Spitballers Comedy Podcast - Spit Hits: Flying Cars, Floating Butts, & The Biggest Pet Peeves - Comedy Podcast
Episode Date: October 7, 2021Spit Hit for October 7th, 2021: Do you know what we hate? Well, you’re going to find out on this episode of the Spitballers Comedy Podcast as we draft our biggest pet peeves. But before that, we d...ebate some great ‘Would You Rather’ questions which have us hypothetically skinny dipping in public fountains, flying cars to work, and seeing everything 5 seconds after it happened. And, in a totally realistic scenario, we discuss which household appliances would be the scariest if they came to life. Subscribe and tell your friends about another funny episode of The Spitballers Comedy Podcast! Connect with the Spitballers Comedy Podcast: Become an Official Spitwad: SpitballersPod.com Follow us on Twitter: Twitter.com/SpitballersPod Follow us on IG: Instagram.com/SpitballersPod Subscribe on YouTube: YouTube.com/Spitballers
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It has all the essentials to life.
We're talking about flying cars.
We're talking about floating butts.
We're talking about pet peeves.
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What happens when three buffoons give life advice,
explore unrealistic situations,
and give random topics more thought than they probably deserve?
It's the Spitballers Podcast with Andy, Mike, and Jason.
Let's get up and do that.
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
That was a good one.
Thanks, Mike.
That was a good one. It looks like Owl is giving that a nine out of ten.
Oh, take that.
The do wow, wow, wow.
Drop the wow at the end. Oh, man. I could tell I. The do wow, wow, wow. The drop the wow at the end.
Oh, man.
I could tell I caught your interest at the end, Mike.
Well, it started off and I was like, oh, here we go.
Same old Andy of the skeet up and down up.
You have this syncopation that you go to.
But then you took me to a whole new world, man.
I was Jasmine.
You were Aladdin.
We went soaring through the sky. That's good to hear, man. I was Jasmine. You were Aladdin. We went soaring through the sky.
It's good to hear, Mike. It's good to start episode 66 with a surprise scat. So welcome
in the Spitballers, Andy, Mike, and Jason back with you at SpitballersPod on Twitter,
SpitballersPod.com. Today we have Would You Rather?
That's a great question.
And we're drafting the biggest pet peeves.
The biggest, the baddest.
And I didn't really know that until moments ago,
so I better figure out some pet peeves,
which I feel like that's a dangerous one.
It is. Because I often forget that this show is put in a public location where people hear it.
I really have had many, many times.
My biggest pet peeve is when my wife.
Or I say something like, when people do blank, but only my wife does it.
I always forget.
I bring up stories on this show and then
someone in my family or friends will hear it and know i was talking about this person or that person
you say no of course i wasn't can i bring up i'm gonna bring up a pet peeve right now oh it won't
go drafted but it's it's my biggest pet peeve right now and that's the life of Afrin.
OK OK. So yes. People need to know about it. I need to understand Afrin the nasal not a
sponsor certainly not a sponsor never never will be a sponsor. If you are not familiar
with Afrin this is a juice. I believe it's tears of the devil the tears of the devil are what is nasal spray
it's a nasal spray kids don't drink it like juice don't drink it don't use it i feel like it's more
like devil saliva it wouldn't be the tears around the office we devil snot yeah sure that makes
sense we refer to afrin as luciferin because when you're using this thing, you're making a deal with the devil.
I mean, if your nose is
clogged and you need to
breathe, Afrin will
100% get
you breathing. Hey, buddy.
Yeah.
But the next day...
You want to breathe right now?
Oh, he comes a-calling.
He comes a-calling and he
says, now you will never breathealling. He comes a-calling, and he says,
now you will never breathe again.
You got my one day.
And I'm on day two right now.
So I could die this episode.
During this episode.
Imagine the views we'll get.
If one of your pet peeves out there is nasally voices,
then you're in big trouble today. pet peeves out there is nasally voices. Congratulations.
You're in big trouble today.
I will say this just to keep you accountable.
You did purchase the Avrin.
I purchased it. You made the deal.
I purchased a three pack.
And I think that was the problem.
It's everywhere.
It's in my medicine cabinet.
I got one in my bag.
A three pack?
I just got it on Amazon.
Mike, I feel like we're the alcoholic friend that needs to go to the house and pour the bottles down the drain.
