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Ep 016 - the return of Brandon Popson
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Jul 15, 2025
The sixteenth episode of ADHP with Doug & Todd is another live call-in show, and we get another live caller! We also welcome back Brandon Popson to the program. Do we have another co-host brewing? The team discusses the latest in the Epstein saga while covering a few top stories, but only after a lengthy discussion on Superman, Letterkenny, and the Broken Lizard crew (Super Troopers, Tacoma FD). Lastly, we discuss a weird optical illusion in Ontario, CA. All that and more on the latest edition of ADHP with Doug & Todd. Turn the volume up and take a ride! Action links (for political action): https://5calls.org/ https://www.mobilize.us (https://www.mobilize.us/)
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Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome the host of ADHD, Doug and Todd.
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Hey everybody, thanks for tuning in to another episode of the ADHDP podcast.
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That's the attention deficit hyperactive politics with Doug and Todd. I'm Doug. That's Todd. And this week we've got a
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we've got a special guest, return guest. Brandon Popson's here with us. Hey, how you doing Brandon? Doing good. Doing good. How about you,
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man? Doing all right. Thanks for joining us again. Love handed having Brandon on the
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show. Another guy who's just as passionate about everything going on as we are and uh doesn't have anywhere
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better to let it off than here. So, and a giant nerd. This is true. This is very true.
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Yeah, he he's he fits the the cross the cross-section here perfectly. And Todd, how are you doing?
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I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm just, you know, it's uh I'm I'm I'm boiling over here in my in my uh the
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sauna that is my room. Although, right now is good. I have I have three fans going, so it's nice and cool right now.
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Hopefully that sound is that's not being picked up by microphone. But you have more fans than the show does.
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Oh, yeah. I mean, we actually have four people
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subscribed over on on Spotify, so thank you. And I think Oh, nice. That's up from the zero last
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time I checked. I think I think that's that's two other people than me and you, Doug. But, you know, still that
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it's building. It's building. It's building. So, yeah. Um, so on to open up
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Saturday, I went to Cyberfest Northwest, which is a a very tiny Transformers
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convention, and it's basically a a a dealer room and uh uh a couple of
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guests, and then they had a couple different panels. And the guests they had were two voice actors that worked uh
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have worked in uh either in video games and or in the the more recent movie
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Transformers one. And uh of course I should probably pull up their name so I
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can tell you what they're what they I got one of the guys' autograph because he is the one who's basically been doing
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all of the uh uh Starscream voices uh in like the uh I think he's doing
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Starscream on the Netflix uh Transformers series that came out a couple years back and then he did it in
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the um I think he was also Starscream in the movie, but I'm not entirely positive.
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Um, Frank, so you called it a small gathering, but it's Isn't it Is it like the largest
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unofficial state Washington State Transformers gathering? I think that's the only one in
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Washington State to be perfectly honest because I mean I mean technically the biggest then.
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I mean, yeah, it's the only one. So, um, it's cool that they actually got voice actors to get there though. I mean, last
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I found out last year, like the week after it happened, that Susan Blue, who
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was the original actress to play RC, was there. I'm like, and the year before
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that, they had the guy who was uh Perceptor and and that guy is probably better known for playing Grandpa Max on
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uh on Ben 10. So, okay. Which was a was a was a fun show. But
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either way, these guys these guys um the the one that I didn't know the guy's
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name and I still don't really know it off the top of my head. Um he played uh
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Shockwave in Transformers one, but he was also in uh everyone's favorite
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documentary Idiocracy. Oh. Uh he was the we're going
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sir. You're the particular individual that we're going to you know he's the one who's got the guy by the neck.
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Oh the guy in the in the prison. Yeah. Yeah. He's like yeah now we're going to give you your tattoo
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sir. And I was like oh my god that was you? [ __ ] I love that movie. And I give
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him a fist bump. I was like dude that oh my god that's great. I'm going to go home and watch it tonight. He's like thanks.
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Yeah. Idiocracy. A more accurate prophecy than the Bible. I I was about to say you're going to watch it tonight. Like what are you going to turn on Fox?
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Yeah. I mean I mean it's like we're in a idiocracy alternate
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reality. It it dude is a postidiocracy world almost. Oh my gosh. And then of course uh Dak
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Shepard. He interrupted. Ouch. My balls. Yeah. I like money. I like money. We don't have time to get
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a hooker. Welcome to Costco. I love you. I love that part. I love the Costco. I
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love that the Costco is so big that there's an airliner crashed into it and nobody's done anything about it. And
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here's the store's just open. You know, the best part is Costco is actually talking about opening up like
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apartments in their actual warehouses for their employees to live. Oh wow. So, we are officially one step closer to
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exactly what the [ __ ] we saw there. Absolute dystopia. We're going to be Yeah. I mean, at least it's Costco. Like, I take that over Walmart. Like, if
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we have to choose a corporate overlord The other thing the only thing that
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cracks me up about that movie is uh that movie came out like long before Crocs
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were super popular and that's what everybody wore in the future is Crocs. Oh I I do that I there is creepy how how
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how accurate that movie ended up being. Yeah. It's not a documentary as much as it's a prophecy. It really was a prediction.
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Yeah. Yeah. It really [ __ ] was. I mean [ __ ] I got her pregnant again. Somehow we have a d president even
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dumber than than Kamacho, right? At least Kamacho knew how to use like somebody that was smarter than him
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and do something good. Yeah. He wasn't s there sharping in answers.
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Did Did either of you see Terry Cruz talking about how like he even came out with a chainsaw?
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That's true. You know, it does make me wonder if the
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guy who did it in Argentina um if he if he was getting that from Idiocracy and
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it's just coming. It's just like a circle now. It's a bro that Malay is a [ __ ] right libertarian. And if there's one thing I
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can tell you about the entire right, especially the right libertarians, the most like like what like like media
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inept people you ever meet, they are so they cannot understand subtext or writing at all. So it wouldn't surprise
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me at all. So when I was talking to the the actor who who's doing uh Starscream, he
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actually did Starcream for the 40th anniversary of the original Transformers cartoon. They they put in theaters the
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first two episodes on the big screen of the original cartoon and then so they
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did like a a table read of the episode with all the original actors that are still alive and then he and like a
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couple other new guys did some of the characters who uh of the for for the
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characters that weren't uh the actors were no longer still here. And uh I said I got to ask being that you were at on a
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table read with Frank Welker, Peter Peter Cullen, and Michael Bell, how
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difficult was that table read? because I know each of those guys are are all about pranks and and they like to [ __ ]
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around like I don't know who started it but in between in between recordings
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somebody would do
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so and then it was like and before you know it he said everybody was doing it and it was like they weren't doing it
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like overtly. You're like, it just becomes an episode of dropouts make some noise right in the middle of
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their tech their test reading. They went full super troopers on them. Yeah.
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Am I jumping a tree on nibbly? Like, hey, am I drinking from a saucer of milk?
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Hey, weren't you the guy? Weren't you? He goes like, weren't you the guy that like 10 years ago like did this thing to
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me? That was the only good part of the second movie was when Jim Gaffigan hit the screen. The rest of the second movie
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was terrible. I actually enjoyed the second movie, but then again, I I like a lot of stupid [ __ ] too.
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Oh, I just lacked everything that made the first one good in my opinion. I I may I may not have actually watched
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the second one cuz I was so I I liked it only because Will Sasso playing a French Canadian Mounty was
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hysterical. I I I barely even remember. Like I said, I I love the first movie is one of my
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favorite movies. Absolutely. Yeah, same. Yeah, but but the second one I can barely remember. Me and my buddy watched it and
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we were very stone, but I remember both of us. Maybe that's why you can't remember it, Brandon. You were high as [ __ ] I'm always high as [ __ ]
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Ask Doug. Doug, have you ever seen me not stoned at a show? Come on. I wouldn't know what it looks like.
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Yeah. It's like, oh wow, your eyes do go round. I thought it was Asian. You're not that Asian, huh? Like,
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hey, Brandon, are you really tired or are you just really high? Yes. But uh but no, he uh yeah, the I don't
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know. I I enjoyed that movie. Uh I I was excited to see it when it came out in theaters. I saw it. I mean, there were
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bits that were stupid, but overall, the the movie was was funny. The can the the
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the the back and forth between the Super Troopers and the Canadian Mounties as far as like they were pranking each
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other the whole way through the movie and it was really funny. Yeah, I I I kind of remember that now,
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too. But like I said, to me, the first one is just to me it's just an impeccable piece of writing. Just from a
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comedy standpoint, it's just amazing. Yeah. Yeah. The first one, like the first Super Troopers, like it carried me
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through like three or four more movies of just watching Broken Lizard stuff and thinking I was enjoying it.
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Yeah. Hey, bear [ __ ] Bear [ __ ] are you okay?
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But like because I enjoyed Super Trooper so much, I even watched the Sam the Slam and Salmon and was like, I'm I'm liking
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this. Dude, that was a funny movie. Have Even if you seen Have you seen Tacoma FD?
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No. Okay. You know, not surprisingly, no. Because as much as I love Tacoma, no. Tacoma FD.
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Oh, I've watched a couple episodes of it and it's not bad. Like, it's it's really funny.
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And their style bends to a more TV audience, a little more TV friendly, but
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it's still enough of them that it's it's fun. And I think, you know, I honestly think the guy who plays Favre or
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whatever his name is, like I think the reason is he he he's probably the writer who does all that there that that style
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of comedy. I think it might be him. Um yeah, I mean uh him him and the other
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guy who are like the two main guys in Tacoma FD are like two of the big two of the main guys from Super Troopers.
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So Broken Lizard guys. Yeah. Yeah. And uh some I think uh everybody from Broken Lizard
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makes an appearance on the show. They're not like regular characters, but they're on the show at some point.
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And there's some seriously funny moments like you would expect. They actually got uh I can't remember
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his last name, but the not the Farra guy, but the other guy, Steve something. Um his brother-in-law is a uh is a
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firefighter, so he's like the the technical adviser for them. So that's why they all had mustaches. That's why
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there was always stupid pranks happening. Oh, that's funny. Um, yeah. All the stuff all the stuff that happens in the show is is approved
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by an actual firefighter. Well, I love that the premise of the show is that because it's in Tacoma,
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Washington, they get so much rain that the fire department never has anything real to do.
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Oh, that's [ __ ] hilarious. That's the That is hilarious. You know what? I They
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need to do a collab with the guys who make um Letter Kenny. Oh my god. Yes. Yes.
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Could you imagine if those guys were to actually work together episode, dude? The cult opening letter Kenny is
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one of the best scenes in anything I've ever seen. Okay, my favorite episode is when the when the Menanites show up.
