Pablo Torre Finds Out - Share & F*ck Around & Tell with Michael Cruz Kayne and Katie Nolan

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

Did Pablo "win" his "beef" with Bill Simmons? Why are baseball broadcasts so dick-centric? How bad is it to touch the Stanley Cup? And how good can you get at an instrument in a week? Plus: Zoogle, Sk...yrizi, Gary Peyoteon, redding-wing eczema, Bouilliabaise Mode and a sick kitten to a hot brick.• Subscribe to "Casuals with Katie Nolan"https://www.youtube.com/katienolan• Listen to "Sorry for Your Loss" by Michael Cruz Kaynehttps://www.audible.com/pd/Sorry-for-Your-Loss-Audiobook/B0CGJSXSPF Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm Pablo Torre, and this episode of Pablo Torre finds out is brought to you by Remy Martin 1738, Accord Royale. Exceptionally smooth cognac for all your game day festivities, please drink responsibly. Because today, we're going to find out what this sound is. Right after this ad. I'm fixating on an old song that I've rediscovered. I can't stop listening to it. I mean, what is this? Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:00:52 Something about you by level 42, which I'm fading out for legal reason. Come on. I would just want to vibe to that. It's so good. It's such a vibe. What's it called? Level 42? That's the band.
Starting point is 00:01:07 I was going to let it get to the chorus so people could know they've heard it before because I promised you both have. We can skip to the chorus. Ah. That bass is filthy. I love a bass. We love a bass on this. Is that a Sharon towel or is that just a snack for you? It's just a snack.
Starting point is 00:01:29 Is this a sharing though? I guess it is. I was told to bring it. Don't open it. What's going on? Okay, I'm jumping in here to say that if you watch PTFO on YouTube, you probably know that the Nintendo adjacent style sound effect, the do-do-do-do-do that you just heard, visually triggers an actual role-playing game style menu with a little animated version of me who explains stuff,
Starting point is 00:01:59 which is why internally the PTF staff calls these voiceovers that I do. RPGs. Anyway, I say all of this because Katie Nolan's question today, what is going on, is a good one. Numerous Pablo Tori finds out observers have observed that we have always chosen the Pablo Explains menu option, but I have never actually selected the second option that is shown right beneath Pablo Explains, which is simply fuck around. But after repeatedly forcing Cher and tell regulars Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kane to be guinea pigs in what some critics have called, The Future of Journalism, and still others have called your stupid Bill Belichick Jordan Hudson episodes, I realized something.
Starting point is 00:02:51 I realized that it was probably time to just fuck around. I've somehow explained less about what we're doing here today than I have in previous episodes, which I also explain nothing. Right. Which is not just crazy. I have been reflecting. Okay. And I think I owe you guys.
Starting point is 00:03:13 Yeah. An episode where we just get to chill. Yes. With surprises in the center of the table. No. I sent a group chat to you guys and it was just hello. And Katie's response was, uh-oh. And I was like, I need to re-establish our friendship.
Starting point is 00:03:31 Anytime I hear in this group texts, I go, oh, Jesus Christ. What'd she do now? Yeah. But this wasn't about, it's not about her. Well, so technically, it has been now 50 days since our many, many, many, many public records requests were filed and not fulfilled. Oh, no. So that is happening in a parallel track alongside this. North Carolina administrators, if you're listening to this.
Starting point is 00:03:56 Come on and raise up. Raise up. Take your shirt off. Heels up. What do they say? They must have a thing. Oh, what's their, what's their, like their slogan? Heels up.
Starting point is 00:04:08 Click your heels. What is North Carolina tar heels slogan? Go blue. They have a song called I'm a tar heel born. Do you want to listen to what that sounds like for a second? I do. That's not as good as something about you. Oh, it doesn't have the lyrics spoken.
Starting point is 00:04:34 Maybe you could sing them. You get the jest. I'm a tarheel born. I'm a tar heel bread. And when I die, I'm a tar heel. Tar heel dead. Nice. Wow.
Starting point is 00:04:42 Tar heel, it's tar heel because, like, they wouldn't run, right? Like, they were, they were brave. I think that's why they're called, I think that's why they're called Tar Heels. I just figured they made tar. I thought it was because, like, they were being attacked. And they were like, I ain't, I ain't gonna flee. Right. My heels are stuck right here.
Starting point is 00:04:57 Did you Google it at all? Or that was just all, you put that in here. That's just all rattling around in here. Instead of, like, you know, information that I need. That's what I got there. Tar Heal State. Okay, here you go. And it's early years is a colony.
Starting point is 00:05:08 North Carolina. became an important source of the naval stores of tar, which and turpentine. Nope. Which they then put in cigarettes, didn't I? Not seeing that quite yet. Well. What about heel, though? What about tar heel?
Starting point is 00:05:24 The troops from other states call us tar heels. I am proud of the name as tar is a sticky substance, and the tar heels stuck up like a sick kitten to a hot brick, while many others from a more oily state slipped to the rear and left the tar heels to stick it out. This is from an 1863 artwork. article in a rally newspaper in which a Confederate soldier from North Carolina is quoted saying what he just said. The tarheels stick it out. A sick kitten to a hot brick.
