Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - QQ ep 77 - He Did the Monster Hunter Mash, It Was a Podcast Smash

Episode Date: February 19, 2021

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Hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel, the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers drop so many cues that even Kathy Hyatt couldn't miss them. I am one half of this podcast and I am, among other things, looking forward to explaining that reference. Daniel O'Brien, joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Soren Bui. Soren, say hello. Hello everybody, I'm Soren Bui, I'm a writer for American Dad and the current driver of

a rental car for the next three weeks. I don't know what that reference is, Dan. So Kathy Hyatt is one of the main characters, one of the only two speaking characters in the off-Broadway musical turned Broadway musical turned movie musical the last five years. And she has one song where she talks about who she's not going to be. She's not going to be pushing babies and beer nuts and missing the cues. So

what I said is that we're going to drop so many cues that even Kathy Hyatt couldn't miss them. So the cues that she is talking about is C-U-E-S. Like there are so many cues that her life isn't going the way that she wants it to go that she's just like she doesn't want to end up as just somebody more important's

wife and she promises she's not gonna be the person who's like standing in the sidelines to someone else's life missing the cues and what i did we dropped so many cues as in questions like q and a and there's so many of them that even she wouldn't miss them. So it's like a, like a, it's both a deep cut reference and a homonym joke. Yeah. Okay. It's like a completely ungettable by anyone that's not reading it on a page and familiar with Broadway. Yeah. Yeah. ungettable by anyone that's not reading it on a page and familiar with broadway yeah yeah

um i for one am driving a rental car because i got in a car accident holy shit yes uh side swiped everybody's okay no big deal but i got i was picking up my son from school i got side swiped and uh there's a lot of like the entire side of my car is damaged with dents and things like that and pain transfers we pull over and the woman was very apologetic she was very sorry that she pulled in that lane without looking and then uh my son started talking and i went over to his door and i said it'll just be a second. He wanted to get out and see it. And I was like, no, because it's on the same side of the road.

And as soon as she saw that I also had a child in the car, she started to cry. Yeah, absolutely. I was like, no, no, no, it's okay. Like these things just happen. Insurance will take care of all of it. We'll just exchange their insurances. We're going to be fine. Then true to my word, insurance was great. Insurance, there was like, okay, well, hereances. We're going to be fine. Then true to my word, insurance was

great insurance. There was like, okay, well, here's what you're going to do. You're going to take that car to this body shop and you're going to this one because it's only half a mile away from an enterprise. You can either have them come to you or you can get to go to them and you'll get your rental car for free. And went there at the enterprise the enterprise they were like okay here's the deal we've only got a nissan altima and i was like let let me stop you right there it literally does not matter what kind of car you get it does as long as it drives right i know this is not a forever situation yeah i have there's no status that i need to continue to meet out in the world right now. Right, as if you're gonna be like, Nissan Altima, okay, well, what colors does it come in?

Thanks, but no thanks, we're walking. I'll just, I'll dig town cars, I guess. No, it was, it was, it couldn't have been easier. Obviously, I haven't paid anything yet. And that will, my tune may change then. But if insurance for some reason doesn't cover it. But it's, she was, I think it might have been like her first accident. She was so frightened.

And I remember feeling that way when I was younger and had gotten into accidents. And I was just like, I don't know how to impart to you that everything's going to be okay. Yeah, I mean, it was your fault. But everything's going to be fine. mean it was your fault but everything's gonna be fine how old was she let's see 96 was her birthday on her license are you gonna make me do that no absolutely not thank you but we're both sitting here trying our best aren't we I was like, okay, 21. Yeah. She's 25.

Okay. My brain went to like, okay, so she's over 20 because 2016. But then that's when it gets tricky. Yeah, it's not. Nice round numbers. I'm just at a loss. And then there was like a little subtraction that was involved. And I was like, okay, well, I'll need a calculator for that.