Yeah, just squirts.
Yeah, well, I ordered it through like-
A three?
How long is it going to take you to go through a three-pack?
It's going to be expired before you can even use it.
100%.
I mean, I don't know how you could finish one Afrin.
You know what I mean? Yes. that that would be like 200 squirts 200 deals with the devil you're dead if you use it
20 times public service announcement but you will only use it. All right, let's get into Would You Rather.
Would you rather?
Mr. Awesome writes in from Reddit.
Would you rather have your vision be five seconds delayed or your hearing be five seconds delayed?
Okay, so.
I don't even know what delayed vision really means.
As in... You couldn't walk anywhere.
Yeah, that's...
I feel like a five-second delayed vision is...
It would be...
Impossible to live.
Your ability to function is further down
than not seeing at all.
Like, if you just close your eyes,
you are going to function better. Well, technically... Because you're seeing at all. Like, if you just close your eyes, you are going to function better.
Well, technically...
Because you're seeing wrong things.
Yes, in five seconds...
Not if you're sitting still and looking at a sunset.
But what about that bird that's flying at you?
Oh!
Blam!
Well, okay, hold on.
You've been hit by a lot of birds, Jason?
Are you a giant window?
Yes.
I'm going to try to open this up for us a little bit because I think
all of us would instantly choose hearing
and then this question
would be done and over with.
Thank you, Mr. Awesome.
The bird example,
what difference does it make to me
if I'm seeing a bird that flew across
my view five seconds ago
or a bird that flew across my
view right now, apart from it hitting
me in the face, Jason, what difference does it really make to my life? If you're, so if you're
sitting still, you will function normally. I mean, you look at outer space right now,
you're looking at, at, you know, a son that's whatever, eight minutes old or however,
you know what I'm saying? I know exactly what you're saying you're looking into the past
that's that's not but now moving around is the real problem like driving's not going to work
everything besides sitting still watching nature just don't have to go to the bathroom if you got
to get up and walk down the hall to that bathroom you're hitting some things on the way there i mean
you think you're a place that you're not it's real life lag you're buying everybody else is moving in real time so it's not like
everybody else is lagging you're just living in the past it's not functional but to your point
mike of blindness like it's better than blindness yeah like you you can't you can't function with
this wait wait you're saying just no, could you adjust to the hearing thing?
I think, Andy, you're saying that it's better than blindness,
and Mike was saying it's worse than blindness.
Right, and I was telling Mike, like, I think it is better than blindness
because if you're blind, you cannot see.
This situation, you can at least, even if you close your eyes,
even if you close your eyes, for the majority of the time,
at least when you're sitting still, you could open your eyes.
You could watch a TV show or watch the sky.
How are you going to watch a television show when the audio is five seconds ahead of the visual?
We have the technology to delay audio five seconds, Mike.
Thank you very much.
Probably not five.
Wait, we don't have the technology.
Only three seconds.
I'm just saying the fix.
Maybe when we get the boot-sized continent, we can delay audio five full seconds, Mike.
The function on your audio interface.
You can buy something.
You're going to have to invent it.
All right.
So we're all realizing that hearing we could adjust for.
You have to.
Terrible question, Mr. Awesome.
It would be annoying.
But I mean, the amount of broken toes that i would have walking
around you can't drive a car you just walk slowly one step wait five seconds to see where you ended
up one more step all right jessica from instagram would you rather be forced to skinny dip for five
minutes in a public fountain now here we go or jump in and steal every last coin and that will take about 30 minutes to pick up
every coin in the fountain.
Okay.
So one of these is short term humiliation versus long term.
Number one, if the popo is around, we're going to the who's cow because I'm nude in public.
I'm breaking all sorts of rules as well as bringing what's the shame?
Did you just say?
I have no idea.
Hold on.
Let me translate this.
If the po-po's around, we're heading to the who's cow?
You've never heard that word?
What is the who's cow?
The who's cow is jail.
Spell the word you're saying.
I can't even spell it.
I just know the word.
Who's cow?
I will say this.
I may have had a good scat today, but you
are the coolest cat around, Mike.
You want to know how I learned that word?
Yes. My grandfather got put in
jail. No. Family feud.
It was give slang
words for prison. Wow.
