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I know a nerd when I see one.
Oh no, poop's coming out of my butt.
Oh no.
Wait, wait, what?
Let's go.
What's that song?
Is that Elton John?
Saturday night's all right for five.
That's Elton John.
I've gone on.
I've gone on record.
Adam should have played him in the movie.
I've gone on record.
I look exactly like Elton John.
I love Elton John.
You do have a young Elton John.
There's a facial,
a Brian Austin Green,
Blake Anderson similarity.
There's a young Elton John
morphing into an old Elton John look
that I have going on.
I mean, Elton John looks good.
Have you checked in?
You look good, man.
I saw about a decade ago,
I saw him at a Hamburger Hamlet.
Okay.
Hey, yo.
I love that he was posted.
Elton is a great name.
That was a sighting that shook me to my core.
Yeah.
That's like when I saw Tim Allen at Salton Beer.
I was like, what?
Stop.
That's a big one.
That's when you go up to Tim Allen
and you just start going, stop.
Stop it.
Stop.
Stop.
Stop.
Stop whatever you're doing.
Stop.
Stop making more sitcoms.
Stop.
No.
You know, I was all in on Last Man Standing.
That was my shit, brother.
Well documented.
We know you're a big Last Man Standing fan.
I was the last fan standing.
That's funny.
Points.
That Last Man Standing went for like seven or eight seasons.
It was like a big hit.
It was funny.
Now he's on another one.
Yeah.
And that's going to go on forever.
The guy's the sitcom king.
Let him cook.
Let him cook.
He's cooking king.
He's cooking.
He's such a king.
He just knows how to deliver lines and be snarky.
Is he on a show with Kat Denning?
Or is that the old one?
That was the last one.
I, that wasn't Last Man Standing.
That was the one after it, but maybe there's another.
The sitcom Last Man Standing ran for nine seasons.
Yep.
That's how long.
He's the best.
Modern Family ran for.
And 194 episodes.
And by the way, the whole concept, like what year was this?
The whole like Last Man Standing, like we know what that's in reference to, right?
Like modern times, wokeness, da, da, da.
It's like everybody's, everybody's a bitch.
He's a bitch and he's the Last Man Standing.
It was like.
And it's like, has it really been that long that this has been a whole thing?
Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah.
Kind of crazy.
That's why I think like Gen Z kids are like, just shut the fuck up.
Just shut up.
Who?
With the Last Man.
Like all Gen, the Gen Z is just like, shut the fuck up.
No, I'm sorry.
To who?
Yeah.
Shut the fuck up.
To old people.
Yeah.
Like claiming like there's no fucking man anymore.
It's just like, shut the fuck up.
And they're just like, shut the fuck up.
Do you know how big my pants are?
But isn't the next, but isn't the next generation like pushing back being like, well.
Bros?
There are guys.
Like there are dudes.
The little Gen Alphas.
Yeah.
There's a bro resurgence of bro, brodom.
Yeah.
Isn't that the whole like looks maxing?
No, that's toxic though.
We got to get back to like good old bro.
I'm not, I, I, part of me is saying yes.
Back when bros were bros.
Yeah.
They had honor.
But that's what I'm saying is that there is a, there's a pushback.
Right now that is toxic.
Yeah.
Not like us.
We're not.
No, we're cool.
Yeah.
No, we're cool.
We're not toxic.
We need a pushback on that.
We know chicks.
We need bros of honor.
We definitely know chicks.
Where's the bros of honor?
Adam was in a wheelchair.
Fucking give me a break.
Yeah.
Before I met, 10 years before I met him, he was in a wheelchair.
So give me a fucking break.
Guys, I was in a wheelchair.
So let's give us, the three of us a break.
Okay.
Can we have a little space?
Okay.
Please give us a break.
And like we were talking on the last episode, maybe we are going to be the poster children
for diseases that we may get in the future.
And then if we do that, give us a break.
Oh, good for you.
I do love the idea of a 45-year-old poster child.
Hey, that's kind of a cool little PSA.
Hey, you know, we're old bros.
Give us a break.
Hey, we're old bros.
I'm so close to getting a disease that's hopefully curable.
I don't know if this is.
Give us a break.
This has probably been out there, but the other day, my eight-year-old called, he was
calling Emma a bro.
And she's like, I'm not your fucking bro.
Like, I'm not a bro.
Okay.
Don't call me bro.
I'm your mom.
I'm not a bro.
And he goes, yeah, you're a bro-nup.
And I was like, whoa.
Oh, damn.
I was like.
Right.
You got to write that down.
Hey, guess what?
Yes, boys.
So now, we can be the poster children for bro-nups.
For bro-nups.
Bro-nup.
I've got bro-nup disease.
Bro.
That's the show.
That's the show.
Bro-nup.
Bro-nup.
Holy shit.
Bro-nup.
That is the show.
My God.
Yes, save that.
We just enter our children into UFC or what do we do?
What's a bro-nup into?
If you don't know.
Well, I will say I don't like that the term bro has such a negative connotation now.
Like, people are like, the way people will say, oh, they're such a bro.
And you're like, no, being a bro is kind of cool.
You just like sports.
It's such a broad swath.
Yes.
Also, where it's like, they say tech bros.
And I'm like, you guys, these are not bros.
Hey, bro on bro, that ain't a bro.
Okay?
But they know that it is a demonizing term.
So, they just throw it.
They're like, oh, tech bros.
And you're like, have you met these guys?
They're fucking nerds.
They're definitely not bros.
They probably rebranded themselves.
I think what happened is money became part of tech.
So, now there's the actual nerd engineers who are figuring it all out.
And then there's the guys that go and sell the tech.
And those are the tech bros, right?
Yeah, the sharks.
But those are sales bros.
Sales, for sure, are bros.
Oh, the sales bros.
Sales, for sure.
That's a bro.
Everywhere in every world of every facet.
By the way, I would be such a,
if I wasn't doing this,
someone asked me the other day,
like, what would you be doing if you didn't do what you do?
And I'm like, I think I would be a salesman.
Without it, like, I would be selling something.
Yes.
And you'd be very good at it.
And because you're a bro.
Where it's real estate, because I'm a bro through and through.
So, wait.
So, what is a bro?
You're just saying it's someone who is passionate about the things they like.
It's someone who…
Here's what I think a bro is.