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I haven't been in, like, a major car accident, but any time that I've been bumped even a little bit, it's louder than you expect it to be, especially when you look at the damage afterwards and uh you can feel it more than you thought you would so was that an exciting roller coaster experience for him or is that scary okay no he was pumped from the first collision like he was so excited to know what had happened what we just ran over because he thought we ran over something and then when he found out that it was there was actually we had been in an accident he wanted to see the other person very badly he wanted to see the side of the car like it was

it was so exciting to him that's good that's cool yeah wow well shit i guess we can get into the show oh you know we haven't done in a bit is uh covid check-in just like a general yeah let's call that my my covid one but i'm curious to hear what you're up to because we haven't really talked much do you have any covid news i don't really have any covid news i think that i i noticed recently is uh i'm still i'm surprised that i'll still have um covid mood swings about it because i generally feel like i've got this new lifestyle under control uh i i i like having like i i get a schedule and i stick to it it It's like, okay, you wake up and it's COVID. You take your dog out. You brush your teeth. You have breakfast.

You have your coffee. You work. You take breaks. You work some more. You eat your meals. You take your dog out. Exercise if you can. Now it's dinner time.

And now you're going to watch a movie. And like, I don't know. I've just been incredibly zen about it for like uh, like a month and a half now, I suppose. I'm just like, this is the situation that you're in. And I'm, uh, what is known as a, uh, non-essential worker. So it's going to be a while before I get vaccines and that's fine. Like every, everything that, that happens is sort of like, this is fine. It sucks, but it's fine. Deal with it. And i really thought i had things under control but every once in a while you'll just have one of those mornings where it's like

if i have to sit and watch another fucking movie on this fucking couch that i'm gonna lose it and it's it's it's tough because you like you don't know what day you're gonna wake up with and normally i don't normally like there's so many times where it's like i'm gonna watch a movie that's new that just came out the little things ah just came out exciting or i'm gonna watch something that i that didn't just come out but i've never seen before or i'm gonna watch something that i have seen before and just like let's watch shutter island again and appreciate that and then there are certain other days we're just like i've watched everything that has ever been made and if anyone suggests something new to me i'm gonna fucking snap because i i i don't want it i'm done with this i'm done with covid right now yeah and it's uh it's a bummer to to to find

out that uh you're human after all i was talking to co- to coworkers on a Zoom about like what we're going to do when we're done with COVID. And I was like, telling them how excited I was to go to a dine-in theater. And I was like, I can't wait till I could do that again. I just want to like in the middle of the day for a matinee by myself, go to a dine-in theater, get some curly fries and maybe some tacos or something there and watch something terrible. Doesn't that sound great? And everyone in the call was like, no,

why do you want to watch something that's not great? And then I was like, oh, I don't know. I have to think about it. And then I started like thinking about it the rest of the day. And I was like, oh, what I really miss is having expendable time that's just mine. Like time that's so expendable that if I could waste it on a bad movie and not even care, like at this point with children and everything, and because you're home with them all the time,

you're, you have to really allot your time, especially your own free time. It has to be, you have to dedicate it to something good. Like right now I'm out on scripts, so I'm going to be writing during that time. And if I don't use that time i'll feel terrible about myself but having that free time to myself where i wasn't accountable for anything and it was just my time and i could waste it like that i was allowed to just waste my time was like oh it's like a wet dream yeah i mean i don't i don't think of wasting my i mean i i certainly waste plenty of time when i when i have all my freedoms but like dumb things that i end up missing like oh i just wish i could go to a fucking gym again i do yeah and and

you're surprising yourself feel like me yeah yeah i want to go to a dsw and not buy anything i want i just want to like go to a store like and wander there i want to end up there i don't want to have that be part of my plan for the day which is like the littlest bit of freedom that i still feel is late at night when i go to watch a movie i don't have a plan for what i'm gonna watch and that's the most exciting thing to me is that i can just go look through stuff and be like i don't know a plan for what I'm going to watch. And that's the most exciting thing to me is that I can just go look through stuff and be like, I don't know.

