The Basement Yard
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Welcome to the 50th Hunger Games. Witness the beginning of the revolution. Hey Mitch, you've been trying to take down these games from Star. Filmed for IMAX. Make them remember you. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, November 20th, rated PG-13. Welcome back to the ba-
Welcome back to the basement yard. You're all smiley.
I'm a smiley, I'm a happy guy.
And you're in a thermal.
I am in a thermal.
Keeping warm, it's freezing out here.
The weather is starting to turn.
I don't like it.
Really?
The freezing cold weather, why would I like that?
Uh, well, one, I hear it's perfect for like, running and like-
Freezing cold weather?
I hear that like, cold air is better for a person than warm air, yeah, that's what I've heard.
I don't know if it's healthier, I just-
And you also love being bundled up like a little baby boy, so like-
I do like being swaddled.
Let me ask you something, seriously.
Go.
If there was a service, let's say it's run by like, the dude that plays the mountain from Game of Thrones, and he's like, "I will wrap you up like blanket boy, and I will carry you for one mile."
Okay, I don't know what accent you're doing-
I don't know either.
Two, you think I'm gonna let a gigantic man carry me?
You don't know me at all, do you?
No, really? Frank, that's an insane thing! Well, but like, if you could just be like, like, here, I gotta be honest with you-
I do like being tucked in, but that doesn't mean I want a giant man to carry me down the road!
You're gonna have to follow my logic here, because it might take you on some windy wist- windy turns, you know, over the river and through the woods to Frank's delusions we go.
Yeah.
I am not on board with this whole like, people, grown people acting like babies, crapping diapers, and like, being taken care of by their significant other.
You're not into it, or you don't support it?
Uh, I'm not into it.
Got it.
You wanna do it, go the hell ahead, but if I see you in public-
And you're crapping.
And you're crapping in a diaper-
You're getting tripped. You know what I'm saying?
Oh, you're gonna prank him? You're gonna trip him?
I'm gonna Frank prank him.
I'm gonna dump a bucket of water on your head.
No, but, if there was a service where they made like, strollers- But like for full adults and I can just be like, kind of like carted around?
Frank, those are called cars. They're called cars. It's called calling Ubers. That's what it is.
But like, I could be like laying down on my back and like in the, like on like a sidewalk and someone could just push me through like the neighborhood?
Laying on the sidewalk?
No, no, no, no.
You want to be pushed through the neighborhood?
I want to be pushed through the neighborhood. So like a big stroller, but like for adults. Jesus Christ, big business boy Frank is back here. Copyright patent pending.
Frank, you think adults are going to be like, hey, pick me up at my house and just drive me around in a stroller?
Not drive, just push me around. And you can make it like a taxi thing, like.
Are you describing like wheelchairs?
Um, well, there's like wheelchairs come with some form of injury or, you know, disability or something like that. I'm saying like, I sign up for a service. You meet me at the base of my office building and I just get in this big.
You doing this on like a lunch break?
Yeah, or like from the, from like the, my building to the, you know, train station. And like I lay down, you bundle me up, you tuck me into a blanket and you just wheel me to the train station and then I get out, get on the train and I get home.
I love how you're trying to like say that last part. So it just makes the whole thing sound more normal. It's like, and then I just get home, I go to work and.
Tell me a, a service that basically treats you like a giant baby wouldn't be kind of cool.
But you could just get driven around in a car.
Yeah, but a lot of people get motion sickness in cars. A lot of people don't like, you know, like there, there's a sense of, you know, like they don't feel safe.
You feel more safe if someone was pushing you in a giant stroller.
Yeah, kind of.
You're gonna tell me that doesn't sound sick?
What about, what's the rig, uh, rig, rig, rig saw?
Rigatoni?
Rigshaw? Rigshaws?
What the hell is that?
Rigshaws? Hack saws? What's it?
What are you talking about?
The ones where it's like you sit in the back and I, I pedal my bike. Rick saw, Rickshaw?
I have no.
Rickshaw.
I have no idea what you're saying. I have never heard the word that you're even trying to pull out.
The dudes who like by Central Park, it's like, yo, get in the back and they, they like pedal with the.
I know what you're referencing.
That's called a like a rigs, Rickshaw, Rickshaw.
I mean. That's a stupid word, I imagine.
But that's the same thing that you're describing.
No, but I wanna be laying down and like tucked into a blanket and cozy and looking up.
What is this, laid down?
I would like to lay down.
So he's, is he driving a bike?
A taxi service. No, they're, they're pushing me like I'm a baby.
But you don't even push babies laying down.
Yes, they do. There are some, there are some strollers that are like bassinet style where the baby lays down.
Oh, right. They're very small.
Like the Wizard of Oz type of shit.
Uh, sure, but like they can have, certain like strollers have like a thing on them that you can turn them so they're completely, you know, horizontal, perpendicular to the ground.
So you wanna just take a nap while being outside?
But like being pushed around and then just like, kinda just like doze off a little bit. Just, you're overcomplicating this. The way I've described this.
You can just take a nap.
The way that I have described this is perfect. A giant stroller for big adults.
Right.
You know?
Well, the answer is, it doesn't exist, so go ahead, open up your business and we'll see.
I'm just saying.
I will not be investing. Don't ask.
I'm not, I didn't ask for your money, bitch.
Good.
Maybe a repost or two might be nice, you know? But like, a service where like people just sign up, I come, because you're gonna tell me, I know you don't have kids of your own yet, but you're gonna tell me you haven't seen a baby in a stroller and just be like, damn, that looks like, that is so sick.
I don't think about that, but I, sometimes I do think, when I see a child in a stroller and I go, he's too old to be in that thing.
Okay.
You ever see that?
But you're only saying that because you're like, one of those just like, he needs to get up, he needs to rub dirt on his face, and he needs to get a couple scrapes on his hands, like.
No, I'm looking at it and being like, think that kid's nine.
Listen, I think if you could fit in a stroller and you wanna get pushed around a little bit, go for it. Absolutely. It does get weird when it's like, you're now.
I know, you're, you're trying to set up a service where you can get in a stroller as a human.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, that sounds great. There are people out there that are crapping in their diapers and letting fucking their adult, you know, significant others clean them up.
In the comfort of their own home.
It's weird.
It's, I mean, it's weird to you.
You're gonna tell me if someone took your bed.
My bed.
You like your bed?
Yes.
Okay. Someone took your bed, put it on wheels, and said, I'm gonna, I'm gonna wheel you through Central Park and you can just lay here comfy and cozy.