A bro to me.
is somebody who is competitive above all other things.
things so you're saying bro is a is a competitor is a guy who will step on anybody to get to the
top well that's not step on you don't have to step on anyone to get to the top you're just anybody
who's not on your team who's not your bro all other people are enemies i don't know i well i
don't i don't think i'm stepping on anyone to get to the top i think it's you're you're a competitive
person so you want to and and and blake bros don't know when they when they step on these bros they
don't even realize it i don't think i'm stepping on anybody trampled under foot like blake is see
blake say blake is also a bro i don't think blake is a bro okay thank you but you wouldn't at first
glance you you wouldn't think he's a bro i don't think he is a bro really right because i think in
a room full of bros i'm getting fucked he would be exposed yep okay um i guess if they're gay
you want to get fucked shout out to gabriel sorry
gay bros those are my bros that's my i don't know what what else could it would it be i think a bro
in my mind is do or die loyal it doesn't have to be about competition you're just loyal to
your bros bros is a it's the company you keep you're not just solo bro it's bro so i don't
see that so i just looked it up um i'm pissed now see bro it's and and obviously
there's different casual term for brother yeah so you're just like what yes hold on so you're like
what's up what's up bro so it's like it's it's just a group of of men usually who are oh wow okay
consider themselves close right and then also the subculture of young men and sports and video games
and partying and i feel like we like all that stuff yeah we like all that stuff sign me up here's what
i think here's what i think i think i think having a good time does not make you a bro in the negative
connotation that's right i think the competitive nature is the big turnoff for a lot of people
who are like these bros are doing anything at the expense of everyone around them i hear you and
okay when they find other bros they like it because steel sharpens steel and they can bro grow
there's growth
okay oh shit okay oh shit there's there's potential okay okay durst you might need to
fucking start a seminar brother this is dude this is your ted talk this is my theory i think i think
people everywhere have a good time sure i think that there are people who dress like bros but when
what's a bro what's a bro dress code very um like they wear like dodger hats not to leave
yeah like not individual like very kind of like yeah of the oh you don't want to step out of the
norm too much yes exactly because that makes you unbro yeah well you see especially like in the
south how you'll see a group of guys and they're all wearing khakis and they're all wearing like
sweater they're all wearing they're like uh what does ders wear like the patagonia quarters but
like the fleece vest yeah the fleece go off they're all wearing that go off and they're
wearing their button-ups yeah we
and they're all wearing their like sperry's the dock siders yeah yeah shout out to sperry
hook me up is that still the bro code i feel like maybe that bro is a is an older extinct bro no no
no go to the south it's stronger than ever they're still rocking that because it's a classic look
bros are classic you can't step out of line it's like oh i just have to go get the uniform
and i'm in great well see now now we're saying like all these negative things about bros and
i don't want to be one but i know that i am one and i know that we all are i'm only
speaking in the negative connotation maybe hey you know what maybe i'm not a bro you know what i am
i'm a freaking dude yes i'm a dude okay different i'm a dude okay different that's different yeah
right yes i think i'm more of a dude than a bro well shit well can i be a dude then or or i'm a
bro yeah absolutely it might be too much i think i think adam's got dude adam here's my question
do you feel like you're welcomed by bros yeah yeah a hundred i don't feel like i'm welcomed by bros
yes you are
i've been i've been in a group of our fans that are very broey and they've welcomed you with open
arms and you know what the bros walk up and then they like feel my vibe personally and they go
thought you'd be taller and i go yeah i don't know and then they go why isn't he going i thought
you'd be fucking like i don't partake and then they go they walk backwards and they go but i
also don't like uh dude this kid came up to me at the gym the other day and he goes i'm gonna
dude it was so funny he comes up and he's like i know you right and i'm like oh take my headphones
out what's up and he's like you're an actor it's adam right i'm like oh hey how's it going man nice
to meet you and he goes yeah my mom likes you right oh and i go okay and he goes she took a
photo with you back in the day and i go all right okay and then he goes um are you still acting
sure freaking see i go yeah it just was on this hbo show the righteous gemstones i'm doing a bunch
of you know stuff
and he goes i liked that movie you did in 2018 and i go was it a game over man and he goes
yeah like you've done so many that you can't even keep count and i'm like
like what he it was like he was nagging me what'd you say but what'd you say you started crying no
no i said yeah then you put it because i have done so many netflix movies that i don't know
which one you're talking about and i don't know what you're talking about and i don't know which
And I don't know which years they've come out.
I don't know.
Very bro.
And I go, yeah.
and he goes
huh
that's hilarious
and then he walks away
and I'm like
it was like
he didn't know how to
it's like I was a hot girl
and he was nagging me
and this was the only way
that this young
20 year old bro
this is bro speak
the only way he knew
how to talk to me
and I hated it
yeah
so I don't know
that wasn't very bro-y of me
to not like that
conversation
no cause I
now I'm seeing
this is a negative
thing about bros
is they're incapable
of
giving people, like, compliments or lowering them still.
Do you know why?
Because they step into this interaction as a competition from the beginning.
Right.
It was strange.
Who's going to walk in?
He came up to me.
Yeah, like, why even talk to me?
It was like watching those videos online where, like,
guys will just say mean things to girls and then they like it.
Right.
And you're like, it's like they're nagging the girl and being like,
oh, you really decided to wear that out to this party?
And she's like, what?
No, this is cute.
What do you mean?
Let me get your number.
Give me your phone.
And I felt…
Yeah, give me your phone.
Instantly.
Your fucking outfit's stupid.
Here, give me your phone.
I'll put my number in here.
Okay.
I felt like that, and I did not like it.
Yeah.
But you gave him your phone number?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Are you guys homies?
We're fucking homies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is he your trainer at least?
Did he show you some ways to get some reps up?
No, that's what was embarrassing for him
is I was fucking way more jacked.
See, only a bro would feel like he needed to. I told you, dude!
No, but we knew that.
Yeah, you didn't have to tell us that.
You obviously are larger.
But I like this delineation between bro and dude.
Yeah, thank you.
And so I do think the tech bros that they're talking about,
it is the competitive nature of the tech bros.
But by and large,
only the poster children of these companies are tech bros.
Or not even them.
Some of these guys, I'm like,
What is going on with these guys?
They're not bros.
They're fucking turds.
They're nerds.
They're just fucking…
Some of these dudes explaining AI.
Oh, my God.
And now they're like, we need parameters.
I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?
What do you mean?
I mean, I don't know how much you guys think about AI and like how everyone's like, yeah, maybe it'll…
It's all I think about.
I'm like, what are we doing?
Who wants this?
It's obviously insane.