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I you know, I haven't seen the entire series. Oh god, every season's only six episodes
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long. Brandon, what the [ __ ] are you doing? Honestly, I have a hard time committing to anything that's not animated because
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apparently I have the mindset of a child. Oh, well, same here. But it's, you know, the pretty colors make you make you feel
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sick. And I think every episode's like 30 minutes, so you can you can power through all 10 seasons of it in like a
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day. Speaking of which, I need to catch up my friend on Dan to Dan. She's been gone for like two weeks.
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But, uh, no, if you haven't seen Letter Kenny, I highly recommend it. The best way to explain Letter Kenny to somebody
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who's never seen it, it's like think think Clerks meets Doug and Bob
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McKenzie. That's an interesting way to put it. It the writing is entirely unique. I'm
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gonna have to give the writer that. He his writing style is amazing. The creator of the show is the guy who
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is who looks kind of like the main character. Yeah, the main character, right? He looks kind of like Wolverine if Wolverine was tall.
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Yeah, he's he's his writing skills are just amazing. Like And he also did uh he also did Shy as
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well. I mean spin-off of his show. I mean Oh my god, the scenes with Shores in the
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actual show are so [ __ ] funny. Oh, give your balls a tug.
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Why don't you give your balls a tug there, buddy? That does sound Canadian. Tell your mom
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Canadian as [ __ ] Oh my god. Tell your mom I said hi. She told me 15 bucks.
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Dude, I don't know how they could get through a single one of those lines and like cracking up laughing. I would have Is it like Is it like Canadian Trailer
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Park Boys? Dude, that the the Have you really not seen it? The style of writing in is entirely unique. It's almost hard to
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explain. It's so rapid fire. It's it's it's almost hard to keep up with. It's almost It's almost like it's it's
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improv, but it's not. It's not. No, the the guy like the guy there's a reason why I'm talking about the guy's writing in particular.
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The guy who wrote it is is is just it's hilarious. It's just it's it's spitfire like like
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like uh roast battles even. It is. It is. It is the most rapid fire
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like blink and you'll miss it. just like the one of the main characters in it is is uh the character Squirly Dan.
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He's actually been on Roast Battle. He was on Rose Battle on Comedy Central and
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he actually won that [ __ ] That's why it likes you. Is that why you like me?
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Apparently, it's available on Hulu now. No, no, like honestly I Yeah. No, it's it's great. It is absolutely great.
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I I I can't recommend it enough to people. I can't recommend it enough. It's freaking Honestly, honest honestly,
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Doug, you would love it. Do you think I could get my wife to watch it? Cuz that's like pretty much the only way I'm watching TV.
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Yeah, I mean, you probably could. I tried showing it to Maryanne and she didn't really get it. And
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well, all I'm going to say is when you before you watch it, introduce your both you and your wife going through it cold
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so you can see the cold intro together cuz that I was say I'm just looking at some of
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the screenshots or some of the stills from it. I'm like, well, my wife's from Puallup. She looks like she'd be into this. I mean there there was it three or
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four different distinct groups. There's like the Hicks, there's the Skids, there's the Goths, the Goth. Yeah, the Goth Kids, the
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Skids, and then there the hockey players. And then there's Oh, and the Dens. That's the fourth group. And there's also like the outsets, like
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the drug dealers and all of them. You're trying to [ __ ] everything up. The bad guys. And they and they they have had some
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pretty uh pretty decent cameos from other Canadian actors who have went back
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to Canada to do an episode or two. Like Jay Bell's on one or two episodes. He plays an American uh who's a a Trumper.
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Oh Jesus. I I haven't watch of this show. Yeah, dude. It's really popular. Like it's one
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of those cult following type of shows. The last two or three seasons weren't as as great. I don't think. But
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I think he was trying to focus more on Shy that one. Yeah. And it and it shows. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Shy is [ __ ] hilarious, though. He's He's one of the hockey players who like totally rips on people every time they walk in the door.
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Oh, you if he wants you watch this, he'll see shorts. He'll see this. Why'd you give your balls a tug there, bud?
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I want [ __ ] your mom there, bud. Like, and then and then on his on his
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own show, there's this there's a couple scenes where he's talking to a girl and he turn he becomes the most bashful like
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like awkward person ever. And he's like he goes from being like this who guy has a sharp wit and his laser a laser sharp
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tongue to like this kind of guy when he talks to a girl. Honestly, the Shy is just the best
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writing. I like all of Shy's lines in the original show. Oh my god. Like every single one is a gold.
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Yeah. So funny. It is. I mean completely deroded
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conversation you were talking about here. I told you it's a more loosey goosey format now.
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This is what happens when when letter Kenny fans start talking about Letter Kenny. Oh yeah. Everyone just starts tugging on each
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other's bones. Yeah. I I I I really I really think that the writing style is similar to to Kevin
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Smith's, but I mean I could be wrong. You know who it reminds me of? And have
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you ever seen This is a niche [ __ ] movie. Do you ever see Adam Corolla's movie The Hammer?
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Unfortunately, The Hammer. No, Adam Cora. You did. You did. Here's the thing. Adam Cruel is a [ __ ] of the highest
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caliber. I'm going to agree with you on that one. Yeah. But I did love the way the hammer was cut and executed.
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I should probably I should probably check it out. I haven't I wasn't It It came across like a Lifetime movie to me.
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You're right. There was part when I talk I'm not talking about the shots. I'm talking about how he would go rapid fire
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on those lines like and have like multiple takes of the same like punch line. You remember that?
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Yeah. It was watchable. But basically those little like blurbs where he would go over like one after the other punch
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line. Boom boom boom boom boom. That's what Letter Kenny's like. I gotcha. Okay, I see where you're
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going. Yeah, there you go. And I used to be Adam Croll guy. I used to like I always, you know, had differences
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with him, but back in the love line days, I was about to say on Love Line, he was such a different person, dude. I think if a lot of Trumpers
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though, we could we point them around and say to a lot of conservatives, that's how it was a lot of them. Conservatives I knew weren't the same
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back then. So, I think the same goes exactly for Corolla. He is deep maga now. There's no joke. Oh, no. No denying
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that, you know. Yeah. I I recently rewatched the uh the
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I think it's a Trump roast, whichever one has Adam Corolla on it. I think it might be Trump on Comedy Central and uh
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it was the uncensored version of it. He actually starts yelling at people in the audience. God damn it, it's a [ __ ]
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roast. He He don't get me wrong, he he is a an objectively funny guy. He's just an
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[ __ ] He He can be funny when he's not like punching down. He's become a parody of
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of what he of what of his worst of of the worst version of himself. Exactly. Doug knows what I'm talking
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about. He wasn't like this at all at, you know, like back in the day. This is But then but then he'd start to take
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criticism from people who basically treated him like he was this already. And then he that became his a like you
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couldn't listen to him anymore unless you were a right-wing idiot. And so that became his entire fan base and then he
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became audience captured. You know the funny thing about him in particular is is I was a fan of his for
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a long time. So I listened to his talk show for a lot of years because I happened to be working in a warehouse where I was couldn't listen to it for a
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lot of years. I watched him become embittered and as he became more conservative a bunch of [ __ ] happened to him and he got angry and more
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embittered. He became more and more conservative. That's yeah basically from the moment he left
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line radio to start the morning show is like that's when the just start it just started a it was really honestly the really big
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cascade is when him and Danny Bonaduchi got in a huge fight. Yeah. Oh [ __ ] Did Danny Bonaduchi kill him?
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No. Ben Danny Bonad Bonnie Duchi Yeah. was actually his co-host on on the
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original morning show and there was a giant fallout and basically both of them
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showed their asses. They're both [ __ ] Although I like Bonaduki for slamming uh
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fair play. I hate Farah play. Me and him have beef. But
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I did enjoy that part from him. But other than that, like they're both [ __ ] and and they both show their asses. And when you have two very
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conservative people who feel like that everything belongs to them, Don Bonaduki thought the entire success of his show
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belonged to him because he was there and Corolla was like, "No, it was me." And like basically I basically long story
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short that that to me is when I saw Corolla start to slide. Danny's like I was at the Partridge
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family [ __ ] Yeah. Exactly. That's why people tuned in to the Adam
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Corolla show is to listen to Danny Bonaduchi. Well I in in Adam's defense the one
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thing that that is kind of [ __ ] up is they were kind of taking Bonaduchi's side at first.
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Yeah. Oh wow. So, I mean, but in either way, he became an embittered [ __ ] and then he became a Republican. And, you
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know, I'm just saying there's something that might be related there. Yeah, it is. It's grievance. It's just the
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whole the whole anti- cancel culture as if anybody's actually being cancelled. It's just grievance politics. And it it
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just it works. There's a base of people who are willing to shell over money and be grifted as long as you give them a
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grievance to to [ __ ] about. Yeah. Well, that's that basically say that's what the gritting culture amongst
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the right is is you make up a fake problem and then you act like there's a a solution for it.
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Yeah. You dig through anything and I mean it's the whole the whole anti-trans movement is literally just finding
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something to grift on and it becoming this whole snowball effect of of bigotry.
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Oh yeah. And it's so weird to me would never not be so weird to me that out of all the groups they chose to attack it
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is trans folks. Such a small group of people. Well, that's why that's exactly why because there's not enough people to
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def They're not a large enough group to to successfully defend themselves. They require allies and then if you it's it's
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something that they feel like they could get away with like not enough not enough people will support them. So they they it's an easy target. It was it's
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basically the anti-gay marriage movement trying to get a foothold on something else.
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Yeah. Yeah, I could see that. All right. Well, maybe we should actually get back over into the
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Yeah, maybe we should the dot here. Politics no matter what we do. Yeah,
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we're kind of dodging all around the subjects here. No, but so, uh, Todd, um, do we have a
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phone number up? It is on the the crawls at the bottom of the screen if people want to give us a
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call. Oh, there is 42537571.
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Yeah, you can't take back any of that stuff you said, Brandon. Oh, damn it.
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you know. Um, yeah. So, so you want to say the number again, Todd? I'm sorry. Uh, as soon as it scrolls past again.
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Uh, 4252437571. It's right on the phone.
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You can call us on any topic from politics to pop culture if you got an opinion on the movies we were talking
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about or the TV shows. And I will be talking about Superman 2025 here in a little bit. I'm sure
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we'll we'll be talking about things about how great the movie is and how people are hating it.
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Um, honestly, I don't know how anyone could hate that movie cuz it was it was pretty awesome. So,
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I've been positive things. Yeah, I don't I don't normally want to see movies myself, but I'm not going to
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lie. I I I I want to see Superman really bad if not just for crypto. I mean, honestly, that was the reason
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why I wanted to see I want to see crypto. And this is the first live action crypto we've ever had. I want to see. By that you guys mean you
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you want to be paid in crypto to go see No, we're talking crypto the the
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Kryptonian puppet super dog like ghostcoin that kind of crypto.
