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#522 - Is The Mandela Effect Real?

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#522 - Is The Mandela Effect Real?

The episode blends promotional content with a casual, humorous conversation between hosts Frank and Joe. It begins with a collaboration between Coach and Spotify, introducing the Tabby Tour—a live experience featuring music, personalization, and interactive events across cities. The hosts then dive into a lively, often absurd discussion on internet culture, including the meaning and impact of "canceling," "deleting," and public shaming. They explore which game shows they’d enjoy participating in, with strong interest in *Password*, *The Cube*, and *Double Dare*. A deeper segment examines language, grammar, and cultural naming practices, such as the origins of the Milky Way’s name in different languages, revealing diverse and poetic alternatives. The episode also promotes various sponsors including Squarespace, Wayfair, Google Gemini, and ZocDoc, offering discounts and access to their services. One particularly playful idea—turning grammar lessons into a porn show—is dismissed as ridiculous but used to highlight the overcomplication of language. The conversation remains lighthearted and self-aware, ending with a call to action for fans to attend live events, join Patreon, and submit stories for future episodes. The tone is conversational, witty, and grounded in mutual humor, reflecting the hosts’ genuine engagement with both entertainment and everyday internet dynamics.

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pink panther is here coach and spotify are teaming up to bring music and style together and they want you to be part of it grab your friends and head to the tabby tour hitting cities around the country with live performances from special artists exclusive experiences and personalized products and discover custom playlists on spotify but just for you based on who you are and how you listen live your story with coach learn more at coach.com welcome back to the basement welcome back to the basement yard how's it going francis i'm a little sleepy boy why why not that's not how i thought you were gonna answer why not why can't i be sleepy i don't know you can be sleepy all you want i like being sleepy my contact is so blurry right now is it fucked up looks like someone yeah don't i know like it looks like someone poked you in the eyes oh i thought you were gonna say something about like jizz or something i was like all right relax i don't i don't why would you think i was going with jizzing in your eye because you're you that's why you're being mean did you say it like that i don't know i take offense to that uh so uh i hope that the internet fires you for it okay that would be so much funnier if we called it firing and not canceling you're fired you're fired for it dude like you're just done i mean is there a difference um you get canceled you get kind of fired no but when you get fired there's the idea i don't really like canceling now that you brought that up what about delete oh that's kind of permanent that's kind of a permanent well that's what they want it to be yeah that's what the the the left the peaceful left want it to be the so a permanent delete cancel i don't like that i just i hate it because it seems like it's like they're just putting that big like red with a cross through it on their face like no smoke you know what i'm saying that's an x no x is an x no i think it's i think i go is more of a cancel than it is x x i just go no i'm pretty sure that's the exact family feud x yes and and uh price is right i don't know if they do it no price right goes like it's like sad oh yeah like that's way where bro if i'm on a game show i'd rather hear a than a oh no like you're an idiot like they're like kind of like softly reminding me that i look at the fucking moron up here can't get yeah i can't guess the price of sardines you could go on any of those game shows like and and do well any game show any game show and do well what do you think you would do i i and i'm not talking like you just like the show like you think you would have a chance oh like oh okay um i think if it's on family feud and if we didn't i would fire everyone cancel delete right um no but i think uh uh what's the howie mandel one howie mandel the the pyramid deal or no deal deal or no deal deal or no deal that was gonna be my answer that one it involves too much math not math that you have to do yeah but i don't like knowing that other someone is doing math you know what i'm saying like i love math but like i need to watch math to like i'm a little suspicious of it you know none of that yeah you know like if i know someone's doing math i want to see the math too before they just be like that was the math right i whatever you're saying is is confusing but i i think that that show like you pick a random one and then you start opening up cases and then you start making deals be honest if you were putting together a celebrity like not celebrity like a family feud team for san diego studios which by the way it's not that you need to be good you also need to kind of hope the other people suck like you give them the chance like you throw to them and if they fuck up you get all the points i don't i like i get that but also at the same time like there are some people that i watch on family feud and i'm like why the fuck did they even invite that person that answer was so dumb who would be the san diego studios family feud team how many people are on a team i think it's five is the max you don't have that many i think all the people that are involved with san diego studios yeah i don't think there's there's that i mean i would say me you and yes i think it's coming in i think so hell yeah i think you need to throw greg in there yeah greg but he knows a lot about books you need a med in there you know no but we're content no we're content leaning no we're not listen i'm sorry not not on family feud i love a med he would give insane answers i really do but he'd be the one that like charlie in the episode of of uh it's always sunny where he's just like dragon's blood yeah you know like that like a med would not know like certain things in that episode he single-handedly wins because that's a bad example sure sure because of those answers i also wouldn't take keith because i feel like he if he couldn't come up with an answer and they hit him with the x he would freak out yeah well it's like that would be the end of that yeah also like my i think my biggest weakness would be the uh that part the buzzer part oh really yeah because i feel like good at that well i can only i can't think and slap well you would slap then have to think right yeah that would be tough you are right i feel like i would be good at the fast money though like i could come up with answers well because those are those are such simple questions that like yeah it's not about like they say that like the the goal should be to aim for like what would be the second best answer not the first because then you leave like a little bit of wiggle room for whoever's coming back next you know what i mean i'm literally saying the first thing that comes to my head and god forbid they're like your your partner said the other one i'd be like i can't think of anything now yeah all right i guess but what other shows were you going to watch the next one i'm going to watch the next one i'm going to watch the next one password i think i'd be great at you bro if you and i went on password i feel like we would do well we would do very well like a catchphrase type of shit yeah well we used to play that a lot as kids you had the little the little circle catchphrase 100 i think that we would do extremely well with with password i think uh i don't know if you saw on amazon prime it was on there they have like it's like pop culture jeopardy it's hosted by colin jost i think i'd be very good at that one well pop culture it doesn't necessarily mean modern pop culture i was gonna say i don't know how good you'd be at that there's one show that is now i think it's hosted by lily sing it's like boomers versus millennials i haven't heard that name yeah yeah it's like boomers versus millennials and it's like a mom and their daughter go on and like the mom has to answer millennial questions or gen z questions and the kids have to answer boomer it's like the typical like they show a picture of a rotary phone and they're like what is this how how does this work and yeah you know the kids are just like i don't fucking know okay what about you are you you strike me you know who strikes me as a wheel of fortune kid you strike me as a wheel of fortune kid you love letters dude my sister's really good at wheel of fortune you love letters i like the one percent you ever see that show the one that was hosted by like the jim norton i think so yes yeah and he was just like all right well yeah that it bought on a monday died on a wednesday but lived for 20 years how does that like you know it's like 20 percent of people isn't jim norton a comedian yeah yeah the australian comedian oh the one that's like that's not that's not jim norton i think type in jim norton no jim norton is a bald guy yeah he's a bald oh really so who am i thinking jim jeffries jim jeffries oh yeah that's the one that's the guy that hosts it sorry norton jeffries very white very understandably confusing last name i guess so i don't think joe would ever go on the show i know this is different but i'm gonna put it out there i think i would really like to watch joe be on big brother personally absolutely why would you want to watch me on that well i would like to watch you on a on a show but i feel like i'd like to see me like to be like a voyeur you freak well what is that yeah he's like oh joe's sleeping right now there he goes he's laying down when you why i'm still what i think it'd be fun to watch you i think you would do well that's why i i don't even know the rules i've never seen that show yeah i know that's the one where there's like cameras i don't even know the rules i don't even know the everywhere they just live in a house and they do challenges and it's like a social game and see i can't do those challenges because like i hear that they're they take it so fucking hard like the