So... Alright - Stupid Sunglasses

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

Geoff shares a dumb day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get no frills delivered. Shop the same in-store prices online and enjoy unlimited delivery with PC Express Pass. Get your first year for $2.50 a month. Learn more at pceexpress.ca. So do you ever have one of those days where it just feels like you're swimming upstream? for some reason. You just like, you got to work, you're making progress,

but you got to work like twice as hard as normal. It just feels like you're walking into the wind a little bit. I had that today up until, well, up until my bike ride, which totally saved my day, by the way.

But the worst part about it was, there's just all these little things and slowing me down throughout the day. But then I found out that I was also slowing me down and I was the biggest culprit of it. I was doing some really dumb shit today. I had to run errands. I had to vote.

I had to run all over town. And as I was doing that, then I had to go to the post office and I had to mail some of y'all. I had to mail some stuff to my mom, pick up the PO box, et cetera. And as I'm driving around, achieving all of these things,

checking all the stuff off my list, I get a call and there's an issue that I have to call our bank about. And it has to be me because I'm the name on the bank. It's not a big deal. It's just like, you know, just one of those annoying administrative things that you have to do.

and it requires you to talk to somebody in the phone, which is like my least favorite thing on earth. But that's also part of the responsibility of being a co-business owner is that you have to do grown-up shit sometimes. And so I'm not complaining about it. I just decide to do it. And I go to the app, try to get the contact number.

And of course, anyway, like if it's in there, it's so fucking buried. I don't have the 45 minutes to find it. So I look all over. I can't find it on anything, up, down, left, right, any fucking link. And so I just Google AI returns a customer service number. I call it. Put me on hold immediately. Great. I expect that. So I drive over to the

post office and I sit in the parking lot. I don't want to go into the garage where you have to park at the post office because I'm scared I'll lose my signal. And so I just like sit in some surface street parking kind of, you know, a few blocks away from the post office and just listen to hold music and the message saying that it would be better for everybody involved if I just use the app. But, as I say, unfortunately, this is something that requires me to talk to a human being. So the app is fucking useless, more than useless, because it also does have a contact number in it. At some point, I've been sitting there for about 15, 16 minutes, and I just, I'm just watching my day disappear. So I say, fuck this.

I go into the garage, I park, I don't lose signal, I put it on speakerphone, I walk into the post office with it in my pocket so that I can just hear the jingle music in the background. I go to the PO box, I get all this stuff. I go talk to the guy to mail some stuff and I know this is the moment like when I'm in the middle of a transaction that the customer service agent's going to pop through in my back pocket and I won't be able to take the call and I'll have to hang up and I'll have to start all over again

and this is going to be infuriating but God damn it I don't want to waste any more time. So I managed to mail two things and receive two large packages from the dude and then make it all the way back to my car without anyone ever picking up on the bank's end. I feel somehow lucky about that. I feel somehow lucky that I'm now 25 minutes into a phone call and I'm happy

that I didn't have to drop it and start over again, I guess, but I'm still 25 minutes on hold, you know? And it was one of those things where they said, you should press one and we'll give you a call back. But I didn't want the call back to be while I was talking to the dude and then I wouldn't be able to pick it up. So at the initial time of the offering, I said, no, I don't want to do that. I'll just wait. And then about 10 minutes in, I thought, oh, you know what? I'll just hit one. One was deselected at that point. I couldn't go back and hit one. There was no callback option at that point. They were like, you're in it now, buddy. You're not going anywhere. So I get back into my car. I settle in and put my seatbelt on.

I look at my, take my phone out of my pocket, set it in my console. And as I'm doing so, I see that it says I'm on hold with Bank of America, which is great. Except we don't have Bank of America. Now, I don't know if I asked for, Bank of America's phone number because I'm an idiot, or if Google AI returned the wrong bank's phone number to me, because I also don't trust that motherfucker. But it's really irrelevant because for 25 minutes, I've been listening to a recorded message, a lady telling me, thank you for calling Bank of America, we're unable to pick up the phone right now, but please continue to wait, and an agent will help you as soon as we're available

to. She must have said it to be 80 fucking times in 25 minutes. and it just went in one ear and out the other because I am so thick and dense in the fucking head. I can't believe I waited on hold for 25 minutes for the wrong goddamn bank. I was so defeated at this point that I just drove to the office and I sat on the floor in the break room and sorted cards for about 45 minutes while I waited on hold at the right bank, which still took over 20 minutes. on hold finally talk to somebody fix my problem end the story

no big deal after that the next dumb thing I realize is that I finish sorting the cards and everything I got some stuff

I want to take home leave the office get in the car back up as I'm backing up and moving driving out into a street I just happen

to catch myself in the rear view mirror and realize I scare the shit out of myself because I look weird in the rear view mirror

And that's because I'm wearing my wife's giant black cat eye sunglasses. I have been driving around all over town, going to the post office, getting a sandwich, standing in line and voting, went to the gas station to get a drink. And the entire time I was wearing my wife's cat eye lady sunglasses and I had no fucking clue. Just walking around in a Boston Celtics t-shirt with my wife's glasses on, oblivious to the world. It's been that kind of day. So I got home. I did a few more chores. Did some admin work.

