#531 - Growing Up In The 90's

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you go i'll be honest with you i love wearing like suits and like sports coats as they're stupidly called for some reason no no no sports involved uh blazers because i love the feeling of pulling something out of a jacket pocket yeah it just felt cool it's just always just like here you go like i cigarette i never sure if i smoked cigarettes oh my god it'd be so much cooler now if i smoked cigarettes oh my god i'd be so cool i just yeah if i smoked cigarettes which i haven't and i won't me neither i would want one of those metal books the metal tins oh yeah you know they're like old school white whores used to have i would roll my own and be like yeah i roll my own oh no well you would you would and you'd be like i got like a fucking like it's like a it's a special tobacco that i got from a fucking underground bodega in brooklyn no i know or i would smoke it out of a pipe like a old bitch i knew someone that smoked tobacco out of a pipe fairly frequently it's cool it requires a lot of cleaning you'd be surprised like you need to clean like the corn i'm out i don't want to have too much of that too much too much i mean i'm smoking tobacco i need to clean it bro i know it's in there i uh you know what a long pipe that you can hold like yeah like i'm albert einstein just like but it needs to be corn cob pipe what does that mean they make corn cob pipes same question that's a type of pipe should i say again what is it you're asking for information that i don't have you've already had you had i said corn cob pipe right what does it look like corn cob pipe it does kind of look like a corn cob it does you can make a pipe out of corn cob but it's you could turn anything into a pipe yeah you remember people that were smoking oh yeah yeah yeah yeah those are cool no i want the fucking long circular fucking oh you want like a like a long pipe that like it looks like a tuba like racist british men would smoke and then just be like you're not getting into my college yeah uh you know what i don't mind the okay that long one the long one the crazy long one is a bit much yeah that's a that one's fine i mean we don't know we don't have context for how long that is it also said wizard pipe which i will say if i could smoke and just have it and then just support the bottom of it yeah see now we're getting into my kind of shit we're getting into colors yeah get out when it's like you know like purple and pink it needs to be wood and it needs to be wood see i i would i would i would smoke that pipe he was that's crazy he was gonna say yeah what was i gonna say suck that pipe you're just gonna be something you'd suck that pipe until there's nothing left yeah i also think just lighting a pipe you know what you know what it is about cigarettes that's cool that like when you're when someone's you know what i love when someone's about to be murdered and they're like just they're just gonna smoke as a no but not scared like now chill they're like all right i'm getting shot so it's kind of like all right fuck you you know what i mean that from what's i mean i remember in the mask which we've already discussed as a cinematic piece of history when uh reggie kathy's character like when he's about to go was it reggie kathy i think it was but and his boy he got shot and they think that mass did it and he's like here here here let me light a cigarette and he lights it and just falls out his mouth yeah yeah like i don't smoke and i i really think it's bad for you it is but right before you're about to die in like a super dramatic way nothing better than smoking it's kind of sick that's the time to do it when you know you're about to be shot in the head pull out a cigarette and talk some shit like just be like you know your mother was a whore like you know like that's what that's what you're christ so all right so the guy's about to shoot me so can we make can we make an agreement yeah if i have to murder you i'm gonna talk so crazily to you really with a cigarette in my mouth i wasn't gonna say i'm saying like i'll bring the cigarettes and the murder and the murder weapon and you just smoke maybe bring the matches they have to be my cigarettes oh you need to pull them out or you have them on the table like they're yours and i just take them from you because like that's how ballsy that is pretty and it's just like i know what's happening right here and you grab the cigarettes and you you do that thing that they do yeah where they hit it and then you take are you taking one out or are you taking like several just one really yeah okay and then i'm tossing the thing back and just being like and then how are you gonna be honest how are you gonna do it are you smoking it like this are you smoking it like this are you smoking it like i don't know how many ways you could talk are you smoking it like this no no i think i would just smoke it regular and then the last one before i'm about to talk like i'll smoke it regular like this and the last one i'll kind of just do this yeah oh so you're gonna be a wise guy about it yeah you're gonna be a smart piece of about it yeah well then i'm gonna i'm not even gonna give you the satisfaction you'll be dead before you lit the thing yeah i mean you should you should because i i will say stuff that will hurt your feelings oh so you're trying to all right hold on so let's let's let's role play this a little bit okay acting yard well we've already gotten through what would happen in the entire situation i am going i'm here to kill you my name is i'm giving you a little bit of a role play on this a little bit okay acting yard well we've already gotten through what would happen in the entire situation i am going i'm here to kill you my name is i'm giving you a little bit of a role play on this i'm here to kill you my name is i'm give me give me a scenario frank my name is frank get the d20 out we're gonna roll this thing all right and you i'm gonna get you because you uh i found out you were on the epstein list or something crazy wait what what you found out that i was on yeah so i'm gonna kill you for it okay okay and who are you i'm frank yeah all right now yeah cigarettes right here you ready yeah yeah and maybe closer so i don't have to get out of there i mean you can pretend we're closer okay okay and action what year is it let's get pulled out a revolver yeah he's sharpening a bow dude i have a revolver dude come on that's the coolest gun to use in handguns man i wouldn't like to have you ever shot a revolver no it's scary yeah it kicks your butt bro really handguns are way scarier than uh the other ones are scary but they're harder to shoot is what i meant um okay scarier in like if you're gonna shoot one like at a range at a range at a range let's make that very clear yeah but i have a gun yeah yeah you do so well you gotta make me believe that you're actually gonna kill me you're not gonna say anything i'm going to kill you is that what you want you want me to spell it out for you that's what joey would do joey would do that i should be like it is not super apparent right now that you're actually going to be murdering me first of all that sounds like you bro i need to know where you sit right now like tell me about how you're feeling in this moment right here that's you that's not like i'm gonna kill you and you're like okay when you say you like like it really depends on your definition of you kill is something that you're gonna kill it's subjective yeah honestly we kill on logically i don't think you can kill because i've already killed myself because like i am i would just kill himself yeah i am internally dead so like what you are killing is really it's just a shell it's just a shell yeah you're right you're right so just just pantomime how you're grabbing the cigarettes what kind of cigarettes too because that's a big part of it i don't know the harder the better okay like american natural is that one of them it's american spirit american spirit okay american natural did you get american big naturals i think are those the size 36 d's you got in there you got any big naturals for me that's how that's how much we don't smoke walking to a deli can i get a pack of the big natural big natural size 22f you got any uh triple d big naturals yeah how you doing buddy can i get a gatorade bacon and cheese let me get a pack of the big naturals fat naturals right next to right next to the condoms the fat naturals you got right there no no no no no the big one no red pack red pack the big oily natural thank you yeah the big oily one sweet how much forget it forget it dude how about like in europe when you go buy fucking cigarettes there's like dead people on them yeah they're not very subtle with their messaging i mean that's good i agree because you're gonna get the packaging and you're gonna look at someone being like dude i'm literally dead yeah and then you're like yeah i know and you're gonna i mean i've never i've never seen them first hand i've never seen them first hand but i have seen people post pictures where it's like it'll be like i bought these cigarettes let's make sure we all call them the same thing over there in london yeah guys yeah guys this is in 2025 what are you doing in 2025 that's what you're using yeah i feel like we're I'm just trying to get away with something now. Yeah, nice try, okay? We see what you're trying to do. Not very nice. Yeah. But, and it's like a picture of like, but we had that too. Remember all those truth commercials? And it was like the guy that had the, fuck, what's it called? The speaker? No, no, no, but there's the, you know what I'm talking about. It's got like a hole. Esophagus. Epizema? No, that's a disease. I think that's a disease you get. Yeah, but it's like a, I don't know. Tracheotomy? Tracheotomy, tracheotomy. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And he would like, like, those were fucking terrifying commercials. Yeah, man. You know, and so. He was like talking with like a, looked like a taser kind of. How do those work? I imagine they go off of vibration. Ah. Because like, you can't, you remember we played basketball with someone that had that? Bro, a kid in my middle school had that. Dude, we played basketball, there was a kid that would like, not frequently, kid is, you know, kind of rough. Like, he was probably in his mid-twenties when we were like 18. But like, he had. He had, he came to like 48th and played basketball with it a couple times. Wait, so maybe I'm thinking of that kid. Was that, was that a Hispanic kid? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, so I thought that was middle school. But yeah, I remember that. Yeah. He must have hit you with the sickest N1. Bro, he was kind of nice. No. I mean. I can't do this. We're not going to make a joke. No, we can't do the voice. But he was, he legitimately was like a decent basketball player. Yeah. But he barely, like, he couldn't like really like talk. Yeah. Like, obviously. But I don't think that, it was not one of those things that you kind of like. He didn't talk. He didn't talk, but he definitely had like the, the tracheotomy. I think that was probably just like a thing from birth or something. I don't know where it came from, but he definitely had it. He definitely had it. I don't think he could smoke enough cigarettes to. I mean, it could happen at any point. I had heard. It could also be secondhand smoke. You never know what, what happened in his household. Do you remember in, in a, in school where they would do like the DARE program or whatever? And I remember them talking to us about emphysema and they like gave us a straw. A straw, yeah. And he'd like try to breathe. Like, that's what it's like. I, I, I always think about that. Cystic fibrosis apparently feels the same way too. What is that? I don't know. But I remember there was a sorority on our campus that like, they're like, everyone had like a. You needed to have it to be in. A philanthropy. No, stop. It was like one philanthropy that they like were like the most dedicated to and did a lot of time with. I got it. Ours was St. Jude. Theirs was the, I don't remember. I think it was just called the cystic fibrosis foundation, but same thing. It's like, they're like breathe through the straw and that's what they feel like breathing all the time. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. Well, she was fun. Um, yeah, there's no real good way to pivot out of that. How do we pivot from cystic fibrosis to Madison square garden? It's going to be tough. Dig out of the hole. Um, yeah, I guess we're, we're, uh, how long are we a week out? Oh, we can change by the time they see this. Oh yeah. But we're exactly a week. This is exactly a week. Exactly. A week ago today, we were in soundcheck. Does it feel closer or further? Uh, yeah. Like it happened longer. No, it feels pretty recent for me. Yeah. What about you? It feels a little like it felt like a while. I think that day was just so long that I'm like, that day was very long. Yeah. We had got to MSG at like noon. Um, and some of us sooner than others because they forgot what time noon was. Yeah. I thought noon meant 11. I'm not even going to try and figure out how you get there. Um, he's 31 anyway. Uh, yeah, but that was such a crazy thing, man. We did Madison square garden. Um, it was wild. First of all, thank you for everyone that came and, and, and has watched and shared and posted and blah, blah, blah. Because the reality is we were able to do that because of every single person. Yeah. Uh, but it was also like, I, I'm going to be honest with you. I cannot, I'm so excited to never hear. How do you feel about MSG? The after party. Ever. Ever. Ever again. Yeah. Because like, it was such a difficult thing to comprehend. And like in the moment, cause like, as you were saying, I think in the episode before like that had come out on Patreon, like it was, you're excited for the structure of the day and being busy because it's just going to make the time pass a little bit better. There was so much going on and so much that like we had to do both like actively doing stuff and just kind of waiting around as things were happening that it was hard for the time to not move quickly. Like I was like, Oh, I got here at noon and then I was like, Oh fuck, it's seven o'clock already. I just like, I don't know. That was a, that was a wild day. Cause I remember, um, like during soundtrack when you, when we first walked out there, they didn't have the seats on the floor set up yet. And you're just kind of looking around at all the other seats and you're like, Holy shit, there's going to be so many people here and they haven't even set up the chairs yet. So once they set up the chairs, then I was like, dude, did we actually sell this out? Like, I was like, what the fuck? Cause it goes up so high. I've been there so many times for Rangers games and I'm like, bro, this is a lot of people. But you're right. When we first went there, we were standing in under like what is technically the court or the rink, depending on what sport, you know, you, you, you are more familiar in Madison Square Garden with, but, and like, you just see the seats around. But then when they put down the seats and I stood on stage and I saw those seats, I was like, fuck dude, like that, that is a lot of people just there on the floor. And then when they put down the seats and I stood on stage and I saw those seats, I was like, holy shit. It was a lot. And it was electric. Yeah, man. Did I tell, I didn't even tell you this. I told Greg and he's like, I'm so glad you didn't tell me that. But when Ahmed was on stage, I thought I was going to throw up, like not even from nerves, but like for me, I like the anxiety that you feel right before you go on, on stage is not like nerves. It's more of just like, I'm anxious to go. And we had been there all day and I was just ready to like start the show. Cause I didn't want to just sit there and just keep like, you know, whatever. So I just wanted to go. And then Ahmed was on stage. I know he's like halfway through his set. And I was like, wow. I like my throat feels like it's closing right now. Oh, so I like went back to the green room and I just like drank some water and then I was just like, all right, like, I'm like, I'm good. And then we were just like walking out. See, I, I was very much so anticipating it. And like, you know, like there are very few shows beforehand that I like, you know, I kind of like get. Like I sit down or I like, you know, like get into like a, like a squatting position almost for that one. I felt like I needed to get my legs under me. And then the moment we walked to the steps, it was just like, you got it. Like it just like a S a switch for me just went on and then it felt like just the rest of the show. Like it was obviously, because as you had said in anticipation of it, if I had sit there and really, really tried my best to digest the weight and the massive scale of the situation. It was going to fuck me up, dude. And also I saw like the pictures from like all the way back when you could see everything. I was like, bro, if I saw this picture before we went in, I probably shit my pants, dude. Those seem so much bigger from back there. I fucking, it, it doesn't make like I've seen videos and the pictures that, you know, Jimmy and Zach, uh, did, and forgive me for forgetting Zach's cousin's name, Farrah. Um, I see those and I'm just like. What, who, who's that? Like who, what is going on here? Like there was a sense of just like, when you see it at that scale, it completely fucked me up. And then the video that Mikey put together at the end, I was just like, holy shit, dude. Yeah. It was a lot of frames, dude. That was a very slow motion. It was slow motion. And that fucking, I'm going to tell you something right now. If anyone here that is watching this, and I hope you all get this opportunity if you want it to perform on a scale, that size get confetti. Yeah. You got to get confetti. That confetti was a paid actor. Let me tell you, because it went off perfectly and it fell perfectly. And I took some. The guy before was like, you guys got a lot of confetti. And I was like, really? He said we got four times the normal amount of confetti. Really? Did he say that? I mean, I didn't, I didn't, it was two grand. I'll just say that. $2,000 to have confetti. We didn't pick how much confetti. They were like, do you want confetti? And I was like, how much is it? And they were like, two grand. I was like, yeah. Oh, I thought Greg put in some kind of like request or order. No. It was like confetti or no confetti. I was like, yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if on the back end, Greg was just like, I asked them for like, what's their normal amount? And I said, double it. Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if he did that. But there was a point when that confetti was falling that I looked out and I was like, oh, I can't see. Couldn't see anything. Not that I could really see because those lights were intense. Yeah. But like, I really couldn't see. Bro, also when I like was introing you to do poetry and it was a blackout, it was a blackout. I didn't move. Cause I was like, I can't, I will fall. Like I, I literally like was, usually I just start walking towards you and we pass each other, but I was like, I'm going to wait until the light comes on because I legitimately am going to kick over one of these lights up here. Like I was like, oh shit, I can't see anything. When I told, excuse me, when Francisco said like, put your lights up, I was standing backstage and I looked out and I saw all the lights in the dome and I was just like, holy shit. Like that place for like a split second was like lit up. Yeah. It was nuts, man. It was nuts, man. And then. I don't know if you felt this way. We had an after party. Thank you, Red Bull. That was a lot of fun. We really appreciate it. But I was so spent from the whole day that I was like dragging. I got there and I immediately down like a tequila soda and I was like, I need to wake up. I didn't drink anything when I was there. I got there and I was like, cause I was thinking about how fun that would be. And Red Bull was like super helpful with like helping like pick out a place and they got a photo booth and all this shit. So like, they're awesome. But when, when I was walking in. the party for the first time and I saw everyone turn around and look at me i was like oh god this is just 