sodas

28:18

We always hit a diminishing return when we're tasting

28:21

stuff, but I think we just might have to power through

28:23

it You know, do you want to just choose one at random?

28:25

I did not refrigerate these because you did not hand

28:27

them to me refrigerated And

28:30

that's okay. I'm gonna go for this

28:32

one first. This is a flowery Pepsi,

28:35

right? Yeah, we don't know what it actually is

28:37

though. No, I have no idea. Let's

28:39

see if there's anything

28:41

Nope, there's nothing in English on here. Yeah,

28:44

that's impressive

28:46

so if anyone lives in the Chicago

28:48

area and you want to try any of these drinks the place I got

28:51

them from was the Chicago

28:54

Fashion Outlet Mall in Rosemont

28:57

There's a little kiosk right in the center of the mall that

29:00

sells Basically almost every

29:03

overseas drink and snack we've ever tried they all

29:05

have

29:07

Yeah, it's true

29:10

What they a lot I mean I went

29:12

there not so much that I was like texting Spencer pictures

29:15

of their booth

29:16

It was awesome. I wanted all that stuff,

29:18

but yeah, you know, I don't want you to buy

29:21

it all It seemed like it would be too expensive

29:23

Also, I don't know. I'm trying to I'm trying to lose

29:26

weight. I realized after I had late

29:28

lunch today I was like I probably ate too

29:30

much considering we're gonna do

29:32

a lot of this stuff I'm gonna try and

29:34

take sips and stuff. But hey Still

29:37

five sodas at the end of the day But

29:39

that's okay. It's fine. Man.

29:42

Another thing I did is Is

29:44

last night I cooked green

29:46

bean casserole and stuffing

29:49

Sage and sausage stuffing

29:52

and I did that to pregame for

29:54

Thanksgiving because I wanted to dry run

29:56

the recipes Why did they call it dry run?

29:59

Anyway dry run the recipes

30:01

so that on Thanksgiving, I would know

30:04

like how to nail them, you know? And so

30:06

Thanksgiving is gonna be fucking lit, you guys.

30:09

Anyway, sorry, let's drink the soda. Do you wanna try

30:11

it first or should we? I

30:14

was trying to see if I could Google to find what this flavor's

30:16

supposed to be, but I can't even find a picture of this anywhere.

30:19

Wow. Well, maybe it's just normal

30:21

Pepsi.

30:23

I'm not sure, smelling it, I'm not positive.

30:26

But again, and this is a brand new

30:28

one that has not expired yet, is

30:30

not as carbonated and fizzed.

30:32

Like when you open it up, like a US cam or bottle,

30:34

when you open up there it says, psh, kind of noise. Yeah.

30:38

That's not true here, it's hardly fizzy.

30:40

But what does that smell like? To me it does

30:43

smell like the first kind of, as

30:45

it popped open and the spray kind of sprayed out,

30:48

it kind of smelled more floral, but this honestly

30:50

smells pretty cola-y to me. It

30:52

smells very Pepsi-like.

30:55

Yeah, I mean, it smells good. All right, let me taste

30:57

it here. Spencer's sniffing in one nostril

30:59

only.

31:00

I'm trying to sniff it. So

31:03

Kevin's taken a drink and he's got a great shirt

31:05

on, it says Mario Bros or some

31:07

shit, it's a cool shirt. If you're listening

31:09

to a podcast, okay, go ahead, Kevin.

31:11

No, it doesn't taste like

31:14

normal Pepsi to me, but I just can't really place what the flavor

31:16

is. I mean, it almost,

31:20

I don't know, I can't, I

31:24

almost want to say like rose

31:26

or something, or like there's some

31:29

kind of almost perfumey aftertaste

31:31

to it, but it's very mild.

31:34

Yeah, I'd say this is mostly

31:36

Pepsi. It's a very strong

31:39

Pepsi flavor. And then yeah,

31:41

I don't know if you'd call it rosewater, it

31:43

could be Sakura blossoms or something,

31:46

but definitely just this light perfumey

31:48

floral infusion. Like you said,

31:51

like it's just, it's kind of like someone

31:53

put some flower extract into like a

31:56

normal Pepsi or something. It's mostly

31:58

Pepsi with a slight, yeah.

32:00

It's definitely drinkable and

32:03

it's subtle enough that if you just handed it to me without it being

32:05

a weird bottle, I probably wouldn't have noticed anything, maybe.

32:08

Yeah, you might notice something's off about it, but

32:12

you might not put it together.

32:14

It's not bad. It's just

32:16

not anything special, I don't think.

32:18

So I'm looking it up and it looks like

32:20

this was a collaboration between

32:23

Pepsi and Febreze. So

32:26

that I think explains what's going on

32:29

there. So

32:31

yeah, that's going to be a stank for me.

32:35

Something I do on the podcast is I steal

32:39

from the Doughboys and they do a segment called

32:41

Drink or Stank where they drink something and

32:43

determine if it's a drink or a stank. And

32:46

that's a stank. But what

32:48

about this purple one? This purple one, we must

32:50

have already tried. This looks exactly like

32:52

one we've had before. It's a purple Fanta.

32:55

It's possible we've had this one before. But

32:59

I think the ones that we got before were a little over

33:02

flat and they were already expired by the time we

33:04

got them.

33:05

Where this one

33:07

I don't think is. So let's try this.

