#548 - Are We There Yet?

Welcome back to the basement yard. I'm here with Frank And I'm also here with aunt who bought that fucking hat in the airport yesterday. I watched them Really? Yeah, that's what you bought he bought that and I just in a sweater of all the things you could buy You just bought that about a hat No, what do you want me to do? It just seems like a really like buy anything else like what It would we had 30 minutes. It was a layover. I wanted a I never been to St. Louis got a hat No, I was gonna ask that wasn't gonna be my question. Does that count as having been to St. Louis? No Why no way? Why you got to be outside? You got to like go to a place. He's gatekeeping being places He loves to do this because because him Zach and Greg on tour the last two years would do all like who's been to the most places So like they've come up with these rules because it's like oh, well, I've done layovers in these They're just like I doesn't count because I haven't you could say that you've been there and you've purchased something No, I bought something I fully support an airport is not part of the land It's not part of the side. No, it's it's it. That's a that's a it doesn't count It does go outside and you got a beat of a at a place Like that's not St. Louis. You're in an airport. So if you drive through Drive through is this crazy. Why drive through doesn't count? No, and if you stop it or hell Drive through is it counts way more than flying, but I consider flying to be okay, too No, if you're gonna say that you went to a place you have to step on the floor outside. Yes You got to go to a place. So we drove we drove from Chicago to to home Yes, and we drove through Ohio we drove through So like let's use Ohio as an example. I step out and I use the bathroom at a rest stop in Ohio. I've been to Ohio I'm not saying I don't count that I personally wouldn't because this is but that all your criteria This is exactly he got out. He thought he's a ground. He's went to a place You know what I mean about keeping places, but gas stations aren't part of the place. Yes, they are no if you went to like a Coffee shop that was like this guy. Why do you do this? It's true No, it's not personal. Who why are you there and they'll be all of places going because I'm the one who's making up the thing, right? No, it's a well-known you don't have to go by my rules. These are my rules Not only will I knock up by your rules I will do my best to tell you that your rules are stupid I don't count when I've done that I've driven through West Virginia I don't tell people I've been to West Virginia, but you've been through West Virginia. I've driven through it I don't know what it's like at all Did you did you did you do this? Did you do did you have these when you drove through? Yeah, or did you go through like this? No, I just don't think that I think you need to experience the culture in a place the culture Yeah, and that requires you going to a place. Tell me about the culture you experienced when you went to Las Vegas The culture of Las Vegas. Absolutely. That's an easy one He's trying to gatekeep places and going places. What's the difference of driving through and I flew to California? So all the states below me count? No, because you're not on the ground So you have some criteria here. You have to be on the ground Yeah, but like Okay, sure. Yeah, sure. God, I'm sure My my criteria though allows for aunt to say that he has been to St. Louis I hate to be this guy, but I think my staying in the airport in St. Louis counts more than your gas station That's ridiculous. I was just supporting you now. I am recanting it. You are a fake human I think that's insane because you do have an even you don't even know what it looks like Oh, you know what the airport looks like there's glass the driving through is way more of an experience than the landing in an airport and getting up and flying out of it I experienced St. Louis skies you haven't Yes, I have because I looked around and I did day you can see this guy. I looked I looked around I saw the ground. There's glass in airports. No, you guys are insane if anything if anything if anything Mine makes more sense than his sure what but yeah, I mean But you were in a mine makes more sense than his no, damn it. I thought it was just the last person is that it may be all I Was with you and now you me you forced me into a corner where I needed a recant it I was just trying to see how loyal you were to your statement about me. Guess you weren't I But I like it once you came for mine. I'm I'm going to yeah, I'm gonna recant Don't you think that if you tell someone like oh, I've been to Ohio and they're like how was it? What are you gonna say or if they like where'd you go or like do you have any recommendations like I just drove through you don't think They'd be like oh well. I think it also it goes with the presentation of the information that you're giving like I wouldn't say like Yeah, if I was an answer case. I wouldn't be like oh, yeah I've been to St. Louis because then they're gonna be like oh, there's more to this you could just say like I connected in St. Louis Technically, you've been there so you could just say I drove through St. Louis. I didn't go to St. Louis. I mean we went to St. Louis I know that. I'm saying what an example. No, but like you could say yeah, you could say like oh, I drove through St. Louis from what I saw was really cool But like you can't give like specific recommendations even the places you have been to you can't give specific Recommendation I can tell people with the places that I went yeah, but I'm saying like you've been to Columbus, Ohio Can you recommend anything over there? No, so the criteria of being able to say you went somewhere has nothing to do with being able to Recommend something from that place, but like you were there. I think that is part of it I mean, it's one of the one of it's not the end all be all, but it is a part of it to be like I've been to a place I went to to the maybe if you're measuring the depth of the experience, but like you've been to Kansas City you've been to Kansas Are you counting those have I been to Kansas the Airbnb that we say that for Kansas City was in Kansas It was in Kansas. Yeah, it was on the other side of the border. I mean, yeah, I guess I Mean, yeah, I stayed at an Airbnb there. I think staying overnight in a state counts All these criteria. Yes, I These criteria. I feel like I'm like you you are trying to get away with more than me Like you're just trying to be like I drove through so it counts and I'm saying like no, you got to like stay there Be there also said I drove through and I got out and walked around the fucking Gastation or the gas station or something, but like I stopped and I walked around the rest stop you said something before me You're like you stopping you buy something there like yeah, I did something. I bought something in those areas But I also drove through rural Ohio so like I've been there. I've seen it better than I don't know you got a you got to go you got to actually go you got to go So the only so the only time that you could say you've went to places if you go and you actually experience it Yeah, you got to like you got to like plant yourself. So If he drove straight through St. Louis, yeah, but I stopped at the airport and was there both know bought something Who's more the airport is is like not I am more there? I am physically more there, but you drove straight through it I landed mind he was able to see more than you I was able to see more than you and my window was I definition my presence has been Around more than yours had you're staring at runways Yeah, what are you seeing? I was on your side over over while we were landing. I saw a bunch No, I saw the whole so you've been to the whole fucking Atlantic then too. I went before I went to France I connected in France. I would never tell someone I've been to France, but you had been No, but but but you're talking about like a technicality. I'm talking about it's not a technicality It is it is the reality. I have one is asking have you connected in France if someone's having the conversation with you And being like have you been to France? You're like well technically I have they'd be like what's the point of even saying You've connected there because you haven't been to France because that's what happened. It's factual But no one is gonna ask that I would say if they would say you've been to France would be like you know I connected there, but I never got to see it technically I've been there But what are you getting out of saying that is my point? This is why it is a factual saying you cannot count it That's fine, but factually I was there so factually I was but no yeah, and I was with you But then you decided to fucking attack my argument. So now I take your argument Okay, and the shed and I shoot in the back. So if someone in conversation Ask you guys me have yeah, let's just say you guys are had the same experience there, right at St. Louis all right You are reacting this out. No, I'm just saying like if someone were to ask you have you been to St. Louis? You would just say yeah Do I like the person? See what why would that hold any because then I'll say yeah probably If you like them. No, if I don't if you don't like them, you'll say yes Yeah, what do you get out of that? They think I went to St. Louis, but they're gonna have a follow-up question. I won't answer it No, look ask me if I've been to I guess hey, have we been to Ohio? Yeah, we did we did we do Columbus. Oh, yeah, that's right. So insert random state. Okay. Go State I've never been to yeah exactly. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, okay Idaho Okay, okay, but you drove through there. Okay, okay To ask me a question. Have you been to Idaho? I drove through and what I saw was beautiful Yeah, that's not a yes or no, but this is my point like that sort of appropriate response to the question have you been I'm asking you if you've been like I've been there Yeah, I have been there, but you but but that's the part. I'm not arguing is not this conversational thing But my question is like is someone's asking you if you've been to Idaho. What do you Do you think they're asking? I don't know. You know. No, they're not asking you if you've-- I cannot assume I know where the conversation is going. You can assume that they're not saying-- Did you drive through? They're asking about an experience in Idaho. No, an experience in Idaho, which none exists, by the way. It could be any city. It could be just sitting there and plucking potatoes, yeah. Idahoans? I don't know. Yeah, Idahoans. Do you think they call themselves hosed? I'm from Idaho. I'm hosed. We're hosed. We're just so much of hosed in Idaho. I'm just saying, have any-- have there been any well-known rappers that have come out of Idaho? I have no idea. Because the branding opportunities are there. I'm going to Idaho. I've been. You drove through it. No, I do think that the driving through it, although it is not stopping and eating at a fucking cafe, you Brooklyn geek, it's still an experience. And you could say you drove through it, you've been to it. So these people do cross-country trips that drive through Louisiana, but never get out of their car. They can never say they went, and they can never count it on the cross-country trip that they did. I would personally not say that. I would say that. Why do you limit the amount of enjoyment you could have? Why do you need to put strict guidelines? You take these little fucking handcuffs of society, and you put them on the wrists of your life. Why don't you just allow yourself to live for 30 seconds? It doesn't need to be all-- you need to get out and go to a cafe and get a fucking oat milk latte. Fuck you. Fuck your coffee drinks and fuck Brooklyn on that. How about that? I'm counting those. I don't know. I felt targeted. I'm just counting it. I don't know what would elicit that sort of response, especially when I'm saying that I just wouldn't count it. I wouldn't tell someone who asked me, have you been here? And I connected in the airport. And they're like, yeah, I've been there. Because then they're going to go, oh, cool, where'd you stay? And I'm like, oh, I just connected. They're going to go, what? Well, I am recanting my support of his argument because he decided I was his enemy when I was your friend. When I was for driving through. That's crazy. It's not. That is crazy. If someone asked me, forget about the technicality of the fact that you are physically within the borders of that state. You are getting an experience driving through that state while you are physically there. So let me ask you another question. If I drive by Mount Rushmore, did I visit Mount Rushmore? You can't drive by it. He gotcha. Got him. If it was a drive-a-bivable, you know what I mean? If it was something you could drive, what's something you could drive by, like a monument or something? The Empire State Building? Sure. Yeah, but those are visual things. Like that's so different. Like I've seen it, I've seen it. But have you been to the Empire State Building? If I flew over the Grand Canyon and saw it from a plane. I'm not saying flying. But I'm saying, like I wouldn't say I saw, like I went to the Grand Canyon. I'm not asking, have you seen it? Okay. I'm asking, if you drive by, pretend you're not from New York, you've never been to the Empire State Building. Yeah. You drive by the Empire State Building. Have you been there? That's a good question, I don't know. That's my whole argument. No, no, no, no, no, that's totally different. First of all, it's because you were making it seem like you could just see an entire state. Like this is why I'm saying like the culture, you didn't experience whatever you were doing. I'm not saying I saw the entire state. But you're saying like, I've been there, I saw it. I've been there and I've seen parts of it. I'm not gonna say like I've seen every square inch of it. I had a hole. Things that are monuments are like visual things. It's not a city of people and places and whatever. Like that's what a city is. A monument is a single thing that I can be like, yeah, I saw a big bend. I don't have to go and like touch the clock. Like I saw it, it's a monument. Yeah, but in theory, if big bend, which we know is in London, yes. If you go to see big bend, you have also been to London because of what I'm doing that point. I'm arguing you trying to make the-- That's what I'm arguing. You're arguing that like that's the same. That if you've seen, if you drove by the Empire State Building, then you've seen the Empire State Building as you've seen it. But I'm saying like, if you've tried to the Empire State Building, but it's not the same as a whole city. I'm not saying the whole city counts. You're saying that you need to see like multiple places in a city to count having been there. I'm saying there's a difference between driving through a state and being in a state and experiencing the state. So where you live in Jersey and you come here, if you've never been a Manhattan, but you drove through every day, like that, but you've never been there. It's always driving through, has he been to Manhattan? Yes. Yes. No. No. I'm going to bash my head against this desk. Yes, I have. Driving through places is not being in them. Like, I just-- Do you think this lighting rig will support me? I mean, I don't know. That's to me, that's wild. To assume that-- and you were on his side with the connecting. You guys thinking that counts as being a place is wild. I am-- we are on another part of this. He could kiss my ass. Well, you're saying no to that now because of the support. Because you're mad at him, but you are agreeing with that. And guess what? My anger goes far. But do you agree with the idea that if you've connected into a place that you've been there? Now I'm going to say no, just despite Anne. But do you believe that? Well, I don't know what I believe. Let's say I wasn't here. I can't hear you. Now, do you believe it? Do I like him? That's what I ask. I know. So you don't think if he's never been Manhattan, even though driving through as many times he comes, never been there. No. Wow. I mean, I personally would never say like, yeah, I'm going to-- I'm going to be in Manhattan. I'd be like, I drive through it all the time. I've never been there. I'm going to get him. I'm going to get him so fucking good. All right, let me write down. So then that logic also applies to if you go to this safari. What? What is the safari? The safari in Africa. There's not one. One of them. If I go-- So because they do like car trips-- A safari tour? Because yes. Because they do car trips. And you can drive through and be like, there's animals all about. So in that frame-- Nope. With that, with your own logic use against you, you'll never go to this safari. Wrong. That's not the same. How? How? Because if you're doing a safari tour, right? You're in the car. You're not leaving the car, of course. Yep. So if I'm in the car, and the animals that I'm looking at just happen to be buildings in the middle of Midtown in Manhattan, that doesn't count. But that's what a safari is. So now we got to get into the fucking nitty gritty of what this is. So the people, the people that do bus tours in Manhattan can say they've never been to Manhattan. How'd you get on the bus? Like, what are you talking about? What's-- because that's what it is-- the bus tours. They get on a bus in Jersey City, and they drive into Manhattan. But what you're doing is you're searching for this very niche thing, and they're not even the same. If someone's doing a bus tour in Manhattan, that means they're in New York. You're acting like the-- [LAUGHS] Yo, Ed. Hey, please, please, please, please, please, please. If they had taken it on the bus, they were in Manhattan. No, I said they got on in Jersey City. They got on a tour bus of Manhattan in Jersey City. Yeah. OK. Or Queens, or Brooklyn, or Staten Island. Yeah. I think-- I'll-- never the bus. Also, I think that tours are different, because the whole point of a tour is to immerse yourself in the culture and learn about the city. So it's not the same as driving. So if I'm driving with my family in the car in the town in Manhattan, it doesn't count as having visited. But if-- but-- that's not what I'm-- I mean, this is like a very like-- But if I get into a tour bus where someone's speaking on a microphone, then it counts. I think those