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 booked just for you based on who you are and how you listen it's gonna have to be like like a wedding like you gotta say hi to all the guests yeah that's exactly what it was it took me an hour to get to my mom dude dude i was trying to get to my mom i literally when we walked in because like the way the place was it was like a little ramp yeah and then like there's people on the sides of it the bar is right here and then there's people basically all around the inside and the outside so like i did have to do that where i had to like stop and say hi to everyone yeah but bro you know me oh you went on the irish you went right to the back well i want to stay pretty late like you stayed until most people were gone i stayed until 1 30 yeah the people that were left because i left maybe like 25 minutes after you the people that were still there it was just like we need to let these people have their night they're clearly trying to have a night like yeah i looked over and there were certain people that were just like getting after it and i was like good for you man um i i told you both this but it's a funny story to share for people but when i walked in i recognized i would say like 70 of the people but there was also some people that i didn't recognize but i could see them like talking to like you know the picky boys or i could see them talking to your mom or like so i knew that they were people that were like in the realm of like oh they were invited in some capacity i might not know them but i know that they should be here right there were certain people that i saw and i was like there's no reason these people should be here there there was some people that like worked at like wme or something not even that i'm just saying people that like clearly like saw that there was a party a party and like just got in line with our friends and family and just made it in yeah well you know it happens yeah i mean whatever there was some dude that came up to me and he was just like dude dat me up he's like dude i swear to god you look like you do a podcast you do a podcast now we're at our after party so i was like yeah all right yeah i do man it was like cool cool what's your guys's name again and i was like oh you're serious you know fucking around yeah and he was like yeah do what do you guys i've seen your face all over in that moment he's probably like does this guy think he's the most famous guy in the world like i don't know your name now no the kid was like afraid of his own shadow but like i was like yeah you're serious he's like yeah i was like yo you're at our after party like we just we just did a show at madison square garden oh my god i'm so sorry dude he's like you got like so apologetic he's like i'm sorry i'm oh my god he like you know how like uh roger rabbit when he says something dumb he's like no no no and he's like smacking himself in the head with shit i do not know that you ever seen who framed roger rabbit that was 20 years ago that i saw that you should watch it it's incredible yeah um but he was like doing that i was like it's all right you know i just yeah who were you here with you know and right most likely i had a good time though like after the first round of hellos just chill and have a conversation but you know you it was it was just like it was a good thing i mean i'm glad that we had that because i wanted to see everyone afterwards yeah because we had before the show we had like our friends and family in this room um where they did the press conferences which is pretty cool um but then uh yeah i just wanted to see everyone after it i thought it was cool but i was definitely like exhausted and i think like i slept like 11 hours two days later i think that's when i caught back up and then also mikey got sick greg got sick like i think it was like the stress of that day and just being like oh we're done and then your immune system's like me too and then you just get sick yeah um because it kind of i felt like i didn't feel sick but i definitely felt so drained like physically drained that i was just like oh man like i i don't think i realized how long like in the uber home that was like the first time i feel like i breathed all day like i took a real breath yeah yeah that's definitely how i felt like i felt like a sense of relief like yeah the next morning i only slept like five hours i woke up and i woke but i woke up like refreshed immediately yeah and yeah i was tired but i felt good i also i did oh i did have burger king and taco bell the next day because i was just like tour's done in the same meal come on brother me come on yeah me come on yeah you come on i came on is it the same no so what was breakfast bagel oh so you had a bagel and then for bacon egg and cheese you had a bacon egg and cheese for breakfast yes i did lunch was a whopper and what else whopper chicken fries frank onion rings okay now we're gonna was there a soda oh of course it was you're leaving stuff out here fountain coca-cola baby okay so we had a whopper we had onion rings we had we had a soda yeah what kind of soda it was a 5 000 calorie day meal like i'll day meal it was it was a 5 000 calorie day and then and then dinner you're like might as well run it up yeah and then and then what was that that was uh taco bell yeah yeah i'm saying was it something supreme it was so no it was you're gonna fucking i'm gonna like it oh yeah you are two cheesy gordita crunches no baja sauce okay what the fuck is baja it's like their spicy ranch oh i thought that was like some mountain dew no i don't like it baja blast that's baja blast close enough and then a crunch wrap supreme meal with a starry which is sierra mist and it comes with a taco supreme what is a taco supreme just a taco just like a hard shell taco so you had like four tacos yeah yes i did listen man i felt you know like after all of that and like just did msg i was just like i'm just gonna fucking indulge and how did i indulge yeah on some fast food listen i've said it before i'll say it again of fast food burger joints number one is burger king of taco bells taco bell is number one gotta be that's it yeah i ride hard for what i like on the taco bell like taco balls at the top yeah you know i ride for my mother effing people careful um but yeah that's a that's a big day it's so funny it's just like there was such a sense of like holy f**k like because i do remember last year someone coming up to us at radio the scent doing radio city is crazy yeah that is still insane and then there was a representative at radio city that came up to us and said like next year the garden right and like our mentality at least i think i could speak on your behalf was just like okay okay you know just like mine definitely was where i was just like all right and then now having like look back on that and then just like i don't know like the two years of touring in its entirety i was just like like i felt like i could breathe you know like because it it's you know it has its its difficulties and it has its stuff like that and and then like all the planning that goes into it and you know like i i spoke with francisco the three-time slam poetry of the year winner and he shared with me like those poems are stressful to him for him to write yeah so like gone through all of that and then on the back end just coming out of it it's just like so you felt like there was a weight lifted off of your chest without a doubt and then you put a i put a five tacos on top he's like you know i felt like this weight lifted off of my chest and then i and then i just put an iv of baja sauce in me hell well no baja sauce you know the law no baja sauce i absolutely did you know listen man i am just trying to cry uh did i cry afterward like maybe not that night but like another night uh before it i did before msg i had some emotional moments with becca you know actually that's not true becca wrote a very sweet post for me that you know just kind of like looking back and on tour and what it is oh you said i just said poster i was like what she wrote me a poster no that that that definitely made me cry just you know kind of looking that was after no that's after that's what i'm saying yeah definitely yeah that that got me before you you said before i had some moments okay you know i had all tour to be you know really honest like there were some moments you know because of the weight of it all and the just like the enormity of it all and you know the the taco bell of it all you know it was just so much it was just so much like did you cry baja moments yeah you were can i share good how you were after the show one word oh i mean emotional is the word silent that that's the word too i walked into the room after and i went oh yeah it is so quiet you got him you got emotional for a second for a second because like for a second for a second for a second no because it's like i understand you guys getting super emotional but i walk into the room and it was so quiet i went oh and i just sat in between you guys and we're just which is funny because living in it after after the show was over like i we went back to the green room and i just sat on the couch and i just like couldn't talk and it was just me and ahmed at one point and ahmed was like i think he was crying because he had his hands like this i can kind of hear like him breathing a little heavy and i was like he was probably crying and i was just sitting there and it was such a weird feeling and it's never like i've never been like i've never been like this after a show like usually it's like all right cool that was nice or whatever and we were just all dead silent yeah like afterwards was like yo that was crazy after i would say the vat like 99 of the shows we're tired and we're trying to eat and we're trying to go to sleep like that's what it is but there was there was definitely more of like you could hear a pin drop in that room yeah it was very quiet and joey like you were i think like i came up to you and i was like you all right and he was like and i was like okay he's yeah i was i was definitely like processing like i wasn't like emotional yet process like i wasn't emotional yet but then the next morning i was in bed and i watched some fucking tiktok from some fucking