202: Coffee, Tea, Or Cyanide - The mail returns. So do the grievances.

Season 2 continues with the confidence of a show that survived its premiere and has chosen to interpret that as validation.

This week marks the season’s first trip into the WWWS Mailbag, where listener submissions once again range from thoughtful observations to questions that raise entirely new concerns. As always, every message is treated with the appropriate level of consideration, which is to say: inconsistently.

Say What Now? also returns, placing Big Uke back in the linguistic danger zone as he attempts to decipher the meanings of old-timey slang. History provides the words. Big Uke provides the guesses. The gap between the two remains substantial.

Meanwhile, Tubesox delivers his review of Captain Phillips (2013), offering thoughts, observations, and at least one opinion that may not survive further examination. Not content to leave well enough alone, the show immediately assigns Big Uke a new movie, ensuring the cycle of reluctant viewing and future accountability remains fully operational.

And of course, 3 Things That Can Kick Rocks returns for another week of grievances, irritations, and highly specific complaints directed toward targets that may or may not deserve them.

Old slang. New mail. Maritime tension. Fresh resentment.

The season settles into its rhythm. The judgment remains unchecked.

Keep your expectations low. We certainly did.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:44

So seriously, never again in my life have I seen a woman vacuum with a cigarette in her nostril. I just seems like an aggressive way to vacuum. I'm really dedicated to that uh that nicotine intake.

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If you're ashing, you're ashing. At least you're vacuuming it up. Tonight, the mailbag returns, unfiltered and mildly concerning.

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We've got the third installment of A say winner! Uh Tootsocks reviews the movie Captain Phillips. And Big You gets a fresh movie assignment.

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And, as always, three things that inevitably kick rocks.

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So let's get to it. We're coming at you from the fourth floor of Blunderworks Studios.

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Yeah, we are.

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Here in uh where are we?

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Sunny downtown!

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Sunny downtown. Oh my goodness.

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I love it. It's been sunny lately.

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It's almost short pants weather. Almost. I am uh Tube Socks. Me myself. I'm Big Yuke. Behind the camera, we've got Edgar Lassiter.

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The chairman.

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And watching from I don't know if they're still at the abandoned dog track or where they're at, but I'm starting to get worried that they're still at that Chuck E.

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Cheese and they're not allowed to leave. Like we should probably check in on them. Check in on them.

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Swing by the old man.

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I haven't heard anything from them.

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Anyways, Harold Winthrop and the Silver Astray Orchestra, that's whose beautiful tones you heard on the uh the opening. And if you stick around to the end, you'll hear them on the way out. Different song, same band. Love those guys.

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I mean, I don't, but I do.

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I like what they've done. I just don't like to spend time with them. A lot like uh Edgar.

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Very much like Edgar.

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Yes.

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Anyways. He's in studio every day. But uh what are we saying today? You can we are talking about a lot of things. Good week. It has been uh been a better week than last. Um I was a little under the weather for uh the season premiere here. Uh that's been I've kicked that to the curb.

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So good thing we're a union shop and you have those sick days, so you're able to push it back a day.

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Yeah, and I I was fighting it, and then I realized that if I missed out on recording, Edgar was gonna take my spot, and I didn't want to subject my our fans audience to that.

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So they already have to listen to Edgar. Right?

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And that's that's a little much. So just I uh I was looking out for you guys. Toughed it out.

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So last week was our big uh big season two premiere. I think it went well. It's a good time.

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I think all things considered, I had a good time.

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Considering that we hadn't uh, you know, really been at it for a couple weeks.

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Right. It was a bit of a having that two weeks off was a bit of a you know, you lose a bit of your the swing.

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Well, you're a spunk. Yeah, there we go. I think it's back. It is back, absolutely it's back. We're back. Got anything uh anything done this week? Oh, do I? Let me grab a beverage and let's listen.

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First thing, and this is something that it's just it comes with the territory, I guess. But mosquito bites just in general. I didn't think I had any, because you know, Maylong wasn't too too nice. It was cool, so he wearing pants or sitting by the fire or whatever. Didn't really notice many of the bugs. And then I think it was last weekend, just got absolutely chewed up. And my ankles are the itchiest thing on earth right now. Well fighting the earth.

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He's fighting. Like you can see him fighting, and he's showing off his ankles too. That's a hell of an ankle.

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That's a hell of an ankle. Yeah, so mosquito bites just in general are so dumb. And and it the it I think the worst part is that they're not always itchy. It's just like at inopportune times where you don't need them to be itchy. You start. You don't need them to be. You just don't need them to be itchy.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

But when's that time though, when you're sitting around going, you know, I could sure use some itchin' right now.

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Well, you know what? That's a great time for the ankle to maybe I misspoke about the whole wanting them to be itchy part. But it's just dumb and I hate it. And it's one of those things that I guess I'd rather be itchy from mosquito bite than you know, frozen in minus 40 in the wintertime. Like it it comes with. Or itchy from numerous other Oh, there's plenty of other things that could make you itchy that are no bueno.

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The clap. That amongst the top of the list, probably. I don't think they call it that anymore, but uh they've renamed it.

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I'd rather be itchy from mosquito bites.

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They've rebranded that sometime in the last 30 years.

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Rebranded. And then the second thing here, and this just occurred to me actually today, while eating lunch. Uh the hate that butterscotch pudding gets is dumb. Butterscotch pudding, hey? That's a solid pudding. It I think it people just think it's like an old person pudding. Because you know, grandmas always have like butterscotch candies in their purses.

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But it is three chairs for Worthers.

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I I mean I love me at Worthers, but I just as I was eating, I'm like, damn.

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I don't know if people dislike butterscotch pudding.

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I think that maybe if they do, they shouldn't. Because that was probably one of the best puddings I've had in my life. Huh. Maybe it's just a pudding in general thing. Like there should be more rah-rah against pudding.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

Yeah, yeah, pudding doesn't really get the attention that it did, at least when I was a kid. No. Pudding was a big part of my childhood.

