Hollywood Handbook - Ben Cahn and Emil DeRosa, Our Business Friends

Episode Date: November 26, 2024

The Boys get some stock advice from BEN CAHN AND EMIL DEROSA of The Ben and Emil Show. Get a Hat Pack Hat here!Watch the video of today’s episode at Patreon.com/HollywoodHandbook Like the show? Rate Hollywood Handbook 5-Stars on Apple PodcastsAdvertise on Hollywood Handbook via Gumball.fm See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. So it's just crazy to me that like, so this is normal, right? You're about to get married. You and like all the boys get together. All totally normal. Everything you've said so far is completely normal. So this is considered normal. You're about to get married, you're making a commitment to one woman

for the rest of your life, you and all the boys get together, you're gonna go down to San Diego, one last hurrah, go sniff some scrooch or whatever. To me it's- Some what? Scrooch. It's always like- No, it is. It's always like, oh.

Scroo is gonna be nose deep in some scrunch. To me disgusting's always, it's always like, aww. Screwed gonna be nose deep in some scrunch. To me disgusting. But I say, well people can just like, I don't judge, people can do what they do. But it's normal. You didn't say you do it, what you said is this is considered normal. Normal.

By polite society, right? Some of our most esteemed public figures, right before they were about to commit their lives to one woman forever, right? They took a trip to San Diego. To go for it. Go scrooch hunting on the frigging Scrooch Fest all weekend and that is considered to be totally fine.

But, when you make a personal commitment to only have one soda for the rest of your life, and you tell your partner that you are going on a trip. To San Diego. To San Diego to go drink every soda in the world for one last raw. Gallons and gallons of other soda. When in Rome, you know, yeah.

Well, the soda's gonna make you saly already. Yes. Now, suddenly there's all these questions. Why do you have to go on a trip to do this? Why, why are you only gonna drink one soda forever? Which soda? That is the one that gets me, it's like, so when I committed to you for the rest of my life,

that made sense and now that I wanna commit to one soda, you have all these questions, like it doesn't make sense. It's like, what the fuck are we doing here? It's like she would rather me go to San Diego on like a traditional bachelor party and just, a meal. What is Scrooge? Scrooge or Scrooge? Scrooge?

Ah, there's a lot of names for it. Fuck if I know. Yeah. There's all that, it's always different names. Oh, okay. Yeah. People call it Scrooge. This is just like, I should know.

Scrooge is friendlier to me. Yeah, Scrooge is a good, I mean that's the current term people are using, but you know, if you don't like the term wait five minutes because they come up with a new word for this stuff all the time. So, I mean, I don't know. But now it's like, it's become a scheduling fucking nightmare

anyway when I'm gonna actually get away to just go on this trip. Just have soda. It's not fun for me anymore. Well, and that is the thing that your partner will do, is they'll just suck the fun out of what was supposed to be kind of a nice, innocent soda weekend with the boys. Do you know what soda I chose? Oh, I don't actually. Cream soda?

I chose IBC cream soda. It's a great juice. You know why? How did you know? Because it's the sweetest there is. Because I take one sip and IBC the devil. Amen, bro. One tiny sip, IBC the devil, begin to dance. What happens after two sips?

One sip, I'm gone, baby. Yeah? Oh, it lights out. I'm like, I wake up, I'm wading into the ocean. So then you don't even need any of that other soda. You don't need to get it. That's what the commitment is about. Oh, so you're ready to take the next step with it.

Yes! You've fallen deeply in love with this one soda, IBC cream soda. That's what I said to her! You BC the devil when you drink that. IBC the devil. Mm-hmm. One sip.

But so you did make it down to San Diego. No, it's a different ocean. Oh, okay. So I was confused too. I was like, is this San Diego? Just, it feels the same on my area. It feels the same on my area Because that's how far that's how far I've like waited in sure I kind of like wait into my area I'm like, oh as soon as you get area deep. Yes

That part like yeah, that's different the area. It's different When the ocean gets on your area When once you hit that point where the ocean's touching your area, it's pretty- It's a whole other ball game, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. You're like, the whole time you've been like, I got this.

This could be all good. I don't know what everyone is, I don't know why- What's the big deal? What everyone's warning me about. You ever go in no suit? Why was everyone go in no suit, just area right on ocean, ocean right on area? Suitless. I've been, just to get over with, I go area first now. I have a way I could do it.

Before the Smart List podcast, we had a podcast called Suitless that was just about us putting our area in the ocean. called Suitless that was just about us putting our area in the ocean. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it.