things are different, yes. Factually, they are different. The point that I'm trying to make, though, is that, in essence, they're the exact same thing. No, because the example that you're giving is very different than that. Know what is not? Yes, it is. Know what is not, Frank. If I decide, kids, you guys have never seen Manhattan. Let's drive through to go see it. They're going to go, you know what, dad? It doesn't count, though, because you're not a certified fucking person with a microphone. No, I think that, like, in the context of someone asking you, if you've been to a place, they're asking about your experience in that place. It's different if you're like, let's go see Manhattan, or let's go see something. That is a visual thing that you're going to do. We're going to go see Times Square or whatever, whatever. I'm not saying it doesn't count like that, but you acting driving through a state because you're on your way to a different destination and then telling people you've been to that state is way different. It is not. It is exactly the same. I mean, all right. I mean, I-- Because the experience of driving through it, you think-- Looking around-- No. Being in this state-- It's not the same. It is. As being a person who's like staying overnight-- The experiences can be different, but also-- And they are. OK, but I'm saying they could be different experiences, but they all satisfy the same goal, which is having been there. So whether you're-- That's not the thing. So let me ask you this, then. Let me ask you this. He connects in St. Louis. Yeah. They can't-- It's back to you now. It's back to me. [BLANK_AUDIO] They cancel his flight and they put him up in a hotel for the night. Yeah. Does that satisfy your rules, sir? That he's been to St. Louis? If you like, yeah, I mean, I guess. I mean, like if you, if I were to say that to him, if you were to tell me like, I've been to St. Louis and I'd be like, oh, where'd you go? And he's like, well, my flight was canceled and they just like put me up at a hotel. But I didn't like really get to go anywhere. I'm like, oh, okay. Like, if you want to count that and like be like, I've been to St. Louis and I've experienced St. Louis, like, okay. But like, I'm, you know, to me, it's like, well, you have nothing to really offer me about St. Louis. So like, why even say you've been there? Like, what are you getting out of saying you've been? He only cares if you have something to offer him to his esteemed life. No. To present to me your information to better my life and move it in the right direction. No. What do you have to offer? And that's not what I'm saying, because I'm asking a question about your experience in St. Louis and you're like, I just, I just was put up at a hotel. I'd be like, oh, okay. Like, I'm, like, but what do you get out of saying that you've been there? Like, you so badly want to say that you've been there and you're trying to find all the loopholes as to why you've been there. Why? And no one is fucking trying to show off that I've been there. I'm saying, I only tell people if I've been to places, if I've like been there and went to places or whatever, you're like, why do you need all that? Like, that's obviously that you've been there. You're the one looking for loopholes. I'm not. I'm not looking for a loopholes. You're saying I drove through accounts. If anything, you're the one that's putting the guardrails on the experience of defining when you have or have not been there. Well, there were many, for me, there were many times where from New York, I would drive down to Florida to go to Disney. Yeah. And you've been to all those states, are you saying I've been to all those? Yes. That's what he's saying. And I disagree with that. Like, because I wouldn't be able to have a conversation or speak to what those places are like. Even if I drove through, you're not driving through the entire state. So I drove through all part of it and be like, well, I drove through. No one's going to be like, oh, OK, like, you can't tell anyone anything about a city. What if your Colombian construction-working father makes you stop at every cracker barrel in every state on the way down to Florida? Then you sure know a lot about that franchise, is that I do? That's something to offer. It is awful. It's an awful offer. I can't tell you anything about the states, but I can tell you is where to stop. And I can tell you that they let you take as many as the maple syrup. So what would he steal? Yeah, those places are-- my dad thought he was running the maple syrup heist of all time. Were you sleeping in bed, like a bed or something? Are you sitting in a chair, like a car? My dad, like, took out the back seats in his truck and, like, put down blankets and stuff. So we would just, like, sleep and hang out back there for the day it took to travel. I'm not even kidding, it added 10 hours to our day because we stopped at seven or eight cracker barrels. There is no part of that that is even the smallest bit of an exaggeration. How long does it take to get there? It can just rip it. It's like 20 hours. Where? Where are you going? Florida. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. My uncle lived in Jacksonville, but we also drove down to South Beach. Wait, you did this too? Many times. Wow, is this, like, a New York thing? I don't know. I think it's just-- You can drive around and you save on flights and tickets for, like, young kids and everything. Whoa. But, pooped in a car. Excuse me? Now, that was not information we requested or wanted. When we were kids, like, they just had a bucket in the car. I don't know why we did that. Wait. There was a bag in there. There was a bag. There's got to be-- What would you do with the poop? They could just throw it out the window. No, no, no, no. They could throw it out the next rest stop. I guess we couldn't make it. I don't know. So there was a good chance. And I'm assuming it's 95. So there's not, like, rest stops every five miles. No. So you'd go 10 miles or something or 15 miles or the bag at shit in the car? I don't-- I'll be honest. I don't remember every detail I was young. But I do-- distinctly remember pooping in a bucket. I have-- I have a bucket. You have to poop in a bucket? I don't think so. We could-- You don't have to. We could change that. You don't have to poop in a bucket. I don't think-- I don't think I have 46,000 patients. I will. No. You get in my bucket. You can poop in the bucket. And then throw sawdust on it. Is pooping in a bucket and then throwing it on the side of the road? Is that littering? Yeah, dude. I mean, I also think that's like very illegal. Because of the poop. It's like a toxic waste. Or like-- It's dangerous. I don't think it's toxic waste, dude. I think it's fertilizer. No, no, no. I mean, if you get human shit, if like humans use their shit as a weapon, it's like illegal. Correct. I am not saying that this is going to be used in any way that is going to be harmful toward another human. But if they're shit around in society and you put it there and I copse you do that, like that's illegal. If I go driving down 95 and we're passing through North Carolina. Uh-huh. If I stop side of the road, walk into the woods, dig a hole, and dump a human shit in that hole. Dig a hole. And then cover it up. Yeah. Is that illegal? Cover it up. I mean, no, it's very like it's strange. I mean, yeah, it's strange. I'm not getting away from that. Dig it and cover it up. Um, that is illegal, yeah. Is that your question? Why? Because you can't have people shitting outside. I understand why in like too close to a home or like too close to a city or in a city or in like a neighborhood. I think it's just one of those. But if a human shits in the woods, is it illegal? I actually don't know if it's illegal because I think that like that's assumed on like hiking trips. Like people will have to shit. The answer is essentially it depends. Like is the area you're doing it in legal for it to happen or not? How do you get rid of it? It's all just it depends. Yeah. I don't think you could throw it out your fucking window. Can't do that. I mean, yes. Correct. Probably not out the wind, not out the window, but at a rest in the next rest stop. Just throw it into the garbage or something. Yeah. I mean, that's where it's supposed to go. That's probably what we did. Yeah. That's gross. Sorry. We just had a little TV in there. We played Crash Bandicoot. You know, it's crazy when I stayed in a van for six days. Did nobody shit in the van? Like there was us like a small thing to shit in. And we didn't have to use it. It was like for emergencies. Never happened. Well, why would you have to use that when you're in the middle of the wilderness? Just get out of the car. Yeah. I didn't do that either. I don't think what you did. There was like we stayed on people's property. And they had like a little tent or something or they had like an outhouse. Or like on trails like at the trailhead. There would be one at the end. There would be one. But not during the hike. But in between. And also you're driving on the road, obviously. So like if you hit a rest stop or something. But I was surprised. It never happened. I thought I was going to have to shit in the car. Didn't want to do that. 