This Korean one sounds interesting. Let's do it. I don't know. Well, it's good that you can still be excited about watching movies. Yeah. Yeah. Uh,

I, I, I think if it's not over soon then I become part of that like that senseless mob that just decides it's over because I again I'm normally okay

I'm normally very zen and like resigned to like I'm an adult this is what we have to do right now it's just every once in a while something will switch in my brain that is like no i want to see that shitty monster hunter movie in a theater yeah i know it's gonna be bad but i i i need to get out and see it and i feel like if if uh sweet brilliant dr fauci with his quiet voice if he comes out and very calmly explains to us like adults it's like so we came up we found out this new strain and it's even worse and it means another year of this but the

good news is we're all prepared for a year of this because we've done it and i'll be like no i'm not prepared anymore it's a hoax i switch sides now. Watching those people who fight in grocery stores or like they just go out and continue to go to bars or spring break and things like that. Yeah. Enjoy their summers in Mexico. Of course, I'm mad at them because they're being reckless and they're potentially hurting other people.

But I'm also mad at them because I'm not allowed to do it. And I'm so jealous. Yeah. So jealous of somebody who is that reckless and doesn't care because they can continue to live their life. And if they don't get it and the world is just unfair and I spent all this time putting my life on pause so that we could, for the benefit of society

and there are these motherfuckers who are just stretching that time out, I'm so jealous of them right like if there's a year from now and everything is back to not normal because it it'll be like seven years before the world is back to normal if it ever gets that way but normal in the sense that like everything is open and and life resembles what it looked like a year and a half ago from now if a year from now we were at that point and i'm like out on a trip somewhere and i'm at a restaurant there's live music and and

and there's dancing and there's people and you're meeting strangers uh i i really wonder what it's going to do to my brain if i am talking to a stranger and and i'm like oh man that was crazy a whole year where we all just stayed inside. Someone was like, oh, yeah, I made the news because I went to spring break in Florida. Crazy, right? And I was like, no, we can't. We're not both allowed to be here. We can't both end up in the same future. You're supposed to be punished.

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I feel like you're going to be able to do it in August. But is Monster Hunter starring Mia Jovovich going to still be in theaters in August? There are still signs up for Sonic the Hedgehog movie at my local theater. So I think you're going to be safe. Why don't I go first here, Dan? I got a quick question for you. Yeah, I'm clearly going through something. You should go ahead. This is actually not even my question. This is a question that Gabe Harder brought to us

that I think is a really, really great one. Have you ever been swept up in a craze, you know, given the current climate? Have you yourself- I've got COVID fever. Have you yourself ever been swept up in a craze and now you're out on the outside of your you know you've returned to zero uh on the other side and been like oh that was crazy uh yeah several times because i'm a huge mark oh i figured yeah you're just so you're so like trusting of people and and very excited to just change your life yeah yeah and i i think the the way that i grew up was was also like tailor-made for this this kind of thing where um grew up in new jersey and every summer we would uh vacation

in a different part of New Jersey called Wildwood which was a beach town and there was a boardwalk with rides and stands where you play games you try to win things there were arcades and there were little restaurants and cotton candy uh it's it's very like gun to your head draw a picture of New Jersey summers in the 90s it's perfect that I loved every bit of a bit of it growing up and when i got into uh like i guess middle school and maybe a little bit uh indefensibly older than middle school there was always the thing of the summer and i i needed it. It was always, whatever was the thing that was in the most stands on the boardwalk, the most common prize, the most basic common prize,

my brain clued into the fact that was like, okay, this is the thing. This is the thing of the summer. This is the trendy thing of the summer. And I need it i couldn't articulate why i needed it or what kind of enjoyment i would get out of it but it was like wildwood has decided that this is the trend of the summer and i i'm going to spend my entire week's vacation and whatever money i have on trying to win these fucking things instead of like diversifying that money and having more fun with it it was like I'm gonna get it and let me tell you what these things are soren. Yes one year. It was a