challenge and and you know like with those show like big brother they take it so intense and i'd just be like guys we're adults like i get we're competing for money but like also like we're playing big games like guys come on you're you're adults here i mean i'm a challenge boy i like the challenge i think it's like it's pretty cool but that one's way more intense i could see a big i sub i submitted our hat into the ring for the uh for the traders but i am taking it back out i would not be i would love to be on that i would not be good at that traders that would be a good one ever since we've done those santa gato studios where i'm the imposter it's clear that i would be very bad at it i don't think you would be like that bad at it i just i don't like lying so like it would like in that i'd be like all right you got me guys you know like yeah get the fuck out of here what audience are you i mean look at how we do i don't like lying i'd be like i mean sorry i mean if there was a quarter of a million dollars on the line then i'll i'll fucking lie through my teeth you you we can we'll figure this thing out we'll figure this one other game dude i mean i i would i would kill to be on legends of the hidden temple but that's that that ship has sailed that was a cool one i mean it was cool when you're a child yeah but like when you think about it the thing that they're running through it's not that hard i know but like i've i like would go to like burger king play places and like train i'd be like all right i can get through this like Very quickly, I can go up this ladder. I can do da-da-da-da-da. Look up other game shows, by the way. Sure. I think that there is a league. Like, I could have been an all-star Legends of the Hidden Temple player. Silver Snake. Or Purple Parrots. I'm going either one, baby. I like that, too. I'm not against either of them. What's the worst one? Green Monkeys. What's the orange one? Orange Iguanas? That's not great. I mean, I love the color orange, but. Wheel of Fortune. Jeopardy, I would get my ass whooped. Dude, I don't even. Like, this is the thing with Jeopardy. I don't know how people know that much. I think they give you, like, a study guide. Like, they say, like, here are the topics for this week, and then, like. Or it'll just be, like, here's a. I honestly don't know, but I assume it's kind of, like, 20th century poets or something. And then they would give some information and maybe. Yeah, but, like, there's a new episode every day, so I'm sure they're filming several episodes. They're filming several episodes a day. Yeah. So, like, you have to imagine. Bro, who wants to be a millionaire? I couldn't because I would be pissed at Regis. R.I.P. I'm pretty sure he's gone, right? Yeah, he's ripped up. He hit it? Ripped up. But who wants to be a millionaire? I feel like I could get to a point where I would. I think I could get to that first level where you're, like, safe, but it's, like, five grand or something. Or it's, like, three grand or something. But, like, as long as I had a safety net, I'd be like, all right. Because you could use the fucking. Take the two out, call somebody. Yeah, but then you got. I don't know who I'm even calling. That's the thing I was going to say is, like, at that point, who do you call? These people are calling, like, their friends or their dad. I'd be like, bro, I'm not. You know, I'm not doing this. You know which one I would be good at? Have you ever seen. Dude, The Cube was a good one. What's The Cube again? The Cube. As Jesus Christ. I don't remember that. Literally, Dwayne Wade would be like, all right, do you think you're tough enough to beat The Cube? He would whisper? No, it wasn't him. It was, like, the voiceover. The Cube was, like. It was, like, those, like, bar tricks where it was, like, you drop a ball on a slide and you have to go to the bottom of the slide and catch other balls before that one drops and shit like that. Oh, I think I've seen, like, an episode of that before. Like, you had to, like. It would be, like, you need to stop. Yeah. Oh, I've seen that, yeah. You need to stop the clock on. As close to. As close to 10 seconds as you can and you have, like, a.5-second window and then you can use a lifeline and it'll be a.1 or something or, like, a larger window or whatever. Yeah. I wanted to sign up for this. The Cube? I think I'd be good at it. I'm good with hand eyes, you know? Yeah. What? There was one. There literally was one where it was, like, you need to. There's just, like, 100 balls in a bin and you need to just get all of them out in 20 seconds. That's it. How long is that? This one? Yeah, that. Oh, you gotta get them out? You gotta get them all out? All of them out in 20 seconds. I would. I would. Yeah, I don't even know. Like, I would just, like, like a fucking dog in there. Yeah, but that's the thing. But then when you get down to, like, 10, it's like. You gotta get them. You gotta fucking scramble and shit. I don't like racing against any clocks, to be honest with you. There was one in the Cube. There was one challenge where, like, you can, like, one of your lifelines is you can ask Dwayne Wade to do it for you because he was the host. Yeah. So, like, there was one that was, like, a basketball one and then everyone was just like, Dwayne. Yeah, yeah, go on here. But then it's like. He missed it, by the way. There have been times he's missed it, times that he's made it. But. Damn, what about the weakest link? Remember that? I would get so pissed at that old white hag. Hashcam! Yeah, but, like, those questions are tough. Really hard. Honestly. I don't remember seeing any of that. I was just like, yo, that's hard. No, no, no. There was questions and I was like, yo, what the fuck? I remember the one that I think I would do good at is, like, it was the one where it was, like, Steve-O hosted it for, like, a season and it was called, like, something karaoke, killer karaoke, where, like, you had to keep singing a song but he'd, like, dunk you in a tank of piranhas while you're trying or, like, ice water and shit like that. Yeah, yeah. Or, like, walk across mousetraps. I'd be good at that. Double Dare, obviously. I would dominate that show. I would be a problem in Double Dare, dude. Are you kidding me? Oh, my God. I've always wanted to climb into that nose and get the flag and be covered in boogers. I like that. I like the one where it was just, like, you have to go through the paint roller. Yeah, yeah. That's a good one, too. Damn, dude. I want to get on a game show. Why haven't I. I mean, we were. I was almost on a game show. Remember that short-lived. Do I? That was quite the experience. Did we ever tell that story how you were on a game show? We've told that story a couple times. Ant might not have heard it, but there was a. I knew someone in college who was a casting director for, like, a bunch of, like, game shows and reality shows and stuff like that and she reached out and she's like, do you want to be on this show called Best Time Ever? It was in Astoria. It filmed in Astoria at Kauffman Studios. It was hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and he had, like, a guest announcer. Alec Baldwin. Alec Baldwin was the guest announcer. Wasn't Nicole Scherzinger there, too? Am I making that up? It might have been, but, like. Bro, sorry. One thing that I was like, whoa! TV here! Because they put you in a room. I went with him as, like, his plus one. So they sit the people who are actually going to have a chance to be on the show on one side and the rest of us on the other. They interview everyone and make them go up and, like, say stuff about them to see who's good for TV. Yeah. So everyone's getting up being like, hi, I'm Marissa. I speak five languages and I've been to Peru. It was, like, the most, like. Like, the fuck was that? It's the most. It was the most intense, concentrated version of, like, what people believe, like, those that are trying to make it are. Like, what they're doing. Like, they work at the Starlight Diner so, like, they know they might be waiting on someone that's a screenwriter so they're just like, wow! Boy, do you love this menu today. We have hamburgers. We have waffles. Like, it's just, like, that. Like, I always think of. Did you ever see the SNL sketch where they were, like, making fun of, like, going to, like, Disney acting camp? No. It's like that. Like, it's like. Yeah, yeah. Like, your reaction. And, yo, they legit were, like, every person that came to the room, like, they. They had a thing. It wasn't like you could be on it. You had to have, like, a thing and it was just like, I'm a screenwriter and actress and producer. Like, you know. But they make it seem like anyone in the crowd could get picked. So that makes me think that, like. It's fake. It's rigged. The Price is Right, that, like, there's only a certain amount of people in the crowd. It's not everyone. Like, everyone's wearing a name tag, but, like, only a certain amount of people have a chance to be on it because they have to, like, vet who's, like, good for TV. And that's why everyone who gets on The Price is Right, they're like. Yeah. Well, because remember, you didn't know if you were getting. They didn't tell who was getting picked to get picked. So they had, like, a rotating series of pictures that, like, went through them quickly, and then it would stop on the person that got picked. Yeah. I was the person right before the person that got picked. And it was like, you. The person was like, you win $20,000 cash, a new Jeep. Do you remember that? Yeah. I was like, damn. But also, it was so TV. Like, it was uncomfortable. It was weird. Because it was just like, if the. Like, you have to imagine the camera's on you at all times, so, like, button the smile, like, ah! Like, any big reactions, like, oh! Yeah, you're like seals. You're like seals out there. Did you go up and have to give a, I'm Frank. Yes. So. You've told this story. From my perspective. It was like, it was good. I'm glad that he did it the way that he did, because everyone was getting up there with these stories, like, I lived in Europe, and I, you know, I speak three languages, and I. And, like, all these impressive things. I remember someone there climbed Mount Everest. Something like that. Yeah. But there was a. There was multiple people who kept saying the amount of languages, and