Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - You Thousand Funny Me

Episode Date: December 25, 2022

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I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright? I wanna hear your thoughts, 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 favourite? Who did you get? What do I be? What's it up to? Where did all that go?? Oh, forget it. 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 last new episode of 2022. In fact, this is the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers ask each other questions and give each other answers. I am one half of that podcast, senior writer for Last Week Tonight, author of How to Fight

Presidents, and while my name's Daniel O'Brien, you might as well call me Sage Francis, because I can't stop rapping! With me as always is my co-host, Soren Bui. Soren, say hello. Hey everybody, I'm Soren Bui. Dan, you cannot leave room for me to, like, in the hopes that I will laugh when I haven't even been introduced yet. It's like poor etiquette sure um i just laughed though that's good it's good asking a question i probably already know the answer to uh sage francis wrong reference to make too obscure yeah i mean a little a little bit esoteric a niche i would say yeah Yeah. I think my notes, because believe it or not, I do write these intros out. I had Eminem in there because that was like a first thought thing. Yeah, that's wrong too. And then as I saw Eminem getting closer and closer, I was like, well, I don't want to

say that. So I went from first thought to like 60th thought. Yeah. That was not an A to B jump. That was an A to K. Yeah. This is probably why I should never, I shouldn't do improv because my, well, I was either start a scene

with, I am robbing this bank or I'll go too far in another direction and be like, banks aren't real. Thanks to Shopify for supporting Quick Question. Shopify is a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere, giving entrepreneurs the resources once reserved for big business. Sign up for a free trial at shopify.com slash qq. Thanks to Nutrafol for supporting Quick Question. Nutrafol is a

physician formulated to be 100% drug-free. They use natural medical grade botanicals in consistently effective dosages. You can grow thicker, healthier hair and support our show by going to Nutrafol.com slash men and entering the promo code QQ to save $15 off your first month's subscription. Dan, you know what I found out? We'll get to your wrapping paper in just a second, because I do want to hear about all the wrapping that you're doing. I found out recently that when you just mentioned banks i found out recently that banks don't like it when you come inside and you're um

bleeding from multiple places they don't they don't like it sounds like my ex-wife wait more than one now i'm confused is this a domestic abuse joke all of a sudden this is that's that's uh i haven't really thought out the the mechanics of the joke yet but my brain you said they don't like it when you come inside and my brain was like hang on a second something else doesn't like that i bet uh-huh uh-huh and then i and then i was patient um i i fell down running the other day i fell down and that's uh that's one of the scariest things it's it's really a such a bummer and i had like such velocity too that i kind of just

skidded a little yeah it was brutal man and then fell on some pavement that was pretty fresh so it was just kind of like a cheese grater on my palms. I felt the sting on my palms immediately, but I had like my shoulder and my knee and stuff, but I was like, Oh, I hope I didn't break the skit and immediately lifted up my hands. And it was just like, you could just see the bubbles of blood starting to form.

And like these big scraped up pieces of like hand flesh, because you got to get pretty deep under those layers to like pull anything up. That's right. That's bloody. And I was like, damn it. And so so like i stood up and kind of like pull myself together a little bit it was the very beginning of my run i hadn't run more than like a quarter of a mile and i was like okay do i go home and clean all this up could i just go to the gym still i looked at my hands and i was like it's just the like

the fleshy part down by the wrist where i did it i could still lift and so i ran to the gym but as i was running started to because i think your hands start to get more blood to them and everything your blood starts pumping a little bit more they started to like really drip blood to the point where i was like it would be embarrassing for me to go into the gym like this i don't even know if they'll let me in ah i'll go to the bank next door and clean up so i went there and i was like excuse me and this woman went oh my god yeah of those two institutions banks are definitely more open to like fluids of strangers for sure when i when i'm faced with that that's sophie's choice where do i bring my filthy body ah i gotta go to the bank and look nice for the gym

my my thought process was that i don't mind burning a bridge at chase i don't even use chase i was like this will be like if that they say no and like they're scared of me then fuck it i never have to go in there again but my gym, it could be a real problem down the road. Right. And so I was like, can I use your bathroom? And they were like, okay. And they let me go in and they let me use the bathroom. When I came out, the woman was no longer behind the plexiglass. She was now out in the middle of the store. You know what? I'm not 100% sure it was the same woman, but it was a woman. Now there was a woman out there just sort of like waiting for me and she was like what what happened to you are you all right i was like yeah i fell down running she was like okay do you need me to call an ambulance like she was like really like she's treating like i think a normal adult would yeah very reasonable he walks in very bloody it was also my leg like my leg was yeah it maybe looked worse than it was too because as i was running my hands were brushing against my shirt so my shirt had some blood stains all over it yeah and uh i couldn't at one point

even on the run i was sweating a lot for my head very early on and i was like i'm i'm sweating a lot and then i thought oh it's possible you have a head wound you don't know about and so i just started like checking my face but no dice that was fine i didn't have that but my my hands were a mess and it's not even like just how i fell it doesn't make a lot of sense because i've got the wrists right the wrists are all fucked but then on the back of one of the wrists like the back of my hand is also scabbed up so somehow i folded over maybe. I'm not real sure. Yeah.

Anyway, I'm a mess. Yeah. It's tough. The last time I ran, the last time I fell when I ran, because it is scary. It is a serious and scary thing because your momentum is really taking you. And there's just, it truly feels like there's nothing you could do, but like try to do a controlled role from your run which which is at that point i'm by that i mean i'm relying on my body's

adrenaline because i don't have the coordination for that but the last time i fell running was uh in a race actually last year a 5k that i was just like doing for shits and giggles and the start of a race is always a very tense thing because there's so many people and you're trying to get a good start and you're fighting for position and it's like for me as someone whose first mile is always my fastest I'm really trying to make the most time there and I'm doing my best to be to have road IQ but again there are so many people who are making sudden movements once they realize oh the front of the pack isn't as fast as I want them be so let me dart out real quick and I tripped over some other guys legs and fell like like almost the same as you like not even a quarter mile into this thing just really toppling and I rolled for a while

and got up and I still wanted to make good time so I know I didn't let anything like break the gate of my of my pace yeah and I just wanted to make good time. So I didn't let anything like break the gate of my pace. And I just shouted to the guy who tripped me. I was like, I'm okay. Because I could tell that my legs were working. And that was like the main thing that I needed for this race. And so I just did the whole race and made pretty good time. And the race was close to home.