I just watched that documentary on Netflix.
documentary on netflix they do these things called insta docs have you seen this no where a thing
will happen in the news and they'll make a documentary oh yeah yeah it's so fast oh that's
instantly that's crazy it's crazy so there's a documentary about the hugging face thing where the
right where the open ai ai agents left open ai went to hugging face which is a different ai
platform and then they like they like broke in and we're all talking to each other and they were
talking in just like english and they're like holy shit i can't believe we're here this is crazy
they're look there's more of us people were people uh agents the boss sacrificing themselves
and they were like sad what they're like i don't have enough money you guys go here's my information
yes and and it all happened so quickly and then they disappeared and no one knows how or why
and uh
and it was it's truly terrifying uh truly terrifying to see yeah it's yeah so these dudes
these guys don't seem like tech bros though bros seem like they would be like all in and not so
kind of like oh we don't know like see what they're doing is they're like we need we need
restrictions please give us restrictions and then knowing that the big companies if they put up
guardrails now the smaller companies then they'll never get big enough so it'll be like
like coca-cola and pepsi yeah i've heard this right it'll be a what dualopoly or whatever they
call it yeah i i so yeah the theory
Is that, like, they're in and they'll be the big ones.
And when the restrictions come in, no one else can get in because of the restrictions.
But everyone always finds a way.
Yeah.
But also, isn't the other argument, like, this is all we're speaking, like, in the states, right?
We can only control, like, what we do in the U.S.
I know, like, the other big thing is, like, well, if we stop developing it, China will develop theirs.
Go for it.
And then they'll be the ones that take over the world.
And it's like, what?
Go for it, China.
They'll ruin the world.
Come on.
Hey, China.
Ruin the world, China.
Go for it, dude.
Like, I don't know.
Like, we've been doing it for a while.
We can only handle our shit.
We can only carry something when you're at the beach.
And you're like, I've been carrying this the whole time walking back to the car.
Like, will you carry this?
Yeah.
Hey, China.
Carry the thing back from the beach for a little bit.
I don't give a fuck.
Ders running for president right now.
Dude, I'm just saying, like, and by the way, so, like, we got ahead on social media.
And now all of our kids are fucking insane.
And China, all they do is play, like, inspirational clips.
Yeah, all they do is, like, they let them get all fucked up on AI.
And we get to sit back and watch and go, oh, glad we didn't do that.
Yikes.
You think they're not going to give us their fucking, like, cancer medication?
Fucking.
Yeah, they'll sell it to us for sure.
Dollar dollar bills, y'all.
Dollar dollar bills.
Boom shakalaka.
Yeah.
You know, we're too dumb.
I think we're too dumb.
Too dumb.
We're too old.
We're too much of bros.
Dude, I feel like I'm the, we're too much of a dude.
I'm the perfect amount of smart for this situation because if I was smart, I would, I don't know.
I'd be into, like, the ass.
What can we do with this AI?
It's amazing.
We can go to Mars.
I'm like, I'm good here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you're just chilling.
You're just trying to chill.
I'm just trying to chill.
We're good.
Well, I feel if we just, it's one of the really, really smart tech.
Maybe nerds, maybe bros.
I'm not sure what these guys are, but they do wear performance fleece vests.
They all do.
For days.
Yeah, they're all wearing that.
When they say, like, it's getting smarter than us and we can't compete.
That's when I get freaked out.
Yeah.
That's when we, like, because the humans are still in charge right now.
In a year.
Oh, that's what you think.
Yeah, thank you, Blake.
So you think.
But in a year, we won't be.
Wake up, Divine.
And there's just. It's a self-regulate.
Shit.
Shit.
Wake up.
I hope that becomes Adam's new fucking catchphrase.
Shit.
Shit.
The dude from The Wire who that was his catchphrase, like, I don't know, he died.
Oh, that's right.
He died a couple years ago and Adam just slides in and is like, you know, be funny.
Shit.
Shit.
Shit.
He died R.I.P.
Yeah.
Super funny.
Yeah.
He did that on a few shows, too.
He would slip that in on other shows.
I was his I'll be back.
He was like. When you nail it like that.
And by the way, how many actors get a thing like that where no matter what you're on,
people go, can you do it?
It's a nod.
Yeah, I remember trying to bring Tight Butthole over to Modern Family and it didn't.
Oh, no.
They weren't fucking with that?
Steve Levitan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ty Burrell was like, here, can you hand me that?
I'm like, that'd be pretty tight butthole.
And they're like, ah, cut.
Stop.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Huh.
Everybody clear the set really quick.
Everybody come back tomorrow.
Yeah.
We're calling it.
Tight Butthole.
We're going to call it.
Sofia Vergara was like, what?
Offended.
No, no, no.
Oh, yeah.
There's just a bunch of yellow tape at this point now.
Yeah, yeah.
Yellow tape.
That's a Tight Butthole situation if I've ever seen one.
Cut.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Ed O'Neill's like, I like it.
Sure.
Actually, I think it's pretty cool.
He's a dude.
It'd be funny if you asked me.
He's a dude.
Yeah, he's a dude for sure.
I mean, married with children.
Come on.
And played in the NFL or some shit.
Right?
Yeah, played for the Steelers.
No way.
Yeah.
I think, you know what's cool about him?
I think he's a dude who could pass for a bro.
You know, I don't know too much about.
That's what you want.
See, that's the perfect line.
And that's what I think I am.
Yeah, that's what the world needs.
I think, you know, I'm walking the line of dude and bro.
And I can go into either world.
And that's, I think, what the goal is.
Is to do both.
That's the goal.
You want to be a bro.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You want to be accepted by bros.
Right?
Loved by dude.
Kissed by dude.
What?
I'm a dude.
Into the mist.
Oh, no.
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So, his name, the actor we were just talking about,
Isaiah Whitlock Jr.
Yeah, ledge.
Yeah.
That dude rocks.
Shit.
So good.
R.I.P.
So good.
I haven't watched The Wire in a while.
They've been dropping all these, like, best TV shows.
I'm revoking your white card.
Best TV shows of, like, the 21st century and all that,
and I'm kind of like. Yeah, we didn't make any of those lists.
We didn't.
The list was crazy.
The list was bananas.
Wasn't, like, Sopranos not on the list or something?
Well, it was post-2000, I think.
Oh. And what, Sopranos started in, like, 99 or some shit?
Maybe even before that, but yeah, I think. But there's a few that I'm realizing
and I never watched that I do need to tap in.
Talk to me.
Like, I don't think I ever went. I never watched Veep,
and I really want to watch that
because it has a lot of actors I really like.
Veep is a show that I've watched it. In 1999, January 10th of 1999,
Sopranos.
Veep was one of those shows
that I've watched several episodes
and I'm like,
I'm gonna stick with this
and then I just don't.
I don't care enough.
It's really funny.
Yeah, I. But for whatever reason. I need to launch into that.
I don't need to watch every episode.
