Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - QQ ep 66 - A Home Away From Home

Episode Date: November 20, 2020

In this episode, the guys talk about skills and items they wish they had access to earlier in the quarantine, and Soren explains the correct way to enjoy a hotel. And as always big thanks to our sponsors. Thanks to Hawthorne. Get special offers for the holidays, going on right now, by visiting Hawthorne dot CO. And thanks to Tushy, Go to hellotushy.com/qq get 10% off your order

Hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel, the podcast where two best friends and TV writers separated by 3,000 miles ask each other questions and give each other answers. I am one half of the podcast, an author, comedian, pop culture expert, former treasurer of his high school Italian club, a role that required truly niente, Daniel O'Brien, and I am joined as always by my co-host Mr. Soren Bui. Soren, make like the 1989 John Cusack hit and say anything. Hello everybody, I'm Soren Bui, hit Hollywood writer, LA lady, blue jean baby, seamstress for the Dan. And speaking of sewing, a guy who freshman year of high school sewed a 311 patch on a sweatshirt with the expressed intent of making it look like legitimate merch without knowing or having heard a single 311 song.

Were you then, was your plan to sell that sweatshirt? No, I wanted to look cool. Oh, did it work? No. In fact, I got caught. Ryan Fleming, who was a senior, said, name one song. And I went. Really really in real life yeah um and I mean I don't think I was fooling anybody that I had sewn it on myself but it looked cool I thought and I heard that they were cool and other people would be like oh 311

I love them and I would be like yeah I know me too and then Ryan Fleming just knew he just had me he had to beat on me it was like name one song and I couldn't do it I will never understand the confidence of Ryan Fleming's that you can like spot a fraud or a poser and

roll up on them and expose them in front of everybody else the worst part is I don't think Ryan Fleming... You're 15 years old or whatever. What the fuck? How are you a crime boss? I don't think Ryan Fleming was even a fan of them either. I think he was just like, this kid's fucking faking it. I know it. And he was right. Man.

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Go to hellotushy.com slash QQ. Get 10% off your order. Anyway, we're going to get into this show where we ask each other questions, give each other answers. But we actually wanted to take one of your questions this week, because we have a Patreon, apparently, and people pay money to support the show. And one of the perks they get is they get to ask questions that we will read on the show and answer. And this one is from Rural Peepaw, who is at TYD4EE, and he says, QQ for you.

What is the future of comedy in this new world? Obviously, it won't return to how it was in, say, 2014, so what's next for your work and shows like SNL? What does that mean? What was comedy in 2014? I don't, that's a very... That's a very good question. It's not like a 9-11 type event happened right it's not like

we're not saying like it would make sense if he'd said to 2016 yeah uh well let's let me uh why don't you start answering and i'm gonna google comedy 2014 maybe it was because that's what it was like when we were really in the the deep stuff and cracked like that's when after hours is coming out and stuff okay uh i don't i don't know i have no idea what the future of comedy is i'm not in no position to be saying what comedy is going to be i i am not either i i i think and i'm not speaking on behalf of my show i'm only speaking i'm i'm guessing what our future holds uh is that we will do much fewer trump centric stories yeah that's that's the only thing i can i can point to and guess at going forward into the new Trump-less year.

And by the way, it's not going to be Trump-less. He's still going to be a figure around all the time, no matter what. But it gives us a little bit of breathing room to focus more on the stories that we used to focus on. Or that the show used to focus on rather before he was president um which are smaller and weirder and more local and uh much more fascinating to me than just like here's what this fucking idiot did and here's how his insane cultish cronies are supporting it like that became the necessary work that we felt like we needed to do uh and ideally we won't have to do that anymore that doesn't mean we're gonna

stop paying attention to what's going on in modern politics but it means that we i'm anticipating fewer stupid watergate stories going forward. Yeah. Which will be nice. I guess if I'm thinking about the things that really make me laugh and that feel new and unique, it's like the direction I hope comedy would continue going. I hope that shows like, I think you should leave would, would continue to be made and get a lot more credit and that there's some

sort of resurgence in sketch comedy. I would love to see that. And I guess I'm just going to put my money on that. Yeah. Well, that'll be nice. Thank you, Rural Peepaw, for being a patron. And I hope that question... What were the comedies of 2014?

