Podcast About List - Ep. 251 - We are listening to you

Episode Date: July 26, 2023

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Okay, so my name is Pierce, as I said, and this is a focus group. I do focus groups semi-regularly. I've been doing focus groups for this group for the past week and a half. You guys are number 12. We're going to watch a partial episode of a semi-popular podcast, and we're just going to give feedback. The podcast is called Podcast About List. It's an unscripted comedy podcast geared towards young people or maybe young-minded people, and it's been experiencing mild but steady success and the hosts are looking to experience mainstream success and expand their reach to other key demographics. So hopefully after we watch this clip, you guys will help us with ideas to expand it to a broader market. So as you watch it, feel free to take notes on your

pen and paper. And after we finish screening, I'll ask you guys some questions. So make sure you pay close attention and think about how it makes you feel. If everyone's ready, we can start. This episode is called The Fappanning. The Fappan. And welcome back to Podcast About List. Yep. Uh-huh. Guys, how are you doing on this amazingly beautiful morning?

Guys, I'm going to be honest. What? I am a little bit hungover. From what, you party too hard, bro? Yep. I was out skateboarding last night, and I hung out with some of my friends after, and we went to a bar. No. No way. And you did what there? There. Well, I drank way too much. Oh, blessed. God, what did you drink? Just beer and shot.

You drank beer and shot? Give me a sound for that. Damn. Beer and shot. Beer and a shot. How many combos would you say that you had? I think it was 10. Oh my God. 10 beers and 10 shots. Luckily your young body could probably handle that.

Yeah. Yeah, thankfully. Beer and then shot. That's how drunk you got. You're in the clear. I don't want to alarm you, but I did actually I did take a hit of somebody's joint too. No.

You smoked fucking pot? Was it a blunt or a joint? It was a bowl. Well, you said joint. It was a joint and then a bowl. Look how fucking high he is still. Mother fuck. Yep.

I don't like how I feel right now. I'm so fucking sorry, man. Yep. Luckily, me and Cameron are very empathetic to this kind of struggle. Yeah. We've all been there. It's every day, bro. It's every day, bro.

We've all gone skateboarding and then gone out with our friends. We've snuck them into the bar. They're a little too young. Yeah. And then we've done beer and shot combos until we get. and we have to smoke weed. Yeah. The weed only made me sicker.

I did throw up. It helps with nausea. Weed does? That's what I've read on my... No, it didn't help me... On my forum boards. Here's a thing, man. It didn't help me last night.

No? I threw up all over the bar and I'm not allowed back. Do you think anybody is ever faking cancer so that they can smoke weed? Yeah, you ever seen Breaking Bad? Does he smoke weed in that?

He completely fakes cancer so that he can deal meth. That's like the whole point of the show. And then he dies anyway. Fakes cancer? Yeah. And then he dies with a panic attack at the end of the movie. They reveal that at the end of Better Call Saul.

I didn't know that. It was just all fake. He just had a really big panic attack and he fell down and died. Hmm. It's pretty interesting. It's actually a fascinating detail about the movie. Yeah. Man.

The movie? Yeah. Which movie? Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad. If you watch it in one side. Oh, you never watch the movie. That's probably what I was.

I think I'm still a little too high. Yeah. Honestly, guys, it's hell a jungle dropout today. Yeah. Do you agree? Wait. I would agree if I knew what the fuck jungle drop. Oh, you haven't heard jungle drop?

No, I haven't heard of jungle drop. It's the slang that's been going around New York and the young community. Is that some kind of United Kingdom style of music? No, it basically means when it's hot and humid out and every cool person's been saying it. You're like, damn, it's jungle drop today. Wow, it's mad jungle drop. I understand the jungle thing because jungles can get mighty hot for monkeys and snails. But what is a drop?

Yeah, what's the drop? What's the drop part mean? Okay, well, what drops? temperature? That's one thing. And what comes in drops? Wouldn't it make... Rain.

Water. Wouldn't it make sense? Sweat, too? Lots of things. Jungle drop. That would make sense if it wasn't, it didn't feel like a jungle anymore. No, you're thinking of...

Right. That would be called dropping the jungle temperature. Okay. Jungle drop means something... And it's also, it's slang. Slang usually is a reverend and means the opposite of what you think it means. That's true, like sick.

Or dope. Uh-huh. Or fried. You know what I... I like fried stuff. I've been saying fried a lot recently. Yeah, I don't say it at all. But I don't know what it means. I don't know.

I think it might... I think it's a skater slang. But doesn't it mean that you smoked weed? I think so. I think it used to mean that. And now it just means you're tired. It just means bad. Or I feel bad?

Oh, I'm fried. No, that's a mom thing to say. You're right. That's the same type of thing is... Yeah. She's thinking a kind of a scientific computer. Yeah. My mom doesn't know anything about the computer.

computer it's like a like she's like your mom gets home from work and she's like god i'm so fried i'm barred out yes yes yes you know i'm mad fucking i'm rolling deep i'm rolling right now yeah i'm i'm going through these hose like drano mm-hmm what that's that's like a thing what does that mean that's what they say in uh and um every day i'm shuffling song they say going through these hose like drano i don't listen to rat the thing that you clean the shit out of the toilet with you don't clean shit with Drainow. Oh my God.

I push Drain-on my ass every fucking time. Oh my God. You took a big shit this morning. Guys, let's talk about the big shits we've been taking. Okay. My shits have been looking

I'm 100% serious. It looks like brown smurfs what I've been putting in the toilet. I've been putting brown smurfs the entire village in the toilet. And the cat too. I have only been taking

just a big wet. It looks like, it looks like I threw a can of chili into an oscillating fan. Yeah. Oh, it like hits all the side of the pole. I've been terraforming the environment inside my toilet. Yeah.

I'm like I'm trying to start a Mars colony in there. Yeah. I've been shitting into the toilet and then playing Civ 5 with the shit islands that I create. And making turd people and turd Gandhi. Tird Gandhi. Tird Gandhi. If my toilet, if my toilet was in a museum, okay, an art agnostic person, they would walk into the art museum, they would see a Rothko painting.

They would go, ugh, this is crap. My kid could do this. They would turn, they would see the interior of my toilet. And they would say, I've changed my mind about modern art. Yeah, modern art is amazing. A child couldn't do this. No, a child would do it. Maybe in a diaper, but not in a toilet.

They can't reach that. No. Or maybe in a, why did you guys ever have one of those training toilets? Yes. Maybe. For little glass kids. Is that the one? where it has no hole? The plastic one with no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you have to, it's a hole. It's a, it's a

it's worse than a diaper, you have to clean the shit out of it. It's disgusting. They should maybe just make a peripheral. That's what I meant by no hole. I meant, like, topologically, no hole. Oh, yeah. You should just make a peripheral that goes over the toilet so that you don't have to, Don't have to. Yeah. Reminds me of gaming. One of my favorite things to do. Yeah,

I've been gaming so much. So much lately. What level are you? I'm over 9,000. Which only a gamer might understand that. Pull that shit up. Yo, producer, pull that shit up. Over 9,000.