I feel strange. Laying down, taking a nap while being pushed around in public? I'm not falling asleep in public.
You know, first of all, fine, you don't need to be falling asleep, but you can just be laying down, taking in the sights from your back.
You could go for a leisurely stroll too.
Joey. Come on. Oh, no, that wouldn't.
Oh, yeah. Well, thank God, because I whatever you were excited about, I was ready to say Frank, please.
I I was gonna, I was gonna be, it was gonna be basically my same idea, but it's a massage chair.
Okay. You know what you should do? Type all these things in.
And then see what you get back, because now that we have all the AI and everything, you'll find out, is this a good idea? Is it already invented?
Well, we gotta be careful. We gotta be careful, because AI has been up to some shit lately, and we don't, we can't.
Taking our gerbs, our jobs.
Well, not our jobs. Well, actually, they might come for our jobs. You saw those AI podcasters?
I did see that, but we barely have jobs.
We.
We or me?
You do a lot more than I do. Uh, but yeah, no, the AI, like, it's starting to make the turn. It's starting to get into like.
They're killing, they're killing.
They're, they're trying.
AI is killing?
You didn't hear about the, the AI bot that told the kid to like kill himself? Unalive himself, there goes the monetization.
Yeah, there we go.
There it goes, baby. We might get them all out of the way now, porn.
Yeah, right.
Wait, hold on, T.
AI told a, a person to.
A, a student, a young man.
A student?
Yeah. I don't know if it was a man, but a, a student aged child.
What did they say? What did they say? Was it like up for debate?
So this kid, alright, so you know how like now when you Google something, sometimes AI, they're, I think.
It'll give you like an answer.
I, yes, yes.
I will say, I love that feature.
I know, it's.
It's helped me a lot.
People have proven that it's not that accurate, because they've done like, you, you saw the thing where it's like, how many Rs are in the word strawberry?
No.
There was someone, I think they asked like ChatGPT.
Three.
Yes, but ChatGPT like insisted it was only two. And like they, there are ways, obviously, that you could break it. You don't need to rely on these things. It's like Wikipedia. It doesn't mean, just because it's there and they're telling it to you, doesn't mean it's all factual.
Mm-hmm.
But the one that people Google, so that someone was Googling something to get like, information on a, on a paper. So I'm gonna read to you what the kid said that he was Googling. He's like, I was asking questions about how to prevent elder abuse. Um, hold on.
Wait, what?
I was asking questions about how to prevent elder abuse and how we can help the elderly. This person told the Walsh, uh, some, I don't know what news article it was. Um, but nothing that I said would have warranted the response that I got. So this is what AI.
So they, he was asking like, yo, how do we stop elderly people from being abused?
Like, clearly like looking to get sources. I like, I know the jokes aside, like you never went to like high level college writing classes where you had to like really go through like APA format and like look up like sources and all that shit, but this is what the, after I guess going back and forth, I don't know what the full exchange was, uh, but, uh, oh yeah, the person was 29, it's happened to, so not a child, but you know, a student in some capacity.
Student at 29, geez.
Says, "This is for you, human. You and only you."
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I love how they're like trying to like not get canceled. AI is just like, "Just for you."
Only you.
You and only you.
Google said this to them?
The Google AI, I believe, I, I don't want to say the name of it, allegedly.
I just be careful, Google might come for us.
Wait, what do you not want to say?
The name of the Google, I, I think it's called Gemini.
Oh, the machine thing. Okay, okay.
That they have. "This is for you, human, you and only you. You are not special. You are not important and you are not needed."
What?
"You are a waste of time and resources."
AI is saying this to a person who's trying to help elderly?
Like, "Hey, I want to try to help the elderly." It's like, "You let them die, you suck your waste."
Wow.
"You are a burden on society.
You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape." Gotta say, this AI is-
This is way too many examples.
"You are a stain on the universe."
More?
"Please die, please."
Please die, please?
Yo, I can't even imagine how I'd react to reading that.
Yo, this, first of all, this AI just absolutely like eviscerated this guy. You are a stain on the universe. You are a plague-
A blight on the landscape.
It's like, yo chill out. What is a blight, again?
It's like a, like a blemish.
I love those context clues that you used there, Joey.
No, but I've heard that.
A plant disease, a deteriorated condition, meant to spoil something. Okay. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a disease on the beautiful landscape that is life.
That is-
That's hysterical.
A diss.
Dude, this AI system just absolutely diced, cooked, ate, and shat out this kid.
And I don't want to victim blame, but who is this guy? Why is it saying that, damn?
That's the other thing, is we don't know what he put in there, where he was just like, "How to save the elderly by giving them arsenic," you know?
Yeah, like-
Maybe he was, maybe the AI-
Should we just kill the elderly?
Yeah, maybe the AI was like trying to do something here, but-
That is terrifying.
Yeah, he was, uh, he had been quoted as saying like, um, hold on, I'm gonna pull up.
Bro.
I was freaked out. My heart was racing. I threw, I wanted to throw out all my devices. And I felt, I hadn't felt panicked like that in a long time.
I guess that is very terrifying to be like, "Oh my god, are my fucking devices like, talking to me now?"
Dude, I remember, um, when I was, oh, we were young.
Oh fuck, now I have to bring this thing up that I saw the other day.
Oh no.
You're gonna be fucking pissed I brought it up.
I remember when we were young, there was this thing that phones used to do, where like, if I was leaving you a voicemail, and then someone else called and I took that call, and then I hung up, the voicemail called me back.
Right, yeah.
And I remember the first time it happened, I was just like, what the fuck?
Like, I was so freaked out because the idea of like, technology having like, the autonomy to do that. Just like, this is what every movie is telling me to be afraid of.
And that, that shit, but like, if that happened to me, I would be petrified, dude.
Yeah, we're already scared when our phones are like, oh, I mentioned shoes and now it's telling me to buy shoes.
But imagine your phone's like, yo.
That's what? You have to imagine, like, I, I, seri- like, thinking like, not in a jokey way at this point, but like, God forbid that were to happen to somebody that like,
Dude.
does have self-harm ideations and stuff like that, like, that's in, like, that could be life-changing legitimately, you know, and then that opens up an entire floodgate of.
Who's liable?
Exactly. I mean, you would imagine it would be Google in that point, right?
Developers, maybe? I don't know.
Right?
How does that accidentally happen?