It is spelled H-O-O-S-E-G-O-W.
Thank you. And the one
slang word for prison that no one could get was who's gal.
It was who's gal.
And I said, what is a who's gal?
But now it's in my vocabulary.
Well done.
And let's throw the police situation out.
Let's focus on a crowd.
It's just humiliation.
There is a crowd.
Let's say this is a public fountain in the middle of a busy mall.
Okay?
So you're either going five seconds skinny. Five minutes. Five minutes, not five seconds. Oh, no. This is a public fountain in the middle of a busy mall okay so you're either going five seconds
skinny but we got five minute five minute not five seconds oh no here's here's the we gotta add
five seconds to jump that's not a skinny that's a jump in yeah that's like i'd be face down
nobody look at me i'm hideous what is that floating butt? Oh. But all of the-
I might still go face down for five minutes.
Still think I'm dead.
All of the money in the fountain is widely known for charity.
Oh, yeah.
This is for children's hospitals.
Oh, you're adding that in.
Yes, I'm adding that in.
I was like, wait.
This is a known fact that the malls give that away?
There's no way they do.
I think most of the time in my youth, when I've thrown a penny or a quarter into a fountain,
I assume it's going to a good cause.
Yeah, it's called the mall ownership.
Well, nevertheless, you are one cheapo if you're spending 30 minutes picking that stuff out.
Now, you're telling me you've never seen a quarter in the fountain?
Never.
You've never done that?
Never once.
Now, you are an arcade guy, so is that attached to it?
I'm talking about the younger days.
Like if you've got one more level to beat in the arcade behind you.
Wow.
You guys are great people.
You've taken money from a fountain?
Of course I have.
Wow.
This isn't being a great person.
This is just not wanting to get a fountain of course i have wow this isn't being a great person this is just not wanting to
get a fountain corner like i don't want to reach into this dirty water wait you thought it was like
open grabbins no i didn't think it was open grabbins i was just like i can see a quarter
i could have the quarter but i don't want to reach into this dirty fountain i'd rather take
my clothes off jumping when we were growing, we grew up in the mall culture,
and there was often water features that were full of coins,
and there were video arcades in every single mall.
So that's why you added in the like.
Al Borland, am I all by myself here?
Yeah, you're on your own.
All coins go to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Now you're a monster.
If I do the one where I skinny dip, can I have a snorkel only?
I'll allow it.
I will 100% allow you to snorkel around a circle around the fountain.
That would be excellent.
I'm trying to keep myself face down in this situation.
I honestly think that I could find.
Legs together.
I would be doing the 30 minute
one because I would find some way. I would
constantly be referencing
that I'm mall
staff, you know, collecting for the
mall, collecting, cleaning it up. I'm collecting
for St. Jude. I mean, if I've got to do
this, I'm just, hey,
we thank you for your
donations. Does anybody else have any?
I'm taking these now.
Would anybody like to throw more coins in?
You collect all the coins, and then one by one, you read the year off,
and you're surprised every single time.
Okay.
You're like, ooh, 1992.
Oh, my.
Ooh, a 92 Lincoln?
Oh, what is this, a Nebraska quarter?
I think that if you can sell the second one,
it's obviously better than being naked in a public fountain for five minutes.
Even if there's a sign up that says all money goes to St. Jude
and I'm in there.
What if it's clear that you're homeless, disheveled,
and you're there for yourself?
If I have to proclaim that I'm taking this money,
I'm still collecting all the coins and taking the money because I'm embarrassed, but at
least I'm now $20 richer.
Right.
I want you to have to be holding a metal detector that you're waving above the water and then
picking up and then waving again.
There's just something too inappropriate about skinny dipping in a pub.
You know, it's like, yeah, that's true.
This is like, you should go to jail.
Yeah, you should.
You should. You should hit the who's gal.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, Annabelle from Twitter.
Would you rather live in a world with flying cars that you have to carefully pilot?
Yeah, 100%.
Or a fully autonomous world with fully autonomous street cars that let you sleep,
read,
work,
et cetera,
during your commute.
Because the flying cars are amazing.
But if you have to carefully pilot them,
there is great risk.
You are fully in charge.
Now you get to shortcut a lot.
I mean,
are we saying like,
like fly,
fly though?
This isn't just a hover,
right?