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Do not do not blaspheme the good name of crypto the super dog. I I did make a mistake and and spel and
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spelled it incorrectly on online the other day and people quickly uh corrected me. Yeah, it's crypto with a K, right?
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Yes. Yep. And like I know that because of Fortnite like kryptonite. Like krypton you play
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Fortnite which is weird though. Why is the dog's name like he's based on kryptonite? Like is he supposed to help Superman?
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Okay, I believe in cryp because well, first off, they come from the planet Krypton.
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So, he's a dog from the planet Krypton. And I don't Didn't the Kryptonians have like a kryptonite moon or sun or
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something where they were like more like restrained on their planet or something? So, is that what it is? It's like you
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bring his planet to him and suddenly he's just would be on his own planet. The way it works with Superman is the
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yellow sun is what gives him his superpowers. Krypton had a red son, so nobody had
25:46
powers. So, in fact, in this movie, there's a there's a cameo of somebody that I don't
25:52
really want to spoil, but I might have to. But no, don't don't I I will end thee.
25:58
It's No, it's Kevin Spy as Lex Luthther. That's who it is. No, honestly though, uh
26:04
I do know that there is a a C I have heard people already rumor about this. I'm just go [ __ ] see it. I I dude I
26:12
don't I have heard Lex Luthther's in it and it's the best that thing ever, but I I'm not going to I don't know who it is,
26:18
but I don't want you to tell me. Like people have already said way too
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[ __ ] much as it is. You don't see You don't You hear his voice. You do not see him at all. He is
26:31
You know what? I I'm not going to be satisfied as a Christopher Walkin. It's It's actually Michael Rosenbomb.
26:36
Smallville's legs. Superman. I'm gonna get you.
26:42
The medicine is steal. I'm going to stab you. Gonna kill you
26:48
with a soldering iron. Don't you know your tone is all wrong?
26:55
But yeah. No. Um, yeah. I found out after I saw the movie like the the voice of one of the guards was Michael
27:01
Rosenbomb. I was like, "Oh, [ __ ] I would have I would have looked looked for it had I known." You know, it's funny that there's so
27:06
many of those little cameos these days like when uh Daniel Craig was a Stormtrooper. Yeah. He was uh TK 007
27:14
just randomly. And the story behind that he just randomly stopped in like he heard they were shooting and he like
27:19
looked in and they were like, "Do you know Craig?" He like, "Yeah, I just want to see this." And they were like, "Here, come here for a second. Here, put this
27:25
on. We are waiting for you. Where have you been? Put this on quickly. Get in there.
27:31
Not. But uh No, it's uh there's actually quite a few voice cameos because there's some uh CG characters. Uh Alan Tudik is
27:39
in there as well. And uh yeah. No, it's a great movie. I really I I can't
27:45
I really want to see it. I I I I'm having a hard time finding a group that wants to go with me, but I'm I might just see it alone to be honest with you.
27:51
A lot of my friends are like, "Superman's lame." I'm like, I don't agree with that at all. I think he's been done lame recently because his last
27:57
four movies have like been like, "How can I punch Batman in the kidneys?" But
28:05
well, I Why'd you say that name? My mom's name
28:10
that seeing that line like seeing that scene is the whole reason I haven't seen any of the deCU.
28:17
Oh my god. So, I will I will say this. I my favorite person in the whole DCECU is
28:23
Ben Affleck. His version of Batman and and Bruce Wayne is by far my favorite
28:28
since Michael Keaton. You keep saying that and I one day I
28:34
might believe you. I absolutely he is a far superior Batman
28:40
than Christian Bale. Even Christian Bale was not a bad Batman.
28:45
The whole like No, I agree. I I've kind of been drinking. What was
28:51
that? Who was in the um Tim Burton Batman's? Um Michael Keaton. What was that? Katon.
28:56
Yeah, the first two were Michael Keaton. And the third movie George Clooney, right? Was was Clooney. Was Clooney. I think
29:03
that was forever. Fourth one. Yeah. Okay. Oh, Kilmer was Forever, then Clooney.
29:08
Yeah. Kilmer Clooney. Clooney was a great Batman. Yeah. It was just a [ __ ] script.
29:14
No, that's a terrible movie. It was it was it was it was Joel Schumacher's fault those two movies sucked ass.
29:20
Batman talking Batman you talking about Batman um [ __ ] the two uh Batman Forever and
29:26
Batman and Robin. You know, here's the thing. I as a kid I love those movies. I rewatched something to keep in mind as
29:32
a kid. I watched them I rewatched them recently and I still liked them. I I I get why
29:38
people hate them but I still like them. I still enjoy them. The Riddler is phenomenal. He's
29:44
Oh my god. Yes. And and Tommy and Tommy Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Lee Jones's Too Faced was was
29:49
pretty epic, too. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze was the best concept of a corny character
29:55
done right. Everybody chill. Yeah,
30:00
it was so great. Come on, dance. Dance. You You could tell he had so movie.
30:08
Come on, do it. Do it now.
30:14
Any chance to get my to do my really terrible accent of uh Schwartzenegger? No, it was great. I like that.
30:21
You're going to make you do that more. It's It's basically my impression of Will Sasso's impression.
30:27
Sort of like how everybody who does Shatner is anybody who does a William Shatner impression is actually doing
30:33
Kevin Pollock doing a William Shatner impression or uh or Maurice Lam Marsh. Maurice Lam
30:38
Marsh actually does a really spot-on impression, too. I wouldn't be surprised. Maurice is so
30:43
great. And Kevin Pollock is the one who says that if you want to do a spot-on walking impression, you have to add extra
30:49
syllables to every word he says. Well, you do. He does. No.
30:58
Come on. I can't tell if that's walking or Schwarzenegger. It was a little bit of both, honestly.
31:04
That come on. Come on. Walking. It's kind of both.
31:10
Well, I I remember I remember thinking like, how how how long of a five minute
31:15
conversation could you have with Walkin Stallone and Schwarzenegger? How long
31:21
would it take to to actually record? Because every every one of them has some
31:27
sort of like uh thing about their voice and how they speak and how they how they say words and it then you add in then
31:34
you add in Shatner on top of all of that and then it just becomes this like long drawn out.
31:41
So apparently our call is going to end in 15 minutes here. What? What? Because we free group calls only last an
31:47
hour. What? I've never had an we've never had that happen before.
31:52
Is it because I'm here? But we had you on before for like an hour and a half or two. I don't know why this is becoming a
31:58
thing now. Two and a half hours. Yeah. I don't know why Google's updated their policy. See, this is this is part of the Trump
32:03
administration. They're cutting down on all the free stuff. Damn.
32:10
Well, shoot. We are going to just do this. Oh, yeah. I mean, we can just we can just end the call and start it back up.
32:16
Yeah. You know, we could always switch over to a different platform, too. That is Yeah. You hear that, Google? We could
32:22
switch over. We'll get a new dog. We're gonna We're going to take you
32:27
We're gonna We're gonna We're going to take you up. We're going to take you upstate and we'll we'll leave you on a farm along
32:33
with the goldfish. Hear that, Google? We'll use something else. You're gonna send you to the farm to run
32:40
around all day. So, what when if the when the call ends, and I'm sure it will, um I will just uh
32:47
I will I'll start a start a a a message call or I'll just start a new one with this.
32:54
Yeah. Do they Is it limited for an hour per day or how did that work? I don't know. I don't know. No, I think we just start a new one
32:59
right here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'll just I'll send That's so weird. What a weird decision.
33:05
Yeah. Yeah. You guys get Y'all get an hour. Hurry it up. We spent too long talking about Letter
33:11
Kenny, right? We're renting the internet by the hour over here. It's It's letter Kenny and bad impressions of celebrities.
33:19
Yeah, maybe that's what it was. Maybe someone's tuned in and they're like [ __ ] making fun of Sylvester
33:24
Stallone. Don't you know he has a speech impediment? They said politics. This is [ __ ]
33:30
Yeah, Arnold's out there, man. How dare they, dude? So,
33:35
I've told people this story before, but back in like 96 when they when Stallone was filming Assassins here in Seattle, I
33:42
had a friend of mine who was a paid extra in the movie, and he asked me to come down and and and uh and watch. I'm
33:48
like, "Oh, that'd be awesome. I'd love to see a movie being made." And when I got there, he introduced me to the security at at the at the filming
33:55
location, says, "Hey, this is my friend. He's cool. He's not going to do anything stupid." You're not going to do anything stupid, right? I'm like, "Why would I do
34:00
anything stupid? like, "Put your camera away, dude." All right, I will. And uh
34:05
you go and you're doing cocaine and what the [ __ ] The security guard said that if Stallone thinks you don't belong here, he will
34:12
eject you himself. I'm like, and I'm thinking, "Oh my god,
34:17
this big massive dude is going to walk over, grab me by the shoulders, and throw me off the edge of the uh the uh
34:23
the uh the platform for the Montreal." And then Stallone walks past me. I'm 5 foot 10. Stallone is just mildly taller
34:31
than Brandon. Yeah, he is. He's a short guy. It was like I
34:36
was like legitimately thought that Stallone was like 6'2. Like most people in Hollywood are pretty
34:42
short to be honest with you. Tom Cruz I think is legally a [ __ ]
34:48
You've said that before. Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised. Listen to how he talks. Yeah.
34:53
It's only because he lost a fight to one. Yeah. Yeah. It's like it's like the the
34:59
the Highlander quickening. You you kind of absorb the the uh powers of the person you you beat up.
35:06
What is this [ __ ] like the what the [ __ ] uh god damn it. It's Mega Man Rules or Kirby.
35:11
Oh, okay. Yeah, it's Kirby. Watch the movie where they kill each other with swords and the [ __ ] like
35:17
there can only be one [ __ ] Highlander. Yeah, Highlander. There you go. Yeah, Henry Caval is is doing a new
35:23
version of that, too, by the Okay, first off, here's the thing about Henry Caval and Superman. Caval was one of the best
35:29
Superman that there was. He just got [ __ ] scripts. Yeah. Yeah. I I I I liked the actors in
35:36
those movies. I thought the scripting could have been better. I will say that the 4hour version of Justice League is
35:41
far superior than everything else. Snider just needs to stay away from this [ __ ]
35:47
Yeah, I I really like the Batman scenes all I actually haven't seen the Batman yet.
35:52
That's the only one of the Snider verse I really want to see. That's That's not a Snyder movie. The
35:57
Batman. Oh, it's not? No, that's the Matt the Matt Reeves one. That's a Matt Reeves. Okay, that explains why I want to see.