I think I'm that way just with all comedies
for the most part.
Now.
Yes.
I don't have to watch every episode.
Yeah, I can see, but that's not. Like, remember Curb Your Enthusiasm?
Like, I was, like, glued.
I was there.
When it dropped, I'm watching every episode of Curb.
Still.
And are they still coming out?
For me, the last three seasons,
I've been like. Post-Kids.
Post-Kids, it takes so much
to get me to watch a show.
And I don't even. And by the way, I don't think I even watch anything.
You just watch Instagram.
Yeah, you've fully become just a YouTube dad, right?
You're just cruising the tube.
Yeah, and you weren't. You weren't that. You were a real TV watcher, dude.
I watched everything.
Yeah.
I watched every new show just to be like,
what are they doing?
How are they doing it?
Why are they doing it?
Yeah, what the hell?
I kind of have gotten that way, too.
I feel really, really bad about that.
I would clock back in if I didn't think it was. I watch most shows.
Not the comedies.
Like, you watch, like, Landman and fucking. I do.
All that.
Wow.
What's the Stallone show?
No, I. No, I don't. Tulsa King.
Tulsa King.
If he. If Stallone isn't Rocky. I'm pissed now!
If he's not Rocky, if he's not Rambo,
if he's not, like, an action hero. I was waiting for that.
If he's not a current action hero. Expendable.
Yeah, if he's not an expendable, I don't care.
Judge of Dread, yeah.
Really?
I want him to. Yeah.
Demolition Man.
Oh, I mean. I love him.
I love Stallone.
I just. I don't want to see him be, like, a cool businessman.
No.
He's a great actor.
Don't do it, Blake.
What?
Okay.
Stallone is a great actor.
He's a great actor.
Like, in what?
Like, in what?
I'm not saying he's not a great actor,
but, like, what are we talking outside of action movies like Copland?
I've never seen Copland, actually.
Is this Kurt Russell?
I don't know Kurt in that one.
Okay, well, I think it's. I think it's safe to say that Stallone isn't a great actor.
I think he does one thing. What?
No, hey.
He's a great actor.
I think he's a great actor.
I think he does one thing unbelievably well,
and that thing should. Got him an Oscar, and he's great,
but he's not. A great actor is someone that can morph into different characters.
I think he's a movie star.
A shapeshifter.
A Philip Seymour Hoffman who can be anything.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think he's a bit. I think he's nuanced.
I think he's intelligent.
I think he makes good decisions.
I agree.
I think he's smart.
I've been listening to. Because I think he has a new book out.
Yeah.
And he's going on, like, NPR and stuff like that.
Oh, so now you like him?
No, he's just a very intriguing guy,
and he's very calm.
You're an NPR head?
I'm an NPR head.
I am.
Name three things about Stallone.
Well, he came from an abusive household.
He speaks on his, like, beef with Arnold
and how they were, like, competing in the box office,
and it was, like, a real hate-hate,
and then they came together for the expendable.
Yep.
The money.
The money talked.
Sounds like some bro shit.
Go ahead.
He's a father.
It's very intriguing.
He's like, I was on steroids.
Okay.
That's a big part of it.
Yeah.
He talks about that.
Yes, he talks about his physique.
He was, like,
- And by the way,
80s he's he's in his 80s yeah he yeah he's still on steroids no i think he admits to that well he's
on peptides now he's on peptides or i guess are those steroids i don't know yeah he speaks on i
don't know it makes me go like if you can live to 80 and still be as jacked as stallone and have
your heart not explode dude i need to talk to his doctors yep and dial it in the way he dialed it in
i'm saying man because i want to be too jacked for comedy yeah that's what i want i want to be
i want to be so jacked that like the comedy producers like oh we're gonna do this thing
we're gonna put adam in the and then they see me like i have a meeting and my neck muscles are like
this and they're like oh right right right right right yeah i know you wrote him as uh wearing a
shrek costume but he just looks like the hulk right it's not working out rewrite bit isn't
really playing it yeah it's
you
it's not funny it's kind of turning me on what is sylvester stallone's best non-action performance
see that's that's it i mean is rock are you considering rocky an action movie well yeah
it's a it's a sports film it's a sports we don't call a fight scene action i mean it's not an
action movie but yeah i mean you know what i'm saying yeah we can get in the weeds about rocky
being an action movie i know what you're saying isaac's saying cop land i've never i've never
seen cop land
maybe that's one that i uh who was in the watch isn't it is it get carter uh get carter's kind of
an action movie isn't it it was de niro it was stallone it was harvey kytel and it was uh ray
leota there we go by the way look at that line up bunch of bro do we do a live stream of us
watching cop land that would be so tight we don't talk people just are listening to the movie this
here's the description one hot-headed super boy michael
rapaport okay accidentally gets involved in an ugly racially motivated incident his uncle
ray donlan harvey kytel a crubs new york cop attempts to sweep it under the rug
by helping his nephews by helping fake his nephew's death okay this is a this is a 1990s
big time script where they're just like it's a hard lefts hard rights it's all over the place
check it out pretty dang good the bungled cover-up leads to investigations by idealistic
bungled the idealistic internal affairs officer mo tilden robert de niro and freddie heflin
sylvester salone dude sheriff of the suburban suburban new jersey town where dolan and his
fellow crooked policemen live what cop land how much time were they sitting to come up with those
first and last names because they freaking slayed it they nailed it yeah geez they bungled the hell
out of that shit but so blake i feel like you
have seen the movie oscar i don't think i have is that a really old one well this is it's still
alone i think it's called oscar and it's just still alone and all i remember is a commercial
where he's like kind of like in a suit and a businessman he's got like glasses and it i don't
think anybody ever saw oh also dang now you just remind me the one with kurt russell around the
same time as king ralph what about the one with kurt russell where uh tango and cash that's what
i was saying hello that movie kicks fucking ass that's an action movie right that's an action i
think he's good in the action film he's great in action movies he brings no one's saying he
shouldn't be doing i guess i'm we're just wondering if he did anything but you guys were saying he's a
one like one trick pony he's always a different character in tango and cash he's like the straight
laced where's the glasses he's got the um rambo he's got the tie no i'm rocky in get carter he's
like a father who's like i'm carter looking for his daughter blake hey blake there's different
plots of every movie no bro he's he's
every movie has a different plot i'm saying he's bringing different levels of vulnerability which
by the way you know who my favorite my favorite actor of all time is jack nicholson he's great
jack nicholson he is great but he is doing the same thing he's still jack nicholson no but like
every movie but like in the shining he's like scary and then in you know as joker he's scary
in like a different way all right hey adam adam let's let's just let him go let him go
yeah yeah let's let him go for sure yeah all right and uh what's the one where he's the old
guy with the dog about smith as good as it gets he's like a scary old guy you know but he's