No,
this is fly over the mountain. This isn't just a hover. Right. No, this is fly. I can fly over the mountain.
This is, you've got.
A mini plane.
You've got a mini plane and you can take it a straight line to anywhere.
You got to go to your work.
You got to go to a friend's house.
You're not taking roads and you got to go to this.
Where we're going.
You don't need roads.
Thank you.
So, man, this is really tough because both of these are dreams.
Well, I've always said like i've always
tried to picture what a world with regular flying cars are and there's all these you know concept
vehicles out now that can take off and land that you know they take off they spread their wings
then they fly and then they you know move the wings in and land like they have some stuff like
that in dubai people are flying these things around but there's but it's a zero-sum game. If I get into a fender
bender in my car today, okay, let me call Geico. You're probably okay. I'm probably okay. Now,
not that people don't die on the road. Don't get me wrong. Of course. But you are guaranteed of
certain death if you get into a fender bender in the sky. You're also- Right? Yeah. Which is
different than a plane. You're multiplying the probability of a crash. If everybody's in the sky you're also right yeah which is different than a plane you're multiplying the
probability of a of a crash if everybody's in the sky zipping around that's true ejector z
don't drink and fly that will be a whole new public campaign that'd be terrible so on the
other side jason really took that to heart well i'm I'm just saying. That would be terrible. You know it would be a problem.
And it was a, I mean.
We got a hidden show.
Oh, he's dying over there.
Oh, I got some LaCroix in my nostrils.
All right.
Oh, LaCroix-strols.
I don't even have nostrils at this point.
In my LaCroix-strols, yes.
Jason wishes he could do it.
They're cemented.
I just have a nose piece.
It's like, it looks like a nose but does not function really
so here's the thing that is cool about this hypothetical
it one of these two things is not going to happen in our future and that's the flying cars
right the autonomous cars that's that's going to happen. I mean, we're very close already.
By the end of the year, Tesla could be rolling out there fully autonomous driving.
I mean, right now, you've got to keep...
That's a map.
Yeah, okay.
Let's be realistic, though.
Five, ten years from now.
Yeah, ten years.
It's going to happen.
I'll give it ten years maximum.
It's going to happen for sure.
We're slow people.
I give it 20 years.
No, ten.
But anyway.
But flying cars won't happen.
There's too many regulations.
You can't monitor the airspace as well.
The truth is it will have to be autonomous.
Yes.
If all the flying vehicles are autonomous and they work together,
that's a world I can see happening.
Is that an option?
Could I choose both?
Well, no, you can't.
And I was going to say if it was a world where only I have a flying car i'm i'm a lot more comfortable with that world i can learn to pilot it it's also like
learning to fly a plane i suppose you'd also be like the coolest i mean yeah that like you better
have some security all your kids friends would be like dude his dad has a flying car that would be
very valuable.
But this is a world with a lot of flying cars, a world with autonomous street cars.
I guess you have to go.
I'm going to go the fearful route.
I'll take the autonomous street cars.
Because I can play on my computer.
I can watch a TV show.
It's so much more practical.
Yeah.
The autonomous car of, well, we got a road trip to California.
Guess I'm going to take a snooze.
Oh, that would be so amazing.
That would be incredible, but so would flying over just wherever you want to go.
I hate that I'm going to take the autonomous cars.
I hate it because I want the flying car.
Autonomous car world.
Let's tease this out a little bit because I want to know the implications.
If the entire road system now is only autonomous vehicles, which that they're owned by nobody they're just owned by the
general public this is the world i'm creating right okay they're just owned by the the government
and the roads not the roads the cars every car on the road it's just available to you they're
all the same right you know you just because that way you can have something near you at all times
right right i think i read something once that said if all of the cars in the road today were replaced by autonomous vehicles,
you would need like one-third as many cars as long as they were coming, going, picking other people up, moving around.
So it's just, there's a fleet.
There's a fleet.
Would that change?
I mean, like, let's say you go on a family vacation.
It's all built around road trips and stuff.