Starting point is 00:05:48 Sick kid to a hot brick. That's bars right there. He was dropping, as they said at that time, some bars. You are praising a Confederate soldier's bars. Whoa, not me. I'm distancing myself from anything he just said. Look, I don't agree with stuff that they say, but the rappers from the Confederacy were incredible. I don't think that's true, actually.
Starting point is 00:06:27 So I have a snack pack. We have a container of something that Katie does not know, but I know, and Michael knows. I barely know. I just thought it was a, what's the one everyone's playing? Yeah. It's not a pickle ball hitter. It's a violin? Nope.
Starting point is 00:06:44 Okay. It is what it says, but that's not going to explain. That's not going to help you. It says. Omnicord. Omnicord. Oh, is it a ukulele? Nope.
Starting point is 00:06:56 Okay. Sure. What are we doing here? So far, so good. What's the purpose today? That meat's not going to open, is it? Honestly, I'll eat a gusto pack. I'm not afraid to.
Starting point is 00:07:08 So much of my diet is gusto packs. Small batch, artisanal meats. Oh, gross. Smooth vantina cheese, artisanal crackers. Gross, gross, gross. Genoa, mild salami. Gross. Snack pack, keep refrigerated.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Is that the one with a chocolate? Oh, it's got a fruit bar. There's no fruit bar. It's just cheese meat and more meat. Oh, just. Straight protein and dairy and some artisanal crackers. No. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:32 This is the adult lunchable. Yes, very true. We have a lot of those in my home. Probably much more expensive. Oh, yeah. A lot of salt in there, baby. Oh, yeah. I don't want to investigate that.
Starting point is 00:07:44 Don't let me forget. I'm putting this on the ground. Okay. That's a disgusting place to rest your lollipop stick. There's no trash in here. There's never been a trash in here, which is crazy. Where are the receptacles? Thank you. We're like Japan.
Starting point is 00:07:57 here. Yes. You know what I'm talking about? No. No trash cans. No trash cans. But I believe that we are like Japan. We're like New York City during a marathon.
Starting point is 00:08:06 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Just pee in our pants. Yeah. Walking your dog and then you realize like, oh, something must be going on publicly this weekend because there's no garbage can anywhere. Is the whole episode going to be what we're doing right now? I guess.
Starting point is 00:08:18 I'm great with it. I guess so. I didn't get high enough. I'm a height. Yeah. I didn't get high at all. Damn, that sucks. I don't usually get high.
Starting point is 00:08:25 I don't really get high. I don't really get high. I tell you what, the littlestest. and I'm so far gone. Great. I'm absolutely obliterated. That's economical. But I don't, I never, it's very hard for me to find a place where it's like, I'm glad that I did this.
Starting point is 00:08:35 Just take one hit. Start there. Okay. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. What happens to you? What happens to me?
Starting point is 00:08:44 Did you get scared? Yeah, I kind of, well, I, what, I often become, like, so far gone often. I hardly ever do it. But, like, so far gone that I'm, like, paralyzed. You know what I mean? The very first time that I accidentally, used a marijuana product. I was at a party and there were brownies
Starting point is 00:09:01 and never even occurred to me that there would be weird, we'd eat in the brownies. So I ate like a few brownies. I'm the type of guy who'll go to a party and I'll eat a lot of your brownies. I'll eat a lot. I'll eat a lot.
Starting point is 00:09:12 You know, conscientious towards the chef. Yeah, you made all these brownies. I mean, let them sit here. You're the guy that walks in like the third time in the room and goes, oh, brownies. That's exactly right. Well, I got to eat them,
Starting point is 00:09:23 even though it's your third. You put them into a fake shopping cart. Yeah. I make a big show out of it. And yeah, I'll eat a few. So I ate a few brownies. Oh, no. And I was sitting by the pool and I was like, I feel a little bit weird.
Starting point is 00:09:35 And then people were like, you guys want to get in the pool? And I was like, yeah, I would love to get in the pool. And then my arms and legs would not move. And I was like, I guess I'm here for a while. So that's kind of, I rarely get the place where you're like, oh, I'm just a little bit happier than I was. I don't think eating a couple brownies was taking it eat. Like, that's like, if I ate a couple brownies, I would also. be comatose. I guess I mean I'm not good at, I feel like you seem like someone who's really,
Starting point is 00:10:00 you're a connoisseur. No? No. Dan is. I just, um, whatever he gets, I go, nice. And then I take a hit or two of it. And then I go, I'm good for three hours. I got you. Yes. See, I just don't know what, I don't know what I'm doing. Maybe I need like a weed sommelier to, probably to show me how to probably. I'll be your Sherpa. He brought a bunch of weed to my house with athlete names on it. Athlete names? Oh, he didn't watch the episode, Michael. You would have been, well, I did. Gary peyotian? I mean, that's the pun it could have been. It wasn't that pun, but yeah, that's close.
Starting point is 00:10:31 It's just Gary Payton. The glove. It's just called Gary Payton. Is that a pun? No, Peyotian was a pun. No, but I thought, okay, but there wasn't one. No. Good.
Starting point is 00:10:40 But what about... What? The amount of times I come here and I forget to put my engagement ring back on is too many. Methinks the fiancé doth protest too much. Yeah, I don't, I don't wear my wedding ring on. And it's called a ready ring. wing and I don't wear it very much. Why?
