Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - Fantasies in New Jersey

Episode Date: June 4, 2024

The guys reminisce about surreal experiences from the Cracked days before before comparing notes on strip clubs and whether or not they should have lunch buffets. Thanks to RocketMoney! RocketMoney.com/qq. it could save you hundreds a year.

I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright I wanna hear your thoughts, I wanna know what's on your mind I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright The answer's not important, I'm just glad that we could talk tonight So what's your favorite? Who did you get? What do I be? What's it up with? What do we talk about? I forget it all about? Oh, forget it. I saw a movie, Daniel O'Brien.

Two best friends and comedy writers. If there's an answer, they're gonna find it. I think you'll have a great time here. I think you'll have a great time here. So, hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel, the podcast where two best friends and commentators ask each other questions and give each other answers. I am one half of that podcast, senior writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, author of How to Fight Presidents and Sore Boy.

Daniel O'Brien, joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Soren Bui. Sore Man, say hello. Hey, everybody. I'm the original Sore Boy because that's actually one of my nicknames. It was legitimately one of my nicknames because Bui. Sore Boy? Yeah, because it started with Sorbo uh yeah with kevin sorbo and then it became sorbo uh in high school so legitimately one of my college i mean high

school nicknames oh by the way i'm a writer for american dad and uh i'm also on this podcast hey hey how's it how's it going thanks to Rocket Money for supporting our podcast. Rocket Money will quickly and easily identify your subscriptions for you so you can stop paying for the ones you don't want. Stop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions and manage your expenses the easy way by going to rocketmoney.com slash QQ. Do you remember, because sometimes people, they love this show for our bits of insider Hollywood gossip that we routinely drop all the time. The breadcrumbs we toss out? Yeah. People want to know what it's like in Hollywood, which is why they tune into a podcast by people who live in culver city and the beach new jersey that's that's what they want from us do you remember when uh we met kevin

sorbo yeah uh we were in a box at dodger stadium yeah it's uh a memory that i i block out not because there was anything bad about it it was a really fun day but i block it out just because it's it's it's it was such a strange uh side effect of our past careers that i just routinely forget about that it's a real moment in time where you and i were doing things successfully on on the internet and we were public facing people doing that job and there was uh an attempt to launch a sort of late night talk show in a box at dodger stadium during dodger games yeah where they would like bring in guests and they would interview the guests on camera and then the guests would just like hang out in a box and and watch a game a box that i would i would never spring for for myself and they're like we want we want to interview you on this show and you could bring uh some friends and so i brought you and a couple of our other friends that i knew liked baseball, which, you know, when you work for a comedy website, it's kind of a tall order.

There's not a lot of sportos at crack.com. But we went to this thing, and there's no order to what celebrity guests they get. And I'm putting myself in quote as celebrity guests. But that day in there, the episode of the late night Dodger talk show that I can't seem to find on the Internet anymore. It was me, Bill Bellamy. Yeah. Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden, Kevin Sorbo and John DiMaggio, the voice of Bender, among other things on Futurama that was the lineup and we all just took turns being interviewed and then like drank Miller Lights and watched a baseball game there was a pie cart too there was a dessert cart oh that's right maybe my favorite part of the entire event was at one point this woman just rolled in with pies on a cart and was like do you like? And I was like, yeah, I like a lot. It's such a strange time capsule capturing a specific moment in time

where, like, everyone was spending money on content. So the idea that someone would invest in a late-night show hosted by a guy I've never heard of in a box at Dodger Stadium was like, yeah, sure, maybe that'll hit. You know, everyone says that making content on the internet will return its investment somehow so we might as well just spend on any idea that anyone has right and uh see who we can get for it my memory of it was that this was book related that you were promoting your book and they were like we'd love to have him on and the guy ended up

being a big cracked fan so the majority of the stuff you talked about was crack stuff he threw a bunch of spider-man questions at you that were like so outside the box that were like uh nobody knows these nobody knows these fucking answers well the the i remember that the game that he played with me it was a very devious game where he would say the name of a person and I had to determine if it was the alter-ego of one of spider-man's villains or a baseball player and like okay that deck is half stacked against me I know a lot of spider-man villains i know his rogues gallery pretty well i don't know almost any baseball players that's right by name yeah and there

were a couple on there where he would say someone's name and i would be like oh yeah that's the alter ego of uh the wheel a spider-man villain that uh no one thinks or talks about because i think he's in only a few appearances where he just drives around in a giant wheel and causes mayhem and destruction doing that. But there are other times where I would be presented with a name and I would really struggle with it. And I could see you and our friends Adam and Cody,

who know baseball player names, screaming inside their skulls because like how do you not cody you need to you need to know like a casual baseball fan would have would have known these baseball players names but i i was not that so if if it's not Don Mattingly or Derek Jeter or Wade Boggs or Yassiel Puig or something Turner, I do not know who you are. Sorry. Sorry to you all of baseball. I don't know any of your names except the ones that I just listed. Yeah.

