102: Doomsday Minus One - Order is established, then quietly abandoned

Episode 2 finds What Were We Saying? settling into a rhythm—which is to say, immediately testing it.

Big Uke and Tubesox dig into the WWWS Mailbag, responding to some viewer messages that probably shouldn’t have been encouraged, before sliding back into the usual banter, side quests, and confidently flawed logic. Along the way,  “3 Things That Can Kick Rocks,” returns - a tightly focused segment that somehow still spirals into personal grudges, cultural complaints, and items that did nothing wrong.

More opinions, more structure (technically), and even fewer conclusions.
The conversation continues. The patience does not.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Maybe you can do that. Just cutting away. On what we stay on. Hey, hey, hey, to have cast with nothing to stay. It's really good to stand away. What do I always say?

SPEAKER_02 0:51

Well, good evening or afternoon, or whatever time of day it is where you are. Welcome to episode two of two. What were we saying? We made it. Very excited to be able to record episode two, which means that uh well episode one went decent enough that here we are. And they let us back in the building. They let us back in the building. Our past uh swipecards worked.

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That was fun. That was news.

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Um if you're just joining us for the first time, I'm TubeSocks. I'm Big Yuke. Behind the camera is Edgar Lasseter. Uh we don't love him, we don't hate him, we're indifferent to him.

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Our first episode went okay. His was a little subpar, but it is.

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I hope he'll get better. We both hope he gets better.

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I don't think he can get much worse.

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When Edgar thrives, we all thrive. Uh also shout out to Harold Winthrop and the Silver Ashtray Orchestra. That's who played us in. They did a great job on that uh that theme song and our outro. They've uh been struggling for the last four decades, maybe, and uh I like to think that we're kind of propping them up and uh giving them a purpose again.

SPEAKER_03 2:00

Keeping them going, too. It's just it's it's our little way of give back to the uh the musical community.

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I don't want to say that they've been down on their luck, but uh Oh no, they've been thriving, but but their last steady gig was 1981. So they haven't been thriving since then, but they have thrived.

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They have thrived. Unlike Edgar.

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Um, son of a bitch. We are coming to you once again from the fifth floor of the Blunderworks Studios in uh sunny downtown. What are we uh what are we saying today, youke?

SPEAKER_03 2:33

We're gonna be saying a few things. Similar to last episode, we said some things. Um I want to start by saying some things about uh the old sport of American football. A couple games last weekend.

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We kind of have to recap that as uh we set up the game.

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So and not don't get it in your mind that this is a sport show. It is not. Uh I know we're starting with football two weeks in a row, but it's topical and you know.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

If there was anything newsworthy going on, we would probably start with that. That too. But there isn't currently in this climate. So football it is. Couple big games last weekend. Did you watch them? I did. I was especially excited about the one game because uh there was weather. Oh, there was weather and was established in our previous episode that I love weather.

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Huge fan of weather, and weather indeed, I think, directly impacted that game.

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Absolutely, it did.

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And the fact that it was such a split from first half to second half, I I don't believe I've seen something like that.

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It was the tale of two weathers.

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It was indeed the tale of two weathers. I'm sure you quite enjoyed the outcome of that.

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Well, I do have that $7 coming to me if the Patriots go on who, in fact, win the Super Bowl. But I'm still alive. Well, I'm a little concerned though, because I think they had a better chance of beating the Rams than the Seahawks. And also when I made that bet, I didn't realize till the game started that Drew Bledsoe was no longer their quarterback.

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Ah, that's tough.

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So I kind of thought Bledsoe's a winner.

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That's tough.

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I'll put my money on him. Anyways.

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Yeah, you gotta do a little more research when you're doing futures, I guess.

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I was looking at a magazine. Yeah, not maybe your best source of info. I was getting my football info from the microfiche down at the library, and apparently Drew Bledsoe is no longer on the team.

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Yeah, it they'll definitely be uh being tough against the Seahawks, in my opinion. Uh that's where I will be throwing a few shekels. Um mainly I'll just be betting on props, i.e., color of Gatorade, length of anthem, stuff that has almost zero impact on the game, because I really don't care about these two teams.

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I think it's a pretty low interest game for a lot of people.