Yeah, wait. Can we see that real quick? I just want a quick reminder of what movie that's from. Over 9,000. So for the listeners and watchers who don't know, over 9,000 is a meme from the former era. from the era of this is something

at the older end of our demographic might appreciate from antiquity yeah this I mean this is old as fuck if you remember this

wait hold on okay so there's some guy okay so it's muted it's me yelling at a hooter's waitress it's over

9000 me when I'm like the number of girls I dated in my life damn me when somebody asks me

how many fig newtons I ate and one in one sitting 8 oh my God 9,000 over 9,000 fig newtons in one sitting

but the serving size is only two Those things make you poo though Fing noons all right back to shit Yeah Let's think about it I've been Okay so yesterday

I've been having a really rough shitting week I'm going to be completely actually truly Sometimes I feel it sometimes Sometimes with how jungle drop it's been, sometimes I literally feel like I go in the bathroom and the air grows fur. I feel like it's, I feel like I'm living inside of an animal's body. Some kind of mushroom fungus. I feel like you know the visuals you get when you're on motherfucking acid and the, I mean, I do acid every week.

It's turning into lines. I feel like that is happening with the texture and smell of what I'm creating. Oh, speaking of weed, what kind of like drugs, like hard drugs have you been doing recently? Crocodile. Crocodile. Wow, that's fucking awesome. Yeah. I've been snoring every pill in the house.

Yeah. I ran out of, like, real pills to snort. So I started snorting some vitamin B stuff. The vitamin B would be like, right, don't snort me. Yep. Let me go. And I've snorted over 9,000 milligrams of vitamin B.

Oh, my God, dude. Yeah, and then I... That probably will get you swole. Yeah, I've been recently trying to get Swole AF. I've been going to the gym and been doing I've been first of all

I've been recording myself and other people around me without their permission and their consent yeah

which is kind of a cool thing that I like to do do you have a 360 camera that you use I have an

insta flicks or whatever it's called do you know what the ultimate technique is to film people

what you set up your tripod I'm going to put you on some game here you set up your

tripod with your camera and I would say phone but no you need a you tell I'm I'm talking

I'm talking IMAx camera just you said phone and it made me think of my phone. Yeah. I miss it.

Angry Birds, but I wish I could use my phone right now. You set it up in the locker room, you know, at the entrance to the locker room where they put the big mirror, you set it up pointing at the mirror. So somebody walks in front of the camera,

they're getting in your shot. And you can beat them to a pulp. Someone walks behind the camera, they're still walking through your shot because the mirror catches them. You're fucking dead, buddy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I've been lifting five pounds for 12 hours.

Yep. And I'm starting to get a little. I got a pump, man. I have a crazy pump. I can't lift my arms. above my waist because of how strong I am. I've been lifted one pound for 24 hours straight. Yep.

There is a, Mr. Beast had this idea. Did I tell you guys this? I love Mr. Beast. He's got to be the best guy in the world. I honestly think we model almost everything we do off of this guy. Yep. 100%. And also, you know who my least favorite president is?

Who? Ronald Reagan. Yeah. Oh my God. No thank you. I do wish that AOC would be a new type of president. called the lovely president yeah and also

she should be probably communist I wish that I lived in communist China slash North Korea yeah you okay hey oh patty what do you think about the strike what's strike oh that's good that's fine that's okay don't worry about it you can go back to sleep

um Mr. Beast asked asked his self in just a and what's called a statement he said the best video in the world would be if you get a strong guy in a room or wherever, it can be anywhere.

And you give him a one pound dumbbell. And every curl he does, you give him a dollar. Wow. How many do you think you can do? I heard, well, me, I probably do five to six before I got bored

and I'd want to get on my phone and look at TikTok. I'd probably want to play on my iPad and watch a skibbitty toilet. I like my iPad a lot. Yeah, me too. I can't get enough of my iPad. Now, here's a story about Mr. B.

Yeah, I like the fitness on it. Not. No. I like using it to look. at picks. Mm-hmm. I look at picks. You can get a PICs sent straight to your Apple Watch.

I look at my camera roll on there. Checking the time, you can just be looking at porn. Oh, my God. Looking at my memories on the Apple Watch, going back to my Facebook memories, the good old days, 2016. Back when shit was different back then, I was 70. It was so fucking long ago, man. So fucking different, man.

Now that I'm, now that I'm turning 21 next week, it's all going to change. What is going to change? I mean, that can finally, like, I can stop using a fake ID. for one I use a fake ID to get into every single bar I've ever been to I use a fake ID

I'm getting on a plane on should I be saying that on a podcast though because then like something I just thought of it's okay we don't respect the police we don't give a fuck

and something else I just thought of the three stooges are gay dude I've been saying this what the fuck is up with these weirdos can you imagine watching them try to fuck each other and missing their dicks

out of their asses over and over and over again yeah one second this is my impression of that yep yep what's the three I don't know what the three stooges is

the three stooges is about three okay imagine imagine by the way it's a little offensive honestly as a kind of a younger as a stud yeah because I feel like as a zillelanielist roots in its word it honestly does it's like saying the I word

it's like calling these people the I word or something which is like irrelevant is not for me You know, it's just a little bit like, you know, it's kind of cringe, I guess. It doesn't feel good, my dude. Straight up. Yeah. Straight up, my dudes.

Honestly, if you don't know the three stooges, let me give you an example. Just picture the three of us. Deep fry it. Oh, shit. Throw it on meme base. Shuffle it up a little. Take it out. Make it fucking gay.

Mm-hmm. And those are the three guys. And add some rule 34 to it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. What's your favorite rule of the internet? internet probably 34 yeah real 34 as well that's your favorite bro that's your favorite

my favorite is number one what's number one which is uh maybe that's our list today do not tell people about the internet if they don't ask or some kind of it's from some old movie yeah don't talk about the internet to people who don't fucking get it yeah i think it's actually that yeah speaking of list we do have a list today right wow yeah we're going to go we're going into it now should we jump into it? I mean, we've done 15 minutes and like, I don't know, I'm already kind of, you guys, don't you guys want to do like 40 more minutes? No, dude, I'm fucking bored. You're bored already? Yeah. I fell asleep. It's okay, man. I'm tired too. This shit sucks. And we should get paid more for this, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. Straight up. Who's your favorite celebrity?

Uh, probably Andrew Tate or Kim Kardashian or not. Greta Gerwig. Young grong or baby grunk. Greta Gerwig. Oh, by the way, I'm going to see Barbie instead of some movie about a black and white. Have you heard what they're doing the sound of freedom?

What are they doing to sound of freedom? I don't know. Guess it's some shady crap. Slim shady. Slim shady. Yeah. I wish I'd rather watch that.

My name is. My name is what? My name is. Yeah. My name is who. My name is. What? My name is.

Who? My name is. Yeah. Okay. is, what? God, sorry, wait, I'm saying. I love rap. Yeah.

I love rap. Rock is shit. Yeah. Rock is shit, straight up. I think all classic rock sucks. Real rappers is hard to find, like a remote. Also, the control rap is out of. Damn.

You know who's the worst rock band in my eyes? Who is Zeppelin? No, the Beatles. B-E-A-T-L-E-S. The Grateful Dead? They didn't even spell it right. And the Grateful Dead is honestly bullshit. Can't stand them.

And I hate, um... And I love covers of old songs, not the original. Yeah, here's what I'm never to listen to. I'm actually releasing. I didn't, I should probably, I guess I, this time I'm going to announce it. I'm actually releasing a fully electronic eight-bit cover album of Fleetwood Mac. Thank God, because I was never going to listen to, to rumors, ever, ever, ever. And mine is my album, cover album is called gamers.