Starting point is 00:10:57 Because I have what is called three, two, three, fidelity. Exima. And so I get a cool little ring of eczema right around my hand and it's not fun to have that. Sure, sure, sure, sure. As long as I, if I don't sweat at all, it's fine. But if I do sweat, then it starts to accumulate under the ring. And this is also, this is like, how do you track metrics for this podcast? This is the kind of thing that makes me.
Starting point is 00:11:19 It's going great. Yeah, numbers are going through the roof. Yeah, so I give myself a shot. Just describe your finger eczema more. No. No. I want to get to what Michael brought us. Okay.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Is it food? No. And I was told to bring it. What? You didn't tell me to bring anything. Yeah. I assumed you'd bring like a... You're welcome.
Starting point is 00:11:40 Thanks. I honestly I assumed you'd be bringing like some kind of obscure instrument also. I brought the funk. I thought you'd bring like a woodblock or something. You did. That's true. We were all funked out of the episode. Sorry, sorry.
Starting point is 00:11:52 We deleted that. For the fun. Okay. Sorry. It might be free. It's fair use. That's an old song. We'll fair use sound alike.
Starting point is 00:11:59 No, it's not going to be the same. We can do, the three of us can do an acapella. On whatever this is. Well, yeah, it's not acapella if we use this. Sure. Can you use, is the problem, you can't even license this. You can't sing the song, right? No.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Yeah, you can't do anything. Well. Is level 42 litigious? I don't even remember them as a band. Well, they're going to be litigious now that you said that. That was nice. We're coming for her. Is level 42 really going to sue us?
Starting point is 00:12:23 Right. I dare you. Level 42. It's like when Bill Simmons said, what are you going to do? Fire me? And then they very much did. Bill Simmons said that, and then next week, level 42 sued him. I am sorry, by the way, to Katie Nolan, for getting you sucked into a larger internet happening in which you were asked questions, like, which side are you on?
Starting point is 00:12:43 I've sucked it up and handled it. So I need Simmons to do the same. It's weird. Pablo's investigating it. He's doing a fantastic job. So I'm team Pablo. And I assume you are as well. Oh, yeah, but I picked you.
Starting point is 00:12:56 It wasn't like it. There was no hesitation. I noticed. He didn't even listen to the episode. Let's do it back and I was like, bro, come on. Pablo got into a media fight with another member of the meet. His name's Bill Simmons. Sure, sure, sure.
Starting point is 00:13:09 He, Bill Simmons took issue with Pablo's reporting. We don't need to read it out. But Pablo then went to L.A. for his, did you win the? Oh, no. He went for the, what's it called? The. Peebities. Peabities. What a Boston way to pronounce that.
Starting point is 00:13:26 Yeah, that is, sorry. The Peabody. Sorry, it's Peabody, Massachusetts. And he was out there in L.A., so he did Simmons' podcast, like, refuting Simmons saying that it was like, whatever, he was reporting or whatever. And basically during the episode, he was like, have you listened to any of the episodes that the aggregated clips are coming from that you're referring to? And Simmons was like, well, what I'd like to talk about instead. It was a skillful move by Bill. No, it was not. It was a skillful move by Bill. It was immediately, you could see right through it. It was like, so no then, Bill. I didn't realize the Peabodies, the Peabodies, had nominations.
Starting point is 00:13:57 I thought you just won it. Oh, no, there are nominations now. Oh. I know because I... You have one. Didn't win it. I do. I have one.
Starting point is 00:14:04 We noticed in your house. Brother. Yeah. We did. Dan was like, you know, he's a somebody. And I did the thing that Connor McDavid did that everyone got mad at him for. I touched it. Oh.
Starting point is 00:14:20 Oh, that might have jingst it. That he touched the cup. You should neither touch nor hoist the conference trophies when those series have been won because the players, according to this footnoted Wikipedia page, feel that the Stanley Cup is a true championship trophy, and only it should be hoisted. Yeah, we're kind of pretentious hockey fans that way. But it is what it is.
Starting point is 00:14:42 It's a known thing. I'm just trying to guess further and further away from the fact that Michael has the thing that I... Eggs on his hands? Yeah. Yeah. By the way, I don't have it right now. Don't give it to the cup.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Right now, I don't have it. Right. Where is it? The eggs on? Where are you keeping it? I don't have the eggs on his hands on. Who's on first? No, you guys, I take a shot.
Starting point is 00:15:00 I take a shot every two weeks. I'm a farmable. Really? Oh, you do? Which one? Wait, let me guess. Let me guess. It's, um, because it's nothing is everything.
Starting point is 00:15:11 Now is the time to ask your dermatologist about Sky Rizzi. Which is, um. Yeah. What is that? Sky Rizzi. Oh, it's not that. It's not that. It's not that.
Starting point is 00:15:21 Damn, that is Sky Rizzi, though. Have you seen the one where they had the... Oh, wait. We did an episode about this. We did. Do Pixen. Yes, I must have. I talk about it all the time.
Starting point is 00:15:30 I love Do Do More with DuPixen. That's right. How do you know all of the jingles? Because I watch TV all day. I watch TV all day. There's a commercial where they have baseball fans in a stadium chanting Farsega. Forsega. Ask your doctor about Farcega.