33:10

Let's sniff it up.

33:12

I always like Japanese

33:15

grape flavors because they just do it so

33:17

much better than ours is. If you

33:19

had never tasted artificial

33:21

grape and then handed me artificial

33:24

grape, I don't think I ever would have guessed

33:26

that was supposed to be grape. It's kind of like

33:29

banana candy. It doesn't taste anything like the bananas we

33:31

buy in the store today. Yeah, definitely.

33:34

It's maybe a bit reductive to say it tastes like grape

33:36

medicine or something. But it kind

33:38

of had this absolute... Where

33:41

when you taste a medicine that's supposed to be a flavor, it's

33:43

like, that's not that flavor. That's

33:46

just something. And then medicine also.

33:49

But yeah, this is smelling really strongly of Concord

33:51

grape. Concord grape. A

33:55

nice red kind of grape. Smells really

33:57

good. I'll take yours.

34:00

Okay, so Spencer's trying to... Yeah, this to me smells

34:03

like

34:03

real grape juice, not artificial grape.

34:06

Like, I would believe there was actual grape juice

34:08

in this. There probably isn't, but I would believe there

34:10

is. I don't know if

34:12

it's because I had the Pepsi, but

34:15

there's something...

34:18

Like, it's kind of clashing a little bit. There's

34:20

something vaguely diet tasting, I want to

34:22

say. I was just saying that too.

34:25

It tastes like

34:27

Fanta Zero or something.

34:29

Yeah, like a zero sugar. You

34:31

still get a lot of grapiness, but it's

34:34

just not full-bodied

34:37

the way like a full

34:39

soda, like a Coke is. Yeah,

34:42

it's actually very...

34:44

It's brown if you actually hold up

34:46

to a light. It's unusual. It's

34:50

unusual.

34:52

Yeah, I would give this one a

34:54

miss, I think, just because it's... I

34:57

don't know. It doesn't have that really

35:00

intense grape that I was expecting. Yeah,

35:03

it's kind of... Yeah, that's the thing about the diet

35:05

of it. It kind of like you get the edges of

35:08

it, but not the center. Yeah. To

35:10

me, that's good. I think if I

35:12

wasn't... I wouldn't buy that, but

35:14

if I had... If someone gave it to me, I'd definitely

35:16

drink it. I

35:19

don't think I would finish the Pepsi, but I would finish

35:21

the Fanta if I was

35:24

not trying to lose weight.

35:27

And failing, because I ate that stuffing

35:29

yesterday. No, it's fine. It's all fine.

35:33

Whatever.

35:34

Let's try a healthy one here. So

35:37

this is from One Piece. This

35:40

is a one-piece licensed... It's called

35:43

Ocean Bomb. It is mango

35:46

flavored sparkling water.

35:47

It's got Nami on the cover. This

35:50

is the cover of the soda cover.

35:54

Nami from One Piece, yeah. And when I

35:56

saw that, I was like, oh, we got to get the Nami soda.

35:58

And it's mango flavor. which

36:00

is the flavor of the ocean.

36:03

This is

36:30

no

36:38

it's not saying it's saying artificial

36:40

flavoring so I guess not okay but

36:43

it's only 90 calories for a can

36:46

so that's 30 calories less

36:48

than your average soda which is 120 per can. I mean this

36:50

smells good.

36:51

Alright

36:53

let me taste here. It

36:58

was a little gritty.

37:02

That was very strange but it tastes really good but

37:04

almost like something settled out of it maybe a little

37:07

bit.

37:08

Oh yeah. No I'm finding this to

37:10

be very

37:13

sour and bitter and not sweet.