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It was, you know, Borsen cheese. Do you know what that is? Type in Borsen, B-O-U-R-S-I-N. You've definitely seen it on Shakutari boards. I mean, I've seen a lot of things on Shakutari boards. So-- Oh, yeah, you see this cheese? Oh, yeah, I've seen this cheese. You see how like, you see the wrapping? Click on that. Comes with like a muffin tin. Yeah, it comes up, it comes like that. Nope, the one you were hovered over when I said that, you bastard. Okay. So she said it was Borsen cheese, which I'm all about, by the way. It's good. And then it would unwrap and have my text message. And then it would unwrap. And I was like, so this is a magic Borsen cheese. I'll be honest with you. If Becca were to present information to me that she didn't want to be with me, it would probably be the most digestible in cheese. A cheese break up is probably a great one. I would love-- I, let me, no, no, no. You would love-- I don't want to ever be broken up with by Becca. But I would be a little more appreciative of the information if it came via cheese. Yeah, if that would be. By a magic Borsen cheese? I'd be like, oh, oh. Yeah, it's a good cheese. That was a good cheese. I like that he's got on-- What the hell? What's the other flavors you got in there? I see that little, what the box is right there. So what do we got, zoom in on that little bitch. He wants to make himself hungry here. All right, let's see. caramelized onion and herbs. Basil and chive. Yeah. Shallot and chive, throw that up. Cracked, fig and balsamic. Make me a woman. Make a woman out of me. Yeah, make him a woman. Shallot and chive, I don't mind that. Roast Mary and black garlic. Yeah, rosemary, black garlic might be a problem. You want to know what's, first of all-- I love rosemary. What's that? I also kind of like the name. I feel like that's a cool older woman, like a rosemary. Rosemary is an herb, and I know, and it grows pretty-- like you grow it on like in like your kitchen. Like you don't-- it doesn't need like a ton of life. I know what rosemary is. I'm asking if you like it. What are you explaining to me? Like you like rosemary, you can grow it. It's very easy. Bro, I know what rosemary is. Do you know who's yelling at me? Do you think I deserve this? First of all, you were very disrespectful in the earlier conversation. Well, Joey, what is rosemary-- what is knowing rosemary due to me? What does that do for me? No more about rosemary, or it does nothing. That's another thing that you took out in context. I was nothing-- Oh, I don't really know what you're doing anymore. You like what people try to talk to me, but they don't offer me anything. That's you. No, if I have a question and you're answering it, but you don't have any answers, then why am I asking the question? Oh, I'm sorry. Your ear space is so fucking so expensive, right? Literally not what I'm saying at all. Your ear space is so expensive. This is your-- You can't be bothered with other people. You deflate it. Unless they have information that's not worthy of my time. I can see that you're upset that you're wrong. I could tell that you have information, but it must be worthy of my time and attention. It's not funny. It's very confusing. You're laughing too. Mm. And-- Oh, keep going. And give me some information. You bet it must be worth my attention. Why are you saying that? That sense doesn't make sense. That sense doesn't make sense to me. And if it shall not be worth my attention. Your trouble. I don't think you like that. Obviously not. Obviously, that's not what I said. Obviously, it's not. You want to do the voice again? The voice made it a little better. Are you free? I was crying, yeah. What were you just talking about? You were talking about the dream that-- I was trying to talk about Rosemary. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. And the information I had was not worth the incredible amount of intellectual time you have on your hands. I said, do you like Rosemary? And you're like, you can grow it. Like, I don't know what Rosemary is. Like, you're telling me what it is for the-- You ever grown Rosemary? No. Exactly. So I'm giving you information you might not have had before. By saying, you can grow it? You think-- what did you think? Where'd you think I-- I'm presenting you with confidence to maybe fucking go home and do something with your life. Instead of building this media empire. I'm counting on you. I've been employing all of your friends and giving our lives meaning a purpose. Don't try to save it now, Frank. You're in the dog. You got the dog house? The dog house. But Becca's had dreams like that, too. We're like, she'll wake up. We'll wake up. And she'll go, you were a real piece of work last night. Like, what happened? And she's like, you went to a party. And you sent me a text message saying, I'm partying. And I don't ever want to see you again. I was like, yeah, that sounds like me. I don't ever want to see you again. Look, I think Nicole told me one time that she had a dream that I called her disgusting. And I'm like, that is such an insane word. Yeah. Like, you're disgusting. You disgust me. I'm like, what are you thinking about? Also, the last dream, I'm like thinking like-- you know, they say like, your dreams are kind of like a mixture of your last thoughts for a bit. I don't know how true that is. But like, how do you get to-- like, I get how you get to the breakup thing, I guess. But the Borset cheese. Be it the self, just hungry. I'm like, what? I wouldn't be upset if cheese was in any of my dreams and any capacity. Would you be into-- you've seen "Cloudy" with a chance of meatballs? Have I. That's a great film. I'm calling it a film. It is a film. Yeah, it's a well-made film. I haven't seen the second one. But the first one, I'm like, this would be fire. Well, also like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I guess I'm less existed where the whole thing was food. I would like that. Yeah, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I'm not as on board with, because it's a little like-- A giant candy factory? Yeah, but like, I don't want to sit in this fucking chair and then turn around and eat it. Yeah. Did they? Did the factory kill the kids? They didn't kill the-- Right, question. Pretty damn close, though. Augustus Gloop. That kid's dead. Like, I mean, he went out doing what he loved. What about fucking-- Smiley, you're turning violent. Violet? Yeah, didn't you explode? Yeah, well, she had a juicer. She had a juicer before she exploded. You assume they juicer. Well, and also, that doesn't sound like it's very, you know. Doesn't sound good either. Kid-friendly. Like, it sounds like it would hurt. Yeah. I mean, of the ones in that movie that I can remember, the one that is probably closest to death is Augustus Gloop. And let's be honest, whatever happened to the girl who was like, mean, and Mike TV. Mike TV got turned into a little TV thing, remember? Right, yeah, he got trapped in a TV. He got trapped in a TV, yeah. But what happened to the girl? What would the girl, the one that was like-- I won't, mom and daddy to get it from me now. A golden goose egg or something? Oh, she like, oh, she's taken away by like the she pulls the thing and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes Oh, so she was she's in the vents. I mean, but she probably fell into a cool slide That's fair if anything she's having the time of her life. You know one time my cousin like we were all at my cousin's house Like a bunch of my extended family and this one of my cousins. She tried to go down their laundry shoe because they had a laundry shoe from like their second floor to their bit first of all not far Like it's like right near the stairway. I don't know what just walked down the stairs, but she tried to go down and she got stuck Yeah, I know it was like this whole thing. Oh, well, duh. Yeah, it's a whole thing. She was also a little older So I feel like she was at that age where it was like She was like stealing drinks or something So I was like oh, so we think that like she just got a little I'm gonna fucking slide down this thing and then she got stuck cuz it's like it like bends. Yeah, well apparently It's a thing that like they like adults that try to go down like Slides at like playgrounds and stuff like that like it could be really dangerous because they could break their legs Because like the twirly slides. Yeah, you know those so like you don't realize like it's made for a child because like their legs are Short enough that like they can just kind of go away so much That it's like whipping you dude. I've gone down and like your foot catches it and it'll fucking like it'll pull your foot back And like they're they're I've heard Take it with a grain of salt that there have been instances of people going down those things and like their legs breaking because they get caught You fucking imagine I went down a slide maybe like three years ago and it hurt my ass So much there was a slide we took the girls to like one of those like indoor playgrounds and may have went down And I'm not kidding it was so fast that at the end she like slid on the floor like an extra like six feet Jesus So then I went in to like because