The Basement Yard
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Welcome back to the ba-
Welcome back to the basement yard.
Hi! Hello, everyone!
You're all buttoned up today.
Yeah, um, it's because I'm wearing an undershirt under here, but it has a logo on it.
Oh, I see.
So I don't want to show the logo.
Okay.
Not that it's like, someone I don't like, but like...
Now it feels like you have to show it.
I know, no, but now I-
You know what I mean?
You gotta prove that it's not an offensive one.
Well, no, it's not. What could it be? I don't know. Like a swastika or something?
I mean-
Whoa, dude! Hot start?
Dropped it off. It was a hard ass swastika. Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, now you gotta show it.
Yeah, now I have to show you. It's very clearly not, it's competence. Very, the furthest-
Oh, okay.
The furthest thing from-
That-
That one of them, yeah.
Now that we know who it was, I don't know if they want it that close.
Nobody wins right now.
Yeah, no, no.
Uh, we doubly lose. Let's make that abundantly clear. Sorry, we can just take that again from the top, alright? Hey, welcome back! Oh wow, you gotta, that's, no, well, like, you know, whatever. Um, you got some new hardware over there.
I got some bling.
Look at that.
Look at this.
Ant ran his first half marathon.
It's real. By the way, is it your first half- There we go. Is it-
You're just gonna let it go?
Is it your first half marathon? Or was it your only half marathon?
Got it, got it.
You know what I'm saying? Like, at first-
That's an aggressive question off the fucking, off rip!
Well, I don't know how he's feeling.
Well, start with that question then, how about that?
Sorry, sorry.
What did I-
Sorry, you're right, you're right, you're right, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You guys were accusing me of wearing fucking propaganda on my shirt and stuff like that.
Whoa!
No, we were making sure that no one was coming to that conclusion.
Now it's propaganda.
Yeah, whoa! Yeah!
But anyway.
Right, sorry.
Ran the marathon, the half marathon in Brooklyn?
The Brooklyn Half Marathon?
You did it, and you just, let's get this out the way.
Yes, sir.
Awesome, congratulations.
Oh, thank you.
That is really, really cool.
Thank you.
You just decided you wanted to do it, and just did it.
It was, it was something. It was something to do. A lot of people.
A lot of people.
Did you, you, you just, see, like, this is what people say, like, hardworking should be. Gen Z, are you listening? He just decided he wanted to do something and pulled himself up by his bootstraps.
Mm-hmm.
And did it.
Yeah. He came out to see me. At least he did. And, um...
That's fucking crazy.
Wow.
That's fucking bananas. See, now, now, now I need to be on the attack.
Yeah, yeah.
Is that how you attack? One more time, just give him an attack?
Very good.
I mean, how, how should I attack? Tell me, fucking Boxer Joe?
Definitely not like this.
That's all I know. I know that's incorrect.
No, I'm playing, I'm playing. It was nice.
How are your legs feeling?
They, they hurt today. The, the right, my right foot is not working.
That's about it. It's just like I'm...
Not working? Are you dragging it?
You're walking?
I'm dr- dragging it. I'm limping a little bit.
What shoes did you wear? Do they do, like, a thing where, like, you can, like, run in, like, silly shoes? Has anyone done, like, a marathon in, like, high heels?
Bro, when I ran the marathon, there was people barefoot.
Yeah, well, that's not cool shoes. That's just no shoes.
But you can wear whatever you want, to my knowledge.
Someone, someone ran a marathon in snow boots. I mean, ski boots.
Your thighs must be on fire.
Thighs, the whole, the whole legs. Did you see the guy run the London Marathon with a fridge on his back?
Yes, I did see that.
Wait, why?
It, it was symbolic of something.
Oh, alright.
Oh, I don't know if there was symbols. I don't know what that was about.
Yeah, I don't wanna...
I think it was symbolic of something. I, I did see that, but like, yeah, I mean, you're, you're asking for an injury at that point.
I mean, with, I mean...
All power to you.
I mean, someone would argue that doing the marathon in and of itself is asking for an injury.
Kind of, yeah.
Yeah, I couldn't walk last night. I was just on the couch. I was just sinking into it. I was fine until mile, like, nine and 10. And that's when I felt like my legs were gonna explode.
Ooh, did you take a bath after?
I did. I took an ice bath, actually.
Ooh, did you throw some Epsom salt in that bitch?
It was a very crude ice bath. I didn't even know you were supposed to put salt in it.
I mean, Epsom salt, you know what Epsom salt is.
What?
Is that the stuff you put on the street?
Uh, no.
Why would you take a bath of stuff that melts snow? Wait, Epsom salt might melt snow too.
I don't, if it does, I don't know. But I don't think like when you get like, like ice melt, it's not Epsom salt, I don't think.
I mean, you know what? I have no knowledge of salt and I have nowhere to go from here. Right. But you've never heard of like, when you're taking a bath and you're trying to recover, there's some like some salts that you could put in there so it like helps? No, I just did. I don't know what it does. It just makes me smell like lavender and I like that.
Oh, yeah. We have a eucalyptus one.
I like that too. Eucalyptus is cool, but like, it's so much.
I love it.
Sometimes it's too intense for me. I got a sensitive nostrils.
We one time got like actual eucalyptus and like, they say like, if you just like, put it in your shower. It like, it's like, there's like health benefits to like, all that shit. I, I, I can't, I can't keep up with oils and health implants and shit.
There's a lot going on.
So much fucking going on about it.
People are just like, oh, oils and crystals and shit like that. Let me just fucking breathe oxygen. And live that way.
And ingest my microplastics that's in everything.
I don't care. Of course there's microplastics. Of course there's forever chemicals.
What am I gonna fucking do?
If, if I have the forever chemicals in me.
Which we do.
We're locked in forever.
Which like, it's not an if. We do.
Does anybody wanna raise their hand if they've won some sort of medal for running a marathon of any kind?
Don't fucking do this, both of you. Uh, how about this? How about we raise, raise our hands for fucking raising three children? Neither, you put your hands down, bitches.
Well, that's not what we're saying.
Yeah, no, no, that, yeah, that's a different.
You're just throwing it in my face that I haven't run a marathon, or half of one.
I said type of marathon.
Way to go. You did half of an actual marathon.
I said type, I said type, I said type.
That's crazy.
I'll tell you what, after running the half, it made me think that while doing double this and running a full marathon feels impossible. So the fact that he did it is incredible. I can't, I would never be able to.
It's mental. I also had not run, I practiced, I trained horribly for the marathon and I, I ran two halves before, but never ran further than that.
You hear this fucking guy? Mister like, oh man, I like, didn't train right before I finished the full fucking marathon. I didn't train enough, so I only could have been better at it.
That is true. I couldn't have been much worse. Mm-hmm. But you finish. You just finish.
That is, and that, like, in all the conversations we've had about this, because jokes aside, that is to both of you. One of you more legitimately impressed.
One of us double.
One of us, yeah, like, what you did was impressive.
Times two of that, that's very impressive.
Don't you-
It's the mental, it's the entirety of it is the mental as- uh, aspect for me. I, I just can't do something that continuous and not get bored and wanting-
What if we bully you?
Bully with your wallet, then we're talking.
Bully with your wallet.
Then we're talking. Then we can at least have a discussion. Well, what if, what if-
Oh, we're making deals.
Well, don't you, don't you wanna just shut us up?
I mean, I think my pure existence, to some degree, just shuts you guys up.
What does that mean?
I don't know, but I think that, you know, me being
uh, uh, an upstanding member of this office, a contributing factor despite what Ant says to this podcast.
And, and doing it while also being a model husband and father, I think that, that does pretty well for me.
Now, I do have a question about that last sentence. When you said model husband, was there a comma in between those two things? Or is it model husband? Or model husband and something else?
I mean, I will lead-
Technically, you are a model.
Technically, we are models. We have done modeling.
You, you're a model.
Uh, we are models. Don't just throw it at me.
Well, we're talking about you right now.
Thank you so much.
You're a model.
Say it more.
I tried and then you stopped me.
Alright, keep, do it again then.
Well, so now he has the model and the metal, so not really one up.
I'd be a metal model.
I can't even keep up.
Yeah, no, it's too much.
No, no, no.
What if we all ran a half marathon together?
I just, I'm not kidding. Here's the, where I am mentally today.
Two 5Ks.
What? Like, what does that mean?
I could see myself doing two 5Ks.
I, I don't think I could do, which is what, a quarter marathon?
It's three.