And I started to watch this documentary that one of you guys recommended to me in email. I can't remember who. I apologize. but it's the documentary of canon films canon films is the production company behind a lot of those ninja movies i've been talking about oh speaking of which the episode where i asked you guys for feedback came out today and so i haven't had enough time to look at and read enough feedback to to get a full picture of what i'm going to do but i will tell you that i've sat on the idea for another week and something about speaking it out into the air made me cool on it a little bit i will

say the majority of the email i've had thus far today has been people being wonderfully honest and kind but saying they're not interested in the project. So I appreciate that. I will continue to look forward to your feedback and figure it out accordingly, and we'll discuss it in the future. Anyway, I sat down to take like 30 minutes and just decompress a little bit.

I wanted to watch some of this Canon Films documentary called Electric Bugaloo, which one of you guys recommended to me, as I was saying. And first and foremost, because I don't like to waste my time, I Googled it. Google said it's available on Netflix and Amazon. And YouTube. So I said, okay, go to Netflix, manually type in electric space, boo.

Finally, it pops up unavailable. God damn, okay, no problem. Go to Amazon, type in electric space, boo, finally pops up unavailable. God damn it. Then I go to YouTube. Type in electric boogaloo, documentary. And that returns it to me and I can actually watch it. Here's my gripe.

Why in 2025, if we're going to be forced to use multiple apps to consume entertainment and we use a centralized box like a Roku player or a fire stick or in my case an Apple TV or any of the other options that are out there or just a smart TV, why can't we have copy and paste extend from. app to app. Is it that fucking hard to figure out in 2025? We know what 3i Atlas is doing when it's hidden behind the fucking sun, but we can't figure out how to copy and paste electric boo from the Amazon app to the Netflix app to the fucking YouTube app, so I got to manually type it each time. Why is that where technology stops? I'm sorry, I just, wouldn't it be so much easier? Isn't that a light bulb moment? Surely some developer at Apple or Roke? Surely some developer at Apple or Roke or Amazon has had to have had the thought, ah, this is fucking annoying when they were doing it themselves

and thought, I could fix this in like, I don't know, 35 seconds probably because I'm smart. And this is, I doubt this is that hard to do. Anyway, I watched about 30 minutes of the documentary. I was really enjoying it. And I will say, man, I'll talk about it more in the future at some point. Obviously, I'm not going to get into a whole movie stuff right now because that's for a future conversation.

But I was surprised at how fast the documentary ran. Like, it was like, this is. the Canon Films documentary, and then it was much like their films just like shot out of a canon with information. It was like a lot to keep up with. You had to like pay attention to what was happening because they were blowing through stuff really quickly. Very interesting, very fun so far. I'll definitely finish it. Thank you to whoever recommended it to me. I'm thoroughly enjoying it. And it's really cool. It's really cool to put pieces together and draw lines of connection to childhood movies that I didn't know were intertwined in the ways that they are.

It's really, you know, I liked all of this stuff in a very disparate way, but getting to understand how it all got made and how they share actors and directors. It's just, it was, it's been really fun so far. It's been really illuminating. I don't know where you are in the world, but it is finally starting to feel like fall in Austin in the sense that it was like 78 today, which I understand is not fall. But with 78 on a bike with a breeze is actually fucking love. And so the leaves aren't quite changing yet, but I decided to go for a bike ride. And I just

got to say, it is so nice to be out amongst the city and nature and people and get to enjoy them at a time when historically I've been behind a computer, you know, where most people are behind a computer or a desk or a vehicle or a wrench or whatever it is, you know. It's not lost on me how absolutely fortunate I am to be able to do that from time to time. And I got to see one of my favorite things on the hiking bike trail. It's this long, about 10 and a half, 11 mile trail that runs east and west through Austin around the river. And it is much like all of Austin, completely under construction, all over the place, left and right. It's different every time I ride it right now, different detours, different trails. It keeps you on your fucking toes. But today,

I got to see one of my favorite things, which is they had, the goats out, eating all the poison ivy and all the foliage. They do it a couple times a year. They'll bring out these herds of like 40 or 50 goats. They probably do this in New Yorktown too. And then they pin them in and then they just let them just eat the shit out of everything. And then they move the pin the next day and they do it again. And they kind of go through the hot spots on the trail. And they do a phenomenal job. And then you can sit there and watch them for like 10 or 15 minutes. And it is so lovely to see. I was so excited to see those goats today. I also got to stop. And this was also very, very cool.