they were like, please come on Come on, so I like I went up and I went and sat with him and went down it Yo, I was flying down that thing. Oh, I was I was worried that there was gonna be like kids like trying to run in front Cuz I wouldn't you know, I would have took a kid out of the ankles. Yeah, I would have been bad would have flipped them over Did you see the family? I think a family complain about a slide being too fast. So a cop went down it Yes, I saw this is a famous video that a lot of people have seen You've never seen that Dude, dude, he's flying look at it Okay, come down side out. No, dude, he's you hear him shake And mega viral a couple of years ago. You hear him rattling at the dead body coming down. All right last one I think yeah, where is that it's in Boston? No, yeah, it's in Boston dude. We have to go to I saw that there are other videos of people down that 100% yeah, yeah, I got to like wearing videos of my ass look it up people like the viral Boston slide There have been videos of people like going down and greasing it Yeah, I'm telling you pull those videos up. They go down. Oh my god. They fucking fly down the son of a bitch The one I love that the one of the cop is really the one of the cop was the one that went mega viral It's taking a lot of the Joe comment out of the slide upside down face down What That's incredible. They're flying down, right? No, I can't I can't find it. It's only the cop But I found another one of the cop wait hold on. I just want to show this this one is just it says It says Local Boston cop gets sucked sucked into slide Yo, that looks even crazier. Oh, no, I mean come on. Yeah, that doesn't even look like it would be that wild Look up. I'm telling you dude. You have to find it people greasing that Boston slide. All right, I'll try I hear me out What if we just start making adult playgrounds again? They're called gyms. No, no, but gyms are like you're going for health purposes like adult playgrounds where you can go down a bigger slides And like there's like adult swings dude. What aren't swings just adult swing? No a lot of swing sets are made for kids So like they're like I like someone with long legs like me can't swing back and forth that well because my I clip my feet on the ground Pick your feet up. Hey, man On the way back my feet. It's so low. I clipped the ground That feels like you know you got to do you got to swing the swing over the thing one time make it shorter Oh, that's actually it's not a bad idea completely forgot about that I don't want to be that guy. Have you been on a swing recently? I've been have you ever done like the back flip off of like the dismount Do you not remember the time the jumping off of the swings that we used to do but you've done the back flip? Yeah, so have you tried to do that as an adult? No, I Tried to do that. This was probably like Five years ago. Oh my god, dude My life flash before my eyes. I wouldn't do it like I remember I have Pictures of when we were teenagers jumping off and like I Remember from that height falling and rolling my ankle and if I did that now, it's not rolling. It's over pulverized. Yeah Buries I I did it because I remember being young and doing it so effortlessly like it was the easiest thing in the world for me to do Yeah, and then when I did it I like came around and I was like what have I done and then as I was like I landed mad Weird and like landed on my ass. I was like I'm never doing that again. You're a brave person for having done that five years I honestly didn't think that it was gonna be hard. I thought it was gonna be easy But I guess I just hadn't done it in a while. I mean life Well, one of the things that people won't tell you about getting older is that like your body just can't do what it used to do Not if you don't do it. I mean it was yeah, what are you looking up there buddy? Oh? Like an ab. Yeah, there's a bunch of big titted women This is the basement yard. This is the basement yard thing. It's not mine. The basement yard. What Google? You're the only one who uses that computer. I thought about that. You're right Did you find any of the nothing was better than that cop? Nothing nothing. That's it. That's a good one Dude speaking of videos though. Can you pull the video of the animatronics? This is such a freak show thing that is going on Okay, so the context to my understanding this girl Likes animatronics. I believe she builds animatronics or she likes this one and she the premises she brought her animatronic to a show of animatronics Yeah, and I Hate this is such a freaky thing. I saw on TikTok and I was like, dude, please To see his favorite band Who's his favorite band like kiss? Oh? It's other animatronics. What are you doing? I don't like that one. What's wrong with that one? That big one with the guitar I don't like it. Why I don't know. It looks like it's gonna come at me. It's not I Played too much five nights and you like that. Get the fuck out of here. There's a little bag Wait, oh no, I don't really don't fuck with birds with eyes with humans human eyes It's just like the country bears. I don't know. I don't like that these guys are moving around so oh no, they killed them Oh Anything with legs. I Don't mind animatronics. You've played too much five nights at Freddy's aunt. That's what it is. I Don't I don't like it. Oh, that's Chuckie. That is Chuckie. Okay, that feels like culture appropriation I mean definitely the Italian and with the accordion. This guy's bat first of all. I'm dictating this thing if I ever saw this thing in person I'm shooting it with a real life gun for real. Yeah, it's just it's just wait Why does she have an animatronic and why does she bring it also is is she a fucking? I don't like the piano player at all I don't like his mouth. That's that one. All right. Why can't you watch it without? I don't know that look at that look how tall he is What are you? That's a big fucking guy from the beginning and watch the video without blocking your eyes? I could stop what you're doing Why are you acting like you're doing yeah? I don't like it. I don't really like it either dude look at look at that. It's just too tall It's a big it's a big horse. I just I have so many like operational questions here Also, how did how can this place possibly be a business also why in God's name? Does she have a 9900 year old man with a cigar animatronic? Yeah, that that makes no sense to me and how is she moving this thing? I don't know, but it's terrifying. I imagine it's heavy. Is she a bodybuilder? I don't know Imagine someone bringing you to this like oh, hey, we want to see something and then it just starts playing all of it if it was close We should go I It's a sandy hook Where do you see that? The bottom is to smithy smithy's sugar service super service super service Oh, I don't know. I mean if that's sandy hook in Jersey. That's not that far. Can it against it? It'd be a drive, but I don't want to go. I don't like this. I don't like animatronics, but I also don't like Anything that's like a doll with human eyes. I just like sandy hook Mrs. Mississippi. Oh, okay. This isn't Mississippi. Yeah - That's a Mississippi animatronic if I've ever seen one. - So it seems like what they do is they restore 1980s animatronics. So that was Chuck E. Cheese. - Ah. - And they play, I don't know, I don't wanna know. - And they play a band? - I guess so. - I would, I'd go to see this. - Fully operational, we should do mushrooms and go to this. - I would, that'd be. (laughs) - Oh? - Santa got a video's video? - No, I'm okay. - We took mushrooms and we went to an animatronic show. - 50,000 patrons. - How about this? - Actually, no, that's a horrible idea. - Oh, I love those. - Do they sing this song like from five nights to Freddy's? Or it's like, ♪ It's nice to meet you ♪ ♪ Well, do you like the matonic family ♪ - I know, you know what that is. You gotta do like that stuff. - What's that? - I don't know. - I was gonna say, just get mad, drunk and go to fucking medieval times. - That, we've talked about openly and sounds like a good idea. - Why was that a bad idea? - 'Cause it's like a children thing. - Is it? - Yeah. - Who cares about them? - Why don't, again, where the basement yard now we can reach out to, like be like, yo, listen, we wanna come like, include us in a show. Let us joust. - Oh, I definitely don't wanna joust. Are you insane? - Brother, if you had the opportunity to joust with a chicken, like a turkey leg in your hand, and a bowl of grog in the other, you're not doing it? - I mean, jousting seems a little dangerous. - Give me a blunt sword. I'll fight you. - Bro, you're getting poked in the chest while sitting on top of a horse. - Okay, put me on the ground, and you and I with blunt metal swords fight. - I hope a night gives me a rose. - Oh, no shot, you're not a child. It's a children's thing, no? - I think that you have a chance. - Thank you. - I would like to go. And I would be full in. I would get a get up. I would get a fucking like a crown. - Oh, please get me some chain mail. - Oh, that's a good idea. - King, knight, and executioner. Feel like that sounds right. - You wanna be the executioner? - I wanna be the executioner. - And I'm the knight, 'cause I'm brave, and I am doing actual, like, going