That's it. That's it. That's it. It's Ben and Emil. It was just as good. It was just as good as with those guys too. It's Ben. No disrespect to them.

And Emil. Disrespecting you, Ben and Emil. From Ben and Emil Show. From Ben and Emil Show. They're here. These guys are on YouTube. We're on YouTube. They're on it.

They put that shit on. Yeah. Tens of views. No, we're the number one podcast. We are the number one, yeah. Right now. We did discuss. You don't take that for granted, not one bit.

No. No. But what did you discuss? Remember how you got here. What did we discuss? Oh, we discussed. Don't tell them what we discussed. Don't tell them what we discussed. Don't tell them anything.

Well, no, but it's okay here. Okay. We discussed owning the fact that we are the number one. Because they'll come for you. Yeah. Well, and we're just- The arrows start flying. They can try.

Pull! We're too humble by nature and we think that it maybe does us a disservice, but we are, but they got you. Got you to number one podcast on YouTube. So maybe we stay humble at the top. And that's the marketplace of ideas. Isn't it?

That's the bizarre. That's what we call it. Everyone's in there hawking their wares. It's true. Sir. It's the old, it's the old public square. Feel these fine fabrics. My ideas. I. It's the old public square, yes? Feel these fine fabrics. My idea is I come out of the bazaar, what am I gonna do with all these fucking fabrics?

That's when people ask us what our show is like, we say, you ever been to Istanbul? Mm-hmm. Well, now it's Constantinople. Mm-hmm. Oh, but then it was- It's Constantinople again. Yeah.

You ever been to Constantinople? It both has Stan in it. That's true. Stan culture, that's what they're talking about. It is Constantinople again. You ever been to Constantinople? It both has Stan in it. Stan culture, that's what they're talking about. It is exhausting though, being in the world of YouTube. You have to worry about thumbnails, you gotta worry about.

These thumbnails. Descriptions and titles. People being mean to you in the comments. People being so mean. My biggest worry. The comments, actually. People are very mean, people are very particular, people have very strong opinions.

I'll tell you what, they let you get away with nothing. Truly. Either I'm interrupting him too much, or he's interrupting me too much, or he's too quiet, or I'm too loud, or any combination. Let me cut you off. Let me cut you off. Okay.

Shout out, man. Yeah, no, you're right. Or they're telling us that we're mad at each other, even though I don't feel like I'm mad at my dear friend Ben. It's a strange world. But they're holding you that we're mad at each other, even though I don't feel like I'm mad at my dear friend Ben. It's a strange world. But they're holding you accountable. That's true. I mean, what I hear now is like,

there's sort of an attitude, right, of like, I wanna do whatever I want, and I don't care who it hurts, I don't care who feels like I'm interrupting someone. Yes, this is what I'm hearing from you. It's just like, oh, I just wanna do whatever I want, and I wanna be the number one podcast, and no one holds me accountable.

I don't think that's a healthy attitude. It's good to have a mirror held up to us. Yes. And you're saying we need an attitude adjustment. Well, I wouldn't mind hearing you say like, the hurtful comments are actually very good. Because they hold us accountable. Well, it's constructive, yes, you say like, the hurtful comments are actually very good. And it's that's-

Because they hold us accountable. Well, it's constructive, yes, because it does make you stop interrupting. And then the other guy will interrupt. Maybe we should work on that right now. You know what I mean? Just shutting the fuck up. You just interrupt him.

I know, I can't. Maybe we do have a problem. You probably do, but I certainly don't. I don't have any kind of issues with my performance on the show. But the audience does. The audience, yeah. You do ads?

We do ads, we do ads. Professionally, really well. Really well. Yeah. And they know the guy who did animals that we were never on, and they were on it. I was and he was. I was.

He was. Animals. I should have been on Animals. I can talk to Phil if you want. What about- Is he gonna do Animals again? Like a lost episode of Animals, you know what I mean? We can do, yeah. What did you play, like a monkey or a squirrel?

I was in the live action one. I played myself. No, I didn't play myself I was in the live action one. I played myself. No, I didn't play myself. There was a live action one? They did. And I didn't do that either? God damn, there's been two different kinds. But yeah, it's not twice. Kevin, do you remember this?

You remember animals? Someone feed Phil. Oh, someone feed Phil. We got a real Phil head here. If, and if there's any Phil heads out there, we've got a, we do a monthly special with, with our pal Phil called the Meatball Special. Mm-hmm. mm-hmm.