Do they do quarter marathons or third marathons?
It's, it's a 5K or a 10K. So it's either 3.1 or 6.2.
I could do a 10K.
Or 6.1? I don't know.
A 10K would be a quarter-ish, a little less than quarter of marathon.
Yeah, I just, I, I, like I said, I am, I know what's going to happen to my ego now that someone else here has done it.
He's gonna, he's wearing it too.
And he's rubbing it in too, which I don't like.
It's, it's, it's the day after, give me a day.
Oh yeah, it was yesterday.
It was yesterday.
As of recording.
I just, I, I don't know if that's a question I need answered right now. I did tell you guys, full transparency, tomorrow I'm gonna go to the gym and just see what happens when I get on the treadmill. But I'm just.
What if something good happens?
We needed to find what would be good.
I mean, it would be good.
So help me, so I told you, I haven't run, I haven't run in three weeks.
So what would you guys say? I'll let you set the standard for what you think good is, which can then adjust my mental capacity after.
Based on what you've said already, you said that you've gotten on the treadmill and you've run for like 25 minutes straight.
That is all you need. That is a giant starting point.
The best, like, the, the longest I have run was 30 minutes straight.
That's hard to do.
At 5.5 miles per hour.
I mean, that's hard to do.
So if I do that tomorrow.
You think that is a good jumping off point?
Of course. You're essentially crushing 5Ks already. You're like right there. That's what that would be. It's only 3.1 miles.
I just, I wanna make it very clear, I can't commit to anything.
Running, running wise.
But it's five.
Make that clear.
Yeah, period.
I can't commit to anything. Running wise, until I start seeing like a, well.
Why, what does that really matter? You know, what results, training, who cares? It's also six months away.
I, I am just, I'm saying like, I need to like, you guys are gonna bully me into doing it.
I'll sign you up.
I know what you're doing. You're gonna bully me into running. I need.
I'll go with you.
I need to bully you.
Into?
Into making it fiscally.
More.
Well, how enchanting for me. Enchanting. Enchanting. Okay, Prince Charming.
Start a GoFundMe.
GoFundMe.
I think we could do this. A GoFundMe that get to $200,000 and then Frank will run a 5K.
200K for a 5K?
How about this? Good for you.
50 for every K.
What happened? What would you do? Or how would you feel if? Cause you signed up for October, right?
I didn't sign up for anything yet, just in case we did do something. Does that make sense?
Yeah, but we would do that.
Oh, so yeah, sure.
Um, what if we both ran and then you didn't run it? And you were just kinda left out. Now we got two medals.
I mean, are we medal chasing now? Because then.
We're not medal chasing.
The reality is that I would do it and with you two and then you'd have two medals, you'd have two medals and I'd be at one.
But then you, but, but, but you could beat him.
You could beat us both. Let me be very clear. If I'm running something with Ann, I'm beating him.
Well, that's what I mean.
That would then you would have that.
You're not beating me.
See? You're kidding me?
Well, now. He knows what he's doing.
He knows what he's doing.
If it's a competition now, it's like I was running to finish. But now you.
Now I'm running to finish.
If we train hard to beat me.
I'm letting you know right now, if we did a 5K.
Oh, 5K.
I am fucking dusting you.
Whoa.
I'm letting you know. That's my ego. See? You did it. Are you guys happy now?
Here we go. I don't think there's medals.
Now you're getting a real American athlete out of me.
There are medals in 5Ks. I've gotten one before. Oh, there's medals in 5Ks?
You're gonna, oh, you, so you have multiple medals?
Yeah. God, I'll never catch up to him.
You don't need to outme, it's about just doing it. When you cross the finish line, you're gonna feel so good about yourself. It's about the medals, baby.
Why do something?
It is about the medals.
If there is not a tangible thing to be given to you to say, good job doing it.
Well, that's, that's my only rule when it comes to races. If there's not a medal, I'm not doing it.
The only reason.
That's how important the medals are.
Only reason that I did Radio City and MSG is because they gave us a cool little ticket.
We didn't know that we were gonna get that, but that was cool.
I don't know about you, I knew I was getting that shit.
Oh, really?
No, I didn't know.
Oh. Yeah, no.
You're gonna pull out a real fucking American athlete out of me now? That's what you want? You wanna Americanize me like some fucking old timey football player or something?
Born here, whole life, are American.
But like you, like I just.
I mean, I think it's clear. That you. I mean, you've, I mean, we just figured out, we did some math back there.
We did math.
You've run close to 50 miles already this year.
And I've taken a couple of weeks off.
And have you enjoyed that?
No.
But you enjoy being able to say that I've, I've traveled that far on foot.
I like looking at numbers and saying like, that's, that's a number, you know?
What? No, I don't know at all what that means. I like looking at numbers and being like, correct.
But it's just cool. Like you texted us yesterday, like, I just ran my 100th mile.
And like, looking back and putting a number to something like that is cool to me.
So that's why I did that. And I was just like, wow, I've ran 50 miles so far this year.
You would be surprised how much of what you're describing is the reason behind me running. I just like to know that I've traveled that far.
I don't care about traveling that far. I don't think of it and be like, wow, I could drive, I could have, I've ran enough to go from here to fucking, you know, Great Neck.
No, no, no, I'm not, I'm not thinking about that. I'm thinking about like, wow, cool, 100 miles, like, that's wild. That, that is a crazy number.
I don't know.
You don't think that you would finish a half marathon and be like, holy shit, I actually did it?
I'm sure I would. I know myself. When I dive in, I'm fucking in. You know what I mean? Like,
Smokey.
When I, I'm letting you know, I'm like, jokes aside.
In a what?
In a 5K, I'm fucking dusting.
5K is a, I'm talking, I'm, I'm at half marathons. I'm past 5Ks, dude.
Whoa, that's crazy, but also true.
But we should do a 5K.
All right. I mean, I don't know. I'm not committing to anything yet. I just need to make that abundantly clear because I'm a little baby boy too.
This is me.
You just, you want to bully me into being a version of a, this is,
Virgin.
This is.
You're gonna bully me into being a virgin?
You want to bully me into being some like athletic version of myself? And I don't like it. What did I have for lunch today?
A chicken parm sandwich. That's what you get with Frankie.
It looked real good.
It actually was like seriously good.
Yeah?
Like, I was kind of impressed.
I just didn't expect that.
Side note.
You want me to be like an athletic version of myself? When like I'm BLTs, Megazords and fucking Miller Lights, baby.
I'm not asking you to change.
You want me to be fucking Peyton Manning, fucking Doug Weikoff or some shit like that?
Doug Weikoff?
Why cough on these nuts when you can swallow them? Got him!
Oh no.
Got him!
Why cough on these nuts when you can swallow them?
That is insane.
I never heard that one. That was really good. No, yeah, you got him.
Come on, come on, come on. What is he giving you?
You already hit him with it. You want to hit him with it?
No, I gotta do a proper one.
Alright, hit him with it, got him. Got him.
You got me. Why cough on these nuts when you can swallow them?
And I didn't stumble through it.
Yeah, you got it.
I waited, I sat back, I sat fastball and I fucking swung away.
Well, there is consequences to things like that.
Yeah, that's.
And it's me filling out your information.
Yeah. I mean, they, maybe.
You're gonna get something in the mail at your house.
It's gonna be a bib with a number on it.
And now you're gonna be the guy that signed up and didn't do it? Crazy.
No, listen. I know what you're doing. This is what he did when we were playing fucking Mario Kart.
Just like, it's not that I'm good, you're just bad. You know what I mean?
Yeah, he's playing the games.
He's playing mind games with me.
You'll probably, I mean, yeah. What will happen if he commits to doing a 5K and he smokes you? He probably could. I feel like I'm more endurance.
So what happens though?
What is, I don't know. Well, when is the 5K? Like, it's all important.
Well, there's 5Ks all the time.
If it's tomorrow, yeah, he probably got it.
No, no, no. I do think, and I'm not, because I'm also just not a runner. It's like teaching a fish how to climb a tree.
Neither am I, though. I forced my way into this.
But you have forced your way into becoming a runner and now you are one.
But you saying I'm not a runner is like this admission of like, I just can't do it. Like you can.
No, but like there, there's a level of like natural ability you need to have to kind of make the insertion into that lifestyle easier.
Insertion.
Like, like, like for instance, are you a gymnast? No. Could you be a gymnast? Sure.
Yeah, that's everything.
But it would be a more enjoyable experience if you had more natural ability to, that would be better suited for being a gymnast.