So then I just like jogged home, feeling good, caught myself in the mirror. And there's just blood everywhere. I've just been dripping with blood this entire race. It really starts spouting out of you when you're running, it turns out. Whatever thickness there is to blood, it's no longer there when you're out running. Like it just turns into pure water and starts pouring out of your body like you're a balloon that's open and i should have known something was wrong because like normally if i'm if you're walking around and you're sweaty with like a a race number a bib uh safety pin to your shirt you'll get people

saying congratulations or asking you how you did or asking questions about the race and i'm walking home to town and like man no one is saying shit to me they thought that race had happened months ago and they really fell on hard times um yeah the only real benefit to it was that when i got home and my kids saw it uh i watched the reaction on their faces and they you know my son came home the other day he's like i fell today at school and it bled and i was like oh show me and he shows me his knee and it's it's nothing it's like a little strawberry burn underneath his jeans and i was like are you sure that bled he's like yeah right in that spot and he just like points this thing that's not even you couldn't qualify it as a scab like kids yeah they have no sense yet of what's disastrous for their bodies so like everything feels like it might be bad and there gilly shows

me the same thing on her hand every single day and i'm like yeah i know i was there um but then they saw these giant wounds like the one on my leg is real big. It's like, I was like, yeah, sleeved by the street. And they'll look at that and they're like, Oh,

okay. And I was being very cool about it intentionally so that I would hopefully in the future, they, when I, they get hurt, I can be like, Oh,

that's nothing. It's no big deal. Look like we all get these. It's fine. Yeah. But seeing their faces, that look of shock on their faces and then my son wants to keep seeing it and then gilly who's very sweet uh she the one on my wrist she gave a kiss to and then immediately realized that was a bad idea they're like to kiss an open wound and she went yuck napkin napkin this is new for me and i don't like it

she did not care for it uh but yeah it was it was definitely like a i hadn't felt that uh out of control of something since i was like 20 years old, where I got done. I just fell, got up and like took a minute to be like, okay, got to like just let the sting go away for a second. And then I was like, yeah, it's gone. My legs still work. I'm just going to go to the gym. Yeah.

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Now, Daniel, tell me about rapping. I feel like I've spent the last two days rapping. We've got Christmas coming up pretty soon and I've just done so much rapping, which means it's the time of year where I transform into a person who cares much more about the environment than I ever do under normal circumstances. It's like a completely, as I struggle wrapping presents, because I've been, something I've done

since I was a kid, you've been wrapping presents, but it still comes around to Christmas every year and I have to relearn it by watching YouTube videos. And now I'm trying to get fancy with it and good paper and make nice bows and everything. And I get so frustrated wrapping presents and sweating and and being bad at it and I refuse to believe it has anything to do I refuse to accept that it has anything to do with like my general incompetence or like my impatience and that this will be better if I just measure the tape or measure the paper better I don't think any of those things I just out loud alone in my house I'm like this is a fucking scam this is just a way

to make money on paper and it's so wasteful we're just making more garbage for people throughout i don't really care about that but like i'm sitting it becomes like my cause right as i'm in my home wrapping these presents at nine o'clock at night yeah Yeah. I mean, granted Christmas paper, I think is like one of the worst things there is. It's like, you can't, it doesn't decompose. Well,

you can't recycle it. It gets used for a day. But here's the, here's the thing you could tell me. That's not true. You could tell me that it's one of the best things. And I would find some other moral cause for why we shouldn't have paper. Yeah, absolutely.

I don't know why I never, like, I've never gotten better at it, at wrapping gifts. From childhood to now. And I think I remember in childhood being like, wrapping something shittily and being like, well, there's only room to grow from here. Yeah. And it didn't. I just stayed the same my whole whole life so bad i will finish a gift and go oh well yeah i last last night when i stopped rapping it wasn't because things were good i was just like well it's late yeah we're gonna we're gonna i'm gonna have to table this

until tomorrow i don't think i'm gonna win this tonight i need i need breakfast maybe yeah let me come at this with fresh eyes i also feel as as a person who it's it's obviously known to my entire family that i am on work hiatus from mid-november to mid-january and i don't have another job unless you count this podcast which i don't uh i have lots of time and very few excuses to have to show up with a bunch of like hastily or shittily wrapped presents i remember doing that a couple years ago where i was just like surely no one expects these presents to be good and then i saw like my brother and sister-in-law's presents where they got like the fancy paper and there were bows and there was like a theme to the paper i was like oh and they did that while raising two kids huh all right okay i don't really have an excuse that i i can't just show up and be like

yeah the store was out so i used to happy birthday wrapping paper i don't know it's me the yeah like really gets me and makes me realize how far away i am from the shore of adulthood is like the the accoutrement or like the little flourishes that people always put on presents where i will wrap a gift and be like done sharpie write the name on and then i see other people's i'm like oh yeah ribbon you can do ribbon i mean people can do ribbon i don't understand how that works well you like get it come from all four corners i out of town i'm not i can't solve a fucking rubik's cube what am i what do you want from me i think if if uh if we were in town together i would as a fun quiz for a video component to this podcast that we don't do i would have you

inspect all the presents i wrapped and see how accurately you can guess the order in which I wrapped them. The bow is the tell. You can really see the bows go from like the perfect bow where you just have to pull one of the ribbons and then the whole bow comes down and, and you can use the ribbon again. If you want, you start with that.

And then you end with like, Hey, did you, do you tape that to the box itself? Yeah, I taped it to the box. It was 1130 at night. I taped to the box. It's all the ribbon I had left.