36:02
It's so weird. It's It's just It's confusing. I mean, I I know it's a different take on Batman. Like, he's actually killing
36:09
people, you know. Oh, man. The Batman was good, but not as good as I wanted it to be. I wanted it to be
36:14
more like I wanted it to be more like seven. Yeah. You know that that I could see how
36:22
you'd want that. I could also see how that would work. It kind of makes me mad that the Hellboy
36:28
horror movie didn't work out. Oh, the new one that came out last year. I didn't see it, but everybody says it
36:33
sucked. And I was like, you know, out of all the comics that could work for horror, Hellboy is way up on that list.
36:39
The the one that had um dude from uh Stranger Things was better. Which one was that?
36:45
The one from like four years ago. Oh, honestly. Yeah. you know. Oh, yeah. That Hellboy. You know, here's the thing. I a lot of people were [ __ ]
36:52
in that movie. I liked it for what it was. Yeah. Same. I mean, you're never going to beat uh
36:57
the the Ron Pearlman. The Ron Pearlman. Well, see, I like that. I I like that era of Hellboy. The first Ron Pearlman
37:04
because Ron Pearlman looks like a [ __ ] perfect Hobo just like he played a [ __ ] perfect um um Mick in Sin
37:10
City. Yeah, I I don't remember that, but I'll have to rewatch that one, too. He was the um It was Mick, right? Was
37:17
that his name? I don't remember him even being in that movie, let alone Oh, no. That was Mickey Roor. No, Mickey Roor. That one was Mickey
37:22
Ror. Never mind. You're I always get them confused, too. Yeah. No, Mickey Roorke. How do you get those two? Mickey Roor
37:28
looks like someone beat somebody up and then put him on camera. They They both They both look like respective cats. Uh Mickey R look a lion
37:35
and Ron Pearlman looks like a [ __ ] um gorilla. Is that what it is? Okay. Yeah, they're both cat looking people.
37:41
Am I wrong, Doug? There's something there. I've always conflated them in my head.
37:46
Yeah. insane. Not not a lot, but yeah, it wasn't a while. You're right. Yeah. I don't know.
37:52
It's like a Bill Paxton, Bill Pullman thing. And I don't know why. And I get that. Which is why which is why I was really
37:57
surprised when Bill Pullman was going to be in the in a new movie coming up. I was like, isn't he dead? Wait, didn't he die? Yeah. Yeah. When
38:04
when we talked about the the the the announcement for uh the the Schwarz Awakens.
38:10
Yeah. Oh. Oh, god. I cannot Dude, I want I'm so happy about that. I I I don't think that the that Gen Z understands what a
38:17
big deal it is for them to bring back Rick Morannis. They don't. They really don't. It's It's hard to really fully
38:24
appreciate that because he was just done. He was done. Exactly. I'm like I like I've been telling all my Gen Z co-workers about this like what's the
38:30
big deal? I'm like he hasn't been on screen in 30 [ __ ] years. Yeah. He became a stay-at-home father,
38:36
man. Because Yeah. His wife died of cancer and he's like, I don't want my kids to [ __ ] be raised. He's been on camera
38:42
two times in the last 10 years. The only two the only thing he did was his kids were a big fan a big fan of
38:47
animation. So he did the two Brother Bear movies. He did that. But then more recently in the last five years he uh he was on
38:54
camera for a Mint Mobile commercial cuz you know Canadians get together and have
39:00
fun. Um Ryan Ryan Reynolds and all. And then he uh reprised the voice of Dark
39:07
Helmet in the Goldbergs. Oh really? He wasn't on camera. It wasn't him in the mask, but he did the
39:13
voice. And I found out recently that the whole like him playing with his dolls was
39:20
completely improvised. Oh, dude. The [ __ ] dude. So many of those lines in those movies are improvised.
39:26
You know, I never tell you. I once did a sketch with um
39:31
um [ __ ] what's his name? Uh uh uh uh the guy who does all the voice the sound effects.
39:36
Uh Michael Winslow. Oh, Winslow. I just got to say it. Yeah, I did this. I did the sketch with Mike Winslow. I didn't actually end up in the
39:41
final sketch. It got sold actually to a much bigger show. Maybe run with Himmy Kimmel. Um and uh it was re-shot there,
39:48
but I was in the pre-shot of that like prem. I wasn't chosen.
39:54
You know, he's like from like Eastern Washington, right? Yeah. I I know a hell of people who know him. Yeah.
39:59
Yeah. He's actually closely tied into some of the comedians I know. I'm not going to go into who, but he's closely tied into some of my very close friends.
40:06
Yeah. He does stuff around here a lot. I I saw him 10 years ago at at that club in in next to the Lincoln Square Cinema
40:13
in Belleview. Yeah. Yeah. My friend was there. My friend, like I said, I won't go into who it is, but one of my best friends in
40:18
comedy is very very closely tied into his [ __ ] Was is he a big guy and he's he's he lives in in Vegas right now?
40:25
Uh no, not that guy. No, no, no, no, no. That's No, no. She's
40:30
got nothing to do with him. Oh jeez. That's not who I was thinking of. I know you're thinking of Nope. No, no, no. I I the this is getting that level
40:37
of people that probably don't want me talking about it. So, I mean,
40:42
Brandon, don't worry. I'm not going to ask you to out your This is Nobody's Nobody's listening.
40:48
Nobody's listening. I know. I mean, not today anyhow. I'm going to respect my friend's privacy and stuff.
40:54
Well, speaking of nobody's listening, Todd, do we actually have any viewers any? Uh, not currently. No. I mean, there
41:01
there's one over on Twitch, but that's probably the bot. But, uh, and Eddie missed calls.
41:07
I haven't. Last time we did this, Todd kept missing the call. Well, the thing is is I had Google Vase
41:13
set up so it wasn't to ring my phone. And I didn't know that I did that until I was digging around the settings the
41:19
day after the show. Oh, that's right. We're supposed to actually hear We should hear it now, right? Yeah, it should ring. You can hear my
41:25
awesome ringer. I I I I do have a friend. I kind of I kind of to call in, but she has nothing to talk about. And I'm like,
41:33
well, why don't we go ahead and take a short break to renew the the group chat? Yeah, I'll uh I'll I'll hit the
41:40
We'll get all back in together. Uh the stream should stay live while we do this. Todd,
41:47
I got Someone brought me food. That's a win.
41:53
Oh, man. It must be It must be a Monday. Todd got fed. Yeah, I get fed once a week, man.
42:00
I'm wasting away. All right, so I will uh put uh the screen on like the startup
42:07
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42:32
There's one. Hey, Brandon. Hello. Welcome back. Yep. Yep.
42:39
There we go. And everyone's back.
42:46
All right.
42:51
How did we get We lost my ability to do backgrounds in that process. No.
43:01
How do I see? Are we back on this? Are we back on the stream yet? Uh, we're still on the stream. I stream
43:07
the stream never stopped. I just, you know, disconnected the call. Oh, I see.
43:14
Cuz then that would have started a whole new recording. I don't. Right.
43:21
So, what I'm I guess let us know when we're back into it. Oh, we're back. We're back into it. We're back into it. Oh, we're here. We're back. Okay, that
43:27
was a nice All right. Hope everybody enjoyed the non-commercials. If you want to sponsor If you want to
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sponsor an interruption in a future show, hit up Todd at uh uh what's your email, Todd? Uh Todd Aadh.ros
43:41
because, you know, I have some cool domain names. I don't know how to change the uh the
43:48
the format of the uh screen. Now it's all like in a row instead of having it
43:54
like it was before. It looks the same to me, just a different order. It It's It's like It's It looks like the
44:01
bottom row of of the Brady Bunch to me. So, and Doug is uh
44:06
in the middle. Oh, bless you, Brandon. My name's Janie.
44:14
All right. So, where where are we? So, well, I was going to say if anybody
44:20
is listening that uh you know, we do have some topics you can call in. You can call in and talk about any of the movies you may have heard about, but I
44:26
don't think any you said there's nobody watching, so there's really no point in going into that. I mean, we can
44:34
I mean, of course, you could always, if you're listening to this when it's not live, if you're listening to this on the podcast
44:39
or sometime during the week, you can always call that number and leave a voicemail, right? You can leave a voicemail. can send a
44:45
text 425-2437571. I do have a friend that's thinking about
44:51
talking about calling in, but she's a little nervous. So, I think the best way to do this is let's just launch into the
44:57
first sub subject we were looking at anyhow because I really want to talk about this anyhow because this has been
45:03
Let's do it. Start talking about it. Okay. So, you're you're talking about uh the Epstein stuff.
45:09
I am talking about the Epstein stuff. So, yeah. I was going to ask you, Brandon, if you'd heard much happened in the news since the last time you were on
45:15
the show. Uh, just to watch a few things. This is the Trump administration. When is there not something in the news to
45:21
talk about? Holy [ __ ] It's like a [ __ ] train wreck. Slow motion. Yes. I have heard a lot about this [ __ ] and it
45:28
is [ __ ] nuts. That's better. It is.
45:33
Huh. Yeah. So, so I was going to say, so just to kind of set the table here, um, what
45:38
was it last week or how long ago was it that Pam Bondi Pam Bondi, well, the uh
45:43
the the attorney general uh of the United States of America, the actual attorney general. Yes. It's not it's not
45:49
a it's not a lie. Uh she was being interviewed and they she was asked
45:56
specifically about the Epstein client list and she said it was sitting on her
46:02
desk. Yep. I remember seeing that. I remember. And then now what are they saying?
46:09
Oh, it doesn't exist suddenly. Oh, no. It was never a thing.
46:15
There was never a client list. You know, here's the thing that I'm going to say. I do not believe that
46:20
there was ever Huh. I'm doing my best, Obi-Wan Kenobi. There was no client list.
46:26
Exactly. Here's the thing. I do not actually believe there was any such like comprehensive client list to speak of
46:32
cuz it would be very stupid for somebody committing blackmail to keep any kind of tabulated like
46:39
are you keeping notes on a criminal conspiracy? Exactly. Nobody's actually going to do that. That being said, I do believe
46:45
there was enough evidence gathered in all of the Epstein cases where you could fairly well put together a list of
46:51
people that would be should be, you know, subject to investigation based upon uh various testimonies and stuff.
46:59
The FBI had to absolutely have a persons of interest report of some sort, a list. Exactly. Exactly. I do not think Epstein
47:06
kept a list of blackmail list underscore, you know, like No.
47:14
Now, do you think that uh do you think they should release a list
47:20
of persons of interest? Hell yes. If they don't have if they don't have
47:27
uh criminal if if they don't have evidence of criminal activity for everybody on the list.