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Yeah, no, not anymore.

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Every day was kind of looking to get to the next pudding.

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Right? I think we need to. There's just a tin of cookies that's actually sewing needles and no pudding. What's the point? I love you, Grandma, but I've got needs here.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

Well, I had no idea there was uh butterscotch.

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I mean, and there may not be. I may have just made this up and it just doesn't get the attention. I just don't think it gets enough attention as being a world-class pudding.

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It's pretty solid. I mean, it's a short list of puddings, really.

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Yeah.

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Chocolate, vanilla, butterscotch.

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Well, pistachio. Okay, yeah. I would probably not have chocolate as its own. Chocolate for me personally. Chocolate pudding is good when it's in another dessert. Like if it's like the filling in a in a give me a chocolate mousse over chocolate pudding.

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A hundred times.

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Such a fine line though, but a hundred times. Like vanilla pudding, like a good vanilla pudding cup, that changed your life.

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This would be such a pudding-heavy uh opening.

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It's like when we start when we found out that they the the boys were doing their their gig at Chuck E. Cheese and we went on a tank.

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Went into Chuck E. Cheese lore. Charles Z. Cheese for I'm hoping this isn't getting into pudding lore. Hey. Because we might lose them.

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Or we might have found a brand new audience.

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A whole new audience. Get that pudding crowd. The pudding. Everyone loves a good pudding, cuz. Oh my goodness. Alright. Okay, maybe we should move on to something we actually planned. Well, let's let's get into the uh let's get into the mailbag. We didn't have any mailbag last week, so I wonder if anybody mentions pudding. Let's uh let's get into her. Let's do a couple letters now and we'll do a couple letters later. Why don't you start her off there? Oh, we can. Large Ukrainian.

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Pick that up from Tommy. Hey! Shout out, Tommy. Uh dear, what were we saying? I was deeply offended by Tubsock's recent criticism of Australian accents. You know, I knew this letter was gonna be coming.

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I kind of I kind of felt it. I uh but I'm okay, I stand by my words.

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As an Australian listener, thank you. Shout out, I found his comments unfair, uninformed, and frankly difficult to understand through whatever prairie ham radio accent he's bringing to the microphone every week. Holy shit. See, now this guy's just coming back at you, and I kinda love it. A little tit for tat. I feel that my Prairie Ham radio accent. That's right.

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My accent's perfectly fine.

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Well, it's the King's English. I think he would say the same thing. Okay. Uh Australians gave the world air conditioning, Wi-Fi, and approximately 73% of all successful crocodile-related television programming. The least we deserve is basic respect. Anything to say about that? I like Wi-Fi and air conditioning. Yeah, no, that show wouldn't be a thing without it. And I do I do like that he acknowledges that, you know, 27% of the successful crocodile-related TV shows didn't come from Australia. He's not taking the whole market. No, they're not taking it. Last line here. Perhaps before criticizing Australian speech patterns, you should first determine which province is responsible for teaching you to pronounce words the way you do. Regards. Nigel, not Bruce Mackenzie. Perth, Australia.

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That's interesting, as I uh Thanks, not Bruce. Have in fact spent time in three provinces. So perhaps uh it's an amalgam. I don't know why that word got me going. My uh developmental years were in two separate ones, so uh the third one probably hasn't had much of an effect. Interesting. Or it's had the most. Have you think about that? I think uh what's his name? Bruce? No, not Bruce. Well, I appreciate your words, and I'll uh And not gonna lie, I forget his first name and I've thrown the card away. It's still not gonna sell me on that uh that accent.

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I again I love the Austrian that accent. No matter what this curmudgeon says.

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Alright, well, here's what I got. I've got dear big You can tube socks. Hey, that's us. Hey, I was thrilled to see a new episode finally appear in my feed. For weeks, my Thursday evenings have lacked the familiar sound of two fellows just chatting away. Well, that's like in our song. We are uh chatting away. Uh the clip shows were fine, I suppose. Ouch. They serve the same purpose as eating ketchup packets when the grocery store is closed. Technically sustenance, but not what anyone was hoping for. Ouh.

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Why you gotta do that? Oh.

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Season two's first episode felt like a return to form. Chemistry is still there, the jokes are still questionable, and neither of you appears to have learned anything from your previous mistakes. Exactly what longtime listeners were hoping for.

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You say mistakes, I say happy accidents. Exactly. Wise works. Welcome back.

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Please don't disappear again unless it's court ordered. Sincerely, Gary in Prince George. Gary. Northern British Columbia. Are they still up to the club? North of Tacoma. Yeah. Way north of Tacoma. Way north of Tacoma. Why?

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Gary, right? It was Gary. Uh thanks for listening. Um, you don't gotta be so mean. We do have feeling. We do have feelings.

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All right. Well, let's skip right along here. Keep this show rolling. We were so efficient last episode. We were uh we were incredibly efficient. Ended up finishing right at the right at the right time, anyway.

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That was exactly what we wanted to do. So because we're pros and we could we could run through things and drag things out if we need to.

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We've been doing this thing for a very long time.

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Now it's been like 18 weeks.

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And really, isn't that the whole point of a dining experience type story? I've never left a restaurant without a story and not enjoyed it. Oh boy.

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Which is uh, what's the segment called? You? Say one! There we go.

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I am excited.

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This is the third installment of this.

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What if you heeded my advice from the last time we played this game?

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So, the first two times, in case you missed it, we focused on uh 1930 slang. And I crushed the first one. He did, four for six. Dot crushed the second one. Point five for six. Awesome. Uh this time I'm taking it out of that era. Oh sh no. And we're throwing it, we're going back.

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We're going back. We're going back even farther?

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We're going back to Victorian era slang.

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Oh, goodness.

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And uh we did uh we did finalize the scoring system now that did we? Well, we did discuss having a uh because there was that half point that was you know it wasn't really official.