it just became a thing. Like, everyone kept doing that. Frank got up there and be like, don't speak any other languages. Just, like, said some other shit. What else did he say? I honestly don't remember. But I remember him saying that. Didn't get a laugh. I was like, oh, God. This fucking place sucks. Yeah. I mean, should've got picked. Also, in between takes, actors are different people than you see on TV. That's all I'm gonna say. What does that mean? NPH? Why? I mean, in between. Like, they're there for work. So, like, there's a machine running behind them. So, like, might've been a little snippy in between, you know, the commercial breaks. Oh, I don't even remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that lines up with other people have experienced. Like, there's, like, stories and rumors about him out there that's. Where's my goddamn donut, Sheila? I'm not saying I saw all that, but I saw enough to just be like, huh, interesting. And then, funny, I guess not funny, Alec Baldwin being there. He had a fall. Careful. He had a fall from grace. Yep. You know, that was right around the time he might've called his daughter like a pig or something like that, right? Yeah, I mean, every dad does that, doesn't he? I don't know about that. I don't know about all that. He doesn't call you a pig. I think it could be good for us to go on a game show. Not even just for the winning part. It could be also very bad. It could be. If they just so happen to be filming one not far and they want people that are just, like, fun guys. Fun boys. Fun boys going and doing stuff on a game show. You know. We'll make it fun. We'll make it memorable. If we did Fear Factor, would you eat the bugs? That's easy, yeah. Okay, good. Oh, yeah, you eat bugs. Hold on, hold on. I know you've eaten bugs. Well, please back up. You're coming in hot, okay? You're coming in hot like that whatever happened in your eye. There it is. Why are you saying yeah? It was coming. All maroon. Look at this. All maroon. What's wrong with maroon? Very matchy. I'm sorry. Yo, him and Greg hate matchy. It's not that I hate matchy. They've commented on my matching like at least six times in the last year and a half. I. first of all not me yes you i have never been like hey you're too matchy that was my first match no no no you're very mad no no no you didn't say hey you're too matchy but you're just be like you like to match which i know i know what that no greg said you really like to match which is what i knew that i was like oh it's a problem ladies and gentlemen fabrication is happening upon us there is no fabrication this is this is being no no no no no like a fabric factory frank yeah you're you're really close to what just be careful fabric factory oh i see what you're getting you're getting awfully you're teetering on the edge right there well that's why i enunciate that's enunciation enunciation um conjugation whatever that is subconjugation who's that i imagine it's like a conjugation being like a little sub being a little submissive just like a little submissive like dominate me grammar domicommunication that's not how you say it dominate me dictionary don't make me a subconjugate i'm subconjugating oh sub synonym yeah why'd you come on over i'll subconjugate for you i hate that we have words for what words are like words should just be words stop making them we've got words to describe words i don't like that adverb my guy get out of here get out yo i'm not even kidding don't even ask me that stuff i know i know noun i know synonym you know pronoun you better know pronoun i know pronouns yeah you better i know them and i respect them i'll tell you this that is that is something that is also a positive in my life is that once the pronouns thing became very prevalent i'm like now i know what those are because that's a tough one we all get something like the people that are just like i'm not i'm not respecting pronouns we all get something out of respecting pronouns they the grammar they the people that are requesting certain pronouns they get the respect they feel they deserve and we're learning a little bit of grammar and syntax because that's not something that i would be very familiar with adverb that one is going to take me some time my guy if you asked me 10 years ago what a pronoun was you weren't getting a conversation i was i literally would have probably said butter like i don't know i don't know it does sound like a compound butter like a type of compound butter like a pronoun butter yeah well i just i you know a professional noun i don't oh i would think that it's a name like a pronoun like mount olympus no i would think it would be like what you like when you speak to people of high status like captain or colonel like the pronoun is like the ranking that makes sense you know like oh well the military ranking yeah your military ranking like well that's lieutenant frank you know what i mean like their pronoun is lieutenant yeah now we know that that's not the case yeah he she they she well we're just going yeah we'll go she they them right he she us together it's us i he i no i it's it's it's it's me he yo soy he him she her they them there's more i just i'm not familiar do you mind educating us me yes did you forget did you miss the part where i said i don't i'm not i know but now you're here there's there's someone needs to be the savior of this conversation i've heard creative ones but i don't know them well i think latinx latinx is like used i can't i see i see it and i immediately go to latinx latinx you have to i i mean when you can pronounce x in that way x is like the best letter let's get that out of the way x is up there triple x porn or triple x vin diesel i was going vin diesel nice cube yeah you know like x like x marks the spot treasure who doesn't love treasure over the eyes dead dead cartoons yes yes yes x uh x on the belly button like where to hit the bad guy in the video games right exactly you know yeah punch out king hippo that's right yeah he knows he gets it what other x's are there uh don't don't do that stop right x x x's and o's hugs and kisses kisses you know the song x's and o's by ellie golding right i don't think that's her is that the one that's rob schneider's daughter uh uh that's that's uh what's her name in the in the it's uh something in an elephant what's her name cage no not cage the elephant what's it who who does it ellie golding it's not ellie golding it's uh rob schneider's daughter what's the thing it's like ellie ella not no it's it's something who what's the song you just said oh monkey dance oh it's like elephant and tones what's it called i don't know you're speaking another language right now i don't know what the question i'm trying to help it's like monkey dance and elephant type in monkey dance i want to help or dance monkey not monkey dance dance monkey by elephant no it's it's ella something ellie king ellie king type in dance monkey it's ellie king he's right he's right it's ellie king tones and i is that what you're saying dude where did i get the elephant where did i even make an elephant i don't even i don't know if i've ever heard this tones and i yeah dance monkey dance monkey dance monkey oh that song sucks yeah um she has another one what's her what's the ellie gold song where she's like is it the one oh no then who's ellie king the one that you're talking about that's rob schneider's daughter talking about this one i made an elephant and i don't know why show me rob schneider's daughter i don't think she makes music she does she does ellie king type in i told you oh okay that's his daughter she's l king this is l king this is music sorry forward uh picture here yeah yeah yeah she has x's and o's oh wow i was right about rob schneider's daughter's music i'm very happy for you i don't think she associates with her dad too i don't think she associates with her dad so forgive me for just immediately just grouping her there well i don't think her and her dad are like cool right now good because you see what he did l king and i'm sorry about tones and low i don't know why i put an elephant in your name but it felt correct at the time wasn't it tones and i tones and i who did i say tones and low we just i'm telling if you take the last three minutes of this episode and you played it for someone that existed in like 1941 they would put their head in a blender they would just get polio and they'd put their whole body in an iron lung yeah head first those are cool i want to get into an iron lung no you don't why not it's just air no it helps me breathe i think it's more than that brother it's like because people lost like no i know it's not good when you're in it it's the last one the last dude that was in one just went because there's something wrong well yeah i think it's it's polio right that he had you're you're talking about a man i've never met or no i didn't meet him or know him either but i know that he had something that i that i know all i'm saying is an iron lung looks cozy sure bro no way the guy only he couldn't control his i think he was a quadriplegic frank i'm not saying that sounds fun i'm not saying that sounds fun i'm not saying that sounds fun i feel bad for those people oh so you want to be a fully healthy able-bodied able who can who's just who i'm i don't i know i'm here i am here where just call dial 9-1-1 dial 9-1-1 take the whole thing out dial 9-1-1 next that sounded take it out daddy take it out i'm subjugating right now take it all the grammar guys oh man i'm i'm telling you how i'm gonna subjugate you when i all right hear me out you know i'm not a fan of porn but what if what if it was like porn but grammar related yeah this episode is brought to you by uh squarespace squarespace is a platform that is going to build your websites for you um well they're not for you but they have templates there they're going to make it very easy to build a very easy way to build a website for you and they're going to make it very easy to build a professional looking website and uh like i said they uh they have these templates that you just click on and the website 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It depends on the idea. Well, here's the idea. It's like. Porn, you guys, you know, it's not hard to remember humans having sex. Yeah, but they add in like to understand grammatical