47:32
Okay, that's a good question. Do you think No, no, no. I don't think you release it just if there is no evidence for them committing a crime. I do
47:38
believe. Here's a list of persons of interest. Some of them we think may have done crimes. Some of them maybe they have
47:46
information on the crime. Maybe I believe this would come down to a basic concept of habius corpus
47:52
like Yeah. It's it's almost like if they're not the problem is we need these people prosecuted because that's what we needed
47:57
to know about it is but prosecuted properly. Exactly. Like you can't just like I said I am sure there are people on that list or that
48:03
like people of interest that are entirely innocent. So for those of us who don't know what habius corpus is
48:08
because to me it just sounds like something that requires an ointment.
48:14
So habius corpus is Latin for I have the body. It's basically the hum it's basically a Latin phrase requires an
48:20
ointment. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. For your your certainly especially at this age and in this
48:26
you have to have a reason to be prosecuted and ret and detained. Basically you have your right to your
48:31
own life. You have the body and they don't have a Yeah. You can't be fall. You can't be accused of something without being specified. They have to
48:38
tell you why you're under arrest and being prosecuted. I mean, the thing they haven't been doing to all the people they've been
48:43
sending off to [ __ ] uh the alligator alawitz. Well, why do you think that [ __ ] uh
48:49
who was it? Uh uh uh uh uh [ __ ] Boowbert couldn't [ __ ] define it the
48:54
other day. Yeah, right. Yeah. They don't they don't want to know. They're they're they're just
49:00
working ignorantly and hoping there's enough ignorant people to allow them to do whatever they want to handwave about.
49:07
Well, looks like we have two people watching over on YouTube right now. I think is one of my friends.
49:13
Han, we're talking about you. Hi, Han. I'm sure she is very feeling awkward right now.
49:19
And you're you're helping you're helping Brandon. You're really helping stage for a Hi.
49:28
So, so for the people listening, if they want to call in, uh, that feel free to call in on any political or pop culture
49:33
topic you want, whether we've been talking about it or not. Right now, we're talking Epstein. Uh, if you want something that's not related to Epstein
49:40
or any of his [ __ ] uh, we do have a prompt if you're interested in a prompt. The prompt for this week is, if Trump is
49:48
Emperor Palpatine, who is his Darth Vader? Oh, yeah. You brought this up earlier.
49:54
So that's just some food for thought if that's a direction anybody wants to go in. Um but but uh
50:01
so Laur Lauren Lauren Boowbert is is uh is is uh their uh Jar Banks, right?
50:08
Oh god damn. No, would that be her MTG? The two of them together I think are
50:16
they they take turns. It's like it's like a mirror moose. They they are the the two uh the two uh the two little
50:23
Asian looking aliens in the in the in the episode one at the beginning of the movie. Misa Jew with Space Lasers.
50:30
Oh my god. No, actually I think one one of them's Jar Jar. I think Boowbert's Jar Jar and
50:37
MTG is uh is the guy at the uh at the
50:42
drop. The guy that owned Young Anakin.
50:47
Who's that guy? Oh, the Jake Lloyd, the guy who owns him, the the
50:55
Greo. No, not Greo. Uh oh god. Yeah, I can't remember his name off the top of my head. Greo is the green guy that shot
51:02
got shot by Han. Oh, that's right. You're [ __ ] right. God damn it. I am not a a good Star Wars nerd. Shame. Shame, Brandon. Shame.
51:09
I mean, I I am an old school Star Wars nerd, so I can't even remember the the character names from the prequels. I
51:15
I've seen them so few times. Why did I think Greo? I think it's because of tattooing. Guadd
51:21
Okay. Okay. So, at least it was the right letter. Yeah. Wad. I had to think about Grotto.
51:27
God damn it. Never mind. I went I've been drinking. Leave me alone. I had friends over today.
51:33
You You have friends? Not really. I just made that up. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I know you friend Jose and Quo.
51:39
Yeah, it was my cat and and Jack and Daniels.
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Okay. So, so, okay. So, so the tr the the the the list disappears
51:51
now. We don't have a list. Um, are they going to prosecute it? Because
51:57
that's really what matters is once they start prosecuting the people they think are actually guilty of anything. Of course they're not going to prosecute
52:02
it. Of course, that's the problem. No, of course they're not. And then did you hear about this uh the
52:08
video having a minute missing? Oh, yeah. I saw the video. And so does
52:14
it look like I have not seen the video. Um you can see the minute missing because
52:19
you know it's a [ __ ] security camera so that the time on it you can literally see the minute go away.
52:24
So do you believe the claim that that happens every night at that exact same time? I don't believe that at all.
52:30
I haven't seen this clip so I don't know. I don't. So does it look like something could have like what does it look like?
52:37
Um, well, first off, one of the things that that took me the most is the fact that the picture that they're showing from supposedly the the the camera that
52:46
they um uh showed from the video does not look like the screen that like the picture
52:52
they took of his cell when he supposedly killed himself. First
52:58
off, I don't think he killed himself. I think the ones who killed him were the crown and Trump. You say the crown, you mean like Prince
53:05
Andrew and that kind of stuff because of that? 100%. I think it was the crown and Trump.
53:11
I think Trump allowed it because he had he had he had uh dirt on him too, but I think I think the most one that wanted
53:16
done was the crown period point blankly had the most vested interest in making sure he went away for
53:22
good. I actually have uh I know people who've who've spent time in jail in
53:27
prison and they said to me once that uh the first people that usually end up having accidents in in jail aren't
53:35
aren't usually killed by like guards or anything like that. They're usually other inmates.
53:42
Oh, he was alone. He was in he was in the solitary. So, um and it's usually when they go to
53:47
the bathroom or something and there's somebody in the bathroom already. They also said that these only these
53:54
usually only happen to people who are found out to be pedophiles. Yeah, I've heard that too. But like I
53:59
I'm 90% sure that they I guess I'm 90% I am I I I would not be beyond the realm
54:05
of reality for somebody as powerful as the royal family of the UK to be able to
54:11
efficiently send somebody to a closed lock door and kill somebody within, you
54:17
know, a minute. And that's not to say that they maybe didn't leave later. you know, all we see was a minute gone. They
54:22
might have still been in that cell when we see the video kick back on. I mean, it makes more sense that they
54:28
would have like, you know, paid a guard to do it or something like that, wouldn't it? Cuz like
54:34
it might have been a thing, but I feel like they that a guard is so like regulated where they are. Like we got a call coming in, guys.
54:40
Oh, we have a call. Interesting. Let's do this. Hello. Hey, what's your name and who where you
54:47
calling from? Hello. Hello.
54:54
Oh, my friend tried to call in. She says nobody picked up. Hold on. I had to turn the volume up. Try again. Hello.
55:02
Yeah. Hello. Hello. There are sorry about that. Loop for the last couple weeks. Dave,
55:08
we're just sorry. It's all good. I don't know how professional you guys want me on here, but I have been uh I've
55:15
been out of the loop of American politics for the last couple days. as an in Canada.
55:20
So, Oh, that sounds like a dream. How was that? It was great actually.
55:26
So, everyone say hello, Han. This is my friend Han. Hi, Han. Hello, Han. Thanks for calling.
55:32
Hi. Hello. No problem. Fon Bron said that like, yeah, I'm the friend who doesn't really
55:38
have much to talk about. Um, I will try to catch up on all the politics I miss because it seems like every day there's
55:43
a new like episode of a horrific reality show and you miss one the rest of the
55:50
season. So, I am trying to catch up. Please forgive me if I did not.
55:56
So, please forgive me if I did not like know anything. I've literally just been out. I've been
56:02
without I've been without Wi-Fi and um cell signal like 75% of the time I've
56:08
been in Canada. She has been amongst the rednecks of Canada. Oh, working amongst
56:14
Yeah. Alberta. No, actually, so I did not see any moose
56:20
or so. Um, so now my boyfriend and I, my boyfriend and I, we were in northern
56:26
Alberta where it's like bus nowhere and it's all canola field, but it's
56:31
beautiful canola field. I won't say that. You can see it from like the plane when you um arrive in Alberta. Like so
56:39
what we did was that we arrived in Edmonton just like one of the major cities in Alberta. It's like only two
56:45
major cities in Alberta. And then the rest is like cornfield and cornfield. the Calgary and Edmonton and corn
56:54
it wasn't corn [ __ ] I'm sorry it's like corn [ __ ] canola I'm I'm I'm so tired
57:01
but yeah um some of the Canadian people do you have do you have some commentary
57:06
about American politics I have noted that I have a lot of other
57:13
countries that have a vested interest in Trump not amongst the good people in the country oh but a goodly amount of of Canadians.
57:21
Huh. So, fun fact. So, Matt's friend is a
57:26
mayor of the town he lives, but it's like it's a very small town. So, it's like it's not even like really noting.
57:34
His friend is the mayor of town and since it's nowhere to Alberta and like Brandon said, it's like right next or
57:40
like the Texas of or quoteunquote south of like Canada, there are a lot of
57:45
conservatives within this area. um his friend himself is not conservative. His friend just moved from
57:51
Wisconsin to up to Canada like 10 15 years ago and there is quite a bit of
57:58
like from what I've known from Matt is that
58:05
Albertans have their own ma make Alberta great again kind of slogan especially in
58:11
like the non uh urbanized areas.
58:16
Oh, they're they're stealing from the best, aren't they? Well, I I have noticed that there is a weirdly
58:24
weird number of people up in Canada obsessed with Donald Trump. I've talked to Canadians who would like weirdly like
58:30
him, which is wild to me. Yeah, I don't understand. Also, forgive
58:36
me again. I'm like I'm running on like I just been a nap for like 3 hours, so I'm a little bit tired. So yeah, uh I
58:43
personally haven't met anyone Canadians who are like on top of Trump, but you know they exist.
58:50
So I hate any just a little bit. Thanks.
58:55
Thanks, Trump. Why do you think that is? I I mean I I
59:01
would say that's more because Trump represents a a a call to hardcore nationalism, which unfortunately you're
59:08
going to find nationalists in every single country. Yeah, but like how's the national with one Canadian?
59:15
Canadians are be very proud of their Canadian heritage. I would say the same thing.
59:21
It's not even Canadian heritage and not first nations or anything. You're just it's French or something settlers
59:31
nationalism, is it? Especially when I think as far as I know Canada have a more recent history compared to the
59:38
United States relatively speaking what I know. Oh traditionally we always have been
59:43
very very close allies with Canada. That's one of the biggest issues with Trump is he's kind of thrown all of that
59:50
side. I would say yeah that's got to be the saddest one of the saddest things to happen in the
59:56
Trump era is just the special relationship we had with Canada has been I don't know if it's been entirely
1:00:02
dissolved because I mean we're always going to be physically you know attached so there's kind of you know always an
1:00:08
incentive to get along well what I've learned but it is it is
1:00:14
what I've learned from being in Canada is that there There's no
1:00:20
difference between us and Canada. Like it's really just like another I don't know that like another part of what
1:00:28
America like Yeah. It's just an imaginary line that separates us, right? Like every single [ __ ]
1:00:33
Yeah. Yeah. The only difference is that our dollars are stronger. That's it. And then they
1:00:39
have they have a legitimate use of a which I haven't noticed until Matt told
1:00:45
me. He was like, "Did you notice that this guy at the baby showers kept saying a a lot?" I'm sorry. Did you just say use of a
1:00:54
hey a damn it. I hate it.