No, I'm going to take that back. Thank you, Rural Peepaw, for being a patron, and I hope that answer satisfied you. How could it have? I don't know. Again, I googled comedy in 2014, and one of the first results is What We Do in the Shadows. That's still a show, so it's the same.

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Soren, do you have any questions for me, by the way? Yeah, I do. Okay. Daniel. Yes. now so let's get into the show soren do you have any questions for me by the way yeah i do okay um daniel yes what's a skill set that you developed when you were young that you didn't realize would be like rare later in life something that uh you at the time felt like everybody had to know and then you didn't understand at the time that you would be one of the only people in the future who knew that i can go first if you want yeah because i don't think my answer fits okay but go on but i'm gonna do it anyway yeah i mean of course so i figured out uh no one knows how to sew and i learned sewing very early on because i was a rollerblader

and if those two things don't correlate in your mind immediately then you weren't a true rollerblader yeah it's tough because i was also a rollerblader and also know how to sew so like this all makes sense to me uh i would wear giant capel pants or SMP pants, um, silver tabs like those Levi's, but you'd buy them way, way too big. And then you'd wear a braided belt with them. That would like the braid would hang down to your knees pretty much. And then the bottoms of the pants, what you really wanted was to be able to cut the bottoms off. So you buy like size, like 42 and you cut them off and then they'd just be like the size of a thigh of like a big fat man's thigh and that was what your skates could fit under because normal jeans your skates can't fit under that and what you wanted were just gigantic pants that you could

wear over your skates and the problem is that the bottoms start to fray and so i learned how to hem very early on to make them also just kind of look nice and then as i mentioned before sewing patches onto sweatshirts to try and convince people that this is like a cool unique sweatshirt that i have right um but at the time i was just like i need to mom just teach me how to do this like i need to do it it's not something i'll ever tell anyone about it's just like this thing i need to know so i can be cool and now i'm realizing like no one i know knows how to sew i let in our house i sew buttons back on all the things if something splits i sew it wait you're telling me your infant daughter doesn't know how to sew yet fucking lick she cannot do it i've even so my son has these rubber lizards and

because they're the legs and they don't know how to sew not they cannot do it uh the legs stretch and snap off occasionally and then you can't glue that kind of thing back on you can't tape it because it's rubber the only thing you can do is sew them back on and uh i've sewed legs onto his toys uh his build-a-bear started to split i sewed that right back up i am so i'm a seamstress that's yeah yeah yeah uh and i think that there are a lot when people find out that i can sew they're like really uh okay great i have i my blazer has this button that's been a real problem for me. And so like at weddings, I'll sew people's buttons back on. Do you bring like a small sewing kit to weddings? I bring a sewing kit in my dop kit when I go and I travel.

And so if I'm like getting ready with the boys and somebody's like, I can see that their button is dangling. I'm like, look look that's gonna take me fucking two minutes to fix for you and you'll have it for the rest of your life do you sew i do yeah i haven't in a while but it's something that um like i didn't wear the kind of pants that you're talking about when i was rollerblading, but I did rollerblade, and I also learned how to sew from my mother. I think because a lot of... I had a strange habit, and I still kind of do,

of getting the belt loop of my pants caught on, like, door jams. Like, just walking in and out of a door and like the way that that the what's the como city j what is the the the thing that holds like where the the knob of the door lock goes come on man jump in are you talking about the handle of the door stuff the handle not the handle but like where the handle goes into like what it plugs into oh i know what you're talking about. The latch. Yeah, that latch. I would get belt loops caught on that all the time and rip the belt loops off, rip the belt loops off, and then I would have to sew them back. And it happened enough times that

my mom just taught me how to do those things. And then it's come in handy many times in my life. I like that you're hugging the corners, going around those turns tight when you're going in and out of doorways yeah it's because i'm scared all the time you're getting but you're also getting from a to b faster than everybody else yeah sure imagine all the seconds you've saved uh well used them for sewing i suppose right um wow what a weird problem to have that It's a very strange, like consistent problem, which is like, oh, this again. Well, I know how to fix this. There are people in my life who they'll call,

if I got a call from them before like my birthday and they're like, okay, I can't come into your birthday because I was outside and my blouse got caught in the door while I was shutting it of my car and my entire shirt came off and now I have to go home. Or I would be like, yeah, okay.