We actually got, the reason that the last episode that we did with Phil got demonetized on YouTube is because the intro has the first plane hitting the towers. And that is copyright. Demonized and demonetized. That is copyright. It's not copyright, it's just that this is inappropriate. Oh, it's not copyright, huh? That's so fun. Yeah. It just was, I read this, I was like, oh, that's weird.

We got the, we got the thing saying, hey, you've been demonetized and I saw the reason and it said this timestamp and it's like the first minute and it literally like two seconds. This is the problem with YouTube. Oh, I thought it was never forget. Oh, I guess I didn't realize what never forget me is. Exactly.

You can't sell ads against them. 9-11. Kevin, I just I was never forget. Oh, I guess I didn't realize what never forget means. Exactly. You can't sell ads against them 9-11. Kevin, I just wanna say you are supposed to be the audience. You're supposed to be helping the audience. Great. Through this experience.

And when I'm just talking about like animals, people are like, what the fuck is this? What's animals? And I say, do you remember animals? You say what it is. You don't say somebody feed Phil, which is taking people so much farther. A very niche show.

He said someone feed Phil because he's a real Phil head. Somebody's gotta feed Phil. Animals are little critters that run around. And was a TV show at one time. And was an animated TV show. It was an animated TV show on full blown HBO. Actual HBO, pre-max. Do you guys have a producer on your show?

We have. Yes. Kevin, you do not want to be asking that question. He, yeah, he's very, he's very Jim, that's what his name is. He's very Jim. Yeah, he's very so Jim. You see this guy and you're like, it doesn't get any Jimmer than that.

Jim and Pam. I actually just realized who he looks like. And I don't, I shouldn't say that I realized because I can't give a name thereafter, but he looks like a specific Muppet. But you won't say which one? Because I don't know. You don't know? I've been meaning to Google list of the Muppet. But you won't say which one. Because I don't know. You don't know?

I've been meaning to Google list of the Muppets so that I could go through. Describe our producer guy. Describe. Yeah, give me the parameter. He kind of looks like if Gonzo had a handsome brother. Okay, so it's not a specific, it is a specific Muppet,

but it's one that you invented. I feel like we're gonna have to have a call with HR now that you called our producer. We don't have HR. It's shot literally in my master bedroom. Don't tell people that. I've got my poop toilet right in there. Which we wish you didn't, but. Why?

It's not a problem. For you. It's better than not having one. Yeah. Okay, now we just don't have one. Oh, it's great, guys. Yeah, now there's none anywhere. You got some gum on the bottom of your shoe, by the way. Yeah, I know Wow, okay

Mm-hmm saving it Yeah What would what else could be happening? I don't know put my cell on the bottom of my shoe so I could do the show he had a Guess it's not gonna be a surprise now, but he had a trick he was gonna do for you guys where he walks up the wall and over the ceiling at that time. Aw, can you still do it?

I can act surprised, he can edit this. I'm kinda got spoiled, man. Aw, man. It sucks. And these guys are doing different shows. We're doing different shows. They're on networks, they're leaving networks. They're on this subscription platform,

now they're on another one. We know a little something about that. We've changed the name three times. Yeah, we've changed the name. You sit still, T-Log, you die. That's the truth. We still say that we will never do more than 90 episodes of a show.

It gets itchy. We're gonna hold for that. And we're at like 76. Yep, so. Next week. Seven month itch. That might be a surprise to some listeners but there are 14 more episodes so.

That clock. Yeah. Well the more episodes you do, the more you get the urge to go down to San Diego and sniff. Some scorch. Sclurch? Scorch.

Was it scorch? Is it scorch now? No. Now it's sclurch. Now it's sclurch. Nobody told me. Scch now? No. Now it's squirtch. It was squirtch. Right, nobody told me. Squirtch? Yep. No, it wasn't squirtch. Yeah, it was. No, it wasn't. And there.

You take one sip of squirtch, the next thing you know, you're begging for just a little bit of ocean on your area. Okay, so wait, can I just pause? What was that? The area? The squirtch. Ah, is it squirt now? Cause I don't know, I thought it was a warmup

and I was like, okay, surely there's. Would that be bad? Is it bad to just like do a little warmup? No, no, I just wanna come out and get really badly hurt. I just wanna instantly get myself really badly injured by doing a podcast with no warmup at all. Oh yeah, that's really smart. We should start warming up.