37:16

Yeah

37:17

it's not what I was expecting from sparkling water. It's usually

37:19

either really flat and you

37:22

know. 90

37:23

calories it's

37:25

like that's that's a more than sparkling water

37:27

but it's kind of like a pretty bold sparkling

37:30

water and I hate sparkling water so

37:32

like I think but if you like drink

37:34

a La Croix and then you drink one of these I think

37:36

you'd be like oh wow this is like a really good one

37:39

you know or something yeah someone who doesn't

37:41

really like sparkling water I think it just

37:43

kind of hits like a sparkling water which is to say

37:45

you know not my favorite but I

37:47

will also say that there's this

37:49

kind of bitter acidity or something

37:52

to most sparkling waters where it doesn't just taste like

37:54

water it tastes like like

37:56

club soda or something yeah

37:58

and this has a lot of

37:59

Less of that it does it kind of it kind

38:02

of goes down smoother like like when I

38:04

drink a lacrosse I make like this weird face

38:06

like this. Uh, uh kind of thing

38:09

and This is not inducing

38:11

that it just tastes it tastes

38:13

Better. I don't know

38:15

Yeah I think I would like more of the sparkling

38:17

waters if it actually tasted

38:19

like the thing that it said it was supposed to You

38:22

know, like yeah, but like the joke is that like, you know, it's

38:24

the strawberry one is like a strawberry with a low

38:26

battery or You

38:29

know it Somebody waved some

38:32

grape somewhere near the room where

38:34

they were bottling it and that's they call that great

38:36

flavored You know, I would rather

38:39

Go ahead this I

38:41

Rather what they did here with this where it actually

38:44

tastes like mango like I recognize this as mango

38:46

not You know strawberry

38:48

perfume added to some water. Yeah,

38:50

and that's why it's 90 calories That's the thing

38:52

is it takes calories to like make the

38:55

flavor actually really work unless you're going

38:57

yeah You with you know fake sugar and stuff

39:02

That's Unfortunately,

39:05

this is probably my favorite of these three so

39:08

far I agree and

39:10

I'm still not liking this one that much But I would drink this

39:12

Yeah, but I again like

39:15

sparkling water. It doesn't taste like water It

39:17

tastes like water that's been treated somehow and

39:20

I like how this actually does taste

39:22

like water There are there are like strong

39:25

water notes as opposed to this kind

39:27

of like bitter

39:29

carbonation flavor

39:31

We got this like I

39:33

don't know what you call it It's a Pepsi with

39:36

a black label and it's got a

39:38

lime kind of motif But

39:40

it looks like it's like this is some nighttime

39:43

Pepsi, you know, this is like some late-night

39:45

Pepsi or something

39:46

I Pick this one

39:49

because it says intense taste I want and

39:51

no sugar. So I wanted to see what

39:53

that meant

39:54

So it could be really tangy, you know,

39:56

like I don't know what but

39:59

There's this kind of leaf.

40:01

I don't know what leaf it is, but if

40:04

you put lime juice on this leaf, it's

40:06

supposed to taste like cola and

40:08

it may be like that flavor combination may

40:11

be preceded actual cola flavoring. I

40:14

don't know. That's something I should have known

40:16

more about if I was gonna bring up in the first place.

40:19

But hey, this is the bad episode. Speaking

40:22

of the bad episode, have you gotten any titles so far?

40:25

I do, I have about 20.

40:27

All right, you wanna

40:30

talk through this a little bit and then

40:33

read some of those titles?

40:36

Wow, here's your time tonight.

40:38

Okay, yeah, let me try this first. Hold

40:40

on here.

40:41

It smells like a Pepsi. It smells pretty

40:43

normal. Kevin's given a taste.

40:47

It does taste like Pepsi

40:49

you could buy here with less carbonation

40:52

and a lot more lime than like

40:54

the lime flavored colas

40:56

that I've tried before.

40:57

I wonder if these bottles, these kind

41:00

of like Asian bottles or whatever, or

41:02

I guess European has these kind too. I

41:04

wonder if they're worse at holding

41:06

on to carbonation,

41:09

because they do seem to

41:11

have a lot of differences. Can somebody who lives in, yeah,

41:14

like East Asia tell us, are

41:16

your drinks less fizzy than they are in the US

41:19

or are we just losing it because these cans

41:21

that ship all over the world before they got to us?

41:24

It's gotta be shifting, right? Okay,

41:26

so I get to taste this and why taste this, Kevin,

41:28

read off a couple. Okay,

41:31

so for those who don't understand what we're doing here, while

41:35

Spencer's

41:35

talking, actually writing titles for

41:38

the show, and then at the end of the show, I text

41:40

Spencer the list and we pick one.

41:44

So the first one

41:46

I have on my list is Wall of Hair. I like that. Chick

41:50

P in vinegar, but P spelled P-E-E.

41:53

Um,

41:56

two scrubbers on the side of my face.

41:59

the interesting parts of Harmon Town

42:03

Pretty bold sparkling water nighttime Pepsi

42:06

the bad episode You

42:09

know we have we have pretty wide range So we'll be surprised

42:11

if one of those ends up being the choice

42:13

and if you're in the good Discord

42:16

vote for which of those titles you

42:18

like the best the winner may

42:20

surprise you It

42:23

will be none of these I don't think my

42:25

brain is working okay, so let's talk about

42:28

this It tastes mostly like Diet Pepsi

42:32

It has lime flavoring, but for me I

42:34

would say it's less like like lime

42:36

flavoring and more like

42:40

A set lime essential oil has

42:42

been added You know like rind zest

42:44

kind of flavor which is very different from

42:47

juice flavor or artificial lime flavor

42:49

It's it's a definite scent note It's

42:51

a it's kind of higher up in the scent

42:53

register and the flavor register It doesn't

42:55

like sit in the flavors of the Pepsi

42:58

the flavor like you know I don't know did you ever

43:00

have diet coke with lime or whatever yeah

43:02

like that that was like lime flavored You

43:05

know and this isn't like that. It's it's the

43:07

rind you know um would you concur

43:09

I?

43:10

Do it actually I don't mean this in a in

43:12

the bay probably something it reminds me

43:14

more of like a citrus flavored cleaning product

43:17

than it does yeah the Lime

43:20

drinks we get here

43:22

Yeah, that actually gives

43:24

me a good idea. They should make cleaning

43:26

products that use citrus juice Citrus

43:30

essential oil I

43:32

think that could be really good So

43:35

this this is not my favorite I'd

43:39

maybe put this a little behind Well,

43:42

I guess that's second class. I put it behind the grape,

43:44

but also I don't know I feel like I can

43:46

imagine drinking this and having a good time

43:49

like I think it could be solid You know I'm

43:51

just not super into it Yeah,

43:54

I think if it was colder. I would probably

43:57

I only put this in the fridge about two hours ago

43:59

We realized we had nothing for the show and

44:02

I don't put it in the fridge at all Yeah,

44:05

I think you know, I think this one would taste better

44:07

cold I'm not sure about the others, but I think this one tastes better

44:09

if it was a lot colder

44:10

Yeah, nice crisp diet Pepsi, but

44:13

overwhelmingly it just tastes like Diet Pepsi.