Starting point is 00:15:54 Farcega. Now, there is one from a commercial that I noticed was I with you, I must not have been with you guys. But there is a pharmaceutical. drug that is supposed to address a bent penis. Oh, yeah, for, um, that's called, um, payronies. The disease is called peyronies. I cannot stress enough how this was unprepared by everybody. I believe it's called peronies, disease. I mean, the level, the level of quickness with you. Oh, yeah. Sure, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's. There's a good one and a bad one. Spandura, yeah, I got that. It is made it up, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:16:26 It is absolutely called peyronies. Thank you. That is the disease, uh, when a Fibrous scar tissue inside the penis causes curved painful erections. That's got to be such a bummer for Doug Paironi. You know what I mean? Yeah. For the doctor, he'd be like, actually, you're going to be famous on this. And he's like, wait, why? What?
Starting point is 00:16:44 Please don't. Don't do that. Name it after anything else. Can't you call it just bend any penis disease? No, Doug, we're naming this after you. No, no, please. They need to understand how fibrous this scar tissue is. Oh, my goodness, fibrous.
Starting point is 00:16:55 I'm looking for the, for the, for the pharmaceutical. What the, what the, the, what the, What traits parisone disease? It's not like just a splint? Ziaflex? I think it's Zyaflex. Damn. Otherwise known as collagenase, clostridium.
Starting point is 00:17:11 Adelidium. Histolysitum. This is so off the race. What are we doing? What is this? What is it for? What are the rails? We're trying to...
Starting point is 00:17:22 Are we a train? Are you saying that you're trying to strayed in the rails? No, absolutely not. Are you saying that there's a fibrous tissue, perhaps? Oh, if it hurts, you should have it medicated, but I will say if it doesn't hurt and it curves a certain way, you could just leave it. Okay. And that's just advice.
Starting point is 00:17:36 But just think about how... That's a freebie. That's a freebie. And that's just free advice. As long as it doesn't hurt, you could just leave it. Doug Peron, it's all right. Why don't you call in, buddy? If it's going side to side, probably take the...
Starting point is 00:17:52 Take the psychoflex. Right. But if it's up, you could leave it. My main reaction was like, wow, this must be a common affliction in order to... for this commercial to be aired during the sporting event. They do a lot of dick-centered stuff during sports. Yeah, this is like, this is where we're going to get them. Remember baseball playoffs used to always be, what's the one that's not Viagra?
Starting point is 00:18:13 The one that starts with maybe a C. C. Alice. Cialis. Remember when there was. Nobody wanted to make that a big deal that you knew that right away. Took me a second because I almost said Sky Alice, but I knew that wasn't right. Sky Rizzy. That would be embarrassing.
Starting point is 00:18:24 Sky Rizzi. That's when you put them when you take them together. That's when you. Sky Alice. Nothing is everything is hard as fuck. Hey, you want to get fucking. Sky Rizzy. Sky Rizzy.
Starting point is 00:18:36 A flirtatious bird. Yeah. A riszed up. Yeah, you're right. We got it. Yeah, we got it. Sky creature. So, Mr. Paironi.
Starting point is 00:18:46 Yeah. Francois Gigo della Paironi. No. Okay. A French surgeon. Oh, it was the surgeon. Oh, wow. And this is, I think, a real problem for the other Paironis in this, in this
Starting point is 00:19:01 lineage because, yeah, he's the guy who discovered, as it is described here, in duration of the corpora cavernosa of the penis. Cavernosa. Oh, wow. You guys want to see a diagram? Probably not. Yeah. But yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:17 I do. I do want to see the diagram. I do. Wait, where are we? Where are we? What are we looking at? We're looking at the constituent cavernous cylinders of the penis. I'm sorry?
Starting point is 00:19:24 What's the, where are we looking at? Is that the mushroom at the top? What's going on? The glands. This is like an old illustration I don't know what that is. I don't know what that is. Like my dad is a urologist.
Starting point is 00:19:35 This is totally exactly what he would want me doing with this episode. Wikipediaing medical illustrations. Red Sox traded graphie devers. How is that? That must have been a real kick
Starting point is 00:19:47 to the dorsal veins. It's f***le miserable. Let me close out some windows. Open that one up. Close up some of my penis tabs. It has made me so miserable and yet I brought it up because I don't want to talk
Starting point is 00:20:00 about curved dick any. on this podcast. Looking for a way out, she brought up her own deepest pain. And that is... Sounds like there should be a pharmaceutical product for what you're dealing with. I know. I think there's a lot of them.
Starting point is 00:20:13 I think they have... Yeah, there are a lot of those. I think I'm going to take them all at once. Well, let's not do that. What if... That feels a little severe. What if, instead, we unzipped something else.
Starting point is 00:20:38 Michael... I believe has been spending his days when he's not around us doing something that we should enjoy now that he's here with us. Okay, so a friend of mine, a comedian, had an Omnicord in her office. I'm supposed to know what that is? And I started playing it, and I thought, oh, this is so fun.
Starting point is 00:20:58 And then I bought one. How much? Price point. It's like $750. Okay. It's kind of expensive. I love this. Below 1,000.