Can you do the big bopper next? Because I'm glad he's dead. I'm glad that that. that plane went down. Yeah. Buddy Holly and the big bopper, get him out of here! Uh-huh.

And Elvis. And Elvis basically... Cut your hair. Died on the toilet. I like... I honestly like the... Who was the name of the actor? Austin Butler.

I like Austin Butler's voice more than Elvis's. Honestly. Wow. And he offensively stole Rock from POC. Mm-hmm. Straight up. I was true. I just forgot that about...

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get heated about all this shit. We can just do the list. We'll just do the list. So yeah, welcome back to a podcast about list. The only podcast that will give you a list every episode. Podcast about list. Oh, wrong, wrong.

Fatality. That's been a video game as well. Yeah, I like video games and skateboarding. So let's pull up this list today. Today's list that we're covering is a little list that I like to call and some nice people on the internet like to call. Yeah. Top 10 most lovely scented flowers. Oh.

When are they going to stop posting bullshit like? this. Get this shit out of my face. This is not what the internet is for. I'm going to need some fucking eye bleach after reading this list, I think. Yes. So Ivy Lee says, if it doesn't make me lull and it doesn't make me fap, I don't want to see. Bro, I can't believe you just brought up fapping because I was a way, I was waiting to get into it. These are the two gods of fapping. What have you? But it might, I'm but a little prince of faping. What is in y'all's spank bank right now. My spank bank is Riley Reed. Gabby Carter

Lena the plug. These are the bank, the girls I got the hose I spank it to. I got Amy Rose. I got cream. I got tails. I got Ruse the bat. Wait, that's some Rule 34 shit.

Oh yeah. I'm fapping to. I had like an accident and nude scenes of real actresses from real life. You had a fapping accident? Yeah. What happened? What fappened? Um, the fappening. Well, I got, I got, like, I don't know, I don't really know if I should talk about it on air. What happened? But I got...

Spill the tea, bro. So I was in the shower, and I was about to go to work. And I guess I must have turned the water on too hot. But I was fapping in the shower. I love that. Sorry, you said fapping again. I fucking love fapping. Me fapping in the shower?

Yep. That's when... I stepped in while I stepped in while I. I was fapping, and I got scalding burns on my penis. Because the water was too hot. I didn't check. On your thing? Because I was already fapping.

On your glizzy? Yeah, I got burns on my glizzy. On your telly wacker? Mm-hmm. You got burns on your fucking glizzy? I thought you were going to show you, but right now it's wrapped in gauze. I wish it was wrapped in a tortilla. Yes.

You want my glissie wrapped in a tortilla, bro. Pause. That is hell of pause. My bad. My bad. My bad. You want to eat my glizzy out of a tortilla. I didn't say I want to eat it.

I didn't say I want to eat it. But I wouldn't mind. Pause. You want to eat as a glizzy. No. Straight up. Okay. Guys,

let's get back to the list, though. Okay. This is a list I made of not only which flowers look the prettiest, but also has a beautiful and lovely smell. Enjoy. Ivy Lee, probably gay. Yeah.

And that, honestly, a classic name for a flower fan. And Ivy. Ivy, oh my God. Ivy, Ivy drip, water. Yeah. What a plants drink?

Water. Water. Number one, roses. Such a beautiful, subtle and gentle scent. I love white roses. That's from Righteous. Hey, guys, these are my favorite, too. To forget to send my mom on Mother's Day.

That's right. That's a bullshit holiday. And Valentine's Day, I don't buy these for my fiancé. No. Oh, you like white roses? I like green buds and green stems and green seeds. That's a kind of flower. I'm into. That's a kind of flower I'm into. Something where I can spark up and watch some cartoons.

And some remix ready stems. Yes. So I can DJ it up. I love remixes. Oh, my God. Remixes are better than the original. I love remixes. Every remix is better than the original. Have you heard this? Speaking of originals, though, have you heard this song, Run DMC, collab with some bullshit rocker band for some crap song? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's exactly my thoughts. Exactly. But it's something about. about walk like walk this way and run DMC I heard they wrote the whole thing oh god I don't even want to discuss that disgust is what it makes me think magnolia even the name makes it lovely I don't even know what that is all I know about is the production company yeah honestly film is one of my greatest interests uh yeah I like cinema veritae I do digital I feel even though that I find myself kind of embracing irony and disgustingness in every aspect of my life, including interpersonal relationships.

I can't help, but wax poetic about a beautiful film that I've experienced in the cinema. What's the most recent beautiful film that you've seen? You know, that would probably have to be Lego Batman movie. Yes, like there's any of the intricacies there. The newer like three Pixar movies or more what I'm into. The old ones are kind of elemental. And if you see the Barbie movie as a man, you gay. Yeah, straight up, you're gay.

Or you like pink. Yep. Which is okay nowadays. Yeah, which is for real men. Yeah. I would say. But only if it's a polo. Real men wear pink polos.

Number five, Jasmine. Jasmine's and lavenders are both my favorite lovely scented flowers. Sorry. I think I just put this on a list a second time. Sorry, sorry, sorry. This just reminded me of a Rule 34. I fap too with Jasmine from Aladdin. And I fapped to it and I completed.

And don't tell me it took place in Lavender Town. It actually did. It took place in Laugh. And it had the Lavender Town. song, which is a little creepy. Speaking of creepy, Slender Man, is real. Slender Man is real.

Yeah, real based. Yeah, real based. Yeah. Number 10, sweet pee. What? Sweet pee's a food. Sweet peas of food. And wait a second. Honestly, can I tell us all food? Can I tell a joke stand-up style real quick? Can I tell a stand-up style? Yeah, go ahead. So this person on this

this person on this top 10 list has put sweet P as a number 10 most lovely scented flower of all time. Now, I don't know about you guys in the audience, but when I think of lovely sense, pee is not usually what I go to. Yes, that's funny. And that's the audience. That's funny. That's actually really good. Thanks. I got a little scared at first when I saw Sweet P because I misread it and thought it said SCP. As in as in the pure nightmare fuel SCP is the internet is so fucked up, bro. It's so

fucked up. What are these people doing? What is going on? Literally, I look at stuff and I think to myself, I'm so extremely online that only I think I get this and a couple of other people. Straight up. Who is this for? Yeah. Who is this for? It's for me.

Who is this creepy pasta for? Probably who would even... You would literally the things you have to know. You have to understand Zelda. You have to know that a guy can be named Ben, you have to have drowned or know somebody who drowned or see a picture of someone who drowned. You have to be able to read.

You guys got to see this video. I saw, yo, producer, can you pull this up real quick? Just as a tangent. Drama, can you pull this up? Can you look up? It's called Squidward on YouTube.

Squidward on YouTube? Squidward on YouTube? Squidward, suicide. It scared the fuck out of me. What's this? I haven't seen this. Squidward. It scared me so bad. It's a lost episode Yeah, this is a lost episode of SpongeBob

If you ever seen SpongeBob Oh, we can't even want us to watch it Wait, I understand Yeah I actually really like Trick and warnings and stuff Oh God it looks fucking Skip to the middle

Looks creepy as fuck I don't want to see this A creepy beginning Oh Squidward He's just not bro Whoa Turn that shit off bro Why would you show us that?

What the fuck was that? What the fuck? Go back to the list, man. I don't even want to think about what hell that made me feel. But I would watch on Rule 34 of it. Yeah. Can you look up Squidward Rule 34? Squidward's booby-cocky.