How am I gonna get natural ability to get on the pummel horse?
That's what I'm saying though. People have that, whether it be flexibility or speed or dexterity or anything like that.
I mean, you ran for a half an hour straight, dude. That's, that's not nothing.
I will tell you, every second of that was miserable.
I know. It all sucks.
Every single second.
It's terrible. I hate it. But I love finishing it.
You, all you care about is finishing?
I care about the road toward finishing. I feel like you're trying to.
Equate this to a vagina.
I just, I don't know. I mean, maybe we'll talk, we'll talk candidly amongst ourselves.
I mean, committing to like a 5K in June is not crazy.
I think if I were to wake up tomorrow, I could do a 5K.
Yeah, you absolutely could. It's not like you can't finish a 5K.
I mean, I could walk it, but I'm saying like, I could do it non-stop running.
But I just don't want to. Like, that's my thing, guys.
The noise is coming out of you.
What would you rather do? Close your eyes, real quick, both of you. Close your eyes. I'm serious. Close your eyes. I'm not gonna do anything jokey jokey.
I'm gonna fall for this too? Alright, fine.
I'm coughing on nuts already, so where am I gonna go from here?
It's not a joke.
Yep.
Saturday morning, June 23rd, okay? You wake up, you have a hot dog or you go run a fucking marathon. What would you rather do? Oh, by the way.
Why did I close my eyes?
What was the point of that? I'd rather have a hot dog.
It's 85 degrees and sunny out.
But I'm not saying run a summer marathon. That's hard.
You said June.
I said a 5K.
I'm, okay. A 5K.
Think about this. You run a 5K in the morning in the summer, right? And you're all sweaty and whatever, then you have a crisp.
Fucking light beer and a hot dog after.
That's honestly probably the thing, the closest thing that'll get me to do it.
I'm saying that, that, nothing feels better than that. I just, I just, I just fucking hate it. What do you guys not get?
I mean, so do I. You don't have to do it, obviously.
I know, but.
You do.
I mean,
I, I figure, I know that too.
I also fig, I just got a got em on you, a pretty good got em too. So like, I'm riding high right now.
You are.
If there's a chance to convince me, it's right now.
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Is there, is there a need for convincing when I just have all your info already? You know, like I could just sign you up. And then if you lose to him in the race, who's to say?
I mean, I will flat out say that if,
Frank's gonna come out sprinting.
I'm letting you know right now.
One of you guys is gonna end up in the tent.
I will, I will pass out
and fucking need an oxygen tank before I lose a race to you.
That's, I think you would win the 5K.
I don't need that. I think you have time. And you just ran ahead.
You also have, this is like, you know, you just, you just fucking won MVP. This is like next, if I beat you, that's like you coming out the next year and hitting 200.
Yeah, it's true.
So if anyone here has something to prove, it's you. Yeah, all the pressure, all the pressure's on you now.
Oh, I promise.
So there is pressure, so it is happening. I didn't say that.
I didn't say that.
Don't worry, I think you'll win it.
See the hesitation, what is he saying here?
I could run it in work shoes, like dress shoes and I could beat you.
Oh, work shoes?
Yeah, I don't work, I don't get dressed up for work.
What's dress shoes?
Like, fucking like-
Like loafers?
Like loafers, yeah.
I would just-
Please don't.
I think I would just take it more serious than you would.
And you would win now?
I mean, no.
I don't get that. What do you mean you'd take it more serious than me?
You would train harder?
Absolutely, but I think you'd win.
I don't know, I think that, I think, I do believe that if Frank committed and being like, okay, we're gonna do it, that he would train harder than you.
Let me make something abundantly clear. If I commit to anything, I'm confident I could do it well. I live life by a very strict set of guidelines and if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it well.
Yeah, we got that in the New Year's episode.
I'm just saying, like, you guys think it's a joke, it is not.
I don't think-
I remember someone in college, I got into an argument with someone in college because hindsight, looking back on it, it was probably tone deaf that I said it, but I don't give a fuck.
Oh.
They said like-
Here we go.
Uh, oh man, everyone that takes organic chemistry fails. And I was like, oh, I, I probably wouldn't. And they're like, well, it's hard. I was like, yeah, I get that, but like, I just, I'm confident in my skills.
Right.
Same situation here.
How is that tone deaf?
Uh, because it got to a point where I was just like, I'm not saying you're dumb, I'm just saying I'm smarter, you know?
I'm not you, I'm better, is what I'm trying to say to you.
Did you take the class?
Ah.
Yeah, failed.
No, no, no, no, no, but you know what I'm saying, like, it's, it's-
Judging on how much you trained, I think that he will train harder than you.
Yeah, but it's like, eh, sure.
There's also a whole other part of this that I'm not even referencing.
I'm worried about my tummy.
What about it?
You know how, uh-
Oh, there's, it's lined with ports.
If I stop, I'm not starting.
You're fine. It's a half an hour. It's 40 minutes of your life.
June what? Will you late June?
We're not-
You would have to look at the schedule.
Uh, first of all-
Alright, I'm in.
I never committed. It's a 5K.
So now you're forfeiting. I went automatically.
First of all, I hold the fucking power here bitch. Okay, you can mark that in your little fucking notebook. You have no more paper left because you're unprepared. Just like you were for your half marathon that you did finish.
Actually, I have the backside of all the sheets. It's like double, it's whole thing.
I would just need to be a really sick medal.
Honestly, that is very important and it's in it and I I try to know what the medal is gonna look like before I get there.
How about the loser gives the winner their medal?
One of these?
Oh, like I
Like, like he's gotta get on
Coronation?
Yeah, yeah. You stand above him on a, like a bench and then he has to, and you bend down.
Well, no, I'm supposed, like, the winner's supposed to be on the bench.
That's what I said.
Oh, I thought you meant like the
No, and he's like on the ground and he's gotta like put it on you.
Or you have to kiss my feet.
Okay, now we're getting into crazy fetish.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, why not? If you're so confident.
I mean, we're talking about fetish stuff. After the race, barefoot?
I'm not saying sexually kiss my feet.
The race, barefoot? After the race, barefoot? Do I have to watch? I don't want to be there for You absolutely have to watch. I don't want to see it.
Joe watches.
Joe watches. Okay, alright.
The Joe, I, I also think that there's the, the, the joke that he's, he would dust both of us.
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, I'm smoking, you guys.
Unless, you know. I'm in really good shape right now, too. Running wise. Unless a cramp happens, you never know.
That is true.
I would, 5K, I will let my legs break and I've seen, I've seen enough videos of like people running and then that song pops up, the Heinz, oh, my
Number in my I would stop and like put your arm over me and we'd finish together. You know what I mean? I wouldn't, I wouldn't be able to
Pick me up?
I'm going back, fucking pissing on your face and then I'm running more.
This is crazy.
It's gonna be one of those moments where Frankie's at the finish line and he sees me coming, but he sees Joe stumble, he's like, "I gotta go back."
I can't.
Here's the only way I would do it, if we all wore shirts with Mario Kart build outs on it. Like, our character, our kart and everything, so I could say, "I finally fucking beat you in real Mario Kart."
Well, what we would have to do is pick each other's shirts, probably. Right? That's funny.
Okay, let me, let me now start putting what I need in order for this to make this happen. And that's just the freedom to wear whatever I want.
I think that makes it less interesting if you get to do whatever you want.
Do you want me to dress up like Bowser?
I mean, you said Bowser. Honestly, though, that's pretty cool.
That's funny.
I'm not dressing up like Bowser.
Why?
Do they have, like, Nintendo 5Ks?
They have everything.
What could that possibly mean?
I don't know. Like, you're, like, the medal you get is, like, the power-up mushroom?
Oh, honestly? Honestly, they could. I don't know.
People had that on signs throughout the whole race. It was very nice.
Oh, like, power-up?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I hit them all.
Yeah, you got it. We know you did, dude.
Whenever I see a dog.
What'd you drink for your pre-race prep? Yoohoo?
No, I don't actually. Mile 10, though, Danny and JT hit me with a Surfside. Crucial.
What flavor?
I see. Crucial Surfside.
Crucial Surfside.
It was really crucial.
Okay, so there is one on, uh, June 21st.
There's also June 16th, if that makes you feel better.
Oh, also no.
June 21st? Okay.
I mean, that's, first of all, that's the day after my son's birthday, which you both have been invited to.
Yeah, dude, get up early.
So we'll all be there.
Because the day before, I will be eating all of the hot dogs and every beer.