Yeah, we don't. Yeah, we don't. We just go right in. I'll tell you something. When you're young, fine, you know, you feel like you're invincible, you're gonna get out there and just do the podcast. You should probably make the habit to warm up.

Yeah, at some point. And how old are you guys? You know, it's not about numbers with me. Okay, so that's over 40? No. I just don't talk about the numbers, you know? Yeah. It's like, what I talk about really is

warming up being a constructive habit and something that will help you in the future for your podcasting. Whether I'm old, whether I'm over 40, that's like doesn't matter, it's stupid. Nobody even cares, it's not something we talk about on the show at all. If I'm 40, if I'm less, if I'm, you know,

God forbid more, it's just not. Do people talk about it in comments and whatnot? Cause people. No, you made it clear no one cares. Oh yeah, okay, well that's good. They talk about how they don't give a fuck, man. Yeah, that's good. Cause you know we don't give a fuck.

Like unprompted people are like, I don't fucking care. We made it really difficult to leave comments. On your show? Yeah, we're not in the YouTube marketplace. We're not doing that. It's just like, you have to be so, you have to be so driven to leave a comment for us. Like it's just not, you're probably the time you get there, you're probably not going to be thinking about my age anymore.

You'd be thinking about your age to be so long to get here. So can you describe the process? If I wanted to leave a comment on this episode. If you wanted to leave a comment? Well, I think it would really build character for you to take that journey. It seems to me like comment leading has been handed to you. It doesn't take place in the online space. I have to like, I was gonna guess,

do I have to write a letter? And then you guys decide or something? No, sorry, it's like, it's all like body, like there's no writing involved. It's all body. Yeah, it's all like body. Like there's no writing involved. It's all body. Yeah. It's like you gotta show up. Here in the studio. 90% and actually 100% of Leave a Good Comment is showing up.

That's right. To the... Do you guys ever worry about people showing up here on the street? Because it is a very public location. And you have famous people coming in and out of this place. Why are you pointing out there when you say famous people? Well, because. Because.

You guys have people who have been on animals on HBO out there. You guys don't have guests, huh? We've tried. People don't like it. Yeah. We make it too easy. The commenters don't like it.

That doesn't, that's not part of it, them liking it. Believe me, we've had guests, guests don't gotta like it. No, no, it's not the guests that don't like it. Oh, the commenters don't like it. The commenters don't like it. Commenters get... Commenters go, you know, we like Ben and Emil episodes. Oh, the commenters don't like it. The commenters don't like it. The commenters get, uh. Commenters go, you know, we like Ben and Emile episodes. Oh, really?

Wow. Do more of that. Yeah. Every time we go through great lengths to get people on the show, we do it and we say, that was a really fun episode. And then it comes out and they go, I guess I'll skip this one.

Except they like Phil from Animal. Through great. They do like. The what? We go through great lengths. Did he say like Phil from Animal. Through great. They do like. So what? We go through great lengths. Did he say two? No, I said. He said through.

Yeah. Oh my God. Oh my God. I've just been going right into the door. We go, I go two great lengths. He's been fucking kicking it in. This motherfucker busted down. Oh fuck.

A great length. That's one, by the way, that's one. We count. It's gonna be your worst nightmare. If he fucks up again, be one, by the way, that's one. We count. It'd be your worst nightmare. If he fucks up again, be sure to keep the count so that you know. It would be nice if you had some show solidarity. No.

And these guys play the markets. I do. You're a day trader. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You know, I'm a little bit of a. Nin-a-cherry. You're a bit of a money man?

I'm a trade-ator. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I only go on dates at restaurants where you carry a tray from station to station. Little bit of a tray dater myself. What are some of the best restaurants in LA that meet that category?

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There's a lot of food, there's a, soup plantation. It was pathetic. Oh, RIP. Yeah, I hated that. Why? Because soup plantation is a pathetic place. Why are people so sad when it left? It is gone. It's gone, yeah.

But it just, it just. It was a pathetic place to you. There's a lot of people, let's just say, taking advantage. Why don't we, just moving forward just for this episode, have a little bit of a rule, I think it'd be fun for us, where we can say, my opinion is that soup plantation is a pathetic place, and things like that,

just so that we're not making these kind of blanket statements about things like, soup plantation, which a lot of people, you've probably seen because you would go there, enjoyed. And so you can say, I'm Ben, right? And my opinion is that soup plantation is a pathetic place. Just, would that be a good idea for this episode? And that's my lived experience.