Starting point is 00:21:04 And I got it like a week ago. Okay. And I also, I think since the last time I saw you guys, I broke my elbow. Did you know that? What? No, you seem like you're fine. I don't even know which one. My left elbow, so I've got some limited motions.
Starting point is 00:21:16 How did you break it? I was playing B-ball with the youths. And I'll tell you guys, I was fission these kids up. I bet. So I watched. I bet. I've been grinding some Michael Cruz-Cain game tape. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:29 What I love about Michael Gruskeen playing basketball is that he wear sweatpants. Okay. I do sometimes. I do sometimes. I'm not afraid to do that. Well, just whatever's clean. Okay. It doesn't have to be that clean.
Starting point is 00:21:39 Whatever's around. I'm going to wear. Basketball pants. Yeah. Common. But he's got a J. I was absolutely. Wait, what are you even talking about? Where have you seen me play basketball?
Starting point is 00:21:47 The same place on Instagram? That I saw you play an Omnicord. I was so... Near window. Let me tell you this. Let me tell you this story because it's worth it for this podcast. Okay. I was saucing these kids up, absolutely ruining some 20 years. You're sky-rissing them.
Starting point is 00:22:01 I'm feeling so good. So you know what I do? Something I haven't done in 10 years, I sprint from one end of the court to the other end of court. And I'm calling to the ball. Okay. I'm saying, I'm telling the guy... Hit me. I'm going. I'm like, send it.
Starting point is 00:22:12 I'm driving to the hoop. I see that. tracking the ball with my eyes. I go to catch it. I'm fully extended. A much bigger, stronger, faster, younger man is doing the same thing I'm doing. Not a good idea. I leap off the ground. Must have been one, maybe 0.5 inches off the ground, get absolutely mauled by this younger man. My legs go over my head and I catch myself with my arm extended, fracturing the radial head of my elbow. I'm kind of rolling around the ground for a little while. Everyone's like, are you okay. And you know, you don't really know how injured you are right away. I was like, I was like, I
Starting point is 00:22:44 think I'm fine. So I play one more play. No. We're down by two, Katie. Damn. This is a real Clay Thompson situation. Your boy gets the ball on the wing. Whop-pot, wet, games over, and I go, you guys. I think I got to go. I think my radial head is. And then I left. I think, honestly, I think I've changed those kids' lives. Yeah. Anyway, I've been spending a lot of time, not playing basketball, trying to learn how to play the Omnico. Great. My God. So this is it. It's right here. You said, you said, okay, computer. Nice. Nice.
Starting point is 00:23:17 I don't know. You called the karma police. That's good. That's radio head. You said you, the radial head of your elbow. I got you there. I knew that it was radio head. Of course.
Starting point is 00:23:27 But I didn't get radial head. Right. But you guys should. Because they sound so different. We thought we just left you high and dry. Whoa. I don't even know. I don't know what that is.
Starting point is 00:23:38 That I know. Of course. Who, man. Well, I'm feeling like a real. Real creep, and that's too much. No, that's good. No, that's good stuff. Those are all the ones that I know.
Starting point is 00:23:47 That's the best stuff. TV talk show host on mute. Talk show on mute. Are you stroking out? Yeah, yeah. Oh, and of course talk show on mute. That's a radio head. We're doing radio and songs.
Starting point is 00:24:01 Is it a radio song? I think so, but I can't remember the order of the words. Alexa, tell me if talk show on mute is a song. Talk shows on mute is incubus. Oh, fuck. Wait, then what's the one I'm thinking? of TV. On the radio. No, that's a band.
Starting point is 00:24:15 Video killed the radio star. Sorry, can you do this? No. What do they do? Hold on, we got to describe our audio audience is a visual thing. Okay. So, uh, Katie, can you describe actually what this is?
Starting point is 00:24:29 She's Googling radio heads of. Talk show host. Talk show host. Talk show host. That was the song I was trying to think of. You said it like you were trying, you were trying to make Jay Leno appear. This thing. I don't think that's who shows up. I don't think that's the one. Candyman rules. Omnacord by Suzuki. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:47 It's a motorcycle. By the way, I didn't know this, but the motorcycle company also makes all that other stuff. Yeah. Yes. It's truly, truly wild. What a company. Yamaha, I think it's also the same.
Starting point is 00:24:55 Does Yamaha make motorcycles and pianos? Yes. Yes. And like water skis, water jet skis? Water jet skis. Maybe. Well, I just think like the... It's shaped like a bean.
Starting point is 00:25:07 It's a little bean-like. Yeah. It's almost like the outline of a whistle. One side, on the right side, the smaller. the tapered end, we have what appears to be a speaker. Yeah, that's right. I don't know what this ribbed part is. That's called a strumplate.
Starting point is 00:25:21 Okay, there's a strump plate. And then we have a couple. That's a silvery strump plate. Now, these are the controls for the strump plate. You know what? Can I tell you? I'd say strumplet is what I would have said. Strumplet.
Starting point is 00:25:32 There are like a zillion buttons. Rhythm, chord, keyboard, strumplet, voice pattern. And then we have major, minor, the seventh, and all the different chords. across the top. Sure do. Okay, so this is a push button. This is like a keyboard, but different.