asshole who was videotaping me when the confetti was falling and they like wrote some shit and whatever and then i saw some comments of people saying just like really nice stuff and then i was just like oh god and it just that's when it actually came out and i was just like crying like legitimately in my bed like damn dude like that happened yesterday um but that's it like that's it that's just another day at the office can a white boy cry a little bit god damn what come on keep going keep going while you're at it what just keep going what how else is it hard to be a white boy come on white boy come on little white boy no it was it was insane i i you know all the people that have been posting on social media like that tiktok algorithm it works like over time like once you watch one oh my god there was like a bunch of them you're angry yeah you're uh you're doing you're massaging the mic a lot my bad my bad you're good you're good i'm just making sure dude is this good yeah just am i fucking this up dude no you actually are uh just you know just trying to do my job over here i appreciate it i'm sorry yeah no there were there were job now you gotta start again sorry nah there was wait are we editing that out no we don't have to oh okay okay oh you're gonna keep my double my double gawk gawk in there now people deserve don't call it that well yeah i guess people deserve to have that now yeah no they don't deserve to have it i'm making have what i'm making it worse um like there were a lot of like people just like you know like there were several that i saw that were just like someone's face hysterically crying and then they turn the camera and it's the confetti going off and shit like that and i think that's like if i could be non-jokey me for sec i think one of the things that i consider us to be very lucky with is like i really do feel like we shared that moment with the people that put us there like the people that sat in the seats the people that came to any of our shows the people that haven't been able to make it to the shows like that is really a testament like us getting that opportunity is a testament to like doing it with those people and like they feel emotional about it and it is emotional because we we've kind of like shared that with them am i crazy for thinking that no like i think i i've said that before i think at the end of some shows maybe that was like the first year of tour but it's interesting because it feels like yes these people are like fans of our show and stuff like that but also the things that they say that that people have said to me or said to you or that i see online there's like a care in there like in in the way that they're supportive and what they're saying is like you know i'm just so happy for you guys and i'm so proud of you guys for doing this thing and whatever and that feels different you know because like i'm fans of people and like i guess in ways i'm like but i'm not proud but you'd never tell noah kahan that you're proud of him right like i'm not like i'm not proud of noah kahn hey aaron judge i'm proud of you yeah you know like because i mean i don't know that's it feels like a different thing but when people say that it's like i could feel that it feels more personal and i think it's because like i am proud of you noah you too aaron hey dog also i i announced on stage that he won his third mvp yeah and then i fuck it my friends thought i was serious because i was like and aaron judge is here actually yeah that would have been bananas the boss was like bro i don't know you're doing the garden anything's nothing's off the books fair that is fair um but i i think it's because like the way in which like the road and the path that has brought us to that stage has been just kind of like a bit of transparency like we're on the show and we're kind of being ourselves and just bullshitting as normal people so like it's easier for people to connect with that and maybe i mean maybe that's like when you look at like and this is not me taken away from people that have you know found their way in other forms of art whether it be acting theater tv uh you know music but like you're getting a polished version of them give me your favorite movie okay okay sure Shawshank Redemption I was gonna make a joke you bastard but Trolls - I was gonna say Django Unchained you know it's crazy it's a great movie no actually my favorite movies and glorious bastards okay well you you said you don't consider it a drama I mean it is a drama but I know you're trying to do a tragedy is what you consider right but like if you see Brad Pitt's a bad example but like if you were to see Christoph Waltz you wouldn't say like I'm proud of you you know because like you're getting just a version of the character that you like so like the fact that it's us and we're doing it together it's pretty cool yeah am I wrong for thinking that was a terrible example it's a horrible okay okay I didn't know I thought it was a really bad example Why is that a bad example? because like it's not as much emotional connection as like but that's what I'm saying like there are people that certain people here that feel a huge connection to Inglorious Bastards right I do like you know what I'm saying like if fucking like Jennifer Lawrence wins Best Actress it's like they're doing that but like when someone sees them if they're like I'm proud of you it's like oh you're just saying you're proud of the like the performance and the character not like you don't really know the person like it's us on that stage you know better closer but better not they're eating not just different actor I think I'm making great sense and I know what you're saying I know you're saying but I think it's just because people have been along for the journey I don't necessarily think it's like like if people knew Jennifer Lawrence when she's like first started doing like a theater or a play like those people being like I'm proud of you yeah and it feels like we've just like we it was a slow thing did I not say that well before when I said like it's not the journey I don't let us to that stage well right but then but then you went 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Yep. You want me to talk now? You want me to talk about my things, right? How about I tell them about Patreon? Is that what you want? That's kind of it. You want me to tell them about patreon.com slash thebasemanear where they can go up and they can sign up for our Patreon service where if they sign up for that first year, they get weekly episodes one week in advance? Or do you want me to tell them about it if they sign up for that second tier, Joey? They get exclusive episodes every single Friday so they can start and end their week with The Basemanear. More of us. Is that what they want? You're forcing me into a thing here. Oh, and let me guess. You want me to tell them that if they go to the web URL in a web browser and go to patreon.com slash thebasemanear and sign up using that HTML code that they're going to be able to fucking save some money? I'm going to tell them about that because I want these people to save money because I'm going to tell them that if they use the smart apps, these tech overlords are going to take extra money from them. So if they go and they go to a web browser, they save themselves some money signing up for patreon.com slash thebasemanear. That's what I'm going to do, Joe. Such an interesting story. Such an interesting approach. Approach to what? You said web browser back there. That's what it is. You said, oh, smart apps. That was another one. That's a smart app. Oh, God. That's so bad. What's bad about it being a smart app? What's bad about it? What's bad about it? Yeah. Oh, man. Web browsers. Am I right, kids? Yeah, I was going to say, are you opening up a conversation? Am I right, kids? Yeah. What were you saying? Just giving a tad bit of unk status over there. Yeah, it is. I could be unk. You could be. Who's older than that? Pop? OG? I could be OG unk. I think that's Shannon Sharp, right? Are we talking about him yet? What is your hands? Pulled back. Yeah, what are you talking about? Didn't he? I think he was acquitted. I could be making that up. Okay. What is he? I didn't. Quick little. Go to your favorite. Web browser and Google him, Joe. My favorite. My search engine. Go to AskJeeves.com. Damn, what happened to AskJeeves? I think it's still around, but it's just. Go to AskJeeves.com. Like a dog shit. Like Bing. No offense, Bing. Why are you saying it so hard? I don't know what this is. I think it's just Ask. Wait, you don't know what AskJeeves is? No, I don't know. Have you ever heard of AskJeeves? Yeah, we're old. How do I spell it? Jeeves. Try to spell it. It's Jeeves. It's spelled Jeeves. Oh. Jee? It's Jeeves, not Jeeves. I think it's just Ask.com. It's just Ask.com now. They got rid of Jeeves? Who's that? That's a cat. I think it's a lynx. Oh, that's kind of disrespectful. Can you still AskJeeves? So what do I do? Ask.com where Jeeves go. Say where is fucking Jeeves? Where is Jeeves from AskJeeves.com? Ask the Jeeves. Where is Jeeves? Where is Jeeves? Jeeves. Jeeves. What is this? It's a, it's a Worcester and Jeeves. Worcester and Jeeves. Jeeves went and hung out with somebody else at Worcester? Type in AskJeeves and then go to Google Images. We got to find Jeeves. I don't, it was, he was an old white British butler. Go to AskJeeves. I can't believe you are this inept. Click on that. This. No, yes. And just type in AskJeeves. If it just reroutes us. Don't go to a website. You're typing in the website. Type in, type in AskJeeves. Yes, go to AskJeeves. AskJeeves. Your instructions are very important. There he is, Jeeves. Oh, he's getting a back massage from someone. Oh, whoa. What's going on here? Whoa, Jeeves. Is that him? Why everyone stopped asking Jeeves? Speak for yourself. Me and Jeeves get asked all the time. This was. What was that? I was going to say something. His gun jammed. This is what people asked before they asked fucking dumbass chap GPT. That was Jeeves. Jeeves was a human. Look, go to the left. All the way to the left. Yeah, that's what the website said. Oh, look. They literally just said. What I said out on that. Oh, wow. Why is it butter yellow? That was the internet back in the day, baby. That was the internet color back in the day. So this was like a search engine. You would just type like anything you type in Google. You're like, Jeeves, why the hell is ants fucking so hot? Right. He saved it there. He did. That was close. But why would Jeeves. Like, what did Jeeves answer? Anything. Like, it was like Google. It was like Google. He wouldn't be like, hey, it's me, Jeeves. I got an answer for you. Like, Clippy. But they had a mascot. Remember Clippy? Like, fuck. Clippy. Microsoft Word. Yes, baby. Yeah. Do you know him? Clippy? Yeah. Yo, we should do an episode. What's going on with you? Hold on. We should do an episode. You know what Pix is? Do you know Pix? Is that what it's called? No, it ain't. Kid Pix. Kid Pix. I don't want to Google Kid Pix. Oh, yeah. That's bad. Don't type that in. It's with an X, which I don't know. One X. Not three Xs. Not three Xs. Type in Kid Pix with an X. One word. Be careful. We could run out. We could run out of here. Kid Pix. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Now we're talking about Kid Pix. That's a wild reaction. We're looking at Kid Pix. I know, I know, I know. Take it easy. Dude, so there is a whole, I just realized, there is a whole generation of stuff that we experienced as a kid that Ant didn't. We can do an episode. Look. Yeah, you never had Kid Pix. You never had Kid Pix. So look, look, look. You see the circle? That was when you blew it up. So, like, you would draw stuff on here, right? And then you, and then into a- That's even late, though. That's the- That's a more, we need the more primitive Kid Pix. That's the first picture. Go to RGB rules. No. Is that Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Yeah, I guess it is. But also red, green, blue. No, it's red, green, yeah. Oh, I mean, hey. But RGB, she ruled. Technically. By definition. She did. But if you would do this, you would draw that, right? Then you would take a bomb, and you would click, and it would do this bomb, and it would erase everything. It would be a stick of dynamite. Go to YouTube? I think I faintly remember this. You don't know Kid Pix. Bro, we- You don't know Kid Pix. I'm not even- This is not even a joke. You were born in 97, right? Yes, sir. We were playing with Kid Pix, the computer game, when you were born. Man, that's a bad name for a company. They clearly didn't have benefit of foresight on their end. Kid Pix is crazy. Dude, just go like Google, go to YouTube, and just type in Kid Pix dynamite. Also bad. I don't think- Type in Kid Pix that are dynamite. Type in Kid Pix that are so dynamite. Go to YouTube. My favorite app, Kid Pix, and it's dynamite. It's fucking- Oh, I would use it every day, my Kid Pix. There wasn't a day that I could wake up without Kid Pix. Every day in school, I'd go to the computer. Imagine being a teacher at that point in time, and just being like, hey, we're going to do something in school today. What is it? Get on the computer. I've got Kid Pix for you. What is this? Go down. Kid Pix 4. No, 2004 is too late, baby. I don't know if we're going to find- No, that one. These videos are all 17 minutes long. Yeah, it's way too long. No, there's a 430. You don't need to do the whole thing, but scrub through it. Scrub a dub dub. Find that fucking- There's an ad. Oh, fucking advertisement. Now they want free plugs. This is crazy, dude. Look at this, baby. This is Kid Pix. This is Kid Pix. Look. You can have a stamp. And they would make sounds like- Yeah, and then you can do straight lines. You're just narrating. Look at that. Look at the hands, dude. Ding dong. Yeah. That was a ding dong. I forgot about that. There was multiple ways to erase, and one of them was a ding dong, and then it would open and be like, yo, my shit is gone. Yeah, and they would do shapes, and look. Oh, I love this. Yeah. Oh, the gay's color. Come on, man. I'm not kidding. I thought the doorbell rang. We don't have a doorbell. This was such- Like, this is when- Oh, don't get Frank started. When companies were playful. No, but like, look at how- Oh, go back. When they erase. I need to see how they erase again. That one's ass. That was so ass as balls. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh! Go back to that one. Go back, go back. Watch my race. Here we go. Watch this. Watch. Oh, that sounded good. Oh, I saw a cross on there. What the hell was that? Yeah, that was kind of freaky. That one was wack. I don't even want to see this. I'm disgusted by it. If I don't see the dynamite, I'm going to be so fucking mad, dude. I need to see the goddamn dynamite. Come on. Did they bury the dynamite because they know we want to see the dynamite? I think there's no dynamite. Go back. There was a circular one that was circle. That was this, this. Go to this. No, I think they drew that. No, this is another one. It's like a bomb that comes in, boom, and it erases. That one's kind of cool. That's fucking up my eyes, brother. We just got to give kids. Yeah, that's- If anyone suffered from some form of epilepsy- There will be no pics left. Do they have Kid Picks, the computer game, available today? Make sure you say the full name. See if they have it. Because I remember I'd go home and I'd open Microsoft Paint and it was so fucking dumb. It'd be like, oh, I can draw with a pencil. So can I play with Kid Picks with an X today? Just write Kid Picks- Yo, don't say that. Don't write that. Just write Kid Picks 2025. I can't. I mean, listen, there's a lot of- See, why do they do this to us? I hate the name of this company. Uh, likely refers to the VTech Kill- Kid Picks 3D? Yeah, try that. Don't- 3D Kid Picks, don't do that. So this is probably the new version. A 15-day trial. I did realize clicking on that could have been- Also, what website is this? Makiev? Yeah, I- This feels- Yeah, we're getting- This feels like we're getting- Oh, Kid Picks! I don't- It's the website. It's the official website. No, I've been- My mom has been caught with this before. Social security thing. Social security. Your mom's been caught with Kid Picks? Kid Picks? No, that was not good. That was not good. I've never, never- What is she getting caught with? Like, she's given her social security- I don't know. Oh, I get you. Scam stuff. Yeah, I think it happened to my mom, too. Kid pics. But there were so many. So you don't know about. Go to Clippy. Type in Clippy. Clippy. You don't know Clippy from Microsoft? This little invasive bastard. I'd be trying to put something in WordArt. You don't know Clippy, bro? I've seen this guy. And he would pop up and he'd be like, looks like you're making a poster board. Let me tell you about this. Like, dude, I'm just trying to write the scientific method. I mean, I've leaned on Clippy a few times in my life. Be honest with something. Be really fucking honest with something. When you were in, like, middle school or high school, did you ever plagiarize? What are you. Be honest? Bro. I would say 68% of my entire academic career was not me. Okay? I mean, when I got to college, they had, like, the web, like, portals that, like, you had to upload your paper to, and they would come back and be like, you're good, or, like. Or, like, you're not. But I remember in sixth grade, I did a paper, and I'm not kidding. It was the Wikipedia entry, just copy and paste it to the paper. Like, not even. How in sixth grade do you think you're so smart? I mean, the teacher's gonna look at it and be like, what? No, I didn't get caught for it. What? Yeah. So she was like, what? Who was your sixth grade teacher? I'm not gonna say her name. That was 141, though? Yeah, it was. Yeah, that checks. That was the same one that called me disgusting. Like, you disgust me? In a sixth grader? Yeah, because I had told her, like, the reason I miss a month of homework is because my grandfather died. Yeah, you are disgusting, though. But she's not supposed to say that. But I did. My grandfather did die. Yeah, ten years prior. Three. That's. No, more. More like six. Yeah. No kid pics for you, buddy. That's fine. You wanna get this one upset? Take away his kid pics. Come on. See, why do you gotta do that? Why do you gotta do all that, Joey? Oh, man, I love the kid pics. With an X. There's so much. With an X. One X! So, like, you didn't have a Goosebumps book. I had Goosebumps books. That's different. Yeah, you gotta feel those. You gotta feel, like, the ones that were, like, ribbed. Oh, but, like, ribbed for her pleasure? Like, when Monster Blood, or, like, the one with, like, the dad's, like, hand was on it, where it was, like, stay out the basement. The one that had, like, the purple goo, I'm like, oh, it's ribbed for her pleasure. Like, you can kind of feel it in your hands. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like the one that was just, like, say cheese or die, and it's, like, the Polaroid of just, like, the skeletons, and he's, like, cooking, and shit like that. Yo, those were, like, trading cards back in the day, and I know you're thinking, yes, I've looked into eBay listings to get, like, OG first edition Goosebumps books. You remember when, uh, fucking Captain Underpants was mad popular? Yo, that was a big. Like, I read those books. Yo, I, like, bartered one at a Scholastic book fair once. I was like, yo, I only got, like, a dollar and, like, a fucking eraser. Like, give me this fucking book. Well, back in the day, a dollar got you fucking, like, a whole, like, Christmas season's worth of gifts for your family. Like, I remember I'd come home with that little white bag that looks like they're from the dentist. You know what I'm talking about? I do. And I'd be like, all right, so I got Chris a thing of slime. I got Jessica an eraser. All right, I got mom. Oh, shit, the slime! Yeah, they would have little cups. Like, they were, like, little, like. And, like, glittery kind of. Yeah, they were hard, and they smelled so good. I don't remember the stink of them. There was certain slimes that were stinky. Yeah? Yeah. They were, like, wet and farty and stinky. Whoa. Jeez. Mm-hmm. I read Goosebumps, and as soon as it said, oh, if you pick this thing, go to this page, I said, this is too complicated. I stopped reading. What does that mean? Taking small direction was just a little too much for you. It's like, you could