44:15

So, you know, nothing to come about Alright,

44:19

we got one more and then

44:21

you guys you know, we're done.

44:23

We're done. You don't have to hear this anymore

44:26

Well, the podcast continues just like us

44:28

pontificating about beverages. I mean Man

44:33

what if there's a pot like a beverage pontiff,

44:35

you know Anyway, okay.

44:38

So what's this one? This one's like sour Apple

44:40

or something. Yeah, I think this is supposed to be a sour

44:42

Apple Fanta So

44:45

yeah, which is this? This

44:48

looks closer to Japanese some

44:50

of these are more Chinese looking to me,

44:52

but this looks more Japanese who knows

44:57

Well, do you want to taste it first?

45:04

Yeah And

45:07

I will say that the lid is a lot tight

45:09

more tightly secured than the others Yeah,

45:12

and this smells actually really good. It smells like

45:15

a green apple jolly. Oh, yeah I

45:17

wonder if we did this one. I think we did an apple

45:20

one before

45:21

We might have but I if I so when

45:23

I was picking these up, I this one looked super

45:25

familiar But my memory of this was that mine was totally

45:28

flat So I

45:29

was like, you know, let's try this again I felt it and

45:31

it felt like it wasn't you know, like it felt like

45:33

it had some pressure on sure. Yeah Yeah. All

45:36

right. Well, well Kevin Taste

45:38

his first sip. I'm gonna read off some of the

45:40

episode titles This

45:42

one just says cramps. I

45:45

don't even think that's a word this

45:48

one says Morgan Freeman is back and

45:52

Episode three those are all

45:54

strange titles. Okay. What'd

45:57

you think?

46:03

Oh, no, did Kevin freeze Kevin you froze

46:06

am I still on the air me

46:08

According to the live program view. I'm still on the

46:10

air. Okay, you're back Kevin. You're back. I

46:12

don't know what happened. Oh my god I have no

46:14

idea I just episode

46:17

Well, you're still going to want to see yourself

46:19

so if I drop off you're fine

46:22

Yeah, what'd you think of this

46:24

that actually was my favorite that actually

46:26

was really good. I like

46:28

that one

46:29

What did you think not overly sweet, right?

46:32

I was right. I think it to be very candy like it's

46:34

almost It's it's not apple juice because

46:36

it's more of this kind of sour apple take But

46:39

it's like closer to apple juice than

46:41

it is like a strong apple soda.

46:44

I don't have you ever had manzanita soul It's

46:46

like an apple soda. Yes, it's it's

46:49

kind of like that But manzanita soul

46:51

is like also more like this is a fucking

46:53

apple soda Whereas again, this is kind

46:56

of like more understated. This

46:58

has got to be the the best out of the

47:00

bunch, right? Don't you think?

47:02

Absolutely. I would I'm probably gonna finish this one

47:04

and not finish the other four

47:06

Yeah, I wish I could read. Okay. I think this is 200 calories

47:09

if I'm reading this, right? So that's not

47:11

but basically all of these other ones are

47:15

Free calorie wise. Yeah

47:18

Well, I think

47:20

the the flower Pepsi is caloric

47:23

but I can't read exactly how this label is This

47:27

one says 480 250 115 I

47:30

think it's 250. There's also says 6% nrv

47:35

You want to maybe look up like soda? 6% nrv

47:39

or something to see if that means anything. I wonder

47:42

what nrv is Anyway,

47:45

I'm gonna create a reference value

47:47

So it's 6% of like your daily

47:50

value. So we would call it here

47:55

Well, if that's 6% then what's a hundred percent? because

48:00

that doesn't... That

48:03

could be like sodium

48:05

or something. Yeah.

48:09

I don't know. Nutrient reference value. That's

48:11

a... You know if I had my... Go ahead.

48:13

Yeah, if I had things together

48:15

translating the label before we did the show

48:17

too.

48:18

Yeah, well you

48:21

fucked up and that's why the episode was bad.

48:24

I'll fix the blame for this one today.

48:27

Well, it's definitely my fault I promise,

48:29

but I appreciate that. Okay, so

48:32

something that's happening on TikTok and

48:34

this isn't really a trend. It's

48:37

just like a thing that my algorithm has

48:40

caught on to. There's this thing.

48:42

There's this... I don't

48:46

know. It's an account that's like doing a bunch of these

48:49

where it's called customer service brain rot and

48:52

it's just people posting comments

48:54

about like their awkward customer

48:57

service situations where they had brain farts and stuff,

48:59

you know? And I

49:02

don't know. I've been laughing harder at these. Not

49:04

this one that I'm gonna read specifically, but

49:07

like I've been reading these and like laughing harder

49:09

than I've laughed at like anything on TikTok

49:11

in a long time. So these are pretty

49:13

good, but I don't know if this one's gonna be super

49:15

good, but I'm just gonna read a bunch

49:18

of these. I don't know. Kevin,

49:20

Kevin, let me know when I... It's like,

49:22

you know, becoming bad when I'm doing

49:24

it too much or whatever. Okay,

49:27

so I once said, have a good night

49:29

ladies because I thought a woman's husband was

49:32

her wife with a pixie cut. Sad face.