Well, if this show is no longer on the Internet, I'd be somewhat sad to hear that your episode is gone. I would be devastated to hear that the Jon Hamm episode is no longer up. Because when you got the opportunity to do this, you got the email. I was like, what is this? And then we watched an episode, and the episode is with Jon Hamm. And Jon Hamm just gets progressively drunker and drunker throughout the episode is with John Hamm and John Hamm just gets progressively drunker and drunker throughout the episode. And by the end, like the wheels have just come off the episode.

Like he is, he's now asking questions a lot. He's paying attention to the game an awful lot. Like he's just watching the game. And it's amazing. It's a real piece of art. And I would be really sad if that's no longer on the internet. It's amazing. It's a real piece of art.

And I would be really sad if that's no longer on the internet. Did they also have you come in to do an interview on that show too? No. Oh, the guy at one point near the end of Cracked offered. What was that? Why did I always say no? That was such a fun time. I can't remember.

But anyway, I didn't ever do it. I don't think Cody ever did it. I don't think Michael ever did it. That's why I think it was book related. All right. I hope it moved a lot of copies. Oh, I know what happened. Okay.

And I don't know if this is fit for the podcast or not. You can tell me afterwards. That guy ended up doing more stuff with Cracked because the guy who was running that had previously directed a single porn in his lifetime. And we used to do like these personal experience stories. And he was interviewed by Robert Evans about the time he directed a porn. Oh, that sounds right. He had a lot of very fascinating things to say about the experience that you would not have anticipated. And that was like, so that's where he kept coming back into the world of Cracked. Yeah, okay. Well, fun time, fun weird time. Got to watch a baseball game with very drunk Bill Bellamy.

He was great. His family was there. It was very nice. And John DiMaggio, I talked to him for a while, which was great. It's a little bit of a bummer because he's a Jersey guy as well. And obviously, I'm a big Futurama fan, and I've followed his career for a while. And the guy who was running that show introduced us and was like, john you should meet daniel he's also from new jersey and i mentioned my hometown of hazlitt which almost no one really knows i mean people know because it's a train

station um but outside of new jersey no one has any cause to know hazlitt and John immediately was like oh Hazlitt fantasies because there is a clothing on strip club called fantasies that is near my hometown and it's just it's devastating that that's the immediate association I think the strip club is somehow notorious. I know like Howard Stern used to talk about it a lot. And if you are ever driving through New Jersey from North to get to the shore, which is a reason people drive through New Jersey, you will pass Fantasies on Route 36 with its very iconic pink on black font. with its very iconic pink on black font. And it's just like an institution, a staple of the route now that people associate with my hometown. That's such a bummer. I know.

And your most famous thing is a clothing on strip club. There's something even sadder about that. Like, objectively not sadder, but in terms of being known for a strip club, being known for a strip club where they don't even like strip isn't even it's a misnomer. It's like, oh, yeah. Well, because I think the move was and I don't know if they've if they've changed the laws. And we've talked about this on the podcast before. I'm not neither of us are strip club people.

It's not a thing that we go to. So, like, take what I say with a grain of salt because I have no experience. people it's not a thing that we go to so like take what i say with a grain of of salt because i have no experience i'm pretty sure at the time uh strip clubs in new jersey if they took their clothing off you couldn't serve alcohol you could only serve uh like juice and soda and stuff because they didn't want people getting too crazy or rough with the strippers but at fantasies where they only went down to their bathing suits you could serve alcohol so the move that other friends in high school would tell me about was go to fantasies get some drinks and then once you've got the courage yeah look at naked women then you would go to the

other strip clubs where they took I think it's look naked women in the eye is like what you really need the courage for right it's uh i've been to i think in my my 41 years of life daniel i've been to two strip clubs one of them did not count because it was jumbo's clown room which is essentially the same thing it's clothes on um. And we went for Katie Stoll's birthday. But the other one I went to when I was in high school, and it was in Mexico. And I should not have been there. I was not ready. And I did not realize that is there generally liquors not allowed at strip clubs? I don't know.

