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Ep 324: Macro-Dosing Alcohol

The podcast "Curse of Miss America" critically examines the Miss America pageant’s historical legacy and current state, revealing how it has shifted from a symbol of beauty and opportunity to a system that exploits women, denies financial support, and suppresses personal narratives. Host Bridget Armstrong shares a deeply personal journey through her brother’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis, framing the podcast as an intimate, vulnerable exploration of mortality, family, and the fear of being forgotten. Interwoven with this narrative are satirical and raw anecdotes about party culture, including chaotic pit fights, reckless drinking, and absurd social rituals—highlighting themes of rebellion, body image, and boundary-breaking. The show blends humor and sharp commentary on toxic masculinity, institutional hypocrisy, and the performative nature of social events. These stories reflect a broader critique of how institutions, like pageants or schools, maintain power by controlling narratives and silencing personal truths. Ultimately, the podcast questions what value lies in traditional institutions when they fail to deliver on their promises, and it champions authenticity, vulnerability, and individual agency over image and compliance. The tone is both irreverent and heartfelt, using absurdity to spotlight real systemic issues.

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This is an "I Heart" podcast. Guaranteed Human. It's all just a joke. What is the value of these women? I'm Bridget Armstrong, back with season two of the podcast, Curse of Miss America. We're talking to participants, whistleblowers, and people who say Miss America didn't live up to their promises. He looks at me and goes, "You don't look like you suffered in the eating disorder." I never received scholarship many to pay for my student loans. Maybe this is the meta question for the podcast. What is Miss America at this point? Listen to the Curse of Miss America on the "I Heart" radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. [MUSIC PLAYING] In October 2021, my brother David was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A year later, he convinced me to make a podcast with him. This podcast-- My biggest fear is that I am afraid of being forgotten. My brother David is the story of the last chapter of my brother's life. It's weird and messy and vulnerable. And I'm going to share all of it with you. OK, so here we go. Listen to my brother David on the "I Heart" radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There are thousands of podcasts that can tell you how to better yourself. Get worse with Kyle Pru is not one of those podcasts. So if you're interested in getting thinner, going to therapy, starting peptide, setting boundaries, taking supplements, making your better, getting closer, then I would humbly recommend other podcasts. If you're interested in blackmail, love, bomb, and cloning yourself, or getting revenge, then we've got a little something, something for a dastardly individual like you. Listen to get worse with Kyle Pru on the "I Heart" radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to "This Is Important," a production of "I Heart" radio, the show where we talk about what's obviously most critically, crucially important. Today on "This Is Important," no matter what, tell me where to party at. I'm pulling up. I got my fly head on. Why have gave the green light? You guys have never done belly button shots lay down, Zach. Let's go! I don't want to. I don't want to. Wine, get up. Wine, get up. What's the tip? I'm not, I'm not juicing. I thought I was juicing. Brat, it's hot still, it's hot still. Brat, you were in a hooded sweatshirt. Is it not hot where you're at? Do my cousin head. Dude, I'm just trying to represent my guys. The new heights, boy. Okay, new heights. Oh, dude. I love representing other podcasts. Kelsey Gang, Kelsey Gang. There's nothing like learning a humongous hoodie that goes past my butt cheeks like a teen girl. Oh, dude, that's hot to me. Did they get it too big for you? Huh? It's just big, it's just big and baggy. And you know when like those dudes wear it, it's like, well, we're big, we're baggy guys. Absolutely. I'm saggy, I'm big and saggy. I'm slight. I remember I asked, I asked for a medium and they were, they just wouldn't give it to me. Yeah, they were like, what? They were like, they were like, nah, you need a large. I'm like, what's a medium, man? Swing, swing. I don't, I don't need a large. I'm like, why don't you go catch more footballs and go into more Hall of Fame's dudes? Yeah, slam, burn bro. I don't think they got a bitch. I'm gonna, I'm gonna be over here being a medium sized body. Burn, bro. Burn. Thanks for having us on your huge podcast, Dick. Yeah, they didn't, they didn't know what to say when I said that. They looked at me like, I was the fucking dumbass and I'm like, but am I? Burn, I will say I met, I met Pat Mahomes, I call him Pat. Oh, wow, you're on the, you're on the Pat. I call him Patty. I call him Trick, no big deal. I call him Patty and he likes that. Uh, he didn't, no. I go, you ain't gonna trick Mahomes? Okay, okay, wait. Yes, points. So I met, I met him and I was pretty disappointed that he, that he had no clue who we were. Had no idea. It's not of a gun. Zero clue. Busy, he's one's and zero's and he's X's and O's. And he said, oh, someone, someone introduced us and he, they're like, oh, yeah, I'm sure you know Adam. And he's like, no, no, I don't. I, uh, I actually saw you for the first time on, um, Travis podcast. And I was, that's why we do it. That's why we do it. And I was a static that we did it because now Pat and Pat knows who we are. Trick, yeah. Patty, patty. Yeah. Yeah. There's no doubt. Patty, the baddie. Um, Blake, can we talk about what's happening? You were gonna bring it up with, uh, with your, with your look, what, what's part? What do you mean, which part? My sick tie. I don't know. The part that's starting to bug me. It's, it bugs me when you do that. Okay. Yes, points. I don't know when this comes out, but it probably comes out post Halloween, right? Uh, yeah. There's no way to tell. For the audio people, I just got my costume in the mail. I'm pretty hyped on it. It is. And that's it. You're wearing it. And you know what it's from? Well, just the hood because I don't know if I'm gonna wear this, but actually it's pretty sick. Yeah. Oriental trading. OrientalTrading.com can't believe the quality. I can't believe the quality. Like in what regard? Yeah. It's really nice. So he is a, he's a insect. He's a bug. You fly. I fly. Yeah. And it looks really, it looks really, really nice. Thanks, brother. I, I'm going to be a ghost slash shark, um, I, and I like that, Adam. That really shows, uh, some individuality. And is that commentary that like the ocean, like we got to do better with the oceans? Yeah. It's my son. My son is pretty. Cause I know you always have like a strong message with my Halloween costumes. I'm always swinging for the fences. Yeah. It's kind of, you always kind of take a stance with your Halloween costumes. And I like it. Right. No, my son just goes, and I might have brought this up. Last year you were carrying bass, but like a bass fish, it was really, I really liked your costume. He was a bass that kept like telling people to get off the playground and so what are you doing on that? And this year I'm going to be a ninthio, ninthio ramen, and I'm going to be a giant ramen noodle. Uh, yeah. It's cool. Making statement. You're so, you're so plugged in. We have to be with local LA politics, um, so that those were the, the, the mayor and the, maybe soon to be mayor is who we're talking about. If you're outside of the LA, you probably don't know that everybody, but I'm going to be a ghost, a ghost shark because my son says that my wife is a ghost. He's a baby ghost and I'm a ghost shark and he's been saying this for like two months, and I keep trying to pivot him off the shark. And I'm like, yeah, but mostly just the ghost, right? And he's like, go shark. And I'm like, no, I still got bumpers. Yeah, you sure you don't want me to be a wizard? Yeah, I can go easily, go wizard, uh, how would you have that Blake? How would you do that? Well, I could, I could ask bulldozer to open a portal and you can walk through and he could Halloween trick or treat with my son. And then me as a father, I could take the fucking night off and Adam, if I wanted an answer from you, I would have asked you, oh, sorry, I would have, I would have, I'm sorry. Well, he, and if that's the way we're going to do this podcast, we're, we're just talking over each other. I'm in, I defer, I defer to Adam. I defer to Adam. They always, and I will, you always defer a little flat, a little flag, I always defer to my bro, always, and that is cool. I do like the idea of you giving bulldozer a night off, so kind of, uh, Blake and I did something