Forgotten year that no one likes to talk about but certainly in New Jersey and possibly elsewhere there was a summer where everyone wore dr. Seuss hats What? Did that not make it to you? No, the cat in the hat hats yeah those tall hats the tall striped hats they they had them in all different colors play the kind mystery wears when he goes out hunting women absolutely but like but made by 14 year old exchange students who were spending their summer at wildwood uh learning learning basic english and even more basic conning so they would stitch these they'd get these these

felt cat in the hat hats all stitched up and then take my two dollars to try to for me to try to win them uh i was desperate to get these fucking hats and that was one year another year was uh impossibly those um big mouth billy basses that you'd hang on the wall and they would sing yeah and another year was uh those tiny bikes are you do you know what i mean when i say tiny bikes uh other than like you can like nope you can context clues will tell you that it's like a bike but smaller but I don't I wouldn't know any other way to like put a name brand to it but it's these mini bikes for for adults somehow like you would ride it like a like a clown bike

like a clown bike yeah like like homer simpson when he's crusty the clown in that one episode that does that famous trick where the bike keeps getting smaller until he's a clown riding a very tiny bike it was those bikes and that was like this is the this is the thing that wildwood has determined is cool so like the cat and the hat hat and like that singing fish it's i it's my destiny to get this thing i think the context i have for that hat thing maybe is in friends at one point they go to england and joey buys a uh a british flag hat that maybe is a little bit similar that's it's like a mad hatter hat almost no like i i don't want to i don't want to tell you it's something that it's

not it's it's the dr seuss hat let me check see i can't i can't be objective here because i started typing doctor into google and it auto-filled dr seuss hats fashion 90s because i've done this before enormous hat trend here it Oh, these suck so bad. They've got a big dent in them. Oh, my God. Oh, they're so hideous, too. That's hilarious. No, that never made it to me.

And here's the thing. I would go to Ocean City in the summers. Like, I was susceptible to a lot of the same thing at the same age where I would like bucket hats were the thing. And I would be like, got to get a bucket hat. Everybody's got bucket hats. And I, it was like the first time I was plugged into a city,

it felt like to me. So I was like, this is where trends were born. As far as I was concerned was this dry city in New Jersey. And so I was like, I would just go there and like clue into what people were on and be like okay we're doing tank tops okay i could do a tank top oh we're doing graphic tees protect your nuts they say okay i could get one of those

puka shell necklace you got it yeah oh femo uh those those clay bracelets uh of course okay you could see at least one character wearing one of these striped Dr. Seuss hats in Clueless. Okay. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Now, I don't think you can be faulted for this.

We're at a very impressionable age where the most important thing to you is fitting in and being one of the crew. It's's wildwood so it's like outside of uh like my neighborhood colds or kmart it's like wildwood is like oh this is like people come here this is a destination place this is where real shit happens this is the outside world and it's also like i've always said wildwood is a cultural hub. Everyone says that, not just you. It's a meeting of minds and people from all over the world come there.

Yeah. It's like those Renaissance salons, you know, when like they would all just like, like artists and scientists and, and, and athletes just getting together and swapping expertise. It was also, I think like the idea summer uh always came with some degree of reinvention for uh possibly everyone certainly kids who didn't feel like they'd found themselves or like had like slotted into a real identity yet was like i'm gonna go away this summer like all the way two hours south of home and when i'm gonna show up back to school and and i will have figured it out and and it's and and this singing fish is gonna get me there god damn it it was always i would

go there to see all my cousins on my mom's side and i had several and some of them were girls as well so it was a nice like safe way to crash test a new personality type like a new thing that you were gonna wear from now on to see if it was cool and it was playing um i did a lot of the same stuff dan i you go there and you're like well maybe i'm this now maybe i'm a singing bass guy that's a good one and it wasn't i never did figure out a personality um let me ask you this dan do you are you familiar with these words when i say them nine seven six or uh senate spell senate is it the way that i would

expect the same way yeah but it's a backwards s and it's in a superman symbol no none of these are clicking for you 976 yeah all these are rollerblade terms dan these are rollerblade brands that i lived for you know about my illustrious career uh in rollerblading and how i almost made it to the top. Sure. Rollerblading, I thought, was my career path when I was 10, probably like 10 to 12, 13 even. Yeah. And my summers were consumed by rollerblading, and it was right in the middle of the rollerblading craze. It was when everybody went nuts for it.

I loved rollerblading. Everybody in the world had bought rollerblades and then there was like a uh evolution to it where people were not only just getting rollerblades they were getting like skates they were getting k2 skates that had grind plates already built into them grind plates are for grinding on handrails or for on if you're if you're not quite that bold like me, just curves that you waxed or bike rails. This is a teachable moment for me. You needed specific things to be able to grind? Yes.