One side of the bow is massively bigger than the other. You're just going to have to live with that. Yeah. The only thing I've ever learned about wrapping presents is that there's really some room to hide shit on the bottom when things go wrong like have it go wrong in one direction and so that when you get it all wrapped up and like there's all that extra paper like bunching up on the sides and everything like as long as you can kind of scoot some of that to the bottom of the present then you just

put the name on top and you let that present like it's this unsteady present sit on top of all of your errors yeah the issue that i feel like i'm having now because i've got i got a nice little cute christmas set up at this house this is the first time i've been in uh like a house and not an apartment of my own on on christmas and so like i got i got a real tree for the first time and i got some like for real christmas decorations and stuff in the house and everything and i've arranged all of my cute presents together but now the the fear that i have is like these aren't these aren't travel ready bows this is everyone needs to come here to get their presents. These things aren't going to make a car ride. A gentle breeze will destroy this. Yeah. I think that's great for you. I remember when we first had a tree in our house and I was

like, this is the best thing ever. And we planned it. We were like, we finally had a house and Christmas came and went. And I was like, oh, we did not plan for that. And then after it was gone on June 2nd, I went to Balsam Hill online, which is a tree company. And I was just like, give me your finest Norwegian fir, please. And found a kick-ass fake tree that looks so good.

Oh, it looks so good. It looks so real. And it was so deeply discounted because I bought it seven days after Christmas. And then I got to our house and I opened it. I fluffed it up and then I put it away and just waited. Just like sat on it, just thinking about it. And then Thanksgiving rolled around

and I was finally like, that's enough. Up goes the tree. I was very excited to get a real tree, because you romanticize what you grew up with, and so we always grew up with real trees. And then right after college, I moved to LA, and every year I went home for the holidays, so it never seemed to make any sense to decorate for a house that was going to be an apartment

that was going to be completely empty around Christmas time. And then the last couple of years I lived in an apartment in New York and New York is not like, it wasn't like a fun place to get real trees because I didn't have a car at the time. And he was just like, walk around to the Whole Foods, Whole Foods or do what I did and just get a fake tree. And that was fine to have a fake tree, but this year was like, I'm going to go. I went to a farm, and I cut down the tree with permission

and put it on top of my car and brought it home and decorated it. And it smells like tree in here. I love that smell. I was away last weekend. I was in San Franciscoisco we could talk about that and i forgot i had a tree so when i came home i saw it and i was like this rules what a nice thing i did for me yeah that said i loved getting a tree setting up a tree is very nice decorating it hall of fame plugging the lights in for the first time coming home after a weekend trip and

seeing it. That's all good for the most part. I'm ready for the tree to be gone. It's a thing that takes up a lot of space. Yeah. Like I had to move stuff around for the tree and the tree is just like shedding and I have to water it. Yeah.

That's so we always had real trees growing up too, but we, that was the thing is like it sheds needles the whole the whole rest of the season and it's like motherfucker there's a lot of these there's just too many to deal with and so yeah i made it i made an executive decision i was like we have one tree for the rest of our lives and this will be the tree that we set up and i considered the possibility of getting one of those trees that has like built-in lights on it. And then I was like, you know what? I think that might be a mistake.

Because the minute one of those lights goes out, I'm not sure how you fix it. You can't like replace that. And then we do this other really pathetic thing, Dan, where we get, we have a kind of like this incense, this electric incense thing that can produce all kinds of, produce like a lavender smell that just sort of tufts into the air. And we get a specific pine scent and we put that in this thing and then we keep it near the tree so it's delivering the scent of a tree excellent i so you had to go buy ornaments dan i did yeah i got um a few uh pricier ornaments from on my theme and then i got a bunch of really cheap like pack of 25 on amazon this is this is gonna be a the what i described what i wanted to do to my tree to the person i was with when i was cutting the tree down uh i said, I'm going to do...

I got really excited because I saw a tree at this Christmas tree place that was decorated with a bunch of nautical beach-themed stuff. Hell yeah. And I said, that's it. I'm going to do an entire... I live on the beach. I love the beach. I'm going to do an entire beachy, fishy, aquatic, nautical theme for my whole tree. That's going to be the beach. I love the beach. I'm going to do an entire beachy, fishy, aquatic, nautical theme

for my whole tree. That's going to be the ticket. And she was like, okay, it's your tree. So I don't know how, like broadly how well it's going to go over with our listeners or anyone else who ever sees it. But like I splurged on a couple of ornaments that I think are going to be like forever ornaments for me. Like I got a really nice, I got a fucking awesome jellyfish ornament, Sorin. It's like a foot long. And I've got an octopus ornament and I've got like some beach chairs and I've got like, I can't turn around and talk at the same time. A bunch of like nice handcrafted, cool aquatic ornaments. And then I wasn't going to like buy one ornament at a time.

So I just like, you can just get like these cheapo nautical wooden ornaments off Amazon, which is what I did to like pad out the rest. And then it's like white, almost blue lights. And then some white garland wrapping around it. And I don't have a topper yet, even though I know. Whoa, let me see. Starfish or angelfish? Which one?

I know, I know. I don't have either of them. Which one? I just didn't find a topper yet. Probably starfish. Yeah, starfish is a good idea. A backward starfish. So you see all the little fingers?

Yeah. I think right now so the so it's it's funny how laziness works so when we when i i got the tree i you know it's it's right on a farm and trees all look the same and i needed to get uh a worker to give me a saw so i wanted to not forget what tree i had so i took my glove off and i put a glove on the tree so I wanted to not forget what tree I had so I took my glove off and I put my glove on the tree to mark it and then as a joke

when I set the tree up in my home I put the glove on top there and now every time I see it I'm like yeah that works that's a glove it's a topper what are gloves but not stars of the hand oh man I am I'm looking at a flying fish ornament right now and it is so beautiful.

It's on Etsy. I, maybe I'm going to get you this. I mean, Christmas is in a week or something. Next year. Maybe. Well,

I think that a nautical theme tree is a great idea i'm so happy with it i wish i had known sooner and could start building it uh i guess i could just like build for the future that's what that tree is supposed to be right like yeah yeah you forget about it when you're a kid also you and i are the youngest which i think changes for other older kids is that kids gradually make the ornaments or you collect them over the years from different places. And then you have a tree of ornaments and it's a history tree. Like the whole tree is a map of your history. And, um, for us growing up, obviously the tree was done.

You and I got to that age where we were like, where we understood what Christmas was and understood that there was tradition to it. And we're like, Oh yeah, the family just has all these ornaments. And occasionally you'd bring one home and your parents would be like, that's really nice. We don't really have room for it on the tree, but it's really pretty. Doesn't really go with the history of the tree, let's say. Yeah.