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Charity point, so I didn't get a zero.

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So we're doing the full point for a guess without a sentence. Half point if you need the sentence.

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Lovely.

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And if you don't guess it after the sentence, it's no points.

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I like that scoring system a little bit better.

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Because before I think we came to the sentence, it's like, well, you didn't get it.

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Yeah, even though we would get you would give me the sentence and I would still kind of guess. It wasn't just like this is the sentence, this is what it means, now it's over.

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You know, we're refining this on the go because we're a professional operation.

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Absolutely.

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So say what now? Victoria. Victorian era slang. Oh sorry, what's it called? Say what now? There it is. Okay, so I got six for you. Victorian. Victorian era slang.

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The first word giggle mug. Giggle mug. Well, I have two immediate things. I would think one would be like this is something that they put on a person who they don't want to talk anymore as like a punishment. Or it's something that you would drink out of. Going off of like that giggle water thing. Is this a name for a type of person?

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It's something about a person.

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It's just that like is it like a jester's face? He's got that's his giggle mug on. Like you know, he's painted up like a clown face. No, it's not that. Ah, damn it.

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Remember, this is Victorian era slang, so the sentences will be Victorian era sentences. Oh boy. Look at Harold's giggle mug after winning two shillings at cards. Is it just his expression? Yeah, a smiling face. Someone's grinning broadly.

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Ah, so because I was too specific with gesture, just something.

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It's just a smiling puss.

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Damn it.

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Alright, number two. Barking irons.

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Barking irons. Probably has nothing to do with dogs. Or does it? Were dogs a thing in Victorian air? They had dogs.

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You'd be surprised at how far back dogs go.

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Barking irons.

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When dogs came on the scene in the 1970s.

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Uh is this like a like a jail cell door? Uh I got nothing.

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The high woman flashed his barking irons and demanded the purse.

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Oh, it's a pistol. Yeah, fire. Ah.

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So you're at one of two because you got 2.5.

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Whoop whoop! If we stop now, that's 50%, baby.

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Number three, nose bag.

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Nosebag. It's not just a big nose. Oh gosh. Can I have a hint?

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No, you can have a sentence when you're in.

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Dang it! I've got nothing. I've I've expelled my guesses.

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Alright, well here comes a sentence. Let's stop for a nose bag before catching the train.

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Drink? A sniff of the flowers?

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Meal? A meal!

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Ah! I don't even think I should get half on that one.

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That's too many guesses. A meal or food. A meal or food. Funnily enough, there was a variant of nosebag, a person called a nosebagger. And it was described as a day tripper to the seaside who brings their own provisions and thus makes no useful contribution to the local economy. So a picnic. In a sentence, last season was a bad one. Oh, there were plenty of visitors, but they were nearly all nosebaggers. Huh. Going to the seaside resorts and bringing their own damn food, so why it doesn't help all the shops at all? I mean, fair.

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I don't know how those two are like one is not an insult and one is.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

Well, because it has to do with people bringing their own nose bag.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

Oh, I guess.

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Bringing their own food?

SPEAKER_02 16:19

Yeah. Huh. Yeah, I wouldn't have got that. The nose just completely sent me in the wrong direction.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

Uh I mean I'm I'm a little surprised you're not more up on your Victorian-era slang.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

I think I'm a little bit rusty. I'm like Victorian here.

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Uh number four, mutton shunter.

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Mutton shunter. Is this like a sheep shearer? Because I'm just thinking of mutton busting, which is riding sheep. And what is shunting? See, I think I should know what that word means. Is this like a mutton shunter? It's a shunter. It's a person. Is it like a butcher? Is it something to do with sheep? Is this uh is this a term for a farmer? Am I anywhere close? Nope. Oh my goodness. So is this like a city job? Right, yes. Is it like uh would it be like a like someone who like a seamstress?

SPEAKER_01 17:07

Well, I think just give me the sentence. The mutton shunter rounded the corner just as the thieves had fled. It's cop? Yes. What?

SPEAKER_02 17:17

How the hell is that?

SPEAKER_01 17:20

Oh yes. It's just cop. It's policemen because they were would always be shunting people away on the train cars and whatnot and kind of keeping people moving. Why, why, why do they got just add words that have nothing to do with the word? And so like the muttons in there because they were hurting people like you would sheep.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

So I guess that's where you're it was derived from, but not uh again. It's funny, it's funny because with the uh the 1930s versions, every one of them, I'm like, oh, I want to use this. I don't want to use any of these. I don't want to I don't want to hear these words again. I don't want to hear these again. The only time I want to hear these words again is in the clip show at the end of the season. This one, this this next one's pretty good. Number five is pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

Oh boy. I'm still at one, I'm one for five now.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

Yeah. Donkey's breakfast.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

Well, I guess I got that one with a sentence. I'm one and a half or five. Yes. A donkey's breakfast?

SPEAKER_01 18:08

Donkey's breakfast.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Oh, like I've heard this term. See, now I feel stupid that I don't immediately know it. And that's your right to feel that way. Because this is like, I mean, unless the people I know use it incorrectly, which wouldn't shock me.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

It's possible.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

A donkey's breakfast. Uh does it actually have to do with food?

SPEAKER_01 18:26

It has nothing to do with food.

SPEAKER_02 18:27

Okay. So the people I know use it very differently.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

I actually quite like this.

SPEAKER_02 18:31

Is it just like you feel like ass? Like you just feel bad. You're hungover.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

This is probably the the the best phrase of the six as far as usability in uh I mean I've definitely heard I I've heard I've actually heard that one, a donkey's breakfast.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Uh but I've I just my brain's stuck on it being some sort of food.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

Keep mouthing off and you'll earn yourself a donkey's breakfast.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

See, I don't know if that helped. Is it like a punch or a kick? Like a fight? A beating, a thrashing. Like again, like And what a terrible breakfast that is. Terrible breakfast, but like that's a bad person if a donkey's breakfast is just waking up and then getting beat by the farmer.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

Right? Yeah, so uh yeah, keep mouthing off, you'll earn yourself a donkey's breakfast. So yeah, it's just a beating. Giving someone a beaten.