Does this mean like me and the oldest boy can scoot like two hours early if
we want to just grab a vehicle and then the wife can grab the next one or like in this world of the
fleet yeah the fleet you can just go come leave whenever you want right it doesn't it does not
matter where you live you live close to work you live far right it doesn't matter oh that's true
you want to work in california live in arizona you could probably do it because whatever you're
not wasting the six hours what if all your commutes are at night like let's say you want to work in california live in arizona you could probably do it because whatever you're not wasting the six hours what if all your commutes are at night like let's say you want to
work in another state and you're like honey i'm going to bed but you go to bed in your car
and you wake up at your job in like another state and every like your drive time is going to be cut
down because traffic traffic jams are going to go way and you can go much faster yeah because
nobody's going to hit each other.
Let's make this happen. Let's build this world.
Let's build some autonomous cars.
Let's do it.
Elon Musk, you're welcome on the podcast anytime.
You can learn some things here.
I would welcome a few of his notes for some of my plans.
Yeah.
If he wants to offer them to me.
Your master plan of this podcast has been this moment to get Elon Musk to like fund some of
your business. Let me tell you about fleet X five thousand. All right. Moving on.
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That's a great question.
All right, Noah from the website has submitted a question,
and according to Al Borland, it is great,
and therefore I am reading it and answering it here on the show today.
How are you, Al?
I'm well. How are you?
I think you have made the entire transition to Al Borland.
Oh, 100%. I think we all agree you are Owl.
Someone drew a fancy cartoon of him, and it was very, very nice.
I don't remember who sent it.
Otherwise, I would give you a shout out.
It gives me such a better mental picture, too.
It was incredible.
I appreciate it.
Yeah.
He's a nocturnal man.
Why do owls seem so friendly?
Because I don't think they are.
No, they're carnivorous beasts.
Yeah, they eat mice whole. But they seem seem wise is that all because of mr rogers i think it's more
harry potter oh that that too they're like so friendly hedwig is an amazing friend you can't
have like an amazing eagle friend because it'll peck your eyes out i am wise and friendly so it's
very appropriate that's true and it's because they always you're like you're a hoot and a half oh you know how when you wear glasses you appear that's smarter yeah uh always look like they are
wearing they always have yeah they look no they look like they're wearing big spectacles exactly
because of the giant eyes but you know firsthand jay that doesn't always mean you're smarter right
yeah because i got glass yeah all right Noah
here's his great question what's the protocol for when you say goodbye to someone and then you run
into them again a few minutes later oh no for example you're leaving a venue and you say your
goodbyes then decide to run to the restroom and run into that person again on the way out do you
have to say goodbye all over again, or do you ignore them completely?
The usual move is the ignoring.
Like, when you say...
Do you really? You do the ignoring?
He throws up the peace sign.
It's not this exact situation,
but what everybody's experienced is
you leave a restaurant,
you assume you parked in different areas,
you give hugs, you say goodbye,
and then you both start walking down the road like the same direction
for three aisles.
And usually in those situations, it's just like we already said our goodbyes.
So just kind of we're walking our way, you're walking our way.
You know, you just kind of ignore each other or do you strike back up
the conversation a jigging of goodbye yeah i feel like i keep the conversation going you just go oh
i guess it's not goodbye yet the key is to use the word again oh so mike you play it off more
playfully like well i'm gonna go eventually yeah i mean it's i'm so confused here by jason like the full ignore
i'm the anti-social one it's so awkward and it's to me you're like oh hey again it's not a big deal
to me either hi bye i walk faster no all you gotta do is say i said goodbye i gotta get out of here
this is awkward yeah start sprint or be oh, I forgot my wallet back inside.
Why are you walking like a penguin in this situation?
Well, I'm sitting down.
Why don't you move your arms when you walk?
You waddle by on the second wave.
I think it's very casual.
I think it's just like, I guess I'm a liar.
Goodbye again.
Easy.
What a funny predicament.
But they want a protocol.
So I use the word again.
Goodbye again. And then I I use the word again. Goodbye again.
And then I never speak to them again because I've made that mark on them.
Wouldn't you say hello again?
That's what I said.
I said, oh, hi, hi again, bye again.
Fancy meeting you here.
Oh, yes.
Go with one of those.
Oh, man, that's such a classy joke.
Al, do you have problems with this situation?
It doesn't really seem like a big deal to me.
No.
All right.
Kevin from Patreon.
Which household appliance would you be most scared of coming alive?
That's a great question.
It's easy for me.
Done deal.
I don't have to think about it.