Oh, that's why I couldn't fucking do it. Yes. That makes so much sense. You needed grind plates. They were either metal or they were plastic. And they fit in between your two middle wheels. And your wheels had to be a little smaller too. You can't have just like hockey skates because nothing can fit in between those wheels. Man, I thought it was like all other sports and

I was just like not designed for it. I lost a lot of good shins trying to grind on curbs. Yeah, you need a grind plates. And it consumed so much of my life that my friend Ed and I, we would get a skateboard. I'm not skateboard. We would get these rollerblading magazines with Randy Roadhouse in them, who was like the youngest skater. And we were, oh, we idolized him. He skated for Senate, which was the, the premier skate brand. And this, they don't even sell, uh, sk skates rollerblades or anything they just sold the clothing and we were way into senate all of our gear was senate 976 was like mid-tier then there were a few lower as well but we would specifically go buy pants that were way too big and cut out the bottoms of them and then duct tape the bottoms or hem the bottom so that they fit around your skate. Kind of Susie and actually, yeah, the way that they looked, they were looked very silly on us like big clown pants. Um, and skating was like, that was every single summer and into December. If like, if there, we weren't getting a lot of snow in my town, it was so exciting because it meant that we could spend that summer. I mean, that winter skating a little bit longer.

And there was a ramp in town, like a big quarter pipe in town, three quarters pipe. So it was like half pipe in both directions. And we would spend hours just waiting up there for after a rainstorm for the bottom of it to dry, just sitting there on the ledge, not talking, just waiting for it all to drystorm for the bottom of it to dry, just sitting there on the ledge, not talking, just waiting for it all to dry so that we could skate it. And I was so on board with rollerblading to the point where like skateboarders the entire time they knew the deal. They were like, this fucking sucks. This thing you guys are doing is stupid. And I was wholeheartedly defending rollerblading as like, this is the next

thing. This is snowboarding, you dummies. Like give it up, give up the skateboard. This is the, this is the future. And you were, so you, you mentioned that you wanted this to be your career. So you were like, you, you were learning tricks. Yeah. I imagine. Cause like my relationship to rollerblading was very different. I also loved it. I would play street hockey with buddies. But really, my main interest in rollerblading was purely, this is faster than walking to get where I want to go. I would just travel with rollerblades everywhere. That was their function to me. It wasn't doing tricks or looking cool. It was just like, this is the fastest way for me to get from point A to point B until I'm allowed a car. That sounds like a very healthy relationship to rollerblading and, and not my experience at all.

I don't think there were many others like me. I think most people were like only using them for hockey or doing tricks and trying to get good at them. No one was like, all right, bye mom. I'm going to be gone for now. I'm just going to rollerblade in circles for a while and then I'll be home. I would, so I couldn't do it at my house

because I lived in a log cabin out in the woods and there's no pavement or anything on those roads. So I would have my parents drive me into town and I would spend the entire day in town without like a home base necessarily that I would go to or even thinking about lunch or anything. I would just go over to the middle school where I knew that there were some

ramps set up. There were some, I think called a fun box, which is a, a wooden box that has a coping on one side, just a rail coping. So you can work on grinding. And,

and then there was the big three quarters pipe. And I would just spend all day there trying to like get good, trying to be as good as Randy Roadhouse. And then like within a year, I was like, no, rollerblading sucks. I never even rollerbladed. I wasn't one of those guys. So stupid. So dumb.

Right, guys? so stupid so dumb right guys ah it's the a thing like that that i got swept up in that felt immediately stupid afterwards similarly was was like pokemon cards because i i didn't i didn't really watch pokemon as the show or play the video game but like everyone had pokemon cards one year so we just got them and then would go to friends houses and play whatever the rules of pokemon cards are that i i must have learned at the time but like that's completely lost on my brain but it was a strange several months that this was a thing that was really important to me until it immediately wasn't and i was like that's that was stupid why the fuck did we do that why did we all care about that it was it really felt like we'd been brainwashed for three months yeah i i never got into pokemon but i did get into pogs in the same way

where i was like at the end i was like what the fuck are all these what have i been doing yeah just like looking at a huge box full of pogs or Pokemon cards like, now, was my plan to sell these? Was this an investment? What did I do? The long game here. I have like a custom sleeve for my pogs. Who am I?