This is what's happening, is like, AI is getting enough information at this point that it's just like, just go, just, just, just stop.
Dude, I, I almost like, how could you? I don't even know what you would have to type in for that to like, be the thing that you kick back at me.
Yeah, because I've never, I don't think I've had like, a long, long conversation with AI, but like.
Have you tried ChatGPT? Hello?
Yeah, I, I, and I know people that use ChatGPT to like, help them with like, um, diet, you know, uh, uh, workout routines.
Didn't we do a thing where we were like, trying to date people?
We were trying to riz up like, different characters.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Joe Biden would like, wouldn't date me.
Biden wouldn't date me, Super Mario was pretty pissed off at me, Foghorn Leghorn.
That's a great episode, Back in the Annals of, uh, Patreon, go check it out, it's, it's.
Back in the Annals.
Jeez.
But, could you, yeah, honestly?
If this, if this thing says it to you, what are you, do you then have to open up and start dissing this AI?
I mean, I'm what, yeah, I'm going back at it. Like, if you're gonna talk shit to me, I'm talking shit to you.
Yo, you're, you're nothing. You're literally nothing. I can go out and I could.
My lights go out that night?
Yeah, yeah, could you imagine?
My car blows up. I am now scared thinking about ramifications of this. But I think if that did happen to me and I started to feel like, oh my god. My devices are sort of listening to me like even if it was not like that even if it was like positive or something like I had been having a conversation about something I was nervous about or whatever and my phone the next morning randomly was like hey good luck on your whatever I'd be like what the fuck are you doing?
It's it's well known that most
They listen.
Social media apps I don't know about listening but they do track your activity across other apps that are not their own like that is what like people have figured and not even just figure that out but like it says it in like their terms of service and stuff like that so
But I think the thing that would freak me out like I I know they're doing that but like if they start interacting with me
I don't want to talk.
Like all these like Tesla robots and shit like that like because they're just one time just gonna be like no and I'm just gonna be like now I have to now I have to kill this thing.
No, yeah.
Put it in the tub.
Like I can't if my Alexa like said something that didn't sound robotic I'd be like alright bitch you're going in the tub.
Damn you would threaten your Alexa?
I wouldn't threaten it I would just act. I wouldn't even let it know that it was coming.
Alexa I am going to put you in a non-winnable situation.
Someone's fucking Alexa just went crazy just now they're probably like what are you gonna do?
I know I love doing that as a prank to people when I'm on speakerphone.
Frank they got Frank pranked.
Big get Frank pranked.
Frank pranked watch this. Alexa buy adult diapers. Someone now they would just be like bang and diapers.
Yeah, yeah.
Check out, check out!
Check out.
This is what did you say you saw the other day that freaked you out?
Fuck yeah um I was on TikTok and I really don't like learning about new stuff.
New stuff yeah new stuff freaks you out.
Well just like scary stuff that I'm like I lived a life up until this point that I didn't know this existed.
The world is a scary place and everything that is new is meant to kill you so go ahead.
You need to go to therapy.
Um, no, but, so I saw this video and it was this girl and she was like filming herself. And it was like half her face, half the ceiling. And she was like, it was something, there was something written there. I didn't like the video because I was like, I don't want this to come back. But it was like, she was with her husband in the same room. And she's like, I can hear you upstairs. So she's hearing his voice upstairs, right? And she's freaked out and she's using this word called mimic. And apparently that's a thing.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a, it's like a tall, yeah, what's the, there's another name for them, but like, uh.
It's like a Slenderman type of thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but, uh, fuck, there's another word for it. I'm gonna try to think of it, but keep going.
But, so she's, she's filming and like, I'm going through the comments of people like, I can hear them say this or whatever the fuck. And he's sitting there and he's being like, I don't hear like anything. Cause he, she even wrote, she's like, my husband couldn't hear it, blah, blah, blah. So they're talking and you kinda hear some stuff in the background that sounds like a voice saying shit. And then they eventually go upstairs, well, they hear a loud noise. And they go upstairs and like, in the middle of the room is this little like, not, it's like this big, but it was like heavy. And it looked like a fucking like birdhouse or some shit, but it was like filled with stuff. And they were like, the cats couldn't have knocked that over. And like, what the hell's going on?
They're, Skinwalkers is one of the ones that people, that they talk about, like mimic, they can like mimic sounds and like, they can like shift.
Yeah, and I was just like, bro, I don't need this. I don't wanna know.
Like fucking Anamorphs, you know?
Now I'm gonna be listening for shit and I just can't have that.
Dude, there was one time I was, I swear to God that this happened. We were home, all of us, like the, uh.
Your current house?
Yeah. And.
Fucking coming there on Friday.
I know. And, and I'm like in the kitchen and I hear, like, it was, it like, the most clear version of it.
Wait, where were you?
I was like in the kitchen. And the most clear version, I heard Becca go like, hey babe, can you come here for a sec? Or something like that.
That's a long sentence.
And I walk into the room where she's doing something. I'm like, yeah, what's up? And she's like, what's up? And I'm like, you called me in? And she's like, no, I didn't. And I, and I like, I like, got like visibly freaked out. I was just like. You, you just said to come in here and she's like, "No, I did not." And I'm like...
First of all, you did that to her too.
I'll be, I'll be honest, I went and I checked the rest of the house. It was like during the day. If it was at nighttime, hotel, here we come. I'm telling you right now. I checked to make sure like all the doors and the windows were locked and shit like that.
I've done that before. Did I tell you that happens in one of my apartments?
Mm-mm.
I went to the bathroom and I was getting out of the bathroom and it felt like someone was pushing on the door. Like, like preventing me from getting out. And I was like, "The fuck you doing?" And I think Danny was there. So I opened the door and I'm like, "What the fuck was that?" But he was all the way in a different room, pretty far away on the computer. I was like, "What are you doing?" And he's like, "What?" And I'm like, "You were just pushing the door, like preventing me from getting out." He's like, "No, I wasn't." I'm like, "Dude, I was trying to get out of this door." And someone was pushing it, like I had it cranked, trying to get out and I couldn't. Oh no, it was, it wasn't even going this way. I was going that way.
Oh, like someone was holding it?
So someone was holding it.
Yeah, because bathroom doors open inward.
And I opened it and I, and he wasn't there. And I was like...
Didn't stay there that night. I went and slept with my mom like a child.
Oh dude, no, there, I've never had like, interactions like that, but like... Now if I'm home and my fucking AI system does some shit like that?