stuff. So it's kind of like teaching also. Oh, no, you don't come. No, you don't come. Horrible idea. Yeah, it's like you'll be able to take my top off if you can tell me the proper placement of a semicolon. Which who the hell knows that? Well, that's what I'm saying. You get two birds, one stone. Listen, can't beat them. Beat them off. I'm kidding. Well, that's crazy. Can't beat them, too. Bad idea. Semicolon, by the way, we can call it something else. No, it's a half colon. I know, but we can get the colon. We don't have to call it a colon either because we have we know what a colon is. I also hate that they call the three dots and ellipses. Just call it like, um, with three dots where it's like at the end of a sentence where it'll be like dot, dot, dot. That's called an ellipses. Ellipses, yeah. I did not know that. You didn't know that. No, I thought ellipses was like weather. That's an eclipsy. No, not an eclipses. Like, what's the other one? Like an ellipses is just like a cute little eclipse. Yeah, no, no, no. Like it's just like a little one. A little baby one. Oh, look at the little ellipses up there. No, what's the other one? The solstice. That's a season. That's like a time for like the year. Yeah, it felt like all those words were similar, so I thought they all kind of meant the same thing. Well, there's summer solstice. There's summer solstice, and there's the winter solstice. Thank you for listing out two. That's all that there is. I know, but I thought that ellipses. Because then there's the fall and the spring equinox, right? Right. I know, I know. What is that? What is it? Well, it's a cool gym. No, right, yeah. And it's. It's an expensive gym. It's an expensive gym, and it's a time of the year. Right, but does it have to do with the moon? I believe it has to do with the tilting of the earth and the angle at which the moon and the sunlight hits. So, yeah, sure. So, naturally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think it's like. It also has to do with the tropic of cancer and the. You never heard of the tropic of cancer? No, I'm saying you were on the right track. I was just giving you. Wait, so that was bewilderment at how I actually knew this? I was just giving you props. Wait, the tropic of cancer? What does it do? Oh, that part I don't know. I was talking more about the tilts. Yeah, yeah. And then I started to lose my. The earth? This is the. It revolves? This is solstice? Solstice? Yeah. We're solstice? Solstice. Solstice. Right. And then what's equinox? When it's. She's got her thing? Equinox is when it's in the middle. Oh. Equin. Equa. Oh, so when she's straight up, she's equinoxing. But when she's tilting, she's solstice? Yeah, she's solstice. She's like slouching. Yeah, it's just like. It's like when the earth slouches. Like, correct your posture. Equinox. Right. You know? But for the most part, we're. Solstice. We're solstice. We're solstice. Is that right? Because the earth revolves around the sun, it also rotates on an axis, and it tilts up and down like this, which is like. This is a joke. We're just. This is not even a joke. We're doing this. Yeah, we're doing this in space, and everyone's just like. By the way, by the way, fast. Yeah, dude. I mean, fast in the grand scheme of things. Slow for us. Sure, sure, sure. Speed is relative, my friend. But like, I know, but like. How could we not feel? Well, I don't know. Because it's going slow. And to us, but fast to other things. To speed. Fast, or to speed. I heard that if the earth stopped spinning, everything would just go flying. Probably. I mean, it's like being in a car that you hit the brakes. Yeah. I think they, like, the speed is like. I slammed my brakes yesterday. Very scary. Really? Yeah, I was coming home from my brother's house. All right. It's. I mean, you're okay, right? You're good? If something bad happened, I would have heard about it. I'm hurt now. Are you? Yeah. You had a slam on the brakes of our friendship, and the whiplash just broke your heart? Yeah, I'm going to send you through the windshield right now, slamming the fucking brakes. I was going to ask, do you know how fast the earth is moving around the sun? How would you like me to answer? In miles per hour, please. Wouldn't matter. I don't know. I think. Probably like 400,000 miles per hour. 10,000 miles an hour. Well, around the sun, we got to think about it. it takes 365 days and we need to know this the distance he's gonna say a lot of stuff and then not have an answer it's like a couple hundred thousand miles right give an answer i said 400 400 miles per hour no 400 000 got it i'm saying it's like distance eight minutes for light to hit us from the sun you know you're not doing math i'm trying let me do math math porn it's like tell me what a summation is and i'll show you my nipples i don't even know what that is exactly you'll get there one day give an answer i would say 782 miles per hour 67 000 miles per hour around the sun okay i was off and he was well i'll tell you what though four around 400 000 miles per hour our entire galaxy is moving where's it going our solar system expanding it's an ever you it's everything is expanding no no sorry you've never heard of the doppler like i know that but you're saying we're moving we're also going our entire solar system including earth is orbiting in the center of the milky way at about 400 to 500 000 miles per hour fast that's fast brother that's so fast and the milky way is also moving through the universe at about 1.3 million miles per hour what is happening to us shut the fuck up with all this stuff like i hate that i hate listen i love neil degrasse tyson i think he's a cool dude he's well spoken love his vest game okay but like to make this a thing you learn about life and like want to tell people about shut up the milky way a great name great great name for a galaxy delicious i think that we should name all the scientific stuff after i'm not you yes cosine you know what i mean yeah absolute cosine i'm with you there but then we have like andromeda what is that i mean that's a pretty cool name stop stop stop it reminds me of like i don't like it it reminds me of like uh like a like uh see like a bad like you know like cyber bad bad guy from like a video game you know what i mean okay you know what i mean andross that's who i'm thinking of can you look at the names of galaxies yes then they get they get boring after that it's like oh there's centauri and it's like centauri that sounds like a japanese one it might be honestly the name can't be a japanese galaxy frank why can't there be they would have their own you only want white galaxies joe no i'm just saying like it's not it's just a it's a no like they can name it and be like we named it first does so this is like someone names these galaxies this is a real question now does every country recognize that they're a galaxy this is a real question now does every country recognize that this is called the milky way galaxy or do that's a great question look up what the galaxy is called in other languages because we call it the milky way because we're fat americans but like do the japanese call it like something cooler i thought you were gonna say i'm glad but that's not like does do the japanese people have a different name for the milky way i think whatever you look it up as joe needs to try to pronounce it they don't they call it the milky way no they don't so in chinese it's called the silver river whoa dude that's a great name that is a really good one the silver river that's a good one what does russia call it wait why did he say they don't and then gave us an example of them no they don't call it no they don't call it the milky way gotcha gotcha gotcha i only have a few here i'll try to find but in finnish it's called the path of birds that's not bad because you know when you kind of see it looks like no but i mean i we're city folk so we hate birds i mean so if they were like this the what is it the parade of birds the sorry the path of birds if it was like the path of dragons i'd be like wait so japan calls it the silver china china china calls it the silver river that's that's so good it's a good name that is so good in hindi it's the gangis river of heaven i think that's the real river okay see that's a good one too river of heaven it's up there sure yeah yeah yeah sanskrit the nine way love that what is sanskrit is that like a i don't know i'm not i'm not gonna ask because i don't want to come off as imagining that i don't like i don't want people to think i don't know what that is let me let me appear like i'm smarter than i am yeah dude sanskrit and the kalari people the backbone of the night is it the backbone of the night yeah i mean kinda because when you look at the night you could always find its backbone in the middle and it's the stars and that's all no sense yo i can't tell you how unreasonably excited i got the other night when i found the little dipper i was like oh you know have you been outside that's an easy one to find i know but that's why i'm saying unreasonably excited bro i went through a time in my life where for some reason so many people kept going that's orion's belt to like any three stars you could find well it's the it's and that's an easy one to find it's the middle one is the north star isn't it i don't know i mean i don't really know what the north star there's a binary galaxy non-binary galaxy yo come on that's awesome be more you know i'm sure there are people in the south they're like i'm not calling it fireworks galaxy okay clearly i see that we let a four-year-old yo we talked about this recently sombrero galaxy we talked about joey's pissed about that one we talked about this recently i love this andromeda cool cartwheel sucks hoag's object that just we yo we talked about this like a year ago not even maybe like three months ago i don't even remember i think we did you know yeah because i remember you looking it up and being like whoa some of these are cool i'm jogging back now black eye galaxy but what do they call them in other countries like other countries that have cooler names for things like germany what is germany called a galaxy wait hold on now that now that we've found out that like other countries don't acknowledge like the milky way what do they acknowledge like do like because they probably named it