It's the vacuum. The vacuum was the first don't have to think about it. It's the vacuum.
The vacuum was the first thing that came to my mind as well. Really?
Especially because it's mobile.
It's mobile.
It's loud.
It's loud.
Not like the oven.
It has a little bit of a-
It can eat you and start a fire?
There's kind of a person shape to a vacuum.
Al's laughing. It's kind of a person shape to a vacuum. Al's laughing.
It's kind of person shape.
And when I was a kid, my mom, it's funny the things you remember now.
You're sitting here thinking about it.
She had this old Hoover vacuum, this big gray bag on it, and it sat in the closet.
And it was a little scary.
There's a reason dogs don't like them.
Yeah.
They know something.
They can come alive and suck the life out of you so jason's worried about the oven the the thing that's just stuck on the wall that you could get away from it's just a hot mouth i think that's a
hot mouth you know when i can get away from it i get it's just hard hi jay i can get away from it before it comes alive.
I would assume that once it comes to life, it can remove itself from the wall.
I guess it's not just talking to you.
I'm a toaster.
If one of your appliances could talk, what are you most afraid of?
How's it going to walk?
What kind of legs can an oven possibly
short stumpy turtle legs we all know that i mean i'm thinking of my my vacuum i don't know how this
thing can move i mean it's got wheels yeah a vacuum's got the it's got wheels it's got the
power of suction realistically it would just be, help.
Ovens do have feet.
Oh, that's true.
That's right, owl.
I'm thinking of built-ins.
Yeah, no.
Help me.
Okay, all right.
I can't move.
Okay, so now we're at a freaking wall. All right, they come alive and come after you.
If these two things, if the vacuum and the oven got me cornered cornered okay i would beat the tar out of that
vacuum i would be showing my karate skills i would roundhouse yeah you ain't never fought a dyson
oh dude the dice has got the skinniest body i'm bringing that thing in half no problem i
it's a great piece of equipment but it's a lousy fighter. It makes up for its cyclone power. Oh, I would destroy that. But if that
oven is in front of me going,
Hi, Jason.
I am freaked out.
It's a gas oven. So there's flames on
the top. I can't jump over the thing.
Okay. Grant, I'll give
you that you could probably beat up a vacuum. But you're not
freaked out that the vacuum
is alive? I'm not saying I'm not freaked
out, but if I gotta choose one of those two, give me the vacuum's alive? I'm not saying I'm not freaked out, but if I got to choose one of those two, give me
the vacuum to fight.
I mean, the girth, the weight, the heat, the ability to-
You don't think that vacuum's using that separate suction power to the disconnected handle?
Oh, no.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no.
It's giving me a hickey on my arm.
I mean, this, I'm not afraid.
It could tie you up.
It could probably clear your nasal cavity right now.
Impossible.
I took Afrin yesterday.
There is no clearing.
I no longer have a nasal cavity.
If I laid on the ground, if I laid on the ground and you took your Dyson vacuum and you vacuumed all over me. I might not like that.
You'd have a lot of scratches.
But if I lay on the ground, you put that oven on me and you turn it on and it does
its worst.
I feel like an oven's going to be really slow.
Wait, just to be clear, you're most afraid of the oven cooking something while you're
underneath it?
I was just giving an example of the lacking power of a vacuum.
Okay.
I'm thinking of, what are you most scared of?
And I'm an ominous, here's what I'm saying.
You're laying in bed at night.
The lights are out.
You can't really see much.
Standing in the doorway is a vacuum.
You see the light on the ground.
That's right.
That would not scare me as much as hi jason with the
fiery eyes and the mouth of flames ow ow are there any uh we've really excluded all other
possible appliances there's only two appliances i'm with jason on this one either an oven or a
furnace those are those are i imagine that a uh uh we We live in Arizona. There's no such thing as a furnace.
What's a microwave going to do?
An iron could hurt you pretty good.
But it's little. It would just slap you in the knee.
An iron. Oh, sure.
And the microwave would be
so threatening. A lot of radiation.
But then you realize it can't run when it's
open. Yeah. Like, if you guys
are afraid of the vacuum, I feel like one of those
stand-ups... I just feel like a vacuum is very mobile and very agile but if you and an oven would be slow and clunky but
if you think that then a stand-up steamer is worse than the vacuum because they've got the same body
shape the same like wheels on the bottom but one is like can burn you and hurt you apparently i
only care about being burned here yes in these these I just feel like a vacuum. I don't think you would do very well with a vacuum sucking your face.