49:35

I'm a cashier and this is a second one. I'm a cashier

49:37

and I was trying to say, how will you be paying today? But

49:39

I said, you gonna pay. Like

49:41

I was trying to say, you're going to pay for doing

49:44

this. Okay, one

49:46

time this guy told me he bought flour like

49:48

this the ingredient, but I read

49:50

his text as flour. So I said, ooh, pretty,

49:53

what kind? And he all he said was, all

49:55

purpose. Okay, I

49:57

was serving this kid some lunch and instead of asking,

49:59

what? what he wanted. I said, okay,

50:02

Google, what were you going to say, Kevin?

50:04

No, I was just laughing.

50:06

Oh, I'm telling you, you were saying something. Maybe it was

50:08

like audio, whatever. But

50:11

I think, okay. So this one actually, like

50:13

the all purpose flower, like they should

50:15

invent all purpose flowers, you

50:17

know, like instead of, instead

50:19

of like specific flowers, it's like these

50:22

ones, they're good for everything. You know,

50:24

I think that actually would be a really good invention.

50:28

And also it would be a really good episode

50:30

title if you're voting vote, vote for that. What

50:34

did, what did they vote for? Did they vote at

50:36

all? Did the straw video discord vote?

50:38

They liked chickpea and vinegar. Of

50:41

course they did. Um, well we

50:44

can go with that. Do you think that'll get flagged by

50:46

iTunes or anything?

50:48

They've been pretty cool lately. So we'll find out.

50:51

All right. We'll find out. Uh, I,

50:53

I, I, I don't like seating control,

50:55

but to be nice to everybody where

50:58

it will, let's just make that the episode title.

51:00

Is it your olive branch to the bad

51:03

discord? I think I'm a whole fucking

51:05

olive tree at this point. I've been doing all sorts

51:08

of olive branches. Anyway,

51:10

I went to grab a mop from the cleaning room and someone

51:12

was standing in front of it. So I approached said

51:15

sausage for no reason, then walked

51:18

away. Once

51:20

I got out of, uh, once I got out a cake

51:23

for a customer and tried to tell her to freeze it until

51:25

she needed it, but accidentally said, let's keep

51:27

you in the freezer. Okay. I

51:30

let a customer into our bathrooms at work and spontaneously

51:32

said to them, have a nice one. It's

51:35

my sad face. Yeah. Have a nice dump, Daryl.

51:38

Uh, in the DT DT stands for drive-through.

51:41

This guy asked if we could put the butter on the muffin

51:43

for him. So I yelled into the headset,

51:45

someone butter his muffin.

51:47

Um,

51:48

I walked into a store while taking a sip of my drink.

51:50

And when the lady said hello, I just gargled and choked.

51:53

Uh, one time

51:55

a table asked to have their cake as a takeaway.

51:57

And I said, Oh, a cake away and

51:59

kept.

51:59

giggling while they just stared at me.

52:02

Okay. One time I was trying to

52:04

say, you're total in your order and I just

52:06

ended up looking this customer dead of the dead

52:08

in the eyes saying, you're odor. Okay.

52:11

One time I had a whole line of people and then the

52:13

phone rang. I picked up and said, I didn't

52:15

mean to answer this. I

52:21

was at the steak and shake after work and the guy handed

52:23

me my milkshake and I said, thank you. There

52:26

you go. Thank you and drove off. I

52:29

was at a pizza restaurant and they asked cash or card

52:31

and I confidently said pepperoni. I saw

52:34

a table of six but instead of taking their order

52:36

I took a chair and joined them instead. I

52:40

lost the only work stapler we needed and

52:42

so I watched the cameras and it looked like I threw

52:44

it into the garbage bin. My

52:47

table asked for another round of drinks and

52:49

I went to say all good or no

52:51

stress but I just said all

52:53

stress and walked away. A

52:58

girl came in and asked if our bagels were healthy

53:00

and I was tired so all that came out of my mouth

53:02

was fatty. I

53:04

bought myself a miniature guitar to put on display

53:06

and the cashier said cash or card and

53:09

I was so out of it I was surprised

53:11

me. I

53:14

once had a guy do the drive-through, a Dairy

53:16

Queen dunk in the drive-through and it fell

53:19

over my car door. One

53:21

time someone asked me about a coupon and I meant to say

53:23

it's a limited day offer one

53:26

but instead say your days are

53:28

limited.

53:33

Okay this one's one of my favorite

53:35

ones in this one. The thing is if they make me

53:37

laugh hard enough I'll retweet them and

53:39

that's what I did for this one. That's how I could find it. This

53:42

one says I work at Sonic and we were at a tater tots

53:44

and I was taking someone's order and asked fries

53:46

or tots and they said tots and I just said

53:48

no. Oh

53:54

boy customer service employees you

53:56

really make our world go around and

54:00

You deserve more. But hey,

54:04

you don't get it. One time I drove into

54:06

the drive-thru at a Taco Bell that I've never been to

54:08

before in my life. And I ordered on the app. So

54:11

when I pulled up to the thing, I said, hey,

54:13

pick up an order for Kevin. And

54:16

the guy mistationally leaves

54:18

the mic on and says, oh, God,

54:20

Kevin's back. And

54:22

then realized he said

54:24

that to me and said, oh, my

54:26

God, I'm so sorry. And then

54:28

it got rid of the awkward. And he didn't say anything. So I

54:30

just pulled up to the window. And then he looked at me and goes, oh, you're

54:32

not even the Kevin I thought you were. There's

54:35

some other Kevin out there that I guess they hate.