How about this? There's the, the Brooklyn Ice Cream Social 5K.
Do you like ice cream?
So, look at this. Look, this is the medal.
An ice cream cone.
It's a straw.
That's actually pretty cool.
That's good.
That's a cool one, but...
And you get ice cream at the end.
Oh, so I can run with a bunch of Brooklyn hipsters who are probably walking it with their dog? No, thanks.
When's that?
July 25th, five days before your birthday.
Actually, I have something the day before in Atlantic City, so I'll be there.
There's no way.
Lasts...
I can't do July.
Then there's the Haunted Island 5K in October.
I do like spooky stuff.
Yeah, but at that point, we're so close to the October, just do the half marathon.
It would be smart if they did like a 5K, but like you're chased by zombies or something.
That would be cool. That would be kinda cool.
That would be cool, because then I would, I think I'd do better. Because like, when I get chased by things, which doesn't happen often, but like... The idea definitely motivates me more to like, oh no!
Um, so how about if I just pay an extra participant in this 5K and I dress him up as a ghoul? And I have him about six steps behind you the entire time.
Why do you, why do you get in touch with Doug Whitekoff's family?
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Ooh.
All right. I think it's my turn. Can you guys close your eyes for me? I want you to imagine something.
I'm closing my eyes again. This is crazy.
Oh God. Now see, are you going to prank me?
No, no, I won't prank you. So your eyes are closed.
You are seeing a big tray of buffalo wings.
Hell yeah, dude. Now this is what I'm talking about. Fuck running.
Okay. You open, you open your eyes and these are the options you have. Which one are you picking first? Which wing are you selecting first?
That's a good question.
I have an answer.
Those are sauced bitches.
I think I have like the answer. I think I know.
I have, I have the answer as well.
Should we say it at the same time?
Um, probably not.
I'm gonna go my number, I'm gonna go my number one.
I'll tell you the worst one I see right now as well.
Oh, you wanna do that?
Let's start with the worst one.
Worst one I think is number six.
Six.
Eleven.
Eleven?
Dude, thirteen.
Eleven has nothing on it!
Yeah, but thirteen has the broken bone thing. I hate that.
Oh, yeah, that's bad.
That's bad. Eleven is pretty bad, but also six, like, that's the one you bite into and it's mostly cartilage and it's not like enough actual meat.
Six looks fine.
The best one.
Easily. Easily the best one is fourteen.
Hundred percent.
Fourteen is the one.
Fourteen?
You don't like fourteen?
The best one is seven.
Are you out of your fucking mind?
What the fu- It's a drumstick!
Yeah, it's a drum.
No, flats over drum.
No flats!
Flats, baby.
You're a drumstick kinda girl?
You two are those, alright.
No!
Oh, what?
We're everybody! We are, we are the world. We are the children, okay?
We are the world.
We are the children.
We're under fire.
We're made of pain.
So let's start giving.
And you're nobody.
If you're going flat, the twelve is better. The twelve or the ten is better than the fourteen.
No way, dude, what? Here's the thing about fourteen, is that it's an even cook and it's a good sauce application on there.
And she's, and she's got meat on her and there's a ton of sauce on it.
Yeah, hell yeah.
Like, that's number one.
I will also, first of all, I would go any flat on there over any drum on there.
Seven is an outrageous answer, by the way.
It's the best looking wing.
No, it is absolutely not. Four is better. Three is even better than seven.
Three is really good.
Wait, there's-
It's one that's not labeled that kind of has a fat ass, right under six? What is that about? What's going on?
Yeah, I think it got cut off.
I don't know what's going on there, but she's got some potential to her. Sixteen, throw it out or I'm gonna scream.
Well sixteen might be a deceptive picture because it just might be from a weird angle. You know what I mean?
Maybe.
Thirteen is bad, really, really bad. Eleven is probably the worst one.
I would say the best drum on there could be three.
I would agree.
Three looks like a drumstick.
Three and seven have the best ones on here.
I can't believe you like drums.
Seven is, seven is not even like top five.
Oh, yeah, seven's crazy.
Seven is so bad.
Nine is better than seven.
I agree.
Eight, oh my God, eight is a lovely little lady.
Dude, four is a good looking wing, dude.
You know what's a sneaky good one? Five, because you get your thumb in there and push the meat off.
Whoa, that was crazy.
Thumb?
Get your thumb in there?
You know, it's like you, I'm not doing it.
Dude, how do you eat these things in public?
First of all, yeah, why are you using your thumb to eat chicken wings?
I'm saying you push, like you grip the bone, you push it down. I can't be doing this.
I mean, people who are just audio are probably like, what are they talking about?
Yeah, go show us how you grip from the base and push down with your thumb.
With your thumb, yeah.
Two's got a good coating on it.
Wait, how do you, serious question? If you're, and I want a visual representation of what I'm asking.
Oh, boy.
If you're gonna eat five, how are you eating it?
Depends how I'm feeling. Normally I would just rip the bone apart, take one out, and then I eat it like a drum anyway.
See, but why are you trying to civilize chicken wings?
Civilize?
They're meant to be filthy.
Okay, so even if you do it the way where you just put the whole thing in your mouth and you pull, the, the five has a good thumb hold right there.
Wait, how do you eat chicken wings?
Well, flat or drum, you gotta tell me.
A flat.
A flat?
You shove the whole flat in your mouth?
I've the whole flat in my mouth and I pull out.
And you pull your teeth out?
And then if there's anything in the middle, I hold it sideways and I break through.
How do you?
Um, I'll do that if they're like super tender, but I don't like leaving a bunch of meat in the middle that I gotta like fish out.
Nah, there's, I'm telling you right now, there's more meat on a T-Rex carcass than there is on those wings when I'm done with them.
There's no, there's no meat left on a T-Rex carcass.
Alright, I was trying to figure out what you meant by that.
They're fossilized bones now.
Got that.
Oh!
Yeah, I didn't, I first I was like, what?
Nice.
Um, but, or there's some times where like if it's not coming off like that, then I'll, I'll, uh... You ever do the thing where you just press down and it just comes off?
That's what I was saying.
Well, I've never done that.
That's what I was saying, the thumb thing.
But like it looks cool when people do it, I'm like, oh.
Wings are one of the foods that like, I fully sac- like I, I, I submit myself to the mess. Because like there's certain foods that like, you know they're gonna be messy, but you try to not get it, let it be messy. You know what I mean? Like everyone does the twirl with the spaghetti, and like you avoid the mess.
Oh my god, people who eat spaghetti with a spoon and a fork, come on.
People do that.
Come on!
I get it, I'm not gonna, I'm not that upset at them.
But don't slurp either! Don't be slurping spaghetti!
I, I understand the upset, being upset.
Do you slurp?
I, I, I sneak a slurp in every now and then.
What about soup? Are you just like a loud slurping bastard?
There's, but I'm not doing it to be like annoying. Every now and then a slurp sneaks in. And that's just because it's just sometimes it's too hot and I wanna eat it.
So you slurp?
Just like, just to like, like I said, it's like a bit of a litmus test, just to see how hot it is, a...
Yeah, but that's not slurping. Slurping's like...
Well, then I have to...
You know, but then once I'm like, oh, this is good. I'll either just drink it or I'll just like spoon it.
Most of the soups that I have now, I drink like it's a cup.
Like you ever ordered like sushi and it comes with a miso soup?
I just take it and I drink it like it like that.
Yeah, it's fun.
Yeah, I like it.
New way of doing stuff. Oh, what do you do?
Me?
With a straw?
You are a straw guy though.
I love straws.
Huge. I don't know if this came up on the show or not. When we went to Austin, this dude had straws in his fucking luggage.
Alright.
You brought straws. Hey man, that's stupid. And shot glasses.
We used both things.
First of all, you and Greg used the shot glasses to take shots of rosé. It's such a great thing.
It was Greg's idea, yeah.
Yeah, of course, that's Greg's idea. That is, I mean, I get it because you don't want to share the bottle and stuff like that, but there was also. Cups. I was gonna say, there's also cups everywhere.
There's cups everywhere.
And like normally like Airbnbs will have wine glasses as like one of the like cup options.
So I don't get bringing shot glasses. Oh, you know what? It's the party.
The party's here.
I don't know what you guys do without me.
Don't take shots.
No, no, not the shots. We didn't even take shots. I'm saying like, you guys were playing with my switch. If I wasn't there, I don't know.
The switch was massive.
What were you guys doing if I wasn't there? Just staring at each other?