I would beat the tar out of this vacuum.
I am going to go beat up a vacuum tonight.
You know what?
Honestly, I'm going to vacuum your face for an hour.
Give me a baseball bat.
We'll see which one wins.
How do you get a bat?
What?
Where's the weapon come from?
Home protection.
Give me a bat against the oven i'm gonna lose what is my bat doing to my oven gonna dent it hey jay all right
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Kate from Twitter, you've been kidnapped. All right. Kate from Twitter.
You've been kidnapped.
All right.
Sounds ominous.
Hopefully not by a vacuum.
Your kidnappers force you to keep tweeting to pretend everything's all right.
What would you tweet to alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking
for help?
Oh, this is easy.
You really?
Yeah.
They say, man, these pickles are delicious.
Oh, so you're trying to say.
Yes.
To let people know something's wrong.
If you saw that tweet come from my account,
you guys are like, wow, Mike has been hacked.
Something is wrong.
Because you don't like pickles.
Send me your. It's not that I don't like this. Have you ever had a pickle before is wrong. Because you don't like pickles. With his account. Send me your.
It's not that I don't like this.
Have you ever had a pickle before?
I, yeah.
Have you?
Oh, they're delicious.
Come on.
They're terrible.
They're not.
They are the worst.
So you don't like pickles.
You don't like tomatoes.
We got to pivot here just for a second.
I truly believe that the reason you don't like those is because the range of outcomes
between a good pickle and a bad pickle, a good tomato and a bad tomato.
It's vast.
A bad tomato and a bad pickle are the most disgusting things on planet Earth.
I'm totally on board.
But a great pickle is a masterpiece of culinary excellence.
It really is.
So anyways, I would tweet out uh send me your funniest spider
gifts yeah yeah that makes sense people be like oh that's not that's it people just say oh andy
got his phone but how are people gonna really make the jump that you need help they might think you
need mental health they might think somebody stole your phone i was thinking we were going a more direct route like i could be like
here are some of my favorite places and then give the address to where i'm being kidnapped
so you're seeking out for i was looking for some real active help and you don't think your
kidnappers are going to be alerted by their address being posted to your.
What would you tweet?
All right.
How about this?
A lot of followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking.
New strategy.
Address.
New strategy.
What a night at the blockbuster on the 59th of bell.
Why am I being kidnapped at a blockbuster?
Just an example. I would tweet in all lowercase and then capitalize one letter and then spell out.
Help me.
Oh, with the capital letters?
With the capital letters.
Because the kidnapper would not see that.
So I think.
Well, I'm dead, okay?
Yeah, I think for me.
Keep tweeting.
That way nobody knows that you're in trouble.
How about just don't tweet hostess.
Apple pies are overrated.
That's one of the things you would say.
Yeah,
I would have to say that.
So I said to be your funniest spider gifts.
You think someone look at these kidnappers,
they'd,
they'd be cool with you tweeting that.
I,
but the kidnapper wouldn't know if I do enough of those tweets,
someone's going to come for help.
Well, that's an excellent point with your nonverbal cues.
All right, that one's for YouTube.
It's for YouTube.
All right, we need to draft before Jason catches on.
It's going well.
The Spitballers Draft.
All right, Larry from Twitter.
Hopefully Larry's okay on Twitter.
Tweet at us, Larry.
Let us know you're fine.
Biggest pet peeves.
Biggest pet peeves.
I have the first pick, Al.
You do.
This is tough.
I thought I would go... Some something started popping into my head and i think
i think i'm gonna go the ultra slow driver okay because it's a classic yeah it's a classic standard
and it's really one that hits every couple weeks where we take this little uh about 20 minute drive
we all drive the same way to work.
There's this little mountain pass, shall we call it?
One lane.
One lane.
And I've been in this thing where there's a train now.
It's a train behind one car going 13 miles an hour through the mountain pass.
Safety first.