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I I'm just uh I'm excited for the people that I'll be watching the game with. And the beers will be cold.

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I feel the same way. I like to think that Drew Bledsoe will also be uh feeling the same way. I'm excited that we'll be also watching the game as Drew will be, because he's not participating, apparently.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

So, fun fact that I found about uh the upcoming big football match. Um this will be the third time in NFL history that there have been the same named coaches. Head coaches have the same first name on each side.

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What are their names?

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Mike.

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That's a rare name.

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But it's the third, so it's the third time that there have been head-to-head names. Head-to-head m head-to-head names, just in general, of any name. They just all happen to have been Mike. Okay, that's interesting. So a little recap.

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That's a funner fact than Edgar gave us last week.

SPEAKER_03 5:48

Well, yeah, Edgar, you didn't do great. I know we told you that last week, but I'm gonna tell you again. So don't even try to hand us your card this week. You're you're banned for a week, basically, you're suspended. Uh we'll try again next week, I guess, give you an extra week to find some, because those sucked. I can't believe you just said that. A real fun fact about this whole Mike thing. Uh, a little uh backstory, I guess. Super Bowl 32. Mike Shanahan versus Mike Holmgren. Broncos v Packers. I enjoyed that. I still have a VHS copy of that game. Don't remember a thing about it. It was Remember it well. It was 28 years ago. So so there's that. Uh the final score? 31-24 Broncos. Okay. Second occurrence of this Mike v. Mike battle, Mike McCarthy with the Packers versus Mike Tomlin with the Steelers. That was Super Bowl 45. 31-25 final score, Packers win. So there's another little extra of the winning team scored 31 points both times. I didn't even notice that. Another funny little sidebar about that matchup, McCarthy versus Tomlin, is that now 15 years later, McCarthy has taken over the head coach job of the Steelers, which was Tomlins. So that's a funny little tie-in. And then so this year we've got Mike McDonald with the Seahawks and Mike Vrabel with the Patriots.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

That's not Mike McDonald who was in uh the Doobie Brothers.

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I do not believe so.

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Oh, that's Michael McDonald.

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Yeah, that's that's his formal stage name.

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Because that'd be really weird if he was coaching football now. Yeah, I don't just in an unlistenable band.

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Um yeah, I don't think we have that crossover here. But uh dare to dream. Mike v. Mike battle. Um and the fact that the first two winning teams scored 31 points, I uh I might be leaning that way for the uh the winning team of this game to get 31 points.

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Alright.

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So that's just a little fun football thing. Now uh we probably won't talk about football for a while.

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I will uh continue this sports theme, though, only briefly. I did want to go over and recap some uh NHL scores from last week.

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I love NHL.

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Uh couple scores we had. We had 4-3 in overtime. Nice. We had a 7-4, we had a 3-2, and another 4-3 in overtime. So that's those are good scores. That's pretty exciting. That was a great week in uh in the NHL. A lot of goals, a lot of scores.

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Sports.

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What's dumb this week, you? Anything dumb?

SPEAKER_03 8:23

Oh, oh, there's some dumb. Which, yeah, it's pretty dumb. And it's probably gonna be dumb considering the way I present it.

SPEAKER_02 8:30

Um that's encouraging. I really enjoy the way you're setting it up.

SPEAKER_03 8:34

Um we're definitely yeah, we'll just get into it here. So uh this was earlier this year, a convenience store in Ashland, Virginia was You know, Virginia's for lovers.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

I've heard that. I don't know what that means, really, but they have bumper stickers and everything. I'd love a good bumper sticker. I don't.

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Oh boy.

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But save that for another time.