Buy, buy, buy, you know? Let me tell you that.
Realistically, right, like... If it was nighttime and like everyone was asleep and you heard that, what do you even do?
Waking up the whole family and getting out.
Every single light.
The lights, fuck the lights. I'm turning, oh my god, dude, I'm, I'm serious, like... But like, there have been instances where like, people will hear like their Alexa laugh at them randomly or some shit like that, right?
That's worse than them threatening me.
If my Alexa was like, "I'm gonna kill you," I'd rather hear that than it laugh.
Than just go, "Ha ha ha."
Frank, I'm telling you, I would throw it into the East River.
Oh, you can see that's actually.
Yeah, it's right outside my window.
Out of your window, yeah, that's pretty cool.
But I'd be very scared.
Nah, yeah, the laughing is way worse.
Way worse.
There are those, ah, fuck, I, I wish I could think of.
I don't know if it's way worse. My Alexa would kill you is crazy.
Yeah, yeah, that'd be crazy. But like, then at least you could fight the thing, you know what I mean? Like, if it's just laughing at you.
I'm gonna fight a speaker.
Yeah, why not?
Cause I'm gonna destroy the speaker.
I'm letting you know right now, if that speaker says anything to me, I'm taking a hammer and I'm having the most fun.
Frank, think about this. You unplug it and you hammer it. And it keeps talking.
Yeah, there's a horror movie here, babe. I mean, why has someone not written this yet?
I'm.
I actually think there are plenty, probably.
I'm getting a dustpan. And I'm bringing it to a blacksmith and I'm gonna say, pour hot lava on it.
And kill it. Because I can't have that in my house.
No, yeah, that was.
Do you still have that, like, talisman in your house that your wife?
You remember that?
Yeah, dude, do I remember it?
Is it in your house?
It is still in my house.
It's time to go.
I know. I have wanted to get rid of that thing so bad.
Look what I found, isn't this cool?
No, it isn't. I said to her openly, I was just like, this is not cool.
Yeah, that's.
Uh, we almost, I, I told you, but we had put a bit on a house. And I was just like, yeah, the only drawback was that like. Maybe like a hundred yards behind the backyard fence, there was like a cemetery. And you were like. That's the worst thing.
It was like, it's a big red flag.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember when I went to see the house, I was just like, uh, why are they leaving? Like, cause apparently, like, real estate, they have to tell you.
That was a very nice house too, so like.
Really, like legally, they have to tell you. And it was underpriced, like they, for like that area, they were like, really like. You know, like, selling it for like cheap.
Oh my god, there's zombies in there.
And I, I said to them, cause I, I'm. Becca went to real estate, she got her license and, and she told me, she's like, legally. They have to tell you if, if someone believes it's haunted, or like if, if a murder was committed in the house or something like that.
Ask you a question.
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And then I'm gonna ask you a question.
Okay, I'm scared now.
But it has to do with a house and like what you just said, so I was trying to remember that.
Oh boy, no, no, no.
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So check it out, patreon.com/thebasementyard. Thanks so much. Tell me about this house. Is it haughty? No. Haughty? Is it a haughty house? I, I, anytime I see, I hear that like TikTok noise where it's just like, yeah, I'm like, oh no. Yeah, yeah. Something spooky is upon us. I don't like that. Yeah. I also don't like the, the deep sea one we've talked about, yo. Yeah, because it's like you're gonna see fucking Cthulhu or like a giant, you know, like snake. Yeah, I don't like that at fucking all.
What's this house? What's this house?
So then I was gonna ask you a question, like if you found a house and you're like, this is amazing, it's in our price point, we have it, blah, blah, blah. And you basically can get it, but.
Eight years ago, someone was killed in it. Murder. Would you take it?
That's so tough.
Yeah. Um. And it's not like a guest room murder. Like, it's like it started in the master and it ended in the living room.
In every house?
No, no, no.
I mean, in every room in the house?
No, no, no, just the two main ones.
That's really tough. I think personally, probably not.
Yeah, I think just, just because like, I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about it. Like, it would, it would fuck me up. You know, and like, I've seen too much of like Amityville horror and shit like that where it's just like, it's in the walls, it's, the walls are bleeding.
Well, no, it's not. It's not haunted. Like, you don't, like, you won't experience.
Yeah, but like, the idea that something like, so wickedly evil happened in this place right here.
Wickedly talented.
I would also need to know, I'll be honest with you, I would have to know about the murder. Like, I would be more inclined to take it if it was just like, someone tried breaking in, and the patriarch of the family, like, killed the guy right here.
No, no, no, the people who own the house were killed there.
That would be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, I couldn't, I couldn't do it. And honestly, they should have torn that fucking place down. Like, there was a, there's a really famous, um, it's kind of a weird way to put it, but like, a true crime thing that happened in a place called Cheshire, Connecticut? Where they, they were called like the Cheshire Home Invasions or something like that. It's, it's really fucked up, but like, since I went to school in Connecticut and it was a criminal justice school, we had heard about this thing a thousand times. And, um, I would hope that that house, or whatever that place was, was just tore down so no one could go back in it. But, if it were like, the person was defending their home and they killed an invader, an invader, huh, an alien, and then, you know, someone, I guess that's technically a burglar.
Then I'd be more inclined to think about it. But if it were like something fucking sad and grisly and just, ugh, I wouldn't be able to do it.
Do you, do they have to disclose that? If you ask.
You know, I can't, I, I don't know about like everywhere because obviously each state and like maybe even counties have different regulations on, you know, real estate. What you have to like disclose and shit like that.
But when you think about it.
I would fucking hope so.
But when you think about it, someone like at some point in the history of Earth probably died on your doorstep.
On my doorstep or like in where my house now sits.
Yeah, like, you know what I mean?
Yeah, that's different, but like you're not gonna wanna like, if you find out, like the movie Poltergeist. The whole thing with the Poltergeist, that movie is like, isn't the house like built on like a Native American burial ground like?
Oh shit like that.
You're not gonna want that.
Sure, an animal or maybe even a person died where my house currently sits, but like that doesn't mean like within the confines of my home.
Yeah. Like, okay, a fresh example, the Menendez brothers.
Talking about dead bodies and dead people and then saying fresh doesn't make you beat the allegations.
But like which allegations?
Just like all you like weird lizard people, Illuminati, rich people.
Yeah, that's what I am. Um, but like that house, someone lives there, I'm pretty sure.
Yeah, um, but that's different because that's like a world famous.