No, we can't do that. Okay, all right. Sorry, what's the next flower? Carolina Jasmine. Oh, that's already on the list. The scent of a yellow jasmine is amazing. If any scent was a heavenly scent, it would be poop. Oh, did I misread that?

It would be this flower. That would be a beautiful name for my future daughter. Poop? My future daughter, which, by the way, I would let my daughter do only fans. I am literally going to gene edit my children so I only have daughters. Yes, and make them all do only friends. I want 10 to 12 daughters. Yes.

And I want them to take care of me when I'm aging and old. And I don't want them to have lives outside of my palace. Yeah. You want to keep all your daughters chained up? No, they would emotionally, they would want to stay with me, but they wouldn't be physically tied. I would love. We would be far away from most other things. and there's not really a bus or a plane

and we don't own a car so it would be hard for them to leave but I mean honestly the point is I just want them that sponge bath me yep and make when you're older like when they're young yeah when I'm old like 37

and I would make my kids do straight up I would make my kids become professional cuphead speed runners yeah even though the art style you gotta start up young even though the art style is kind of critical

no literally like I want my influencer bubble the influencer bubble is about to pop man everybody knows this. Everybody knows this. Nah, my kids are going to be the influencers like Fred or Smosh.

I fucking love Smosh. That shit is kind of old, though. What do you mean? Like, Smosh and Fred is kind of old, though. Like, I'm more into like Kaisanat. I show speed. I show speed. Aiden Ross. Steak.com. This is my kind of

shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know. I car lead reunion. Mm-hmm. bro they get pregnant on that on i carly they all do they got i carly pregnant every girl gets pregnant one day no but they probably do abortions which are fucking fine yeah you just think about all the procedures though i think that if if this podcast doesn't work which by the way it is working we have millions of views and well deserved i'd say yeah but if it

doesn't work, I'll probably try to become some kind of abortion doctor. Definitely. I think I would work for the city. For the city? Well, that's awesome because if you're at the, here's what I do. Because I'm addicted to learning. Speaking of the city, yeah. What do you guys say right now? We pressed up. We head under the city and we pick us some girls in Times Square. Yeah. Oh, snap. And fap with them? Yeah. Let's go fap. All right. Bye y'all. Catch you on the flip side later um all right any any opening thoughts do you want to start us off Alan do you want to just say what your overall opinion was okay yeah um first um the uh the actors had a sense of humor yep and uh it was like a comic comedic or comical um the actor

with a green cap this one right here yes every time is a focus, the light is, it's a dark. Yeah. So maybe lighting is something we want to work on, especially in this side of the frame. But was everyone else, was everyone else lit well enough to see? It's very good, this other too, yeah. And also the middle actor is trying to hide from the microphone.

Pretty low in the frame. Yes. And then this mic, I noticed that it's kind of covering up his face. Right. Okay. So, we can get into specifics, but overall comedy podcasts, and then maybe we can work on the visual presentation a little bit more. Do you want to, let's, we'll come back to specifics in a little bit.

Do you want to share your opening overall thoughts? Is this real? This is real? Like, this is a real podcast? This is a real podcast? They, I think... Oh, that was awful. You were, you did not appreciate it at all.

It's not funny. I mean, I just didn't... Yeah, I can go on. But we should... Do you have specific notes about it, or... I mean, other than lighting, the background, there's not interesting to look at. They were...

So visually not interesting. And then you just didn't find it to be a funny podcast. This is one of the worst things I've seen. Was it boring or was it... Boring. I'm bored out of my mind, yeah. Okay. And then, Phil?

I'm very much in agreement with this young man. Now I'm considerably older than most of you guys, so maybe I was trying to wonder, is this relevant or is it, you know, it's horrifying sort of, really, I vacuous and I wouldn't watch it even paid. I mean, this is, we've watched it because we are, and that's a, and that's, you know, and That's pushing it. Jumping to his moments about a production value, there's a lot of problems there and it degrades from whatever the words are.

First, that would be the foundation. I mean, you step in the door and you've got to have a pleasant visual presentation. For you, at least, there's no redemptive qualities about it. Like, if the visuals were better, it might have been easier to watch or put on. Yeah, and the visuals are a start. Right away, it doesn't, I'm thinking, boy, these are a bunch of children. Right. And to me, they actually are children, but they're like third graders.

And I've actually seen better fifth graders do a better show at this level. Yeah. Something that's come up a lot is people have objected to the amount of headroom because they're so well in the frame. That's the objection. From what I understand, logistically, this is so that we can actually put the internet websites that they're discussing to feature them more prominently. That's a reason.

Maybe periodically tilt and put it in. But this is, this is right. So that would require, just so you know, that would require another additional staff member who would have to be able to pivot that camera. Because right now these three are the only people on set when they report this. Well, please. So do we have any ideas on how to, how to maybe clarify the visual language? because it's three present, it's three presenters,

and then we're supposed to have internet websites being showcased in the back. Bare minimum make it an even cloth. I mean, it's like folded and messy back there, a bare minimum. Yeah, right, exactly, exactly. So let's just take a look here at, this used to be one of their previous sets.

Would you guys say that they have improved or maybe decreased in quality. Perfect. This is a hundred times better. Wow. Yeah. My understanding is that this flooded and that they had to evacuate.

So this might be a work in progress, this new set, but this is, we think that this was maybe a better creative direction? Yes. Okay. I mean 100%. All right. Yeah. Now they can open their mouth.

Mm-hmm. This mic set up here, we have handheld mics here, and I believe that in the most recent episode, we have mics on a platform. What do you guys think about this delivery style here with handheld mics? Make them all black. Sorry? Make them all black. Make who all black? No, they microphone boos.

Oh, these are distracting, the colors maybe? Oh, my God, hugely. And I'm looking at these things rather than looking at the guys or talking. So we want less. color on the microphone. Absolutely. I have questions that we can address specifically. Is there anything that you guys took notes about

that you would like to, Alan, is there anything that you would like to address in your notes? Yes. There were some instances that the chorus, they used to speak together. Cross talk? Yes. And the sound quality, there are some echoes. Yeah, what did we think about the sound quality over?

There are some echoes on the... I mean, I found it intelligible. I just, it was the content mostly. Technically, you don't have many objections aside from the visual language. The sign, yeah, that's where the sound goes. It was sound defined, man. What age group would you guess that this is targeted towards? Eighth graders, or less.

Yeah. So does that become troublesome with the, like, we have discussions about drug use, We have discussions about pornography. Does that sort of complicate this target demographic of younger people? Correct. Depends on the young person. Right. So what would you say?

Should we, I think that they're attempting to cultivate an older audience. So should we, go ahead. How old? I would say probably we're trying to graduate from eighth grade to maybe. college to late high school college maybe even post post college

they missed the boat okay so are we so how do we course correct to get that larger demographic the older demographic is that more pornography more drug use no just

the type of comedy just it's very amateur comedy just so maybe more complex jokes are there any like comedians that you could point to that would maybe they should take inspiration from? Segura, Thomas, people like, yeah, like that level of comedy should be.

Right. Or anything like that. Yeah, this was so far off of anything that I would work. I'm having trouble there. Okay, so what? And they also insulted, and I took it very offensively when they were at the last section. He was insulting a number of things, the three stooges. Don't get me more.