1:01:01
I will boot that. E, you know what? I'm pretty sure I I want American Canadian girl at this point. I'm pretty sure that is pretty much the
1:01:08
Miss in my habit this point. That that is the threshold here, you know. Yeah. Is there like an American rescue
1:01:13
program dating site that I know to be help this help this progressive American
1:01:19
leave leave his hell hole? Well, I'm going to I I I swear to God I'm start going to like dating circles
1:01:25
up there. I'm I'm I'm going to get some nice like dress flannels.
1:01:30
I mean I mean you can do the whole like American refugee look like you can be and we can get like Sarah Mlofflin
1:01:36
playing in the background and I'm gonna learn my Canadian like some kitten and
1:01:42
he just like looks pathetic at you like please adopt me and then I don't care adopt me. Get me the [ __ ]
1:01:48
out of here. I don't give a [ __ ] Do both. Holy [ __ ] Just get me out of
1:01:55
here. I'll be your I'll be your house husband. E
1:02:01
I'm gonna gonna start learning all my Canadian from a boots to zeds. Yeah. Yeah. And take off, loser.
1:02:08
Yeah. Have a boot. I'll say this though. It would be advantageous to learn French.
1:02:14
It would be advantageous to learn. Stay at the end of the lane way. Don't come on the property.
1:02:21
Yeah, I know. You got to stay in Western Canada. You can't go to Quebec. They don't No, I don't want to go to Quebec. They
1:02:26
don't like us there. Yeah. Oh, so Matt and I, so we were looking up
1:02:32
like um places for like Canadian citizenship and you literally cannot
1:02:37
like go to Quebec. You literally cannot live in Quebec and claim citizenship there.
1:02:44
But you want to be like citizenship. You can't be in Quebec. Go to go to New. I know nothing about New Finland except I hear it's [ __ ]
1:02:50
weird. Only thing that I know is like the dog.
1:02:56
All I know about dogs from called Newies. I love
1:03:02
they're big. Now that's what they call the citizens of Newfoundland too. Newies.
1:03:10
Sounds like Sounds like we're going to find out. That's like a horrible racial It sounds like a slur, doesn't it?
1:03:17
You [ __ ] Yeah. Take off, hoser. You [ __ ] goofy.
1:03:26
We should probably move on to the next subject. We've gone through literally one We've got through one bullet point
1:03:32
out of our entire
1:03:37
That's too funny. We have Yeah, we are. Oh, what? Like one Well, do do you have any Epstein
1:03:44
thoughts, Han? I Okay, so I caught on.
1:03:50
Do you know Jeff Epste? Jeff Epstein, the the New York finance familiar with him.
1:03:56
Jeff Epstein. What I've heard recently from what I can gather, let alone gotten between cell signals is that like Trump
1:04:03
is now like sustaining that he has never seen the FC files, right? They've never
1:04:08
existed. He's backtracking everything. And apparently so has Musk as far as I
1:04:15
know that I caught on between between here. Yeah. They're basically trying to say
1:04:21
that there's no there's no there's no evidence that suggests he didn't kill himself and that there's no there's no
1:04:28
there there is kind of what they're trying to tell us. Yeah. It's probably that's that meme
1:04:33
from uh Avatar the Last Air Bender where it's like there is a war and something
1:04:39
whatever cause you know what I mean for that you know I'm talking about right or
1:04:44
having stroke dude Brandon do you know about the Last Air Bender? No, not at all actually. It is one of
1:04:51
the shows I haven't watched my No, it was for my gen too. I just never
1:04:56
got into it. I always thought it was one of those uh uh kids love it. You know, it was one of
1:05:01
those shows. I watched parts of it and it was just one of those very much always a Mary Sue character or what you call the male version of that. I always
1:05:07
felt like there was one OP character the entire time.
1:05:14
Kind of lazy writing, you know. I
1:05:19
I'm sure it's good. People love it. I just, you know, wasn't my cup of tea, you know. So, whatever. I'm with you on that, Brandon. I tried
1:05:26
watching it and I got maybe an episode. I'm like, okay. Yeah, I was like there's better ones. I'm like honestly I I was
1:05:32
with Dragon Ball Z. I need about three more episodes of them screaming each other's face for me to be happy.
1:05:39
I'm I'm one of those I'm one of those Gen Xers that that like wanted to get into anime but then I got extra here.
1:05:46
I am a Gen Xer. Yeah. I I one of those that tried to get into anime but then uh
1:05:52
I I I got one of those uh one of those people like, "Well, if you're going to watch it, you got to watch it. you got to watch the subtitle
1:05:58
ones. Like I I can't do subtitles with the ADHD. So, um, and they're like,
1:06:03
"Well, you can't watch the dubbed version because the dub version is stupid. You don't want to watch the dub version." So, I just said, "You know
1:06:09
what? I don't need to watch anything." Honestly, here's the thing. I I will say now, modern day dub versions aren't bad.
1:06:14
Back in the day, they were just notoriously awful. They are They are not bad now. They're they're they are really
1:06:21
good. It was I love the Inuasha dubs that would come through on Adult Swim at like 1:00 a.m.
1:06:26
in the morning. I'd like wake up in the middle of the night half confused. Holy [ __ ] And just out of nowhere I' I'd hear
1:06:32
Demon, are you the source of the evil power? The the [ __ ] loudest goddamn intro in the place of the goddamn [ __ ] planet,
1:06:39
dude. Holy [ __ ] They did that [ __ ] on purpose.
1:06:45
Oh, you know they did get your attention back. Oh my god. From a deep sleep. Yo god,
1:06:53
you know that's such a millennial joke. There is entire generations of people who have no idea what we're talking
1:06:58
about. Well, except they're not listening, so they they really have no idea what we're talking about.
1:07:04
That's true. That is So, how about we hit a new story here? You guys want to
1:07:09
Yeah. I think maybe it's time to get to the next second bullet point after uh almost an hour and a half.
1:07:16
Yeah. Yeah. These these stories are here just to fill time when we don't have anything else to talk about.
1:07:21
Like letter Kenny. Yeah. How are you now?
1:07:27
Or Canadian rednecks. So the story this story here is this story here is actually really
1:07:32
interesting to me and actually somewhat encouraging. So Putin has discovered the scale of his latest miscalculation. Uh
1:07:40
this is coming uh I'm getting this on MSN coming from Reuters. Uh so President
1:07:46
Donald Trump has finally lost his patience with Vladimir Putin having promised a major announcement on Russia.
1:07:52
Trump has now confirmed that the US will dramatically increase weapon supplies to Europe for use in Ukraine. And he also
1:08:00
threatened 100% secondary tariffs on Russia. So Trump would only provide
1:08:05
Russia with an offramp if Putin agreed to a ceasefire within 50 days. Here's the question. Do you really think
1:08:11
he means this or wait? Taco taco taco taco. Well, you so there
1:08:18
is something that maybe he's going to chicken out to Russia, but I think he's got all of Europe kind of
1:08:24
coming to the table and saying, "Hey, as long as you play ball on Ukraine, we'll give you some wins in trade
1:08:29
negotiations." Here's a here's a weird thought I had the other day when I read a story. I
1:08:35
would love it to be true, but I have to see it to believe it. Do you think Trump's actually beginning to take this a little bit seriously?
1:08:42
Take which thing? the presidency and what's going on right now. Well, I mean, he's definitely taking it
1:08:48
seriously in the sense that I mean, he's basically a figurehead, right? The only things he really cares about are does it
1:08:55
look like he's getting what he wants? Like, does it look like he's being effective? Um, so in in so far as
1:09:04
Ukraine's willing to make a deal and Europe is willing to make deals and Russia's not willing to make a deal,
1:09:11
because this is literally the biggest backtrack we've seen of him so far. You realize that, right? Yeah. It it it completely flips my
1:09:18
understanding of what he was doing and it makes me think that something changed in the relationship with Russia. Um,
1:09:27
in the sense that, you know, you go back just to the Zilinsky meeting a couple months ago. When was
1:09:32
that's what I was thinking of. Yeah. Like like how long ago was like how long ago was that decade? Like
1:09:38
Yeah. Did you even say thank you? like like it it seemed like on that moment
1:09:43
they were absolutely making a play to to build up public support to back off of
1:09:49
Ukraine and to let them down and almost maybe it's the backlash to that um as part of this
1:09:56
but Trump refused to backlash. True, but maybe it was even from his
1:10:03
base a little bit. I don't know. Maybe I don't know. But something happened around after that point where it's just
1:10:08
kind of been a slow progression back in the favor of Ukraine. And don't get me wrong, I'm happy about
1:10:14
that. I am thrilled about that. But you're like, what what does this mean? What is like why is he suddenly doing the right thing? Like what's going
1:10:20
on here? Because supporting Ukraine, what's his other hand doing? Yeah, exactly. Supporting Ukraine is without a doubt the moral choice. It
1:10:28
makes me wonder if because if he just feels so confident that he's out of legal trouble that he no longer needs
1:10:36
Russia as a backup escape option. I would never think he doesn't want that because the things in Russia he still
1:10:42
wants right now. Yeah. And honestly I don't trust Trump ever
1:10:48
enough to not be have a second play to try to get back in whoever he's going
1:10:54
against good graces if he needs to. So, have you heard about the grand
1:10:59
bargain conspiracy theory? What What's that one? What?
1:11:05
So, it has to do with uh basically uh the Middle East and Russia.
1:11:12
I I want to do a whole episode on it because I haven't dived deep enough into it, but there's this idea that um
1:11:19
Kushner and his payoffs and the work he's been doing in Saudi Arabia, but it's basically a grand bargain to solve
1:11:25
the Middle East crisis by kind of creating an oilbased fascism where all
1:11:32
the rich people kind of just almost do their Ein Randian type of utopia over there. And there's it's there's lots of
1:11:40
weird stuff where even like Iran's in involved like it's some sort of deal that would get Iran and Israel both
1:11:45
involved. Like that's kind of the upshot of everything. And the way it's going to work is all the rich power players get
1:11:52
everything they've wanted and the rest of us get [ __ ] Well, I could believe that as I believe
1:11:57
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So, I I don't I need to dig more into it, but I do I do
1:12:03
wonder if there's something here that's involved in the grand either either involved in the grand bargain or it's
1:12:08
the European Union trying to uh make their counter offer as it were.