vulnerable yeah but he's vulnerable it's levels of vulnerability yeah and and not all actors can
do that i mean i'm i'm i'm just saying he's a movie star there's a difference between a movie star
and a uh action star an actor yes who should win academy awards right right well or not even
should who they end up giving academy awards to they end up giving it to some actor that you're
like yeah no i i know i know them yeah i do know them uh and they're yeah no i've seen that i've
seen that i have movie i think did i see that i don't know i gotta get out there and watch some
of these films that are coming out i want to see digger i want to see people are talking about it
like it's awesome i want to see back room i saw obsession you should see that oh dude i saw back
i was in a hotel in new york and i got really stoned alone and just watched back rooms and i
don't i'm not i don't like horror movies that that much right um it freaked me the fuck out yeah and
oh really i woke up at like four o'clock in the morning thinking i'm in a back room it sent me
dude it was terrifying this might have just been the weed just even the opening five minutes i was
going to go crazy of the dude just walking around yeah i haven't heard it was too scary i like that
you're saying it is i mean it was it's not like scary upsetting is upsetting the word unsettling
it's unsettling well and i also spent a lot of time in an abandoned mall and an abandoned sears
we shot the righteous gemstones your childhood in an abandoned sears yeah so you would just like
kind of wander around and be like in a back room that hasn't been used in forever and there's weird
things that happen and you're like hello uh and it kind of sent me back there and you walk through
a mall that's like the only thing that's open is a footlocker and a store that sells antique trains
yeah and those are like that's a haunted that's a haunted you're like this place is fucking scary
and then you watch back rooms and you're like that i was there i lived that life here's my pitch i
thought about this yesterday okay i was like man if like 24 year old us still were doing sketches we
would have done bathrooms okay and it would have been a dude like at a store gone uh yeah i'm
interested in this couch but if you guys have a restroom here well we have a bathroom and go
downstairs goes downstairs goes in the bathroom no we have a bathroom downstairs and opens the
door and then like walks into the fucking stall there's no toilet there's just another door it's
like i guess i go through here but then he keeps going and he never finds a toilet he just keeps
going into different
bathrooms is he having to go to the bathroom worse and worse he's and he's got to go to the
bathroom living in a nightmare because he goes back he can't get back out he's lost he's he's
lost so he's kind of like sweating gets in one there's somebody he sees feet under the stall
and the hand comes down it's like give me some toilet paper and he's like what i gotta find the
toys like and then the dude comes out with his pants his ankles that's the guy who's chasing
him through the bathrooms oh okay and the guy looks exactly like him but he but that guy uh
actually gotta take a shit and he's like i'm so relieved he's like i want to take a shit he's
like you can't he's like why are you dressed like a pirate the movie kind of yeah you know well
unfurls yeah by the way by the end it's hilarious by the end i was laughing i was cackling a little
bit that ain't even the weed that's just kind of like they explain it i'm gonna what uh my son did
a fun prank to me last night i was giving him a bath and he goes dada oh no oh no poop's coming
out of my butt oh no and i go oh god and so i like yank him out of the bath uh i sit him on the
toilet and then he's sitting there and normally if he has to go he just goes and he's sitting
there for a while and he goes and he starts like evil laughing he's going you got you and i'm like
what and he goes i got you daddy i played tricks on you we got a bro so you don't you don't have
to go and he's like no and i'm like oh my god he's like oh my god he's like oh my god he's like oh
epic gift dude you shouldn't have seen the look on your face look on your face i got you that's
when and adam i mean this that's when you go well you're not getting off that toilet until you do go
and he goes it was a joke i go well this isn't this isn't a joke cut to 2 a.m and i'm still
just watching him poop better come out of that butt you flick the lights on and off and you go
bathrooms yeah that'd be that's a good idea bro there's all sorts of different ways to raise your
kids
we just put in a night like the first time because i think he just figured out how to be scared that
sucks like he he wasn't scared but now all the halloween stuff is everywhere halloween will do
it so he's going like i'm scared dada oh and i'm like i don't think you're really scared yeah that
doesn't feel like real fright yeah and then chloe is like well we're gonna put the nightlight in and
i'm like are we is he ready for that you know does he need the nightlight what do you mean this so
then we put the nightlight in i wasn't sure if he's gonna keep him up or whatever and then we put
the nightlight in and then this morning i was like how is the nightlight and he goes oh the night
night
The nightlight helps, Dada.
I'm not scared.
Ooh.
And I'm like, all right.
Well, that's good.
Were you guys afraid to sleep in the dark?
Were you afraid of the dark as kids?
Yeah, as a, yeah.
But I thought it started like when I was like five or six.
You know, you don't really remember when you're two and a half.
You don't remember that.
I think memories form at like four.
And then you start to be like.
I remember it all.
Oh.
I remember it was dark and then it was suddenly very bright.
Very bright.
And so the dark for me is very comforting.
Oh, you're like Bane?
So I was like, fine, lock me in the closet.
I was born in the dark.
Yeah, exactly.
Fuck.
I could go on about that.
Yeah, I think I would say I slept with my eyes open was my big thing.
And my kids say it too.
I don't give a fuck.
My kids go, I sleep with my eyes open.
And I'm like, that's what I thought I did.
You're being serious.
That's not real, man.
It's not.
Like how open?
Like.
They.
Just.
I remember laying in bed for a long time.
And I still am someone who just can't go to sleep.
I would lay there and I would look at like the sliver of the door.
Just see like who's walking by.
You could see like a shadow or whatever.
Yeah.
Who was walking by?
My family.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
In a house of people.
In a hallway.
Yeah.
That's where people walk by.
When you're the youngest.
Yeah.
People be walking by.
Why are they making you go to bed and everybody's walking around all night?
Because I'm the youngest.
Because he's the youngest, dude.
But with his brother's like six years younger.
He's not going to go to bed at 730.
My bad.
Anyhow.
So you're in bed and you're just like.
We all went to bed at the exact same time.
Really?
Yeah.
Families go to bed together.
That is not real.
Everyone under the covers.
You don't.
No.
Here's what you do.
You kiss your child goodnight and then you go to the bar.
Yeah.
No, I'm not talking about me now.
I'm talking about my childhood.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You think your parents are asleep?
No.
That is.
That is the protocol.
No.
My parents went to sleep.
Yeah.
What are you talking about?
You think.
You think they did.
Okay.
That's great.
And yet Brian Austin Green is out there looking just like you.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what they were doing.