choose, like, choose your own adventure, Goosebumps. Yeah. And if you went left, go to page 400. Yeah, it literally would be like, you'd read five pages, and it'd be like, you can either go to page 45, or you can go to page six. Just give me the monsters. Yeah. I mean, they were all over the place. There were monsters everywhere. R.L. Stine. When I picture, I have no idea what that guy looks like. You don't, dude, you don't know who R.L., what R.L. Stine looks like. I don't know if I want to know. Do I want to know? Well, what do you imagine? Hold on. Wait, no, no, Joey. Close your eyes. Look up a picture of R.L. Stine, and then look up a picture of some other random person. I guarantee he'll know who R.L. Stine is. I'm sure he looks like how I think he looks like. He looks like R.L. Stine, brother. Like, there's no way, and this is a. Look up R.L. Stine. Let's take a look at that. Do you know that he has sold more books than Stephen King? Really? Yeah. Oh! That's about right. Is he in the intro? Am I bugging? He's in some of the shows where he's just like, I'm R.L. Stine. Robert Lawrence Stine. Stephen King looks like Stephen King. Yeah. Dude, talk about cocaine. Talk. Stephen King. Some of his books are fucking out there, brother. Why do these guys look like the books? You know what I'm saying? I guess, you know, you find that they get popular some way, and then you see them, and you just kind of, like. Type in Goosebumps Skeleton book. No, Say Cheese and Die. Is that the one? Yeah, you don't need to go through it. I know what it is. There was Say Cheese and Die. Type that in. Goosebumps Skeleton? Just go to Goosebumps Covers, and you'll see all the ones, and you'll be like, oh, I know that one. I'll tell you what I thought R.L. Stine looked like. I stole one of these books from Lauren. Lauren Bette? Yeah. LBs. LBs. I don't know if this is what we wanted. No. Why not? There was. I remember there being a cover where there was, like, a skeleton on it. Or a mummy, maybe? I mean, there was a mummy book. No, this isn't. Oh, my God. That fucking guy's face, though. Say Cheese or Die. That's the first one. Look at it. I don't like it. It scares me. This one? Yeah. Oh, that's not the one I'm thinking of. There was one where it was, like, a mummy or something, and he was, like, looking like this, and I was like, that's what I think R.L. Stine looks like, like a mummy. I mean, that's pretty good. Yeah, it is pretty good. Camp Jelly Jam. I remember that one. I don't like when. Things are drawn like that, where it's, like, people are smiling really hard and their eyes are open. I don't like that. Goosebumps freaks me out. Dude, so fucking good. Do you think that Goosebumps would be successful if their books weren't ribbed for her pleasure? No way. I don't think so. Absolutely not. No, a big part of. A big part of what made Goosebumps successful was, like, how much effort they put into the aesthetics of this book. The rib. The ribbed. And, like, also. And not even just that, but, like, the pages being, like, basically made of just like, papyrus. Yeah, I fucked with it. Like, you open that book and you smell it. Like, books aren't made with that shit no more, dude. Yeah, I don't like this. I don't like modern books! I mean, either. I miss when they smell like shit. Dude, I love opening a book and just be like, I don't know if this was printed last year or in fucking 1501. Yeah, dude, I feel like back in the day I would walk into a library and I'd be like, yo, it smells like diarrhea. Dude, good diarrhea. Good, yo, I'm not even. Like a book diarrhea. And I knew, like, when I walked into a library I knew that it was the stinkiest, safest place on earth. And then the librarian walked over and she smelled like shit. Yeah, she was a bitch, too. She smelled. She's a mean, mean person that could have had a dirty diaper. Probably. But the love of books. She was mean, but good. We're dealing with books, my guy. We can't have someone soft in here. Like, the Dewey Decimal System is about. Bro, the Dewey Decimal System is not meant to be fucked with. And I don't. I don't know it. I don't. And guess what? I'll never learn it. Is it just decimals? What is the Dewey? Who's Dewey? Why does he have his own decimal system? And how do we, as the basement yard, get our own numeric system? I just miss when books are fucking filthy bastards. They smell like money, kinda. I love. Dude, I love when people would slam a book down and it would just look like dust. Yeah. Like, and it was just an old, fat, stupid book that you know just like. If you open that thing, you're like, who had this? Do kids still have textbooks? This is crazy. That's a great question. It's a very disconnected question, but like, do kids still have textbooks? Because I used to love textbooks, too. One of the best parts was like opening up and for whatever reason, I'm like, in high school, I'd be looking for like a famous person's name. It'd be like, yo, does Brad Pitt use this book? Like, I don't know anyone who's fucking. Oh, yeah. I thought you were gonna say like you open to like a random page and you'll find a funny picture and it'll just be like, yo, turn to page 61. Yeah, it's like. And they'll turn and it's like, it's a penis. Yeah, oh, man. Or like a random dick Dude, handed down textbooks was so. Book socks! Bro! Yeah, you see how he just jumps there. Book socks! I remember a book sock. Yo, those were fire. You had book socks. Some of us, some of us, our mom had to do the fucking like cardboard paper, construction paper. Remember? They would be like, you have to cover your own book or you're in trouble. What is that? Fuck you. And it was the librarian who I give her pass because she had a lot going on. That Dewey Decimal System is tough, but get the fuck out of here. Dude, and also, you remember like, there was a couple Asian kids that did this fucking. Oh, they had the best stationary. Bro, they had this like plastic wrap that was so tightly wrapped around this book, I was like, nothing's gonna get to this book. Yo, not even just that, but it was like, they put it on and then used like a heat gun. Yeah, there was no bubbles, no nothing. It was like perfectly put on. Yeah, dude. I was like, yo, you just fuck, what is this? It was crazy. It was honestly crazy, but like, they were book socks. Love that. Which were basically, it was just spandex for a book. Yeah, it was like, but sometimes you'd wear it as a do-rag. Some of us. I've done that. Okay. I'd be like, yo, and then, and then what, what would you say in said do-rag? Well, this was in middle school. Gotcha. This was peak, you know, like Don, Don Santagato. Yeah. Tego Santagato. Nah, you know what it is? Like, back then, I feel like my Spanish and black friends were like, we really want to see you in a do-rag. 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 right so that you know and you did it did it give you waves um no it did not didn't give you waves no your do-rag did not give you waves oh man the book sucks man those are great damn all right bro you remember reading logs i i let me tell you something oh yeah i my parents have never signed a reading log that's what i'll say oh i i mean i've told you what my approach was you know this is great this is great you know i mean you know what my approach was for the reading logs is i would have my grandmother who oh that's a bad one wait i thought you were complimenting me exploiting my demented grandma well i i do respect that i know that sounds bad but i do the game i i do respect the game what were you thinking i was i thought you were going to say that you were going to say that you were going to say that you were going to say that you as long as you forge from the beginning you can't go wrong oh i my thought process didn't go that far in fourth grade my mom has like incredible penmanship like she has like this magical yep my mom too like you know whatever that's because they would beat them in school until they got it right absolutely which stopped with us so our handwriting is not as good as that's why that is why our our whole generation is sucks you want people to have better handwriting hit them with a yard you gotta let the teachers kick the shit out of the kids you know what's wrong with that handwriting will improve you know what's wrong with this country and the youth they didn't get their ass whooped by their teachers their teacher wasn't beating them with a yardstick yeah that's why we have that's appropriate that's why we have failed who's you think it's crazy that teachers were paid well and then beaten the shit out of our kids listen what what do you what do you think matters more perfect handwriting penmanship or and like trauma you know what's wrong with this country and the youth they didn't get their ass whooped by their teachers their teacher wasn't beating them with a yardstick yeah that's why we have failed that's why we have failed who's you think it's crazy that teachers were paid well and then beating the shit out of our kids listen what what do you what do you think matters more perfect handwriting penmanship or and like a trauma or or no trauma and bad handwriting you tell me you think you trauma bro whatever you get you probably you know you got a few screws loose when you get older and like it's hard for you to make relationships because you were beaten by your teacher and then your parents teachers need a place place to blow off steam yeah they got god's name shouldn't it be with their fists and children and their children's faces and children that aren't there exactly and look at how good the handwriting was oh you think my grandmother got good handwriting because her teacher was nice to her no it was because she was afraid that she was gonna gut her like a pig in school come on guys when i think back to like our parents being like our teacher used to hit us i'd like i would literally kill my teacher yo if someone first of all if i went home today oh man and one of my children said like oh my teacher hit me with a ruler bro i'm coming with i'm driving my car through their living room yeah that's crazy like it's not gonna be a fun reaction it's crazy my dad would my dad would sign my homework so poorly that the teacher thought that it was me forging it and then i would get