That seems right for you. That's the kind of thing that happens to you. Like people that, that it just seems like the world is the inanimate world is out to get them. Right. Yeah. I mean,

like it didn't feel good to come home with two ripped belt loops and be like, mom, it happened again i would assume you would have known how to sew because you your monstrous calves rip out of your pants so regularly i've seen it happen i know i know you have um i think a thing that so it's not like a defunct skill and it also is, is less rare now, but I feel really lucky that I learned how to cook very early on. That's a good one. So go to college freshman year, sophomore year, first two years, uh, staying in dorms and you

don't have a kitchen in your own dorm. You just go to the dining hall and that's where you eat. You have your meal card, whatever you buy snacks for your your dorm room and that's it. And then junior year, we moved into an apartment, my roommates and I, and it was the first apartment any of us had ever shared together, any of us had ever lived in, period. And we went grocery shopping and we got a whole bunch of stuff and then we brought all the groceries back. And that night, my roommates were like, all right, so should we order a pizza? And I was like, no, we cooked the food that we got. And they just didn't know how to cook at all. And they just watched me.

And I was like, well, we got potatoes. And we got this. And we got that. So I'm going to make steak and potatoes. And then some veggies. And we're all going to eat them together. And they're like, wow. And they just watched me cook for a while it felt like having a superpower and it also thought

like what did you think we were doing when we were buying shit at the grocery store what do you think was going to happen when this pasta came home uh i would have been one of your friends i never learned how to cook early on i had it came so late in my life that i learned how to do it and how late a college probably yeah senior year of college when i finally lived in a house and i had to go grocery shopping for myself and then it was i thought cooking was like i'm gonna pour some prego over ground turkey and and heat up some spaghetti uh noodles and I have cooked. Like, I thought, look at this. I made spaghetti. It took me so long to realize, like, making a meal from scratch, this is how you would go about it. Here are things that go together.

Here are things you should never combine. But that stuff was alien to me growing up. I should say something. No, it's okay. So was it your mom that taught you how to cook? It was my mom that taught me how to cook. My dad also knows how to cook. My mom taught me.

And also, I think there was a period of time in high school where my dad was working nights. My mom was singing in her chorus. She joined a chorus. One of my brothers was working nights. My mom was singing in her, uh, chorus. She joined a chorus. Um, one of my brothers was at college. One of my brothers was, oh, I guess they were both at college or one of them was working. Um, so it was like one night a week where it was just me as soon as I got home from school and just fending for myself and sort of learning by doing that way, which led to a lot of horrible mistakes. A lot of things where I was like, maybe spaghetti and a one sauce,

like, Nope, back to the drawing board on that one. That's funny you say that because that's being the only one home before everybody else was how I learned how to make a fire. And that's another one of mine where I didn't realize until I worked on this golf course that had cabins on it. And I was like a bellboy, how many calls we would get from people who were like, this is not a gas fireplace. And I'll be like, no, you have to go get the firewood from the outside. And they didn't know how to make a fire. And I would come to their cabin and make it for them. But growing up, you would get home anywhere from November to April. And I'd ride the bus home, get there. And it was my job before it got dark to make a fire.

And like now making a fire is just sort of like, it's like instinct at this point. And I didn't realize that nobody else knows how to do that. No, I certainly can't do that. I've watched YouTube videos. Nice. Still can't do it. Oh really?

Yeah. Um, I mean, I could give you some pointers, but I don't think it would make very good podcasting. No, it's fine. But yeah,

making a fire. And so I guess I'm like driving stick is another one that i feel like a lot of people don't do but that one's become sort of obsolete yeah that was the first car i had to drive a the first time i ever drove was in a toyota truck like this big 86 toyota truck and it was the stick shift was on the floor like one of those big long ones. And I learned on a manual. And then finding out in college that no one else in college knew how to drive a manual made you feel like you had this special skill set that everyone else was relying on. And it felt good. Yeah, that's one that I certainly don't know. I've only driven stick once once and it was because my friend had too much to drink and her car was stick and I just needed to take her home with her

car and then I was gonna run back to my car and take myself home so not ideal circumstances where like a drunk person in the passenger seat is explaining to you how to drive this thing it was only like two blocks but it was still like a very nerve-wracking experience and not at all uh illustrative no did you stall out a lot yes that's so awful so embarrassing also there's such a the people who people who are drunk have such a short temper for that it's a short tolerance for that kind of thing before they start getting really upset with you just let me do it no that's worse that's worse than this um yeah and then another one i think we've talked about it before but