I mean, I can take it a, you know, a punch girl. I don't remember him. I do remember him saying that they were maybe homosexual. Yeah, they were gay. Right. And I was like, wait a minute, what the hell? No, that, you missed the boat on them. I can't even see that in the vaguest wildest perception of they are gay.

I mean, if gay means homosexual, actual, not just a little bit of a boring joke. Like, it's such a childish. joke it's not funny I'm not offended it's just such a boring joke it's younger younger crowd yeah that's like you know pooh jokes who was your favorite of the three who do you think was the star of the day oh god I would go for the middle guy Alan this is the star of the day for you yes I can relate with all these the content was so good it depends on the hero depends on the audience but I was able to relate and I was able to laugh I know where they're getting at you

It's kind of a random talk about things and- But you thought that he maybe kept it together the most? Yes. Can we talk about our favorite just so that I have something to go back with? Does anyone... Well, who's the guy on the left here? This guy? Yeah.

This is your favorite? Is that one of you? No. Okay. I don't know. Out of the three, yeah. This is the start of the day for you. The biggest dub.

And then, it doesn't matter to you, maybe. It doesn't matter. I mean, I present. I mean, he's the only one that. I can see. This one right here. This one, you can see him the best. Yeah.

And that was, yeah, it's the only one you can see plainly. And that's a big, you know, again back to production value. Okay, I can see him, I can relate to him. Now what the hell is he saying? But first I've got to visually accept this image as a pleasant thing to look at, and it didn't do it. Did anyone flop? Did anyone have the biggest flop? The guy in the middle.

He flopped. Yeah, I can't, you know, here, hi, how are you? How are you? You know, wait. Here, this is me talking. Sorry, hi. How are you? Yeah, difficult to see.

What do you think their politics are? We have discussions about AOC and abortion. Can you take a guess as to what political spectrum we're trying to activate? I'm trying. Liberal, thinking? Maybe a liberal crowd. You both appreciated this guy the most. What did you think about jungle drop?

Do you think that that's an expression that we're a liberal crowd? that's an expression that was compelling to you? It was an expression, I never heard it before, it made sense. I don't know. Do you think that, would you, okay. But would you say that that's marketable? Was that like a... Marketable?

Um, I guess. Yeah, something you could say. Like a shirt with jungle drop on it. Yeah, with a shirt? Yeah, I don't know if... Shirt or hat? I guess. Is jungle drop?

Jungle drop? The weather outside is double-drawn. Yeah, okay, big deal. I mean, I've heard enough other, gee, it's really hot, it's like, you know, Tarzan hot, you know. Right. And I was... It's like a catchphrase. Yeah, it didn't...

Yeah, but not... It's not... It's too forced. Yeah. Maybe as just a final note here, what could they do to appeal to an older crowd? Or do they have to throw everything out and start fresh? Yeah, I think that's... Throw it out and start fresh.

If it's not, if they want to keep their existing audience. They have an audience? They do have an audience. My understanding is that they make a living through user. They make money doing this? The users pay them directly to consume premium content. So what is a way that they can keep that user base and then activate an older demographic? What incremental iterative changes can they make?

can they make in order to do that? Find more dumb people? I don't know. Maybe just like a less educated older crowd? How do we activate that? No, I don't even. No? Yeah, yeah, I think so.

Okay, what would you do to activate that demographic? I mean, when you say the less educated adult crowd would listen to this stuff. How willing would they be to debase themselves? I mean, at this point, that's what you're talking about. Specifically, what do you mean by that specifically? Like, just make clowns of themselves. They really just want to just go all out. So maybe use the sound board more,

more funny sounds with the soundboard, like. That would have helped. It would have, vaguely, vaguely that would have helped. I wish some, at the end, when this guy started talking about abortion and all, every girl gets pregnant and so forth, I'm just going, this guy's a fucking moron. Yeah.

And I found it, you know, like, Offensive. Turn this guy off. Okay. And it wasn't funny. He wasn't... He's trying to be funny. But maybe insulting.

Right. Offensive? Yeah. Okay, so if it was offensive, should they maybe cut down on the swearing? Was there too much vulgarity? It wasn't the vulgarity or swearing? That wouldn't matter to me. It's more about just...

I don't know about the regulation on the airwave. Their jokes. Yeah, because they've tried doing... They've tried doing episodes. with no swearing and I believe that the feedback was mixed do you think there's a way that we could figure out like go more so with the swear because I think that they are at a point now where they don't know if they want to do more vulgarity I'm going less vulgarity because it's almost sound again regulated vulgarity

yeah yeah okay and then are they going for the stupidity I mean they honest and true they I mean it could have been funny sort But I was just getting like, boy, you guys are really dumb sheds. They have done a few episodes that I feel are more brainy. They've been an episode using MadLivs, if you guys are familiar. Yeah, I'm in MadLiv. Maybe more of that to activate the more like gifted sort of intelligent people who like MadLivs. Yeah.

I agree. Yeah. So maybe more games, more like... Puzzle or, you know. Yeah, puzzle games like MadLives or something like that. Yeah. Deep thinking. Yeah, yeah, where there was a little more thinking involved rather than just...

What would their audience be now? Who's their audience now? That I don't know, but I would say that it skews male and it skews maybe late teens, early 20s, something like that. At least that's for the paying crowd. The people who consume the free content, I would say we're talking like 11, 12, 13. I don't see women liking this at all. They have had some pretty high-profile female guests on the show

one person who's on Saturday Night Live was a guest on the show, that's right? Unbelievable. No kidding. So this is where I worry that, you know, wow, why too far out? High-profile female, you know. Yeah. Okay, I think that's it.

One last thing is, is there anything we can do about the title of the show, podcast about List? Is that engaging enough? Is there anything like maybe quicker to the punch of the, is there any quicker that we could get there? Yeah, I mean, I like that name, go with

the name, but be, be what the name, be what you've told me a little bit. More lists, maybe get to the lists. Yeah, well that, yeah, I wasn't waiting for the list. Yeah. Get that up in the beginning, make that the foundation for all the other goofy crap that you're talking about.

Just do the list from the top, welcome the podcast about list, our list today is. Yeah, yeah. Maybe if they had something to go on, they'd be better. Yeah. Yeah. Let's talk about, you know, movies and fapping and all that. Well, you can just go straight to the list.

Any closing thoughts there, Alan? Generally, it was good for me. So it seems like all in all just pretty good. Yes. Great. All right, great. Well, thank you guys so much. Thank you for coming.

And we just have to have you sign a few releases and then we'll get you paid out. Okay. That was very, very helpful. Thank you so much, you guys. As the focus group drew to a close, Cameron, Caleb, and Patrick reflected on the crushing feedback they had just received. Just because it hurt didn't mean it wasn't true. It was time to make a change.

The three regrouped, sat down, and hit record. All right, and we are back. And we're back, guys. Back to Podcast About List. If you can't tell, we've made some improvements. We have fixed the lighting. Yeah. I'm not slouching anymore.

You're not slouching here. Yep. Yeah, and... It's funny that you're sitting, I mean, not to instantly break the thing here, but we tried to make you much taller. You just look the same height as both of us now. Yeah.

Except for Caleb, I guess. I guess it must be the camera angle. Both of us except for me. But yeah, I don't know. I feel like we got a good new direction that we're going in. We've been floundering a lot, to be completely honest. It's been... Much needed feedback.