54:38

I'm glad that

54:41

you got closure. Because I think in a lot of circumstances,

54:44

you wouldn't actually find out. They

54:46

wouldn't say, oh, you weren't that Kevin. You know,

54:48

and you'd be like, I wonder. I mean, obviously

54:51

you put it together. There must be a Kevin that they're thinking

54:53

of that they assume is you. But it's nice to actually

54:55

get the whole story, you know?

54:58

Or that was really covering by him and

55:01

he really did hate me.

55:02

But you don't go to that toggle bill that

55:04

often, right? There's no way. Yeah,

55:06

I hope not.

55:08

I hope not, too. I'm sure it's fine.

55:10

Anyway, let's read some emails.

55:13

OK.

55:15

That's good podcasting.

55:18

Brian writes, yes, I would buy a six

55:20

pack of that happen soda. Maybe you can use AI

55:22

to develop weird flavor ideas. It would

55:24

be really cool if it was a variety pack. I

55:28

think that's true. Can we do a variety

55:30

pack of the soda?

55:32

Yes, it would increase the

55:34

minimum order quite a bit, but we could do it.

55:38

I still like to do it. I know.

55:41

You know, I mean, it does sort of get

55:43

cheaper the bigger the order is, though, too. So if we were

55:45

going to do like a six pack of one of each flavor,

55:48

that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

55:50

Yeah, it gets cheaper, but also it gets

55:52

more expensive because we're not going to sell them. So

55:55

it doesn't matter, you know, we'll just

55:57

eat it. But hey, whatever. OK.

55:59

Okay.

56:00

Oh,

56:03

do you want to put in, do you want

56:05

to ask chat GPT to come up with weird

56:07

flavors or something while I read the next email? Also,

56:10

we're running low on emails, you guys. I'm ripping

56:12

through these emails. So send us an email, thathappenspot

56:15

at gmail.com. Let us know your funny

56:17

customer service stories. Let

56:20

us know your dreams and

56:22

your hopes. Anyway, Zim

56:25

writes, are you cool with questions following

56:27

up on things you said on Harmontown? So

56:30

do you do nitrous anymore? I do nitrous

56:33

like once every few years.

56:35

I did nitrous maybe last year. And

56:38

then I was like, I don't know if I want to do this

56:40

anymore. You ever do

56:42

nitrous, Kevin? Probably

56:44

not. I tried once and went, nope, this is not for

56:47

me immediately. Yeah,

56:49

I got scared straight at some point because

56:51

there's people that have done nitrous and gotten

56:54

really fucked up recently. In

56:56

the past, there is mostly just this one person

56:58

that got holes in his brain and they're saying it's

57:00

nitrous and it's not clear that it actually was

57:02

nitrous. So I was like, I don't know if this is actually that

57:04

bad for you. But there have been more. There's someone who

57:06

got paralyzed from doing nitrous or something, I don't know.

57:09

And so since then, I've been a lot more cagey

57:11

about it. The last time I did nitrous, I wore

57:13

a pulse oximeter

57:16

to see what my blood levels were, my

57:20

blood oxygen levels were, because you're

57:22

inhaling something that's not oxygen. So

57:24

you're depriving your system of oxygen.

57:27

And I was like, well, I wonder what these numbers actually are. And

57:29

then when it was starting to dip, then I'd stop

57:32

and stuff like that. And then I was like, I don't know. This

57:34

doesn't seem good. So I might

57:36

do it again in the future, but I think I might

57:38

be done, I don't know. Have you considered

57:41

grading the sodas you drink or have drank and

57:43

creating something like an ongoing tier list of

57:45

them all? That's interesting. That's

57:47

a pretty good idea. Too bad I didn't

57:49

read this before. We just tried to find some. But

57:53

yeah, I think it would be cool if we had this massive

57:56

grid of ranking stuff. You know what

57:58

Tom Sharpling does is he makes top 100. 100 lists

58:01

and they kind of move stuff around but it would

58:03

be fun to just have like a giant list I have

58:05

to keep slotting things into the list even

58:07

though like yeah, I don't know it's like oh, I don't even

58:10

remember what Mountain

58:12

Dew major melon tastes like anymore, but does

58:14

this taste better than that? I can't say you know

58:18

Any experience interest or serious plans about

58:20

growing plants of any kind? I mean, I

58:23

don't have a yard I don't want to grow plants inside.