We're the blind leading the blind at this point. And I don't know if that's an across-the-board thing or a specific-to-New Jersey thing or a specific-to-New Jersey-at-the-time thing. Because I feel like alcohol in strip clubs is a featured scene in movies. So many movies and shows. And I specifically want to say Sopranos, which takes place famously in New Jersey. The Bada Bing is a strip club that serves alcohol. And I don't know if that was an invention for the show

or if by the time that show came out, they had changed the laws in New Jersey, or it's possible those fellows on Sopranos were doing some crimes. They weren't operating that strip club completely above board. It's possible they just didn't have a respect for the law that the general strip club operator might have. Yeah. Okay, so I've also noticed that when I lived in burbank in between burbank and glendale there are some strip clubs there's some studios which i have no idea what they make i don't know if

that's like a those are porn studios or what but there's also a lot of strip clubs and the strip clubs always made me chuckle because they had like a lunch buffet um try and like dry drum up some business in the middle of the day yeah and i thought isn't surely that's a health code violation too right let alone like you're making you're eating food in with uh naked people over you but also that you would be serving a buffet. Yeah. With naked people sauntering around. That seems like a huge violation. It's not the move.

It seems like not the move to me yeah i think like as as far as a business goes i don't think you want your clientele getting incredibly full and as a strip club attendee i don't think i it's hard to put my brain in the head of someone who uh wants to go to a strip club i feel like if i'm at a strip club i am guided by just the the one base instinct i'm not horny and just as hungry right i i think i will i will just like let one of one of my baser instincts take the lead in that particular situation. I mean, yeah. Even if you go into a place like that and you're amped up for some nakedness and you're like, yeah, this is going to be great. And then you get that big first smell of chow mein.

That's going to blow up some receptors in your brain. domain like that's gonna blow up some receptors in your brain that's something i can't i'm not gonna be able to live with the cognitive dissonance of like ignoring one of those things for the other they're gonna interrupt because because the reverse of it is also true and confusing to me if i am starving and i see a restaurant am i going into a chili's and i'm like oh god i can't wait to just fucking eat a mess of greasy food and then I walk in and there's a bunch of Beautiful naked women around me. I don't I Don't want them to see me eating. I don't see me hungry Seeing what you choose. Yeah, you get tortilla chips and ranch at the beginning of right

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I have a question for you regarding something you ingest. Sure. Okay. I have to stop playing want to do our show i have a question for you regarding something you ingest sure okay i have to stop playing with i'm always listen listeners uh don't realize this but whenever we're recording this podcast i'm constantly busying myself with whatever is in front of me and i'm on camera now which i realize is a problem uh so I just got rid of the piece of scrap paper that I was playing with and now I miss it and and there's nothing within reach that I can play with I'm gonna be I'm gonna be a problem on this episode

the paintings down I noticed yeah anything didn't last that was just for an episode that was just for the episode? That was just for the episode, yeah. The painting is back at the museum. It was on loan? All right. A thing that I didn't anticipate missing from office life, because we don't go into the office really, I don't right now at all because I'm on hiatus,

but even when we were back after COVID, or I don't know, after is like a misnomer too but like yeah we're when we were back I realized that I had a mug in there that I was like everybody I missed the idea of like an office mug that everybody in your office who drinks coffee or tea or whatever like they would all bring one from home and they would use that one over and over again and it was just like another little cute way to show off your personality like putting comic strips up in your cubicle it was like you know somebody kind of like a mug it was like coffee

on a monday or like you know that's a terrible idea for a mug traditional stuff that they say mugs like get the dad down here like those ones remember that's like somebody walking them and they'd be like find the the blessing in each lady like they're saying those types of things um and now, like, the idea of an office mug is gone. And I was, like, I was really lamenting that fact. I was, like, it was nothing I cared about in the moment. It was a thing that felt ubiquitous enough that it would be around forever. And then it was gone.

And I went back to the office and saw mine. And I was, like, oh, shit. I miss going to the office and seeing Robert's mug that said, writing is my superpower, and, like, hating it. To be fair, there's a guy in our office, Robert, who has a mug that says, writing is my superpower. It is a joke that he has it. It's a joke because somebody, like, gifted it to him, and he's like, well, of course I'm using this. Also, fair to say, it's so frustrating. It is his super, like, he's really good at it,

and that's, like, it makes it even worse. He's such a good writer, and that's very frustrating. But going in the office, seeing that, hating it, seeing what everybody else has decided is, like, going to represent them. Did you guys have that in your office i don't think we did oh my my the when you say people would bring mugs from home to sort of show off their personality that is uh less true in my experience there are mugs in the office that become yours

because you use it a lot and then you get very upset if someone else is using quote-unquote your mug uh that's my memory of of office mug life which which was just like i always use the big white mug with nothing on it because big is what I want. I want that amount of coffee. And when I see that it's missing from the cabinet, I get upset, but I can't put that anywhere because it's not actually my mug. Can I just ask, where did those mugs come from originally? The cabinets. Oh, you mean before that?