SPEAKER_02 19:11

Now that I think of it.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

So did you get a half on that?

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Well, yeah, I got fight.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Sure. Yeah. Beating. So you're you're like two.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

Two out of five. I'm two, which is, I mean, at this point I think this is what I can expect.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

And here's where it all uh This is where I go for either 50% or fail. Number six, butter upon bacon.

SPEAKER_02 19:29

Butter upon bacon. Well, there's almost 0% chance I get this correctly. See, my I weirdly enough, my initial thought would be like you're bribing a police officer. No. Because it's the last one, can I get a little hint without the sentence? Nope. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 19:43

Can't bend the rules. What are you? NHL officials? Oh, hey oh! Hey oh, not a sports show.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Not a sports show, but but that was pretty atrocious.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

The the officiating in the sporting events. Oh my goodness. It was bad. Like they earned themselves a donkey's breakfast. Oh, at least one. Like. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

You work yourself into a corner not calling things, and then you miss these obvious ones, and then you can't call them because you're making up. Ugh, what a joke.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

They don't miss them. They just make the defense. They see them and choose not to call them. They make the decision to not call them. God suck. What we're dealing with here is butter upon bacon.

SPEAKER_02 20:19

Butter upon bacon. Is it like a naughty term?

SPEAKER_01 20:22

No.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

That's not as fun. I've got nothing. Like I've literally got no guess other than what I said.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Alright. Well, here's the sentence. Hiring a brass band for a garden picnic seems like butter upon bacon, if you ask me.

SPEAKER_02 20:35

Like unnecessarily? Unnecessarily.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Excessive luxury, overdoing things more than is necessary.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

Bacon's, you don't need to put butter on bacon. So that's the only one that actually just like makes sense. It makes sense. Honestly, that one of all the ones did not like that's the one I would probably use.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Because it makes sense. It does make sense.

SPEAKER_02 20:55

Like, ah, you don't need to butter the bacon. You could change it around a little bit. That's too much. You don't need to butter the bacon. You've already got the bacon. Why butter?

SPEAKER_01 21:02

Hiring a brass band for the garden picnic seems like butter upon bacon, if you ask me. Huh. A little a little excessive. It it is. As butter would be on bacon.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

It would definitely actually, that does very much make way more sense than mutton shunter. Mutton shunter. Like that one just sounds like you're insulting someone's heritage. Wow. Butter upon bacon. That's just like, you know, I can see the logic there. Wow. So I don't pass.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

Alright. Well, that's fine.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

But that's better than last time, I think, and the scoring system makes a little more sense.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

I don't know where we'll go with the next one.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

I honestly uh I think we keep going back till we get to just like caveman grunts.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

Oh my goodness. I wouldn't mind uh staying. Maybe do one more trip into Victorian era. I don't know. It's a little hoity. It's something. It's a little toity, a little hoity. Anyways, we got uh we got how is the movie? I am excited too. I was assigned a movie. To watch last week. You were.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

Captain Phillips, a 2011 film based upon the true story of the 2009 piracy act of the Marisk, Alabama.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

I'd never even heard of this movie. Really? Yeah. Never even.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

Well, you heard of Tom Hanks.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

I'm familiar. I loved him in Bosom Buddies. You would have. I'm sure you did. It was good. Splash.

SPEAKER_02 22:23

With Darryl Hannah? Yeah, these are not the names of the movies I would. Actually, these are the names of the movies I would expect you to name. There we go. From an actor. But I think you're probably the only person who the first two movies, after hearing someone's name, would be Bosom Buddies and Splash for Tom Hanks. You have to be the only person who's ever said those.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Didn't you do that movie with Henry Winkler where they ran that brothel?

SPEAKER_02 22:44

That I can't answer.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

No, that was Michael Keaton and Fonzie. They ran a brothel out of a morgue. Yikes! Anyways. That's a premise. What a time to be alive. Anyways, we're not talking about this movie.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

So this movie is a morgue brothel movie.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

Captain Phillips, your review. Did you like it?

SPEAKER_01 23:01

You know what I did? It was a very good movie. I thought so. Ken, this is this is a whole new thing. Me exploring this era of film that I didn't know existed.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

This era of film in 2011.

SPEAKER_01 23:11

2010 to 20s, right? I've got my nose here. What worked? The tension never lets up. See, and that was It was a very tense movie.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

It was. And that was on like done by design by the director, who the actors playing the crew and the actors playing the pirates didn't meet until they started filming. So that there was that immediately like awkward tension built in. They didn't have you know weeks of reading scripts to become friends. They were like, no, I just meeting you as you have a gun in my face in my bridge.

SPEAKER_01 23:43

It was very well done. I said the movie does a great job of making simple situations feel terrifying. Once the pirates appear, every decision feels consequential. There aren't many action scenes by modern blockbuster standards, but the suspense is relentless, which is fine for me. I mean, I put that in there because I'm not a big fan of modern blockbuster action things.

SPEAKER_02 24:01

And this wasn't a big shoot-em up movie.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

So it was it was a little bit of gunfire, but it almost had an uh more of a more of a 70s feel to it, the way it flowed. Right. Which I liked. I appreciated. You're welcome. Nothing feels over Hollywoodized. The ships look like ships, working ships, the crews look like actual crews. And this this was I found this an interesting note I had to put in. The military personnel feel like professionals, professionals rather than action heroes at show on scene. Right. It just seemed like a very efficient there was no machismo, no, you know, chest thumping. Yeah. It was just do a job, boom, done the job.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

And so when you said there that the ships looked like ships, the the ship they used, it was a legitimate cargo ship, but they had used it for seven, eight weeks or whatever. Uh, and it was uh the sister ship of the Marisk Alabama. So it had the exact same layout, and in one scene, actually, it's nighttime, and you can see a reflection, it actually has the wrong name on the back. Oh. Because it's a sister ship and they didn't catch it. Um, but yeah, so it was a full, it was a legitimate cargo ship, the same kind of layout.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

Well, and just everything it all it it had a realism about it.