really, really fun and really cool down in my neck of the woods. He came down to the OC baby. Let's go. Let's go. Uh, we saw my favorite band as of late, as of the last few years, turn style. And we were, we was, it was, uh, what an event. Oh, my God. It was so fun. Don't think all the homies here there, um, we brought Isaac, Isaac finally, I was invited before you're in the comments. I was invited. He was. And I get so much power out of saying, no, thanks. He said he, you know what was Ders' excuse, which, no, you were like, I, I have a, the Wisconsin game, which was on Saturday. The show was, I thought they said, oh, uh, wife sat a town with all three kids, yeah, hosted a party before the game, lost the game, um, was in a cold bathtub with all the razors. If you really want to do it, yeah, I, I do that. That's why I couldn't make it you hosted a party. We didn't get that. Didn't get that. What's the deal? I, I hung out with what's, what's the badger is a Bucky who's, what's there? If you knew what he got in the end, right? Well, Bucky is the Ohio State Buckeye. Wait, no, who, what's the badgers, dude, name? We've kicked it with a Bucky badger. Yeah, it's Bucky. Oh, fucking. Thank you. Yeah. That's okay. Yeah. I've, I've kicked it with Bucky. It was. What a, what a show. What a show. Oh, it was, it was author. Tell me more about the show. The light design very, they have a song called light design and during that song, the light design was magnificent. That's when the lighting guys like this is my time. And is the light song light design about light design and concerts or is it about like some punk rock getting radical? I'm sure it has a deeper meaning. I don't really listen to lyrics. In fact, when I'm singing along, I know all of the words. And then if you were to ask me. to write down the words to the song, it would just be scribbles, it'd be scribbles. Interesting. It would be. Yeah. Yeah. I'm really stupid in certain ways. In other ways. Okay. Not that dumb. Only slightly less stupid. Yeah. What ways are you smart in? I would love to hear what you think you're super smart in. What I'm super smart in? Yeah. Freaking bodybuilding. What are we talking about, dude? Obviously bodybuilding. I love that. I love that. He knows what macrobites are. I know what macros are. What are they? It's macrobites. What are they called? Macros. It's just macros. Yeah, there's no bites to it. You eat it though, right? Shut up, bitch. It's all food. There's different. The macros in Burbraccia. So it's macrobites. Nobody says that. Yeah. Well, they can. They can't start now. Who cares? As a fitness influencer, I totally agree with that. Yeah. I was happy to see you out rockin last night at 'em. That was fucking fun, dude. It was fun. It was a blast. Did you, were you gettin' pitted? I totally was on board. It was pretty exciting. She was like, get out there. Yeah, yeah. She's like, it's in Orange County. It took 15 minutes to get to the venue. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. And Zanna Anna. And then I fucking ripped it, dude. Yeah. We were front at house right there while the light guy was on the fucking turntables, fucking light designing, just-- The song is about me! Adam was just into the lights, dude. Yeah, I was like, what do you want next to see? I should. I mean, that would have been such a weird show to be on. But the wife gave the green light. I do hope that you have every Adam keeps getting more and more insane as the night goes on. And every time I'm like, whoa, like, did you just do blow-off of a speaker? Wife gave the green light. It's all good. Good, the lights. It's a bagel. You see these lights? The lights. Adam, you're dragging your cock across my butt. Yeah, I didn't. I just want to party. You're ruining my trousers. Isaac also got the green light to come out. And he got invited. OK. He got invited. He asked for a plus one. You notice that wasn't answered. Yeah. Yeah. When Tiba reached out to say, you guys want to come to the show, Isaac said, yeah, I'll take a plus one. Tiba didn't-- You didn't honor that. Didn't give the green light on that. I know a plus one for a sass one. I'll tell you, boys. I'm getting radical. Oh, damn. Yes, boys. All right. That's the t-shirt. That's a t-shirt. You know, plus one for a sass one. I was saying, upon entering Isaac was saying punk rock and radical, I'm like, we do need to make those shirts. Yes. I think that's a good shirt. Outside or inside of the pod, if you just have a punk rock and radical t-shirt. Hit us with it. I want to hear it. I want to hear it again. Just hit us with it. Yeah. Punk rock. I'm getting radical. And do you do anything with the nipples on the shirt? Like, does the shirt have nipples? See, I mean, maybe if you like, pull it up, then there's nipples there or something. There's a nipple on the inside. Well, then your nipple would be on the outside. Well, no, it's like kind of like you have it, like this, still at the bottom. Oh, it's awesome. As opposed to just lifting up the shirt and showing your own nipple. We do some crazy expensive double prints. Huh. Punk rock. You worked in fashion, right? Yeah. I just don't, I don't think we should have nipples on the shirt. I'm trying to yes and your idea, but I don't think we should. I think people won't buy it if their nipples go ahead. I think that's right. I think people will not buy it if there's nipples. Let's just have it say punk rock and radical. And by the way, our comments, the DMs are going to be flooded with, do no fuck that. I'll buy it and then we'll make the shirt. We'll spend tens of thousands of dollars printing these shirts in 11 shirts. We'll get sold. Yep. I don't like you guys telling me to show my tits. And those people who in the comments, they're like, got them. Yeah. Really? I got them, dude. Oh, okay. It's fucking sick. Yeah. He likes the shirt. Yeah. Because that's what it is. It's always just a few people making all the noise. Right. That's it. That's it. Greasy wheels. We're not speaking for everybody. Greasy wheels. Uh, greasy wheels. Well, they get the grease. Of course, the deals. What do we get? We get Mike. We got to make more shirts. We don't want. Logan said it is. We need more shirts. Uh, Isaac. Then. So turned style. They're a hardcore band. Uh, I think you would say. And define hardcore for me. I don't. Somebody is tremendously softcore. I don't really know. I think it's. I don't really know. To me, it's just sort of. It's like punk rock, but. But more screaming. Is that a little more? It's a little more aggressive. Yeah. It's more aggressive. More aggressive than punk rock. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you can believe it. Uh, I know. Mind blown. It's a hardcore band. They morphed into something else. They're doing their own thing. They're just rockers. Yeah. Yeah. They're just your rockers. Right. They found their sound. They found their own style and their own sound. And it is incredible. Yeah. And what they've implemented, which I'm like. I'm like it's genius. Because now. Girls want to go to the show. Girls don't want to go to the hardcore shows. Okay. They don't. Some do. And those are hardcore bass and shout out to. Yeah. And by the way, there will be 11 and they'll swarm the DMs. You'll be like, I'm at the show. I was at the show. We know. And you. And you know that there was only four other women at the entire show. And what's the shirt? Girls like hardcore. Girls are hardcore. That seems pornographic. I like my girls like my music. And then on the back it says hardcore. Oh. And there's like an apple. So it's like getting radical. What is that? Yeah. What is that? The nipples or apples? I'm buying all your shirts. This is in merch mode over here. I love this shit, bro. I love it. And so so they turned style. They. That it's a lot of like love. So in between they have like a. Oh, what is it? What is it? You eat for it. Ethereal. Ethereal like sound. Yeah. It's like sort of a lot of ambient noises in between songs that sort of like meld the songs together. Birds chirping. Yeah. Birds chirping. Yeah. And, uh, and then a little panda the crowd. And it's like a guy and his girl. This is hardcore. But then you cut to like when the songs get hard. Yeah. And the hits go in crazy. And as wild. And then it cuts to guys holding their girls and kissing them on the cheeks. And giving them the the hard hands. And we're standing next to the lead singers. Girlfriend or wife. Yeah. Girlfriend. Girlfriend. Girlfriend. And then Isaac is like, I fucking love this band. I fucking hate this love. And then he's going like, boo love. Yeah. Freaking see ya. And he's shitting on the love. He's so punk rock. Dude, he's all school punk rock. He's too punk rock for the show. It's about rejection of society. He finally gets the invite. And then, and then we're standing right in front of. And you wonder why you don't get a plus one. Yeah. But you wonder. You wonder such. By the way, he's off pod right now. He's listening to. He's so. And