Conversation. The switch was massive, I will say that. I'm not, I didn't say anything about the switch. The shot glasses though. What, what would we do without you? Let's look at the 33 years of history before.
I don't know what you guys are doing.
We were partying.
We were partying beer pong. Beer pong, hip cup guys. Hey guys, guess who showed up? The guy that has shots in his luggage. Oh, yai.
I, I have.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I get like the idea.
It's just prep. It's just just in case. It's just prep. Also, we got stuck there at St. Patty's Day. They came in real handy.
I like how you say came in handy as if you were in the third world and you wouldn't have been able to find shot glasses anywhere.
Didn't have to.
You were in Austin.
We didn't have to.
You were in Austin, Texas. You could have walked down the street to a CVS and gotten disposable shot glasses.
We did do a shot of Jameson, which I did not want to do.
No, he did not.
But I was bullied into that.
No disrespect to the Jameson team. Days of drinking Jameson are long behind me.
Just like days of drinking. Dude, I was a big Jack Daniels fan, to the point where it was a problem.
I loved Jack Daniels probably as much as I assume Kid Rock does.
Back in the day.
I had Jack Daniels and probably had a picture of me holding it and then the picture of, you know, John Belushi chugging it with a sweater that says college.
You know what I'm talking about?
Also, when Jack Daniels came out with like the honey.
Dude, that's.
Hold on though. I do want to say that. Remember, this was a couple of years ago, but but Jack Daniels and Coke made the the.
Jack and Daniel's. Those are good, dude.
The Jack and Coke's in the can. I was like, this is innovative and genius.
I I'm not kidding when I say this. I was a big Jack and Coke drinker for years and years and years.
It was the only cocktail I knew.
Years and years and years. I've seen like bottled or canned cocktails and I've tried a couple. The only one that I believe is like exactly what it was when you get it made at like a bar or something or make it yourself.
Was the canned Jack and Coke.
It truly was like, well, you would hope because it's both brands.
I know, but like.
This really does taste like that.
Sometimes they like, you know, they like over engineer something.
And like it takes away the spirit of it. Like, no, brother.
This just feels like they went like.
They literally went. Jack Coke.
Boom.
And I was very, I was happy with it.
Um, they have Jack and Coke Zero ones too. That's the ones I get.
You're a savior for drinking Coke Zero.
I've just gotten into the diet soda, like, universe. I, I never got into, like, I feel like Diet Coke people are like fiends. Like, there's a cult behind Diet Coke.
Uh, yeah, there are.
It's, it's wild. They must make so much money just from Diet Coke.
I mean, I imagine. The fridge cigs is like a thing now.
What the, oh.
A fridge, a fridge cig. That's what they call Diet Cokes. You, you haven't seen like people making like shirts that say like, pass me a fridge cig and it's like, um, like clearly looks like a pack of cigarettes, like a Marlboro Red and it's open and it's just a thing of Diet Coke.
I love that. That's so funny.
Yeah, no, people that like, there's two types of people. People that just don't drink Diet Coke or people that have it with every ounce of their being and will defend it until the day, oh, Aspartame's not even that bad for you.
Uh, I mean, it isn't.
I know, but I'm saying like, those are the people. It's not like casual Coke, Diet Coke drinkers.
Bro, I, like, I guess I just, it was just one of those parts of life that you don't think about for so long. But now that I'm like conscious and realizing what's going on, it's kind of like incredible. A Diet Coke is zero calories.
I am holding on to whatever of my youth I have left by refusing to drink diet soda of any type.
What do you mean?
Because like, I will convince, and not will, I fully have convinced myself that like cane sugar.
Sodas, like, you know how they do like the Mexican Cokes? And like, I, I, I think a lot of soda brands are now rolling out more like cane sugar options than high fructose corn syrup. But like, I will convince myself to the day I die, like, I'm being a healthier person by having that compared to the high fructose corn syrup.
I think that as long as you're not abusing either, you're being healthy.
No, high fructose corn syrup, I, like.
Oh, there is high fru-, I thought if you had cane sugar, then you don't.
That's what I'm saying. A high fructose corn syrup in any capacity, I can only speak for myself, is not good for me. Like, whether it's one or whether it's five. But I'm saying I have convinced myself that just the exact same drink with the exact same sugar content, but just with cane sugar.
Is better for me, despite the fact that it's 130% my daily value for sugar.
So like, I am not there on diet soda of any kind. Like, someone once, where were we recently that someone had a diet orange soda? And I was like, just don't have it at that point.
I mean, it probably tastes the same and it's zero calories. It's absurd.
I am one of those people that I believe with so much confidence, I can taste the difference between diet and regular.
You probably could, but it's not worth the, the diff-
The health, the health difference?
Yeah, because something like orange soda too, has like a lot of-
But like, I do look at, like, I know, I, I, like, I am a skeptic. I think you know that about me. I look at diet soda and just say like, we, there's something we're missing. Like, this is too good to be true-
-to be a real thing and for it to not like, in 10 years, it forms into like, a glob monster in our stomach and eat us somehow. You know what I mean? Like, there's something we don't get yet.
Well, that's the thing. Like, people say like, the aspartame is like, the bad thing, which it is technically like, not good if you had a lot, but the, but the amount you would need to drink in a single day is like 30 cans.
Like, Dr. Mike says it all the time on his show, "The dose makes the poison."
Not the other-
Anything, like water, which too much would kill you, but-
Yes, exactly.
I, uh, but yeah, it's, it's outrageous. I don't really like, I guess just not drinking soda at all for so many years. I don't really like crave it, uh, but I find it fascinating.
I will tell you right now-
We have the mini ones of like-
That's, that's tomorrow, and, and responsible.
Ginger ale and whatever.
Yo, I'm gonna tell you right now, real, like, I've had like, you know, like, you have like, uh, Coca-Cola, and then you have like, off-brand, like, real cane sugar cola. Nothing is as good as the real stuff, except for ginger ale. Yo, I had real, like, real legit ginger ale. And I was like, what have we been missing out on our whole lives? This is so good.
What are you talking about?
It's just so much better than like Schweppes.
What's, what's real ginger ale?
Like, when you look, when you get ginger ale, like, like a Canada Dryer, Schweppes, no disrespect. It's like high fructose corn syrup and, you know, like ginger extract and stuff like that. Like, when you get like legit ginger ale.
Where would I get that? What is it?
They bottle it. They sell it at the store.
It's just ginger?
It's, it's basically just like soda water, a little bit of cane sugar, and like ginger juice.
It'll fucking blow your mind. You'll be like, wow, that is...
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Like a significant difference.
In quality, just better.
Yeah, I don't know. It's fascinating.
Diet Snapple doesn't get it right. That's, that's the only, that's the only diet product where the calories of regular Snapple is 100% worth it. Cause it tastes awful. Diet Snapple tastes awful.
I've never had it.
I just don't understand, like, people are like, I'm gonna have a diet Mountain Dew. Like, you're already there. Just...
What? No, there's a massive...
Just, but I'm saying like, if you're going to the point where like, you're having...
I feel the opposite than what you're saying. Like, if you're gonna have soda, just have the one that has 40 grams of sugar in it.
I think I'm more referencing the fact, like, if it's like a niche soda, like, oh man, I really love Mr. Pibb. Like, just, just have Mr. Pibb. Don't have diet Mr. Pibb. You know what I mean?
I feel differently. I feel like if you can get...
You went, you went to the park. Go down the slide.
Yeah, but it's so different.
Is it?
Yeah. Cause like the, the, if I like, the only soda that I've consistently liked has been ginger ale.
You're not a Coca-Cola guy?
No. I'm not.
Oh, no, no, no.
I like it.
You and your, you and your cream soda or root beer.
Well, like I don't, I don't, I don't like drink that. I haven't drank that since I was like nine. But, uh, but a di- but a diet like Coke to me, cause I don't drink the, the, like, the regular stuff. It tastes, it like does what it needs to do.
That's fine. And that's good. Like I said, you, we, I don't think there's any one sitting in this triangle right here. That is going to say that you're not being a more responsible version of a human being.
I just can't wrap my mind around, like, if you have any insert brand name of a soda. And it's whatever amount of calories, 200 to 300 with like 50 grams of su- of sugar. And then you can get the same thing that is very close in taste and it's zero.
Yeah, but then you're gonna look at it and you're gonna be like, why? Like, that's me. Like, I, I, like,
Cause there's an answer.
For some reason, and I know this is stupid.
It's the aspartame.