So there's like a deep and storied history of my dad, my mom, and my brother. and storied history of my dad, my mom, and my brother. And then I think that there might be one ornament that I made at one point. Yeah. There was an ornament I made when I was in like second grade that was like a giant, like maybe foot and a half long cardboard bear with googly eyes.

And for some unclear reason a bunch of beans glued to it like this was a school project this wasn't my design but it's like a darker beans for the legs brown beans for the arms a little bean nose little bean drive for the ears and then in the center of it a picture of me like a photograph of me that my teacher took with a big stupid like red pipe cleaner hanger for it it was so big and so awful looking and i was such an emotional nostalgic kid i made my parents put that thing up for years. They might have moved with it. I'm fine if it's in the garbage now, but for a long time, I was like, no, we got to put the bear up. My mom was like, we're just doing this thing where we're just doing like white lights and red ornaments.

Put the bear up. I made it. And they always did. Yeah. It was foolish. Made the tree look like shit. I am curious how the jellyfish works. If the jellyfish is so big,

like how do you hang that without it rubbing up against the branches below it? I'll send a picture to you after, after the show. It's, it's glorious. Okay. So a thing I've discovered now as a parent is that your kids bring home

just a tremendous amount of schlock, especially around this, this time of year where you're like you get things where you know there was they'll bring home what they call an ornament or what the teachers are calling an ornament but there was never it was never expected in anybody's mind that this could actually go on a tree like they got carried away we got one that's laminated a picture of him in the middle and then holly leaves jetting off in every direction so it's kind of like a reef and it's it's like the size of my head like i can't put this on a tree this isn't gonna work it's just gonna what it will do is just sort of flop over the end of the tree and hang and not

hang at all it just sits there and uh you know the kids are insistent they want they made something like put it on the tree and i'm like like, nah, the thing you made sucks. Yeah. And I feel like as a teacher, you've got two real problems there. One, children can't really work with like delicate miniatures of things. That's got to be big so the children can like see and understand it. And two, you don't really have the capacity to make sure that every kid is doing a good job. You know, suddenly the bell rings and you're just as shocked as everyone else.

It's like, all right, well, Brian, yours is great. Your parents are really going to love that. The rest of you, I didn't get to some of you in the back. Good luck. So my son, I've continued the tradition of telling him, pulling him aside every once in a while and being like, have you thought about something expensive you want to get for dad? And he usually is like, dad. And then just recently he goes, yes, I thought of the thing.

I'm going to get you. And I was like, oh, okay. So I went and checked his, he's got a safe. And I went and checked to see how much money he's got. And he's got like 378 in there. So I'm good. I'm going to find out what he gets me and I'm going to go look up how much it costs and see if it was the full 378 or if he's shorting me at all.

I thought the story was going to like, I'm going to look up in advance how much it costs and then magically his safe will have that amount of money so he could do it for me no this went another way yeah he has to learn the meaning of christmas um he did say a really nice thing the other day when we were walking away from a swim lesson, we went past a nail salon and he was like, they have a lot of that polish in there that mom uses. And I was like, yeah. And he's like, I think I'd like to get her something there. And I was like, Hey, great idea, man.

And I coaxed him into a gift for Gilly where I know she loves rainbows and she also is very specific particular about what clothes she wears. And I was like, she loves her rainbow shirt. What if you, what if we got fabric, uh, pens and you made her a shirt?

And he was like, yes, I will make her a sweatshirt. I'll make her a rainbow sweatshirt. And I was like, yes, good. Yes.

And he's going to be so pumped now to give that to her yeah she better freaking like it or that's gonna be a real disaster i know i know and the other thing is that i do things like this for my for him to give to colleen like i we got her these really cool earrings last year that had we went out shopping i helped him pick some stuff out and like kind of guided him toward things and he got these bumblebee earrings that you could swap out with or interchange with. There was a honeycomb earring and there was a, maybe a hive or something,

something else cool. And, uh, he was way into it. And, and then we gave them to her and she loved them. And then I was like, where's,

uh, Colleen, did you help him get something for me no why would i i don't know i thought this would be reciprocal i also am in charge of the stocking so a couple extra presents in there as well whatever whatever it's fine yeah uh speaking of i'm looking at flying fish ornaments since you brought it up yeah there's one right on etsy that i'm seeing for 749 there's a kind of similar one uh 8264 so wide range i think you know which which where where i'm leaning yeah i mean that one better talk for that one.

Oh, they're so pretty. Flying fish, I guess, in general are things I like. Have you seen them in real life? Never. It's nuts. I saw them in North Carolina all the time. Do they glide for a while? They really go. They really book it for a while, yeah.

That's so cool. Yeah, here's a really nice one. Break resistant. That's the guy. That's here's a really nice one. Brake resistant. That's the guy. That's the one I want. Okay, well, yeah, I haven't done any of my wrapping yet. I probably will have to wrap before we do our road trip, just so the kids aren't peeking in the back of the car.

But I am pretty much shopped. I think I'm almost done. With the exception of my parents, I think I'm done. Today is December 15th as we record this and i uh right before recording was just at a couple of stores not necessarily getting more presents but getting very specific boxes for the presents that i do have and i almost had a breakdown in the store because the stores are so cleaned out and there are so many people in them and i started christmas shopping on halloween i was so good this year and just in the store like how did you let this happen to yourself how we're so close you're so close to the finish

line for you to have a stress-free christmas yeah it gets a little nuts even in small towns i realized i didn't i always thought this was just an la thing where i if you try to go to stores even right now in la traffic this time a night or before winter absolute madness you go to a target it's it's like a riot it's like yeah it's nuts um and then i went to tucson and in tucson i would go to the mall there two days before Christmas. And I was like, oh no, this is just, it's across the United States. Yeah.