Yeah, I mean, you know, You know, you come to a crossroads, and you got to pick a direction. And we're going the road less traveled, I'd say. Oh, yeah. You know? Maybe we could change the name of the show to road less traveled. I'm down to change the name of the show. Well, people seem to like the name.

That's true. That seemed to be the one thing that they liked. That is true. Which is kind of crazy to me. But, I mean, not that I would know. I wasn't even there at whatever we're talking about. How are you feeling self-esteem-esteem-wise, guys? I'm feeling probably just about the same as I always do

Yeah I got a little boost You got a boost Star of the day You were star the day Majority voted Majority voted star of the day Yeah

Unfortunately I guess It seems you got no votes at all Yeah I would say that that hurt me Even more than probably being called a flopper hurt you I'm used to it Yeah it didn't really Nothing made me feel pretty bad

I'll be real Nothing that happened And I'd like to apologize, by the way, to anybody who was offended by different comments that I made. Comments that I made as well. I made one comment that I know was very controversial in the room. Which home is that? I was able to kind of introspect a little bit after.

Because I said it, I said this on reflex. I barely wasn't even thinking about it. I said the three studios are gay. Yeah, that I think hit home for many people. And then I kind of was able to think about it and think, well, why am I saying that? It's not true. It's kind of just a bald-faced lie. I think that our instincts to go with the first thing that we do think of are often incorrect.

It's kind of going blue for the sake of going blue. Which reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite comedians, Tom Segura, who says, I would trade 20 white babies for an Asian baby. If I'm ever rich, I want a closet full of Asian babies. and I'll just put them out wherever whenever I'm feeling down you know what is it what is this sorry I'm not done okay all kinds

Korean ones Chinese ones Vietnamese not so much my dad was in the war and I hold a grudge now what does that have to do with the what just happened well somebody said they liked yeah Tom Cigura would be a more kind of Tom Cigura

style stuff so I'm thinking of maybe growing out of a beard like Tom Cigora yeah yeah I think that's a pretty good idea good yeah um i'm just feeling uh yeah this is a i'm i'm i'm kind of centered it was what i needed yeah i kind of feel similar i feel like a reset baptized a cleanse yeah wash away all the sin um we fix the camera angle set's looking good yeah and uh here let me make sure you can see my my face i don't want to block my face with the mic like oh true like patrick so rudely did but i uh you know i i

fixed it i mean we don't have a close up of me can't really do a punch in but i'm uh taller than i've been. Yep, we have new looks also, which I think are working for us. Oh, that's okay. Mostly working. Oh, wait, did they say they're like the handheld or the... I'm just trying to not cover my face. I'm just, I just can't make it any lower. Just put it in my lap a little. That's the only reason I'm doing this. And yeah, see, this does actually clear up a lot of room. I was also, you know, I guess this is just kind of a debrief even for the changes going forward. Yeah, I was very, you have to stop making that rubbing noise. Oh, I'm sorry. They would not have like that yeah that was those I don't even like that and I like everything now I'm actually very

excited to announce that you despite overwhelming negativity which I understand it I honestly agree with my new catchphrase jungle drop was actually well rather popular jumbles that could see it on shirts they could see it on hats it could be seen as a catchphrase for I was I was pretty happy with that I mean let's talk about the positives yeah you know and and And let's start, and then let's kind of cater this last half of this episode for that kind of thing. Yeah. One thing is we got a direction with the programming, you know, they wanted more lists and more kind of, I think they said, more kind of scholarly style stuff. They said, you know what, one thing I caught my ear, the focus group leader who was very, he mentioned that Madlibs as a more intellectual option.

That seemed to be met with a resounding agreement. Yeah, so let's do a madlet. I mean, let's just, you know, let's jump right into it, I guess. That is a star of the day behavior right there. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I just realized that I can't really write in the words on my phone. Huh. That's okay.

We'll just go one by one. Yeah, I guess we'll have to remember. I'll just say it. Okay. And then I'll read up to that point. Sounds good. Okay. Or you know what?

Most of these, I can probably, I think I can probably remember these. Okay. All right. Let's do that then. Your name. Caleb. I'm not going to lie. Favorite food? Spaghetti and meatballs. Okay. Verb. Eating. All right. Adjective. Wait, we need to go a little more intelligent on this. Okay. Adjective. Scholarly. But not too intelligent for me to be able to not remember. Scholarly. Scholarly. Embarrassing thing you did. Focus group. Betrayed the listeners by being crass. You know, honorable thing you did. Change my ways. Yep.

Favorite endearment. Hmm. Hmm. Sweetie pie. Nice. Negative adjective. Hurt. My feelings got hurt.

Okay. Three positive adjectives. New Cameron, new Caleb, and new Patrick. Okay. Adjective. There's a neutral adjective, I suppose. And let's go scholarly with this one. Let's go intellectual.

Lacanian Lacanian Okay Noun Laconx Lacan Okay verb Reading

Body part Body part mind Okay Face it Caleb You are about the greatest thing Since spaghetti and meatballs No one else can

Eating like you can Your best friend says You are the What was the Scholarly? Scholarly Or you are the scholarlyest person in the world. Sure, you once betrayed the fans with your crassness.

I did. But you also changed your ways. True. So, sweetie pie, today is the day you're going to stop beating up on yourself for being hurt and start loving yourself for being new camera, new Caleb, and new Patrick. And if people give you a Lacanian time, just tell them, well, this actually works really well. It works very well. Listen to this.

No, this is going to blow your mind. find how well this works. What was the verb again? The last verb was reading. Reading. Yeah. And if people give you a Lacanian time, just tell them they can take their Jacques Lacanne.

Wow. And read it up their mind. Wow. We even took it. This is, guys, this is a moment. The Madlib was trying to put us in the direction of take that shit.

I know. Put it up your fucking asshole and put shit in there with your hands. And we turned it into a, bring that book, put it in your mind. Read that book. Read it up your mind. Read that. But you can take that book and read it. Read your book. Yeah. See? So we're already, I don't know. I mean, I already feel different, you know. The wide is down. Oh, it might not be plugged in. It's probably not lost power. Well, I'll fix that for you guys. Okay. We're just not going to make a big deal out of it. And this is, by the way, this is the last technical problem we'll ever have on this show. Most likely. Hopefully. I mean, the best laid point. planes of mice and men often go askew. Also, what are they... What's up? Well, the white's coming back on this very second,

but Pat can... I like having Pat in my shot. I actually like sharing my shot. I used to have my own shot, but... I used to be territorial about my shot, and if my... Okay, well, it reset the lighting. It looks like... Oh, that's okay, I guess. You know what? Let's be positive. Mm-hmm. Yeah. There's nothing...

I mean, this is a great show, you know? It's a good show and people pay for it. doing this for years and years at this point. God. We're finally at a point where I think we've figured it out. Yeah, I think it's fair to say. We're going to get a new set because this is

shit. This is it's not ideal. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. I'll say that. No, no, no. I think that maybe, I think that I'm thinking that maybe our set should be themed around

just the wrong things we've done and us growing past it and figuring I agree with the things that we've done on the show. Maybe take that under consideration. I'll put that in my mind and read it. Okay. I'll say that. So top 10 books?