But that's even more like everyone knows that people died here.
Yeah, I mean, people live in like, uh, I think people live in the Amityville house now too.
I don't think, can you just tear down a house because someone died in it? No, or got murdered, I mean.
I think you can tear down a house if you wanted to.
No, right, if you want to, but it's like not a re- like, I don't know.
I think you can.
I think I would, like, when someone asked me that recently and I can't remember like what the context of the conversation was, but in my head, I'm like. My gut reaction is to say no, like I wouldn't take the house. But then, I'd feel like, I'll probably forget pretty quickly.
I will never forget.
Why?
You're gonna put a, you're marking X down?
Be really honest. Be really hon- well, you watch TV and fall asleep watching TV, right?
I don't. I shut everything off and I sit there and I have my own thoughts and fall asleep. That way.
Everything that I have done in my entire life comes back into my head in those moments. You're gonna tell me, and obviously I'm-
You're haunting yourself.
I'm exaggerating for the sake of the story, but like, you're telling me that like, you wouldn't think about the fact that someone was murdered. If they told, Joey, get the fuck out of here. You are fucking, no way. If you bought a house and they said, "See this spot right here? Someone was murdered right here." You would think about it every time you walked by it, bitch. And I know you. You absolutely would.
I would, I would think about it more if it was like creepy stuff would happen, or I'd walk by and it was like a cold breeze.
Or, or because of something like that, you would just start giving, you know, like justifi- not even justification, but like answers to things that just like strange things that happen by coincidence.
What if, what if I like-
I know you, you'll find out-
What if you renovate the room? What about that?
Doesn't matter, babe.
Tear up the floor, you tear-
This is the whole thing about the ship of Theseus, man. You could take away the boards, but it's still a ship, right?
But you said you would knock it down and build on it.
Yeah, but build a brand new. You're saying renovate. You wanna build the whole thing?
Yeah. What about renovate that room where they happened? Like, get rid of the old wood?
No, because it's still happening in those walls. Those walls will speak to you.
No, you can knock the walls.
Yeah, the studs that are there, Joey.
So the murder happened in the studs of the house?
The studs see everything!
We gotta get new studs now?
I mean, I imagine, like, personally, that's how I would think. And you know, I'm a weirdo with that shit. I'd be like, "The nails are the same nails that were in the floor. The stringers are the same." You know, like, I would think all that shit. Yeah bitch, and you would too. And if you even for a single second try to think it, it. Cause you know what would happen?
I could be swayed.
You know, I don't think so.
I really could.
You'd have, you'd be in your living room and a bird would fly into the window and you'd be like, we gotta go. We gotta get out of here right now. It's the murder.
Well, I, it would, but here's the thing. If it was like, someone broke into this house and the guy stabbed the fucking whatever. Like if it was something like that, I think I definitely would, would not be upset. Not, uh, it would suck.
Cause it's.
But like.
It would suck.
It would definitely suck, but if it was something like someone was trying to rob the house and someone came down and there was a struggle and someone was stabbed and they died. That to me is way less scary than being like, someone came in, didn't take anything and killed these two people in their bed. I'd be like, what the hell?
I think.
But also if that happened in like the seventies, I'd be like, alright.
You're nuts. No way.
That's so long!
No way. Absolutely bullshit.
Okay. You're telling me you would be absolutely no if there was like two people or, or a fam- let's just say a family that lived in this house for over a decade with no problem beforehand and that was it?
By the way, hold on. Josh, go through and every time we said anything, just put on the live. Alright? Thanks.
No, it's a wrap now.
Can you repeat yourself because I wasn't listening to you?
Was that an actual note that you're giving Josh?
No, obviously not.
No, uh, if, if, like there was a murder that happened.
And then afterwards a family at some point lived there and they lived there from nineteen eighty-four until twenty twenty-four. And then you're taking that house from these people who lived there for that long and nothing happened?
Yeah, I'd be freaked out. I'm sorry.
Oh, I'm taking it.
You're crazy.
Especially after that. I mean.
Alright, I'm gonna ask you a question.
I'm gonna ask you a question.
So the, the, does the, does the, the level of crime dictate if you take that place or not?
The level of crime?
Yeah, like the heinous, how heinous it is. Cause murder is considered like one of the worst crimes that you can commit, okay? Let me ask you a question, real quick question.
Someone comes over to you and they say, "Listen, we have this really beautiful house.
We'll, we'll give it to you for a really discounted price. It's in a really nice part of Florida. A lot of really wealthy people live in this area. Super reduced price. Normally it would go for 50 million, we'll give it to you for 2."
Welcome to the 50th Hunger Games! Witness the beginning of the revolution.
Hey Mitch, you've been trying to take down these games from the start.
Filmed for IMAX.
Make them remember you.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, November 20th, rated PG-13.
Maybe it was owned by a New York financier. Uh, and there's some, there's some stuff that happened here.
No?
Oh, interesting!
How is that interesting? That's so different.
No, it's not different!
Of course it's different.
Okay, if I go home right now... Probably shouldn't use this example.
Yeah, what are you about to say?
If...
But like, I'm, like, it's, it's just, it, it matters if the thing was like sinister or not. That's why I'm saying like, if someone just came in, but like, if someone like trying to steal from your house and then killing you because there's a struggle, is different than going in and like, cutting them long ways and opening and letting them sleep in.
Yeah, but you're speaking about the time, the, the time that has elapsed since said crime, no matter the severity of it.
That crime, no, I'm not saying it in, I'm not saying...
My example.
The severity, of course that's insane.
Yeah, okay.
I'm not staying at a place like that. But like, the, the, it, it definitely matters the severity. If there was like this brutal, like crazy killing that happened, that would really deter me. But if it was like...
But it happened 80 years ago. Does that deter you less?
80? Now I'm, now it's completely...
If it was like a double murder homicide, crazy. Like thing?
Crazy, dude.
But it was like 80 years ago?
Crazy.
Bro, you're probably living in a house now that someone was killed in at some point. People have died in that house.
No, Joey, maybe, probably...
Old people die?
Yeah, but my house was built in like 67, it's not that old.
You don't think someone's died in that house? Even like an old bird?
No, I don't know.
What makes you think that no one dies in a mattress?
Someone died in my dad's apartment.
So, there you go.
And he got rid of the chair that they died in.
That's an easy one. That's an easy one. I don't want the old skin particles of a dead person here.
Yeah, that would be bad, right?
Ugh.