packing a backpack packing for yeah a camping trip like what a it's it served me well not to translates to like storage as well packing stuff away and getting it as small and tight as you possibly can and when i see my wife trying to pack a bag i'm like what who how did no one teach you this where where was your older brother before you went on wilderness but like oh okay so i guess your your older brother did teach you how to pack a bag yeah okay and i didn't know i'm before i was 13 i had because like most people don't go on wilderness i know and that's the thing is like you you you look back on it and where it came from and you're like oh i guess that was a pretty unique experience that i would beat everybody home and have to build a fire in the log cabin

i lived in where i would go collect wood from down the road and put it up on the deck and store it and then pull some bark out make sure that had some good kindling i think that's very kind of you that you said that was similar to me making spaghetti with a1 sauce that's like a very generous thing a gift that you gave to me well it is sort of magic as far as I'm concerned. Singing and cooking. That's why I'm such good friends with you, Daniel. You're a wizard as far as I'm concerned. Hey, listen to me.

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different and is there anything about your behavior in these circumstances that you wish you could bring into your home life? Or is it just, I'm paying to be a slob here? No, I'm, I mean, I'm not much of a slob there. I am paying for, so here's what I like to do. I get into a hotel room. I decide which drawers are going to be which that's very exciting for me. Like when I, even if I'm staying for a night, I'm going to unpack my socks, my underwear, I i'm gonna put my shirts up i'm also gonna check for a robe and then uh i'm gonna see what's on cable because i don't have cable and like the ideal circumstance is me checking into a hotel i'm gonna first i'm taking a shit like i get there and put everything in their drawers and

then i'm like this is mine no one knows i'm here this is my time like i take as long as i want here and i'm sort of like exploring the bathroom with my eyes while i'm there and like reading the mouthwash like just really taking it all in drinking it all in and then uh everything's away i'm gonna turn on the TV and I'm going to flip through to find some movie on like USA. Like here's best case scenario. I get to watch the last 45 minutes of Rain of Fire. Got it.

Some movie I do not care. I don't give a shit about. But I, it's like, it's just this free time. Like it's, it doesn't belong to anybody. I'm not wasting it.

It's just like this, I'm enjoying it so much just being in this circumstance and then uh i'm gonna shower i shower more than normal when i'm in a hotel because i just love the idea of using up all the soap and conditioner and all the accoutrement that they're like gonna offer me i'm sorry more times or the shower is longer i've known more times I'll shower more often because I'm just so excited to be in a new spot. I don't get all this by the way, from an Airbnb that feels sort of like a violation, like I'm in somebody else's house, but a hotel feels like once I'm out of that room, the house will stop existing. I mean, sorry, once I'm outside of that room, the hotel stops existing basically like everything that

i've done there uh no longer matters but i'm i'm also not much of a slob there because i'm terrified at the end of what someone will think when they come in that housekeeping will get in there if i'm staying multiple days and they're like what the fuck happened here right the nightmare scenario is you're like walking through the lobby and you see a housekeeper whisper to another housekeeper and point at you like, that's him. That's the one on the third floor. It's like,

Oh fuck. I can't remember who it is. Maybe Jim Gaffigan or somebody talking about how he like, he'll dry his hands on the curtains. That's not me, but I do. I'm going to explore like, this is mine for the short period of time i'm

gonna explore every single inch of this hotel room i'm gonna see how the blinds work i'm gonna i'm gonna try it out with just the shears for a little while then i'm gonna keep it completely open then i'm gonna try it all the way shut like i want to get my money's worth in that hotel room and i just love it i love going there and spending that time in a hotel i also love hotels this is a podcast privilege now i really enjoy staying in hotels but the and i do a lot of the same stuff that you do in terms of exploration and uh immediately unpacking and like putting things in drawers and then I put my suitcase away. Like I don't want to feel like I'm living out of a suitcase, even if I'm only staying in a hotel

for like one night or two nights, it all still goes away and I make it feel homey and I put the suitcase away. So I feel like this is my spot right now. The thing that for me personally, is unique when I stay at either a hotel or an Airbnb, is I decide where my phone, wallet, and keys are going to go. And I never deviate from that. It's like, so this is the spot. This is the counter, or this is the side table, and that's where it goes. When I'm at home, I don't do that, because I know my home so well, and I know that those three items are are somewhere and I'll find them. They're on one of the places that I would have thrown them when I walked in the door.