It was a crazy time, Dan. I had, sometimes some people would even get smaller wheels for the middle of their skates to make grinding even easier. That's, when you, when you mentioned like Senate and 976, like these clothing companies where they, they, they weren't making skates. They were just like adjacent to skates, just like, like brands that sold the kind of clothing that people who were into skates would wear. That's very familiar to me

and something that I don't know if it still happens because it's very 90s to me that a trend would emerge and then that somehow sprouted like three adjacent businesses around it where it was like people are into skateboards and if you are you have to buy these kinds of shirts and these kinds of hats and also we're now selling these little like pocket skateboards that you can do tricks with with your fingers and then uh you know nine

months to a year from now uh all these shops will disappear and it'll be like it'll be a town once when the mill shuts down and it's like oh no all the businesses are gone did that work yeah no it totally makes sense it was it's like it's a boom for a little while and then it just like the whole thing dries up and everyone's almost embarrassed that they were involved in it i shouldn't even say almost embarrassed of course we were all embarrassed yeah um but i thought for sure that was like gonna be my life i was like i show real proficiency at this and like clearly the trend isn't going anywhere this is who i am from now on fuck school i'm a skater did you tell your parents that uh you are a skater and you want to be a skater when you grow up?

Yeah, I think I did. I think I told them. Because when you ask for things around skating, it's not super cheap. And they were like, why? What? Do you really need another set of grind plates? Yeah, look, do you want this to be my career or not? This is something I'm taking seriously ah good good for them good good for your parents and my parents that

when I was like there's nothing more important to me in the world than pokemon cards or this singing fish and they're just like okay he's passionate let him play it out something's got to stick skating coincided also with like the bowling shirt look where it was like a zip up collar t-shirt that had just two stripes down the front in a way that i think i like they're they're they're married in my mind that in a way they can't be divorced really that if you own those one of those shirts you could see somebody else at school and be like oh shit you skate oh we gotta go skate oh i know the best curve oh over by the cowan center there's this great curve i imagine skating for me was actually

like a nice reveal for my parents i don't know if they if they like if this is true it just seems like a thing that might be true because i would disappear every night one summer for like two hours where just where i would just say'm going skating. And I wasn't like meeting, I wasn't saying I'm going to go skate with Chris or anything, or I wasn't going anywhere to do tricks as far as they knew. It was like, I'm going skating. And then two hours later, I'd come home sweaty with skates. And most of it was just like, honestly, I'm skating around the block in circles, thinking my thoughts, sometimes listening to music. But really, the thing that I was doing that I thought was a real coup was I was going

to a girl's house and I would sit in her driveway and talk to her for a while. And then I would skate home. And I imagine my parents, I feel like they must have at some point tailed me. And what a relief that must have been. Because it's like, he just disappears for two hours every night skating. And like, I hope he's not doing drugs or something like that. Maybe he is. But worse than doing drugs, I hope he's not just honestly skating because that's weird.

That's weirder than drugs. And then if they tailed me and saw like, oh, he's going to talk to a cute girl. Oh, thank God. That's fucking great. We thought he was weird. This is good. He's not like, like sneaking around in the shadows. He's just like, like earnestly sitting in a driveway talking to a girl.

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Oh, yeah, go ahead. Uh, what's, do I? Yeah, I do. quick question for you oh yeah go ahead uh what's do i yeah i do um is there a luxury that you experienced because neither of us are are luxurious people by by nature um is there something that you experienced that uh you were glad you didn't immediately become accustomed to because there's there are uh i mean i guess the best way to get into it is with specific examples like i through the show that i worked for when we went to the emmys we flew first class. That's like part of our contracts, thanks to the Writers Guild of America. Thank you, Guild.