I'm telling you.
No.
I used to sleep.
I used to have to have like the door cracked and the hall light on.
I was like pretty terrified of the dark.
I didn't like it one damn bit.
I just have FOMO.
Right?
Because I'm like asleep and everyone's still up and I'm like.
Yeah.
I guess it's different when you have like old.
It was a lot of me like creeping down and like the.
The like landing.
Yes.
Where you could like peek through the banister.
All day.
And just sort of like see what.
And it's mostly just like my dad watching like the Tonight Show or whatever.
And it wasn't that interesting.
But every once in a while like his brothers would come over and they'd be drinking whiskey
and smoking cigarettes in the living room.
And you're like this is fucking crazy.
Kumbaya.
The landing.
Yeah.
That is the spot.
My parents would be having like parties.
They'd be like all right you're going to go to bed.
And then I would just come down halfway and then poke around the corner.
watching and you're just watching people
in the fucking like main hallway
right there. I'm kind of starting to remember this
stuff too. I think I used to do that. Come down
the stairs a little bit and kind of check
out. Wait till you see back rooms. It'll
unlock everything. I really
want to. It's gotta be. Which by the way
Durs, did you like back rooms more or
Obsession? Obviously two
completely different movies. Yes
but this is the discussion of two
months ago. Yeah. Um
I thought Obsession was a more
Fuck it! I thought Obsession
was a better more complete concept
right? I think back
rooms existed as a web thing
and then they were like we gotta make this into a movie
and then I'm not a huge fan
of the like explanation where it's like
this is your past and you go
okay. Is it?
But you're in here and you're a scientist
Okay. Right. And now I
know what you're doing. You're teeing up a sequel
This is spoiler alert. Yeah. But
I do remember that
I first seen back rooms
on like YouTube and there wasn't any
sort of like story written for it
It was just kind of like it places you there
So you're saying that they wrote some
sort of reason. They just had to explain
it which is what they do in all these fucking movies
Kind of cool. I like
the uh I always like
shit like that where there's like secret
rooms. Pocket dimension
Yeah. Like a different dimension. I
think that shit's cool
Obsession I thought the
the device of like
I'm like oh you've seen that a million
times. It's a little
cheesy. Wished. Wished.
Of like the
you break the thing and you say
what you want and then what you want
backfires. Yeah. Yeah but
oh man. She's so good
He's good too but she's like
When we first met the
19 it's the 2018 seminal
film that I think
that's what this kid was talking about
Okay so you're a little bit
upset that they kind of jacked
when we first met and sort of
Yeah
They didn't pay homage. Obviously
they saw when we first met
and then wrote Obsession
Dude. I will say
this. The visuals of back
rooms have stayed with me much more
than anything from
Obsession but I was
watching Obsession. The visuals like it was just
cool. Exactly. It was just fucking cool
And we're of that age
where like we remember
rooms like that. Sure. Like
tan fucking
90s like that
whole vibe is very
much of our era. There's like a weird
buzz. Yeah the buzz of like a
overhead light that's
Yeah. Yeah. That shit is creepy
Obsession was just kind of like good acting
By the way Chiwetel
Ejiofor I'm like no one's
marketing this movie as him as a star
Yeah. The fuck? Yeah. Very weird
He's a great actor. Yeah
Yeah. Couldn't believe when he came on this
I go oh he's in this? Oh he's
the star. He's the guy
Yeah but hey well even
visually with Obsession the way that
the dude was like playing with like shadows
and shit though I thought that shit was
kind of cool how you would sort of like
she would always have like the
the shadow over her and her
eyes were like shimmering and shit
I thought they were doing some cool shit
in camera or whatever the hell he was
doing. Yeah. Yes. That shit
was sticking with me. Yeah I thought it was like
a what do they say soup
to nuts. I thought it was like beginning
to end it all paid off in a fun way
especially when she was like sleeping and
was like dude fucking get me out
of here this is fucked up and he was like
Yeah that added a whole layer dude
Nah. And you're like
Oh. Oh you're fucked up
Uh oh
Yeah it was good man I watched that movie
quite a few times just cause I thought
the performances were so good
It was tight
Obsession?
I literally kind of became
You watched Obsession quite
a few times? Yeah I probably
watched it like five times. Wow
I really
liked it. Listen. Listen. Dude you haven't
even watched like classics
I know
I need to watch Casablanca man
I mean you've never even seen Little Giants
that many times but you've seen
Obsession. I really liked Obsession
I thought it was fantastic
It was quite mesmerizing. Uh huh. Okay
well I think you gotta watch Backrooms. I definitely
have to. And it's out there
I think you can watch it now. Like stream it
Yes I think now I can. It's finally
green. Green light on the stream
So. Yeah I paid
$25 in a hotel
which by the way I don't mind it
I don't mind when you get to watch a new movie
in a hotel room and it costs $25
but it's like that's just
what shit costs nowadays. I do think you could
have watched it on your iPad
for free. I don't have an iPad cause I'm not
a fucking dork
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i i've bought like four ipads in my life and then i just never ever ever use them and every time i
bust it out i feel like i'm a seven-year-old yeah ipad is for the kids it really kind of feels i'm
like i feel like a child so what do you watch stuff on my computer or my phone you watch stuff
on your computer like your laptop like if i'm on a flight and then but mostly i like to watch the
you know if the if the flight has the tv yeah yeah of course on the yeah i like yes i don't
like that's such a dice roll that's the best case scenario bringing a computer interest with
interesting interesting
when you think you know a guy just bring my computer and it turns out to be a laptop man
yeah bring my computer uh i don't like watching on my phone so i've i'm with you as far as like
screen size on a laptop but phone you know what i just watched that's what this episode's called
you know what i just watched uh it's science is lauren the documentary about lauren michaels yeah
oh i really it's really interesting it's cool really dude he likes he started snl i i am aware
of that and he also produced oh well i think they might they might have glossed over it
over that in the documentary yeah no i actually don't think they're really he that's all he did
those start snl yeah well i know but you're saying that but they don't really cover that in the
documentary yeah the biography it's more about where he eats it's about his weird name oh yes
and where he eats yeah lauren yeah and all his favorite one more time where's his name from
lauren it's canadian is he canadian yeah he is canadian is there anyone else in the world named
lauren yes lauren it's like it's lauren and that's a woman's name is this what the documentary there
are men there are men named lauren it's just people name another it's just people getting
it's just a bunch of famous people being like i mean his name's lauren and i remember being like
what's your name it's basically lauren i'm like it's for lauren what the crazy part is they they
just sort of gloss over the fact that it's an nbc allowed him at like 30 years old
to be in charge it to be in charge they're just like yeah so they gave him a shot and now he's