by the way, he could easily come on. And we would be happy to be happy to have him. But guess what? He won't. He won't. He's too much for a bitch. Hot, hot, hot. I like that you're baiting him. Yeah. It's too much for me. And he's not gonna. Okay. So, so not my big takeaway is like. Yes. This doesn't remind me of a few movies. Which is Gravity and or. Casa Blanca. No, hang on. And like. Well, black and white movie. Paranormal activity. Where there's these like moments of intensity. And then it like dips back down. And it's kind of show for a moment. Yes. At the backstory about stranger Bullock's kid. Or whatever the fuck it was. Go off kids. And the asteroids are back. And you're eviscerating the pot, right? Yes. What a movie brain. Dude, you have the only way you can relate to the rest of society. Is through movies he's seen. But what they're doing at it. Very shaggy, Derek. Is they're telling a story. They are giving people a break so that they can. I know. Be right. Because if it's just all intense the entire time, and it's just regular old hardcore. Yeah. If you guys have ever been in the pit, getting seriously pitted. Those little breaks are essential. You're essential. You're like, if you're in a real punk rock pit, you're just waiting for the lead singer to kind of like spew off some thoughts into the mic. You're like, let's pause the music for a second. And what pit, pit protocol? Pit protocol. Let's go. Like when you see it. There's this pit protocol corner. Let's go. Time out. This is Durses pit protocol pockets. Your boobs are huge. Like that's by the way. It's another shirt. Ask me about pit protocol. I'm like, that's the guy who's like in their repping. Because I see these videos. It's a referee outfit. It's got the stripes. Yeah. Pit protocol. Yeah. I like this. I like this. You see these videos of dudes just like going and swinging and backhanding and just some dudes to the side. And maybe shouldn't be right there to the side. Spin kick. Spin kick. Drink all over and he's like, oh, fuck. Then the fist knocks his glasses off. And the dude just keeps going on. Like my forefathers would call a whirling dervish. No one says that anymore. But elders, elders still describe things that way. We're whirling dervish. Yeah. Texas tornado. Well, that is my least favorite guy in the pit. Is the fist and the elbows willingly. I like, I like a marching like this. Moving forward. You're slamming into people. You're a skankster. Yeah. You're kind of more of a Skawskankster guy. I'm skanking a little bit through there. Yeah. I want to run into people. I want to hit. I want to hit people. I want people to hit me. I don't want to get hit in the face. I don't want to get kicked in the face. I don't want an elbow in my nose. Is there who's letting this fly? Like is this all good? That's the thing. It's the Lord of the Pit, it's the Lord of the Pit. You never know what you're going to get, but so then if someone just goes, man, I'm watching this dude just fucking swing on people. It happens. I'm going to go deck him. I feel like I've seen dudes just go, that's kind of, I guess so, but then you're make that person. You feel that way. I have seen that. It does happen. It does happen. But then it just becomes a fight and if you cause the fight, the guy, Mr. Dervish, were the dude who decides that I'm going to go and put my fucking knuckles in this dude's forehead. I think the guy that, because that is what the pit is for, things like that can happen in the pit. So the guy that then tries to escalate it and actually starts a fist fight and, because you're not trying to hit anyone individually, you're just swinging it. But this dude, we've seen these videos where they're like, I know where it's very tight. I think I just jump kick somebody in the, in the chest and it's like, oh, that was, that was a targeted attack. I think you got to grab that guy and say like, yo, chill, chill. Or, if he doesn't chill, then you take out your blade, uh-huh. What the hell? That's, that's, that's, no, that is, no, that's, I would call number one, there's no blade. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, hey, this is last case, resort. Then you take out the blade. And then, and then the camera comes to you because they had a lot of cameras in, in the crowd. And then it comes to you and you're covered in blood and you throw them the hands and you throw them the hands. You hit them with the heart. That's the album cover right there. Yeah. He does. And you're just smiling, you're smiling through the heart like, mm-hmm. Never enough. Yeah. That's hardcore. Never enough. You're a psychotic, Adam. You're a psychotic. I would lay down like a rope in a circle on the ground and I would just wait and as soon as he steps in. Hog tie. Oh. Okay. And then everyone pees on him or you like everyone pees on him. You stick your dick through the heart and you pee on him. That's the album cover. Never enough. Damn. Never enough. Sure. I got to get pitted with you, bros. You guys seem fun. I don't know, man. Adam stabs and does pisses. It makes me the fact that there's people, look, I don't mind people like running and like shouldering each other and like whatever. But when I see a dude calculated style spinning around in there, it makes me go, who, who, who's into that. I agree. Who wants to do that? Yeah. What are you doing? Let's, let's just fight. Yeah. Yeah. I, I personally don't. You clearly want to fight. Let's just fight. Yeah. I think it's a, sometimes it is a way of talking you, Blake. I'm, I'm not a, I'm not a violent pit guy. I like to just kind of go with the flow, but, but there's what I, I guess I'm saying is this, these people ruin the idea that I need, I need pit protocol. Yeah. That's absolutely. Yeah. If you are in there and you are targeting someone, then, then, then you deserve to get trash kicked. But if you were just run around and you're swinging around, that's, that's what it is. And if you hit a few people and, and if you get hit, that's part of being in the pit. Part of, part of the game. Yeah. That's, that's part of it. Now, you, we've all seen the videos where people are getting out of line. That's when you take out your blade. Uh-huh. Yeah. You're fucking disaster, my guy. You just walk up to him when the song says that's never part of it. Oh, oh, it had to get the blade past the metal detectors. It's not metal. It's wood. You made it the night. It's a shame. Shame. Out of what in the same question? What in the Sam Quentin toothbrushes? It's never enough. It's never enough. It's never enough. I don't know how to die. Did you kill someone? The, the lights are cool though, right? Yeah. I don't know. I was on, I was on too many drugs. I had a wife said it was, I was good to go. Adam shan't somebody. They go, you're killing me. Go. Sorry. Wife gave me the green light. Dude. Hey, what's up, guys? Adam here inviting you to run it back with me and the guys on this cruise is important to November 11th through the 15th, 2027, we'll be sailing on our own personal party boat, Norwegian Jewel, from Miami to Nassau, Bahamas with Eric Andre, Tim Heidecker, Rick Glassman, and even more awesome people for four days of live pod tapings, deck wars, karaoke with me, and a bunch of other cool shit. Visit this cruise is important.com today to join the presale by November 30th for $100 off Cabin Fair. The first thing I hate about eulogies is they never actually tell the Turks I'm Dave and I've been it for my life. In October 2021, my brother David was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This podcast. Okay, so here we go. We didn't know what we were doing, so we just started recording. We discussed cancer, we fought, and we talked openly about the fact that David was going to die. It's weird and messy and vulnerable, and I'm going to share all of it with you. It's a constant back-and-forth battle about how do I not just be alive, but actually live. Listen to my brother David on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more than a century, miss America's out the country of fantasy. Well, are you ready, ladies? Okay, here we go. But over the past decade, the crown's been slipping. They said, "Goodbye to swimsuits, now, hello to lawsuits." I'm Bridget Armstrong. Last season, we took you inside the world of America's next top model. Now I'm back with season two of this podcast, Curse of Miss America, investigating the rise, fall, and uncertain future of one of America's most iconic institutions. The Miss America pageant. I never received a scholarship I need to pay for my student loans. He looks at me and goes, "You don't look like you suffered in the eating disorder." It's great, but it looks too ethnic. It's a story the Miss America organization really doesn't want us to tell. An exploitation of our Miss America's is treated by the Miss America organization as an attack on Miss America itself. What happens to the Curse of Miss America on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast? If you're turn