I know, but listen, I know this is dumb. I know it, I know it, I know it. In my head though, it's like, I feel like I'm getting more of an answer with the one that has the sugar in it. Than the one that tastes the exact same and doesn't. Does that make sense? Like, I feel like I understand that.
You're right.
What the fuck is that over there?
But all that requires is for you to
be open to being wrong about it.
But listen, you know me, I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna do that about certain things in life, not soda. You think I'm gonna be, you, you want me to admit that I'm a human and I can, and that I'm wrong about soda?
I'm an idiot. Yeah, what am I thinking?
Who do you think you're talking to here?
That's so funny. Are you a diet guy?
Uh, yeah, Diet Coke.
Oh, yeah, you're big on Diet Coke.
Diet Coke. I mean, it's just wasted calories the other way. Already, you know. If you're drinking already, getting those calories, do the Diet Coke.
I just, I also, ah, fuck, do I need to try a Diet Coke? No, I'm not doing this!
We got Diet Coke in the fridge. Wait, have you, you've tried one before?
You've had a Diet Coke. I'm not even kidding. I can't tell you the last time I had a Diet Coke.
Bro, it's kind of incredible. I'm getting the Diet Coke. He's gonna try a Diet Coke.
It's kind of insane. I guess I'll try one now.
Yeah, it's kind of wild.
Oh, look, yeah, oh, oh, yeah, you're limping. So big limpy.
Some big limpy? What does that mean? Alright, before we get to, uh, Frank trying a Diet Coke for the first time in 10 years, uh, probably more than that.
Maybe 20.
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You just took a deep breath.
I'm just, I, I, I'm not even, like, I can't tell you the last time I had a Diet Coke.
What, what, give it, when do you think the last time you had a Diet Coke was?
Truly. Truly, like, what are we saying, like, had, like, ordered one and got one, or bought one from the store?
Did it touch your lips?
Yeah, when was the last time you drank it? Maybe fifteen to twenty years ago.
Whoa, and when was the last time you had a Coca-Cola?
Saturday.
Okay, alright. So you're, you're not, uh, a stranger to the taste?
Yes, I, I, I, I have gone on record, I'm gonna be a real fucking hero here and say that I believe Coca-Cola is the best soda.
You know, but, uh, like, I'm just looking at this.
It's a DC, babe.
It was to the point that, like, Coca-Cola came out with, like, a line of, like, vintage glass bottles when I was in high school and I, like, bought some for my dad and I.
You love it.
Don't you?
I do.
Well, then you'll love that.
This is, I think I actually put, brought it in on that episode we did months ago, years ago, like, bringing in old stuff. I saved one and filled it with sunflower seeds, put the top back on it and wrote Frankie on it, cause I was like, this is me in a bottle.
What the hell does that mean? What, you put sunflower seeds in a, in a?
Yeah, I drank the soda.
Out of a Coca-Cola bottle?
Yeah, filled it with sunflower seeds.
Like a plastic bottle?
No, a glass.
It was a glass bottle?
And then you filled that with seeds?
And you put the cap back on?
And you said, "This bottle is representative of me."
You got it.
Just a simple guy. Just give me some seeds and some soda and I'm chilling.
Frankie.
Yep. That sounded good. Give me the sound.
I.
You're smelling it like it's wine.
Airate it.
I can already, I, I, I, well, I can't say anything, cause I, I know it's a Diet Coke, so I can't say it, I'd be like, I smell a difference, but like...
You gave that a big taste.
That tastes like the 90s.
It tastes like the 90s?
We always had Coca-Cola at my house in the 90s and Diet Coke. My mom was one of those people that was just like, Diet Coke.
Yeah, dude.
Is it good?
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely diet.
You can, it's like, it's extreme for you?
Again, I'm, I, it could be mental because I know I'm drinking it. So like,
I think you'd be able to tell the difference.
I do too, but like, to be fair, I can't sit here and say with 100% certainty. I think I could tell.
You'd be able to tell because then when you drink a normal Coke, you go, whoa, it's a lot of sugar. And that's zero. So imagine the guilt you have from having like, why am I peddling? Like, why am I drinking?
But like, You're really working hard for Coca-Cola.
No, I, it's honestly like, it's because it's very recent to me that like, I just started like having like the little, uh,
Little nips?
No, the,
You need your, you need your fridge dart?
My fridge dart. No, they're like, uh, whatever, the, the smaller cans and, uh, I'm like, how, like, it's just, Zero calories is crazy to me and it's a soda. Like I'm tasting soda in my mind.
Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's just a weird. Another thing that makes it really cool is that like they have their recipe like in a basement and like a vault somewhere. I think that's pretty cool.
Do they? Why do you know that?
That's like the thing that people know about Coca-Cola.
They have a recipe on like papyrus and they have it in a basement?
Yeah, in a vault. You never saw the Coke vault? Pull up a, pull up a, pull up a picture of the Coke vault.
The Coco vault.
If this is a real door and not, I was tricked, it's a fucking sick vault, dude.
Fuck off. I thought that was, that's real? Yeah, I trust this image.
Yeah, all the other ones could be potentially artificially.
Yeah, but this one looks like there's a line and a thing and.
Oh, you can like walk by it?
Dude, like that's.
Where is this?
I think in Georgia? Yeah.
Atlanta.
Like, it's like a thing.
It's a sick keyhole.
Yeah. Look, man, I think that makes it also way cooler. Like, no one's like vying for, I guess technically it is with Diet Coke also, but like, it's like a legit secret and it's like, you'll never know.
It's like where Mr. Krabs has the Krabby Patty formula.
Sorry.
I mean, we are just on the cusp of understanding SpongeBob references. Cause it.
Oh, you guys don't.
No, we do. I mean, it debuted when we were like eight.
Of course I know SpongeBob.
It debuted when we were like eight.
I loved SpongeBob.
Big SpongeBob.
You don't even know SpongeBob, bro.
Yeah, I know SpongeBob. You know the new shit. You know where SpongeBob is like a fucking full idiot. We remember when he was annoying.
Huh. Hmm. You know the episode where it's like, and they keep talking like that? Oh, I love that.
That's the old animation and it's not just a boulder, it's a rock. Yeah, how about Hinoi Minoy? Who's that? Who's that bitch?
Doodle Bob.
It is Doodle Bob. You remember Doodle Bob, right?
That's a very easy one.
What about the Krusty Krab pizza? Is the?
Pizza? For you and me.
Alright, he knows that one. Alright, good.
That's the same thing as the boulder and the rock. Sorry to bring up SpongeBob, everybody. God.
Why are you sorry?
Is there like a point of, is this like a hot button subject here?
I think SpongeBob is still a universally loved piece of intellectual property. I don't think there's a lot there for people to get upset about.
You ever see? The dude who does SpongeBob's voice?
Tom Kenny?
Whenever I see him do it, I'm like, I don't know if I like that.
He eh.
I don't like seeing.
If you would have asked me to draw the guy that does SpongeBob's voice, that's who I would draw.
I would draw Ariana Grande's boyfriend for sure.
Yeah. Oh, that video that went viral of him singing at the like, cause that's how, a lot of people don't know that. That's where Ethan Slater got big is he did SpongeBob on Broadway, which is like a sentence that's never been uttered before.
I got big on Broadway because of SpongeBob?
And, uh, he looks like, yeah, that's SpongeBob.
He's a seasoned SpongeBobby.
He's a seasoned SpongeBob.
Like, he's a well, have you ever seen the guy that does Mr. Krabs? You know, you know the actor. You've seen him in other things, but like.
Pull him up, Mr. Krabs.
Clancy Brown is his name.
Clancy Brown?
You could just write Clancy Brown.
Yeah, you know this guy. He does a lot of voice acting.
Yeah, so does Tom Kenny.
Wait, that's him? The dude from fucking Shawshank?
Oh shit.
That's Mr. Krabs? The guy from Shawshank?
Just want a bucket of suds for me and my fellas.
Yeah, he's done a lot.
Wow. Dude, being a voice actor is probably a pretty cool gig.
I would do it. I think it's cool.
I would love to be a voice actor.
Can you do voices?
I'll figure it out.
Well, no, that's not, that's the whole thing.
Works. They're not gonna hire you.
You can figure out anything.
Alright, do like a-
Do Mr. Krabs.
Yeah, do Mr. Krabs.
But I'm not Mr. Krabs.
Do a crab that's greedy and loves money.
Yeah, you're fired, actually. You'll never get it.
I feel like we would be good voice actors.