Do you wanna give it a try? Let me try. that supplantation is a pathetic place. Just, would that be a good idea for this episode? And that's my lived experience. Do you wanna give it a try? Let me try. I'm Ben. I'm Ben. It's not feeling good? Yeah. And it is my opinion that the restaurant,

supplantation, which is no longer, sucks and is pathetic. Okay. Because of problems I had with my family. Because the pizza, you know, it just sucked. Actually, you know what? Can I scratch? Can we just delete all that?

Suplantation rocks. We can't do that. For a kid? No. Supplantation was. Pat from Seek Treatment made us cut like nine minutes of the last episode. Yeah, so we have a rule where the guys

can't take that anymore. Also related to them talking about, like just, you know, going to a store. What did he say? That was very controversial statements. He was just, he was just dragging this poor innocent woman for no reason, just like. Who was the woman?

None of us know. I mean, he gave enough information that she would be able to identify herself, but not enough for us to identify her. So it was really cruel, because she would just be listening and just have that sinking realization that like, oh my God, he's talking about me.

It was intended only to harm. And we didn't even get the sort of joy of also ganging up on her. You cut it. Well, he made us and we just said the guest can't have that power anymore. I respect that. So if we say something, we better mean it,

we better believe it? Well, it's nice to preface it with this is my opinion. Just everything, how about a blanket? If we say something today, it's our opinion. I'm not very cold though. Yeah, I wouldn't mind hearing it on each individual sentence. Okay, we can, sure.

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Every week we do. The market's going a little bit crazy right now. And maybe since you guys are into this stuff. It gets cool to talk about. What we do is we name different stocks. You know what we're doing though that's unfair? And I wanna do this. We're saying you guys.

So it's you guys are on animals and then, well he is, I'm not. Then it's you guys talk about the stocks. Well I do, he doesn't. Yeah. Right? Because that's their thing I guess. They have absolutely nothing in common. Ben doesn't wanna be, yeah.

We have nothing in common. He plays Dennis, I don't. He I don't be grouped into well. He plays tennis you don't so it's a right. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I know I know Well, you're not sitting here going you guys play tennis. I could You could play tennis. Yeah, why don't you play tennis? It's it's not in the cards for me balls too scratchy It kills. I like the smell of that damn thing. Me too, but once you get right up in there, ugh. See, I don't love the smell. So scratchy.

Like gasoline, I remember sniffing gasoline when I was like 12 and getting way too up close and I was like, whoa. It's like my first time smelling sclerge. There's no? Scrooge. Scrooge, fuck. For the tennis ball, for gasoline, for sclerch.

They should just have a little chalk circle around it. Like this, like you just stay out, out here, you're good. Yeah. Well, that's just your opinion. You get close enough, yeah. Yeah, do you guys wanna maybe caveat some, cause you guys I think went on record saying that some of our-

We have a thing, like a pre-tape thing before the show. Because you did say some of our most famous public officials have gotten to some scrooch. Well yeah. But that's just fact maybe. Yeah, I think it's actually been documented. Oh, okay. I mean it's like a matter of public record. But let's do our stock maybe. Yeah, I think it's actually been documented. Oh, okay. I mean, it's like a matter of public record,

but let's do our stock segment. And you do this every- So what we do is yes, we say a stock with the ticker symbol, and then we say, and you guys can be the, this episode, you guys can say if it's, buy my guy, or me, oh my. Oh, I thought you were gonna sell like hell. Buy my guy or meal my? Oh, I thought you were gonna sell like hell.

No, that doesn't sound like buy my, you know what I mean? Yeah, but what is meal my? That's what you say when you see a bad stuff, when it's going by on the ticker and you see a bad one, hold your note, go meal my. Wouldn't sell like hell work better? I think so.

Thank you. Yeah, but this isn't our show. And that's also just your opinion. Yeah, but this isn't our show. Sure. And that's also just your opinion. Well, Sell Like Hell would work if for, by, it would smell the bell. You know what I mean? Because you can smell like ring the bell

at the stock market. And we're assuming we don't, we're assuming we don't have any of it because then there would have to be some version of like, you know, hold till you're old or you know, whatever. Oh, I like that. Yeah, I like that. Whatever that would be.

Yeah, hold your gold. I guess it should rhyme with me oh my though. I guess it has to rhyme with me oh my. Oh, because it's rhyming with buy my guy. Yeah, buy my guy, me oh my. Yeah. Hold till you die. Yeah, hold till you die.