58:25

It's not great. I Think

58:28

if I had a yard, I would want to grow plants. I

58:30

have a friend that grows plants He

58:33

actually I just made I was mentioning making

58:35

sausage and stage stuffing We used his fresh

58:37

sage from a sage plant as nice so I

58:39

think at the very least I would definitely want

58:42

like a nice little herb garden of some sort

58:44

because I think if you're trying to

58:46

grow plants like herb gardens Are probably

58:49

the best bang for your buck in terms of stuff. He

58:51

has other things He has like a zucchini plant and a

58:53

pepper plant. He's doing also a strawberry plant

58:55

He's doing all sorts of shit and it's awesome But

58:58

you know, I don't think I'd necessarily go that hard,

59:00

but I might you know growing plants is really

59:02

fun. It's meditative It's uh, I think

59:04

it puts you in touch with the earth that makes sense and

59:07

it's working with your hands I think there's a lot

59:09

of good to cultivating plants Every

59:12

seriously think about moving to another state if

59:14

so, which Yeah,

59:17

I think there was a time where I wanted to move to Chicago

59:20

to go to school. I think

59:22

it was because there was a girl that I like that lived there But

59:24

also there was a school in Chicago that was

59:27

about like radio stuff and I wanted to learn

59:29

radio production And

59:32

there was a time where I was maybe thinking about moving to Florida

59:34

for a different girl But

59:37

yeah, that's it. I never really came

59:39

out to anything. I'll move I'll move

59:41

anywhere for a girl probably

59:45

Although you know now it's hard because I want to

59:47

work in Hollywood But if Hollywood

59:50

seems like it's not paying out I think I definitely move

59:52

somewhere else because California is expensive and my

59:54

money would stretch a lot further in a different state

59:57

You know, although I like California. I don't

59:59

know There's a place I'd rather lived in, California,

1:00:02

but it's just like I'm not super precious about

1:00:04

it I think I'd be fine other places You

1:00:06

know I don't go outside per se

1:00:09

other than to hike and hiking is great

1:00:11

Ever seriously think oh no

1:00:14

one question more for Kevin in particular Listen

1:00:16

up Kevin can't remember if this is an original fodder

1:00:19

if it came up on the podcast before but have you seriously

1:00:21

Interacted with any other celebs through the fap gape

1:00:24

or info leaked thing or whatever guy you hooked up

1:00:26

with Dan his wake

1:00:28

Yes, but I don't want to name any names because

1:00:31

I don't yeah, no that I can

1:00:33

but I have quite a few people reached out to and

1:00:38

You know for the most part They've been very grateful

1:00:40

and asked for advice and then followed

1:00:42

up later and stuff like that I have a couple people

1:00:45

just think I was scamming them and I

1:00:47

can't have to like find

1:00:48

Connections to have like somebody I know that

1:00:51

knows them to be able to say no Kevin's not

1:00:53

crazy You know yeah,

1:00:55

no he's just trying to reach you

1:00:57

from other vectors. That's how

1:00:59

not crazy Yeah,

1:01:02

no, that's cool, but it makes

1:01:04

sense. He don't want to talk about it. I wouldn't either Everything

1:01:07

about getting Dave Klein as a guest no I don't

1:01:09

like day claim. I'm not convinced. He's

1:01:11

a good person I think here's

1:01:13

the thing okay. Here's the thing about Harman town is

1:01:16

the internet audience For

1:01:18

lack of a better term is stupid. They're

1:01:21

a bad judge of character

1:01:23

I think the live audience is a better

1:01:25

judge of character,

1:01:26

but it creates all these like Differences

1:01:29

like where I mean you know the most obvious

1:01:31

example is Adam Goldberg like on

1:01:33

the on the the internet audience is

1:01:35

like Oh, Adam Goldberg is the best and then the

1:01:37

live action the live audience is like this

1:01:40

fucking guy What the fuck is going on you

1:01:42

know and so I think I don't know but?

1:01:45

Well part of I think why there is a difference is that

1:01:48

most of the time that Adam Goldberg was talking

1:01:52

He did not have a microphone in his hand so the people at

1:01:54

home could not hear 80% of what he said

1:01:57

So I faith

1:02:00

more likable.

1:02:02

Yeah, so you

1:02:04

know I don't know. I don't like wrestling

1:02:08

because here's the thing about wrestling it's fake

1:02:11

and everyone knows this and whatever and people like

1:02:13

it it's fine. It's fine if you like wrestling whatever

1:02:16

but I think that just

1:02:18

doing something and being like look what

1:02:20

I'm doing is not very

1:02:22

interesting it's like yeah you're just making shit

1:02:24

up it's just like what it's like

1:02:26

I'm supposed to be impressed what you're doing isn't particularly

1:02:29

impressive like the making up part

1:02:31

isn't you know like the acrobatics

1:02:33

and the athletics are but uh

1:02:36

yeah but so when

1:02:38

Dave Klein first came on I

1:02:40

was like he's like just doing like a wrestler

1:02:43

shtick it's like he's he's just like

1:02:46

and then the crowd is eating it up the same way

1:02:48

and so like to me it was just like this is just like

1:02:50

wrestling it sucks and everyone's like this

1:02:52

is so great look how it sucks isn't this awesome

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and I'm like no it's just like I don't

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know what's that like he

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was trying to do an Andy Kaufman bit but not

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really pulling it off

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yeah I'm trying it's like I don't

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know it's like okay what have you to live you

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like had a stick

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and then you're like I'm gonna wave this

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stick around are you fucking ready I'm

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gonna wave the shit out of this stick and then you

1:03:17

started waving the stick and then the crowds like holy shit

1:03:19

he's fucking doing it oh my god it's like

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yeah I mean you're talking

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about it like it's something but at the end of

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the day you're not doing anything and everyone's

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like this is fucking awesome and I feel

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like that was kind of his whole

1:03:33

bit like I it would have been more

1:03:36

interesting to learn about him but I don't

1:03:38

think we did learn about him very much I think

1:03:40

there's details that he told us about his life that were

1:03:42

true but I think those are few and far between

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and mostly it was just this persona that