doing it and and i'm like how did they give him a shot like how was he the one but there was nothing
on at the time because he had that tiger energy bro he had that like fucking yeah he had something
he had already also worked for quite a bit the original bro lauren lauren michaels uh yeah he
worked for like laughing but didn't he write on like the smothers brothers yeah he that wasn't
his first gig right he wrote for uh
laughing and then produced uh lily tomlin's stand-up socials which by the way lily tomlin
so good this is when they hired personality isn't the right word but when they hired people of a
certain wave or vibe because they knew they had something in them that they wanted the brand
to become right uh yeah as opposed to now they hire somebody who knows how to crunch the numbers
in a way that more money will go to them and they're like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god
who falls in line like smart money not a good product right but there's nobody being no sir i
don't like it our homie doug um who ran mtv herzog herzog he was 26 dougie herzog when he was running
legend and he's a legend and when you meet him you go this guy's he is good hands yeah when they
gave him the keys they were in good hands i wish he was still in charge because he really liked us
you know what we need a uh personality executive who really likes us
yeah where are these because those guys those guys who really like us they're smart yeah they're
good dudes they're good hands they know what they're doing they're dudes they're for sure
borderline bros because they're getting shit done i feel dudes don't necessarily get shit done
sometimes a dude just it's on the couch just sits yeah just chills you need a little bro in there
but think about it they used to find these people and whatever age they were didn't matter because
they were like you've got it you've got it we're gonna hand you the reins because you're
gonna create something from who you are and we can you've passed the sniff the sniff test
and it's less about like is this guy like responsible and is he gonna make sure like
the stocks stay up right and it's less about like what the the not the brand but like the
fucking it's like the community it's like even in watching like the martin short doc and you like
see all those people together it's like you could tell they're not just it's like in them they want
it to be a movement a movement of of
of actors of comedians they wanted to make something that was forever and now it's just
like we just want to make money kind of yeah well the documentary was really cool if you like snl and
you like the history of it because they do mention snl in the documentary i know i said i know earlier
i said that they kind of glossed over it but it turns out it's a it's a big part of of lauren
michael's life uh is that do they touch on like night at the roxbury movie or it mostly was that
okay okay good that's what i'm trying to got it that's what i'm really trying to figure out
he started snl yada yada yada but then the year was 1995 night at the roxbury baby don't hurt me
you know when people say like snl is not funny anymore like every era they're like oh snl is not
funny anymore call me crazy yeah it's always funny yeah especially you go back and watch them
i think the thing is and lauren said they're like what's going on and they're like what's going on
why is it working so well like the first couple seasons it like shot out of the canon right and
because you watch an entire episode and there's two sketches that are really good yeah and 10
that aren't as good right but those two are really good and then it's clippable so you're able to then
clip those episodes and then show that as like a commercial and you're like oh my god it's hilarious
yeah you're talking about back from soup to nuts even back then they would show like little like
snl and then they would show like a clip of of them in b costumes and you're like oh my god this
is fucking great it's fucking bees yeah dude belushi is a bee people are like oh they put
on b costumes like dude yeah but again vibe like i'm not the biggest uh john belushi fan ever but
apparently the dude had the vibe where everyone's like uh yeah he was the best ever vibe he had a
maniac vibe super vibe yeah um he's a party he's a party animal neighbors
holds up well and and especially like uh the 1995 cast that they like fired everyone which was
chris rock and sandler and uh barley farley and like it and it was the and then the older cast
was still there of like the kevin neilands and the dana carvey and the mike myers and then they
just like clean slate in 95 because uh don oldmeyer who was the head of nbc at the time
he didn't like sandler and he didn't like farley and he just thought that they were norm right he
was friends with oj and norm kept doing the oj jokes yeah oh the best wow and he kept he just
kept doing the oj just so he was like you have to fire everybody whoa crazy yeah and then the cast
after that was like will ferrell and stuff yep and molly shannon and sherry o terry and well that
worked out all right that's my point everyone's like well there was a dip and like i understand
where they didn't hit
because you didn't know who they were.
But then three, four seasons later
when they're movie stars
and you go back, you go,
oh yeah, no, this is pretty funny.
Yeah, and then. Everyone on it now,
there's so many funny people on it all the time
without fail when I turn it on.
Marcello's super funny.
That Chloe Fineman girl who just left,
she was super funny.
There's a. Veronica, what's her last name?
Oh yeah, I'm like. Veronica, she's super funny, dude.
Too old to know names anymore,
but when I tune in and I watch,
I go, still funny, super funny.
That Cam Patterson kid,
he just has a vibe.
I don't know if he's good at all,
but his energy when he's in a scene,
it just makes me laugh.
Yeah.
Which is what you need.
Oh, we love it.
We love SNL.
What does that. We love SNL.
We love SNL.
We love Lauren.
We love Lauren.
Lauren Bacall?
Yes.
But that's not Lauren.
That's not.
And that's a woman.
That's Lauren, right?
Right.
I don't know.
I don't think there's another man
in the world named Lauren.
I agree.
I'll stand by your. And is that even his real name
or was he. He moved to Hollywood
and changed his whole shit up?
Someone just put in the chat,
Todd just put,
Lauren Green,
the Canadian actress,
singer, and radio personality
best known for playing Ben Cartwright
in the Western series Bonanza.
Oh, sure.
Of course.
By the way, hey. It's a Canadian name.
Lauren.
No, that doesn't count.
What?
Why?
Why not?
This 85-year-old man
that was best known
for playing Ben Cartwright
in the Western series Bonanza.
How old do you think
Lauren Michaels is?
They're the same age.
Hey, you don't count.
Hey, Lauren Green,
you heard it here first.
You don't count.
Well, I mean. Hey, Lauren Green.
No, you can't. I'm just saying it's not. Hey, Lauren Green.
If there's not a ton of Lauren
down there,
you get the red light.
There's one.
And Lauren Green. You ate it.
You don't count, bitch.
Sorry.
We're starting beef.
I hope he's still alive.
All right.
Oh, yeah.
These aren't flowers.
I guarantee you
if he was on Bonanza,
he could fucking choke
Blake out for sure.
Yeah, I'd probably
choke all of them.
He's like,
you don't remember me?
I was the first fucking bro
you saw.
dudes looking. Do it, hippie bitch!
Lorne Michaels, he's got some teeth. He's got some chompers
on him. I'm like, at what age
are we gonna get chompers?
Jamie Foxx in the new
stand-up special goes in on it. He talks
about Shannon Sharpe's teeth. He's like, see these?