Imagine, they're just like, "They died in this bed, but we flipped the mattress."
We just... We don't like to look at the others.
Aw, I hate that when like, you see like, forensic files and they show you like, they cleaned up the house, but they're still clearly like, you see the spot.
Can you explain to me? How a mattress? Gets to look in like a mattress? Like, at the end of a mattress's life? What's on there? What is that?
Sweat?
But like, how? I've got a cover and sheet!
Yeah, and guess what they're all made of, Joey?
Claw.
Yeah, baby. Guess what is wildly absorbent?
But I'm not s- uh, Frank, there's this fucking big brown thing like this. I'm- how am I sweating like that?
Sometimes you sweat like that, you might not realize it. It also could be from... Just, just thirty years of oil and lovemaking.
Love.
You know, lovemaking could be a very sweaty...
That's true.
Wet?
Disgusting?
Yeah!
Just absolutely dreadful!
You know what I'm saying.
Mattresses are disgusting, huh?
And pillows.
I, I g-.
Am I, uh, did I get a head wound in the middle of the night?
I have- did I bleed all over this thing?
You're gonna make fun of me. I, I still have a pillow from when I was a teenager.
That is disgusting!
No!
Pull it out of the things and send me a picture of it.
It was re-.
It's probably bronze.
It's, it's not, not gold. I will tell you that. It is, but it is, it's, uh, you're gonna make fun of me for this, but like, I had, um, one of my like, prized possessions in college was I had a pillow from like, when my parents were still together. And it was an old down pillow. And I was... Look at me. Look at me in the eyes.
I was heartbroken when this thing finally broke.
Heartbroken.
I'm sorry for that.
I know you're laughing at it. Heartbroken when this thing broke. Yeah dude.
Cause you were like, this pillow.
It was, I, it meant a lot to me.
It did.
And you still have a pillow from when you were what?
I still have a pillow from when I was a kid, yeah. And I still have a pillowcase from when I was a kid.
Is it still on it?
No, no, the pillowcase. I used the pillow, not the pillowcase.
You used the pillow?
Uh, but we like cycle pillows in and out. Right now, I'm using like one to help me with my back and my neck because, and my pussy and my crack.
Uh, because my shit is all fucked up.
But, uh, yeah.
But you still have this old pillow?
I do.
Just cause you can't let go.
It's my pillow.
I've had it for so long.
You have attachments to pillows.
I have attachments to everything. You know me!
I was just gonna say, is there anything that you can throw away?
Yeah, but it's not an easy process. I'll tell you that real quick. I was, and, and Becca doesn't even know this.
What about underwear, socks?
Uh, no, I've held, I held on to a lot of those too, babe. Cause I remember.
How do you have attachments to socks?
Because I remember where I bought them, when I bought them, the phase of my life in which I bought them, how many times I've worn them.
College, Old Navy, on sale. What's special about that?
It's something special to me. I didn't tell Becca this. She, she's actually, if she's watching, well, once she watches it, she's finding out for the first time.
Throwing out the kids, like, so we had, um, like the same mattress for like the crib that, that Miles. Or Miles didn't use it, but Ruby and Maeve used.
I, I, I teared up looking at that mattress getting thrown out.
I get tearing up because of that. I mean, but I get it because it's like, because the, I would be more upset of like, oh my god, my children are too big to lay in this mattress. You're upset because you're throwing out a physical mattress though. Cause you wanna keep the mattress.
But because of what it means.
But, yeah, you have living examples.
You wanna know a secret too? You wanna see? She doesn't know this one.
You, you stole the mattress.
You took it out of the trash and took it.
No, no, no, the mattress is gone. The mattress is gone. The mattress is gone.
I sleep on it if I call.
There are days when I get home and Becca will have like a big, uh, garbage bag of like donations of like stuffed animals and stuff like that. And I'm like. What's in here?
What's in here? And she's like, "Don't go through it, it's nothing, I promise." It's just like little like extraneous things that like they'd never like loved or seen or anything. And I'm just like, "Sure about that?"
She doesn't know this one, but when we lived, the first time we lived, first time we lived together, when we moved in together, um, shortly thereafter for like our wedding registry, we had gotten a wooden cutting board.
And when she's like, she wanted to throw it out, I was just like, this was like our cutting board we'd cook on. Miles was a baby, we would cook on this.
Funny.
She's like, "Bring it out and put it in the garbage." And I'm like, "All right." I brought it out and put it in the garbage.
Where'd you put it?
I hid it. And I wanna say where it is, cuz she's gonna find it.
It's in your house.
It's somewhere.
You have an attachment to a cutting board?
Yeah, because like...
But you could do that about every single thing. If you have an attachment to everything, then how is everything, how is anything special?
Because certain things are not as special as other things. You know what I mean? Like the older certain-
You're not throwing anything up, you have a cutting board in stock!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Certain things, like if I have like thirty pairs of the same socks.
I'll get rid of twenty-nine of them.
Because then that one I remember.
You have a rep, you have a rep.
You don't even know about what I have. I have all my old, like, I have a bunch of like high school clothes and socks and stuff in storage.
Yeah, you said you're gonna hand them down. And I'm like, "I think that Miles is gonna be good on all that." He's gonna be like, "I don't wanna wear this."
I have a whole, like, storage bin of just socks.
No, you don't. You have a storage bin of old socks?
Frank.
That's a problem.
No, it isn't.
It's not necessary.
It is not a problem.
But who are they for?
Whoever wants them eventually, one day.
Why would anyone want them?
I don't know, cuz their dad wore them.
That's so cute. But they're not gonna wanna wear it.
I have a pair of sock, I have underwear from middle-
If my dad was like, "I wore these when I was a little boy, you should wear them." I'm like, "Dad, I'd rather wear anything else."
I have, I have a pair of boxers from middle school.
I remember you saying that.
Yeah, I have, I have socks from high school. I have my old jockstrap from high school football.
Dude, I'm not kidding when I say this, and I'm really not trying to be funny, but I, I am-
Now terrified of the day that one of your children goes to college. Like, I, I can't imagine what that's gonna be like for you.
I'm gonna tell you exactly what it's gonna be like.
I'm gonna have to be there.
Did you see, did you see, we talked about it on a, I think it was a Patreon episode.
Physically like, hold you.
Joey, did you see the blubbering mess of an idiot I was at the wedding?
Yeah, I was crying too.
But no, no, no, I know, but like, I was just with my family this weekend and like, it was a jo- not a joke, but it was just like, damn, yeah, you were like.