style and you see the front little pit going, and then you see dudes spinning around, you go, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait." No, I don't. I think if someone, he did stop a lot, like I would say, maybe four times. He didn't stop, but in between songs, he'd be like, "How's everyone doing? Are we good? Are we good over here?" Because I think people do really get hurt. Oh, yeah. I saw some wheelchairs. I mean, there was a lot of medics coming around. Within the first minute, someone, I was in like the front of house, so that's where, you know, I was near the light design guy, I feel like in those switches, and so I was there, and so the barricades, it goes right down the guts, right, and there's a stage right and stage left. And I just saw someone eat shit over the barricades, land on their head, minute two, and the medics had to come and get them, and they're just like, "Duh, duh." You're so bomb, dude. So people are getting hurt. I also saw some projectile vomit, which was cool to see out and about, yeah. Really? Oh, today. I don't like it. Someone's hosed from one side, like a rainbow to the other side, over the, the walking light. The lighting was hitting the vomit. Just perfect. And the light was shooting through it. Yes, right. Beautiful. It's never enough. Tostey. Uh, similar vomit story at the Wisconsin New See Lay game, go to the bathroom with my head, and wasn't invited. Go right in, taking a leak, and then all we hear from the stalls is just like, "Yeah, more!" And my kid turns, he goes, "Wonder what, he ate." And I was like, "Wow, man, I'm so happy, you've multiplied, there isn't much." What? I go, that's just drunk. He had too much alcohol. If you drink too much alcohol, it's bad news. If you drink just the right amount. Just the perfect amount. Your goal. Perfect amount. Oh, I got it right. That's what life's all about. He goes, "How do you know?" And I go, "Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't." At what age are you going to be upset that your children are drinking? And at what age are you going to be like, "Well, okay." I think at 21 is when you're like, "Well, it's cool." I mean, I love it. Good protocol. Sure. Like, I mean, I'm sure high school, the whole thing is, don't do it. High school. High school is rough. But like, don't do it. But I have daughters too. It's way different. I agree. I agree. I agree. I agree. I agree. That is a different thing. You've got to have your wits about you because there are some houndogs out there. You've got to be real careful. Very true. It's a different time. I think I think the kids don't, I mean, we've covered this. We don't like, they don't like drinking as much. I showed, I found an old. a book with some old photos. And my sister was looking at it and she was like, oh, when was this? We were 17 years, 16 and 17 years old. And it was just photos of us getting drunk. Just like a whole photo album of us just absolute shithouse. The entire time she's like, oh my God, we did not party like that. I'm like, oh, that's all we did. Every weekend was like, no one did. How can we get drunk? We have hours of film of just Kyle just drinking vodka throwing up in like sewers. It's just like, we were just filmed Kyle just. - Yeah, he went sober. Yeah, there's checks out. - Yeah, that checks out. - I do love it, like that's what comes to mind. - We were like, yeah, man, we were playing like flip cup and this. - No, no, no, no, no. - There was no game to this. It was just like- - 'Cause it was after 'cause- - It was like so sad. It was, Kyle was the only one drinking. He was like, just fill me in the sewers. - It's never enough. - Legend. - Legend. - Legend. - Legendary run. - True. - Anyway. - Yeah, I think the age is 15 or 16. And that's where- - This is my thing. In high school, I'm not gonna be, I'll be cool about it when they're still under age and in college, like 18. Like if they're out of the house, it's not my fucking, they're on their own. - Yeah. - I'm drunk now, but in high school, the whole message just has to be like, you gotta be smart about this. - Well, definitely don't get in a car with a drunk person, like just call me, I'm here. - And my dad would call me, he would very much play it. Like he would get mad. - He was the one that would get mad. And my mom would play like good cop. And I think they did it right where my dad would be like, "Absolutely not." And then looking back at him like, "My dad didn't give a shit." He just was like, someone hammered say to not drink and drive, you know? - You're, you shouldn't do that. - I was intoxicated. - No, but like to Blake's point, Blake's like, girls are different than boys and it's like, yeah, but also at the same time, I'm like, boys are crazy. So I'm like, you can't like just, you gotta keep it dialed in, have a good time. If someone starts to be like, let's do this dumbass thing. You have to be, have the wherewithal to go. Go for it, dudes. I'll be here, no matter what. You gotta have like whatever that character is. - Yes, and I think the conversation of like, no matter what, you can call me and I'll come pick you up and you won't be in trouble. - No matter what, you can call me and I will get you an Uber. - Yeah. - And I will. - I will get you an Uber, because I might be drunk by myself. - I'm at Cha Cha. No matter what, you guys can always call Adam apparently. He said on the podcast, so. - Yeah, yeah, just call, just call your mom. - Yeah. - No matter what, you can call your mom. - I always call your mom. - She'll get you an Uber. - She will get you the Uber. - Hey, no matter what. - 'Cause I can't, I can't read my phone. - Hey, no matter what, I'll meet you where you are. - Yeah, no matter what, tell me where to party. - I'm down. - I'm pulling up, I got my fly head on. - Listen, I got you. - Never enough. - I saw something online of a mom game in the green line. - You know. - Of this guy, these kids were underage, but they were like 18 or 19 and the dad. They, it was like the baseball coach, but he like wasn't affiliated with the school at all. And they invited, it was just like the coach, assistant coach or something. And the kids invited him to the party and he showed up and then party with the kids all night. And I'm like, that is. - You're kind of hyped just here about this. - You're kind of hyped when he first, I saw it online. - Is the news or what? - I think it was just our algorithms or sending it to us going, you're gonna like this. - I'm sorry. - Is the situation somebody being like, this is how down my basketball coach was. - Yes, we party. - He party with us, or was it like, channel five reporting that this fucking baseball coach. - No, no, no. It was like, our coach is fucking awesome. And then it's like literal photos of him, like this man party with these high school boys. - Right. - Or like his college, maybe. - You guys had never done belly button shots lay down, Zach. - I think you kind of knock something loose in my brain. I do recall like our social studies teacher. We were like super hyped on him and they're like, you gotta come party with us. You gotta come party with us. I think he showed up to a house party once. And it was like, hell yeah, Mr. T, he's here. But then he was like, he was there the whole time. And it was like, oh no. - This is kind of dark. - Wife did. - You remind me. (laughing) - And the wife gave the guy. - He's just drinking like whiskey on rocks. Can I tell you that dude was playing with absolute fire that night. - Oh. - Apps of Rick and Luke. - What is he doing? - He's like, he's basically just going. - I wanna lose my job. - Lock me up. - Yeah. - Everything. Take me away. - Yeah. - He was the teacher where you like, you joked with him that he was drunk because he was. - Yes. - But then like, he actually, yeah, you're like, oh yeah, like Mr. T drinks. Yeah, but he would never like confirm it. - Yeah, he's currently drinking out of that giant thermos. - His face is red as fuck. - Yeah. - Yeah, it's just like, you're hammered, right? Like hell, yeah. - We had a teacher that would, he was a psychology teacher and he would-- - Mr. T. - Mr. T. - Things where we would watch a video, we were gonna watch this video on psychedelic drugs. And he would go, you don't need a video, I'll do it. - No, literally, he goes, hey, hey everyone, come outside. Come outside, come by the men's bathroom. And so we go by the boys' bathroom and we're all standing outside of it and he goes, what does that smell like? And we're like, that's weed. That's hard. And he's like, yeah, I thought that was weed. And then we went in and we watched a video of like what psychedelic studio brain. And I'm like, he just smoked weed in this bathroom, blew it in the fucking bathroom and called the class out to investigate. - What in the whole world? - I don't even understand this guy. - Yeah, this guy was a legend. He was wild. He would just roll, we had one long hallway that went like a thousand feet, like forever. - It went from one side of the school all the way to the other and he would roll a bowling ball down it. - Forever. You see it today and it's like 90 feet? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he would roll a bowling ball down it just as a, and I'm like, you're gonna break someone's ankle and he's like, well? - Physics. - It's a psychology experiment. And I'm like, that's not a psycho, that's just a salt brother. - Yeah, that's my privilege. (laughing) - And then he came to our graduation parties and would tie one on, like multiple, everyone invited him because he was the man. - Okay. - He came to multiple parties and each time would just throw it the fuck down. And I'm like, say it. - He died, all right people. - Yeah, there's no doubt. - He died. - There's no doubt. - Oh man. - He seems like a weapon, dude. - He wasn't fucking sick, dude. He was cool. - This missile. - Unreal. - What a legend. - Shout out to all those high school teachers who get drunk with the students. (laughing) - Punk rock hitting radical. - Punk rock hitting radical. - Unreal. - This heart is real. - I think I told you, maybe I told this on the pod, but we had a, we were like homies with our jander. He was like a cool, like young guy. And he was like, yo, I saw your fucking vice principal doing crack in the basement. I've seen it multiple times. - Pizza, pizza. - I'm still gonna say what? - Doing crack in the basement? - That's crazy. - He was a hype man. - I don't think you told this on the pod. I think this was off pod. You were telling me that story and I can't believe. - It was a-- - Is that confirmed? - It's not confirmed. I don't know if I believe it, but at the same time, I'm like-- - You can't vice principal on track. - If you saw the vice principal, were you ever, was there ever a moment that you're like, that guy's a crack head? - Let me just say high energy, high energy guy. - I didn't know crack really woke you up like that. I thought it was kind of like a downer. - Oh, isn't crack cocaine, but you smoke? - Like, well, I have no experience with crack. - Well, no, I mean, but crack, you thought was a downer? - How could I possibly know this without having done so much? - Yeah, I didn't try it. - How could you just know with thing in the world? - By the way, I love that we just opened up something. So wait a second, it's not a downer. - I gotta go. - I guess I'm thinking about a lot. - I think I'm thinking like, hair. - Yes. - That's what really nods you off. - Yes. - Everyone is a sleepy time. - Almost, almost completely. - It can sometimes nod you off forever. - Yeah. - Okay. - Depending on how much you do, I think it could nod you off forever. - Forever night sleep. - But this is, it's moments like this. - Maybe I need a little dab of crack every once in a while. Just to kind of-- - Just a dab of do ya? - Get back. - Get in the pinch. - Well, that's like, I know your, your, your fave, a clavicular, your influencer. - Me? - Me? - Yeah, yeah. - He's your internet boy. - Okay, clavicular. He was saying that you have to microdose meth. And it's just a little, the issue is, it's not the meth's fault. It's like people are doing too much of it. - Right. - You know, we were just doing, you just have to do a little bit. - Right. - And then he like had, he like OD'd on meth, I think. - Can you, can you microdose? Yeah, I feel like meth is the one thing. He like, you start microdosing and then like, yeah, the next time you just nod. - It's not even the one thing. It's a lot of things. - The microdose that everyone was just microdosing. They're like, yeah, I microdose mushrooms. And I do mushrooms every day. I'm like, yeah, now you're just doing mushrooms every day. - Yeah, yeah. You're like, I microdose 10 times a day. And it's like, well, you're, you're dose, that's me. - Yeah, that's, that's how to take your mushrooms. - Who came up with the term microdose? And now we're all saying it even doctors, 'cause I would assume microdose thing as far as I know. The only time I ever heard it was shrooms back in the day, like eight years ago or so, people were like, we just microdose. And now doctors are like, actually, you could just microdose this and I'm like, this is now just like mainstream vernacular? - Yeah, whatever dose, whatever dose you take, that's the dose. It doesn't, you know, micro, yes, but I think, yes, you are correct, a dose is a dose. This is a microdose as opposed to a full dose. - A full, yes. - Like having a sip of a beer? - That's not gonna do anything. - That's a micro-brew. - Well, technically having a beer is what beer is, it's a micro-dose of alcohol. - Okay. - Oh yeah. - Well, no, but we've decided that a beer is a serving of like a full serving of alcohol. Just like we've decided a shot is a-- - Yeah, not to, not to guys like us. - Not to me, dog. - Yeah, no, a beer don't count, a beer. - Listen, there's pit protocol, there's also-- - Alcohol protocol. - Isn't it, how fun are the days? And I hope they're not gone, but they might be, how fun are the days when you were, when you're drinking all day long, and then you decide to downshift, 'cause you don't, it's getting late and you're like, man, I don't know, like get too drunk, then you downshift to beer. - How great, how great are those days? - Yeah, I think I did that at the time. - You're speaking of mine. - Yeah, that's fine. - Yeah, how hard did you go? - Oh man. - How hard did you go? - I didn't go hard, but I had a couple drinks here at the house, and then had a-- - What was the deal? - With those big 24 ounce cans. - Big sip? - Mm-hmm. - Big sip it at all, or-- - I didn't know. - Oh. - That would've took it to the next level, you might've won. - You would've been a big sip. - Oh, that's dude so rough, by the way. This goes back to dudes and pits. There was a guy heckling. - So that all goes back to dudes and pits. - I'm a dude. - A UCLA, well this is just protocol. - Hey, life is a pit. - Life is a pit. - Life is a pit. - There was life is a pit. - We hear you, Blake. - So bad, it was unreal. Like after every like bad throw, he'd be like, "Oh, he would just turn around to everyone." - Oh, he was wearing red behind him and go, "That was the worst throw I've ever seen. Your guy's quarterback is absolute garbage." And then before anyone could say anything, he would just turn back around. - Why didn't you spin kick him? - And then they'd be like a drop catch, and he'd be like, "Oh, you guys got it. Butterfingers everywhere." - Just damn. - And then after the game, we've lost. Everyone's like flown out here like see the game, CLA, whatever. And you go, "That's a long flight home for a bunch of losers." And I'm like, "Dude, I told you dude." And part of me goes, "Oh, this is all this guy has." But like our president is the president of the United States of America. - Yes, go. - Let's go. - Pretty big deal, right? - That's right. - Everybody's coming. - And yet still has this guy's exact same mentality, which is like, I love this. - Yeah, the worst attitude possible. - Yeah, like the shittiest, sore winner called to. - Live to dunk on people. - Dude, I hate that. When people, nothing fucking riles me a more sore than when someone wins or winners. - And they're being an asshole about it. Like, dude, not that he wasn't funny a few times. Obviously, he had some snap in there that I was like, "Pretty good, pretty good." - He's like, "Okay, yeah." - But then after the fact, after the fact, that's when you go, "Hey, better luck next time guys." - Yeah, you know, whatever. - All's fair in love and war. - Yeah, like, you guys, you gave it your best. - But like, no. - Those thoughts don't live in there. - That's when you wish you weren't with your kids and you didn't shake 'em, other fun. - And then you could block your blade and get close and just, here you go, ruins, but I'm really like, I'm like, is this what he wants or like, or does he want someone to roll up and then to just be like, "Security take him away." And then it's like an even better moment when he's like, "Durs, why didn't you say, hey, but do you wanna get your ass kicked?" And then he'd be like, "Uh." - 'Cause I don't know pit protocol. - I don't know pit protocol. - Just be honest with him. - Did he have a son next to him, then you say, I will pit my son versus your son. - You know what he, son versus son. - Son versus son right now. - And then you slip your son. - A blade. - Yeah. - This is what he had right next to him. Of a homie who thought he was the funniest guy ever. - And would just go, yeah, you're that? - Heck yeah, dude. - Who was way hammered? So the dude Sharpen was probably drunk, but fairly sober enough. And the other guy was just way drunker going, like holding on to his shoulder being like, "It's a bagel." - You know, hey, I turned the corner on this guy, 'cause that's a good one to punch right there. - Yeah. - I'm kinda down. This is like Jay and Silent Bob over here. - Rough game. - Sorry about that brother, sorry about that. But I do like your idea of a kid's fight club. - It's kinda