out and getting after while the king just sits there, as people try his food, so he doesn't get poisoned. - Sure. - I'll take it. - Whatever you need. - Sure. - I'll do it. - Yeah. - And you're the pick number three, my lord. - I'll do it. - I'll do it. - Oh. - That was the lonius. - I'll take number three, my lord. - I would love to go to Medieval Times. - I just wanna eat chicken. - That's my hands and like peas. - I'd never been. - It was like, it was like the big fifth grade trip that our school did. - Yeah. - That was the last time I went. - Yeah, me too. - I bought a battle axe and a shield. - I'm actually-- - I bought two battle axes, and I was like gimli. - I, when I was in Toronto, I was driving around, and I saw you weren't there. And I saw a giant medieval times. - It was huge. - In Toronto? - Yeah. - They even have the medieval times back then. It was just like French people to capitating each other. - That's what I thought. Like I thought like, why is this here? But they have a giant medieval time. - Oh, they have medieval times. - Well they weren't having turkey leg. We were having one and goose. - Aren't they like ruled by the British? Canada? - Yeah. - It was the French. I mean, there are French people. - It feels like something you should know probably. - I'm pretty sure it's-- - If anyone's gonna know that here. - Yeah. - It's definitely not me. - I could do it. - No, no, no, I'm doing the ads anyway. - Oh. - But I'm pretty sure they're, they're-- - You look up that information. 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But that's it. - That's more of a symbolic head of state thing. - Yes, yes, that's what I meant. The monarch, yes. Which I don't, once we start getting into monarchies and those types of things, like that's a little tough. So I don't really know what that means. - Yeah. - I knew they weren't ruled by the British, but like they were like, they were something with the British. It wasn't the French as my point. - But I thought the French were the ones that like founded it. - Up above my pay grade. I know there's a lot of French. - Isn't that why like French is like the most spoken language in Canada? - I don't know. We also don't know much about Canada. - I think Toronto also, you know what they say? Queens is like super diverse. - Yeah. - Toronto's like one of the most diverse countries. - If not the, I think it's the most city. Cities, I mean, is like the most diverse city in the world. - Isn't that insane? - Yeah, I mean, Queens is up there. 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So like, the idea of somebody else existing and having a similar lifestyle to them, like, they don't like. - Yeah, I just, it's so weird. - Are we gonna sit here and parse through the trying to understand racists? No, that's not my intention. - I know, I know that's not your intent, but like, why do we have to explain like, not that you're asking me to explain, but like, - That's a weird thing to have to like, it is so stupid being racist. (laughing) - That's not where I was like leading the conversation. - There you go folks, that's the political discourse you're getting here. - These racist is so what? - It's so stupid. - No, but I thought it was, what I was getting at was like, we're just so used to being around a bunch of like, this is another people. - Yes, correct. - And then there's people who like don't, that's not their experience. And I never understood that everywhere it wasn't like where we lived. - I, yes, and then I really don't understand the people that have grown up and those people, and those people are like, I don't like them. - Yeah, you're like, huh? - Yeah, you're like, do what? - We all grew up in the same. - Literally, school system is this. - You shared a class with someone named Pablo, someone named Azim, someone named Marcus, someone named Joseph. Like, you should be able to like understand. - Yes, some things can coexist. - Yeah, it is, it is, it is baffling. Queens is really like, outside of the diverse, like, I guess this goes hand in hand with the diverse people, but like, the food? Like, yeah, I'm not even fucking around. Like, people say like, oh, go to New York for the food. When you go to Manhattan, like, you'll find spots here and there. Bro, you want like, and I can't speak about the other burrows, because I've not lived in them and spent as much time, but like, you can go to Queens and get the best version of those country's foods outside of those countries. You know what, does that make sense? - I would loop in the rest of the five burrows in that. - I agree, with what part? Like, what he, racism is bad? - No, yeah, well, that especially, I'm saying loop in the other burrows, but also that outside of the country, yeah, for sure, the best food of that country. - Like, let's, as an example, Colombian food. Obviously, my father's side of the family's Colombian. Go to Jackson Heights. It's basically little Colombia. I've had Colombian food outside of Queens, and it pales in comparison. And I know people could say like, oh, it's just like, that's the first you had. So you think that's the standard, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I'm just talking from a quality standpoint, like, the quality of the food that you're having, it's just better. I'm living in a place where it's like just one cuisine. It would suck ass. Dude, you want to know something crazy that my mom taught me, that taught me, told me. And it, like, it didn't, like, at first register because it didn't make sense. But now thinking back on it, it's like, what? My mom said that her first time having Mexican food was when she went out to Oregon in the 80s. 'Cause she said that Mexican food really wasn't a thing in New York. - Really? Could you imagine, that's my favorite food, I think. - Really? - I think Mexican is, yeah. - Okay. - I would say, oh man, if we're gonna categorize food by nation, that's really tough. I mean, I love traditional American food, like steaks and hot dogs and barbecue. But like, boy, oh boy. The minute I see Greek food is on the menu. - Whoa. What's, like, like, like. Like, sure, gyros, as we say, I'm appropriately. But then, like, like, the way that, like, the Greeks prepare their fish, pasticio, you know, the desserts, got like the booty go, Baklava, which I know people say it's not technically Greek thing. - Baklava's good. - Very sticky. - Oh, I love it. - That's syrup on it. - I like anything that's, like, flaky as fuck. - Flaky and just fucking moist. - Like, layered shit is good. - Dude, that's why that one. Yo, you've never been to semathees. Oh my God. - No, I haven't. - Well, I don't know if they still do this because we live in a different world than we did 10 years ago. But like, they would give complimentary dessert. It was called, I like the booty go. And it's like, the flaky filo dough on top and inside it's like a custardy cakey, with like that, like, honey, vanilla syrup drizzle on it. And I'm telling you, open it up. I'm coming in. - That's right. - Yeah. - That is right. - What's your favorite food? That's a tie between traditional American and Italian, for sure. I actually don't like Mexican food that much, believe it or not. - Oh, I also love Asian food. - Yeah. - Absolutely. - Like, like, I mean. - What? - I don't like Chinese food. - I don't like Thai. - I love Chinese food, I love Thai. I love white, a lot of Thai food. I love fucking, my Uber Eats, the top was Thai. - Really? - Oh yeah. - 'Cause I only really used that app for the Thai food 'cause it's only available on there. So, let's go ahead cheating, whatever. - Yeah, you know, I don't think I've had, like, I don't think I've been introduced to food and not enjoyed it. - What? I don't know that that's what's happening to me either. - Like, no one has ever been like, you've never had this. Let's go have some and been like, that's not good. - Oh. - Like, of course, I've had food in my life that like, it was almost like I was holding a Filipino food. - Yes. - And you're like, oh, I don't like this. - Like, what am I, what are my earliest memories of like, trying foods from different places? 'Cause that's like a young teenager. I was like, not really into trying that shit, but like, we knew someone whose father had a Moroccan cafe. - Mm-hmm. Food blew me away. - Your Moroccan food's good. - Well, I do believe that, unless there's a crazy dietary restriction, but people, you could find something you like at every restaurant, even if you don't like the food. Like, I don't traditionally like Mexican food, but if I go to a Mexican restaurant, I could very much eat there. 