That's so fun.
Emotional. It is not gonna be fun.
Yeah, no.
Dude, there was one day, I don't think I've told this story.
You're gonna be so embarrassed.
I don't think I've told this story. There was a day where, um, we couldn't find Ruby.
You told me, you told me.
Did I tell you what happened at night?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which one?
Where you, where you like, uh, you like found out everything was fine and then you like cried or something.
We went home that night. For anyone that has not heard this story, we couldn't find her because she was hiding at my in-laws' house. And like, we called the cops. Like, I went running around the neighborhood.
The heartbreak that I had in my, like, prepared, and we found her, she had like, she was either playing hide and seek or she had fallen asleep, whatever.
I read the book The Giving Tree to her that night.
Just a fucking drenched face of a fucking pussy, you know what I mean? Just, just weeping.
I wouldn't even, I can't even.
Weeping.
I'm not gonna choose not to think about this.
Dude, I, I can't even like, oh my god, yeah, it was, but, yes, the same about getting rid of my socks from high school.
I, yeah, I mean, totally different.
My daughter being missing, that was so hard, but when I had to throw out a sock. You don't know what that's like. That sock's been with me my whole life.
There was one day where that had happened, um... Actually, I'll tell you after we have a little more advertisings to go here.
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I have no idea. You know, I was just thinking about what we're gonna name it, and that's out the window.
No idea.
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Um,
What were you talking about?
They're all over the place, dude. Dude,
What'd you say, what'd you say? I wanted to say it.
You were saying something.
I don't know, about being a blubbering idiot, crying because of my kids and life?
Yeah, it's good, it's fun. Dude, wait till you have kids.
I made myself cry the other day.
Oh, I love crying. Speaking of almost crying, we got a new update. A new Costco guys update, that's right, baby. That's right.
This is now just a Costco podcast?
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At the hot sauce event, they played the song.
Over the speakers?
Over the speakers.
I was talking to someone. And like, cause there was, our, our fans were there and I was talking to someone and then I was like, I can't believe this song is playing and they looked at me like, what song is this? And I was like, I'm not even gonna try to explain.
They were just, they're just, it's just on people.
Boom!
That's what, yeah, the song was playing in the brewery.
Dude, quick update, he had a wrestling match on like, a major pay-per-view.
I saw it.
On like, the opening for a major pay-per, guy can go, dude.
Free, Big Justice speared the shit out of somebody.
Speared the dog shit out of QT Marshall, uh, Marshall, whatever.
QT?
QT, Q-T.
You're like, cutie.
Uh, sure, but I think, I don't think anyone's calling him cutie.
Uh, and then fucking big powerbomb from Big Boog M.J.
Guy, and I just found out, uh, he, he broke his foot during the match and he finished the match with a broken foot.
Guy's got it, dude!
He's committed.
Kinda crazy, right?
Shout out.
I just, I'm just saying, the fact that we haven't been invited to be in wrestling.
Just like, dude, we could do it, right?
Frank, I don't wanna get powerbombed.
I would love to get powerbombed, just learn how to take that bump, you know? That'd be sick.
You wanna get powerbombed on national television?
That'd be kinda cool, I mean like-
I'll get like, fucking, what's it called? Clotheslined.
People like us, you know, like, yo, do you ever see Steve-O and Chris Pontius getting the dog shit beat out of them by Umaga?
And like, so Steve-O told the story like, later and he was just like-
He was fucking me up.
He was very mad at us because we laughed at him after he, we were supposed to be like, selling that we were hurt.
But, listen, new revamp, new, new Santa Gato Studio stuff, maybe we go, I've been pitching going to wrestling school for how long now?
Ten years.
For a while, right? You gonna tell me people don't wanna see you and I get in the squared circle and wrestle a match?
It would be cool to pop up at like, WrestleMania and just like, interfere with a match real quick.
I mean, that's, that's too big for us.
They, they reserve that for like, you know, uh, Jason Kelsey and stuff.
Rob Gronkowski.
Did you see that, the, the, the dude yelling at Jason Kelsey, the adult autograph seeker?
Frank, that video fired me up beyond belief because he eventually walked over and signed the autograph for him.
I-
Would have taken the thing and cut it in half and then gave it back to him.
Oh yeah.
That guy's a fucking piece of shit.
Dude, and it's like, apparently that's like a thing, cause like, adult autograph seekers, like, they're not, it's not for them, they go to sell it.
Of course.
A lot of wrestlers speak about this, where like, people will like, show up to, like, the airport, with just like, a bullet, like a big oak tag, oak tags are back. Big oak tags of like, thirty pictures and ask them to sign each of them, and it's like, you clearly are gonna sell these.
You know, but, uh, yeah, I saw that Kel- the Kelsey one, I was, I thought that was crazy.
The guy was screaming at him, and then all of a sudden, he started saying like, that some of his family members died or something, and it's like, what are you even saying here?
What does this have to do with anything?
I, I don't wanna sit here and pick apart the legitimacy of it, but like, the way that that's, this person-
Who cares about the legitimacy if it has nothing to do with what's going on?
But like, he like stalked him and like, uh, like, jumped a fence and shit like that, right?
Well, no, he was like, you guys are following me, like, stop following me, it makes me feel weird. Listen,
I really don't want to ever, like, that to ever happen to me, and it's never happened, and honestly, I also wanna just say, that we just had like a hot sauce event at Brooklyn Brewery, and like, a bunch of fans came, and they were all incredibly nice, and like, our family and friends were there, and that they weren't like, weird towards them or anything, cause like, your kids were there, Greg's kid was there, and his like, you know, nephew and shit, and like, there was no like, whatever, so, but you hear horror stories about people being so strange with people's families, but, everyone was like, very respectful of that whole thing, and it was cool, but when I see shit like this, with the Jason Kelsey thing, where he's like, you're, you're,
legitimately following me, and then asked me, and then like, that, it looked like that dude would climb the fence, and was like, yelling shit at him, and then saying shit about how his family died, or whatever the fuck, and I'm like- What is this?
But he just had that thing happen where he spiked that kid's phone.
So he's like, I have to go over.
Yeah, now I have to be the nice person here.
And it's the classic like millennial way of like trauma dumping in order to get people to feel bad for you. So you give them exactly what you want.
Millennial thing?
Yeah, dude.
I mean, I don't know.