Top 10 books. Well, number 10? Oh, we're starting from 10 up. I mean, if one is the dictionary, everybody's going to say that. I was going to go thesaurus, but we can double. Those are kind of tight. That's like LeBron and Michael Jordan. How do you rank these two?

It depends on what area. Do you grow up in a thesaurus heavy school? And in a similar way, where we're going to tie dictionary and thesaurus for number two, I mean for number one. I think we can tie for number two. I think we can go Bible, Torah, and Quran, and the Book of Mormon.

Yes. And Bhagavad Gita? Uh-huh. You know, because we are worldly and we've seen all sorts of countries. Oppenheimer quoted it famously. He said... He said... He did something quite bad. Yeah, which is not... We won't be doing anything like that anymore. And I will not... And if you see the Barbie

movie as a man, you're going to have fun. And if you see the Barbie movie as a man, it might be because you're gay. But that's okay. But what do you mean, but that's okay? You don't even, that goes on set. There's no corollary.

There's no corollary. Yeah, that goes completely unsaid. Speaking of corollary, let's leave all the body stuff out of this episode. I'm done with my body because I don't talk. We're not going to do two different breaks to talk about the toilet. We don't need two toilet talks per 30 minutes. Exactly. No.

What are we doing? I am, I'm going to go back and I'm going to listen to some episodes. I really feel like I was washed in the blood today. I really think that I was disgusting on a level that, you know, somebody said, I don't remember who it was, somebody in the focus group said, are they, these are, they are clowns and they, do they have no shame? Do they not realize that this is going to ruin their lives? And I kind of realized like, yeah, one day I want to teach at a public university.

I want to teach English 101 or 102 maybe. I want to be a school bus driver. Yeah, and if you Google my name, you're not hiring me to be a work at any kind of institution of higher learning. The first thing that comes up is me saying that when I poo in the toilet, sorry, the air gets furry. Yeah. What does that even mean? It really, that's on a level that's intellectually low and it's, it's, the humor is not even there.

I said that when I have been excusing myself, that my excrement is similar to throwing chili in an oscillating fan. Yeah, that's... What could that even mean? What is the reason for saying that? There is no... There's no good reason to say anything that we've said.

You know, I think that maybe we knew this was coming on for a long time. I think we felt it. We tried to do the swear jar. Yeah. But we let the unwashed masses, the hordes of the devil, tear it down.

Mm-hmm. And I think that maybe I think we need to be covered ones. I think the swear jar maybe was the wrong idea, but I don't think it was the wrong sentiment. Absolutely not. And I think that we don't need a jar to show us how to live. No. The truth is... The only jar I need is a swinging sensor. And not to say that there's not reasons to use curse words every once in a while. No. You don't have your toe. You're going to want to scream shite. And if you read an amazing passage from Tom Sawyer, you might go blast me. That was good. Fuck yeah. I love this. Fuck yeah. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Oh, fuck me. I love your fucking friendship. Yeah. You know, and the villains in this book are bitches. This book has me on my ass. Yeah.

Because of the humor. Oh, that's, Lord. You could say, I just read Infinite Just. That book knocked me on my ass. Yeah. And I stuck that in my mind and read it. I cut the fuck up. Yeah.

I was cutting up. I was cutting a shit. Or no. Sorry. You were not, you were not kind of shit. It's a process. It's okay. You know, it's your, today is the first day of the rest of your life.

That's right. Uh-huh. That's right. And I'm going to start doing... And tomorrow is the second day. Yes. And so on and so forth. And I think that since we moved to this office, maybe we've been in a cocoon.

Yes. Right? And people are saying... And what do you say when you see a cocoon? You say, I'm going to eat that. You say, I'm going to eat that rock. Oh, great. I think it's snow peas.

I like snow peas. Snow peas are one of the most delicious things God ever give to us. Yeah, absolutely. But you see that and you say, who's hanging up rocks on trees? Yeah. What kind of moron? This forest needs to hire a new interior decorator, honey. I feel like, I'm sorry.

I feel like this conversation is slipping back into our old ways. Why would you eat a cocoon? I just said it looks like a snow pea. He could be confused by it. Maybe some kind of brown pee or bean. That is, that is, sorry, that is, that is the, that is the thought of an imbecile to think that a snow pee and a cocoon looks in. Can we not do the ad hominin thing?

I'm just, I'm saying that if we're trying to change. Can we do a fallacy clear episode? maybe for once, right? Some kind of like, if we're going to get into a debate, can it be spirited yet friendly? Yes. You know? And I don't think debating whether a cocoon would be a snap pee

is something that a... We've all made mistakes. You most of all. And I am too, but if I make a mistake, you need to forgive me for it. If I mistake a cocoon hanging from a tree branch that looks honestly a little brown and red, if I think that that's a pee,

that's a pea pod that's been cooked so long. You know what it could be a more interesting... If I think the red light from the oven turns food red, you're going to condemn me for that? No, but a more interesting conversation could be how your perception of color is way different than mine. True. It's like, when I see red

on meat, I think raw. When you see red, you could think that means cooked if your red is different than mine. Yes, because everyone's... The cones in people's eyes are all different. When you look at a steak, you could think it turns from brown to red as it gets cooked. And by the way, You just said cone, and I'd like to applaud us for none of us saying cone, a big lump with

knobs or anything like that. Any kind of like kind of childish reference. I just don't, I think that this is, oh, back to my point, yes, that I was making, you see a cocoon, you might think it's a rock, you might think it's a bean, it doesn't matter what you think, right? But almost nobody can identify a cocoon just based off how it looks. No, first of all. Nobody. But what I'm saying is you wait a couple of years maybe four or five years of doing of the cocoon being there wow

that's a big scary butterfly now that thing's breaking out and becoming one of the most terrifying predators to ever walk the human earthshead hawk now here's an intellectual fact that I either learned or made up yes a cocoon

is for a moth yet a chrysalis is for a butterfly interesting wow and a chrysalis is a cocoon is a cocoon Gotcha. Okay, I'm just double-checking on that. If you think about the difference between Metapod. And maybe let's cool it on the video game. Right, I'm sorry. I just slip out of you.

I don't, I do not. Let's stick to classic films. Classic films, the opera. The third man. The third man. Past thou seen the third man. Maybe manuscripts, we could start maybe delving in the manuscripts. Directed by Carol Clover. Oh, goodness. What a treat.

You know what we, I mean, our, our. previous attitudes before our focus group were very very similar to the final line and gone with the wind frankly my dear I don't give a damn yes we were and we were throwing care to the wind we were throwing care to the wind and something that we

I kind of realized listening to talk is our audience is spring chickens yes yeah you know very spry these are these are young young people whose minds we are dare I say poisoning you know these people are just, they're doing their

PSATs and their SATs and they're writing down where they're going to put their name instead of their name, they're putting diarrhea or, uh, I think that to quote Norman, McDonnell Tard Ferguson.

These kids whose minds are being poisoned by content such as this, I mean, obviously we'll make an effort to try and improve the content and make it a little less poison, but might I recommend, you know, for a, for, you know, someone in our audience range, the 11 to 12, age demographic, these are, these people, because they are people, but we say children in society. Yeah, we do. These children, uh, they, maybe they shouldn't be consuming podcasts and

maybe we should be putting them on the path to, again, to cinema, to film and we should be showing them content, uh, such as maybe they would enjoy, uh, persona, you know, great films such as, um, oh gosh, Threads is another great film that I think says a lot about the world. Yeah. Come and see, Dogville. You know, these are, are, our, are. are highly acclaimed films that really encompass the breadth of human experience more than any three stooges, pardon

me, at a table ever could. I think that more, we should be influencing our audience to go onto more websites like letterboxed and goodreads rather than Twitter threads and blue sky. I prostrate myself at the shrine of Goodreads. Yes, yes, yes.