1:12:15
Well, I wouldn't doubt that at all. Uh anytime you talk about, you know, giving money to the rich and all of that stuff,
1:12:21
especially when it comes to stuff like Saudi Arabia and all of that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. There's something that happened there. I think
1:12:26
you'd have to be dumb enough not to think that. I I believe we all saw that handover and in slow motion and it's
1:12:32
crazy not more has been done about it. Yep. You know, it's insane to me that that
1:12:38
that this Can you imagine if if if if Obama sent like one of his kids to go
1:12:44
meet with a Saudi Arab official secretly off the record?
1:12:50
Oh, yeah. I mean, there's there's an argument to make that because Trump gets away with so much that like when he does
1:12:57
if he ever wanted to do something good, like that's that's to his credit that he can get stuff done unconventionally.
1:13:03
Oh, no. My point is that is that what he's do whatever Trump is doing here was was under the table and without a doubt
1:13:09
like shady. And if if Obama had done anything close to this Yeah. You know, the Republicans would have had
1:13:15
it. He he'd have been impeached and like Democrats would would have been on would be convicting him.
1:13:22
Yeah. Yeah. But we will have to definitely keep tabs
1:13:27
on this story though. see what's really what's going to happen with Ukraine here because right now it looks like Putin by
1:13:33
not coming to the table and making a deal that Trump wanted because I think Trump wanted more than anything to say
1:13:38
hey I ended the Ukraine war just like I said I would I did it within six months and when Putin re wouldn't go to the
1:13:45
ceasefire that Ukraine like they negotiated a really bad deal for Ukraine
1:13:50
and Ukraine said okay we'll do it and Russia still said no and from that moment on I think that maybe that's
1:13:56
right where Trump turned on Russia because he didn't get his prize. I I I actually think there was something more than that. I can't prove that, but
1:14:02
I feel like that wouldn't be enough to piss off Trump. Um I feel like there's probably something
1:14:08
more personal, like you said, between the two of them. Yeah, I do wonder that. I do wonder about that in the background for sure.
1:14:14
Yeah, between two ferns. Speaking of Taco, um and this will be our last news, our last regular news
1:14:21
story because I know we got to wrap up here. Um, markets are preparing for an
1:14:26
international game of tariff bluff, but Trump may no longer need to back down.
1:14:32
So, with Trump's August 1st tariff deadline looming, analysts including Deutsche Banks, Jim Reed, and Goldman
1:14:38
Sachs, Sven Yarn, and Sten suggest the sharp escalation is more likely a negotiation tactic than a firm policy
1:14:46
shift. Well, we have to say that now, right? Yeah. Yeah, because everything Trump has ever done turned out just to be a negotiation
1:14:52
tactic. He's never had a firm policy. This is true. So, in a little over two weeks, the full
1:14:59
effects of President Trump's tariff regime are finally due to come into effect. Over the past week, the White
1:15:05
House has written to governments across the world, informing them of the export hikes they will face if they don't come
1:15:10
to an agreement with the US, saying the sanctions will come into effect on August 1st. Remember Trump was uh
1:15:15
promising 90 deals in 90 days and I I don't think he's had I don't think he's
1:15:20
gotten one in that time. Makes sense for him. Of course, international markets have
1:15:27
stared down similar deadlines in the past only for them to be pushed back at the 11th hour. As a result, Wall Street
1:15:34
has learned to take the off the Oval Office's threats with a pinch of salt to the point that JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamon
1:15:40
Diamond has branded it complacent. And of course, we had the entire episode on taco. Trump always chickens out.
1:15:48
Uh, in the early hours of Saturday, Mr. Trump's stationary cupboard was opened again and a letter was sent to the EU
1:15:54
and Mexico informing them that they would face 30% tariffs on August 1st. To
1:15:59
be fair, a month ago, Trump threatened the EU with a 50% tariff. So, you might argue this is an improvement.
1:16:06
Honestly, in in his idiot way of thinking like that, that is how Trump argues. If you've actually read the art of the deal, that's basically basically
1:16:13
the the core concept of it. Um, and don't me wrong, in a sales sense, he's
1:16:19
kind of right, but this is taken to an extreme where it's never going to work. Like, yeah, you always start an offer
1:16:26
that they're not going to want to take so that we can drop it to an offer that seems more reasonable. That's basic sales 101.
1:16:32
Yep. But 50% tariffs, no one's going to buy that. No one's going to believe that's even sustainable. That's a laughable
1:16:38
concept. Yeah. The market will quote, to quote this guy here, the market will generally
1:16:43
think this is mostly a negotiating tactic and that we're unlikely to see such rates. Yeah. Okay. There you go. Yeah.
1:16:49
Yeah. They told repor they told reporters uh
1:16:55
the United States has sent us a letter with measures that would come into effect unless there is a negotiated solution. So, we will therefore also
1:17:01
extend the suspension of our countermeasures until early August. At the same time, we will continue to prepare so we're fully prepared. At some
1:17:08
stage though, someone's bluff could be called. Trump is under less pressure to back down with US risk markets around
1:17:16
their highs and bond markets relatively stable. So when we did the when we did the tariff episode back way back when um
1:17:23
what we noted is when the bond market started to fall, that's when Trump reverses on tariffs.
1:17:29
Yes. So it's Yeah. So if huge tariffs do get imposed on August 1st in thin holiday
1:17:34
markets, we could get a sizable market reaction. Oh, there's going to be no matter what. Like that's the thing we talk about. The
1:17:42
thing about EUSA is we don't have the resources to produce entire swads of products that we need and resources that
1:17:48
we need. And that's the oversight Trump has. We can't just make microchips at a
1:17:54
[ __ ] uh you know a national [ __ ] uh uh um
1:17:59
production. We don't have the rare earth minerals to do that, right? Yeah.
1:18:06
So, it's just a fact. Yeah. These concepts like fall flat out of space when you don't have the resources to you know I but I know you
1:18:13
know all of this. You I've talked about this in the past. Well, it's not just for me though. It's for it's for those listening like
1:18:21
yeah it if we don't have the resources to do it then we can't possibly create for example a microchip. We don't have the
1:18:28
[ __ ] like argon gas it would take to properly produce crystals on a microcircuit board for example. I don't
1:18:35
know if that's an exact but no but that's part of why they wanted the deal with Ukraine is the minerals. Oh yeah yeah yeah exactly. Like creating
1:18:42
all of these things is a very complicated procedure. Things that we take at face value are something we have all the time. Like a [ __ ] microwave,
1:18:48
we're like that's easy to make. Is it? Is it? Could you dig up the stuff out of the earth yourself and make a [ __ ]
1:18:54
microwave, right? Exactly. Like it takes I mean it takes it takes a village.
1:18:59
It takes a lot supply chain. Yeah. Exactly. There's a giant supply chain. And this is the problem with any
1:19:04
country at a nutshell that tries to go entirely independent. America is sounding, the USA is sounding more and
1:19:11
more like like North Korea day by day where we want to act like we can be entirely self-sustaining society when in
1:19:18
reality we live in a global market, a global economy. The idea of even wanting to be a selfisolationist country is
1:19:24
really kind of [ __ ] stupid if you think about it. Yeah, it's Yeah, we're going to make ourselves a closed sustainable system.
1:19:29
Like it would be one thing if we were doing like practicing like individual sustainability where we all have our our
1:19:35
in our our our little window sill gardens and we're we're growing our own food and we're not shipping stuff across
1:19:42
the country and we're we're being self- sustained you know communes almost.
1:19:47
Yeah. No, 100% if we could be but even then realistically because of the way resources are distributed distributed
1:19:54
across the planet there is no rational realistic way to achieve like any kind
1:19:59
like all the resources and goods you would want like for example my [ __ ] PC or a microwave or a TV without like
1:20:08
realizing that the best way to do that the most efficient way to do that is to have a global international market where
1:20:13
you trade goods and resources and all of that stuff. So to me it's so weird that anybody would look at countries that do
1:20:18
that like North Korea where they live in abject poverty and think that's a good [ __ ] idea. Yeah. Exactly. You got you gota you
1:20:25
can't just put yourself in a in this box and say what's what does the constitution allow? What's what does the
1:20:30
free market allow? You got to look at what kind of country do you want to end up in? Well, at the end of the day, look at
1:20:36
what Republicans are talking about. They don't want global trade. They talk about you talk about a lot of these dipsticks about what they think and they're
1:20:42
talking about stuff like globalism and all that stuff and all that means is the idea of working working with other
1:20:48
countries. For some reason they hate this and if they hate that then that
1:20:53
means that they want the opposite. What they want is to be an isolationist country and they don't want the one world government
1:21:00
is what they don't. No, that's America first all the way. That's exactly what they want to say. When you think about MAGA, that's what they're basically saying. don't want to
1:21:06
be part of a global community. And that's a scary thought that there's people who actively want,
1:21:18
oh my god. Damn. Okay. Anyway, I was
1:21:23
He's my best friend. I can say that. Like American. Yeah. It's been like what almost six
1:21:29
years now. It's been like anyway. Anyway, yeah. Speaking about
1:21:35
American rugged individualism, I wonder like where Okay, so obviously like I grew up in like a Vietnamese immigrant
1:21:42
family. So rugged individualism isn't really a thing in our culture and a little off topic, but like I'm assuming
1:21:48
you guys know more about like American values and beliefs more than I do. Um, what is it like working just a hyper
1:21:58
aggressive need for like white individualism and being like
1:22:04
oh that that's complicated [ __ ] question but it it's it's really a western and
1:22:09
eastern divide that's you know comes up all the time but we have our rugged individualism in America and instead of
1:22:17
a social instead of a more social identity as opposed to like realizing that that
1:22:22
Like like here's the thing. Here's a great example. In a lot of eastern countries like it's all about taking
1:22:28
care of your family and no matter what. And and like for example like in eastern
1:22:34
in Eastern countries it's very common for families to open up a business and to let their kids like take over that
1:22:41
business. I come from a family that had business and stuff. I have none of them. Like
1:22:46
they that wasn't the thing. If I wanted that position, I was gonna have to play for and don't remember it's
1:22:53
bad. It's good and bad. Nepotism is bad, but at the same token, it's like
1:22:58
like like you're able to take care of Yeah. You're able to family. Let me like the families don't
1:23:04
open businesses in the west like they do in the east where it's like a family business. You do see some family
1:23:10
businesses here, but not nearly as much. Right. Yep. No, I I get what you're
1:23:15
saying. And and it's and it's Yeah. It's just we we could do we are we limit
1:23:20
ourselves politically in what our options are in America because of our our entrenched individualism and this
1:23:27
idea that pulling yourself up by your bootstraps which was a joke. It was meant to parody it was meant to be
1:23:33
something physically impossible but that becomes the actual expectation
1:23:38
is to pull yourself up by a bootstrap. Yep. versus like and pretend like you don't require any
1:23:45
assistance like I've had like a system of okay so
1:23:52
I'm going to use my experience with my friend's baby shower what I've been
1:23:58
noticing is that so like we said earlier Canada and US are basically having this
1:24:03
quotequote physical border um geographically but culturally it's pretty much it's very similar in
1:24:10
difference like in like for what I've seen from the shower is that there's a bit more
1:24:17
individual. There's not individualism. There's much more like, you know, it takes a village kind of thing. But
1:24:23
America is kind of like, as far as I know, it's very [ __ ] you, you're on your own, which is doesn't make sense to me.