cool. - Yeah. - Well, my dad could fight. - Well, I mean, you do, I don't think Bo's good. He's not much of a fighter now. I think you know pretty early on. - Give it time. - Give it time. - If they could take some punches. And he doesn't seem like he's very much like, I had to put like three band-aids on him this morning before he would put on his underwear and shorts. Because he was just like, I have a boo-boo. There's no boo-boo there. - Right. - And I'm like, dude, you're not ready to fight someone at the Colosseum. - Do you go, do you see these legs? - Do you see these legs? - Yeah. - Tuffin' up. - Yeah, it was like, look at Dad's boo-boo. - Yeah, yeah. - Okay. - Daddy's covered in boo-boo. - Daddy has boo-boo? - He doesn't have, he doesn't have tentos, okay? His toe fell off in the bathtub. - Yeah. You wanna know how? - And you wanna, you wanna band-aids? - Wait, wait till you're 16. I'll tell you how I wanna-- - And you wanna jungle book band-aids. - Jungle book band-aids. - Yeah, dude. - Dang. - Balloon? - Damn. - I don't know, they made 'em like that. - I don't know why we have 'em, but we got 'em. - Damn. - That's what-- - Ew. - In fact, I put a regular one on. Nah, nah, dog wasn't good enough. He let me go back to the crate, find something good. - Dude, you gotta post 'em up with a little, a little nilly under the eye. That would be sick. - Ooh, underlay, underlay, mama, ea, ea. That's what he's calling from the crib. Underlay, underlay, mama, ea, ea. - Uh-oh. - Come on, change my dice. - He's in the back of the car. I guess getting hot in here. - Yeah, hot. - Too hot. - Yes, points. - No other band-aid, what the band-aid represented. I think he was like, he wore it 'cause his homie was in prison. And he was like, this is-- - I didn't really look for you. - Yeah, I didn't look into it. - You thought he had acne? - Yeah, I think it was something like that. Or is homie died or something. It was a definitely involving a homie. - Yeah. - Yeah. - We should do more things for homies. - I agree. - We should do more things. - 100% agree. - Wearing personal affects for our homies. - Neck tats, absolutely. Let's get tatted together for the homies. - Yeah, you guys do that. I'll do the crazy band-aid thing. (upbeat music) - Yo, it's Blake. I'm inviting you to join me and the guys for this cruise is important to November 11th through 15th, 2027 on Norwegian Jewel from Miami to NASA, Bahamas, with Eric Andre, Tim Heidecker, Rick Glassman, and many, many more. For four days of live podcast episodes, ballin' with me on the sports court. That's right, I'm gonna be draining some threes and even more. Visit this cruise isimportant.com today to join the pre-sale by November 30th for $100 off-cabin' fair. - Yeah, better not miss it. (dramatic music) - The first thing I hate about Ulysses is they never actually tell the Turks. 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I'm too bulbous. - What do you mean wouldn't? - I'm too bulbous. - You have tattoos. - I have one and it doesn't look good. - Oh, you have one. - You have one. - No, I have one. - Adam, you would look really good. - And that leg is so bulbous, look at this bulbous. - Just get like something over the top of your, like the, like the two pop. - I do, my body now looks like, you know those Mexican gangbangers that work out in prison and then have their, they pull up their shorts like just to their belly button. That's sort of what my body looks like now. I look like I'm a prison Mexican gangbanger. - Ideal body. - And if I were to get a tattoo right that, like right over there and maybe it says a homie's name, maybe it's Blake, I just get Blake tattooed on my belly. - I can't. - It could be fun. Just get blazer, get blazer. - Blazer. - T.A.I. nation crawling to Blake's DMs. - Or T.A.I. nation across the belly. - Yeah. - Oh. - Yeah. - You might have to get jumped in, bud. - Yeah. - This is important. - And then there's a way around. - Ooh. - You know what'd be really cool? You just get your body covered in gang tats of gangs that don't exist. And everyone's like, 86 street zippers. And you're like, yeah. - Yeah, motherfucker. - And they're like, where's the 86 street blips? - The blips. - Blimpies, blimpies, subs. - Yeah, I just, I just wore nothing but purple. I'm like, that shit's important. - I had bluish and red together. It makes purple, huh? - It's right, huh? - I'm not wearing red. I'm actually wearing maroon. - It's close, it's close. - Look, I don't even want to fight y'all. I'm geographically, I just need to know what, where? - Where are you from? - Where is that? - I'm everywhere like air. - Middle or Nebraska bitch. - Oh, and they go, get at me. - Sure, for sure. Yep, familiar? - I love that. - Yeah, I love it. - Home of teachers who smoke weed with students. - All right, well, all right. - All right, well, that's been 40s. - Oh, that was 42. - Cheers, I am 12, maybe even 30. - I am a little upset that you didn't extend any sort of invite for us to party with you on Wisconsin style. I am a little upset. - Cheers, he very much compartmentalizes things. - Come on. - Who rolled? - Who rolled? - Let me just, let me just break it down. - You compartmentalizes things. So we're in this friend group and we're over here. We're work friends. - Okay. - You know I'm down for the Badger crew. This is not even, this is not, let me just break it down here. - Please. - Okay, please. - My homie, Bernie Lomax. - Bird of 'em. - Which I know very, very well. - I know, so we know him. It's been a long time. I would have loved to have seen that crew. - I love, I loved it. - Love to catch out. - And we'll get it together. So Bernie Lomax's neighbor is the linebacker coach for UCLA. - Okay. - Okay, okay. - So he was like, do you guys want tickets to the Badger game? We're playing them and I'm like, absolutely, this sounds great. So his entire family of many, many children and sister-in-law and wife roll over to my house. It's like six kids. Everyone's wearing UCLA gear. And I'm like, - And you're the big guy. - Yeah. - Bernie shows up. His family, everyone's in UCLA gear because they're like, "They got us the tickets like you gotta fucking." And I go up. - I understand. - You get to pick protocol a little bit. - Okay. - I'm dressed Jimmy Newtron. - I'm Newtron status. - Okay. - You're not wearing colors. - Oh, you're not wearing colors. - Familiar were gangs. - You're in purple. - In the mid 90s, if you weren't folks or vice-lords, you had to say you were Newtron. - Okay. - Okay. - I had, that's what I had to concentrate for, pitch for, pitch for, what are you doing? You're crazy. See, you do it, Willie Nillian. I'm like, what? - Still in here. - I'm not at, yeah, I'm not a Chicago guy. - And so then I had homey Matt Marshall from the swim team at Wisconsin roll. - What? Shout out to you. - Shout out to you. - We would have loved to catch up with you. - Matt brought his dad and his kid was a family affair. But it was literally just like- - Love Matt's dad. - I live near the Rose Bowl. Let's do a pit stop. Have some food before we go over. - That's great. - And that was what it was. It wasn't like a after the party, or after the after party. - It's the after party. We get it. - No roll. - We expect to be invited to absolutely everything you do in your life. - That actually sounds like something I would have done well at. - Yeah, I think Blake and I could have, we work well in those circles and with those- - I don't disagree. - You know what I got to do? - I got to throw another party. I threw one like five years ago and it was a good time. - I think that was a birthday party, wasn't it? - It was. It was like a makeup for my 40th that would have been during the pandemic. So I think it was like my 42nd birthday. That's a good birthday. - And I said, you know what I got? It's no masks. Two years after the pandemic, I go, no one wear masks. I'm sick of seeing them. - We, we got COVID. - We weren't. - We weren't. - I got the jab at your party. - Chloe found out she was pregnant like three days later. - Oh. After your party. - Game changer. - Got the green light. - Got the green light, huh? - Yeah, you should, you should throw party. I'm, I'm leaving. I'm going to be, I'm going to shoot a movie. I won't be here during my, my birthday. - It's official. You're out of town. - I'm out of town. - I am, I am in the wind. - So in a Georgia, I will be. - But that is cool that you have that security system that shoots anyone who steps on the premises. - Yeah, absolutely. - And I'm going to be there. - Well, my family will actually be here. My parents will be staying there. - I was talking about your dad. - Yeah, yeah. - My dad will shoot. - Well, you won't get off the couch. You'll just shoot from the couch. So if you, if you're able to rob my house and the couch can't see you, then you're fun. - Yeah. - Come by. - Yeah. - If you're able to get in through a window and out through a window and my dad can't shoot you from the couch, you're good to go. - Dennis got the yopper, bro. - Do