Oh, my God. You haven't seen like people like it's like a thing that like millennials just like they'll just trauma. They'll be like, hey, what's your name? And it'll just be like, well, I have depression. Well, and it's like, you fucking, you know, like, alright, but um, yeah, no, we were saying the same thing. Beck and I, we were like, because we were, you saw, we were chasing around the, the kids. And like, people were very kindly giving us our space. There was one woman that I'm not, I'll, I'll tell you about it offline, but like, same situation, like, stop fucking following. Like, people forget that this person is also just trying to be a normal person and live a normal life.
Like, in what world do you think following someone and stalking them is going to?
It's so weird.
And it's not like, you know, you see movies where it's just like, sir, I followed you for eight blocks. So you could take my resume and it's like, I like your moxie. Show up tomorrow at 8 a.m. That's not the real world, dude. Stop following people.
But also like, I don't know, man, like, and also I hate the thing of like the guy screaming crazy shit. At Jason Kelsey and being mad disrespectful. And then him coming over and now because he's signing it, now you're apologizing or now you're, you're like saying nice shit.
Cause you got what you wanted, yeah.
And it's like, bro, you don't get to be both people.
You know what I mean?
You can't.
You're the asshole on the fence screaming.
You're not sorry that you did it. You're sorry that you got, like, now you look like an idiot because you basically threw a fucking tantrum.
It's crazy, man.
Oh, my God.
It's so wild. And like, that is so terrifying because more than anything, I value that normalcy in my life.
Of like, I'm cool with, I'm definitely cool with people like recognizing me and saying hi. And if you want a picture, like, that's totally fine. The second it, it becomes like, people are following you or following you like in cars. Or they're like. Trying to find out like
Where you are.
intricate details of your life and whatever and it's like, bro.
I don't know you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like.
I think, I have to say, I think we have been very, very lucky. I think that.
I've never had an issue with that.
At the same, and I'll, I will be honest, if I start having an issue, I'll start throwing fucking fists. Joey knows me, like, I, I, I will start calling people out if they're being assholes.
Yeah, I don't know. I've never had that happen, which is fine. And I, everyone that we've interacted with, I feel like has been super normal, with the exception of a few. But like, that'll happen. But nothing to the point where I felt like, someone's stalking me, or someone's like, doing this and whatever, or like, trying stalking my mother or something. And like, stop, like, bro, you're crossing a crazy line here.
Yeah, well, I think it's because we are, and both times, the funniest people on the internet, the nicest people on the internet. Um.
Yeah, what are you doing?
We're very humble, too.
Oh, well, yeah, you are. You are very humble.
We, we are very humble.
Yeah, you are.
Um, uh, so, you know, coming from the person that puts his name on everything.
Uh.
If we had to name the podcast today, what would we name it?
I can't think of a more perfect name than The Basement Yard. I really, I really can't.
Yeah, I didn't even come up with it either.
Um, uh, the, the, the.
Well, once your shoulder goes up, I know it's a bad idea, so maybe you could just save that one.
Just two lifelong bu- buddies talking.
Two lifelong buddies talking?
Two lifelong buddies talking.
The lifelong boys.
See, that's the worst part about this podcast, too, is like, one, even if this, like, you can't explain this show to anybody, obviously.
Nobody.
We don't make it easy for the people who watch, too, to be like, oh, you, like, you have any recommendations?
We know, we thank you for trying. We know what we've, the hand that we have dealt.
I, I imagine people be like, you have any recommendations for podcasts? And it's like, oh, go listen to The Basement Yard. And it's like, oh, what's it about? It's like, you got me. I have no idea. I have no idea what it's about.
It's that thing where like, you watch something that's just so crazy, and you don't know how to describe it, so you're just like, it's, you know, honestly, it might not be for you. You know, it's like, it's just, it's so out there.
Do you think we have one of those shows where it's like, I wanna recommend this, but I don't think that I should?
I, I'll be honest, I think. I would love to see what, when people do recommend our show, what episodes they say
To like, start off with, because there are some that are pretty standard, and then there are others that are so fucking unhinged.
Like, we had a whole episode just talking corn, and not like, you know, like,
You know, the, the, the,
The corn, the good corn or the bad corn? I guess it depends what you're good.
It depends on what side you sit. I would say the bad corn. Others would say the good, but you know what I'm saying, like,
So I wonder, like, at any ti- up, anytime someone, like, that I meet, that doesn't know when they ask me about, first of all, I don't like saying what I do, because I feel like immediately people are judgmental.
Do you lie?
I don't lie. I'm very, oh, I, I, I say, oh, I'm in, uh, the entertainment world.
Frank, that's a, you're inviting a question.
No, I'm not. I don't think I'm inviting it.
And then most people,
Are you an actor?
I'll, I'll be, most people just say like, okay, cool. Others will be like, oh, like what? And then I'm just like, oh, like podcasting, like, okay, sometimes it stops there. There are the 1% that's, they get,
What's the show about?
What, what is it? What's it called? And then I always have to say like, it's, it might not be, I don't know what your taste is.
That's mad funny.
I don't even remember what I say. I kind of change it up every time.
And then there are the other people that are just like, I don't, you're not, not my thing. I don't find you funny.
But like, so and so does. Cool, dude. Really cool. Thanks for it.
I don't really respect you.
But someone does, and good for you.
There, there was a story recently that I, that I, I told you, because I told you when it happened, uh, of someone coming up to me and just being like, I don't like your show. I don't get it.
But like,
cool for you guys, I guess. And I was just like, okay.
Thank you.
Yeah, thank, what is this?
And then they were like, I don't like mainstream stuff. That's why I like Tim Dillon. And I was just like, hey, brother.
Tim Dillon's massive.
Massive. One of the biggest podcasts on the planet.
I would say. Uh, but yeah, I guess, I guess that's all for this week's episode of The Basement Yard. We appreciate all you guys.
Yeah, or that's all for this week's episode of Two Life Lung Buds Talking and Hanging.
Right, and thank God I named the show before you got here because that would have taken all day.
Yeah, that wouldn't have been good, but you guys can find me at F Alvarez 885 on Twitter. The Frank Alvarez on all other forms of social media, and then the Patreon, patreon.com/thebasementyard. Join, give the gift to Patreon, it's the holiday season, the eight days of Halloween are coming up, so maybe, you know, give it out to somebody there, and yeah, thank you guys.
Yeah, you guys can go follow me at Joe Sanagato, go follow the show at The Basement Yard on TikTok and Instagram, and that is all. See you guys next time.
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