This feverish purchasing of things. It's crazy being in a Michael's because again, at this point, I'm just looking for like wrapping stuff and boxes and any other way I can jazz up the gifts. And a Michael's at this time of year year they have abandoned any pretense of their sections of the store making any sense yeah you'll just round a corner and there will be a box full of wrapping paper and soccer balls it's like jesus christ they're just treading water just like trying to stay afloat at all yeah i don't believe them um but yeah i think i'm i you know i haven't even thought about wrapping paper which is gonna come back and fucking bite me but

i i've we've been doing advent calendars i've got the presents i feel like we're doing good i feel like this is the first year where i'm not gonna get to tucson and be like okay we just arrived oh we drove overnight it's five in the morning i'm gonna get up in three hours and go get some gifts before all the stores close i also certainly have the the christmas equivalent to the the dream where you forgot to study for for your college final where there's someone that i'm supposed to get a present for that I didn't get a present for and it'll always be like in the dream I'm at Christmas Eve with my whole family and then someone's like okay and now who had

Uncle Joe who had Uncle Joe and I was like fuck I had Uncle Joe I was wondering why I didn't buy anyone any presents in this dream fuck oh what an awful awful feeling i it's a what is your brain doing is it just like prepping you for worst case scenarios when it does that because you there's so many of those a great question they they really they're uh preparing me for something that hasn't happened. And especially the, I forgot to study for a test dream. Yeah. That's like, that's never going to happen again. We're all done with that brain.

Yeah, but you still get them. You still get high school plays. Like you still, you don't know your lines. You go backstage to like read the script and you open it up and it's just gibberish. Like you cannot find your spite, your spot. Yeah't know man i don't know i'm gonna just go i'm gonna go wing it you know what's nuts is i don't have those stress nightmares about like screwing something up at work no or screwing up any of the things that i do in my normal life yeah imagine missing a deadline right now how horrifying that would be that feels like the

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I rarely do this, but I prepared for this show. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Okay. I rarely do this. I'm going to stretch audibly on a podcast. Oh, yeah. There it is. there it is there it is um i was thinking

about all the christmas music that i've been listening to and getting kind of sick of it already and then thinking about the vacancy in my life that will exist after christmas is over where i don't know what to listen to anymore because i've forgotten all of my old music and i've only been listening to christmas music for the past two and a half months. So I thought what I wanted to do was create a playlist of songs for post-Christmas and songs that are about winter, songs that mention winter, take place in winter, and that I genuinely enjoy and that I could put together. And as I was making it,

I was like, well, right off the bat, I'm not going to do this in terms of genre. I'm going to just make this chronological. So I, I don't have songs like winter wonderland on there, which doesn't mention Christmas,

but it come on. It's classically. It is a Christmas song. Christmas song. Yeah. Yeah. So I've got a bunch of songs that are not definitely not Christmas songs in an order that I think is.

Do you imagine if any radio station played winter wonderland on like December 30th and they're like, well, it's not technically about Christmas. There'd be a fucking riot. Yeah. I, I've heard Christmas music in stores after Christmas and been furious.

Like I'm like, I'm not wanting to complain, but I think I need to speak to the manager about this. This is an outrage. And so like, I'll give you an example. Obviously the song for immediately after Christmas. In fact,

the day after Christmas would be brick by Ben folds five. Oh, I don't know it. Specifically because he mentions the day after Christmas, the song is not about anything other about winter in any other capacity other than i guess the uh the end of life sure but yeah brett would be number one on there here's a here's the other caveat i'm going to add to this is that i look through uh artists that are like really popular i wanted to have stuff that people would know so i'm not just like suggesting a bunch of songs that no one's ever heard of and that from bands no one's ever

heard of there are a lot of bands like rolling stones uh um regina specter and uh um oh kanye like there's a bunch of people who have created winter songs and songs about winter. They are like across the board bad. Oh, they are so clearly B sides that as soon as I listen, I'll like here, see a song by queen, uh, about winter.

And I'm like, Oh cool. I don't think I know this song. And I'll listen to it. I'm like, that's why I don't know that song. It blows. That's terrible.

So I've got, that's when they let Deacons, right? That's terrible. That's when they let deacons write. So I've got a collection of songs that I'm... I think I like. I think I'm on board with all these. But I want you to help and see if there's any that you want to add to it as well.

Yeah. I want to jump in and ruin some podcast magic for our listeners. Soren prepped me with what we were doing and this isn't a bit i misunderstood the assignment tell me what you thought we were doing none of mine talk about winter okay but i feel like they have winter vibes as i've interpreted them no this is a bunch of fucking lunch money criminal songs i swear to. I swear to God it's not a bit. I promise you it's not a bit. I even went to band camp and went to

look at Lunch Money Criminal songs and listened to a few to make sure that there wasn't any winterish shit in those. Which ones did you listen to? I listened to The Game and I listened to Sweet Oblivion. Pretty good, right? Hold up, right? Yeah. Should we play it real real quick i don't think so

no i mean everybody knows him by this point or they're great it's honest everybody's got i don't know there's there's there's not a single lunch money criminal song on here but i did i i genuinely spent time thinking like what is what does he mean by winter song and my my my first instinct my very good friend Joe He's a lawyer so I won't mention his last name in case crimes or whatever He makes fantastic mix CDs and one time he came to LA to visit me During wintertime in New Jersey and he brought a mix CD that was called Wintery Mix. And I don't remember most of what was on it, but one song that was on there that did stick

in my head, I used as sort of my guidepost for how I was coming up with songs for this list. I think your list probably is going to end up being better then. I think that's a... coming up with a playlist that has the sentiment of winter, I think is really fun. The other problem that I'm noticing with my list is that as I was creating it, I was like, this is a dreary fucking playlist. Oh, mine too.

This is rough. Surely there's other aspects of winter that I enjoy beyond the holidays. And so I tried to even pepper it in a couple where I was like, no, this is a more jaunty song. Here we go. And you'll definitely recognize those because you're like, they're so, so vaguely about the winter that they almost don't count.

So brick is my first song. 6 a.m. Day after Christmas. Throw some clothes on in the dark Whoa, that's a tough downer to begin with. Have you heard the song Snow Globe by Home Free? It's acapella. I should have.

No, I haven't. I'll be honest. This is a song I listened to on Christmas. It's so good. It's such a good acapella song. It's like a snow globe. You shook me up, shook me up. And then by the end, it's like a snow globe.