before like the planets do they call the planets different shit or did we decide what the point like oh that's a good you know what look up what i just want to know what japan calls the planets i'd like to know what japan calls everything i think i think the planets might be one that might be more universally because it has to be earth no i would imagine earth is just earth but like i could see them like it's like the planets are universal but like because those you had to like use like intense i keep saying like and people are gonna get pissed out you had to use intense like imaging in order to see them so like those came later and everyone was just like okay all right we we know the planets yeah before when they could just see the galaxy yeah i'd never even thought of this until now this is the most they would have other names this is the most intense like searching of stuff that and has had to do with the galaxy yeah i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know and hasn't done this since like the sats what i'm trying to look up they're they're all for the planets it's all close to the name just in their language oh okay you know it's like it's still yeah that's that's that makes sense but like not as vastly different as the milky way with all those other but and also by the way all this is crazy all of our planets are named after like roman gods are they yeah mars jupiter venus saturn uranus you're naming the planets those are roman gods yeah so the fact that ancient romans were just like yo that's jupiter that's the whatever number it is it's just like how the hell dude how the fuck did they know that was up there listen i'm telling you right now how the fuck did they know about i would have been stoned and killed because i'd just be like yo you all are i'd go back with the time and the knowledge and be like yo you guys are idiots dude let me show you a phone i'd bring a like nintendo switch with me and i would ruin their lives nate bargatze has a great business about if he went back in time even if he had a cell phone he'd be like i don't know that i would change anything because i or he would he was like oh you know now with the phones like now they have a cell phone you have it in your hand they'd be like how do they do it and he's like i don't know i don't want to do his bit for him but like he has this really funny bit about that like which is true it's like how could if you went back in time how would you well i heard that i heard the thing like the one line i heard was if you brought a motorcycle to the middle ages they'd learn how to use it but they wouldn't be able to replicate it because they don't have the technology and that's the same thing with oh god but you'd be the motorcycle guy here he comes there's ye olde frank yeah exactly you know douchebag there were no roads there were there were dirt roads brother they had wagons they had to walk they would make roads with their feet that a motorcycle could last on maybe depends what kind of tires you get on there i'd bring a dirt bike i'll tell you this yes i'd bring a dirt bike back to the middle flat tire suddenly not so cool i would bring an ak-47 back to the revolutionary war yo that would win the war if i'm just like yo george who's george washington oh oh the revolutionary the george at the time the george the george yeah boy do i have something for you guys you don't need to march and play flutes to go and fight them sit right here and play flutes and just press one button and win the war they had guns too yeah it took them 40 minutes to shoot two rounds dude yeah it'd be like all right set up and the fucking bullet would end up over there and then they'd be stuffing this thing with like feathers and powder and shit like that dude I'd like to shoot a musket at some point in my life wouldn't you my father-in-law wants a black powder rifle or he has one what is that where you pour the powder the gunpowder hell yeah now we're talking I want to shoot and this thing light up like an old camera just like yeah like smoke everywhere just like explodes in your face yeah you just want this thing just blasting you in the face just subjugate I'm back to subjugation baby it'll knock your contacts out what well because we're back to the original conversation with the contacts correct okay well we do have some more sponsors for today we have ZocDoc ZocDoc is a platform that's going to help you search and compare high quality in-network doctors okay so if you know you don't have a primary care physician or maybe you do and you need a specialist or something like that you can find those with ZocDoc you're going to go to the website you put in your insurance and then it will show you doctors in your area and their next available appointments and they're all patient reviewed so they will have a score out of five I think so you know you'll know who's 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toilets you'll crap your pants before you go to a public toilet I mean I'll only use them in an emergency yes if you walked in and you saw a QR code gatekeeping toilet paper let's let's be very honest about something it's me hello I'm in China I won't notice that this thing isn't available until I am already done crapping oh so well yeah no because you who thinks of the toilet paper during the crap it's always at the back end yeah I'll never you you think about oh yeah he's a bird he's a he nests his shit oh yeah he like folds it up and like kisses it and puts a wax stamp on it before he wipes his fucking ass no no no he like throws like sticks and dirt into the toilet and then he shits on it and then he and then yeah wait what no he he throws like toilet paper in the toilet so he craps on top of so you're you're yeah he makes a nest he's like a bird hold on hold on hold on you're like a bird a little birdie he throws toilet for what because there's no splash no splash yep it prevents the splash so you get a little that's where guess what guess where toilet water is supposed to be if not in the bowl a sprinkle or two on your ass asshole I don't I don't really agree with what you're saying I don't know if that's a good argument I think there's better arguments to make like hey how about your plumbing some sacrifices are willing to make also also your crap is above water now it's really not that much your crap is above water so it stinks it's no it goes through you're gonna tell me you've never crapped how heavy are your poops it's just not they're not that light you're dropping dense logs yeah dude it could go through the paper I fucking hate this conversation you're dropping I mean I hate this I didn't think that my bird nesting was gonna come up I meant more like when you go to a public stall you need to check if there's even toilet paper there I don't do that well I the expectation is do you mind do you mind hmm if I'm going to a public bathroom I am there with one thought on the mind and it is I hope no one hears this hurry hearing I don't people don't give a fuck about hearing in public toilets you will you will take a dump like as loud as you can first of all I'm there for business I'm not thinking about noises I'm not I'm not one of those people that's just like ugh ugh that's not what I mean I mean like you know like when you go to the bathroom sometimes there's noises I will try to prevent that at all costs how you like squeeze your little asshole yeah too much yeah that's true that's what I will do seriously yeah yeah that's crazy you just gotta like I mean I'm not sitting there fucking it's not it doesn't sound like a gun show in my stall well I'm not saying it sounds like that sometimes you know so you're going in and you're just praying that it doesn't sound like a world war two reenactment well it's not well like I said I only use public restrooms when it's like an absolute emergency so like I'll try to I'll try to avoid them absolute emergency is my middle name baby yeah I don't have a choice but like you know that's why it's like I'm not I'm not going in there you know you're looking around you're enjoying the wallpaper and then you're taking a dump like I'm there and I have to go now so yeah I could I could imagine but this if it was you had like half or like single ply and then if you wanted like the cottonelle some some upgraded shit like like upgraded toilet paper then I could understand it it's like those like the phone like the ads on your phone where it's just like you get another life and jetpack joyride if you watch a 30 second ad of the king on king's watch or whatever it's called that's specific you know what I'm saying yeah you know or it's just like I hate those ads but that I would understand I do want to say this before we continue those ads during like phone games where they're purposefully purpose for for for fuck purposefully losing the game and I'm like I could play this so much better it makes you download it I know that you fucking scientists out there you know what you're doing you bitches you psychologists are like if you make it if you play it bad they'll want to play it good it'll be like a bow it'll be like a stick and stone and it'll be like advance a thousand years or minus ten years and they'll be like oh oh minus ten years and then it turns out and then it turns into a sperm what is that about and then I fucking hate you guys and also I'm pretty sure don't get don't ask me why but I'm pretty sure that's Russia that's making all those okay I'm pretty sure don't ask me why I have no grounds to stand on but this is a safe space to talk okay I downloaded one of those games once where it was just like you know like advance or like times for the amount of people in your little gang or like the ones where it's like the zombies are running down this way and you have to like shoot them yeah and there's one big one just walk in I downloaded that game and then I immediately it was just like agree to the terms and licenses I deleted it because I was like this is Russia don't ask me how or why what's Russia gonna do well you know what fucked me up do you remember that app that one summer it was like 2016 or 2019 it went mega viral and it was like an app where you can like show what you would look like as an old person or like show yeah yeah yeah and then someone was just like this is Russia I think that was China China I was just TikTok is