Stand back and stand by, Mr. Trump. Oh, stand back and stand by, that's right. I'm ready for, I know every stock. Let's do some stocks. Let's do, I've been sort of looking at, on the ticker symbol, it's Otis. The elevator company.

So that's what I thought too. It's not? And I looked a little more into this. It's actually, have you seen Milo and Otis? Yeah, they killed a lot of dogs. It's the company that supplied the dogs. Oh, yeah. And so like they.

Chinese company. It was not a Chinese company. Well, in that case, I'm going... We actually don't say what companies are, what countries, just like... But if we do, like we do wanna get it right. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But they're listed on the NASDAQ. We don't just guess. Yeah. We have to know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In that case, I'm going heavily by my guy. By my guy. Yeah, I'm gonna take it a step further.

Because they had to supply so many dogs and you watch the movie, they are actually like just throwing dogs into the ocean. On a waterfront. Off a waterfall. Well, it's a bull market, you know. In this administration, I think- A dog market.

Yeah, bull, yeah, bulldogs. Yeah. When you have high turnover because they don't live that long. Yes, especially if they're in the movie. Well, and there hasn't been another Milo and Otis movie. We're due. That's exactly right. Yes. And there's a culture shift. Yes.

So if we could get in now, then when they announce that movie, right? Because it's all cyclical. It's all cyclical. I remember when I watched that on VHS over and over and over when I was a child, I was it's that movie, right? Because it's all cyclical. It's all cyclical. When I watched that on VHS over and over and over when I was a child, I remember having the opinion, hey, even as a child, you can distinguish movie magic from actual fucked up things.

And I remember thinking, how the hell did they safely throw that dog and that cat over that raging waterfall without the dog or cat dying? Being dashed against the rocks. Yeah. But then that's how Otis, the company was able to grow. That's how they had such great margins. Can I tell you something embarrassing I've never shared with anyone?

Um, yeah. I used to think when I was a child for a long time, I thought whenever I was hearing music or seeing something on TV or movies, I thought I was watching it live. Or hearing it live. I thought the band was playing the song live. Ah, dude. Yeah. Holy shit. And if you change the channel, they die. How old were you, 17?

I'm trying to remember when I figured it out, but I remember being surprised. Do you know what, you guys ever play baseball, high school ball? Oh yeah. Yeah, okay. You remember the jugs machine in batting practice? They load up the-

The jugs machine was one of the cheerleaders, we called their jugs machine. Okay, well I used to dance under that name as well. But this was something, when you're taking some BP, they load the ball and one by one they go like, chunk, and just like shoot the ball out really fast at you. So Otis invented something called the Pugs Machine. Yeah, no I heard this.

It works very, it is actually the same machine. Yeah. It just, they took a marker and they just put a P on it instead of a J and they put dogs in it. Yeah. It just, they took a marker and they just put a P on it instead of a J and they put dogs in it. Yeah. It goes, the sound of the pugs. I'm curious about, so on the ticker, it's SLND. And this is, it is the Slenderman stock.

It's the one that you use to summon Slenderman. And he comes, you buy one share of it, he comes, he kills you. He shoots you with a gun. How quickly does he come and shoot you with a gun? Pretty, I mean, like other people are buying it, so like there's a little bit of a queue of people that he's like coming and shooting.

And like he's, he's one, and like. And I think he likes to take his time actually and make sure you feel him watching you before he actually reveals the barrel of his steely gun. I think at this point, the stock is not doing well. Because it has gotten out that like this is, it is a trap. It's thinly disguised, it's named SLND.

Sure. But he's thinly, he's thinly disguised. He's thinly disguised. He's thinly disguised. You mean he's thinly disguised. This guy's thinly. I'm going my oh my. I have another stock.

Uh huh. This one is PKMN. Pokemon. No. So, but there is PKMN. Pokemon. No. So, but there is something called Pokemon, right? Yeah, there has to be. And there is something. In my opinion, there is something called Pokemon.

And there's something called Pac-Man as well, right? Right. And there's also not quite as well known, but it's also a game called Pikmin. Oh yeah. You know, there's those little guys as well. Yeah What is I'm noticing a pattern here sure P vowel huh

M same vowel and nice save on the CK. But yeah Thank you It implies nay confirms that the next turning will produce puckmon. And PKMN just allows you to just kind of like sit on puckmon, whatever it is. We know it's coming. We don't know what it's gonna be yet, but when Puckmon hits. It's gonna be big.