Killed and fired in the cabinet. The cabinets. Oh, you mean before that? Kilned and fired in the cabinet. The store. So somebody, a PA or somebody went out and got a bunch of mugs that were all different and put them in the cabinets. Maybe. I mean, I imagine when the office was built, it was stocked with stuff that people need. I don't know that that's probably true. I think that probably what happened is that at some time in your office's career or its lifetime, it had people coming in who brought mugs from home

and then those mugs just get incorporated. As those people leave and stuff, those mugs just, you found another thing to fiddle with? I found another thing, but I realize it's loud and I'm playing with it at the microphone. God. Those things just end up becoming part of the office. Like that's why there's a bunch of, that's like there's variation to it.

It's not like one person went to a Goodwill and got a bunch of different kinds of mugs and brought them all to the office. They just have accumulated there and then they become other people's. That's true. And I think that that's also somewhat true of ours. But like it's the same, nobody wants to use paper cups the whole time because you feel bad about it so you're using a mug everybody's got their own designated mug and uh i was gonna ask you what yours was but the fact that it's a big white nothing correct is uh i

not the answer i was hoping for but certainly one that's making me think uh i not the answer i was hoping for but certainly one that's making me think yeah i know i'm in a strange place with mugs in my in my real life because i i have a lot of mugs i've accumulated mugs it's the kind of thing that's really easy to like buy and collect and for a while i would do it like oh i'm in a new place let me buy a mug and a magnet that'll you know remind me of this thing that i did and i obviously have coffee every day i end up using the same two or three mugs over and over again and like i wash them obviously but they're not even my favorite mugs they're just the ones that are that end up being the first ones i see when i open the mug cabinet yeah and i am very uh clutter averse very hoarding averse i i am like firmly in the camp of like get rid of

things that you don't use except these mugs i can't seem to get rid of all this like back deck of mugs that, that haven't touched a liquid in years. I'm like, well, no, I'm not, I'm not going to get rid of that. Even though I don't use it, I'm not going to get rid of it because I might use it. Right. Not today and probably not tomorrow, but what if somewhere down the line, I'm hosting 14 people in our one bedroom apartment and they all want coffee in the morning. I'm going to look like an idiot if I don't have options. I'm with you. I only use it with two different mugs.

And if I do have a whole like cadre of mugs that are just like ready to go at a moment's notice. My wife is less specific. Like she could care less like what mug she pulls out of there. I don't think she's looking. Like like what mug she pulls out of there i don't think she's looking like she just grabs whatever happens to be there and that's wild to me it's wild that you like because you like the uh i don't know you like the feel like the the whole point of coffee or tea is comfort and like everything you you've you've zeroed in on the experience and exactly what you want from the experience. And deviation from that sucks.

It pisses you off. Yeah. That's why every podcast I think you'll see me drinking water out of this Contigo, which means with you in Spanish. This Contigo like thermoflask thing. I have other thermoflasks too, and I don't use them. I just have this thing. And if I want to accidentally leave this thing somewhere leave it in my car like forget to take it on a trip and i get a replacement

thermoflask i'm super bummed out about it i like the the weight of this and i like that it's a little bit broken i like that part of it is like really uh scraped up as if it's been dropped on the sidewalk a bunch of times and i can play with that it's it's been tested in the field love that yeah are you gonna ask me that same question oh what's your mug what is the what are we talking about? What does your office mug look like? Oh, that's a good question, Daniel. That's a great question.

What did I guess? Oh, yeah. It said WGA member. Oh. When I got hired on my show and joined the WGA, I went to every single type of WGA meeting there was. I was like, I'm going to be a good steward of the guild. That was more important than even my job. I was like, this is a thing I'm going to be.