SPEAKER_03 8:59

Uh yeah, so a convenience store in Ashland, Virginia. Thank you. You know what to do. Uh was burgled. Burgled and robbed. Uh they was a not a large hole to get into the store, so this uh criminal was sneaky. So he burrowed? Not I wouldn't say burrow, but close. He burrowed to burgle? There was uh multiple bottles of booze smashed on the ground. Uh a few of them had been consumed. There was handfuls of the shelves around with snacks and such that were again ransacked, um, and again some consumed. Uh after the alarms went off and the police arrived, uh, they found the suspect passed out in the bathroom. I'm assuming from the booze consumption.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

There's a lot going on here. There's some things going on here. I've never planned a caper, but if I did, I probably wouldn't get so floor-like and loaded that I passed out. I wouldn't want to stick around until the cops show up. At the location of the caper.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

Right. So this isn't necessarily the best bandit. Even though the nickname would be, or the the appearance of this the of this burglar, would you would assume that they would be good at at the whole burglary thing. Uh so police fine arrived to find the suspect, passed out in the bathroom. You want to know who the suspect was?

SPEAKER_02 10:31

It wasn't someone named Mike, was it?

SPEAKER_03 10:33

It was not. That would have been really a real strange tie. That would have been a funky tie-in. Next time I'm gonna look for a specific tie. Thank you. Anyone guess who the who the suspect was? I can't. Twas a raccoon. A raccoon had broken into a store, smashed booze bottles, drank said liquor. Well, I'll be a monkey in St. Louis. Except for the monkeys in St. Louis haven't been caught yet.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

The raccoons.

SPEAKER_03 10:59

This raccoon was caught. Interesting. And uh he was released back into the wild safely uh with a wild story and uh a bit of a hangover. Uh but yeah, the fact that this was like a full-on news article that until you got to the bottom and saw the pictures, you would not have known it was a raccoon. I would have thought it was just a fella. Yep, nope. This this this was a raccoon. And they have a picture of the raccoon passed out in the bathroom, and he's beside the toilet on his stomach, just sprawled out. He is ruined his future. I don't think he's going to college.

SPEAKER_02 11:33

Not going to Coon College. Um, I would like to uh So that was what's dumb because that's you know that is really dumb. And actually, that uh I would like to read a liner for that segment, even though it's after the segment.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

We're figuring out orders of things, just calm down.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

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SPEAKER_03 12:21

I think we're going to a top ten. Do you got a list for me?

SPEAKER_02 12:24

I do. This was uh will be the inaugural TubeSocks Top 10 for exciting Triple WS. And being that we're new to this whole show on the internet thing. And you know, we were one week into it, I do have uh the subject. Did you catch us, Edgar? Of the top ten is top ten benefits of starting your own podcast. Oh, I like this. Because we know a lot about this now because we've put one out.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

We have been doing this for a week, so I'm not I wouldn't call us necessarily experts in the field. Um we're certainly not novices anymore, but experienced would be one word I wouldn't use to describe us either.

SPEAKER_02 13:07

Well, but he's a novice at opening a beer.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

Apparently I'm a novice at this too, Edgar. Jesus Christ. Gotta be a mop after. Oh my goodness. My bad. Okay.

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Top ten benefits of starting your own podcast. Number ten. Instant fame.

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Instant, really.

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The moment you upload episode one, strangers stop you on the street and ask, hey, aren't you the guy from that podcast?

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I've been stopped twice. One was a cop and I was speeding, but that's different.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

I wasn't stopped, but when I was doing my grocery shopping this week, I kept looking over my shoulder, expecting to be stopped. And I realized that I think everyone around me was just kind of playing it cool because they didn't want to give away that they, hey, that stupid sucks, you know.

SPEAKER_03 13:53

That's fair.

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Uh number nine. Effortless wealth. Sponsors line up immediately. Zellers calls twice. You turn down Arby's sponsorships out of principle because you're too big now, right? Already, instantly. I like that. Number eight. Respect from friends and family. They finally take your opinion seriously right up until minute three when they stopped watching. Yeah. Pretty much. Oh, we watched your thing. Really?

SPEAKER_03 14:24

Well, the first part of it. I think you I think a lot of people that I talked to, they loved the intro and then they pretty much turned it off. That's fair. So, I mean, again, if you're gonna do that, just put it on mute, let it play through the show.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Yeah, let it keep playing to the end. At least give us the view, you know? It helps us out.

SPEAKER_03 14:44

The algorithms and stuff.

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Uh, number seven. Elite social status. Once you say, I have a podcast at a party, people nod politely and slowly back away because they know that they're in the presence of an influencer.

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People hate influencers.