SPEAKER_02 25:06

The only thing that was different was when the crew goes down to like behind the engine, yeah. That was fabricated for the movie. They actually had like a reinforced safe room in that room that they all hid in. But that would be kind of lame.

SPEAKER_01 25:21

I did uh because I was a little suspicious, well not suspicious, but apprehensive of the pirate taking over the thing. I thought, oh, it's gonna be like speed but on a ship. So speed too. Right. But it wasn't, it was tense, stressful, and uncomfortable, which I I found very entertaining. But it was good, it was well done. A couple notes I have here. Best line in the movie I'm the captain now.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

Ad-libbed. That was pretty fantastic. That was ad-libbed, and that was one of my notes that that line, which is probably like that has become the most famous line from that movie.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

That's the first time I've heard it, so I've heard it once. Really? I I that's the only time.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Oh wow, that's something that like Well, if I'd never seen the movie, how would I hear that line? Well, I guess you would have heard the line not knowing it's from the movie, so fair. Uh but yeah, ad-libbed.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

The pirates certainly not a handsome bunch.

SPEAKER_02 26:11

That was on my notes. They very much are not. Um one of them's still alive, but I'll get to that later.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

And I did note, well, I stopped counting after I put I was number of times Tom Hanks looked concerned, and I stopped after 4,651.

SPEAKER_02 26:26

And that was just the first 12 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 26:28

Yeah, I realized, you know, this is a fool's errand keeping track of this. It was it was a really good movie. And actually the uh the the pirates were uh yeah, no, they were they were good.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

They seemed they fit the role very well. They seemed sad and desperate and everything not uh Which craziest part too is all of those pirates would have been between 16 and 20 years old.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

They were terribly underfed.

SPEAKER_02 26:54

Well, uh that's that region of the world for you.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

I also I also did uh note that Somali pirates may have succeeded tactically, but they failed catastrophically in the costume department. Put those guys in tricone hats and maybe were a little more sympathetic to their flight.

SPEAKER_02 27:09

Uh speaking of you.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

Like they don't understand the importance of pageantry that is a rich pirate tradition.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

And it's funny you say that because this fact that I discovered whilst doing my own research on this film, that when they boarded the Marisk, Alabama, that was the first time in over 200 years that uh a fl uh ship sailing under the flag of the US actually was boarded by pirates. Oh, really? And thinking 200 years ago, that's when pirates had pageantry. Yes. They would have been wearing eye patches and hats.

SPEAKER_01 27:39

Well, as I've noted here also, I'm not condoning piracy, but I'm saying that a billowing shirt and eye patch on a cutlass would have done wonder for their PR.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

I think it would have been helpful.

SPEAKER_01 27:48

Because these guys just seem like I mean, they're just sad and desperate, and I mean, just a puffy shirt would just like, oh, look at these swashbuckling lads. Right? They're doing the same thing, just not as stylishly. Not AKs and ripped pants.

SPEAKER_02 28:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:02

Yeah, I mean maybe. I'm still amazed if those guys can get on one of those ships with just ramshackle. Like just a la like a shitty put-together ladder. And that's like that's the case. With the hoses coming down and stuff, and but I guess there's no armed guards on the ship?

SPEAKER_02 28:15

Nope. Because there's a whole thing about the training and the legality of that stuff. Even though it's international waters and all that, it just gets sketchy if they're not like paid professionals.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

They're just merchant marines.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

But the speaking of that, like the them actually being able to board, you they get past that what you get past the water cannon and then you're fine. Because the cannons only go. They only shoot so out. Yeah. Where, you know, more often than not, that cannon will topsize uh capsule skiffs. But I like I I I've this is one of those movies that if it's on TV, I'll watch it.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

I don't know. I I I I've never come across it in my life. Really?

SPEAKER_02 28:49

That's incredible.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

When you told me the movie, I said I not only did I said I'd never seen it, but I'd never heard of it. Heard of it. I didn't know just like Flight. I didn't know it was a movie that existed. I just like tune out this whole world.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

Ah, it's uh no, there's a two at the start of that year. I'm just living in a bubble here. I get I thoroughly enjoyed it. Obviously, looking into like the real story of it, there's some some played up things to you know make Captain Phillips seem like the hero in the in the grand scheme of things, where he was actually sued by eleven crew members after this whole ordeal. Oh, geez. Because they were they didn't just get boarded, they were they were told specifically to be at least six hundred miles from the coast, where these little skiffs and these fishing boats that these pirates will have in their possession cannot get out there to the actual open water. So they were in too close. So in order to try to save the company time and money, he was about 250 miles from shore when this would have occurred.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

So put himself in arm's way.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

And you know, they were the the risk the risk of piracy in that region at the time was at an all-time high.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

Is it still a thing now?

SPEAKER_02 30:03

Well, the risk of piracy in certain areas of the world is definitely still a thing.

SPEAKER_01 30:06

Um I didn't uh do any research on that, but I found a very interesting tale.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

Yeah, it's uh it's definitely still a thing, but uh you don't really hear of of stuff like this because I think a lot a lot more boats too going in certain areas will have hired uh hired guns.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

Not just weapons on board for the crew guys, because they're exactly like they'll have actually a security team.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

Ex-military security teams with automatic weapons and rocket launchers and stuff. No, that makes sense. Uh the other another thing that I when I was looking up this stuff, talking about how there was things that they changed a bit, but then also some of the realism stuff. The the the last part, like when he's in the escape boat.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

The extremely claustrophobic lifeboat.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

Yeah. So when he's in the lifeboat and like he dives off the platform at one time to try to swim away, that did happen.

SPEAKER_01 30:54

That seemed like a trip for biscuits.