This is a new part of my personality. I'm going to be a good representative of the Writers Guild, of the union. And so whatever they offered, offered i went and in some ways that really did pay off because you got like a mentor and stuff like that but they also a lot of these early events they just give you stuff that was like um this was maybe like a pwga event which was the one for telling you what your benefits were yeah and one of the things that they had and not even like handing out one of the things they had in a cardboard box that you could dig through was a wga mug and i was like bingo that's my yeah like that that will be my thing and took it brought it

to the office and i gotta say like i i did kind of to be insufferable because everybody there is in the wga so to like show off that you're in the WGA is a very fun thing to do. Everybody really wanted that mug. Everybody who was there also really wanted that mug. It's just, I don't know what it is. It's like, it's silly to say I'm part of the club, but I still want to say I'm part of the club. Yeah. I get that i like my uh writers guild t-shirt and i think i have a writers guild uh hat that i never wear yeah i don't know the

writers guild t-shirts they're fine i wore them during the strike they're great they're great shirts i would love to wear it in another quadrants of my life, but they are easily 15 pounds each. Like thick, thick cotton. You can't like, this is not a shirt, even no matter what you did to it. If you tore off the sleeves or anything, you try to wear it to the gym. You're just wearing chain mail. It's not worth it. Yeah.

It is occurring to me that while I like the shirt and I liked having it and I wore it to every single strike event, I have not worn it since. And it's not even like, it's not even in the rotation. It's not even in the drawer of shirts. It's away with the like, the shirts that I can't throw out for nostalgia reasons. Yeah. Because I'm very proud of the guild, but the idea of like walking around with a guild shirt is right strange to me it just yeah i don't know that you could do it i don't think it's i don't think any of us could pull it off i've seen people at the gym with it first of all i'm confused that they're wearing it at the

gym but i will say go to them and i'll say solidarity and they don't know what i'm talking about and then i point to their shirt and they're like oh yeah this old thing um yeah but i will say with those shirts like i had did you guys have the blue and white ones that were like you see on all the strike videos and stuff though i never got that i only have like the the light gray one okay so there were these blue and white ones you saw them if you watch television during the strike at all and you watch the news this is the shirt you saw on everybody you would have multiple multiple versions of it are you not multiple versions you just have like duplicates of it because you can't wear the same shirt every single day while

you're out sweating around in mid-july yeah and so i have a bunch of these shirts and i gotta say if the studios wanted to break the union they would have designed this exact shirt it is it is brutal to wear it's like it's tight in the arms in a way like tight under the like down in here like down in your like uh wing in a way that like a shirt shouldn't be tight and like the seams and the armpit are very very tight and the shirt is heavy as shit it's like and you're marching around out in the sun. It's adding to that. It's like adding to the weight. It's brutal.

I don't know why the shirts are like that. So I see it in the drawer and I'm like, oh yeah, that shirt. I'll never ever wear that again or until I have to strike again. Three more years. That was my question for you. I have other stuff we could talk about if you want so our quick question if it's the the future let's say and they just decide that everyone has a uniform not a matching uniform all of society

star trek rules or anything like that but they just like for simplicity's sake you're gonna wear one style outfit one kind of outfit combination for the rest of your life uh what is your uniform or another way into this is so our favorite show taskmaster they uh the contestants on that show pick their own uniform that they spend the entire series and every time they're in a challenge they're in whatever they're wearing and some people are clearly going for comfort like one guy was in pajamas the entire time and sometimes people are uh phil wang dressed in the iconic bruce lee yellow uh dick out jumper yellow tracksuit yeah and uh you know some people like the guy nick mohammed on the current series is dressed in full dracula makeup and dracula costume so some people like a guy, Nick Muhammad on the current series is dressed in full Dracula makeup and Dracula costume.

Some people try to have fun with it and some people try to like do something functional. And I like to think about that a lot. What would my taskmaster uniform be? Yeah, the thing that I'm going to be seen on television for eight weeks or whatever. Or if that's not an accessible way in for our audience what is like what would your daily uniform be you wear the same thing to work every day and it's your choice what is it yeah what is your steve job is steve job outfit yeah what is what is yours i think it's probably white t-shirt and jeans i think that that's my you got master fit as well as my like there was there was a a period of my my life my early 20s where uh i stealthily wore that every single day to the

cracked offices and like there was you weren't a cracked employee yet there was like three of us in the building that were cracked and none of them were on content but me so i wasn't interacting with them or indeed almost anyone every day and i i had gotten it in my head from probably some stoic philosophy book or some other like simplify your life kind of books where we're just like decide what you're gonna wear like have a thing that you wear all the time make choosing your outfit in the morning not something that takes of any real estate in your brain take it off the table because yeah you have a million decisions that you need to make every day so if you can remove any of the any of those decisions why not do it and i was like i'm just gonna get a bunch of clean crisp white t-shirts and i'm gonna

wear the same blue jeans and i'm just gonna do that every day and it's an easy thing to like sort of fade in the background that is not as like noticeable to everyone else that you're wearing a uniform because you know you you you would notice if someone was wearing a beekeepers outfit every day or like a very specific band or sports T-shirt. But a white T-shirt and jeans is not something that a regular person would like clock as, hey, weren't you wearing that yesterday? Because there's nothing very memorable about it. Right. So I don't own any white shirts. I love the way white shirts look, especially in the summer when you've got a little tan going.