SPEAKER_02 14:59

Well, they also watch what they're saying around you because they don't want to turn into a bit, right? Uh number six, unprecedented validation. One person texts good episode, and it'll feel you for months. I'm already feeling it. I'm still trying to come down from that high of the text I got.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

I'll be feeling two days ago I'll be feeling good till 2027. There we go. Month per text.

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Number five. The thrill of shouting into the void. You upload, you refresh, you wait, the algorithm shrugs.

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And then the algorithm goes to work. I don't know how it works. I don't know how to spell the word. Whatever. Reed Wilkins, I can't spell.

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Right? Number four. Total creative freedom. You can say whatever you want, as long as it doesn't anger the algorithm. Your co-host. Or that one guy who always uh comments on the show.

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Which we do love the comment, by the way.

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That guy's great.

SPEAKER_03 16:01

I love him. He's probably my favorite listener.

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Number three, networking power. Oh yeah. You'll connect with fascinating people you'd never meet otherwise. Mostly other podcasters asking if you want to swap guest spots, but we haven't been asking. It's still networking. Uh number two. A permanent record of your worst takes. Oh. Forever.

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Searchable and in high quality. Forever on the internet in high definition. For countless generations to see our terrible takes.

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Perfect.

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I mean, they gotta go somewhere. So better they be on the internet than just stuck in my head.

SPEAKER_02 16:44

This is well, you know what? You don't need to know.

SPEAKER_03 16:46

I'm not saying the people like listening to me.

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You gotta keep that area clear.

SPEAKER_03 16:49

It's I gotta be focused. Clear and focused here. Here, Harold, give me a little drum roll, please.

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The number one benefit of starting your own podcast: the freedom to continue doing this regardless of the results. Boom. Woo! Numbers are just numbers. And we've got the gear. So why would you stop once you've got the gear?

SPEAKER_03 17:11

And I'm pretty sure our return dates are already passed on most of this stuff. So we've got it. We're gonna keep doing it.

SPEAKER_02 17:17

Absolutely. And that is the TubeSocks Top 10 for episode 2.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

I think that was an incredible Tupsocks top 10.

SPEAKER_02 17:27

Well, thank you. I appreciate that. We should probably uh, you know, after we got a pretty good reaction from our first episode, we did get uh we got bags, bags of mail. Uh so much so that we uh wanted to read some of it here.

SPEAKER_03 17:42

There's a couple that I think people need to hear.

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As we dip into the uh the triple WS mailbag, which is sponsored by the mailbag is sponsored by Marlowe's Family Diner.

SPEAKER_03 17:54

Super excited to have these guys on board.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

They're good actually, no, they're not good people.

SPEAKER_03 17:57

They're not, but I'm just excited for the yeah, they got a cool looking building. So Marlowe's Family Diner is another one of our sponsors. Uh, they're just off the new road. Not the new new one, um, the other new one. Uh they do feature comfortable boots and decent food. When you go there, tell them Big Uke sent you from uh what were we saying with Big Yuk and Tube Sucks, and uh you'll receive a complimentary yogurt tube with your meal. I love a yogurt tube with my meal, especially when it's complimentary, so make sure you drop that. Um the part just be wary though, the parking lot does fill quickly, and uh the portions are based on availability.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Um but that's an interesting caveat because I've never seen a restaurant where the entrees change throughout the day.

SPEAKER_03 18:41

That's kind of their shtick. You know, dinner time, I don't go there at dinner.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

The portions get smaller because it's later.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

Right?

SPEAKER_02 18:47

It's like Halloween candy when you're the first few kids get all the mitts of candy, uh-huh, and then by the end of the night you're like throwing two or three in because you're running low.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

See, it's quite the business model, I think. Uh so yeah, Marlowe's Family Diner. Check them out. Um Yes, you want to read the first uh first letter we got?

SPEAKER_02 19:04

Sure. Let me just grab a piece of mail here. Oh, this is nice. First of all, dear what were we saying?

SPEAKER_03 19:15

Nice of them to actually know who we're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

First of all, congratulations on launching the show. Uh, it's no small thing to put something new out into the world, and I genuinely admire the confidence it takes to do so. That said, once the congratulations wore off, I realized the show seems determined to test how far that confidence can carry it without the assistance of structure or context. Well, that's harsh. Yikes. The casual tone occasionally veers into what I can only describe as willful neglect.