China TikTok so I was just burnt from there I mean everything is China and Russia they can have my information what am I gonna do I mean it's all out there anyways that's what I mean everyone knows of Joe Santagato and they know you they know more you than me numbers don't lie so if anyone Russia's coming for you first and then me second damn they'd probably be pumped with you they'd be like you could stay we like you thank you you can hang out with the take your shirt off take your shirt off what were we talking about before I got into the ads the toilet paper oh before we got into the ads no no no I mean like before the ad conversation about those games the game ads well I was talking about like if it was if you had to watch an ad for like better quality toilet paper I would I would do that I think that we should eliminate the first and second tier of toilet paper and just go with the better ones now like there's no reason for me to be anywhere in a toilet yeah but like what is I don't know I don't understand why but like you have to spend money on toilet paper like it seems like it is a basic sanitary need I mean people are you know they have to be paid the ones who are making it that should be a government subsidiary like that should be they should be funded for like general hey man I know I know I know everything should be I know I know I know but I'm saying like the way that like can you use like snap benefits or is it EBT yeah it's snap snap and EBT right I assume can you use that for toilet paper I assume we don't need to look that up I mean I would hope because like that's a basic sanitary need yeah I just don't see the I don't see why we need very thin toilet paper in this world dude I know that some are like alright this is like I'm wiping my ass with a Tempur-Pedic blanket here this is crazy there's some see this is TikTok account and this is And it's this guy, and he's like, these are little luxuries. they're luxuries that are like a couple they're more expensive but they're not like hyper luxury things good toilet paper is one of those hell yeah that i just can't bro i grew up with my mom getting scott's toilet paper no offense to scott you're doing a good thing you're making it cheaper for people that need it but i could literally hold it and see through it that's what i mean like i'm wiping my ass with fucking tissue wrapping yeah i gotta i gotta crumble this thing up like i'm making it if i can put it over a picture in a fucking coloring book of tweety bird and draw it perfectly then we got a problem we have an issue here you know are you scott's you scott's i actually think i have scott's in my apartment too they make them like now like ribbed for your pleasure and shit like you got it here you got some here that's got some squiggles in it and stuff like that none of them are ribbed no they have ribbed toilet paper ribbed ribbed ribbed brother show them ribbed toilet do you like it i've used it and it kind of does its job i mean you think about like the the reason that we're able to pick up goods and items what does it feel like though it feels like it's like gripping my asshole like and you like it well just because it does a good job yeah but i don't like it because oh you think i'm sitting there fucking fingering my ass on the toilet i'm not i'm not i'm saying you're wiping i don't know no it's like that's why we have ridges and fingerprints because that's what helps us grip if it's completely smooth it's gonna fucking fly off your bung off your bung look yeah sharp it's sharp oh yeah i mean yeah it's not like no brother that is ribbed that's just paper towels it's really more this one right yeah that's the real yeah i've used that that's what i'm talking about i got some of that industrial shit because when i worked on my college campus it was like the toilets in the dorm rooms were like industrial they had like the industrial holder yeah so like you could buy your own but then they had the ones it's like the big plastic one that like you have to like open with a key and put in a roll that's this big oh those were horrible i mean they did their job though brother i know but i don't i don't like that i still have a roll of them i took like eight when i left college 10 years ago and i still have like one left no throw out no why would i throw it out it's a perfectly good roll of toilet paper being able to hoard a piece of toilet paper a roll of toilet it is in my car right now in your car yeah god forbid i go somewhere they don't have toilet paper i i'm prepared that's insane why is that insane and you also moved it from your old car to your new car you have a new car did you do that at the dealership before you gave your car and like hold on let me get this giant roll of toilet paper no i did it at my house have you used the toilet paper not in like six seven years i mean that's oh that's not true i spilled the toilet paper i spilled the toilet paper i spilled the toilet paper i spilled the toilet i told you that day i came in and i had a big stain on my shirt because of burger king yeah i used it then got it you know but no i haven't like wiped my ass is it like in your back seat oh it's on my like you know how like you could see out your rear view mirror and you see out the back windshield yeah it's right behind it's right on there where the headrest is like behind the headrest what behind your head in the car yeah is a roll of 10 year old toilet paper that you stole from college stole is they gave it to me right the janitorial staff gave it to me so if i'm sitting in your car and i'm sitting behind the driver's seat i am four inches away from getting knocked out with industrial grade toilet paper yes that is correct sir that's so that's so crazy i mean it's like the people that always carry like baby wipes on them very different i don't think that's different at all industrial grade roll of toilet paper or a what is the difference in what the item physically is what is the difference more practical use i think one of those i mean significantly and one's like portable that is very sealable that is fair but you don't need to seal dry paper you need to seal those because they're moist moist toilet moist toilet oh there there's a certain so like the pick me is that watch our episode they're just like oh moist you know what i don't get at like nice restaurants and like on delta flights oh it's such a little luxury they're like here's hot towel you're steaming hot towel they got hot towels on delta hot towels listen i'm a united boy i fly united all the time they got some hot towels really and they're doing they're cushioning and they're thick and these things come out and it's oh you put it on your face i do a little i put it on my cheek sometimes i i do afraid to cover my face i do oh you do that oh yeah that feels crazy it feels awesome but like think about how many people have used that towel me that's why they steam them to sanitize them you fuck i know you fuck i know i'm just thinking about like so many people had this on their face yeah but they've been sanitized sure sure sure it's it's like they are they are good they're basically new for what i'm using them for why do i need my hands hot i don't know the first time that happened to me i was like 16 years old at yankee stadium and i went to the new york yankee steakhouse and i was there and i was just like oh my god and someone i sat in like a big leather chair to eat dinner which was crazy yeah what at the time what are you goldilocks and then they gave me like a hot towel like that and i felt so like what do i do yeah you know i felt so like when you go when you have like your first fancy restaurant uh and like those types of experiences it's you know you kind of fuck it up i remember one time i was at a restaurant and and they i ordered a steak and they brought it over and i was like oh my god i'm gonna eat it i'm gonna eat it i'm gonna eat it and they were just like look yeah before they cooked it and i was like i don't know what am i looking for that's the same i remember that happened at in vegas when we were like 23 in vegas and they were like we brought over the cart of steaks to show you all the cuts and i was just like this is awesome dude yeah i at that point in my life i was like steak and then i like went to like texas roadhouse and i was like oh that one has great marbling texas roadhouse i'll take the second one from the bottom texas roadhouse the guy's like okay dude yeah the guy's like just point and tell me yeah yeah you know yeah i love those little luxuries that like nice like that's obviously a huge perk of like us going to these cities for these shows we get to eat at some really good restaurants and like the little like you know like i went to a wine tasting once and they gave you the little like things to suck on to like cleanse your palate you ever had that what little thing it's like a little oyster it looks like an oyster cracker and like the idea is you're supposed to put it in your mouth and like suck on it and it cleanses your palate so you're ready for the next round of wine i've never experienced that at all a lot of people do like uh sorbets like a raspberry sorbet or something like that prefer a little cracker you prefer a cracker for a cracker daddy wants a cracker jesus speaking of i don't know why this is speaking of i sent aunt a quiz because i got i know it's very confusing that it led here but i saw captain crunch and i stared at the box for five minutes and i was like yo that's not captain crunch it looked fake to me so i i sent they rebranded them i sent aunt one of those like mandela effect quizzes oh okay the reason i got me there is because it's the parrot daddy want a cracker captain crunch got it got it got it so i want to just test how many of us can act like what we could do i bet you i do well at this by the way i'm looking at this picture of captain crunch i'm looking at this picture of captain crunch and i would love some dude captain crunch is coming back because they're getting rid of all the fake dyes and shit like that your your hero rfk jr really like he kind of like set us he set us forward with some stuff i mean that by your own words i love captain crunch but i can here's the thing i can have three bowls of fruity pebbles i can only have one box one bowl of captain crunch because my mouth comes