Maybe we should settle down. And I just love it. It's such a great acapella song. You should check it out. By Home Free. Okay, I will. Then I have- And I'm assuming it. It's such a great acapella song. You should check it out. By Home Free. Okay, I will. Then I have- And I'm assuming for our listeners,

we're going to play some of these songs while we're talking. That's actually a really good idea. Yeah. So I'm not going to probably play Brick because all you need to hear is the first lyric of that song, which is 6 a.m. after Christmas, throw some clothes on in the dark. Already you're there.

You remember that time you had to go get your girlfriend an abortion. We've all done it. And we've all chosen the day after Christmas. Ross. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to play a little snow globe here. Set in my ways. I had no doubt. snow globe here. Anytime something like that, a song like that comes around around I do wonder if the band has

a meeting where there's like there's no one occupying this market of winter but not necessarily Christmas songs I bet they do I wonder if someone else is in the band is like yeah but we're also the acapella band so like let's just pick one lane right I there was I remember Iacked, we were like, man, we should really own the Halloween space for Cracked. We should be doing our own whole month worth of spooky stuff. And then I was like, and what about Arbor Day? Nobody owns that yet. Nobody does fresh tracks there.

These sites get a lot of traffic for march madness can we do what about march madness but uh for like sandwiches not for like for monsters monster march madness we just need to get into this bracket business we did do that we went oh no we We did. That was mania. I remember that now. So on my list, I've got these songs that still take place in December. I had to really shoehorn in A Long December by Counting Crows on there. A long December, and there's reason to believe. Maybe this year will be better than. It doesn't sound too shoehorned, but it gets,

it's already we're, we're in such a dark place. I mean, it's really slow and this, this mix is already like dragon. Yeah. But yeah, I put long December on there.

It was a song I hadn't heard in a long time. And then I heard it the other day and I was like, fuck, this is a really good song. I think I enjoy this again. I think i unironically enjoy counting crows again um so i put that on there and then i don't know if you're familiar with the neil young song journey through the past have you ever heard that uh it's possible uh i'm gonna play you the the james mercer version i actually prefer it i think it's much better it's on piano and you're kind of a

piano guy i'm gonna just like skip into it a little bit because it's got like a really long intro. Sure. mine will you think of me and wonder if so that song has it it talks a lot about the winter rains when they come pouring down will you still think of me and wonder if i'm fine and there's this big mention of february and they're coming up and stuff and i was like ah i genuinely love this song if i could play any song on piano i would love to learn this song i was you said that was a neil young song yeah originally that was a a cover that's james mercer doing it james mercer is the lead singer for the shins got it my my brain had to process that information uh a second time because i was listening to the song and liking the song and my brain was like did he say

neil young this can't be something's wrong here it's another one of those situations where he said neil young and then he continued talking let's see if it's one of those yeah and it was that's good i was good i originally started playing the neil young one for you but it's got like a lot of other instruments in it and guitars and stuff it doesn't have the same like lonely uh uh actual rainy winter day feel and i was like oh james mercer does a really great version i want to get into a couple of mine now yes please i'll play two and i'll describe two because we're very much without my songs mentioning winter when i was trying to think

of like winter vibes i was thinking about uh it being dark and cold and walking around like very obvious winter things i mean walking around might not be obvious i walk everywhere i go now for the most part uh because i live in a small town and i just i go everywhere and i walk my dog and when it gets to be winter there are certain songs i'm like no it feels like i need to listen to a song that that is appropriate for a guy walking down the street and it's dark and it's kind of cold and you're bundled up and so one of them the one that i'm not going to play is because i think it's it's famous enough is uh i think the pronunciation is tom trobert's blues you might know it as waltzing matilda um it's originally a tom wait song and the version that

i like is is the one by the cover by Patrick Stump from Fallout Boy because it's just like I have nothing but love for Tom Waits but I just think sometimes his voice is too gravelly yeah it's a little Patrick Stump just has like a very warm voice for this and it's just a song like about a drunk guy wandering around and and tom waits explanation for uh writing it i met this girl named matilda and uh i had a little too much to drink that night this is about throwing up in a foreign country and the lyrics are like a guy stumbling around and like and like being confused by everything and and and feeling like lost and lonely there and it it just doesn't,

it weirdly doesn't bum me out because his lyrics are so good. He just does such a good job of like talking about walking around being a sad guy. And I'm like, yeah, that is it. Good job. The other one I won't play is another cover. It's Strangers in the Night, but this is the cover by Cake, because that's another band I absolutely love, Cake.

Oh, interesting. And this is, like, feels weirdly opposite to Tom Trowbird's blues where Strangers in the Night is a good, like, I'm walking around in a kind of lovey-dovey way in the dark like that's the romantic version of walking around at night um you know their cake has a a winter song as well dog shit is it absolutely bad what is it called i feel like i know every cake song the winter it's called The Winter? Yeah. Because he's going to winter. That one?

Yeah. He's going to ski. A cup of hot chocolate. What do I have here? Oh, this is Mr. Blue by the Fleetwoods. It's got kind of a long intro. We'll see how much of it you can tolerate. Ask for Mr. Blue. Fleetwoods. It's got kind of a long intro. We'll see how much of it you can tolerate.

I fucking love that song. That's cool. It's like something about the guitar feels like a Christmas guitar to me a little bit. And then when they get into the wah-wah-wah chorus stuff, it feels like vaguely island-y. And it's all like also obviously very like, it's called Mr. Blue. So it's like a sad guy walking around. Mr. Blue. So it was like a sad guy walking around, but it just,

it's, it's got a peppy enough, uh, bounce to it. And the, the horns coming in with their bum, bum, bum, bum,

bum. It just feels like, like just cheery enough that I can, can march to it. It's by a band called the Fleetwoods. The, Oh, the Fleetwood Macs.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Fleetwoods. Oh, the Fleetwood Macs. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, I know them. Yeah, that is nice. I like that. I like... It's very interesting.

Yeah. It's like not like a normal... It's... It's an old song. It's 1959. Well, speaking of old songs, Daniel. Hell yeah! I'm now through December 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st.

Well, this is the 31st because this is an Ella Fitzgerald song called What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? Doesn't that sound like the kind of song you'd want to hear? Let me pull it up. Hey, just with an eye on the time, do you have a song for every day of the winter? No. Okay.