SPEAKER_03 19:50

Well.

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See you next week. Unsigned.

SPEAKER_03 19:54

Thank you, unsigned. Glad you're tuning in too.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

I mean, I Jesus, like it that kind of took a turn, but alright.

SPEAKER_03 20:01

I mean, we'll take that into account. Absolutely. We'll we'll give those to our people to break down a bit.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

For sure we will.

SPEAKER_03 20:07

But appreciate you sending that in. Uh, you got one to read? I do have one to read, and I'm excited about this one. Dear, what were we saying? I sat down expecting a podcast, and instead experienced something closer to a staff meeting that lost its agenda halfway through, but refused to adjourn. I'm gonna spin that into a positive. Because it was just so good we didn't want to stop.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

And also, everyone loves staff meetings, so Usually there's donuts, you know. Right? You're not working.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

Second half of this little letter here. Nothing was bad enough to turn it off, which somehow made it worse, and I now find myself explaining the show to friends using phrases like, you kind of have to be there, and no, it makes sense eventually. I will continue to tune in, though I'm not proud of it. Well, we appreciate you tuning in and the fact that you're telling friends about us in ways that I would almost say is kind of exactly what we were going for.

SPEAKER_02 21:02

You know, the uh the Tell a Friend program is one of the most successful and most effective marketing programs, I think, that uh anyone can have.

SPEAKER_03 21:11

And when you use a phrase like you kinda have to be there, and no, it makes sense eventually. Well, that lures them in. But not in a creepy way, because again, that's not what we're about here. Stop it. Uh yeah, I mean, this was a name withheld by request.

SPEAKER_02 21:28

So interesting that they wouldn't just uh not sign it. They specifically don't please with here's my name, don't use it, but don't use it. But I want you to know who I am.

SPEAKER_03 21:40

We know who you are. And kind of shocked you. You you you had the tech to listen, but that's it. Happy you found a way. Wow. That was something. I hope we get more of those next week.

SPEAKER_02 21:54

Well, we'll read a few more later a little a little uh a little later in the show. Well, we do have a couple more. We do have a couple more, but Let's move on to what turned out to be a uh riotously uh popular segment from our first show.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

Yeah, I think uh before we get into this, I will just go back to that first show for a second. Uh it was fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think you had a good time too. Uh I did have a good time. We hope you had a good time. Uh from some of the the hubba baloo that I heard from some friends and family that did tune in, uh they were at least gonna tune into the second episode too.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

So my uh my mom said she would uh tune into the second episode. Uh Mrs. TubeSocks, however, has not yet watched the first episode.

SPEAKER_03 22:41

And I don't really see her watching it anytime soon.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

It's not her thing. That's fine. That's fine.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

We're not for everybody, and we're well aware of that. But for those of you who did watch, who liked, who commented on that premiere video, that was fun. Uh we appreciate it. Uh we hope you you stick around for this month and future episodes. Um but yeah, this was a segment that I think uh, like I said before that first one, will become a fan favorite uh as we break the mold of what is tube socks.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

Well, on that note, let's just get right into it. Again, brief segment, but I think it uh it doesn't need to be long and it just kind of cuts right to it. Three things that can kick rocks.

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Yes.

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Number one square cut pizza. Triangle's strongest shape. Just don't. Who wants those no one wants the middle pieces? What are we even doing? What are we even doing?

SPEAKER_03 23:40

What are we even saying?

SPEAKER_02 23:42

I don't even want to read the second thing, but I have to because it's written here on the card. The word panties.

SPEAKER_03 23:48

Ha ha ha! Ah yeah, this is uh I feel as though this one will get a lot of support from people.

SPEAKER_02 23:54

It's just it's underpants. You're wearing ganch. Stop it. Panties couldn't be creepier. I said it twice and I I'm just a little icky. I now I need to shower after just saying it. And the third thing that can kick rocks, paying to inflate your tires.