in trouble and then i would cry that's fire yeah that's kind of that's kind of i mean that's because your dad didn't get his ass whooped probably yeah what he needed was a yardstick damn right and your dad mr yellow he did not he did not get his ass 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basement get that 30 off get yourself a nice bed for the holidays how about that yeah highly recommended got one of their beds incredible uh what were we just talking about i have a question yeah do you think like how much about like 90s culture do you know and not know like if we were to pull up random like toys or items would you like have no clue what they were if we pull up kid pics yeah they would have to he didn't know kid pics which was huge they would have to have bled into the early 2000s at least so like i can't think of it if i were to give an example would you know moon shoes yeah but moon shoes what's the skip shit skip it that's a yep that's a good name for it you don't know skip it you don't know skip it type in skip it skip to my skip it skip it that's iat skip it toys 90s yes you never seen one of these things skip it you put it around your ankle and it kind of just rolls and then like you kind of go in a circle and you jump over it and you're supposed to see how many times you could skip it i wasn't good at the skip i was never good at skip it i was also never good at uh jumping rope you know you know bop it yeah yeah you know bob you know sock and boppers what sock and boppers sock and boppers the two robots are rock'em sock'ems you don't know the difference between sock and boppers and rock'em sock'ems rock'em sock'ems is not sock and boppers sock and boppers is when you're bopping someone's sock and boppers rock'em sock'ems is rock'em sock'em sock'em rock'ems look they're they're giant sock'em these were something else that i had it wasn't these they had an off-brand sock'em bopper i think i remember the commercial soccer boppers we could sock all day and bop all night that was the really sweet that was the real commercial that's insane that was the real commercial between kid pics and that i mean what do we do yeah i mean i'm not i'm not i'm not writing these the adults that wrote and performed that jingle should be ashamed of themselves the 90s are a wild west these are just a way to just punch your friend in the face and pretend it didn't hurt yeah it absolutely still hurt it did absolutely but you did uh you did like uh what was it the sock of rock'em sock'em bop'em all right okay oh no don't don't start looking at stuff you know polly pocket yeah okay don't piss me off if you didn't know we shouldn't look those are so popular they transcend like yeah but see here's the thing is i don't want to like you start looking into this like i'd rather us pull it up and then like see if ant knows it or is it not a good full-length episode i don't know but like we're talking about it now yeah all right so if i were to say betty spaghetti you know who we're rocking with is that play-doh with coming out of the hair no pretty close though i think you're thinking of like chia pets nope no that's plants yeah you're literally it's literally like play-doh when they would like put it and then they'd like pull it down and it was like a barber section of play-doh that's what i just said yeah that's what i'm saying that's what i said you're thinking of okay um i know that one hit clips who hit clips i thought you said clits hit clips i didn't know that in the 90s clits i would hope not you were three at oldest barely no now what the oh my god you don't remember hit clips i had no dude they were like this is called 12 to 15 second versions of songs on like a like thing and you could play it like that yep it was hit songs on little clips yeah so it was little clips of hit songs yeah they were hit clips yeah you know obviously you know what a furby is did you have a furby no never got into that i had a furby i don't like furbies in my house they their eyes i don't like it they definitely had eyes but like their eyes were so open this is i mean this looks i have so much to talk about guys these hit these hit clips these look 90s looks old 90s this is all the what about yak back do you remember a yak back what's that you definitely remember a yak Yackback. Yackback? No. Oh! Yeah, it was just like a voice recorder. But you could like talk to it. You could be like, hey, what's up? And then you could just start it to be like a robot. Like, hey, what's up? No, I don't know what this is. That was a pretty good like RFK Jr. there. What did I just do? Hey, what's up? I can't believe you didn't have Yackback. Oh, man. What else? Did you ever have a yo-yo? I could yo-yo. You can yo-yo? I've walked a dog in my day. Oh, have you? What's the shit with the triangle? There's like the TikTok clock or something like that. Yeah, I did that one once. And I was like, this is a great thing. I knew someone that was like a legit world champion yo-yo-er. Oh. They have had, I know what you're thinking. No sex? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They had sex. They have had sex. No way. Not with me. I know people that they've had sex with. If you're the world champion in anything, it's got to be cool. You'll find somebody. Yeah. Dude, I could imagine. There's something like yo-yo girl like ready. I could imagine. I mean, if you could pull someone being a world champion yo-yo-er, I imagine that's pretty cool. That's pretty difficult. No, you're the world champion. No, no. There's got to be like, there's other people involved. In the scene. Yeah. And you're the best. You're the world champion. Yeah. Let me teach you how to walk the dog. Like, oh, you want me to bring you around the world, sweetie? I mean, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, you're getting there. No, I can't imagine that. He's probably definitely making, as a world champion, you're probably, you've got to be making at least a couple hundred bucks. Right, right. A couple dozen bucks, dude. Let me take her around the world. Did you ever play Cat's Cradle? Like Jax? Which one is that? The string? That's the yo-yo? Oh, yeah, that thing, yeah. What is that? I don't know. It was like an old-timey game, speak it up, that our fucking, our librarian taught us. She taught us that? Yeah, I remember she taught us that. Miss Martinez. It was like, shout out. And then it was. But you play it? Miss Martinez used to bark at us, dude. Really? That was our librarian. I'm not kidding. Whatever happened to women of a certain era that could scream with bass? Yo. That's so true. Our fifth generation. Our fifth grade teacher, her name, her last name was Schnetzer. There was, yo, there was, I can name, I'm not even kidding, I can name five teachers in our elementary school that screamed with like the bass of Barry White. Bro, Miss Schnetzer was this old rickety, like. German woman. German woman. But she would let it go like a beast. Dude, I remember. Fucking reamed him one day. Oh, yeah. And I was like, yo. She got me. I thought he was going to hit the fucking wall. She got me. I just wanted to go and play some kid picks. Yeah. And she was mad. She was mad at me. She was pissed. No, and then do you remember Pogrebin? Pogrebin had some pipes on her. She was a thousand also. Bro, this woman was like five foot zero. Yeah. And she could scream. My God. Like fucking the lead singer of GWAR. She literally was like fucking Axl Rose. Yo, she was letting it. And I remember she got low with it. Yeah. She was like, how? Oh, yo, Miss Lynch. Bro, there was a teacher. Yo. And she had a megaphone. And I'm not. She didn't need it. I'm not convinced she was a real person. She was. I'm telling you right now, thinking back on Miss Lynch from our fucking elementary school cafeteria. She was created to be a lunch lady. Yo, she dead ass was like the mitochondria of that school. Powerhouse of the cell, baby. She literally like, she was like in charge of the entire lunchroom. And it's like, yo, you gotta really, you know, be that bitch if you're gonna be in charge. And she had the whole fucking school. Listening. You know why, right? Because they could hear her at all times. And you know why, right? Why? She probably got her ass kicked by her teacher. Her teacher beat the shit out of her. Dog shit out of her. Dog walked her. And also. R.I.P.? I imagine. She was fucking 900 when we were kids. That was 30 years ago. I am. You have to also put yourself in that position. That lunchroom looked like it was built to be a fallout shelter. Yeah, it was. It was brick. Bricks. I'm talking about. I'm talking brick city. And all the. All the pillars and all the windows had cages on them. They literally had cages. Like, yo, this was a prison for little children. It looked like an insane asylum. Yo, I'm not kidding. And it was. Yo, I swear to God. It looked like the scene in Good Burger where they went to the insane asylum. Do you remember that scene? Dude, yes. It looked exactly like that. And then when you go in the bathrooms, anything that was metal in that school, if there was a chip, you would realize this has been painted over one billion times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With like red. With lead paint. The reddest paint. Dude. Blood maybe. I remember I used to hate touching the handrails because my hands would smell like just raw iron. There's no way that paint passes any sort of health co-test. Zero. Zero. I'm not even kidding. It was like the paint was so caked onto these fucking handrails. It was like. And also the stairs. Cage. Cages. Cages, bro. The stages. I haven't been in there. Can we go back? I would love to. I would love to like do a video of us. Like. Taking a tour of our fucking elementary school. I literally would chip into the handrail and just see. It would look like a jawbreaker, dude. Yo, I couldn't tell if my hand smelled of raw iron or chicken. That's what that fucking place was like. It was incredible, though. Yeah, but that building could crank out a rectangle pizza. Let me tell you right now. Fuck a rectangle pizza, baby. When that fucking mystery ravioli came out that was just 48 million ounces of sauce and one ravioli you had to find. You had the power of the sun in the middle of that