That's it.
I don't know. Maybe, I don't know. I could prob- I could, I could do my voice, but I don't think it's interesting enough.
I think you could do like-
I don't have like an interesting voice.
But like, I think the part of voice acting that you would be good at is like, you're not just doing your voice. You're like turning it up for a little bit. You know what I mean? Like-
Yeah. Yep.
You're Joe.
Hello.
But you're a skater that really loves to hang out and eat tacos.
I'm a skater?
Like I just like, like skating?
That was not bad, see?
I wasn't doing a voice.
Exactly.
You were so enveloped in the character. Is that the word?
Enveloped?
Is that a word?
Yeah. Like an envelope.
That's my... Yeah.
Yeah, how would that-
It's okay.
When you're like fully in something, you're enveloped in it.
I had no idea.
Or buy it, envelop by it, maybe, on the actual syntax.
Thanks for that.
You're welcome. That's the only one you get after you fuck the way you spoke to me earlier.
I didn't say nothing.
After you fucked.
Yeah, calm down.
Whoa, what happened? No, so you're, you're like a, like you're a, you're a skater that just loves tacos.
Like a Californian skater, dude?
Yeah, but see, like, there you go, dude. Like, you just gotta be yourself, but like draw it up a little bit.
You know?
You would've been really good in like those 90s like, like Rocket Power.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, honestly.
I think we would've been good in Rocket Power.
Real quick, Rocket Power, right? You've watched that and obviously you're like, which one of these guys am I? Which one did you think you were?
I wish.
And which one did you want to be?
I wanted to, who didn't want to be Otto? Everyone wanted to be Otto.
I didn't.
Who did you want to be?
The other ones. What's his name?
Squid?
Who's the?
Squid!
Who's?
You think I want to be Squid?
That's why I'm confused!
Who's the other guy with that, with the backwards hat?
Otto?
Twister?
It's a twister.
Is his name Twister? Do we know?
Otto Twister Squid?
What's the girl's name?
Damn, I don't remember any of this.
I guess I, I don't remember Rocket Power as well as I thought I did.
And earn your goddamn paycheck.
Yeah, bitch. Otto Lars. You wanted to be La- oh no.
Maurice! I had no idea.
You wanted to be Maurice? Oh, the name alone, that sucks.
Click on Maurice. This guy had a nickname. He needed a nickname.
He's.
Twister, bro, Twister. Thank you.
Damn, I thought it was just like, I want to be Maurice.
As soon as I heard Maurice, I'm like, I'm out, dude.
No, no, I wanted to be him though, because I was like, yeah, I'm probably not Otto, but at least I could be Twister.
I of course wanted to be Otto, dude. Look at Otto. Look how fucking rad he, like, those glasses, are you kidding me?
It's kind of crazy.
I mean, I don't, I don't know where the mustache then came in.
That's, that's a later version.
That's honestly a weird one.
Twister's a sick name.
I will, the backwards Kangol is kind of bananas, to be honest with you.
Yeah, you, ah, you know what, though? I'm confident you could pull it off.
You could have like the little hair flip in the front like that, like I, I think you'd do alright.
Did you watch the show?
I didn't, I, I, I was, it was on during my time. I just, I never watched this one, though. Oh, yeah, I loved, I loved that show.
I think it was uh kids, codename kids next door.
Oh yeah.
Where does that?
It was like kids that are like spies and they're like, this is number one, number three, number two, number five. They're like spies. They're ho- they're like spy bases.
Oh, they were numbered?
Yeah. They would call himself, each other like number one and he was like a bald kid. Also, yeah, why were there bald kids?
There's always a bald kid.
Yeah, I guess.
Wait, there was bald children in the show you're talking about?
Yeah, number one was bald. Pull it up.
Number one was bald and also Kal- Kalu? Kalu?
Caillou?
Can't believe I knew that and you didn't.
Kalu? Kalua? I've never heard of this show. Oh, I've seen a picture of this.
Yeah, you've definitely seen it.
Oh, I've seen that. That reminds me of Danny.
This guy? My Danny?
Yeah, your Danny.
Yeah, it's definitely my Danny.
That was number two.
That's number two.
Oh, yeah, I could tell by his hat.
Dude.
They lean into, they lean into the numbers pretty hard.
Going back, going back to Rocket Power.
Hindsight, I think if we watch it, it wouldn't be very well representative of like the guy that plays Tito, how he's just like a caricature for like the like Hawaiian man.
Yeah, I mean.
You know, and it's like, alright.
What am I gonna do?
I don't know if we could repeat some of those sayings.
Frankie, you wanna do a voice acting uh thing for me?
Yeah, I, I, sure, yeah.
You have something? I have a villain released after a thousand years from a crypt who sees an old friend.
Hmm, give me more here.
Do villains have friends? Let's get that.
Other villains, dude.
That's fair. But do they even like each other or is they could use each other?
I mean, even, I'm not gonna say it. Yeah, they have friends.
Or you know, like a, a companion that has released this villain from the crypt.
Ah, yes.
So am I the other one? I'm the one that?
I've released you.
Yes.
How many years?
Thousand years.
Thousand years, you're probably like sore a little bit.
Like, what kind of villain am I? Am I like a real like cheeky son of a bitch or am I just like?
You're an evil bitch.
I think, but I think I'm like funny and witty and I try to be like ha, ha, ha, like Hades from Hercules.
No, no, no, you're a fucking evil.
Oh, I'm a real scumbag.
Like a real douche.
There's a reason you were locked up for a thousand years.
It was like, now, within this prison of mine.
Do I have access to speak or is it like, I'm like in carbonite, like I can't speak?
No, this is your first time. This is like genie coming out of the lamp, like ten thousand years.
Such a crick in the neck.
Yeah, so that's you but evil.
Okay, alright, that's tough, I think I can do it.
I would say even you are stone. And you're kind of like
Breaking out.
You're coming out of it. You're coming back.
Okay, alright, so you give him, you have to release me, but you have to say something to release me.
I can do a, um, what's that called?
Incantation?
And then you start breaking out of your shell.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, alright, follow me here. I don't know how to do this without sounding offensive.
Drink a Diet Coke.
What is the Evil Dead one, Nosferata Nicto?
Oh, I don't know the Evil Dead one off the top of my head.
Isn't that like-
It's like Kunda. And I'm gonna stop there, just in case.
Something like that.
That was a bad one.
Let's pretend I did it already.
Yeah, okay.
Alright, alright.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, okay.
Oh, I'm back, yeah.
Why am I evil? Who am I evil against? Let's make that clear.
Those damn kids.
Oh. Soon as I get my hands on those damn kids.
Please don't take that out of context.
Oh my god, the government will be already second.
Okay, alright. I'm like Scooby Doo, that's why I said that.
Please don't take that out of context. Oh, yeah.
Oh, you're really-
I mean, I'm stretching, I'm just in stone.
I feel like you're twitching up the cowboy a little bit, can we get a little more skeleton in there?
Yeah, yeah, well, I finally got it.
I mean, I appreciate your commitment.
I'm trying, man, you are. I'm thinking like Skeletor from like the old Superman ones, you know? Where he's just like, yeah, you know, something like that. I don't know.
We should do a whole episode with this.
You give me this.
Alright, you're-
Oh wait, I don't, okay.
You're an old evil genie.
Genie?
Yeah. But like, you're kind of like, you think you're funny, but you want to take people's souls?
Can genies do that?
And I let you out. And I let you out, but I think you're gonna do good.
But like, you're like, I, you don't know who I, you, you don't even know who you let out.
Who are you?
I'm just me.
A dude?
Yeah. But you're just like-
And you found my lamp?
And I found your lamp, and I think like, oh man, great, now I got a genie lamp!
But like, you're an actual bad person.
Ah, an old guy?
You, I mean, you are thousands of years old, but you were Gina, Gina-sized? Ginafied?
Turned into a genie. When you were thirty-four.
So I'm just me?
I mean, that's for you to decide, my friend.
So what am I doing again?
I rubbed the lamp and you're coming out, and it's like, I think, I'm like, oh my god, yes, I have a genie, but you're like, little do you know who you just let out, big boy.
You don't need to say that.
Big boy.
Alright? You have no idea who you just let out, big boy. What wish do you want?
Let me know what wish you want, big boy.
Comes out, he's just hitting on you.
Ooh!
Come here. Who rubbed my lamp? Who needs a wish? A shirtless wish.
You honestly sound like Will Ferrell right now.
Oh, there was some in there.