Starting point is 00:25:50 It's like a keyboard. I mean, honestly, you know, now you know as much about it as I do pretty much. So this also has an aesthetic of like, what year do you think this was made? 72. I think it definitely has the look of that. And I think it is modeled after some version of itself that was released around that time. But I think this is a relatively new instrument. It's all the money you paid for it.
Starting point is 00:26:12 It better be at least. So you bought this on the internet? I used the internet to buy it. I said Omnicord buy and I went to shopping and then I bought it. Wow. Wow. Okay. And this is the OM 108 model.
Starting point is 00:26:26 OM108. Yeah. So my daughter and my wife went to El Paso to see Coldplay with my brother and his girlfriend. Okay. And you were not invited. I was neither there nor was I invited. Okay. So I was at home and I taught myself to play the beginning of one cold play song on here.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Oh, I think I watched you doing this on the internet and I couldn't watch it. So I changed. I think I scrolled past pretty quickly. Because it's like so cringe. No, no, no. It's because it was so good and I was like, we're not ready for this. I think I had just had a little bit of drugs and was like, I don't think he needs to look in my eyes and sing. I don't think I need to have him look me in the eye and sing personally.
Starting point is 00:27:09 So, and then I guess Pablo saw this video, which I think, Having looked at, I think maybe a hundred people have seen. Nice. It's been shadow banned by Instagram, rightfully. People can't see this kind of stuff. Too hot for TV. I made immediate direct eye contact with it. Yeah, sick.
Starting point is 00:27:26 But I... And then you want him to do it live? And then for some reason you had me bring it here. And you did. What I wasn't sure about is like... Hold on. Just in my defense, okay? You're saying if, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:27:38 some other trio friends you hung out with, one of them bought a musical instrument and displayed a proficiency with it, you wouldn't have follow-ups? No, I sure would. I would. If Katie bought a theramine, I'd be like,
Starting point is 00:27:52 bring that shit in. That's where I thought would happen. What I thought would make sense to me is you were like, Michael, you bring your Omnicord, Katie's going to bring her theramine. I've got, you know, a glass kazoo.
Starting point is 00:28:05 A pan flute. A pan flute. And I will play at like Zamphir, the master of the pan flute. And together we'll play. How are you even going to zugal? Look that up on zugal. We just replayed Kiti dismissively saying zugal.
Starting point is 00:28:24 How are you going to zugal that? Zulgill it. Zamphir? How are you spelling it? George Zamphir. Oh, it's exactly how you would have spelled it. My God. Wow. Master of the Pian flute.
Starting point is 00:28:38 Hello, darkness, mild friend. Zamphir, man. Man, Jesus. Romanian. And alive, 84 years young. Capital of Romania. And he's known as... Luccarest?
Starting point is 00:28:50 Yeah. He's from Gaiesti. That is it? Okay. Sorry. Play your fucking thing. Let's go. The master of the pan flute is Zamphir.
Starting point is 00:29:00 The master of the Omnicord. Well... It's not. I'm not even good at it. I'm not... I've had it for a week. La la la la la la. I've had it for a week.
Starting point is 00:29:09 I'm better at the piano than I am at this. and I suck shit at the piano. Yeah. Woo! Am I bad on the piano? Did you ever take piano lessons? No. But I had a boyfriend who was super into Billy Joel.
Starting point is 00:29:21 Sure. Who once taught me a Billy Joel song. What song? It might have been. Goodnight Saigon. No. I think it was a doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo do do do do do do do. I think that is a season of a Italian restaurant.
Starting point is 00:29:35 Yes, that is it. Yeah. So I used to be able to do that. I could not do that now. That feels like a relatively complicated. It was incredibly complicated. This guy sounds like he rules so far. And that boyfriend, Billy Joel.
Starting point is 00:29:47 Yeah. Yes. He was a big Billy Joel fan, and his name was Billy Joel. No relation. None. Try as he might. He's really Q-in-on now, that ex of mine. I recently saw him reposting Newsmax, and I was like, Jesus, I got out.
Starting point is 00:30:04 Oh, boy. What's his name? I got out. I got out. Look him up on Zougal. My internet search history is whacked out. I'm on a terror alert list of some kind now. So no, I never took any piano lessons.
Starting point is 00:30:20 I played clarinet in middle school. What was your go-to song? Oh, I don't know, whatever we were playing that week. But I was second clarinet. I was like that's pretty good. Yeah, it was decent. How many clarinets were there? I don't know, five, four, maybe two.
Starting point is 00:30:35 I got to sit in the second clarinet seat. I had solos. Did you, you didn't think of. and pro with it. No. I couldn't even tell you why I chose clarinet. I don't remember at all. I just, I loved it. It's a beautiful instrument. It's like a girly oboe. Yeah. A she oboe. Yeah. I took piano lessons. Nice. I can play one song. Chopsticks. No, I can play, well, yes, two songs. Chopsticks and fur elise. Nice. By an artist you may have heard it before. Sting.
Starting point is 00:31:07 No, the police It's actually the police Yeah, I can... It's who, it's Mozart? I think it's a Beethoven I think Beethoven. Beethoven. Beathoven?