'Cause like, there's something I like. - What are you not like about Mexican food? - I don't know, but like, I guess it's just like, the traditional flavoring, 'cause I like the fajitas, I like certain tacos, 'cause like, when it tastes more plain, I guess. - I'm not trying to ex, like, you like plain food. - Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm not trying to like, be stupid. - You're white, you're white. - Yeah, I'm not trying to be stupid. - I'm not trying to Italian, brother. - Well, absolutely, but I think, I don't know how to explain. - Whatever like the flavor profile is that is used traditionally in Mexican food is not your favorite. - Yeah, that's probably like cumin, you know, like a lot of their foods use cumin a lot. So like, I could see that, because that is a pretty like, you know cumin when you taste cumin. - You know what, younger, I thought those pronouns come in. - Of course it is. - I'm not, I'm not sure it's not still. - Yeah, I think that, like, maybe we, like, I don't see a cue. I see cup. - They also use stuff in a lot, and it's not like, if you don't like it, it's not, you're not gonna like it. I don't know how else I say that. It's so like intensely flavored. - I mean, at this point, like, you're trying to disrespect me. - It's gotta get better than that. - Stuffin'. - It's gotta get better. - Skye. - I almost had 'em. - No, no you didn't. - I almost. - He also use gargolies. (laughs) - I almost, almost, almost, really quickly, almost. - It's Frank, it's Frank the, the doctor, the scientist, with your degree in, oh, I apologize. It's my contribution to the show, not enough for you. - World traveler. - World traveler. - I'm not a world traveler. - Ben everywhere. - I have not a world traveler. I very openly say that, and I'm okay with that. - Your Bachelor of Science in Criminal, whatever. - Yeah. - Yep. - Got me with some factual information that proves my point. - What actually was it? - Bachelor of Science, Criminal Justice. - Justice Dicking Your Mouth. (laughs) - Oh. (laughs) - Oh, oh, oh, oh, no. Oh, no. (laughs) - Oh, no. - You gotta hit 'em with a cotton, please. Get to the mic, get to the mic, hurry up. - Yeah. - Got 'em! - Oh my god. (laughs) - Also, you owe 'em 100 bucks. - Why? - Do you remember that? - For all of us, we know we, Ben, if we ever got somebody, I got you. (laughs) - Oh my god. - Did you just ate that, and you have to give 'em 100 bucks. That's crazy. - You got that, Jesus. - Oh my god. - That was crazy. - That's what it feels like? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I feel it, right? - I know. - I feel filthy. - You feel so dirty. Why don't you go home and jump in your bed? - I will. - Was my contribution that enough for you, sir? - This better be good enough for my attention. - That is a deflection from the point. - He's pointing, look at the points. - Ah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, whatever. - That's all right. - You just got 100 bucks. - I'm jealous. - I mean, minus three, he just pointed at me thrice. - I think it was twice, I think it was twice. I'll give it twice. This is ridiculous. - I think it's not ridiculous. - Oh my god. You tried to get, and then he said a different trap, and then you got got. - You know, I mean, honestly, the game of life sometimes is surprising, and I respect you all the more for it. The game of life is sometimes surprising. I respect you all the more for it. Good for you. - Thank you. - There's nothing I can do. I can't even try to come back with one now. I'm too, like, that was so good. - I'm analyzing every word you said. - No, no, no, I'm done. - No, you could tell when he's doing it, because it's a weird, different light that comes from his eyes. I don't know how he does it. - I honestly don't understand how you are so, like, in tune always on it. - Did you know that was so good? - His job is to be in tune. - Yeah, I gotta listen very intently. - No. - Did I know you were doing it? - No, that was good. That got me. - Well, look, it was very targeted. When it's targeted, it's different. Frankie's just like, wait, can you repeat one more time what it was, just this dick in your mouth? - That's good. - Yeah. - But for a second, what I thought he was doing was, I was like, here goes Frank, just saying something that seems like-- - To show that he knows something. - Like a leash, like, spice or something. But like, so that was like, originally, that what I was thinking, and then I was like, oh, and then-- Well, I look over at an ant, I already knew 'cause he went. And I was like, fuck, if you would not done that, he might have, might have given it and been like, stuffing. Maybe, stuffing those balls in your mouth. That's what it would have been. Got it. Stuff in these balls in your mouth is hysterical. It's really something with your eyes. They light differently. Thank you. When you're excited. It might be like where he's like Keith when he's doing something like that is always like. Like it's just this. It's just a little corner, one side of the mouth, like. I'm gonna get you again. 'Cause I've already gotten you twice. If anything, it's two to one. Yeah, but he got you after we said we're gonna do money. Yukon and Suck on these. Yeah, the Suck on. All right. The Suck on. That one got me too, 'cause I was like, this is probably an nostalgic drink or something. Joe did get you after we established money, so. That's fine, but he's already, I'm already up. He's already owed me. So if anything, we're like even now. Was I down that much? But, you know, we're getting there. Well, what were you talking about actually? I don't know, that was really derailed. I was, you would ask me to reference my bachelor's degree. Oh, it was what food we like as well. Oh, yeah, I have it in Mexico. I have it in my note. And yeah, your food, yeah. And you do hate Mexicans. That's what you said. I mean, that is an interesting one because. That's such a, I feel like that's such a well-integrated part of our world now, tacos and burritos. Yeah, like it's not like it's like, you know, oh, I don't like Indian food. Like, okay, like Indian food is very popular, but like you could go your life without having it. I feel like tacos and burritos is everywhere. And every menu and every place you go to. Indian food. Unbelievable. Holy moly, dude. Very good. The first time I dipped garlic non in that butter chicken sauce. Yo, I still don't understand how non is possible. Like, the way that they make it, where they just stick it on the side and it doesn't fall. Yeah, isn't it cool? Even when it's cooked though, like how? I don't know, it's really cool though. It's interesting. Do you ever seen it, like a-- In the stone, like the stone? The thing, yeah. I think I actually think it's called, yeah. No, no, don't do that. They just paid us. Damn it. Okay. I think it's called a Tendory oven. Mm-hmm. But I love the, like seeing the video, then I'm just fucking bang. Yeah. Smacking it up there. And it just stays. I'm like, what? It's crazy. Dude, I had a chili one, like a spicy non. I've only had garlic. Have you ever had, 'cause you said you liked Thai. Have you ever had a Tom Yum soup? No. [LAUGHS] Too much? What's in it? I don't know. But whatever it is, it's out of this world, dude. I get like, pet Thai. It's like a spicy Thai soup. Yeah. Next time you order Thai, Tom Yum Soup. I'll see if they have it. It's just, when you put lime on stuff, it's like a taco. I should've learned. I'm good on the lime. Like, I don't need it. But like, there's so much more going on except lime. I agree, I agree. I also started the other day. I think that the breakfast burrito is the best breakfast item that exists. And I like everything. Are we including any breakfast food? Any pancakes, waffles, French toasts? I think those things are all good. But I think that all things considered the breakfast burrito. So versatile. I'm not going to argue that. I could see the argument, and I will support it and appreciate it. I like when food is just jammed in, and you can hold it all in one hand and just eat it. And not like, I got to go digging for it on my plate. I'm fine. Yeah. I like more when it's chopped up, though. And then built, then stacked and built. To where the bacon is sometimes on this side, and the egg is only overheated. Wait, what? I agree with that. Do you know what I mean? I like when they mix it all up and then put it in the burrito, because then it's like, you're getting a little bit of everything in the same bite. Yeah. It's weird that I have to get everything, you know? I mean, I hear what you're saying. What you're doing is not a real thing. I'm trying to bite the whole thing, kind of. Like, when I go to, like, the times I've been to Chipotle, like, I'll, like, get all the chicken and rice at the top, and then the bottom is just lettuce and avocado, which I don't hate, but like, not there for that, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, let's make this thing a little crazy. Oh, God. I was such a gutter slut for Chipotle in, like, 2010, 2011. You could not have convinced me that was not the greatest food on the planet. You know, the first time I had Chipotle, I was probably, like, 26, 7. That's old, brother. I know. I was confused. I was like, oh, my Frankie shit. Do you remember when I visited you at college? And we went, and I was like, I'm not eating this. Yeah, because you said you wouldn't make it back in time without crapping your pants. Which is, like, not? Like, I don't know why Chipotle has that reputation. I've never heard that reputation for Chipotle. I know that, like, Mexican food has the reputation for, like, it can kind of go through you, but I've never heard it specifically about Chipotle. Oh, I've heard that about Chipotle. But like, Chipotle is just like, you know, you know, they're spicy chickens, kind of spicy. I can't speak to the overall quality