out like someone took a cheese grater and face fucked me i don't even fucking care dude sign me up for two really nothing half yeah so what is it is it captain crunch or cappin crunch it is very clearly cappin crunch like very clear like not no cappin no it was never captain like yo you're skibbity cappin right now i don't know why they went with this like why they decided to do that also what's with the quaker oats guy on the fucking other box that's probably who owned it i could see captain crunch was like when they first got when they first came out in like this 70s it's like this is captain crunch yeah i don't get it why cappin crunch but that's that's clear okay good good good you got it good i'm surprised we're fine here what is jigsaw's signature line in the saw movies see this is the it's uh i did for a second think this was all about cereal because of the line and then also what what he has a name um i know and don't don't oh jigsaw's the old guy jigsaw's the old guy that is like bethany or some shit like that i'm 84 sure it's billy i think it's yes you are correct i've been a puppet oh we're back on puppets oh go scroll down i want to play a game do you want to play a game want to play a game how many of these movies have you seen realistically one i've seen all of them which is the one with the i fall not me but someone fell into a pit of syringes yeah that's a second one that's the last that was amanda who was thrown in by i believe frankie hey um i think it's the first one i think it's the first one i think it's movie i got kicked out of trying to sneak in and see saw 2 2004 how far did you get 30 seconds Is it I wanna play a game I think it's Do you wanna play a game It's definitely not wanna It might be Cause he's kinda He's kinda a little badass Billy He's like Yo listen You wanna fucking play You fucking douchebag Do you think it's Do you want I think it's Do you wanna play a game Wanna play a game It might be wanna Why I wanna play a game Wanna wanna Wanna play a game With Billy the puppet I think this is like A fucking Star Wars thing You remember when The lion Well that one I know Inside and out No I am your father Which is shocking But I think I'll go with Frank For the sake But I think it's I want to play a game For some reason I want to play a game No cause they're asking The person if they wanna play He's asking the person So what's the I think it's Do you do you do you Do you I think I think it might be Wanna play a game Alright we're getting this wrong But wanna play a game Wanna I fucking knew it I knew it Alright alright Uh oh It was I want to play a game Alright I should probably Rely on Joey's skills here Love Saw movies I had that in the In the locked Really Yep Which is the correct Name of this correction fluid This is wide out Oh Well what are the answers Also that's the worst Oh Um Oh Um It's It's I-T-E I think Which is both No no no The only way The only reason I think It's W-H-I-T-E Is because That color looks more right Than the color on the left I agree with you The more like Orangy Looks more correct Than the yellow I agree with you But I'm I'm like Pretty sure It's W-I-T-E I just gotta say Wide out was Having cool white out In elementary school Was such a flex dude Yeah If you had the one That had the sponge on it Or if you were one of the kids Oh That had the tape The tape sucks The white out tape sucks Dude The Asian kids Always had the tape They always had the tape They always had the tape And they had the cool Why did the Asian kids Always have the fucking tape Because they have cool Bro you know they have Like stationary awards In Japan What does that even mean It's like they give out Awards every year To like the coolest Stationary items I've seen TikToks I The sponge That is the fucking Worst though Yeah And then it's like A wet paintbrush Yeah you get like A raised bump on your page Like it's like Sickly It's like bubbling up Yeah Ew My test has lupus Get this sick fucking Leper Leprosy paper Out of here Leprosy is what I was going for Not lupus That's a completely different thing Alright I'm gonna I will give I will Defer to your choice here I think it's W-H-I-T-E But I'll defer to what Joey's saying I think it's W-I-T-E Give me that Give me the Yes Good job Very good job Let's go Let's go The color did look right though I was right about the color Pick the correct Target logo Frank I'm not even going To even look at the screen Yeah I mean guys It's the left It's the left It's the left one We know that It's the left It's not even close Come on Yeah come on Who the hell is picking the right I spent more time in a target Than most humans on this planet I'm not saying that as a flex What is the actual airline It's Alaska Airlines Oh Oh or Alaskan Oh Alaska I gotta say I don't know what it is About the name Alaska Or Alaskan Airlines I feel safer on their planes Than I do anywhere else Me too I feel like the AC is really good I feel like they know They've got it down Because like if a state Has their own planes They're on to something I'm gonna say Alaskan Airlines Because of American Airlines Be honest If you saw Airplane from a certain state Which would be the scariest Florida Yeah Okay At least we're in agreement there I'm gonna say Alaskan Alaskan Airlines I think There are Technically already is A Florida airline It's called Spirit Jesus I'm gonna say Alaskan I'll say Alaskan as well Come on give it to me baby This one feels like a trap And it was It was a trap Fuck you He was right Alaska It was right Alaska Airlines Alaska I guess so That's a tough one Which is the correct logo For the laughing cow Oh it's the nose Specifically I'll be honest with you I don't I don't know what this is Oh It's the baby bell cheeses Like the little The little cheeses That like you open up I love those dude Those are a nice little snack Are these not The red There's different brands There's laughing cow And baby bell Okay I don't know If she's got a nose ring I imagine PETA Would be pissed about that Did you hear PETA Got pissed at Mario Kart For what Because the Yeah don't get Ant started If you go for his Mario Kart He'll go for your jugular So dumb What is it Cause the cow In It's Moo Moo the cow In Mario Kart Has that ring In it's nose And it was like An inhumane way To like Steer cows at the time Oh it was pulling by their nose Yeah That's why they have that Yeah So PETA was just like Yo Better Do better Mario Kart That makes me think That it has the nose ring That makes me think It doesn't But that was a new thing That just happened no Oh I'm sure If they went after Mario Kart There's someone else They've gone after before PETA just goes For everyone Alright let's go no ring I'll be honest I'm not a fan of the gold Scheme here The gold color scheme Doesn't fit Me neither I don't think anyone cares About your fanhood You're gonna have to click I promise You're gonna have to click? Click again You're gonna have to Probably There you go There we go Told ya It's alright I'm sure PETA was just like The cheese lives another day Where do you stand on animal rights Laughing cow cheese How do you spell this saint's name? Now that is Mother Teresa But there's an H Or not There's no H I think there's no H Because she was Italian right? Teresa She was something It was a Mama Teresa There's a lot of conspiracies About Mother Teresa by the way Yeah I'm not touching that with A ten foot pole A ten foot religious pole I'm gonna say no H Just like white out I'll go with that Yeah No H Teresa Come on Mother Teresa Teresa Yeah Mother Teresa Diana Ah yeah What is the correct name Of this entertainment center Or restaurant? What the fuck is that? I'm sad that the two That you are definitely Chuck E. Cheese Dude It's not Chuck and Cheese I'll fuck my table No no no They both say Chuck E. Cheese It says Chuck E. Cheeses Or Chuck E. Cheese Oh Yeah If it was like What's right Chuck E. Cheese Or Chunk and Cheese I'm gonna say The left I'm gonna say the left Because of the logo Yeah the logo The logo I've never seen the logo On the right And Chuck E. Cheese Is like He takes That's his name But this is This is Chuck E. Cheeses He takes ownership It's his place dude It's my cheese Like it's Freddy Fazbear's Not Freddy Fazbear Yeah You know That's a FNAF reference For the kids I'm trying to get The younger generation into Our younger demo Can get a little Get them in here Let's talk FNAF Let's talk Let's talk Let's talk Foxy And Chica Okay Okay Let's talk Mr. What's his name? The Cupcake Mr. Cupcake I know Bonnie Bonnie obviously Foxy Chica I don't even know What's happening here You know I know all this stuff Because I'm cool With the FNAF crowd Because my son Has taught me This one? Chuck E. Cheeses Bang This quiz Fucking sucks We're crushing I just want to say The two I was confident in Were Target and Chuck E. Cheeses What does that say about me? Right Okay What color Of Tony the Tiger Wait what? What is the color Of Tony the Tiger The mascot I mean Dude What's the difference? How is there a different Thing going on? Oh the nose Blue nose Oh I don't know Wait a sec I think it might be blue nose They gotta add a little pop Yeah blue looks I'm gonna need some pop Because there's Here's the thing There's detail on that blue nose Yeah You can see the nostrils That's why I think Listen me and Tony Tiger I love I love Frosted Flakes Honestly They are great Is just such a simple Like yeah dude He's not beating around the bush Tony the Tiger Just do it They're great Blue fucking nose Also a tiger in a bandana Just a cool image Tigers Awesome Bandanas Cool Sugary cereal Also cool Frosted Flakes Also regarded as A top five all time We could argue Blue nose Yeah Absolutely Thank you Ant A couple clicks I think I'm pretty sure we we do better than like the normal person on this fucking go does Morpheus from the matrix say what if I told you I should I probably shouldn't what if I told you everything you knew it was a lie Oh does Morpheus say that does he say it oh I well this is gonna be for you because I haven't seen the main here's the thing if they're asking if he says it then it's not that he says it that way it's that he says it another way like Instead it wouldn't be like what if I told you everything you knew was a lie it would be like what if I said everything is a lie like that they would fuck with the wording like that yeah