It's gonna be big. It's gonna be massive. I mean, Puckmon was a huge, Puckmon, you know, you knew it right away. Right away. This one's more of a sales pitch. This one's more of a. Wow, so Puckmon.

Well, it's more of a. Speculative. Thank you, it's more of a speculative, like a biotech. It's similar to a biotech. It just lets you sit down. It's gambling, I mean it is gambling. Criss-cross applesauce.

Yeah. Do you guys have any, could you paint a picture of what Puckmun is like for us? I'm guessing hockey. Well I guess if I could do that, I would be making it. You know what I mean? Like we would have Puckmun, because I would be doing that, you know? But then it would be making it. You know what I mean? We would have Puckmunn, because I would be doing that. You know?

But then it would be too late. Yes. I'd rather have it and then when it arrives, as these things do, you know? All we know is that it's coming. We can see it cresting the hill. And it's big. It's a big MFer.

Are you feeling Puckman? Uh, I don't know. I would need more information, especially about who their accountants are. Also, I do- You said it is a hockey puck. Do you like it now? Uh, I do like it now.

I do want to point out that, uh, there was a lot of Miss Pac-Man erasure and it was hard to sit through. When- Just now? Well, uh-huh. Because you- That's so interesting. When I said Pac-Man, you thought I was talking about Mr. Pac-Man.

Yeah, I bet you think. That's kind of interesting. I actually was talking about Ms. Pac-Man the whole time. Oh, interesting. That's funny that you thought I was talking about Mr. Pac-Man just because I said Pac-Man. Wow. Dip shit.

I wonder. That's kind of a racist as well, I think. I wonder what that says about you, yeah. I wish we had live comments to read so that people could hold you accountable. I'll read all the comments. Well, we can't. Kevin, we can have some, yeah, we can read some.

Kevin, do you wanna hit us with a couple live comments? Sure. This one says, go ahead, Sean. Well, I just had one, I had one stock. That's nice, see, our commenters. They're kind of. That's pretty good. And as we know, we have to work really hard. I had a stock that. That's nice, see our commenters, that's pretty good. And as we know, we have to work really hard.

I had a stock that I wanted to get an opinion on that I'm really nervous about, but I think the upside's huge. Do you own it already? I have a little bit, but I'm thinking about going all in. Okay. It's the, it's P-C-I-U, and it's put Cartman in Unfrosted.

So if you remember the Jerry Seinfeld pop-tart movie that came out recently, had a lot of appearances by different food mascots and stuff and properties, but Cartman was notably absent, and I think it's why they struggled to kind of stay on the charts. And so, you know, with the technology they have now, especially AI, I think you probably pretty easily

insert him into some of the scenes. Unofficially or officially? Go ahead and tell me what you mean. So do you want, is this more of a almost fan fiction, not fan fiction? No, it would have to be official. I'd like to go through the proper channels. Not that I'm doing it. So you know how sometimes like they like do

American pie band camp and they release the DVD and there was someone would stamp it. Yeah. Unrated. If you got an unofficial Cartman stamp, it's stamp it unofficial Cartman. But so if I open net, if this is successful, if I open Netflix and I go to unfrosted,

if I click on that movie, if it's successful, am I seeing Cartman in that? I think part of what he's saying is there would actually be a Cartman cut that was available right next to it. Okay, that's important now. How'd this get out of the lab? Part of what is a little risky about this property

is Jerry is going to be pronouncing it Cartman through the entire movie. No one's gonna tell him how to say it. And so he is gonna be saying Cartman. It could be good for engagement though. People are often doing, they're doing things where they intentionally make mistakes, so people engage, you know, there's more comments,

people are writing in, it drives them, people are talking about it online. It's a rage bait, huh? I think it's a bad buy, because it's a holding company and they only have one single business model, and that business model is putting Cartman in unfrosted. And that's not a good business model. That has no longevity.

Because think about it this way. It's a product, it's not a company. You're buying the stock on the rumor, right? The rumor is they're gonna put Cartman in Jerry Seinfeld's unfrosted. Everybody's buying, they're buying up the stock. Fucking kick ass. That's not a bad idea, though, to do it.

If you buy it and it goes up, just make sure you get out. But what else could they put Carmen into or you ready anything I mean if they if they would have a start with a you if it's PCIU that's okay well and put it well yeah well then you don't be on the Uncharted. Uncharted. Unbreakable. Uncharted. Oh, now we're talking. Except it is. U-571. You can revisit the Matthew McConaughey. Unbroken as well, yeah. Yes, yeah, yeah.