Yeah. I mean, a crisp white shirt looks great. I've learned over time, though, that I don't want to own white shirts for a lot of reasons. One, frequently they're a little bit see-through, and I don't dig that. They are also, after about three washes, it looks like shit. Correct. It's so hard to keep a white T-shirt looking nice. The color starts to change a little bit. And not in the way other clothes fade to white.

White does this opposite thing where it takes on a gray or a beige to it yeah it starts to gain color and they do just become unwearable after three or four cycles that's correct and that's nothing i mean that's like you barely get to wear it ever before it's the neck is a little bit too stretched out for a white shirt it starts to look less like a good white shirt and more like an undershirt and also i found this might be disgusting i found a white v-neck shirt that i liked at a store and i like the fit of it so i got two of them and two identical white v-neck shirts and i don't think so that uh so my science isn't airtight but i'll wear one and sweat in it and live in it and then i'll hang it back up and i'll i'll remember next time wear the other one and then hopefully in the darkness of the closet the shirts just forget and they don't ever need to be washed

because enough time has passed and like the filthy shirt will see me put on the clean shirt and be like was that me oh and then they'll they'll just forget about all the the yeah the smelly sins that have accumulated inside of right like i i gotta get my act together he's wearing the other one yeah i gotta i gotta clean it up a little bit. Pit them against each other. Arm pit them. You know how jokes work. Very literally. So, yeah, I love the idea of a white shirt in theory, but, like, white shirts, wearing them, I'm bad at that. I'm not, like, there's the logistics of just that it gets gross over time.

But also, I'm so bad about spilling shit on me, whether it's like toothpaste, it's some of my lunch, it's some of like the kids stuff like kids. They pick their nose and I pick them up and then I've got stuff on my shoulder. I can't I can't hang in a white shirt. I've got one that's like almost it's like kind of like a light, light, light, light blue. And even that one, I'm like, well, this shirt will last me a week. That's all I get out of this. And that's just the plan now. So I don't think, especially for something like Taskmaster,

that would be very, it would be fun to wear only because you could watch the map of horrors that happened throughout the show on that shirt by the end. that happen throughout the show on that shirt by the end there's a guy on the on the current season who's like uh very clearly a uh big freddie mercury fan so he's wearing i think it's like normal pants and then a white sleeveless tank top and over the tank top he's got like a yellow iconic freddie mercury kind of jacket and like when you see him posing in that it's like that was like a cool outfit you're a cool looking guy so much of the show has got him doing strenuous tasks outdoors so he has removed the jacket and if I'm him and I'm watching that show I'm very unhappy because the tanked

up on like like no shade not the body shame he doesn't have a great body for a tucked in white tank top sleeveless and it's not the cleanest tank top i've ever seen and without the jacket providing the tank top context it just it looks like he's a he's a uh a dad who was not prepared to do yard work suddenly it's just like oh it's like like kind of a dirty tank top tucked into jeans and he's like carrying a bucket full of rubber ducks or something whatever whatever the task is it does seem i mean that's a huge mistake i see on the show which is that people come in with a costume where they're like this is going to be great and it really fucking gets in the way of everything that they're doing. There's a woman who wore a cape.

Bad idea. The cape was a problem. There was Noel Felding. Noel Felding wore these big platform shoes. And to his credit, like there's a soccer challenge. He's a really good athlete like he's really great like juggling a ball and platform shoes and stuff but still you can see how it's inhibiting him so i think that if i'm if it's my taskmaster outfit i'm gonna go i'm gonna steer into

athlete i'm going to wear like gym shorts i'm gonna wear running shoes i'm gonna do sweat bands sweat uh headband and then maybe like a fast wicking shirt and really try to make that my thing as like and be and then and when i say make that my thing i go into any challenge where it's clear like we're inside and i'm going to be bummed. I'm going to be – I'm going to make it clear to Alex Horn that like I don't – this sucks. Like let's go do something physical and not even try on those challenges. My biggest self-question for my Taskmaster uniform and also my like if I had to pick a uniform for the rest of my life is the hat question. to pick a uniform for the rest of my life is the hat question because you said sweat bands and a hat uh is is such a nice crutch for me for sweat uh and and to to hide baldness or bad haircuts uh but it's also you're just like you're just a guy in a hat all the time right which is not ideal but i do that