Thank you, unions. We're going to the Emmys, so we have to fly first class. I never in my life would have paid for my own first class ticket. That's just a luxury that I'm never going to spend. I've looked at those ticket prices and like, there's no way that's in the cards for me i was as excited as i was to fly first class on someone else's dollar there was a part of me that was like what if this really is much better what if it's like like how do i go back yeah what if it's like finding out that i'm that that i thought i saw color before

but i didn't i'd only seen three different colors and now i'm seeing the whole spectrum how will i go back and i was so happy like it is it's definitely nicer uh in every way imaginable but it's not life-changing nice and i was so happy it was like oh thank god i was worried that i was gonna have to get a credit card so i could do this again but i don't have to i'm fine with with with normal plane seats yeah uh god that is a scary moment i've never ever flown first class in my entire life oh you gotta the intrigue is always there for me in the same way that the clubs are where you go to the airport and there's like the admiral's club and i'm like what the fuck is in there for me. In the same way that the clubs are, where you go to the airport and there's like the Admiral's Club.

And I'm like, what the fuck is in there? Right. That's a lot of money people are paying. There's got to be something great in there. And it's called Admiral's Club. It's so cool. Yeah, I imagine it's great. I hear stories.

I hear only whisperings that echo down the chamber of the the air the airplane it is i have a a similar luxury that i it might be a game changer for me i don't know i'm it's again something that i only experienced because it was not it was like a gift again either from the show or hbo for for something but uh it was Uggs slippers. And like, I've gotten slippers before at Target for $12. That's how much slippers are supposed to cost. And I put them on my stupid ass feet and I walk around in them. And I'm like, yeah, this is like, I get it.

I understand slipper culture. They're not quite shoes. I'm not going anywhere. They keep my feet toasty. Fine. They fall apart after a few months and i'll get another pair for 12 dollars then i got fancy person slippers from uggs that are expensive because they're a gift and i still thought like yeah i'm gonna get them because they're a gift i'm gonna pick out the ones that i want whatever like they're i wasn't expecting much and as soon as i put them on

it's like oh shit things are different now these slippers are 135 dollars and i i feel it i i feel that the cost makes them better yeah i don't i don't know what to do now i hope i hope they never wear down on me because i can't be that i don't i'm not prepared to be a person who like regularly buys 135 slippers right i can't but i don't know if i can wear 12 slippers again and that's the dilemma it's scary to see the value in a thing that you don't you haven't been using for a while um i definitely have one there's a luxury item that i've never taken advantage of and that's massages i've never had a professional massage and i've never rave about them never people rave about them they talk about how uh relaxed it makes

them feel i've had um therapeutic massage I've had for like PT, but I've never just had like gone to a spa somewhere and gotten a massage. And I'm thankful that I haven't. Cause I think that if I did feel it, I'd be like, Oh, I have to do this now. This is just a thing where I'm going to crave it. I'm going to, anytime I'm tense, I'm going to know this exists and I'm going to want it. I don't feel like I have back trouble at all. I have no, there's no point to ever feel like my spine is out of alignment or that I get

particularly those knots in my back or anything. So I don't feel like I need it, but I just never did it when I was younger. It never really appealed to me, the idea of it. And now that I'm an older gentleman, I've never in my life had a massage and don't crave it.

But you are worried that... So what if I got you as your birthday gift this year? Yeah. If I just got you a gift certificate for a spa in Santa Monica that I know is very good. And COVID doesn't exist. Yeah. That's the other part of the present that I got you.

You buried the lead on my present. I mean, I guess I'd have to go. I would be worried in the same way, though. I'd be worried in the same way that you were for first class that I was like, right now, I don't know that this is something that I want. And I'm happy about that. Is there something that like an upgrade that did make the cut into your life? Yeah, I mean, lots of things, getting a car where I can actually talk on the phone inside my car. Sure. A computer, like a computer inside my car was what certainly one

of them where I was like, oh, I see. Life is way better now. I can tell how far a gas station is just by asking my car. But in general, I think that that's the reason I'm worried is because it happens so frequently where like I upgrade some element. I'm like, oh, shit, this is way better. And now I have to, now I have to do this forever. Um, another one for me is coffee. I never enjoyed coffee. And as a result, I never got into, I never became one of those people who knows the difference between good coffee and bad coffee or that, uh, Starbucks is doing a new thing or that, oh, they've got different seasonal options that you can add to your coffees like none of