But at a hotel, I'm like, no, this is the organized spot where these things go. And it's very consistent. And I want to take that over to my home life and make my home life as organized as my hotel life is. That's so now that you're saying that, I'm pretty sure that I got the putting stuff away in drawers from you. Really? Yeah, I don't think that was something I always did. But you and I stayed together a lot when we would travel with Cracked. And that was a thing that you would do.

And I was like, huh, let's see if there's anything to that and really started to enjoy it it's nice it's very nice but i i just want to use up everything there the paper the little pad of paper that they're going to provide me that thing the entire thing's going to be used up and i'm not writing i'm not writing poems or like scripts or anything like that i'm on this page i'm gonna do a little stick guy that i've practiced since i was 18 and on this one i'm gonna do the stussy s and and i'm just doing doing little things i look forward to the opportunity that i get to use their pen and their paper yeah i get very excited about there being a phone in the room that super needs me and they're like press this button If you need the front desk. And I'm like, I don't, but here we go anyway.

How's it going down there? Yeah. Cause in, in, in some hotels you press a button and they pick up and they say, hello, Mr. O'Brien.

Like they know it's you because of technology. It's so fucking cool. And like the idea that I'm going to, I take a shower. I can take as long as I want to get dressed. And when I do like, I'm going to get it exactly right. I'm not just throwing stuff on.

Like, now I'm going to, ooh, what's this? Some lotion? Yeah, let's try some of that. And then I'm going to go down to the restaurant or bar that they've got there. And I'm going to see that too. Because this, as long as I'm here, this is all mine. Yes, yes. And I just, it scratches this itch inside of me that i that i love you know now that

i'm realizing it the i do pretty much the same thing when i'm camping um obviously take a long shit as soon as you get there as soon as i get there right on the campground um when i go camping everything is gonna have its particular place i want I want it all laid out nice and neat. And I want to see every single thing around me. I want to explore the entire thing. And I start thinking of myself as like this native spirit. I'm like, oh, I'm going to watch this bird for a while. And I'm going to understand the things that it does every day.

Ah, see, now it's looking for food. Obviously there it's, yes, it's digging up seeds I see now. And like, I want to, I want to see all the floral and fauna and be like, I understand it. I see you. And I don't know what that is. I just like want the space to be mine. Right. When was the last time you were in a hotel?

Do you know? Yeah. February. February. I went to Park City with work right before. Right before everything. Right before everything. And here's the thing.

A hotel real experience can really be a bummer if it's dingy at all like it ruins the whole thing for me because i'm no longer just comfortable throwing my my own naked body around the room like you know i'm gonna lie on the comforter now i don't know which of these pillows i'm gonna use throughout the night but i'm gonna cycle through all of them and uh I don't feel as comfortable anymore. Right. Sometimes you walk in and you just like smell mildew. And it's like, well, this is now I can't sleep.

Right. You can just tell how old the comforter is. You can, the walls peeling a little and it'll just drive me crazy. Cause I'm like, why wouldn't they fix that? Maybe I'll fix it for them. Yeah. Hey, Soren, I got another quick question for you yeah go ahead what is an investment you wish you'd made at the start of quarantine not like a financial i should have put money in masks or whatever but something that you wished you'd purchased for the home or I'm assuming for your kids that

in retrospect would have made things go a lot easier for you I can go first if you need time to think yeah go ahead I have a couple free weights is one of those that's yeah that's exactly I was gonna say it's it's something that like I I really thought I could run outside and I could do body weight workouts where I'm just doing push-ups or squats or fucking finding a thing to hang on outside and do pull-ups on. And anyway, this whole thing will be over in two weeks, so why would I spend money on free weights?

And now I really wish I had them. And the other one is a really nice office chair, which I don't have because I don't have a home office because I don't like working at home. And a co-worker not too long ago asked our group if anyone had an office chair that they liked and recommended for the home and people had answers and i realized oh no i've either been uh working from my couch or my kitchen table for seven months and i've been tremendously uncomfortable yeah that you don't have a single office you don't have like a swivel chair no oh because the way that uh things work is i i live very close to our office.