they were cleaning out a bunch of brush and chopping down some trees and stuff. I guess it's for the construction to I-35 or whatever. I was right by the interstate. And I got to watch Arborists do some big-time tree chopping, like some, you know, tall motherfuckers. And that was really kind of intense. And, man, I can't imagine doing that for a living. It looks dangerous as hell. They clearly knew what they were doing, but I probably spent seven or eight minutes there

with my puckered little asshole because it looked like. one wrong move and just a tree could swing around and take out like four dudes, you know. It was very, very dangerous looking work. I hope those guys are paid well for it. I have another question for you guys this week. I hope you don't mind. If you have an idea or an opinion or a thought on this and want to send it to Eric at jeffsboss.com, I really would appreciate it. This is about the break show. On Mondays, we live stream on Twitch, opening collectible, blind boxes, cards, movie ephemera, whatever. It's a big, just celebration of collecting. And each week I try to bring something different or fun or unique to

the episode. This is where we open our celebrity auctions like the Larry King Keys. This is where we open. I just got some Cheers cards that Andrew told me about. So we actually got a relic card of Ted Danson from Cheers that had a piece of his shirt in it. Stuff like that. The Lubbubo's when people were opening that stuff up, but also baseball and basketball and Alph and Dynasty and Dallas and Invincible and Star Wars and hockey. and wrestling and downtown abbey and et cetera et cetera et cetera

we're about eight episodes in now I believe it's going really well we've started this regulation collection where each week we identify one card or collectible to add into the official regulation collection I think so far it's eight cards deep we try to pick something that is of the spirit of the regulation universe and our sense of humor

and our world while also not being incredibly difficult or expensive to track down I'm okay with it being a little hard to find because part of the fun of collecting is the chase and the hunt. Just being able to go and buy it immediately on eBay is cool and convenient, but if you can't and you have to put a little work into it, that's fun too. I just don't want you to have to spend money to do that, you know? But regardless, outside of that, we end up with a lot of this product

that just sits on the shelves and I use it to adorn and to decorate, but we're very quickly becoming overwhelmed with stuff. And we can't really show off the cards outside of the ones that we've save for the regulation collection, which is no more than one a week. And I guess what I'm asking is, do you have any opinions on what the fuck I should do with all this stuff? Like, it is a lot of stuff. And I'm holding onto it and I'm categorizing it. I was in the office for an hour today organizing cards and stuff. But I just don't know what to do with it in total. Like, I have, we already have thousands of cards from Star Wars to SpongeBob, you know, just

a mishmash of nonsense across the spectrum. And I don't know what to do with it. Most of it has no value. Some of it has value. In the past, we've thrown a couple of cards here and there into some orders at the store. We can continue to do stuff like that. But that doesn't even begin to make a dent

into what to do with all this product. And I've been holding onto it. I had the same problem when I was doing the break show for Fuckface when we worked at Rooster Teeth, although much more sporadically because we were working around a million different other issues and schedules and it was hard to pull off every week here we're going to be much better at it and I think we're already off to a much better start but same problem I had over there ultimately which was what do I do with all this shit after it's shown to you on camera and I don't know I would love

your opinion I don't want to turn into an eBay marketplace reseller you know I don't know that that's the best use of our time at regulation. I don't even know how feasible something like that is. I don't want to throw it all away. I struggle to find charities to give stuff to. And a lot of this stuff I wouldn't be appropriate to give to a charity anyway. I could give a lot of baseball and sports cards and stuff. But a lot of this stuff's weird. And I love it all. And I want to do something with it to celebrate it and to elevate it and to have fun with it. I just am a little lost as to what to do with the volume of it. And each week the pile grows. You know, so if anybody has the ideas, email erika jeffsboss.com. I would love to hear your ideas if you have some.

Oh man, kind of a mishmash of, I said mishmash twice in the same episode. What is wrong with me? I wonder if the first one made it in or if it's something that I edited out. I definitely can't edit this one out now because I've talked about it too long. Huh, I know what that's all about. Weird episode today. I have, I do want to talk about it. about one more thing. My wife last night did the funniest thing. She decided that for dinner, we were going to have corn three ways. I don't know that anybody else has ever thought to have corn three ways, but Emily did last night, and it was fucking awesome. I don't know if you've ever considered having corn three ways, but here's how I recommend it, okay? Make a corn and

Poblano chowder, all right? Then make some honeycorn bread, and then have your husband grill up a bunch of corn on the cob with some grilled Poblanos as well. And then put that together into one amazing corn, acopia of corn, if you will. I recommend it. It's not, I think it's not one of the ones you hear about having three ways very often, but Chef Emily was in rare form last night, and it was delicious. So if you get a chance to have corn three ways, I recommend it. All right, next week I'll be back with, I don't know, man,

maybe a deep dive into something. I still need to look into what the fuck's going on with bingo. In the meantime, song of the episode. How about, oh man, this takes me back. Yeah, this is a good one. Drag King Bar by Bitch and Animal. This might be from the early 2000s. This is an old song, but really, really fun.

Check it out. Hopefully you enjoy it, and I'll see you next week. I hope so. Shit, I hope I see you next week. I hope you're going to be here. All right.