ravioli. Oh, yeah. Yes, you did. And then you had fucking just the voice of all voices, Miss Lynch, just bellowing out. Yo, like crazy. I'm going to put it in terms that you'll understand. Pokemon. Yeah. Loud dread. Like, like this. She had the fucking power on her. That was just like, holy fuck. Like, bro, think about this. You're in a what feels like an insane asylum surrounded by children. All the windows have cages. You're eating a ravioli that is one million degrees in the center. So you're burning your mouth. There's a teacher screaming so loud into a megaphone that is peaking and cracking because her voice is so loud. And she's selling pretzels in the middle of the fucking lunchroom. And then you're getting a nosebleed. It's like this was my life. Like, that was my life. Like, getting nosebleeds was like all the time. Oh, and I know what you're thinking. Not hot pretzels, baby. Ice cold. Stopping wet pretzels that were covered in the coarsest, biggest chunks of salt that you have ever seen. The first few bites of those pretzels tasted like the cardboard box that they arrived in. Absolutely. And then the last three bites, if you made it that far, was basically just like licking a Himalayan pink salt lamp. Okay. And then you look around and there are children lined up everywhere. Yeah. For whatever reason. Because they would like stagger the lunch periods. Do you remember? Yeah. So like we. We would get there as like third grade was getting ready to leave. So like we're on the line around the whole room and getting ready to get our food. And then third graders are just heckling us, walking in between. Just like, oh, you fifth graders are gay. We're just like, we're not gay. Honestly, I forgot about all that. There's two children lined up everywhere. I say, hear me out, because I know your mom used to work there. She probably has some connect still, right? Yeah, I imagine. Just get it. Get us in there to do a tour. Have him follow us with a camera and we just talk about. I'm sure you remember everything. I'm not kidding. It's like brand. They did a whole giant extension. Did you know that? Dumb, stupid. Yeah, I'm not into that. I don't want that shit. I don't want the OG building. I also hope they have those old school fucking doorknobs. Those are cool. Those are cool doorknobs. They were like custom. They weren't like this is back when we cared about stuff. Now what? Now what? You're going to have a prefab door that you. You had a fucking made in a factory in China because it's cheaper. And you bought it at Home Depot. This is all Shark Tank's fault. Yeah, these were custom knobs. Custom knobs. That said the name of the school and everything. Knobs, kid pics, and just screaming short little fucking German women. Why were all of our teachers German? You want to hear something crazy too? Schnitzer. Bro, do you remember? I mean, I know that you remember. But in that school, you would take one of your friends. Not one of your friends, but you'd be like, all right, someone's got to clean the eraser. Because that's when we use chalkboards. There was a dedicated room in the building that was the size of this white thing here. Yo, not a joke. There was a machine that was louder than the German teachers. And you would turn it on and there'd be a thing that goes like this, like a brush. And then you would clean it in there. The entire room is covered in chalk and there was no light, no ventilation, no light. We were six years old, hot boxing. School chalk. Yo, we walked out of there like fucking like, what a rough day in the minds. It was in my lungs and in my eyes and shit. I had another nosebleed. Life was so simple. I bled from my nose more than anyone who's ever done cocaine in their 20s. Yeah. And they would send a piece of shit kids like me and Joey to go down and do that. And then the cool kids that were three fucking levels ahead and reaving would get to use the big purple sponge on the board to clean the board. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Cool. Asian kids have the cool stationary. And what do we have? Just fucking chalk lungs. Send them down to the mines. Go clean the fucking chalk, the chalk erasers. And then they gave our poor art teacher a room under the stairs in the basement. R.I.P. R.I.P. R.I.P. I remember the first day of class for the teacher. We drew the planets. That's the last thing I'll say. Well, it's the last thing she probably heard, too, because she died. Thank you. i was calling god there we're not gonna say her name yeah no we're not what is wrong with school nowadays i think listen i know you i know how the last 20 minutes have been a blur i know how like much you guys have rallied for getting rid of the department of education so if i can make if i can make well you just talked about abolishing the department of ed my family lived off the department of ed if you if i can make one suggestion i say make schools like only use schools that were built in the 1910s so the ones that are filled with asbestos you can get them out sure you can abate them get kids back in there because there's a sense of just like you need personality in the walls if you just go to school and you're like oh it's just you know a smart board you need personality in the walls if i find out my kid's learning on a whiteboard i'm taking that board and i'm tearing it out did you guys i know you have we had this together but like did you have did you ever use a chalkboard growing up yeah so did you get to the point where it was like okay there's these new boards and then in order to use the new boards there was like this whole system where you had to go over and like click the yep i think about that all the time and i'm like oh my god this is like so cool where you had to like click the x here then the x there yeah it's like oh now we can use this thing yeah and they ended up sucking nuts oh my god they were not good it was basically like using an etch-a-sketch yeah uh but i remember when we would do like handwriting and it had like the wood block that had like the three metal things on it you put the chalk in it and you drag it across that was my shit dude bring chalk chalk board back why are we all like dude as someone that has written on a chalk chart as someone that has written on a chalkboard and a whiteboard i do not see the value of chalk in anything other than a chalkboard whiteboards are just too clean like school needs to be gritty i think you could upload like files and stuff oh paper who cares i mean i do like the like is chalk bad like i mean it definitely took some life hope up i hope up do you hope up i hope i hope i just had a stroke i hope not yeah i hope up yo i hope up and down um what happened to me i don't know i i hope i hope not yeah not up look at up is is is board or chalkboards bad for you fear like just google that listen i need you to understand something here my friend okay are chalkboards bad for you if you eat them how many kids do you have to eat to be a good kid i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know how many calories is a chalkboard why aren't they oh like it's not one of the things up there and don't look at the ai answer oh it could be bad for you due to dust it's more the chalk and the dust so they were just fucking basically waterboarding us with chalk fumes they were gassing us with chalk fumes in this building yeah the chalk dust it's the dust it's the dust which makes sense because i would get that chalk in my lungs and i'd be i'm not gonna lie i can't breathe i would want to eat chalk bro hell yeah just like the crunch of it chalk and sawdust two of my favorites saw we should go we should do a whole episode on the best types of dust chalk dust that's such a bad idea sawdust stardust stardust angel dust oh that's a good dust pixie pixie pixie dust is that a thing that's a good one what's pixie dust kid pixie i think it makes you fly it does oh you're talking tinkerbell um what about dust bunnies but that's not a type of dust that's a type of bunny no dust bunnies are dust aren't they yeah but it's a collection of dust and a collection you're thinking you're thinking of slob bunnies what's that what slobbing these nuts oh god i got him god i got him i got him fucking i got him so good piece of shit to be fair to be fair he said what first i just followed the what so he got your slobbing nuts i'm still not 100 sure oh slob on these yeah i thought it was like a meme thing like slobbing slobbing these nuts got him you didn't get me oh that was good you did not get me thank you for that having fun what are you writing down even right now uh the the notes i can only imagine what that pad looks like at the moment i have sucking pipe okay killing joe question mark msg recap add kid pics modern books 90s toys so far it's been a full episode it's been a great episode honestly one of our best yeah it's definitely an interesting one for sure we're gonna get a whole new like demographic of people liking our show because we the 90s pro teachers beating the shit out of people that's how we get the boomers that's what i'm saying we're we get the boomers by being like yeah teachers should be kids and then all of a sudden we sneak in right after they they turn it off to being like hey obviously you shouldn't be the kids yeah yeah next episode we're gonna be talking about the boomers and the boomers and the boomers and the boomers next year we'll do shows but just at senior living homes you guys why do all these kids have poor penmanship and why is gen z they don't have jobs in their game yeah why why oh what they have purple hair now just like you you know i had purple hair when we were kids eisenhower what i'm just trying to relate to an older demographic eisenhower dude i don't know uh all right well that was fun i guess but don't guess i guess you're right it was fun but anyway thank you guys for making all the way through this episode frank where can they find you the frank alfred's everywhere baby and and prisco on instagram joey's giving you an inch of him every week i you guys can follow me at the joe santa go go follow the show at the basement yard and that is all see you guys next time bye babies 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 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