And also my building has a lot of nice amenities. One of which is like we have our own library. We have like just like a large common area with comfortable chairs and like chairs with desks built into them. And that's where I've done a lot of my work the last couple of years. And all of those have been shut off because of COVID. So I've just been like truly working from home, which means working from this one spot on my couch mostly. I think I've brought it up before. We have an office chair that Colleen's mom got for her like a decade ago. And since it's one of those ones that's a little porous, it's got little holes in it to make it look fancy and we spun ronan in it so hard that he threw up all over

and there's just no way to get the vomit out of it but we still use the chair and that's a bummer that the chair started like full but like one of the arms sticks out a little further than the other so if you want to put your elbows up, it just doesn't quite feel right. And there's no way to fix it. Um, that's a good one. I would,

I would have been nice to have a different chair right at the start, but I am definitely on board with you with free weights. I thought about kettlebells or like a whole free weight rack, you know, like those try those pyramid ones where it's just, it doesn't take up much space. Yeah. And how nice that

would have been some bands or something like that just i didn't realize that gyms were gonna be something we never do ever again yeah and i have just i was just sort of like waiting for this all to be over and just getting fatter and fatter um but another one that i would have done if i would have had the foresight is i would have created a home recording studio and like paid to have it really done. Well, one of the rooms in my house, just like set up to be a recording studio because for this podcast. No. Um, thank God with my job, because we do animation where you continue production, even during

COVID because you know, you don't have to film anybody, the problem where the rub is is getting people to record you can't bring them to a studio somewhere anymore because that requires a bunch of people to be there and so you have to you're reliant on the people who are home recording especially early on during it and so when i remember my episode last year, we were about to start, we were talking to the casting directors about who we would want for these parts. And they basically, they gave me a list of like six people. And they're like,

these are the people in Hollywood who have home recording studios. And I was like, that's it? And they have other people who had mics at home, but they had hardwood floors. And that was a big problem. The way the sound bounces off of it. They just didn't have a good setup. And there were a few people who had great setups at home

that actually made it sound like TV quality sound. And if I was smart, I would have gotten on that fast because last year I also started to do, I got like cast a couple times, do a couple different voices on the show. And if I would have had that all set up, I feel like I could have gotten a lot more jobs. And then not only through our show, but I could have like, I could have started acting again. I could have gone to different people and be like, look, I'm a voice actor. I have my own setup. I know that there are enough people, like a handful of people in the entire area who have the same setup, hire me for your show. And I feel like I could have gotten a lot of jobs i think everyone was fighting over the same six people man i had no idea that was going on in the industry that's cool

uh i also assumed you're gonna you were gonna pick something like like something cool for ronan well i bought him a jump house i bought him a bouncy house that's true and he doesn't use it so and also the things that i thought to buy for him i bought for him well he's the one now that i buy fun stuff for where like i also get excited about it where i used to spend that money on myself uh now I'm like, no, you know what would be so much fun for him? Is that like a tea and a whole bag of baseballs. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm annoyed with how short-sighted I was with my purchases, because as soon as I knew this was all happening, I bought a bunch of survivalistist food not survivalist food but like i'm gonna stockpile rice and pasta right and stuff that can last for a while that i will eat assuming this is going to be just a few weeks and i got toilet paper and i got like a fun puzzle because like wouldn't it be fun if i did a puzzle? And then a few days into the puzzle, I was like, I'm finished. I finished the one interesting thing that I got myself. I guess I'll have rice to celebrate.

Yeah. I don't know if it was distribution chains got fucked up because of COVID, or if it was people were actually savvy in buying these things. But for a while, it was impossible to get a pull-up bar anywhere. As soon as I started to realize this was not short-term, I was like, I should at least have something. And then found out that all the great pull-up bars through any site were out of stock. You had to get like some knockoff shit.

And then I tried to buy a Dremel drill. Do you know what that is? No, it's like a little sanding drill. It's a drill that doesn't look like a gun. It looks more like a wand. And then there's different bits for the end of it. And it's a really strong drill. It's very, very good for sanding stuff down, especially metal.

And when I was working on projects around the house, cause now I had all this free time. I was like, this would be a really great and handy tool for me to have, and it was impossible to get a Dremel drill anywhere. Nobody was stocking them. Why is everyone buying Dremel drills right now? I don't know. I think, I have to assume

that it just fucked up distribution. The same way where I would go to the grocery store, and I would try and find all dressed ruffles, or I would try and find sweet and spicy Doritos, and they were not on shelves. Sweet sweet and spicy doritos oh damn they're like doritos drenched in soy sauce they're so good they come in a purple bag have you not even seen these i've never heard of these things god this feels like it should have been on your radar you're are you not clued into snacks i don't i don't i don't snack is a thing about me it's a it's a

i cook yeah and i i don't i i quite famously don't have snacks in the house yeah that was never people come from miles around just to see just yeah just to open the cupboards and be like, wow, yeah, it's just like spices. All this fucking rice you bought. That's okay. I don't know why I would have thought you'd be, maybe because you and I both enjoy fast food. I assumed it was just some crossover with snacks as well. And also, you lived in an office with me when we both lived in the office.