of Chipotle. I don't want to offend them as a company. But the first 10 times I had Chipotle in my life were near euphoric. Was it just hammered? No, they were all sober. OK. I don't think I've ever had a drunk Chipotle. That might fucking kill me. Bull? No, I've never gotten anything other than a burrito. And I never will. It was before the shrink flation thing. Which is that even real with Chipotle? I've never eaten Chipotle in the store. My brother, like, usually caters it when we, like, go over for stuff. And you just make your own. Oh, so you-- I've never eaten Chipotle in Chipotle. Have you ever gotten Chipotle prepared by Chipotle? No. I've only done my own. So you haven't really had Chipotle? And I'll accept that. I'll accept that. That's a circle, baby. Full callback. But I may not agree with it. If you guys were like, you haven't had it unless someone at the place makes it for you, I'd be like, yeah, fair. Unless you walk up and you need to have every bit of information ready to minute the ass. To be clear, your point has been more right the entire time. To be clear. So to watch them, just go like this. And it's like, there's no way that's going to fit. That's going to fit. Oh. What the hell was that? I was just making conversation. His point has always been more right on what? We know. We know. Have you guys seen-- I don't know if you guys are on the same algorithm as me, but there's a place that does these giant Caesar salad wraps, and they put on a ridiculous amount on this wrap, and you're like, you have no fucking way. But they get it closed. And it's like this thick. No, but you know who's given Chipotle a run for their money? You've had Dostoros? Him and Hatton? No. Damn good. They're good, dude. Have I actually-- I think I have had it once, but I don't remember at all. Dude, really, really good. It's like what? It's basically the same thing as Chipotle, but just different enough to legally be-- Different name? Yeah. Your doghouse looks like-- Take it both ways here. All right. What does that mean? That's probably too much. Yeah, it was. It happens. But-- Yeah, I would say, oh, man. Italians up there, Greeks up there. Italians aren't that high for me. I think it's all kind of the same. Like, it's like good, obviously. But, like, pastas and, like, chicken parms-- I've seen a lot of-- I've seen a lot of discourse online with people just saying, like, Italian food is more than pastas. And it's like, yeah, we know that. But, like, it is. But, like, that's your air and judge. I would say that tomato sauce is the flavor. What do you put pizza under? Do we get that? Sure. That's a really good question. I don't know. I mean, you're starting to get-- No, that's a-- yeah, you get-- I saw something once that it was like, the Chinese invented pizza or something like that. They invented literally everything. Probably, literally everything. Noodles, everything. They're one of the oldest, like, still-running civilizations. Yeah, probably. Yeah, like-- Yeah, you got pizza. You got pasta. You got Mike Trout-Notani, the rest of Team Sox. Well, they're no longer on the same team. No, I know. I'm saying, like, they're the angels of what are you-- Oh, I mean, no. I've never had, like, a bad Italian dish, like-- Well, not that it sucks. It's like, it's just all of this. It really feels like-- Yeah, the heavy hitters? The heavy hitters are the pasta. That makes sense. But then the way that they do fish-- good bronze-- Bronzino? Mediterranean food, too, which might be-- I guess technically, Italian is-- it borders the Mediterranean, right? Southern Italy. I think Italian is its own thing. A Mediterranean food is, like, a different thing. I mean, I think of Greek food. I think of-- Like a Greek salad. Yeah, like, fish. Isn't, like, Spain also bordering the Mediterranean? What? No. OK, it's not even. It's far. It's pretty far. Sorry, I'm wrong. Sorry, I'm wrong. I've wronged. What country's board of the Mediterranean? Can you look that up for me, please? It's a good one. Also, you're leaving out desserts. Terremacy, who can always go. Yeah, I'm not a huge cannoli guy. Although the one that you brought in was phantasmic That was what was it. It was like I actually want you to get some more from them, but I'll pay Yeah, this time because I want to bring some home to back in the kids because when she saw that episode She was like holy shit. Oh, oh, oh, oh go to the map What is that The Mediterranean seems pretty big here Let's fucking run through that again watch this doesn't spain board of the Mediterranean You I was I didn't yeah god me there's a lot of so Mediterranean's everything pretty much You're also using Gemini. I would no no, but another it is I'm talking about the maps more reputable the Mediterranean goes all the way through here Well, okay, see this is more what I thought like at the cashbian. I Honestly thought the Mediterranean was just Like surrounding Italy Sicily and like up where like Montenegro and Albania No, that's what it's saying. It's saying it's the whole thing here. I had no idea the Mediterranean was that big I apologize Frank. Oh, I want to jump across this table and strangle you both until your eyes pop out of your sockets I had no idea the Mediterranean went all that way You know what I'm not giving it I would say it's you know what I would say it cuts off like right there Yeah, but it doesn't it doesn't yeah, no, it really doesn't that's so if I say I like Mediterranean food you like all of the food I think that's a border ring the Mediterranean I I think that like Mediterranean food is I Think it excludes like Spain France and Italy because those are like their own cuisine What is considered Mediterranean food? It's a lot of fish. Yeah, it's like fish and like lemony Yeah, I would say yes all of Spain is not like the Eastern Like coast of Spain you could say is Mediterranean Fair because a lot of countries used to have like different specializations in their foods Depending on where they were like Northern Italy's food is different from the southern part of Italy and stuff like that Also like Greece and Italy it's the Mediterranean surrounds pretty much all of it Spain, you know Spain's huge you get this whole other side. Yeah, that's Did I not say human words there? I'm just having some fun. No I mean no, he's right. I mean I had no idea that it bordered it Counting France seems even more crazy actually. I mean That's a good part of France. Yeah, it's a good part of France buddy. It is All right congrats Frankie got another one. I've been right for like 10 episodes in a row now and it's fucking crazy The amount of the first hour of this conversation We were in a disagreement, but who sat here and planted the flag and your ass of being right? I don't even know how to answer that exactly. Yeah, but also the 15 minutes ago happened and What was that justice? That's what it was. Oh, that was good. It doesn't make me wrong. That just makes me a victim All right, well, I think we can end there right there in the Mediterranean Sea for those who don't know border Spain And Algeria apparently I love to go to Algeria. I've heard good things about Algeria Yeah, I've never been to Algeria. I've never oh, I knew one Algerian person. You know who I'm talking about She was a girl Narrow's it down to several girls she Took her boobs out out of bar. Oh, I should not right oddly enough. It doesn't No, it was this was like during like a world cup and they were playing we'll talk we'll talk Belgium I was I think they were playing doesn't make sense. Well, I just like remember. Well, you'll tell me later. All right, I don't know who you have no other information I don't know her name. Oh, oh, so then how the hell would I know? I just knew she was Algeria. Algeria It was the only Algerian person I've ever known so you know her heritage. You don't know her name, but you have seen her tits None of that was on me I'm not saying the information was presented. I'm not saying that you're held responsible here But like I would imagine that you would at least know that that any more identifiable factors of that person I actually don't I mean she wasn't like our friend like she came around a couple times I think one of her friends was like hooking up with her and we were at a bar And she was like if the US wins I'll strive for one in the bar my boobs like yelled at so everyone super hype and then the US lost and then she did it anyway That's a hero Is that the word we're using for that? That's the nicest something The FDNY and NYPD Yeah That girl yeah, super man. Yeah That girl All right, well That's all we have folks Frank. Where can they find you? You know where to find me and after this I'm gonna be upset with aunt because he's completely threw me under the bus and said he thought your argument was better than mine And I'm gonna be pissed about it for an hour. There you go. And where can they find you find me at aunt? No, don't don't know on Instagram, and that's how I got that one What I don't know Why'd you say that? So I agreed with you. That's how I got that one. You said it very anime You guys don't go follow me. I just didn't go follow the show at the base me hard on TikTok and Instagram and that is all See you guys next time Welcome back to the