There was a little Will Ferrell in there, you know?
That would be a funny movie.
Like, do you ever see, do you remember the sketch he did with Garth Brooks in the nineties where he plays the devil and it's like, the devil's gonna play this guitar, but he sucks at it?
You remember that? He's like, ooh, I'm gonna shred this, and he's like,
Hold on, hold on now.
I'm getting it.
Can you imagine? Oh dude, imagine rubbing a lamp and a genie popped out? Yo, after I saw Aladdin when I was a child, I was rubbing everything in my house.
Yeah, I, I mean, I, I bet you were.
Yeah. That's fair too.
I was, myself, Jesus.
I used to, like-
I'll skip that one.
Too close.
Yeah. Uh, I used to think the same thing, like, if I were to like, just like, you remember how in like Dexter's laboratory, he like lifted up like a family portrait and there was like a button?
I love that.
I would like, search behind like, things hung up in my house, be like, maybe there's the button to like, a secret lab.
I think that when people have shit like that in their house, I think it's so cool.
Do you think, when you have a giant house, cause we know?
You'll have like, cause people have installed like modern day like
bookcases where like they move a book and it opens to like the, the man cave.
We can agree.
I hate the man.
Man caves are.
So stupid.
I just have a house and I, I feel like this, this is the man cave.
This is the man cave. What gave it away? The sign that says parking for Yankee fans only?
I hate that so much.
Oh, the bathroom? It's a urinal and guess what's in there? Of David Ortiz's face.
Yeah, like I don't need all the signage. I don't want this. Or like even worse, you go, not even worse, but like in addition, it people's like man caves and there's 80 TVs. Who needs this?
Yeah. And it's like, that's, that's my chair. That's the holy, that's the holy throne.
Here's the rules. Rule number one, no bitching wives.
Rule number one, I'm always right. Rule number two, fuck the Patriots.
All right.
And rule number one.
Yeah, we, you've been to Hobby Lobby. We understand. Yeah, it's rough. Um, what was the question? Oh, will I do the bookcase?
I could see that being like cool for like a reading nook.
I would love that. I mean, yeah, I don't know that unfortunately it would make a lot of sense, but I think that it is cool. Or like a button.
You could have a button on like a bust of William Shakespeare and you like push his head back, press it and it opens. I could see you having like a room that has like floor to ceiling bookshelves.
Ooh, I really like that. I like a, a book, like a library ladder.
Oh, you want a library ladder?
When I could just like kick off and be like, what do you need?
Yeah, but here's the thing. They used to be filled with cool looking books. Now the spines of all the books are like white and colorful. Like back then it was like old bound leather.
Yeah, like spell books.
I want to open a book and cough.
Bro, yeah, I want it to be dusty and have like asbestos in the pages.
I could see you having something like, I am going to go out on a limb. I think you should, and if you don't, you kind of suck.
I'm dropping the ball. I should just buy encyclopedias. I don't even know what they do anymore. Haven't opened one since third grade?
Uh, literally like an absolutely defunct form of technology because of the internet.
Also an almanac? Forgot what that is.
I think it's just like the world, like pictures of maps.
Yeah, like what is an almanac? It's like, something with agriculture? I feel like that word.
No, it's stupid. It's just like, oh, here, here's a map of America. Also, here's a map of the eastern part of America. And also, here's a map of the northeast. And it's like, I don't need a whole book for maps.
Stupid.
Although, when I was in London, there was a store we walked into and they had a bunch of old maps from like, old, bro.
I'm gonna do.
Those are kinda cool.
Books after 1999 suck.
Yeah, whack.
So trash.
I need an old book that smells like shit and probably has like some blood on a page.
And I'm gonna go further.
Like, not, what are they called? Softcover books?
Paperbacks. Paperback books
are stupid.
Oh, I like paperbacks.
Nope.
You like hardcovers?
Hardcovers are way better, dude.
No, I'm reading the.
I wanna put this thing down and it makes a stunch.
Like paperback is just like, like, fuck, we got books around here somewhere.
Right there.
Oh, yeah, perfect.
Oh, you got two examples.
Oh, yeah, you got two, yeah, yeah. Look at that.
So this is Greg's book. No disrespect to Greg, but it's a paperback, so it's.
It's, it's a Greg book.
Yeah, careful, he'll text you.
Oh, wow, there's a, there's a, there's a quote from you on the back of this.
Yeah, you don't know the story behind that?
Bro, me and Greg were like friends, but not really yet. And then he asked me to be a part of his book because I had a YouTube channel that was popular at the time and he was trying to use me.
Classic.
No, that's, that's the joke that I make. But like, he, he had approached me and was like, hey, I'm writing a book. I would love for you to like, you know, do this thing. And I wrote something. What does it say?
I loved every second of it.
I wrote, the actual quote that I wrote was, I loved every second of it and I don't even read books. And the person was like, alright, we're, we're shortening this.
Yeah, I mean, jokes aside, it's wildly impressive that he wrote a book.
To.
Publish books.
I've heard nothing but good things about it. I've not read it. However, listen to this. Alright? And then this is a book. This is not a t-shirt. This sucks. I don't even know.
I don't even know what that is.
I don't even know what it is. And no disrespect to Gary V, Jessica Alba and Tony Hawk, but.
They're on the back of that?
That's, yeah, they wrote something. Listen. You ready? Just listen.
Okay, actually, I'll give it a more fair shake. I'll drop them both like this, one like this. Okay. Come on, dude.
You like a big.
I just want like to like.
A booming. Yeah.
That's like I'm smacking my ass with a roll of fucking newspaper.
And when would that be appropriate?
Well, like, I want to put a book big.
A book big.
A big book down and like.
Yeah. I like old pages. Do you remember when there was a video that went around of like? Like Joe Biden was getting sworn in with a book? That looked insane. It had a lock on it. When books have locks on them, I like that.
Name two incredible movie books.
Well, something from Harry Potter. I just can't remember like the name of the books.
I wasn't gonna think of that one. I was gonna go with the spell book from Hocus Pocus.
Yeah, that's a good one.
That's a good one, or? The book from The Mummy?
I don't remember The Mummy.
You don't remember, dude? What a book. It has like a, a lock on the front that like, it like opens like, like scarabs like that. And they put it and they turn it and it's, it's fucking good, dude.
This isn't gonna work. The Mummy book.
Oh, yeah, there it is. Wow. It worked. I think, is it a real book?
That thing?
Dude. That looks a little too mechanical. I know that it's it.
This is it, though.
It's the death book in the, oh, spoiler, but death book in the life book. Nice. Spoiler? The movie's from like fucking 1999?
It is. Great, great, great, great job there with the year.
It was right?
1999.
I'm on it.
Yeah. Good movie, by the way.
What about the Necromonicon?
Necronomicon.
Whatever.
Yeah, that one's just a scary looking book.
What's a Necro?
It's from the Evil Dead series. It's like, it's bound in human, oh, well, those are real versions of it, which is kinda creepy.
Uh, it's bound with human flesh and all the pages are written in blood.
Ew.
Yeah, I mean, it's from a movie.
Ew, like a book made out of flesh is probably disgusting.
Yeah, let's not look at the images, just in case.
Sound good.
Just in case something pops out.
Also, necro, what was it?
Necronomicon?
Yeah. It's like necromancer, but a book.
What's that?
A necromancer is like someone that does like evil dead, like, uh, magic.
Raises the dead.
I'm only familiar with necrophilia. Not that I'm familiar.
I'm familiar with the term.
That one, that one I'll get.
Necro, yeah, necro, necro is like the prefix for like having to do with the dead, I believe. And then philia is obviously the Greek... What's, what's, it's prefix in Sussex?
Postfix.
For like love.
You know, that's why it's called Philadelphia. Fila.
City of brotherly love.
It's ironic, because I hate it.
Oh yeah, that place sucks.
I hate their sports teams.
Um, well, maybe we can end on necrophilia.
Shouldn't we?
We started with swastika, ended on necrophilia. What an episode.
Bookends of this episode are very interesting.
Yeah, what are we gonna name this one?
Oh, that's a great question. I have no idea. Um, that's a problem for another time. Frank, where can they find you?
The Frank Alvarez is all over and Patreon, patreon.com/thebasementyard, and the Basement Yard all over social media.
And?
Nope, he doesn't got one today.
You can find me at the finish line of the half marathon. And you guys can go follow me at Joe Santagata. Go follow the show at the Basement Yard on TikTok and Instagram. And that is all. See you next time.
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