So. Underworld. Underworld, that's a great. Oh, the whole series. The whole franchise, yeah. But Carmen and up, he's already a cartoon. Oh, yeah, that's true. It was right there.

God, can you imagine him using the F-flur. So do you wanna be a S-flur? And like, probably something where something where he gets in the thing and it won't fly and all the friends are giving him. Dad, dammit! All the friends are giving him grief. Because he went to soup plantation one too many times. He visited it.

That was your issue with it? That you couldn't fly at a balloon? From going to, I would load up on too much ice cream and pizza and it gave me a little tummy ache. You couldn't fly at a balloon? That was the problem. I would load up on too much ice cream and pizza. Ice cream and pizza are the two things that you would eat at the soup plantations. When you're 12, is there anything better than ice cream and pizza unlimited?

In fact, your parents encourage you to eat as much ice cream and pizza because they want to get their $40 fucking worth. That's $40. And I would always get tricked, yeah, I will say, I would always get, and this is just my opinion, but I would always get tricked. Yeah, I will say I will, I would always get, and this is just my opinion. Yes, fuck. But I would always get tricked by that fucking long ass, they first walk, almost as an insult, they walk you through that salad bar line.

That's just never ending. And as a child, I'm thinking, boy, simple and tasian really is just a lot of salad. And I'm getting the tray and then they finally unleash you onto the, uh, the real treats, the real goodies. And that's how they- And all the corners are blind. That's the thing.

So you can't actually see. That's true. So I remember that. Labyrinth. And they have so much salad. And that's how they trick you. Because the salad is the super, it fills you up. It's the roughage.

Mm-hmm. It's supper. And they don't want you to be eating the, but the Cartmans, they know that the salad is, It fills you up, it's the roughage. And they don't want you to be eating the, but the Cartmans, they know that the salad is just a ruse. But they can't hurt us anymore, because they're out of business. What they become, that became something else.

Nothing, I probably, I don't know, they went the way of Sam Goody and the rest in Circuit City. No, but he's the way. You know? Yeah. Yeah. A hometown buffet I think still exists. And now it's like Cici's Pizza

and all that absolute dog shit. Just give me Domino's. Just give me Domino's. I stole from Circuit City. Till the day I die. What'd you steal? Battery for a camera. Hell yeah.

Of course I love film. You know what I used to do to Circuit City? Of course I'm a film lover. This is like cinema paradiso right here. You have to make this. I know, I know. I've been saying this is your love letter. I'm so passionate, yeah.

Ultimately the battery didn't fit. That's okay. I had a scam when I was a child with Circuit City. I would buy a CD player, Sony Walkman, and I would buy the warranty. He was trying to put a D battery in a disposable camera. That's what he thought D stood for. Disposable.

That's a big battery. Broke. It's like something he would do. Just pounded it right through the camera. Big dumb dumb. Anyway, I would purposely break the CD player right at the end, right almost at the end of the warranty, and I'd take it back and they would just give me

the newer version, the newer model, and I did that for a few years. Oh wow. Yeah, that's pretty easy. Well, I actually never stole from them and you have just confessed to a crime. Assume me, whatever. And a crime. And by the, whatever. And a crime.

And by the way, I look forward to seeing Circuit City open again. Now that this thing is over. When they own your YouTube channel. Oh, that would suck for me. Man, fuck that. Do you have another, do you have another, what's your next ticker that you got?

Well, this one's just gum. Just gum? Yeah, I brought some on the bottom of my shoe so we could kind of investigate it, but I just think that like. That looks like a winner to me. Yeah. You think gum is poised for a comeback.

Oh. G-U-M-M-M. I mean, gum has longevity. Everybody eats it, chews it, excuse me. In my opinion, gum is good. Okay, this guy just fucking. I think gum, you could be. Went to the soup plantation, got to the gum area.

Instead of just taking one and chewing it. He's like carpet with the cheesy poops. Loaded up his plate. That just ate it all. Of course he poops. I would say gum could have a little bit of trouble with RFK. He's coming after everything sugary. Oh my God.

It's gonna be all. Speaking of, you know, some of our politicians confirmed, you know, scrooge. Yes, enjoyers, yeah. And we know he goes down to San Diego too, because he has the whale carcass. San Diego means whale's vagina, if you see an anchorman. Yeah.

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