Margaret Atwood. For me, it is definitely letterboxed, I think. that that is an amazing website. Any website that will verify Margaret Atwood is a top website in my books. No, no doubt, no doubt at all. No notes. And I think that... No notes. Goodreads. Complete. You have finished your website. You don't have to add anything else. It's perfect as is, good reads. Yes, yes. And by the way, there's nothing good coming out anymore. The last good book, the last good book that was written was my year of rest and relaxation. Yeah. You know, which was a long, long time ago. Which was in 2017, I believe. And her second book, or the one that was after that, I thought

was crass garbage and oh that's another thing i was thinking so hard first of all i mean i'm i do think hard now all the time but i was thinking also can i'm sorry we said no crossdoc can i push one thing in about i think that the author of my arrest and relaxation year i think her name is normal now what is her name i oh tessa most fig that's a completely average i think that's a human name yeah that's anyway continue um you know what i seem to have uh my point seems to have dissipated out of my brain. I'm so sorry. No, no, no, that's completely fine.

No, it's not your fault. It's not your fault. That's the other thing. As broadcasters, which is, you know, safe to say that's what we are. You know, let's, and by the way, let's stop pretending that we are comedians. Comedians. Comedian superstar.

Yes. Triple threats. We are, we are not clowns. We are here to educate the masses, give, uh, bring, hark, good news comes. That's, that's what people should be saying when they open up our program. Yeah. You know?

So I think that maybe if we, to use a little mnemonic device, okay. Maybe we leave behind the Howard Stern. Yes. And we start creating content that makes people say, how are these men so stern? Wow. When it comes to education and societal infrastructure.

And that's the other thing. Infrastructure. Young men don't have young men. I'm sorry to interrupt you. Oh, no. Infrastructure. Yeah. I mean, it essentially refers to, if you can imagine an antill.

Yes. that is metaphorically what it appears when you're flying in a plane when you look down at the world because it is a world people won't say this these are the concepts

that excite me now and the earth is as round as a marble and I'm also now as we talk about this I'm also just remembering that some people in the focus group did say that more funny sounds would be better

I think I do so maybe you keep speak on infrastructure a little bit just go ahead Just go ahead and talk about infrastructure, Patrick. Maybe what kind of... See, this is not my area of expertise. Well, I'll go ahead.

Yeah, I think you... I'm here more to learn about infrastructure. Infrastructure can refer to roads. Damn! Train tracks. Fatality. And even the sky for planes. Interesting.

It could be considered infrastructure. Wow. Infrastructure programs in America have been historically underfunded the last. 20 years or so ever since Bill Clinton, who's a great man, got into office. And I will say, you know, I'm not some huge fan of the imperialist pig Joe Biden, but I will say that he has promised to invest in infrastructure again because there are crumbling roads, people's commute, their tires are breaking on potholes.

And not only that, but we're putting America back to work by funding these infrastructure programs. because that's a lot of jobs created. So all in all, I think that there's a bright future for infrastructure in this great nation. And, yeah, another thing I want to do is be a little bit more punctual, you know? So I think that's... Oh, I agree. I agree on punch you out. You see, I always come here first.

Yeah. And I'm always here and I'm setting everything up. I always come here second. Guilty charged. And I think I'm setting up all the kids. cameras and everything and I'm setting things up and I'm thinking now to things that said in the focus group and I'm thinking

about my time in film school and what did I what am I? Why are we not flexing these muscles? Why am I not flexing this muscle? Let's get a dolly in here. Let's get a dolly. I want a jib. I want gaffers. I thought you were going to say something else. What did you think he was going to say? Oh, we don't speak like that.

I know. I really got a... Okay, one more thing that I would like to address. One more thing I'd like to address. there is nothing Please come into frame Speaking of film school Please come into frame There is nothing funny About

I don't even want to say FAPP No There's Fapping is not Funny that's Rule 34 is not Rule what is that Should never be invoked That it's

It's making It's sick even thinking about it Some rules are meant to be broken But yes Exactly I could not have said that better myself You know what Let's do a little bit of a

I mean we have we have a variously massive online followings. Let's do a sort of campaign to erase. What about the anti-fap pledge? Anti-fap, but more than that, I think more pressing because, you know, well, I would say fapper is going to fap, but I'm not going to say that. I'm going to say that Rule 34, let's eradicate this filth from the internet. Yeah.

Okay. Let's eradicate this filth from the internet. And while we're at it, let's take down the internet archive because a lot of pornography. is hosted on there. Thank you. I don't need to see Valorant, Viper, and Jet

doing the, and I don't even, I don't even, I don't even, the proverbial nasty, ask to ask to quote the film from the end of

Requiem for a dream. I don't need to, Aronofsky. Aronovsky is a brilliant, brilliant man, but I don't need to see this stuff. You know, and I don't.

And nobody else needs to either. No, no, at least of all the easily influenced youth of this world. Yes. And you should never, I mean, I don't even want to entertain the idea of

Overwatch Rule 34. 100%. Yeah. The video, which I think everybody's seen, of the woman dressed as the character from Overwatch, and she says, Nerf this, and then she slaps her giant rear end, and I believe that she flagellates at the end of the video.

This video needs to go. Yes, we need to be doing... Digital Millennium Copyright Act Strikes. Might I propose an alternative because it may be difficult to eradicate. Perhaps maybe we take all this Rule 34 smut that's featuring all these characters that are, you know, let's look at it. They're video game characters. We look at it. They're comic book characters.

They're TV show characters. And what is the audience for these forms of media? It's children. It's children and youngies. So why don't we take Rule 34 and we move it to a. apply to characters that are for people who have developed brains and can decide what they want in life. So let's see, let's, you know, see some, Homer. Let's see some, no, no, no, see even that's a cartoon, Patrick, you're not thinking of it. Let me, let me, let me, let's a cartoon. I'm sorry.

No, no, no, no, no. Let's, that's an adventurer. I'm, I understand now. He's actually I'm actually not even sure who you're referring to when you say. But let me, let me, let me, let me give you my proposal. I think that perhaps we should limit Rule 34 to characters like Matlock Yes characters like Columbo Columbo

Jag The stars of Jag The stars of Jag The stars of wings Murphy Brown Uh Bill Cosman Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton Frosty the Snowman Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin The Tram No that is Roseanne Barr Frasier Crane

All the cast members of Bonanza Iqabod Crane The headless horseman. The brothers Karamazumarov. The brothers Karasimov. Charismismov. And by the way, let's get rid of no more Riz, more Karizumazov.

Yes. Right? Oliver Twist. Thank you so much. No, he's a boy. Wait, no, not Oliver Twist. Sorry, I was thinking of a different guy. Okay.

Oliver. Oliver. Yeah, just Oliver. We can leave it at that. Oliver North. Okay, guys. Well, this has been. Again, enlightening.

I hope you all enjoyed it. Everybody in the focus group did get paid. I'd like to see this. And everything. And they are all happy. And they all are very, very helpful. And I hope that you enjoy this new chapter we're embarking on. Thank you.

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