is a like no one's ever going to ask me to be on taskmaster ever in a million years but i spend a lot of time thinking about like all right if i get the call i'm gonna really need to know pretty early on hat or no hat and what hat i'm gonna wear yeah i'm a little bit ahead of myself that's the other thing you know from filming in general that you're not allowed to really wear a hat when you film because the shadows on your face just fuck everything up so you basically if you wear a hat while you're filming you got to wear it way back on your head that's why everybody from a like from sitcoms from friends to king of queens like they wear hats in those shows but they wear them like a they could they could dork like

they don't wear their hat down low. They wear their hat all the way back on their head so there's just like hair poking out the front. They wear it like the child neighbor on a sitcom. Like adults wearing hats like that is like, no, that's not how people wear hats. But you don't have a choice. So you'd have to do that on Taskmaster.

Soren, I got another quick question for you because it's come up. I wasn't planning on asking this, but I like an organic opportunity. So got another quick question for you because it's come up. I wasn't planning on asking this, but I like an organic opportunity. Sorin, quick question. Yeah. Are capes cool? I've been thinking about it a lot

because every... Like Cape Cod? Yeah, Cape Cod's rad, man. Every superhero, almost every superhero wears a cape. It's such a huge part of superhero-dom. And we like superheroes. They're the most dominant IP in the world, broadly speaking. And you would think that at some point like

it must have been decided that that we need to visually quickly show off the status and coolness of our heroes cape is a good shorthand for that in the same way that like i'm i'm pretty on board with oh that guy's dressed in head-to-toe leather jacket and he's got a motorcycle okay i understand the duster that's like yeah there's like a coolness there or like a toughness there in the same way that that i assume at some point was like capes are cool but that brings me to my question are capes cool i think about this probably more than i think about anything else we we have we have as a society i would say gotten so far past capes because yes you're right that ip like the

because yeah yes you're right that ip like the superhero ip is the most predominant thing culturally but if you look at all those marvel characters who are in marvel is obviously the most successful there's one with a cape and it's thor and he's a big joke like the whole point is that thor is like dated and like and and not up with with what's on. So I think in that sense, and his cape looks silly. His cape looks fucking silly. Yeah. Batman, I don't know. I guess Batman's cape is cool,

but in the Batman, it is so downplayed. The cape is basically not even part of the costume. You don't see him jumping off of shit and the cape fluttering down behind him and stuff. It's like, the cape is just, it's there as, like, a formality. But all the other superheroes that are popular right now are capeless. And I'm trying to think of, like, what... Go ahead. It's so fascinating and interesting to me that we have superheroes with capes

and like, I don't know, Roman gladiators with capes, Dracula's have capes. There's so many capes represented in fiction for cool people or scary people or tough people. Cool people or scary people or tough people. I don't know if there's any more of a drop off from fiction to reality that if I saw any motherfucker walking down the street with a cape, there is nothing farther from my mind than coolness or toughness or scariness. That is the biggest disconnect and like the bigger the cape in fiction the cooler it is like a cape dragon on the ground is fucking rad but yeah you're right in the real world you can't get away with that and the only thing that i would probably even say was barely acceptable was if i saw like a woman wearing a cape that was that ended at her lower back and went over one shoulder i'd be like okay i guess that's a thing now yeah

but but anything longer than that i'm like no no no we don't do that we're not doing that um i i've you ever seen a human being wearing a cape that wasn't aping a superhero not outside of comic-con no but i'm surprised that i haven't now that i'm thinking about it because or like you'll see it yes in costume settings sometimes people will dress in costumes for uh a race or something like that um but never just out in public in the world i'm surprised i didn't see it uh in la where people dress however the fuck they want and everyone looks stupid but there's there's just nobody nobody because you'll see guys with like very dated facial hair that i think is like that's a loud choice to have a mustache

that curls and like and like a very pointy uh beard that's like a choice and sometimes it'll be paired with like very dated completely circular tiny mole man glasses or a top hat these are all things that i've seen in the wild in the real world by someone who was like yeah i like this particular aesthetic so i'm wearing it in the world I'm shocked that more people haven't been like, look, I just think capes are cool, and so I wear capes. I think even people who do think capes are cool know that it's not worth the heat of being seen in one in the world. Maybe, or maybe there's just a lack of access.