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to me wasn't particularly interesting

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it was just a very flat character and

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then also I think there's times on on stage

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I was kind of I would kind of needle in a bit

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and kind of poke at that

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and then you'd be like nah this is just me and it's like

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no it's not

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What are you doing? And there's a couple times like there's

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a couple times where he actually like broke, you

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know character kind of and

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You know, he had he did that more as time

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went on, but I think that became more manicured

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But you know, he would talk in like a lower

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voice, you know, not like a lower

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energy voice and

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And Matt felt like more true to who

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he actually was But there was only like

1:04:25

one or two times of him doing that that felt like

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oh Like I don't know who did it

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but I think someone essentially caught him off guard

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and then he responded in like What

1:04:34

I clocked is his like real real voice

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and it just sounded completely different than anything He

1:04:39

had been doing this far. And so

1:04:41

like at that point I was like this guy's like a fucking

1:04:43

phony It's just like and the thing

1:04:45

is especially online like I think like all

1:04:48

the people were talking about him like oh man

1:04:50

He's just a real dude. Like that's just who he is

1:04:53

and stuff This is clearly a very

1:04:56

transparent put-on and it's not

1:04:58

very interesting And then also he

1:05:00

would up pander like you know, this

1:05:02

is in front of life a crowd you pander That's the thing

1:05:04

people do but he would do this really transparent

1:05:07

pandering It was like oh, isn't it great to

1:05:09

be here and dance here and the crowd

1:05:12

would be like, yeah And it's like yeah,

1:05:14

we fucking know we'd be here for months Like

1:05:17

the same audience has been here every time. It's

1:05:19

like I think it's like we get it I don't

1:05:21

know. So all of that's just definitely really

1:05:23

rubbed me the wrong way and I'm sure he's a good

1:05:25

guy again I was more interested in

1:05:27

what the real person was But

1:05:30

you know, whatever it's fine. It's fine. Everybody's

1:05:33

fine

1:05:34

Also, you know, I think

1:05:36

As a result of being insecure

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I think I probably had a chip in my shoulder about a lot

1:05:40

of the audience come up You know just feel like

1:05:43

you should do it the right way like me, you know,

1:05:45

which so I'm definitely biased here But

1:05:48

anyway, thanks so much them for the email

1:05:51

and we are out of time So

1:05:54

we should turn off the show and

1:05:56

maybe you could just end the whole stream, you know

1:05:58

and not play anything What

1:06:01

do you think about that? Well,

1:06:04

I mean, we did advertise there's at least three more shows

1:06:06

coming up after this, so I probably should finish at

1:06:08

least those three and then I'll end it. No, I don't think

1:06:10

so. The good Discord, they're

1:06:12

good. You know, they're nice. I think they'd be very

1:06:15

understanding that I asked you to do that, and

1:06:17

so that seemed like the best

1:06:19

thing to do. Anyway, what

1:06:22

do we got? I don't have anything to plug

1:06:24

other than, you

1:06:26

know,

1:06:27

check out my job. I

1:06:30

don't know, patreon.com slash the Sixler so I can

1:06:33

quit my job. You

1:06:36

know, whatever. It's fine. Every

1:06:39

month I'm like, maybe I should just shut down the Patreon. I

1:06:41

don't want to be taking people's money. I feel guilty about

1:06:43

it. You deserve money more

1:06:45

than I do, and yet I still need money.

1:06:48

Another thing is I've been talking about Kevin, talking

1:06:50

to Kevin a little bit. We haven't like

1:06:52

set any dates or anything, but I

1:06:54

was thinking we want to do maybe like a Patreon

1:06:57

only, maybe like a once a month

1:06:59

bonus episode where we watch

1:07:02

anime or something and talk about it. Maybe we

1:07:04

get Shrob. It'd be like we watch Dirty Pair

1:07:06

and then talk about it with Shrob or something. Me, Kevin

1:07:08

and Shrob. That seems like something that people might

1:07:11

pay money for, right? So, but

1:07:13

no concrete plans for that. Just something

1:07:15

that I've thought about a little bit. But

1:07:17

yeah, that's me. What about you, Kevin? Pay

1:07:20

Spencer money to see me. That's

1:07:22

the message there, okay? That's all you have to do. Yeah, exactly.

1:07:25

If you want more Kevin without giving me money. Yes.

1:07:29

Yeah, no, come to

1:07:32

ShrobOnVideo.com every Sunday and

1:07:34

watch all of this. Email

1:07:37

us. That happens, pod at gmail.com.

1:07:40

Yeah, come

1:07:42

join any of the discords, even ones not related

1:07:45

to us. Just join discord. This

1:07:47

is an ad for discord. Discord's

1:07:49

great, man. It's like a new IRC. And if you

1:07:51

don't know what that means, it's fine.

1:07:53

It doesn't matter.

1:07:54

Yeah,

1:07:55

that should be discord's

1:07:58

slogan. If you don't know what that is, that's fine.

1:08:01

Yeah, so that's our show. We

1:08:03

like to end the show the same way we do every

1:08:06

week, so until next time, from

1:08:08

Kevin Day and Spencer Crittenden, it's

1:08:10

time to train dirty, eat clean,

1:08:13

and live in between.