that shit has ever mattered whatsoever to my life and it's just freed up so much space for me yeah it's uh i've felt that way with um like the times that i've had very nice scotch because like you can tell the difference between like johnny walker blue which is a very expensive scotch or i don't even know very like uh a fairly expensive scotch and like lafroic which is another expensive scotch versus like what you're gonna get as a normal person and i remember being at like montreal just for last festival where they have open bars everywhere and my brother and i getting johnny walker blue for the first time and tasting it and being like it's it's definitely different it's definitely

better uh i'm so happy knowing that i never have to spend 30 for a shot of this to find out that it's not worth it this is such great news for me yeah i think that's what it is so like it boils down to the with these luxuries that there are some that are Yeah, I think that's what it is. It boils down to these luxuries that there are some that are just like a drug that as soon as you try it, you're like, ooh, this is really nice. I get why it's better. I never have to do it again.

And then some that are like heroin, where the minute you get it, you're like, well, I'm addicted. I don't have a choice now. Now that I know this exists, this is just part of my life. It's scary. It's a real gamble to try new things.

I'm quietly terrified all the time that i'll i'll uh find my way into an incredibly comfortable bed because i've been searching for a comfortable bed for like a good bed situation for all of my adult life and i'm like fine sleeping on whatever i've i've slept on i can sleep on most things but i'm terrified that like i'll be staying somewhere else and land in a bed and it'll be the best sleep i've ever had and it'll and like oh this is what sleep is supposed to feel like and then i'll i'll do the research on what made this bed happen and uh it'll it'll price me right out of it but like i've and then you're chasing that dragon i've got that taste yeah i would look at that cost and be like okay i so i need the

mattress and the box spring and a mattress topper okay this year for christ, I'll get the mattress topper. And then next year, I'll get these special blankets. And then by 2028, it looks like I'll be able to recreate this bed experience. You just, your hands on your hips being like, okay, well, what is it in my life that I can lose? Like, what can I give up so that this can be my new thing? What is my expense right now yeah okay we're gonna wrap things up now i have to track down the social accounts it's they're they're actually right in front of me but i i don't have my glasses so i have to go get my glasses and and then i can

i really should have them memorized at this point or i should have my glasses with me but you know time makes fools of us all while i'm tracking those down uh uh i'm gonna have soren fill that space hey soren why do you think i'm still single oh i think you already know the answer to this dan Dan. I think that you, in any sort of relationship, with a woman or in a friendship, you give all of yourself. You are a very kind person. You're very nice. And you will do anything to be more accommodating to this other person.

And it's almost an affront when they aren't doing that too. Because you have given your entirety to this person. And when they're just like not doing that, and especially when they're being selfish, like it's an abuse of the relationship. And I think you feel that from people immediately and they become not good enough for you. And there are a lot of people, uh, they're young, live in their lives. And these are the women that you're encountering. They are at an age where they're still a little bit selfish and like they're, they're, they

want to do things that they want to do. And a lot of times what that means is that they're going to get very drunk at night. You are going to be do the very nice thing of like, all right, I will drive you home or I will take you to my house. I will make you a meal. I'll help you feel better. You can sleep on my couch. And then they're not even appreciative of that afterwards. And I think that that eats away inside of you. You're saying when I pour all of my blood into a bucket and hand it to someone and they say, I didn't ask for this. And then I get mad. You're saying that's setting up unhealthy expectations for a relationship. I also, but I do think that you are aging into a new caliber of people, a group of people who do do the same thing, that they want that kind of uh reciprocal uh giving and that some the people will start to appreciate that more and more uh in this i'd say like once you hit 32 33 it starts to change yeah well thanks man it was always my goal to be a

freaks and geeks just like a uh beloved cold classic that uh people don't really appreciate until it's gone uh i hate to be your mom honestly because like she must see this she must see like what a good person you are and just be feel so sad that there's not a single person out there who's good enough for her son jesus this is this is gone off the rails i need to we need to get into the social accounts you can find me on on twitter at dob underscore inc or soren at soren underscore ltd you can email the show which i just found out soren checks at qq with soren and daniel at gmail.com uh we have a twitter account for the show twitter.com slash qq underscore Soren and Dan. Uh, we have an Instagram too, probably.

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