SPEAKER_03 24:13

Oh my god! Yes! I don't think well, I mean, granted, there's only been six things that can kick rocks so far, but this is one that I wholeheartedly agree on. What a joke.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

I uh I had a bit of a run-in with a uh tire inflating pay station this week, which is why this uh is fresh on the list. Bastards. So I had a low tire, which happens if you drive a vehicle. I see an inflation place. I go in, I see it's a pay thing, whatever, I'll play along. So I pull out my card and alright, tap, beep, fail. Tap fail.

SPEAKER_03 24:56

Oh, that's even more annoying.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

A third time I tap, fail. Alright, I see the little picture shows a $1 and a $2 coin, excepting these. Like, you know what? I'm gonna look inside the uh the TubeSocks Jeep and see if maybe there's some coins. And lo and behold, I see a $2 coin. Love it. So I'm like, great. So I drop it in the slot, nothing's happening. I look and it says minimum $2.50. So I might as well have just taken that $2 coin and just chucked it in a snowbank because I was still unable to get air because now I'd exhausted my coins, which it wouldn't accept because apparently I needed more coins, and my uh card was not uh tapping at their uh shady station.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

Did you go inside this shady station to correct the issue?

SPEAKER_02 25:49

I went to two or three other stations, and then I finally found one where my card tapped at and was able to inflate my tire, and you'll be happy to know that I safely got on the road with the proper tire pressure, which was 241 kilopascals, by the way. Okay, that checks out.

SPEAKER_03 26:06

So that's I mean, it's just like come on.

SPEAKER_02 26:11

And if you're gonna accept a $2 coin, well, allow me to put in $2 and get $2 worth of air, however you deem that value to be.

SPEAKER_03 26:19

And that's the thing that ticks me off, too, because it's either not long enough or just far too long. It you know, you see the countdown and it's like, oh, you fill up your tire and you're good to go. And then you look and you've still got over half your time remaining.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

I use 65 cents worth of air.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

It's like why, why, why? Where's the refund button? Do I get do I get changed back for this air I'm leaving?

SPEAKER_02 26:38

Exactly. Give me $2 worth. If that's what I've got, give me $2 worth.

SPEAKER_03 26:42

I guess a guy could just wait by one if they had a little tire until someone goes to fill up and then sneak in there and steal their air.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

Kind of creepy though, and weird.

SPEAKER_03 26:50

Well, you don't have to be in a bush. I mean sitting in your vehicle.

SPEAKER_02 26:54

It's a highly effective method, though.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

I mean, bushes are good to hide in, but but yeah, no, I definitely agree with you on that, Kick Rock, because this was a good one. I don't I don't really disagree with you on anything.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

There we go. It doesn't make for good content if we agree on everything, but sometimes we're gonna agree on things.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

We are friends, okay? Well, well ish.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

We're working at becoming friends.

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We're better friends than any of us in Edgar, okay? Well, come on.

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I hear that correctly.

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Stop it.

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Next, we are going to another news segment. Which they all are. Not all of them.

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There was repeats.

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Well, that's true.

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This is new, though. I'm excited for this one. This one will be fun.

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Now, see, this is a segment called How Is the Movie? And how this is gonna roll is that a movie is going to be assigned. And for instance, today I'm assigning a movie for Big Euke, my co-host and soon-to-be friend, yes, that he has to watch. And then we'll uh come back next week and we'll discuss said movie. Take some notes. And uh the key to this is that we have very different music tastes. Music?

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Well, we have very different music tastes in the world.

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That's true. Movie takes almost more different.

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I like color in my movies.

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So let's just cut right to it. The first movie that I am assigning you to watch that will follow up next week is a movie called, and this is one of my freaking favorite movies of all time.

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You said you watched this last night again.

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I watched it last night just so I was so excited. Oh my goodness. Odds Against Tomorrow.

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Odds Against Tomorrow. Are you familiar with the movie? I is that the second one in the sequence? Or no, no, can't say I've ever heard of this one.

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1959, starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Ed Begley, Shelly Winters, and the always vivacious Gloria Graham. I will watch anything with Gloria Graham in it because she's amazing.

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I do know exactly zero of those people.