we know, will you be an America or will you be outside of those? - He said, I will be, Savannah Georgia. - Savannah Georgia. - So, yeah, yeah. - That's sick. - Yeah. - Have you spent time in Georgia? - I shot the outlaws with you in Atlanta, but not Savannah, and I heard that I heard Savannah is very cute. - I spent one day in Savannah. It was pretty cool. - I also think it's crazy haunted. Isn't it really haunted? Isn't there like a lot of ghost? - I saw a shooting, literally like a walk in Savannah, Georgia, walked by this way. And then on the way back, they were like putting someone in an ambulance and there was like blood everywhere. - Yeah. - We got shot. - It's never enough. - It's like beautiful, beautiful part of the world. - In Savannah, Georgia? - Yeah, like right there on that main strip thing. - Yeah. - Well, I didn't know. I didn't know Savannah did it like that. I thought it was-- - They did. - I thought it was very much scoopy baseball. - Like a smaller Charleston, where it's very, very cute. - I think it is. - Now, North Charleston can go down, but I think it is. I do think it's like a little sleepy. I think it's very haunted, please go look up the goat. But I do remember, even when I was shooting in Atlanta doing woke season two, we weren't allowed to come out of our trailers because they're like, yeah, there's a shooting going on. - Right. Did you tell them your neutron? - I told them, I'm very, I'm very, what is it, Joey Neutron? - Yeah, Jimmy. - What's Jimmy Neutron? - Jimmy Neutron is a cartoon. - Yeah. - But Neutron is a lifestyle. - Neutrinos. Do you remember the new Neutrinos from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle? - No, I thought those were like snacks for like moms. - Just two Neutrinos, is it your protein? - Do you remember the space aliens that cruised in the car, like the Neutron? I think they were called the Neutrinos. There's like the three aliens. One of them was like kind of a babe. - Nope. - And you guys need to watch more. - Like, I have to send how you're frozen right now. You look absolutely insane and you've been frozen like this for me for a long time. You look absolutely nuts. - That's life. - You guys are bugs life. - So that's just Blake, that's just what he looks like, no. Just mouth, mouth of Gabe, wearing that outfit, it's a hell of a look. - It's got me going on. - Isaac in the chat, I just noticed, he's now defending himself 40 minutes ago. He said, I got a plus one, I gave it to one of your golf friends. By the way, I've been golfing eight times in my entire life. I don't have golf friends. I do not know who he gave this ticket to. - He gave it to the dude from Metalwood. - I like that. Adam's impervious to this. - He did have a plus one. - He was like, I got a plus one and I actually used it for someone you wanted to go now. I'm like, I don't even know people. - Dude, I don't know who he gave it to. Do you know Blake? - So Isaac, follow up here. See, he owns Metalwood, are you aware of Metalwood, like the golf company? - I am, yeah. - Oh boy. - Yeah. I think you were talking to him earlier that night. But Isaac did have a plus one. I was at will call with them. But I would-- - Okay. And he gave it, the guys for Metalwood, who, who Isaac? - Mm-hmm. - What are their names? - What? - Isaac doesn't know. - What are you? - The main one. The biggest guy. - Ted all? - The most official one. - Go, man! - The biggest guy. - Yeah. Metalwood. That is a cool golf company. I like now that golf is, it's getting more fashionable. - It's very-- - You don't have to look like a grandfather anymore. You can look pretty damn cool out there on the links. - Asked me where I was this morning. - Where were you this morning? - Were you golfing this morning? - Driving range. - Wow. - I have said yes to a golf trip that my homies from back home had gone to for like six years. And then I was like, "You in?" And I'm like, "Uh, I don't really golf." [BLANK_AUDIO] can't really predict my schedule. Schedule's pretty bare right now. - Fucking pretty wide open. - And I was like, this year I'm going. - Hell yeah, brother. - This year I'm going. - Dude, that's what I'm saying. I'm like, hey, do we maybe get together? Well, the three of us, we put together a golf trip and we go golf and mostly we drink. - I was gonna say the idea of us even getting to the course is hilarious to me. - Do. - Well, and by the way, if we go, as long as you spend the money, then technically we went golfing. We paid for the round of golf. - Hey Blake, we clipped that, please. We're gonna use that. - Oh, that's a shirt. That's a shirt. - And because I like golf for nine holes. By the time I get to like, whole 11. - With you. - I'm like, are we gonna wrap this up? I feel like we should just not be doing this anymore. - Dude, I had these golf shoes for like six years and I just never fucking used them sent by Adidas. - They're so fucking cool. - Damn. - Look at those, look at those. Little cow, okay. So there's stance mess, cow like on the tongue, it's got a cow instead of stance mitt there. - Day. - And then on the bottom. - Is it Ben and Jerry? - Oh, what the fuck? - You're gonna look fucking fly out there. - You got the udder. - I like how you had that just ready to go. - Dude, well, I was gonna lace them after I played in them today 'cause they gave me like different laces that, but it's from the dairy land golf club in Wisconsin. - But that's what, dude, if you pull up with those and you've got no game, it's kinda, it's not the deal. - No, this saves me, bro. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, that saves you. - They go, whoa, this guy can't keep the fucking ball in a fair way and I go, but what do you wear in bitch? - Yeah, wow. - And then I go epic slams. Pit protocol. - In basketball, if you have like the little divot thing like the blade, yeah. - Yes, yes, sir, you got it. - But I guess that's just how I do things as a new thing. If you pull up to a basketball game with the loudest shoes, people are gonna dunk on you just to prove a point that like you don't deserve your shoes. - But also, let 'em dunk. You know, the golf is the thing that if you are just out there and you're pounding painkillers. - Listen. - Okay. - That's all you have to do. - You're macro dosing every hole. - I'm macro dosing. If I'm having any amount of fun while golfing, it's because I'm getting really drunk. - Yes. - I can't even be, even appear, even having a beer. I'm like, I'm not getting drunk fast enough for the level of not fun I'm having golfing. - I know you do. - By the way, here's another t-shirt. Hello, my name is Tag on the chest and it just says Mac and then Rodo's. - Oh, go ahead. - I like that. - You were gonna say. - I would say I'd rather be and then in very tiny where you have to like really look at it, it says blackout drunk and then enlarge letters underneath. Underneath it'll say, - At a PTA. - PTA, I'd rather be blackout drunk. - So it says I'd rather be golfing and then looking closely as I says blackout drunk. - It's a bagel. - Yeah. - I like that. - Or blackout drunk while golfing. - Yeah, okay. - No, Isaac, get, right that. - Come on, write that down. We gotta make that merge. - Get right that, Isaac. - Yeah, we'll get that in a few years. Don't worry about it. But I think, 'cause I'm about to do my hunting trip. I do a hunting trip once a year. - Yeah, it's a killer. - It's a really cool. - It's like 15 of us and we go and it's a, it's fes and hunting and it's really, really fun. And I've done it for, it's 20 years now. - That's crazy. - We are over 20 years. We missed two years because of my dad's cancer and because of COVID. But yeah, we're over 20 years now. I think this is your 21st year. And it's so much fun, just the routine of like doing the same thing every year with the same group of guys. And we do a lot of really cool trips together. - Yeah. - But it would be fun to get actual, we put it on the books. We do this as a crew. - It's really important. We could also invite families. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I think you do, you know, you do this often, but you go, yeah, and like you guys come, I don't even know what you guys would do. - Yeah. - It doesn't seem like a thing that you guys wouldn't like. - Well, we can be at the beach. - I don't even know if the beach is like hot. - It wouldn't be, 'cause it's a rocky, it's a rocky beach. And I don't know if that'd be good for the kids. - Well, the hotel's nice. - I know it's nice, but I think it's like, almost nice where you're like, yeah. - It's almost like, yeah. And then it just, it's- - And then when you get back home, you're like, oh, this stuff. Because I just was in paradise. So why, why ever leave? - We wouldn't want to do that. You wouldn't want to do that to you and the kids. And they're like, okay, I guess, yeah. - I really think the move is- - But I'm gonna go. - Root. - But I'm gonna help you. (laughs) - See you at my green light, all right? - Green light. - Green light. - Green light. - Please, don't be green light. (laughs) You just macro-dosed and took a shank. Stop. - Green light. - I do think the move is pick a weekend or whatever, or a week and have that be the time. You always go with your home. That is the move. Just have it be that time of year. It's your birthday, but it's the boy's week, and that's what you do. - Boy's week. - I love it. - And what you need, what you do is you get 52 friends. - I love it. - I love that number. - And you just stagger these weeks and you go, yeah, I know I just got back. I know I'm calling from the airport. I have to get where I'm going. (laughs) - No, no, no, no. One week is fine. We don't gotta do the whole year. Come on, it would get exhausting. - Well, I was getting serious. - Okay, that's serious. - Yeah, it seemed like you were dead serious. - Yeah, that I think. - Just speaking for me, I think 52 weeks might be too much. - You know, that's only speaking for myself. - I was considering it for a moment, but all I need is one week. Just one week with a bro. - You guys are fucking lame. - Maybe, probably. - I think two weeks, two weeks, two weeks, two weeks. - You get on the year end of the year. - Two weeks a month. - Yeah, just that's not too much to ask. - Is that two weeks where I completely lose my mind? - Dude, this golf trip is four days. - That's a long one. - Four days. - Which feels extreme. It's four days. - That's that. - And so you have to go, you're golfing, these golf trips, you're golfing every day all day. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Oh. - That's why dude, I'm at the fucking driving range. - You gotta get a certain level of good. And not even good, but. - I have a really nasty slice. It's really bad. And I have not undone it, but I'm a third of the way there. And now if I get a bucket of balls, 20% are going straight as fuck. And another 20 are going straight and curving slicing. And then the other 60% are just, I mean, you're missing the ball. - You're missing the ball. - But this is why golf is insane. Like you're saying, like yeah, I go to the driving range and I'm like, oh hell yeah, I'm like stroking. It's cool. - Yeah, I'm like stroking. Yeah, go ahead. - I'm like in the bathroom, jerk it off. Go ahead. I mean, when you do, you can go, hell yeah, I'm stroking. I'm like fucking stroking. Do I interrupt? 'Cause this is gold or I just let them go. Go ahead. - When you actually put the ball on the tee, you got one damn shot, dude. You got one. And it just, it goes, it goes. Hey, why? - But this is why you go to the driving range because you get a bucket of balls and you got 40 or 70 damn shots. - You're stroking and you're stroking. - Actually, I actually went golfing for the first time in months and it's been months and a few weeks ago. And I was waiting for my buddy to show up. And I was like, I'll get a bucket of balls and stroking. The guy that works, that gave me the balls. He comes out and he's like, yeah, let's see if he recognized me and he's like, let's see if Hollywood here knows how to hit a golf ball. - And then I'm like, I don't know. I hit one of the best shots I've ever hit. - And he got out the gate. - Oh yeah, and he goes, oh wow. Yeah, you don't golf much, do you? And I'm like, what? - Oh, so you were like, that's the best shot I can do and you thought it was gonna be like. - I was like, that's about as good as I could get. And he then was like, I will coach you. - And he gave me a scar. - I might actually, I might take him up on it. - Somebody help me! - He probably likes money. - Yeah, that would be good. - Yeah, I'll probably end up having to give him money. - Let's see if Hollywood has money. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's actually what he said. - You thought that was good? - If you nailed the ball and he goes, you thought that was good. - Dan Cuffer, golf instructor. - What's a Cuffer? - What's a Cuffer? - Dan Cuffer. - Yeah, yeah. - Big shot up. - Great name. - I'm gonna have to hit him. - That's Campy, a real golf name. He's got Cuffer. - In the name. - Yeah, Cuffer. - Ten Cuff, great movie. - He goes, you know what a Cuffer? And then it says, "I'm working these heads in the cup." - Oh. - Hey. - It's for collecting balls. - Yes, points. - When's the last time you've been in a ball. - I'm not in a ball. - When's the last time you watched him Cuff? - Don't think I've seen it. - I don't think I've ever seen it. - My dad used to love it. - Watch it tonight. - Great. - Watch it tonight. - Blake, you're still frozen. It's driving me crazy. We have to have this podcast. - Am I? - Yeah, I can't see you. And I like checking in with you because you do your giggles and your smiles and your little wiggles. And right now you're just frozen with your mouth of gate. - I'm sorry. - Well, speaking of lagging before we got on the pod, something we'd talk about almost always, Adam, you brought up the horn up with lagging. - We're gonna have to save that for the next podcast. 'Cause this was another episode of this is important. - Goodbye. 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Key Points:

  1. The podcast "Curse of Miss America" investigates the Miss America pageant's decline, highlighting issues like financial exploitation, lack of scholarships, and suppression of contestants' stories.
  2. A central theme is the tension between the pageant’s image of glamour and the lived realities of its participants, who often face emotional and financial hardship.
  3. The host, Bridget Armstrong, shares a personal narrative about her brother's battle with pancreatic cancer, framing the podcast as a vulnerable, intimate exploration of mortality and legacy.
  4. The conversation touches on the absurdity and rawness of modern party culture, including physical confrontations, drinking, and chaotic social rituals like pit fights and Halloween costumes.
  5. There's a recurring critique of societal norms, especially regarding gender, body image, and authority, with references to teachers, students, and social dynamics that challenge traditional boundaries.
  6. The podcast blends humor and dark satire, using exaggerated anecdotes to comment on toxic masculinity, party culture, and the performative nature of social events.
  7. Themes of vulnerability, memory, and connection emerge as central to both personal and institutional narratives, especially in the context of illness, loss, and aging.
  8. A recurring motif is the idea of "being forgotten," reflecting on how individuals and institutions might undermine or erase personal truths for the sake of maintaining image or control.

Summary:

The podcast "Curse of Miss America" critically examines the Miss America pageant’s historical legacy and current state, revealing how it has shifted from a symbol of beauty and opportunity to a system that exploits women, denies financial support, and suppresses personal narratives. Host Bridget Armstrong shares a deeply personal journey through her brother’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis, framing the podcast as an intimate, vulnerable exploration of mortality, family, and the fear of being forgotten. Interwoven with this narrative are satirical and raw anecdotes about party culture, including chaotic pit fights, reckless drinking, and absurd social rituals—highlighting themes of rebellion, body image, and boundary-breaking.

The show blends humor and sharp commentary on toxic masculinity, institutional hypocrisy, and the performative nature of social events. These stories reflect a broader critique of how institutions, like pageants or schools, maintain power by controlling narratives and silencing personal truths. Ultimately, the podcast questions what value lies in traditional institutions when they fail to deliver on their promises, and it champions authenticity, vulnerability, and individual agency over image and compliance.

The tone is both irreverent and heartfelt, using absurdity to spotlight real systemic issues.

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The podcast investigates the rise, fall, and uncertain future of the Miss America pageant, focusing on allegations of exploitation, lack of support for contestants, and broken promises.

No, one participant mentioned not receiving a scholarship, which made it difficult to pay for student loans.

The title reflects the critical examination of the Miss America pageant, suggesting a 'curse' of systemic issues, exploitation, and unfulfilled promises.

The organization treats stories of exploitation and hardship among its participants as attacks on the Miss America brand itself, suppressing transparency and accountability.

Listeners can find the podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or other major podcast platforms.

The host shares a deeply personal story about her brother David’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis and the emotional journey of documenting his final years through a podcast.

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