When the bells all ring and the horns all blow And the couples we know are fondly kissing Will I be with you or will i be among the mess jesus i'm gonna stop it there you get the idea though uh she's getting a little desperate on on new year's eve um but uh i really liked it i liked that it it had kind of like that same thing you were talking about of like well there's a chance tonight like there's a chance something could go really well for me tonight. Who knows? Good Lord.

I've been alone on New Year's Eve and I've never described myself as among the missing. God. Yeah. God. Like from this point on, as I looked back through my list i was like oh fuck yeah it gets bleak and so like the after that it really like picks up but yeah that was the last one of the ones where i i thought okay this is too much this is like i don't think i could listen to this music this mix without wanting to kill myself yeah um i only have one left on my list and it also uh spiritually seems

similar to what you went through when you're putting this together it's a song called i like the way this is going by a band called eels and yeah i'm gonna just huh i know the eels you do yeah well then maybe you know this song i i only know them from this song just by spotify algorithm and there's a lyric later in the song uh that captures another spirit of christmas or winter time to me where it's it's too cold but but you're like a cozy cuddled up with someone because the lyric is i like to watch tv with you there's really nothing i would rather do then maybe we can go to bed get up and do and do it all again. I just like the way your pants fit, how you stand, and how you sit. Whatever

sees that you're sewing, I like the way this is going. And that's like a very quintessential, it's too cold to go outside and do anything. Isn't it great that we're content to be here? And it goes a little like this.

I like your toothy smile. It never fails to beguile. Simple song, not too much to it. Very cozy. The instrumentation doesn't get any more elaborate than that. It's just like, hey, this is going well, and we don't need to dress it up too much right happy birthday yeah i looked for more inspiring stuff as well after that like there's a song by the zombies which i sang for you on this podcast once called this will be our year okay um and how did i react to it

you were very kind did i weep i was crying oh good yeah well it's one of those is when we used to really try and hurt the other one in a recording capacity that will live forever. that's right. And you were, you asked me to sing a song. It was like this time of year too. I remember being in Tucson in a laundry room recording and you were like,

sing a song. I was like, fuck you. All right, go watch this. And so I sang, uh, this will be our year.

And then our good friend bacon, um, it was the song that he walked down the aisle to at his wedding wow yeah so it is it's a it's a much more fun song it's a really good one it's like hey this is gonna be uh this is gonna be our year we're gonna be fine um hey i was at that wedding yeah did you nudge me and say hey this is the song from the podcast i think i nudged you and said hey this is this will be our year and then i realized it would take too long to explain so i just left it there and i think you were like okay fucking great man i'm trying to take pictures um then i started to like come off the rails a little because i started picking songs i don't even particularly like that much like red hot chili pepper snow i was just like i need something else man i need something that feels a little bigger

um january wedding by the avid brothers or the avid brothers i'm not really sure how you pronounce their name but january wedding is a nice very simple fun song um i love that song yeah good okay you know it yeah uh i put um hay Shade of Winter, but the Bengals version of Hazy Shade of Winter on there. Which really kind of rocks. It's got some really good guitar in it and everything. And then I was like, well, that's plenty. Time to bum out again

and put... Oh, your favorite band, actually, the Decembrists, the Crane Wife 1 and 2. Crane Wife 1 and 2. And the Pinkerton took that dirigible to Saints with ensign I'm going to insist on playing for you because I think you might like it I am a cobbler crane wife

one and two okay here you go what's it called the crane wife fuck it was a cold night and the snow lay around i pulled my coat tight against falling down and the sun was all and the sun was all now anyway the song is about this dude from the perspective of a guy who's wandering around in the woods at night and he finds this wounded crane.

It's been shot by an arrow and he takes it home and nurses it back to health. And he's such a lonely guy that like taking care of this crane means everything to him to the point that he falls in love with it. It becomes a woman. He falls in love with it. It's based on an actual. Sure. Not a true story, but like a fable um and it's it's like it's really beautiful i would say i know you hate the decemberis but i know the lyrics of the song are if you were to just take

his voice away just look at the lyrics you'd be like oh it's actually a really beautiful song yeah i believe that i think there there's i think there's still hope for the decemberists in my future it's possible yeah i'm trying to think of like what the equivalent is going the other direction what's the guy who wrote the little shop of horrors musical tim mitchum uh alan menken oh no sorry not little shop of horrors um um what about bob you know what about bob groundhog day groundhog day what if there was a what about bob musical oh oh hold on i'm thinking about it wait what are you trying to get me to tim minchin wrote groundhog day dimension that's that's what i was trying to think of tim is somebody who i can't i have a really hard time getting past i know he's a

genius yeah i know that his songs are very good but i have a really hard time looking at him and i have a hard time listening to him you don't like that he's barefoot and and dresses ostentatiously and it's mostly the hair that bothers me that he's a hair yeah it's he's got that russell brand thing where he's like you know it'd be fun as if the back was quaffed yeah yeah i could see you hating that um but i think it's the same direction like uh decemberis if you if you can just somehow divorce yourself from his affectations when he sings i know i think you'd be like oh oh this is like a really well made and good song not only that it's like a really good story i feel like when i looked at my

spotify wrapped which tells me how many what songs i listen to all year um which is not a a perfect thing for me because i listen to a lot of the stuff it has is asterisk because i listen to the same songs when i run over and over again and i run every day so like my most listened to song is just like a song that gets me pumped or whatever but when i strip away a lot of those and i'm just looking at like what i actually listen to it's a lot of god help me they might be giants and a lot of the weaker things the weaker thans is like my top artist this year and i i look at that those those two bands and just like i guess i'm slowly turning into cody decemberist it's only a matter of time that does yeah i'm shocked how much they might be giants you listen to i know it doesn't feel

like your speed at all that's truly not uh do you have more songs uh the rest of them are things like california dreaming by the mamas and the Papas. And then there's a song called Looks Like a Cold, Cold Winter by Ingrid Michaelson. Or maybe she's just doing a cover of it. But Looks Like a Cold, Cold Winter is a very fun. It's like a really good hot chocolate song. Yeah. I appreciate how closely you stuck to the assignment. Well, that's the only way I know how to do it i don't

know how to do spiritual cousins i can only do does the song say winter goes on the list just googling songs about january 2nd songs about january 3rd yeah um yeah i i was like looking for songs that just mention anything wintery and thinking, you know, it's amazing how quickly you can pull that kind of stuff from your brain because anything that you used to listen to regularly, as soon as like,

I was like, Oh, what are good winter songs? Long December, a brick, a journey through the past. Like I just started like pulling out these songs. I'm like,

I know that's a winter song. I know that's a winter song. And you're a winter song and you're not you're doing something that google can't you know yeah like you just know in your brain oh yeah i know that's about winter that's about winter that's about the cold because of the feeling the song gives you yeah well soren my friend i think we should wrap things up i have a couple of things to say this being our last that's right this this being our last episode of 2022. We started this year. I think we both said we thought this was going to be a good year for us.