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Ed Begley is also never in a bad movie. Some people may know his son, Ed Begley Jr., who was an actor, uh, appeared in uh an 80s show called Saint Elsewhere and was one of the uh Spinal Tap drummers. Stumpy Peeps, I believe.

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Or uh the son either.

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So, anyways, so Big Youke. I will send you the link to watch that movie because it's not on any streaming services.

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Oh no? Oh, shocks.

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Weird, right?

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Shocker.

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So yeah, so you can watch that.

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Oh, how long is this movie?

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I don't know, movie length.

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Well, what's movie length?

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What's movie length of 1952? 59, by the way.

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Oh, 59, sorry, sorry.

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And and it is a uh it is a great caper movie if you like a good caper movie. I might like caper movies. I would uh classify it as a film noir, even though it's late in the genre being 1959, that it kind of fizzled out by then. Not fizzled out, but it kind of ran its course. Is there any color? Just just your heart will be bright red after watching it because you'll love it so much. Your heart will be filled with color.

SPEAKER_03 29:53

Okay. I mean, I don't think my heart should be filled with color, but I understand I understand what you're going with.

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I don't even know what that means. Neither do I. Okay. But uh anyway, so odds against tomorrow.

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Do I get any uh sneak peek here? Like the synopsis? No.

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Just it's caper.

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Okay.

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It's a caper and I am excited for this.

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This will be good because like we said, we have very vastly different tastes in movies. And I'm excited to have him watch the movies I will get him to watch. Uh because they are so, so, so far and away different than what he watches. It is gonna be fun. I think so.

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Are we doing like a quiz and answer on or do a little follow-up, a little uh you well it's gonna backstage test if I actually watch the movie? You think you don't want to say anything about it, but then when you watch it, you're like, holy shit, this is amazing. I I can't stop talking about this movie. This will be the first time I've watched a movie and taken notes. There we go.

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So I'm looking forward to that. No, that's that's uh that's gonna be a fun one. How and yeah, that I just yeah, it's gonna be good.

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Uh should we hit up a little more viewer mail before we start wrapping things up? Yeah, we might as well. Want me to go first? Sure, why not? You got one too, right?

SPEAKER_03 31:07

I've got one more as well. Okay, let's see what uh another unsigned. You guys can leave your names. Dear, what were we saying? I tuned in expecting to be mildly entertained, and somehow left with questions, mild irritation, and no clear sense of time. The jokes, such as they were, wandered in, overstayed, and left without closure. I mean, okay, similar to that. That's a bit harsh. I did watch the whole episode. Thank you. Part of the next one. Huh? I think you may have searched the wrong.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

Yeah, there may be there's another podcast with that name or a show with that name.

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I'm gonna think you're talking about old clips, maybe? Anyway, mostly out of spite, and we'll continue to do so.

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I love spite viewing.

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I d a spite view is still a view. And we'll continue to view until this either improves or I finally understand what is happening. Disappointed, but still watching unsigned.

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Interesting. I'm starting to see a theme here.

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With uh Yeah, all three of these were uh quite similar.

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The first one was pretty positive.

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Well, the first half of that one was good. And then he said he watched a second episode, and we haven't done it yet.

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While you were reading yours, I'm uh was glancing at this one. Uh and I feel that I'm I'm seeing a pattern. Dear, what were we saying? I don't know who the show is for, but I'm increasingly certain it's being done to me. Topics appear, dissolve, and resurface later wearing different hats, and every time it feels intentional in a way that I don't trust. Holy shit. I kept watching, even nodded along at one point, and now feel partially responsible for this. I will be back next week, if only to see whether or not you acknowledge this letter, which I'm doing. Boom. Or continue as if nothing is wrong with your show, which frankly seems more likely. And that is from unsigned.

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I I think that one of these may have been from Edgar. Well, I wouldn't be surprised because he's I would be c the only reason I'd be surprised is because I don't think he can spell. So the fact that you read that out, unless he spell checked it, I guess, but computer. Did you send one of these?

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He may be angry with us, even though we did let him take the empties back last week. Well, the ones that didn't break.

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It's a hard floor.

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We'll let him clean it up and he's good at his job.

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I will give him that.

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Alright, well, shall we start uh winding things down here?

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Yeah, honestly, I think people probably had enough of us today. I'd keep going. But judging by some of these uh these letters we received.