SPEAKER_02 30:55

Right? Oh, big time. Like literally like 400 meters away. How are you swimming to that? Yeah, anyways. Definitely a trip for biscuits there. If you don't know what that means, that was I think Go back and watch past episodes. The first Say What Now? Or the second Say What No?

SPEAKER_01 31:09

I think it was the first one.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

Anyways, it's from uh an uh segment of Say What Now from previous episodes. But when the snipers that take out the three pirates, that is how it happened.

SPEAKER_01 31:19

Well, they're pretty efficient. And uh because that whole thing was like Well, once they actually got there. Split second and they were all dead.

SPEAKER_02 31:25

Yeah. Uh and so they killed three of them. And the fourth one that with ARC captured him on the boat. He is serving a life sentence in the city.

SPEAKER_01 31:35

Well, I read that because the end. And I'm thinking when I read that little bit, I thought, that's probably a better life than he was having in Somalia. Probably, because he he got a GED in 2016. There you go.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

And uh he's in Maryland in a federal prison. He's having a better life than living in the Well, he's also not dead like his buddies.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

Right. He probably weighs more now than he did going in. He's actually eating three meals a day. And actually I found it interesting how the movie ended, this would be the I think the last bit on this, is that it didn't end with the rescue, you know, in a big, again, big Hollywood kind of flashbang. Yeah. It ended with the extreme trauma in the medical room. And that was that was powerful.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

I thought that was I'm very glad you brought this up. That was well done. Because that the woman giving him like asking the questions and stuff, she is she was active. She may not have been active at the time, but she was military. Like that's an actual trauma medic. Because she seemed really good. They hadn't met, they hadn't told him the questions. So they again went in like the pirate, like the actors not meeting each other before the piracy happens.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

That's very well done, and I thought that was a powerful way to end the movie. Yeah. Instead of the big heroic rescue and a big rah-rah and fire. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 32:46

It was just because it was just the actual trauma of you of what just happened, all sinking in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:51

Yeah. Even though you know you're safe. When I first saw Toy Story, I never would have thought that Woody would have that kind of range. I mean, fair.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

You never you're it goes from there's a snake in my boot. There's a snake in my boot to there's a AK in my mouth. Oh my goodness. But yeah, great film. Yeah, great film. If you guys haven't watched it, give it a what give it a watch.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

You know what I find interesting here looking at this segment is that uh again, apart from one. Which was honestly it was uh Meet the Parents. Yeah. Uh you've done very well in uh actually it And honestly, the only one that I didn't like was which one was that?

SPEAKER_02 33:28

That was one that was like Odds Against Tomorrow? Yeah, the bottom of the list.

SPEAKER_01 33:32

But it's interesting because I was you know a little tr had a little bit of trepidation because I don't like to watch things from the uh 21st century. Or is it 20? I don't know. Anyways, you don't like anything that starts with the centuries that checks out when you've been running this long. I uh you've done uh kudos to you for assigning me movies, contemporary movies that are actually really good and not just ha ha screw you, TubeSocks, watch this piece of crap.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Right, like I got and honestly, the the first one with Pitch Perfect was kind of a ha ha ha screw you, but that was more of a joke for some of our friends as we were talking about entertaining. And you didn't hate it. It was actually fun. You might not watch Pitch Perfect 2, but you didn't hate that hour and a half that you had to watch that movie.

SPEAKER_01 34:08

And on that note, I've uh I'm assigning this man a movie.

SPEAKER_02 34:11

I'm excited to see what's next because the last one was that low budget, you know, detour, which I think entertaining turned out to be probably one of my favorite ones.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

It's a it's an interesting uh flick. Okay, we're going back to we're going to 1968. Okay, good, good. So a lot of these, you know, I've got I've already got the list of the movies that you need to watch.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

Well, you have a list of movies I need to watch if we do this show for the next fourteen hundred years.

SPEAKER_01 34:37

We could just hone in on the nineteen thirties and that would sustain us for at least three to four years of season. But uh okay, so 1968. Okay. Bullet. Bullet. Have you seen Bullet with Steve McQueen? No.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

But has there been current remakes of this? Like, was there a new newer remake? At some point, maybe late 90s or early 2000s. The name just sounds familiar. The name Bullet, and maybe that's because of it's a Steve McQueen movie, and like I know.

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Have you seen any Steve McQueen movies? I think so. Okay. Like I his name I mean, he's a cool guy. His name rings a bell. And he in the movie drives the iconic forest green mustang.

SPEAKER_02 35:15

Yeah, he's a car guy. Like he's usually in like car movies or like he drives in movies.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

So in this so in Bullet, he's sorry, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughan, and Jacqueline Bissett. Is it in color? It is in color. It's 1968. Yes. Uh, one of the best films of 1968, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.

unknown 35:32

Damn.

SPEAKER_02 35:33

I think uh Kevin Phillips had 93%.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

There you go. So the uh here's your little synopsis. Frank Bullitt, San Francisco police lieutenant, assigned to protect a mob informant who's to testify against organized crime, and he's gunned down under mysterious, suspicious circumstances. Bullitt begins to suspect the official story doesn't add up. So he looks into it.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

Okay. I I I really do believe they made this movie again. They may have.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Similar to the taking of Pelham. In the mid-2000s, they did come out with Ford did put out a a new Bullet edition Mustang that was in the Forest Green and was kind of a tribute to that movie. And also it's a stripped down crime thriller built almost entirely around mood restraint and one extremely famous car chase. So this is known as like maybe like the best, like the car chase of all car chases. Okay. And Steve McQueen did most of the driving in it himself. Really? As he was a race car driving enthusiast.

SPEAKER_00 36:31

Shit, okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

So it's super cool, and it's one of those movies. You know, I like the movies that there's not a lot going on dialogue-wise.

SPEAKER_02 36:39

Yeah, it's just like stuff happening.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

It's just it's a cool Okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:42

I'm no, I'm looking forward to this because I've I I know I've heard that name before. Bullet.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

It is on Prime. It may be a rental.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

Ah, you son of a bitch.