1:24:31
It is. Yeah. No, that's it. I I prefer to think of it as we're all in this together. But you're right,
1:24:37
America is very much the [ __ ] you, you're on your own. That's just that's just what that some I mean it wasn't
1:24:43
always that but also think that cowboy brought us that the myth of the
1:24:49
cowboy but also makes me think that um and I don't know if they like about a family history but like from like our parents
1:24:56
from the Vietnam Vietnam war genocide. Your dad's been her dad's been through a
1:25:02
[ __ ] her dad story is crazy. Really crazy. He's been through a war.
1:25:08
has been through a genocide all before 20 or around 20. But what I also think
1:25:13
is that you know with countries there's a history of conscious a history of
1:25:18
conscious uh memory of war or stri is that there's
1:25:24
more collectivism than there is individualism. And I'm guessing that because Americans don't have a the last
1:25:30
war on American soil was like what I'm also gonna say I there's al there's
1:25:36
also a family unity that comes from having your entire uh country like colonized by someone else
1:25:43
which is pretty much every decid which might also play into this. I just
1:25:49
put that together right now. I'm I'm surprised you haven't put
1:25:54
I just want to put that together right now. I was like, you know, might the fact that the Westerners came in and [ __ ] them all up for generations, that
1:26:01
might have a lot to do with it. Yeah, just saying.
1:26:09
Now that I think about that, that's fairly obvious.
1:26:15
So, so we are running out of time here and I do I do want to make sure um that we do get to a a a I know we did a lot
1:26:23
of movie talk already, so we don't have to do a ton of that, but but Todd, is there a geek story you really want to
1:26:28
get to? Uh I know I'd like to I know I'd like to hear about this the projects that Superman's set up.
1:26:33
Uh yeah, you know, let me pull that one up. The the six DCU project set up by the new Superman movie. Um,
1:26:39
and then since we have a since we have someone who was just in Canada on the line, we should uh we should also do
1:26:44
that incredible shrinking mill story. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. There
1:26:52
go ahead. There is uh All right. Well, the story here is uh is first thing it says here is warning
1:26:58
there are some Superman 2025 spoilers ahead. Uh so maybe maybe I shouldn't do this
1:27:05
one then because we don't want to spoil it for anybody, do we? No spoiling it. It just came out of this weekend.
1:27:11
It's way too early for spoilers. Han, I don't give a [ __ ] I am
1:27:17
interested. So, the the big the big spoiler is that No. What the [ __ ] is wrong with you,
1:27:25
man? I will go upside your head. You got to find me first.
1:27:31
No spoilers. It just came out. If it had come out like three or four weeks ago, I'd be like, "Go for it." But no, this
1:27:37
[ __ ] just came out last weekend. No spoilers. It just came out. Everyone go see Superman.
1:27:42
So the the story is going to be in the in the show notes. So if you want to actually find out what I was going to
1:27:48
talk about before Brandon's like, "Don't spoilers, man. Don't spoil us, man. Come
1:27:54
on. Come on." Is just telling us the projects going to spoil anything? Like if you just give us
1:27:59
the pro the projects, I got it. I mean, yeah, because it it
1:28:04
tells you the cameo that happens at the end of the movie. Be a dick, yo. I'm really not trying to
1:28:10
be No, no, no. We We don't want to We don't I didn't think it was going to spoil. I didn't think so either.
1:28:15
The The issue is, like I said, we're talking about a movie that came out this weekend. We're not talking about something that came out a couple weeks ago. Let's give people a chance.
1:28:22
I mean, it's not like people don't already know that. I know. I don't care. Not do it. I'm not
1:28:28
certain characters are going to get their own movie. I've I've already heard too much. This is one of those movies
1:28:33
that is like an anime. I can't People cannot wait to spoil it for you. This is the one thing spoiler I did hear is that it
1:28:39
turns out uh Superman is Clark K. Oh no, man. Why' you tell me that? I didn't want to know that. What? No. A
1:28:47
You know, I heard Lois I heard Lois was a really good comedian on New York back in the 30s and 40s.
1:28:53
You know who should have been Lois Lane when she was younger? Sarah Silverman.
1:28:58
She could still pull it up. Good. I think I think she would have been a perfect Lois Lane. I always pictured
1:29:05
Lois as as a dark-haired person. All right, so let's let's let's uh go
1:29:10
ahead and uh let's go ahead and jump on over to the uh Incredible Shrinking Mill
1:29:16
that happens in Canada. So, this comes from the weird [ __ ] category. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh basically, uh
1:29:25
there's a video that shows these people driving down the road. Um, and you see this mill and as you get closer to it,
1:29:31
the building gets smaller. [ __ ] weird as [ __ ]
1:29:37
See if I can actually pull this up on the screen. So, this is in Ontario, Canada. Yeah,
1:29:43
maybe where it's cold outside. Shrinkage. We've got shrinkage.
1:29:51
It's it, you know, maybe it's like a reverse TARDIS. If I had to guess, I would say it has
1:29:58
something to do with like the bending of the atmosphere around the horizon.
1:30:03
I I think it's it's it's it's the uh the curvature of the Earth kind of. Yeah, exactly. Like like kind of like
1:30:10
bending the light as it's coming over the horizon to get clo closer like who
1:30:16
knows what miragages are [ __ ] crazy. This is from like this is what it says here on the art.
1:30:25
It says it has the striking optical illusion makes a well-known industrial building in Ontario look like a lot
1:30:31
larger than it actually is. Uh situated in Port Coburn, Ontario and dating back
1:30:38
a hundred years, the mill only started gaining attention recently, relatively
1:30:45
recently when people started noticing something distinctly odd about its size.
1:30:51
If you happen to be approaching the mill from one particular direction, from the dis from the distance, it looks like as
1:30:59
though the mill is absolutely gigantic with its hulking shape dominating the
1:31:04
horizon. As you drive closer, however, the mill seems to get smaller and
1:31:10
smaller and takes up a lot less space on the horizon until upon reaching the water, it appears relatively small and
1:31:18
far off in the distance. Oh, I'm I'm watching the video right now actually. Yeah. So, if you go to the link in our
1:31:24
podcast description or or see the video. Yeah, there will be a video playing and it's I think I can explain what's
1:31:31
happening. I It's the relation to the trees, isn't it? Yeah. Yes. So, it's the same reason why the
1:31:37
moon looks huge when it's low in the sky and and versus when it's up high. And
1:31:43
it's because you have trees and other ground effects to compare it to. So, in
1:31:48
comparison to the trees, the moon looks huge. Or in the case of this video, in comparison, cuz if you're not watching
1:31:54
it right now, there are trees framing the road that they're driving down. So, as you're looking at it from a distance,
1:32:01
it's like you're looking at it through a through like a telescope of trees. And then the farther you go, the less
1:32:06
the trees are in your field of view until finally the trees are gone and it looks tiny. Um, in practical terms, it never got any
1:32:13
bigger or smaller to your eye. Uh, but like the moon, I used to think that the
1:32:18
moon when it was low in the sky was like being that magnified by the atmosphere or something.
1:32:24
Um, but it's actually just as big. The firmament. Jesus Christ. No, man.
1:32:30
But like your thumb will cover the exact same amount of it whether it's low in the sky or high in the sky.
1:32:35
Exactly. It's just an optical illusion. Yeah, it's just an optical illusion. You know what? We didn't get the hour message this time.
1:32:41
Oh, I did. I did. Our call is going to end in 11 minutes. Oh, yeah. I got that message, too. I thought I was thought we thought we
1:32:48
dodged the [ __ ] Thought we beat it. Thought we beat the system somehow. The man is never going to The man only
1:32:53
tightens the I think Google updated their their terms of service or whatever because we didn't
1:32:59
have this problem before. We used to be able to go for two hours. I'm trying to figure out what the purpose of that was.
1:33:06
They want you to spend money on their services. Yeah, they must have a premium one they didn't have before or something.
1:33:12
Yeah, cuz like logging off and logging back on after 30 seconds is such a pain in the ass. That's worth it. What the
1:33:18
[ __ ] Like Well, I tell you what, this is enough for me to go investigate StreamYard and just see what it costs.
1:33:23
Yeah, I am certainly Yeah, this is this is [ __ ] weird. But yeah,
1:33:28
but uh yeah. Any any other thoughts from anybody? Han, are you still there?
1:33:34
Oh, yeah. I'm still here. I've been here the entire time. All right. Well, thanks for joining us. Uh, any anything you wanted to any final
1:33:41
thoughts? Not really. At the moment.
1:33:46
Okay. No worries. No worries. Didn't mean to put you on the spot there. Um, but thank you so much for joining us.
1:33:51
That was awesome to have a caller again this week. Uh, we're we we've had two live call-in shows and we've gotten a
1:33:56
caller each time. So, that's awesome. So, that's great. All right, H. I'll talk to you in a minute. Okay.
1:34:03
All right. Sounds good. All right. You take it easy.
1:34:08
and Brandon, thanks for having you on again once again. Knocked it out of the park. You bring so much energy and and
1:34:14
information. Um, it's really awesome having you on. Um, any any final thoughts? Anything you want you came on
1:34:20
here really wanting to talk about that you didn't get a chance to say yet? Oh, absolutely. No, I we talked about pretty much everything. You guys had a
1:34:26
really good list of things I wanted to cover and it's a as always a pleasure to be on here. Anytime you want me on here,
1:34:32
just let me know. All right. Well, well, we will we will absolutely abuse that. anytime. You know what?
1:34:38
Honestly, this is a great way to use my uh use my evenings better than most times. So, you know,
1:34:44
right on. And Todd, sir, yes. Any any any final thoughts or words? Uh we got some stuff we can use again next
1:34:51
week, it looks like. Uh final thoughts. Um my favorite final thought is Oh [ __ ] I
1:34:58
think that's and then click. What's that noise saying? Yeah. Uh no, beyond that, no. I I got
1:35:06
nothing. Well, thanks to everybody for listening. Uh Han, make sure you tell all your friends that you were on the show so
1:35:12
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1:35:29
all that good stuff. And thanks for listening. We'll see you next week. Sounds like a plan. Bye, everybody.
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