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Like, comment, and subscribe. Yes. And in the side there, I don't know if it's there or is it over there? I think it should be there. If you do subscribe, you can participate in the chat, which appears live when the episode is premiering.

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I had a lot of fun there last week.

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It goes away once the premiere is done, but while it's going on, Big Yuke and I are there, usually in separate locations, as again our friendship is burgeoning, but it's a work relationship, and I'm tend to not hang out with my co-workers.

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Yeah, let's be real here. We are co-workers. Unpaid co-workers, but still.

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Right. We're co-hosts.

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We are co-hosts of What Were We Saying with BigUke and TubeSocks.

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Uh please drop us a line. There is an email address right there, biguke.tubesocks at gmail.com.

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Um do you think this one went?

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You know what? I think it went alright. You know, we're uh getting a little more comfortable. Edgar didn't interrupt us as much this time as well.

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Well, and we didn't have to hear his stupid facts, which again, Edgar, we'll try again next week, okay, bud.

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Maybe next week he'll uh bring we'll we'll let him bring some facts again. Uh I don't know.

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I don't know, it was fun. It went better than I anticipated on the whole being able to do that.

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I would uh say that a good time was had by all. I had a great time. If I can only get Mrs. Tube Socks to watch an episode, then what do you listen to on the drive home today? Well, I think last week I was listening to Madonna. Yes, that was how'd that go? Oh, it was good.

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It was a good bring down, a big It was a good ending to, you know, kind of chillax out. Red Hot Chili Peppers today, I think. Little different, you know, kind of pulling our opposite from the last one, but just something to, I don't know, get me fired up.

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Alright. I will uh once again be dipping into the TubeSocks Spotify playlists. And uh I'm gonna be going with a playlist that uh alternates two of my favorite bands in the world: the Super Suckers and Nashville Pussy.

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The ads.

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They've toured together many times together, and the playlist is simply called Super Pussy. Checks out, and uh yeah, it's a good uh if you're unfamiliar, please dive in, check it out. It's uh don't just Google it though, and you can't go wrong, yeah. Don't Google that at work. My goodness. So last week we were on the YouTube, and uh since posting that episode, we are now available in video form also on Spotify. And uh audio form, we are now out on like Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Spotify for audio. Spotify audio, uh Apple Music, Amazon Music, iHeart, all the you know, all the big players. Anyways, what were we saying? Search it out. Deezer, Deezer's a thing. I didn't know that existed. Deezer? I don't know, it's a thing. We're there. I don't know who does that.

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Maybe that guy in Bedford will be on Deezer.

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That guy, yeah. We had a guy in the UK listening, which is interesting. Fun. Uh maybe he found us on No, he didn't find us on Deezer.

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No, he was it wasn't Deezer. We know where it was.

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Yeah.

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Because we can track that.

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Uh anyway, so tune in. It's very exciting. Oh. I uh Oh no. No, I I do need to to apologize to uh to Dustin Nielsen. I forgot about that. Uh he's I don't know, Dustin Nielsen, he's a uh he's a he's a local radio host and he uh he does national broadcasts for uh sports play by play. And uh anyways, he uh he's here, but we we're running a little long and we had to uh sorry, Dusty. We had to bump him. So we'll uh at least the couch in the green room's comfortable. It is comfortable. We'll give him a beer. Um sorry, buddy. Sorry, man.

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I mean hey, we'll we're new here, we're not pros. We'll figure this thing.

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We'll figure the timing out better. And I know you drove all the way from the other side, so uh we'll we'll maybe give you a gas card to get back. So anyways. I feel I feel terrible. Yeah, he'll be okay. Because you put in the effort and we ran long. Anything else?

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I uh I got nothing else. Keep tuning in, keep liking, commenting, subscribing, leave us a comment, let us know how we did. If you want us to talk about anything, there's always that. Let us know. Send us a letter, send us an email, we'll figure it out. Yeah. Thanks for uh thanks for watching. What were we saying with uh Big Youke and TubeSucks?

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TubeSocks. Uh play us out, Harold.

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Chow.

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Big Youke TubeSocks with chat today on what are we saying?