Starting point is 00:31:17 Beathoven? We go to Abitha? Crazy. Crazy. I had a little Yamaha, a little white Yamaha keyboard. I wanted to play piano. And I remember once I saw it, when I saw Home Alone. Somewhere in my memory.
Starting point is 00:31:34 Remember that song? Nope. Do do do do do do. Oh, yeah. I went upstairs and taught myself that on my little. But it wasn't knowing piano. It wasn't like making it sound good. It was going, do, do, do, do, do, do.
Starting point is 00:31:47 But even that. But that's pretty sophisticated to be able to hear it and be like, I can play that. I don't think it is. A lot of people can't do that. A lot of people can't hear a song and go, I can match it to this. Is that perfect pitch? Yeah. Are we finding out right now that you're a musical savant?
Starting point is 00:32:03 Are you Beethoven? Yes. So that's my, that's the extent of my music. Stevie Wonder. And then I tried to play a guitar when I was in college and my hands are too small. What are you trying to play, Billy Joel? No, John Mayer. That was when I was in my John Mayer phase.
Starting point is 00:32:21 And so the song I could play, again, to start way too difficult than like easy chords. There's a John Mayer's song called Comfortable. And the beginning of it is like this very beautiful, complicated. And I could play that. I couldn't now, but I could then. I feel like we're learning you're secretly really good at instruments. I don't think that I am. I think that I start them and then I stop them.
Starting point is 00:33:00 Now, tell me how this works. I don't understand it. Okay, well, I don't understand it either, so we're going to find out to get. Let's point, let's do this thing where we point your microphone, Katie, at it. Okay. And we'll point this microphone at us. People who actually know how to use this instrument are going to be sad about this. Oh, there it is.
Starting point is 00:33:19 Okay. And then, well, I mean, I'm just going to play it. So, like, cool. It does, like... I feel like we're your backup band. It's like... Do whoop, wop, wop. Do, wop, wop.
Starting point is 00:33:30 Oh. I love this instrument already. But check it out. I mean, is it just fun. And the thing is that a dog could play it. Nothing. Change nothing. This is like if Chris Martin was in Zelda.
Starting point is 00:34:16 It's funk. That was basically the chords of fixers. Thank you. Thank you so much. How do I make it funk? That comes, that happens. He's twisting knobs. Ooh, yeah, the dance remix.
Starting point is 00:34:33 And then if you want, you know, other rhythms in the background. This is the same rhythm that didn't change. Oh. That's rock too. This is just an ad for the Omnicord, but you need the chords to be playing. So I think... Buea bass. Booyabase.
Starting point is 00:34:53 Activate Booliabase mode. Base mode. And that, my friends, is everything I know about the Omnichord. Now you know everything I know. There are other things you can do on it. See this button says keyboard here? Yeah. What does that do?
Starting point is 00:35:05 I don't know. I thought you'd say. Great. That's a great question to ask. I haven't had it long enough to know. They're yelling at me that I need to take my mic back. Okay, you have it. That was cool.
Starting point is 00:35:14 I don't feel like I know it any better. This is, I like this. Yeah. Can we do that more? And what's the little one for? Oh, the little one. The little one. The little one.
Starting point is 00:35:23 Okay, wait. The little one. Little one. It's like whatever's happening. The little one goes, stop. Oh. Little makes it all stop. Okay.
Starting point is 00:35:33 And you know that this instrument was designed by someone who had a child because then at some point they had to put a button on it to be like, it makes it. It makes it just stuff. Brilliant. What are your, oh, so have you unveiled this to your kids? Well, they all saw the Instagram. I would say that my children approached it with apprehension, but have taken an interest in it
Starting point is 00:35:56 because it is a thing where like you go to a song that you like and you see the chords and you're like, and now I can play every song. And now I just push the button. You don't have to figure out how to make your fingers do that. You just go, boop.
Starting point is 00:36:05 It's a really great intro to playing music. Yeah. There's a whole subreddit R slash Omnicord. Cool. Did they post you in it? I hope not. They go check out this guy.
Starting point is 00:36:16 Omnicording. It's going to be people in cool bands. Do cool bands use these? I don't know, maybe. Who uses these? I think the gorillas is gorillas, that's a band, right? Oh, yeah, of course it's a band. You're not up to do that.
Starting point is 00:36:28 I think they have a song. I couldn't name a song that Gorillas does. Yes, you could. I could. Yeah, feel good, Inc. How's that going? Feel good. Doodoo do, do, do, do, do.
Starting point is 00:36:39 I don't think I know. Oh, maybe I did. When you went down, I knew it. Thank you. But I think they have a song that they made on the Omnicord. Cut that out, by the way. Show me somebody wailing out on the thing. Gorillas, Clint Eastwood is an Omnicord.
Starting point is 00:36:54 Oh, Clint Eastwood. I'm happy. I'm feeling glad I got sunshine. Oh, I know that's on. That's them. Oh, yeah. You can make that do that. You have that?
Starting point is 00:37:06 I don't know what chords they are. Okay, well, I'll show you the screenshot. Oh, my God, this is crazy. That looks different than yours. Yeah, this is like an old one. He's got four lit up buttons. Yeah, that's probably the OG Omnic cord. It's...