yeah yeah so I think just playing the game here process of eliminate I think I'm gonna say no he doesn't say that and it's like no actually he says this yeah I agree it'll pop up and be like no he says what if I told you everything was a lie but he doesn't say whatever or everything was not true yeah bang what does he say all those memes were a lie that wasn't even such a lie In the movie there you go well there you go fuck all there was just that just wasn't it just we made it up what does Henry the eighth hold in his famous portrait what the fuck fuck this a good one what is that a turkey leg or gloves what is that well he's he looks he looks like a fat ass so here's why I'm gonna say turkey leg because it was like a turkey leg is it it says turkey leg oh shit in the words Here's the thing. Here's why I'm going to say turkey leg. It was a status thing to have. money and be fat back then that meant you had access to food and you were wealthy yep so i think it's a turkey leg i think i'm i think i'm going turkey leg too it just feels like the glove looks really good in this picture like it makes more sense yeah also this feels like a thing where they would put the glove but then the people make fun of them you know would like put a turkey leg ah that's a good point also let's talk about the shadow on like below the turkey leg it's not big enough but it fits perfectly for the glove that's what i'm saying i feel like it's more believable that it would be gloves though so that's why i think it's a turkey yeah this is an impasse is what we call it in the news yeah well you're a newscaster now i don't know turkey like sure yeah it's like goddamn gloves all right we fell for the meme the thing just says why would he hold a turkey leg you what is the correct logo for volkswagen oh i know this one oh i think it's it's the gap it is i don't know yeah it's the gap all right i'll believe you i believe you i'll definitely the gap it's a hundred percent the gap it's a gap thank you hundred percent in that one yeah that's it that's a that's a crazy you gotta have the gap what is the predominant color on uncle sam's hat that's a fantastic question i have to see oh red i want to say blue looks more natural though it does by the way i gotta say maybe at the time it worked who is this working for nowadays an old white man that's dressed like this pointing at me i'm just immediately saying fuck whatever you're about to say or ask yeah like fucking oh ebony's or scrooge wants me to go to war i don't give a fuck yeah fuck you do you go to war you you scaly old bastard give me give me blue guy looks like lemony snicket definitely blue doesn't look like lemony snicket you're thinking count olaf joey i am thinking count olaf i don't know who lemony snicket is the creator i think he's the author of the books all right i'm thinking count olaf it looks like count olaf give me blue baby give me blue show me blue baby yeah i think we're gonna do like pretty well what's the name of the singer that is barbara streisand barbara come on first of all hold on barbara or barbara it's not gonna be bar bra like a bra bra it's barra barbara no i don't know yeah it's barbara unless she spelled her name wrong also becca and i like bonded over this like i i have the barbara streisand christmas album fire and it's his like but it's also so chaotic and i remember thinking it was funny and then becca was like that was a joke with my family too soulmate soulmate just say that soulmates over barbara streisand hey man soulmates over barbara streisand soulmates over barbara streisand soulmates hey man so you have the album do you remember how it's spelled name on it i want to say it's barbara barbara i think it's barbara it's got to be give me barbara what the hell barbara people remember seeing barbara on the album cover oh they caught you but it's definitely barbara that's crazy she's spelled it wrong she spelled it wrong her parents her parents what is the correct name of this peanut butter brand jif it's jif it's jif it's jif it's jif it's not even close it's not even yeah it's not even yeah let's not get crazy come on baby how stupid do you think we are we're gonna run through this now does c3po have a silver leg no absolutely not yeah he does no he doesn't if i remember oh no he does not guys isn't it red his arm was red in a later movie he has a silver leg all right say yes i believe frank i i'm not confident in anything my whole life is a lie now i can't believe that i would have never said that silver leg cruella d will yeah deville she's like a french french she's got french yo what a bitch by the way a fucking asshole bitch yo like it's a kid's movie and this woman just wants to skin puppies like what's wrong with you bro how many coats do you need cruella deville also yo mad pointy son yo mad and then also they made like an origin movie for cruel cruel with emma stone and they're just like look she was a victim this bitch went on to want to skin puppies yeah like i'm good what are you doing dude cruella you're a bitch maybe look in the mirror and realize that half black and half white hair isn't cool and that's why you're upset not the dog you know what show is so fire i don't know if you watched it because you were more a disney channel kid than like a cartoon network kid right yeah do you remember after school in like middle school it was like we'd get home and it was recess the show yeah and then the next one was like the house of villains no and it was like all like disney villains like hanging out at like a like a like a jazz club like the fucking monster from fantasia was in the corner like smoking a cigar nice and cruella deville was like having a cocktail with gaston nice it was a cool show and then it got into like even stevens and you know like the cooler shows like that's so raven but that was a cool show that was the reason why you brought that up love that so raven it's uh it's the bottom one hey now what to say now about to put it down yeah come on arrive with the rainhound and if the future looks great now everything's gonna shake down and let's rock he'll never forget that here's the results baby i think we crushed that fuck you oh skip to the results yeah we gotta skip 13 out of 17 that's not bad we're we're partying with the wedding crashers uh movie that is a great movie there's some questionable stuff in it but you know what it's still it's still funny 76% which is passing in my high school and you know that just made it yeah that was over that was like b minus in my high school which told you what you wanted to know about brian not bad that's a pretty good memory i think we crushed that there's so many of those examples like you you brought up the star wars one like the the people think the line is luke i am your father where it's just like no i am your father yeah you know it's just you know it's word of mouth things out of hand yeah there's so many examples of those things especially with like movies and music and all that right the nelson and bella effect yeah the nelson why do they call it i think it's named after him if i'm not mistaken of all the things to name after him why that um i don't want to be wrong on that so we're gonna have to look that up for sure yeah not not a lot not a lot of room for error when it comes to talking about activists why do they call it the mandela effect uh because of false memory phenomenon surrounding the death of nelson mandela say i'm safe live to fight another day folks thank you so much for watching this episode of the bandwagon basement yard frank where can they find you you could find me f uh the frank alvarez on all forms of social media except for twitter but i don't really and then find the basement yard on all forms of social media go to the patreon 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  1. Coach and Spotify are launching a joint campaign called the Tabby Tour, featuring live performances, exclusive experiences, and personalized playlists based on listener preferences.
  2. The tour brings together special artists and offers fans a unique opportunity to engage with music and style in a live, interactive setting.
  3. The conversation between hosts includes humorous and personal reflections on internet culture, canceling, and online behavior.
  4. A deep dive into game shows is shared, with the hosts discussing which shows they would enjoy participating in, such as *Password*, *Wheel of Fortune*, and *The Cube*.
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  7. A satirical and thought-provoking segment explores the idea of a “grammar-based porn” show, which is dismissed as a bad idea but used to illustrate the absurdity of over-complicating language.
  8. The episode ends with a call to action for fans to attend live events, join Patreon, and submit funny stories for potential inclusion in future episodes.

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The episode blends promotional content with a casual, humorous conversation between hosts Frank and Joe. It begins with a collaboration between Coach and Spotify, introducing the Tabby Tour—a live experience featuring music, personalization, and interactive events across cities. The hosts then dive into a lively, often absurd discussion on internet culture, including the meaning and impact of "canceling," "deleting," and public shaming.

They explore which game shows they’d enjoy participating in, with strong interest in *Password*, *The Cube*, and *Double Dare*. A deeper segment examines language, grammar, and cultural naming practices, such as the origins of the Milky Way’s name in different languages, revealing diverse and poetic alternatives. The episode also promotes various sponsors including Squarespace, Wayfair, Google Gemini, and ZocDoc, offering discounts and access to their services.

One particularly playful idea—turning grammar lessons into a porn show—is dismissed as ridiculous but used to highlight the overcomplication of language. The conversation remains lighthearted and self-aware, ending with a call to action for fans to attend live events, join Patreon, and submit stories for future episodes. The tone is conversational, witty, and grounded in mutual humor, reflecting the hosts’ genuine engagement with both entertainment and everyday internet dynamics.

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