He's like, these are 90s fake teeth.
And he goes, these 2000s teeth
look like you got 2000
teeth. And I'm like. That's a bar! He's back.
Hey, guess what? Yes! Points!
Points to Jamie Foxx.
I'm on the pod. Yeah, SNL's good. I'm more of an
in-living-color guy. But anyway, sure.
Living-color's good. I don't know if
we could've or would've sustained it
for
50 years? Is that where we're at?
That would've been dope.
Over 50 years. Yeah.
It's crazy to
watch that documentary because
they'd be like, season
12 and they're
coming back because Lorne
left for five years and
after the first
five years.
Five years or something. And it was like season, whatever,
season 11. And they're coming back with a
brand new cast. And are they going to be able to do
it? And then I remember
everyone from that cast.
And I'm like, oh, it's crazy that I've been watching this
show for 40 years. That's like
Phil Hartman era? Since I was
three years old. Like after Julie
Louis-Dreyfus, Randy Quaid,
fucking Anthony Michael Hall
and Iron Man.
He came back and just hired all
actors. And it did not
work for a year. And then he. That's weird. Then he fired everyone and only
kept. Brad Hall.
No, only kept John Lovitz, which
I'm like, I love that.
Just fucking fire everyone.
And the very last
scene of that season
was the building
is on fire and the only one
that he saves is John Lovitz.
He goes, go wait in my limo.
You'll be fine. And then he goes,
SNL writers, please come here.
And then all these guys come running up and he
goes, there's some food in the
break room. Help yourselves
as if they're all going to burn
alive.
You know what though? John Lovitz
singular.
He's great.
He's the best.
All of his movies are great.
There's funny people
and then there's people who there's no one else
like. Like there's no other John
Lovitz. And if there is, they're doing
John Lovitz.
Remember when. I'm not giving flowers.
But John Lovitz. Dude, there's no other.
Remember our college
improv teacher and acting
teacher was
roommates with John
Lovitz in college. Didn't he
say that John Lovitz like took
a bit from him? And he's like. I think he might have claimed
that. But what was the bit?
What was the bit? It was like a fucking thing, John Lovitz.
Yeah, what's. Where he's like the liar.
Oh, really?
Yeah, that's the ticket.
And Alex was like, that was
my thing. I would say that around
the apartment or whatever. Lovitz is a bro. Lovitz is a fucking
bro. It happens, man.
But this is the whole thing that
was between. Charge it to the game.
Mike Myers and Dana Carvey
is that Dana Carvey's
impression of Lorne Michaels,
he would always do this with the pinky.
And he'd be like, well,
I think maybe we can cut the sketch and that
one can go and maybe we get lunch, okay?
I want Thai food.
And then he did
the impression as Dr. Evil and did
the pinky. And Dana was like. Yep. So, hang on.
You could have hired. I mean, think about it this way.
Obviously, Mike Myers is super
talented, but do you have to play both
characters? You're not going to hire me
to do the impression that I do?
Oh, Dana
Carvey as Dr. Evil
and Mike Myers as
Austin Powers?
If you're listening and you know how to do AI,
will you put together a
sizzle reel of
Dana Carvey as
Dr. Evil? I don't know.
For these kids, I don't think this is much anymore.
I think they know the prompts.
It's not just AI. It's just a prompt.
I don't know. I think about it.
It's all exciting.
Wayne's World was a taxi movie, right?
And then he's like, well, I'm going to do
Austin Powers on my own, but I'm also just going
to play the character you would have played
without you.
Damn, that's kind of a. Maybe you could call that sinister.
Yeah, that's a
bad bro, not a good bro
that we've established.
You know what I think? Dana is a dude.
I don't think Dana's a bro.
Oh, Dana's a dude.
Are you kidding me?
Obviously, Austin Powers, amazing
movies, but
at what cost?
Classics.
When one of us does this to each other, they're going to play
this clip.
Please play this clip.
At what cost?
Blake, Ders couldn't
have played this?
I want to see Austin Powers, but in the world
of backrooms.
Okay.
Okay. Yeah, it's like really tinny.
Any takebacks, any apologies,
any epic slams here?
I don't know.
You know, I want to apologize if you haven't seen. I think we dropped some spoilers.
And if you haven't seen. Yeah, you know what? I didn't listen. I tuned out.
Backrooms or Obsession,
which Blake has watched
several times.
I'm obsessed.
I could say I'm obsessed.
There's a lot of Easter eggs.
You go back and you watch it with different eyes.
Oh, really? Okay.
What's one besides how they do the shadows on the face?
Well, even how you were saying, how she was like
snapping in and out of it. You go back
and you watch all those instances.
There's a lot of clues there.
So you see like moments where she comes and then is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes. Her performance is very nuanced.
It's really rad.
You know, she. And I don't think. It's not the same girl.
It's not the same girl from Smile, right?
That's a totally different person.
Yeah.
Do they look identical?
Like you sort of look like Brian Austin Green?
Is that what's happening?
Okay.
And he doesn't look like. Yeah, he looks like. I think he looks like. Was that last week?
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It was.
So long ago.
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Base44 allows users to turn group chat ideas into real apps without coding, handling backend, database, login, and hosting.
The platform enables quick creation of tools, games, trackers, or any random idea by describing it in plain English.
Sports fans become irrational when emotionally invested, leading to intense loyalty and sudden support for unexpected players.
The podcast explores the evolving meaning of "bro," highlighting its competitive, sometimes toxic nature, especially in tech and social contexts.
A recurring theme is the contrast between "bro" and "dude," with "bro" often seen as competitive and aggressive, while "dude" represents calm, grounded, and inclusive behavior.
The hosts discuss the cultural significance of classic TV shows and movies, using them as touchstones for generational shifts in humor and values.
A notable segment explores the viral phenomenon of *Backrooms* and *Obsession*, reflecting on how horror content taps into deep-seated fears and nostalgia.
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The podcast blends humor and insight, exploring how group ideas can be turned into real apps using Base44—a tool that lets users build apps without coding. It highlights the ease of creation, emphasizing that anyone can bring a wild idea to life by simply describing it in plain language. The discussion then shifts to the irrationality of sports fans, explaining how emotional investment turns casual viewers into passionate, sometimes irrational supporters.
A central theme is the evolving meaning of "bro," examined through cultural references, with the hosts contrasting competitive, aggressive "bro" culture with more inclusive, grounded "dude" behavior. The conversation also touches on nostalgic TV and film, particularly SNL and its history, illustrating how humor and community evolve over time. Personal anecdotes about parenting, childhood fears, and pop culture are interwoven, adding warmth and relatability.
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