You can't walk into the mall and linger in the cape aisle and be like i wish i was a person who could pull off a cape maybe i'll just go to the dressing room and try on a couple capes like the option's not there so even if you really yeah if you became if you were really into capes you would also have to be really into sewing because you're making your own um i i'm trying to think of you like what was the what do the why did we have capes in the first place I'm trying to think of like is this Victorian London

with Jack the Ripper and at the time everyone was so cold all the time because we didn't have Gore-Tex yet and so everyone's just wearing a blanket what were we doing? oh yeah what function are they serving? yeah what does it do? It's a fascinating

question, and one we're going to get to right after this. Oh shit, they're still here. What if we just ended the show? Not even just the episode, but just the whole show. The sound of a bathroom window shattering and us running away um yeah i think it's gotta be it must have been a a warmth thing can that be true yeah we could certainly find the answer uh no if we looked it up and i think

it would be very unsatisfying i think it would be like probably a blanket thing or like an offshoot of coats or just like a purely invented status thing that's some yeah royal like coattails was like i think this should have i think i should have a thing that like hangs behind me and goes on for a very long time because it makes me take up more space than I deserve. I think the closest we get in society is a bridal train. We still do like the look. We're into the look. Like fabric just fucking dragging behind you.

But we save it for the very special, the very important days. And I would also say, like, yeah, coattails. Coattails serve a lot of the same purpose. Completely functionless, stupid. But for some reason, having just some extra cloth flapping around down by your ass, people are like, yeah, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, we talked about capes. It it is interesting you bring that up daniel because when i made the cape cod joke i had been thinking about somebody

had like um there was a license plate i saw that was like socks cape and then they had socks cape socks cape and then they had uh a border around their license plate that was red socks and i was like is this somebody from massachusetts i mean is this somebody from cape cod like that's the only thing that i could imagine and then i was like wait a second why do we call them why do we call them capes like on the when they stick off of the land like that like cape suzette remember cape suzette obviously um cape may cape cod yeah canaveral what why do we call them capes is it because it's doing the same thing as the clothing is it like flapping off i can't imagine it is i think that's just gotta be a coincidence i think we could so easily look up

i'm just not gonna do it because i like thinking about it instead i don't know that the the socks cape is necessarily related to cape cod because cape is now also it's it's uh it's entered into the lexicon as like modern slang for um for like really sticking up for or defending something what that i will actually look up cape slang cape is a no yeah caping is slang for defending or supporting someone especially someone considered unworthy of it so yeah red socks cape socks yeah sure okay why not okay So, yeah, Red Sox, Cape Sox. Yeah. Sure. Why not? Okay. And I'm sure that that's born from superhero. Like, you're white knighting for something.

Like, you were being a superhero for some... Yes. Yeah. Maybe you're right. Maybe this isn't a Cape Cod thing. I wish it was. Love the idea of Cape Cod. I don't know why.

It's like my white t-shirts, Dan. It doesn't matter. In theory, Cape Cod is cool. You can still pretend it is. Who cares? All right. Yeah. And so you don't think that it's because it's flapping off the land?

It's flapping off the mainland? People are like, yeah, it looks like a cape. It could be, but unfortunately, there's no way of finding out. No way to know. Yeah. At the beginning of this podcast, we have a theme song. If I don't already know a thing. Yeah. At the beginning of this podcast, we have a theme song.

If I don't already know a thing. We have a theme song that's like, if there's an answer, they're going to find it. That's never once been true of this podcast. We've never, when like we run into something, and it's most of the time, that we don't know or aren't willing to lie about. We don't do anything about it. We just let it live it's like a fun magical question for the world there are so many questions that don't get answered at all and uh a lot of the times i'll look back at like episode titles or descriptions and think like that would make a good podcast episode if ever explored but

unfortunately they got distracted talking about capes again and we never found out what soren's uniform would be yeah talked about mugs for so long that we lost track of time and the color of a of a guild t-shirt um okay that's enough of this show we've wasted enough of your time everyone i'm so sorry the show is quick question you know that you can find daniel and i on blue sky you can also follow quick question on x still it's at qq underscore soren and dan they do fun little clips of us you can also find little clips of these episodes with video on instagram at qq soren and daniel we have an email which is q qq soren and daniel we have an email which is qq with soren and daniel at gmail.com and we have patreon and patreon has bonus content

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