I would snack in the office. That's my cheat is I'm in the office and the office has snack food, so I want to get a bag of Doritos there. Yeah. Well, there's one called Sweet and Spicy that has disappeared for the past almost year. I can't find it anywhere. I don't know. I'm now missing a thing that I never had.

And there were just certain things during the quarantine where I was, I would just suddenly notice this thing I liked was gone. And I didn't know, or the thing I needed was gone. And there was no explanation. It wasn't like people were hoarding it. It's just all of a sudden they, either the company pared back and like, all right, well, this was extraneous. We don't need this. If we're going to keep making stuff, we need people to be on the floor of the factory or whatever we can give up these things

i don't know but like yeah dremel drills seems like such a weird thing to disappear anyway i would have gotten one of those get my hands on one of those sweet dremel drills oh with a little nickel uh a little nickel file for the end oh just like cuts through metal like butter okay i mean you're losing me and if you're losing me we're losing the audience so we should probably wrap up unless you got any other questions no good um but i i do want to read the uh the if it's okay with you i want to do like the twitter accounts and stuff is that all right yeah that's right that's right. Go ahead. Go right now. Oh no, I have to go get them. Um, I'm actually, I'm in Arizona. I'm at my

wife's parents' place. And so I don't remember where they keep them. I gave them a copy. I'm going to go ask them. But in the meantime, um, I want to ask you a question, Dan. So Daniel. meantime um i wanted to ask you a question dan so daniel i wanted to ask you a question daniel go ahead there have been uh a lot of scary things happening currently with uh mike pompeo saying that there he's gonna that trump is gonna president again. There are a lot of senators now backing a very anti-democratic message, which is that Trump had the election stolen from him without any sort of evidence of that. And how it doesn't look likely that Trump will ever concede.

Now, my question for you is, do you think Adele looks better now that she's thinner? Oh, honest question absolutely not i mean i i could expand on that but it would be ungentlemanly of me to elaborate um i thought she looked fucking fine as shit right out the gate i'm not saying she looks bad now i'm just saying that when i first saw her and heard her sing i was like adele i i would i would love to be part of your you know album 28 breakup where you you date some weird comedy dork somewhere down the line and he uh breaks your heart because he's terrible at communicating you know look me up that version of ad, man, you could have had a whole album about you. I know.

And now she's like, she has... I'm now, like, so much more out of her league than I was before. I think I had a good thing going, and then I think I ruined it with that. I think I made it worse with that. That's honestly such a good punchline, though. Because you go from being a very winsome guy to like, oh, no.

I agree with you, for the record. I thought she was pretty hot. And now I'm like, she looks more just her run-of-the-mill star. And a little special something's gone well i guess not the special song she sings like crazy but an element that i loved is gone uh i guess that's it all right you can follow me soren yeah i'm not gonna yes and that we're gonna be two guys talking about how hot we think a woman is at the end of this podcast we should go through all the women

and celebrity women and be like, is she hot? Is she hot? Okay, you can follow me, Sorin, on Twitter at Sorin underscore LTD. You can follow Daniel, assuming he approves you, on Twitter at DOB underscore INC.

You can follow Michael, or Bacon as we call him at make me bacon please please is spelled pls and you can find and hire our sound engineer and editor uh gabe harder somewhere but no longer gabe harder.com from what i understand because he's lost the rights to it yeah someone else owns gabe harder.com or if the point is uh the rights to his site have expired and you can buy them now yeah i think there's a really strong chance that uh i'm going to buy them tomorrow and we're just going to keep plugging gabe harder.com so whatever happens to live there you're getting a lot of free publicity yeah and it's also whatever happens to live there is gabe harder approved

he signs off on it he sanctions it he loves it yeah if he didn't why would he have let that slip through his fingers yeah even if it's just a website that is like hot or not and it's two different pictures of adele okay bye