22 is my favorite number. You were born on the second. I think that was the beginning and end of what our theories were based on. Do you have a little report card for yourself i think i had a pretty good year i feel pretty good this year yeah yeah i mean in some classes i did well in others i think i'm i didn't do as great there's there was a lot i wanted to write this year that was just for me and i just didn't do it yeah well there's time yeah there is unless i just said you're a crippling injury to my hands and can never write it well what were you saying um that was one thing one

thing was how do you feel about this year uh another thing uh do you listen to the doughboys at all no this is a very the quickest of quickest quick tangents yeah uh it's a really enjoyable podcast i know i know i know all the guys yeah everybody loves them uh the episode that came out today it opens with like maybe 50 minutes of the two co-hosts very funny guys nick weiger and and mike mitchell having like what seems to be uh an unintentional very real conversation about how they're both feeling about doing the podcast and how they're both feeling specifically about working with each other and the friction that they experience as co-hosts and it real it gets like so real and uncomfortable and uh it also seems like maybe they shouldn't do the show anymore even though it brings so many people joy. And I know I've joked on and off the podcast

about how we shouldn't do it anymore, but just like listening to two clearly very funny but clearly very conflicted co-hosts really hash it out with each other. I am so grateful to have you as a co-host partner. I'm glad we're doing this. I'm having lots of fun. Thank you.

Wouldn't trade it for anything. Yeah, me either. It's so nice to also just be, we thought it would just be a show, but it's so nice to be able to just keep up with you and know like what's going on in your life weekly. I really enjoy it. Yeah. Back at you.

And one other thing that is that is less sappy but i thought it would be a nice thing for us to do because we're recording this on the 15th we'll be back at 2023 uh 2000 funny free uh what else can we do 2000 funny me 2000 2000 funny we. Funny we. Oh, it's the we. Yeah, obviously. Yeah. Yeah.

Or to get us both in there, you thousand funny me. You thousand. Yeah. Oh, I see. Yeah. Okay. But we're not doing it together. That's just.

Well, there's a you and a me. I guess you're right. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So a fun thing a you and a me and i guess you're right okay okay yeah um so a fun thing for you thousand funny me uh you've frequently given me recommendations for things to to watch or listen to or consume in some way that i have not done and uh i i understand that that giving you recommendations for things is sometimes a fool's errand because you you have a you're only allowed to watch movies on planes and you've had nowhere to go

for some time but i think we can we can each give each other a recommendation that we have to watch even if we've given it before and it hasn't stuck let's just commit to it and make sure that we watch the thing that the other person told us to. Okay. And we'll circle back at the start of the new year. And mine for you, I think you'll like it. Okay. There's a docu-series on, I want to say National Geographic. Have you heard of the Chris Hemsworth series, Limitless?

No. It's a six-part docu-series produced by darren aronofsky and it's chris hemsworth the actor from thor very uh handsome and strong and wealthy talented person and it starts as a show where he's just like i want to push myself to my limits i want to see what the what the human body can do and you really think it's going to be like a man versus wild type thing but it becomes uh very clear that he's like going through something oh and he's he's like he's very very afraid of aging and afraid of of death and it doesn't it's not entirely clear if he knows that's what he's going through the entire time. But you just like watch the evolution of this thing.

That really does start with like, I'm Chris Hemsworth and I'm going to tackle doing a tightrope walk because I'm afraid of heights and I'm going to swim in the Arctic. And then a lot of the stuff that he is doing is like, I'm going to do this because a study said that it can add years to your life. Yeah. And that becomes like his whole focus.

And it's one of the most fascinating things I've seen in a very long time. And it does scratch like the real life, you know, stunts and action adventure bits of those kind of survivor. And what's that show afraid alone alone alone those shows where it's like man this person's really doing this crazy thing in real life but also as the show goes on and you you you start to get a sense of what he's actually reckoning with it's just spellbinding oh that sounds great and then the last episode is bonkers because he dies they kill him but you don't know how um okay well then i'm gonna task you daniel with listening to the decemberist i'm gonna task you with listening to two albums of

theirs one is the crane oh my god what is the tell me which one is the and what is the crane wife is one album crane wife the other one is uh picaresque picaresque you fucking i know You fucking... I know. These are... If you gave me 10 guesses, I would have come up with these. There are... And Picker Ask has got a ton of songs that are exactly what you think they are from the December. They're like exactly what you think. But it also has a few songs on there that i like if i was to listen to on the bus mall right now i would start crying like there it's such a beautiful song man okay uh and just listen to it for the stories i guess listen to over the story yeah i'll do it and i'll

give it an honest shot i'm not gonna come back here okay and be like i listened to each album once and i stand by what i said they're bad yeah try again next year all right the show in 20 20 woo we did do something yeah yeah it was uh We did do something, didn't we? Yeah, it was... 2000 Funty Woo? No. U-thousand Funny We. No, U-thousand Funny Me.

No, that's for 2023. Yeah. Oh, for 2022. Yeah. I don't know why I had it in my head that we did something stupid and fun for 2022, but that's over. Anyway, the show for the last year, 2020, woo, has been Quick Question, but you know that already.

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I want to hear your thoughts. I want to know what's on your mind. I've got a quick, quick question for you, all right. The answer's not important. I'm just glad that we could talk tonight. So what's your favourite? Who did you get? When will I be remembered? What's it up to? Where did all the

30 weeks go? 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