SPEAKER_01 36:51

But uh again, a handful of these movies I keep checking to see because they rotate through being available then all sure. And none of the ones so I I hate you with this one.

SPEAKER_02 37:00

Well, if it's on there, whatever, if it's the whatever, $4 to $40.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

Or sometimes it's the old uh MGM free trial for seven days. Yeah, there we go. Because that's what I had to do for uh Kevin Phillips. Really? It was on prime, but it said oh MGM, so I go seven-day trial. Oh shit. Okay, sure. So I signed up for the trial and then canceled it.

unknown 37:17

Weird.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

But anyway, so yes, it is on Prime. Okay. Either rental or free trial. Okay. But yeah, it's it's it's a movie you should watch. And well, because Will Queen's cool and the car chase is amazing.

SPEAKER_02 37:29

But I know this car chase once it starts out, like what I I've seen.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

I don't think so, but again, it's one of those movies that influence so much after it. Right. Just because it's just it was a groundbreaking kind of film. Yeah, it's just gritty and cool. Very good movie. I will again watch it this week because I like to watch these again myself to freshen up.

SPEAKER_02 37:47

Sure. I look forward to it. That's the nice part about the our schedule for filming. It's a nice Sunday afternoon type of uh I watch your movie on Sunday. It's a nice Sunday afternoon type of event, especially if it's a little, you know, rainy or something.

SPEAKER_01 38:01

Alright, well let's move over to the mailbag. We got one more letter each before we uh move on to the next bit. Okay, what do you got, you gentlemen? That's all it says. That's us.

SPEAKER_02 38:13

That's I attempted to listen to your first clip show while driving to Calgary.

SPEAKER_01 38:18

Listening to the clip show, that's rough.

SPEAKER_02 38:20

Uh yeah, like the clip show was great, but it was more of a visual.

SPEAKER_01 38:22

They're fun to watch, but they were not edited with the granted.

SPEAKER_02 38:25

I think the first one the first one, having watched the clip show, I then listened to the clip show. I think I laughed just as hard. If you get it, if you know, you know, you know?

SPEAKER_01 38:36

And go back and judge for yourselves.

SPEAKER_02 38:38

Yeah, do it, please. Especially that second one. Get some views up on that. I attempted to listen to your first clip show while driving to Calgary. Unfortunately, I had never heard your podcast before. Tough to go into the clip show. That's tough. That's a tough assignment. The second clip show made more sense, mostly because by then I had accepted that confusion was part of the experience, which I do believe to some level it is. It is, it was intentional. I eventually listened to the regular episodes and enjoyed them to a degree. To a degree? Just to a degree.

SPEAKER_01 39:10

That's fine.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

You know. However, introducing new listeners with a compilation episode is a bold strategy. Respectfully bewildered, Dennis from Richmond.

SPEAKER_01 39:21

Well, here's the thing, Dennis, is we didn't have to leave that to you. Oh we didn't say here. Here, you don't know who we are.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

Bang, clip show.

SPEAKER_01 39:32

Yeah, no, you chose to uh dive in at that point. There's many other points you could have dove into, so.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

And you still watched another one and you wrote us. So you say bold strategy.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

I say Looks like it worked. Looks like it was a bold strategy.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

It worked. Thanks, Dennis from Richmond. What are you doing in Calgary?

SPEAKER_01 39:53

Yeah, it's all weird. Weirdo. But thank you for yes, thanks. Thank you. Stick around. Yeah. Okay. Watch a real episode. Last letter of this episode, dear big you can tube socks. Hey! That's us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:06

We're closer to friendship, folks. That's a good thing. Just a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 40:10

I often hear you mention that listeners might see you out and about around town, and I was wondering if you could be a little more specific.

SPEAKER_02 40:17

Oot in a boot, sunny downtown. I don't know what you need more than that.

SPEAKER_01 40:20

An approximate schedule would be helpful. Nothing too detailed, just things like Blunderworks, address, expected departure times, preferred routes, that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_02 40:28

Is this that Kyle guy from early in season one who wanted us to go for a beer but didn't want to drink with us? He just wanted to watch us. It's not Kyle.

SPEAKER_01 40:35

I realize that sounds strange written down. Yeah, it does. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 40:39

Extremely strange.

SPEAKER_01 40:40

What I actually mean is that I'd love an opportunity to meet my favorite podcast hosts in person. Huh. Totally normal fan stuff. Maybe shake hands, exchange pleasantries, quietly observe from an acceptable distance.

SPEAKER_02 40:50

It is this guy, isn't it? And I had his name wrong.

SPEAKER_01 40:52

Anyway, keep up the great work. The show continues to improve, making my collection of photographs increasingly valuable. I beg your pardon. Your biggest fan, Trevor. Trevor! Brackets from nearby. Trevor! It was Trevor, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_02 41:06

It was Trevor, not Kyle. He son of a bitch. Frickin' Trevor? I don't know about this, Trevor. You know what we say last time? You you didn't want to make it weird, and then you immediately made it weird. Photo? And what was Trevor from nearby? I beg your pardon.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

I'm not a fan.

SPEAKER_02 41:24

Ugh. And I'm gonna drive with my windows up, doors locked, home again. God damn it. I don't like doing that. Ugh. Well, I mean, thanks for the letter, but like Yeah, thanks for tuning in, but let's leave it.

SPEAKER_01 41:37

Let's leave it at tuning in.

SPEAKER_02 41:38

Yeah. Notice how we didn't respond to actually wanting to have a beer with you last time.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

Alright, well, let's uh freak. Let's get into the liner for our last big bang here of this uh.

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Yes. Go sports. Alright, well, that brings us into three things that can kick rocks.

SPEAKER_02 43:31

Oh, my favorite segment.