Starting point is 00:37:19 But if you put it on auto mode, it will go through chord progressions on its own. And so this is the podcast. Just to you wait, until we reveal our... Jordan Hudson's here! Mystery guest! She's here! Okay, so I'm going to buy an Omnicord. Oh my God, really?
Starting point is 00:37:51 Are we all going to buy them? Then we'll have an Omnicorn. Yeah, guys, we're starting a band. A three Omnicord band? When nobody plays anything different, we all play the same instrument. It's crazy. Press the button together. Oh, man, this is rules.
Starting point is 00:38:08 Okay, I would like to have Michael, though, perform the song using his voice. Wait, why? You're going to make him sing for us? Was it mid-yawn? Wait, really? You're going to make him do the thing live? I couldn't even stomach on my phone? Yes.
Starting point is 00:38:24 I have to look at him while he sings. Can I turn my back? It's no offense. Like the voice? Really, yes. And I'll spin around if I like it. We can do the voice style. I really don't like looking at people directly while they sing.
Starting point is 00:38:36 It makes me so uncomfortable. I'm sorry about it. Don't you need to cleat? Can I even sing the song on here? That's a really good point. I'm turning my chair just in case. But he's making a really good point. No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:38:48 We are going to... I don't want to be sued by Chris Martin for singing this song and also be singing it badly. But what if we're journalistically analyzing it such that we are going to fair use. We're going to fair use your rendition of this song. Is it fix you? Uh-huh. I think I know somebody who was one of the producers on that album So maybe we could call him
Starting point is 00:39:13 Maybe they'll hire me Are they more, we got a new onboarding guy Does that make them more or less likely to live? Hey, you know that sound you've been looking for? Well, this is not it I would like for you to play it And then we can figure out if this is a thing we can air or not But why?
Starting point is 00:39:34 Because because because Because as Katie Nolan has turned her chair around. This is the voice. I need to journalistically established that we're going to discuss this. It's contents, its lyrical value, it's musical execution, through the lens, of course,
Starting point is 00:39:51 of how I intend this, which is as a dedication to Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson. When you try your best, but you don't succeed. Oh, you got, you sing it. You sing. I don't even know that. Honest to guy, I don't know all the words. Look them up.
Starting point is 00:40:07 But don't look at me, you know? Do you want me to hold the lyrics on my computer in front of you? I can't believe it's happening. A physical karaoke machine? People. My Filipino destiny? It sucks. People listen to this podcast.
Starting point is 00:40:23 I know. More than ever, actually. This is a big, oh my God. This is a big moment for you. This for you. This is your way of going. We got too many people listening to this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:33 We were like, what if you jet-skied over the shark? Let's call the herd. Let's have singing happen. Too many people here. Let's clear the room out. Michael? This is true. It really is that.
Starting point is 00:40:47 It's like it's the me bringing my guitar to a party of this. Except in this case, the host of the party will not let you leave until he gets his dose. And girls are turning their backs. It's actually doing the opposite. I feel like the rats that are being driven out of the city. Listen. Do you really want me to do this? I think it has to happen now at this point.
Starting point is 00:41:14 Do you want me to open this snack pack? Because that's the backup plan. I can give you backup vocals. We've got a snack up backup. That's all I got. So again... This has a lot of like long-term humiliation potential for me. Yes, it does.
Starting point is 00:41:28 But this is not, it's not about you. It's about... The music. Bill and Jordan. Now that I'm not understanding. For whom I think... I've seen the connection. At all of them.
Starting point is 00:41:37 Because, journalistically speaking, I believe that this is a song that we can discuss in the context of journalism that allows us to use it for fair use. Okay. And this... I still don't think that's true. The contents of this, I think, are... I would say this is Jordan. But he tried his best and he did succeed. Or...
Starting point is 00:41:56 Well, maybe we should let the song decide. You're right. You're so right. Are we doing it or not? Because I'm going to throw up. Is this really... Katie's going to look that way. I'm going to look directly at Michael. I am vibrating with anxiety.
Starting point is 00:42:13 Sure. Just thinking about all the ways that people will be able to make fun of me forever for doing. I mean, I already posted a video of myself doing this on Instagram. Which was crazy. Which was kind of a cringe thing to do from the outset. No. That wasn't grinch. It was bold and brave.
Starting point is 00:42:27 Just not for me. It just wasn't for me. This is going to be the last time we see each other. Probably. And I've had so much fun. This is it. We love that friendship. We've had a good run.
Starting point is 00:42:37 We really did. We really did. Five. six, seven, eight. Oh my God. I don't, why are there more microphones? Okay, let's just,
Starting point is 00:42:50 we're really gonna do it? Yeah, let's just do it really fast. Do it at the pace that the artist intended. What the hell is this show? It's also not, it's not a good key for me. I should probably learn how to play in a different key. It's too high. Also, I haven't warmed up my voice.
Starting point is 00:43:05 I haven't had any tea today. When you, when you, when you, okay, let's just start over. When you, when you try, okay. Fuck me, all right. When you try your best and you don't succeed. You get what you want, but not what you need. Well, that was a nice little run. I'm not turning around yet.
Starting point is 00:43:35 When you feel so tired but you can't sleep. Stuck in rivers Beautiful You can sing! This has been Pablo Torre finds out A metal art media production And I'll talk to you next time

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