SPEAKER_01 43:33

As uh, you know, she she's gaining a lot of traction on the socials. People were fired up about the last one, not gonna lie. Oh my goodness, they were.

SPEAKER_02 43:40

Well, I think the last one also leads into potential next outings of some things happening that are callbacks, and I'm very looking forward to that. Okay. Living the dream.

SPEAKER_01 43:50

Jesus. Three things that can kick rocks this week. Camping. Nope, it's I'm I gotta I'm gonna I gotta go.

SPEAKER_02 43:59

What are you?

SPEAKER_01 44:01

I could do without it. Whatever. I don't love it.

SPEAKER_02 44:05

There's something about a tent that, like, in the moment is great. And then you wake up the next day and you can't move because your back hurts.

SPEAKER_01 44:12

But So kick rocks and camping.

SPEAKER_02 44:16

Clamping's better anyways.

SPEAKER_01 44:17

Number two. Rear window car memorials. I don't need to see that.

SPEAKER_02 44:23

Put out your front window where I can't see it.

SPEAKER_01 44:25

I don't need to look at that in traffic.

SPEAKER_02 44:27

I think just like stickers on cars in general are kind of meh. Unless it's a uh WS sticker. Available at our next outing.

SPEAKER_01 44:35

Watch when you see the WS cruiser out and about in your neighborhood. We're getting one of those.

SPEAKER_02 44:39

But it's also not on the rear window, so it's on the side.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

And the third thing, sushi.

SPEAKER_02 44:44

You know, I think this is a very hot button. People either love it or hate it.

SPEAKER_01 44:49

I'm uh I'm in the hate category. So why? Like, why do you hate sushi? Well, I don't like fish for one thing. Well, that's so serving it raw doesn't really improve it.

SPEAKER_02 44:59

And you're probably not a fan of just, you know, rice and cucumber roll up together.

SPEAKER_01 45:03

Rice and cucumber are fine. Well, that's sushi.

SPEAKER_02 45:06

Sushi doesn't have to have fish.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

You can get sushi without fish. There's just better ways to eat? What about like shrimp? Better ways to eat?

SPEAKER_02 45:16

No one needs to eat shrimp. Tempura shrimp? You're telling me there's a better way to eat shrimp than tempura shrimp? That's not sushi. That's part of the sushi family? That's tempura shrimp. That's cooked. That's part of it. It's part of the sushi family. As long as I'm concerned. As far as I'm concerned.

SPEAKER_01 45:31

I stand by my words. As usual.

SPEAKER_02 45:34

Put that on a bumper sticker, a yard sign. I stand by my words. Hashtag live in the dream.

SPEAKER_01 45:39

Alright, well, let's wrap things up here.

SPEAKER_02 45:41

Yeah, we I mean, I I don't know why. We should start doing that that segment first just to see what happens after the anger.

unknown 45:50

Gosh.

SPEAKER_02 45:52

Well, how'd you think the show went? Honestly, really good. I'm very excited. Uh I I can tell I'm feeling better because, you know, we uh we uh stretched this one out a little bit. Last episode I wanted to say as few words as I could and then leave. And this one was a little more joyful and cheery, I think. There we go. How about you? What'd you think?

SPEAKER_01 46:11

Yeah, no good. Better than uh a little more flow than last week on account of back into the groove. Back into the groove, you're feeling better, I'm feeling that off you, you know. It's all good.

SPEAKER_02 46:20

I agree. Edgar was respectful today.

SPEAKER_01 46:24

So uh make sure you like, comment, and subscribe. That's very important that we say that. Because it's important that you I wish we didn't have to say that, but that's what you have to do on these things. Well, no, you guys aren't doing it enough, so we've got to keep reminding you. And of course, if you want to get, you know, your letters read, you can drop us a line at biguke.tubesocks at gmail.com. Hit us up. Hit us up. Um what do you listen to in the drive home today? Well, I now that you're feeling better.

SPEAKER_02 46:51

Similar to the last time, freaking weirdo Trevor. Nothing. I'm gonna be paying attention to my surroundings, no extra audio. Uh, because I'm scared. You've ruined my drive home twice now, Trevor. Back off.

SPEAKER_01 47:07

You I don't fear Trevor like you do.

SPEAKER_02 47:10

I'm scared.

SPEAKER_01 47:11

Uh last week, of course, because the sun was shining, I was listening to some uh fine 70s bubblegum music. Bubble gum. This week I'm just going straight into Motorhead. Motorhead! Um, specifically my playlist, Everything Louder Than Everything Else, which covers 1977. Great playlist 2016. On my uh I'll put the link to my Spotify playlist in the description. So check it out. It's good times. Motor spanning. Right up to the very end. This this guy. Oh my goodness. So tune in next week, please. Where can we find the show?

SPEAKER_02 47:45

You where can the good folks tune in if they're well YouTube for the premiere, the live, uh Spotify, video and audio, Apple Music, uh iHeart, Deezer.

SPEAKER_01 47:58

Those are the two most popular ones that we've got.

SPEAKER_02 48:00

Deezer and still haven't gotten all. Oh, no, not Deezer. Uh Apple Music and Spotify. Amazon. This is wherever you can get your podcast. Anywhere we can find us. Also, Saturday afternoon at uh around 2.30. Uh on the EST audio platforms. Uh they they run a replay of our show as we are a friend of EST. So you can get us there too. Uh their website has uh a link to our stuff as well. Um yeah, make sure you're here next week. It's a lot of fun, I think, every time. So why not work? We're having fun. It's it you have to work harder to avoid us than not. Exactly. So you might as well just dive on in.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

Fresh episode every Thursday at 6 30. And you can catch up anytime.

SPEAKER_02 48:42

And there's some good ones to catch up on. Absolutely. It's perfect background noise when you're doing your stuff.

SPEAKER_01 48:47

All right. Well, yeah. I guess there's nothing else to say except plays out arrow.

SPEAKER_03 49:01

Hey, hey, hey, those two hip cats now something to say. What's it really good?