And when I say mountain pass, I want to be clear it's not that really it's a hell not in danger it's a mountain it's a road over it's a
road through a mountain and there's no there's no risk of falling there's no dangers it's got
there's just there's just people that go wow i'm gonna this is a little curvy i'm gonna i'm gonna
slow it down to about 12 so i think that when I'm really caught in that situation,
because I don't want to be the jerk that goes flying by them somehow
or breaking the rules of the road and going to the other lane or, you know,
that type of thing.
A mountain needs to rise at least 1,000 feet.
Do you think that's a mountain?
I think that's a hill.
I think it's a mountain.
Those are mountains. I think it's close to? I think that's a hill. I think it's a mountain. Those are mountains.
I think it's close to it.
Regardless.
Slow drivers anywhere.
The slow driver anywhere.
If you're caught, sometimes you can evade,
but if you're caught behind one and you just have to endure it,
I'm old enough to be that impatient.
So slow drivers is the pick.
It's a good one.
It's a classic. I am going to go with the term I believe that people use for this is vague booking.
Ooh.
Vague booking.
So that's the people that jump on social media.
It really started gaining popularity on Facebook where they would imply that something bad has happened today,
but they're only putting it on because they want the social,
the E rep to build real strong.
And so the people jump by like,
man,
what's,
what's happening.
Are you doing okay?
And it's like,
why are we,
why are we doing this communication on the internet?
It's always like,
not again,
period.
Yes.
That's a big,
it is not again.
I won't let this happen to me negative
passive aggressive yes social media posts the worst maybe they've been kidnapped maybe this
is them trying to say if you come from if you see me tweeting like that you know that something has
gone wrong man oh well it's best for me i'm just gonna have to see what the future has in store after this yes
after what if you want if you look if something's wrong call a friend like you don't need the the
social backup get out of here i hate vague booking is the worst vague booking is a wonderful pick
okay my first one is something that is so easily correctable
that I just want to say shame on all of you
who have ever, will ever, or even accidentally do this wrong
because I'm so sick of it.
Oh, this is very vague.
Upside down toilet paper rolls. Ooh. To down toilet paper rolls oh toilet paper rolls fantastic
pick the the roll needs to come on the top yes towards you over it's never over over under is
so you guys changed my life with this i don't know if it's for the better or worse it's for
the better because before i met you i didn't I really didn't. I was so ignorant to this fact.
Now, because of you, I have to have it over.
Oh, it has to be.
So am I better in ignorance where I don't care, or am I better now?
That's a fair question.
You could say that you're better than ignorance.
However, there's a reason now that you are neurotic just like Jason and I
about it being over because it's the right
way to do it yeah every time you go into a bathroom and it's under i fix it you yeah i just
crap on the floor is this what you get um so that's my first pick for sure he leaves a note
no toilet paper yeah could it operate the toilet paper exactly sorry this is on you so that's why i pooped on
the floor and i just didn't flush right there's no toilet paper you must poop on the floor because
there's nothing else you can do sorry all right my next one is uh cheapskate thermostat operators is what we'll call them.
You're throwing haymakers.
I'm throwing them out.
Yes, I'm with you.
Now, I wanted to say, we're in Arizona, so I wanted to say just people who leave their house too hot.
They don't want to cool it to an appropriate temperature because it costs a lot of money. But I'm sure it's the opposite problem in other parts of the country
where people don't want to heat their house up enough. It's like, look, there's certain things
in life you got to buy generic of. There's certain things in life you need to cut out.
You might need to clip off some bills. This is not the one where you're spending your time inside should be appropriately temperature
controlled.
When I go to someone else's house and it's clearly four degrees more than it should be
and everyone in there's got a little perspiration, the beads, everyone's hot, uncomfortable.
It's like, come on.
It does blow my mind because it feels...
Now, it can come across as pretentious, right?
Like that you're saying,
hey, you don't need to save money on this, spend up.
But the thing is, it feels...
Things are efficient now.
The savings that you're actually getting
for a month of suffering,
I don't think it's very great.
You can be smart about it,
but if you have guests especially,
that's where I'm like,
okay, you as a guest,
you are not worth 20 cents.
Right.
You are not worth 28 cents to me
for this hour of cool weather.
I know some people that claim like,
oh no, I like my house at 79 degrees.
That's what I prefer.
Okay, whatever.
Hold on, hold on. As I'm with you, I like my house at 79 degrees. That's what I prefer. Okay, whatever. Hold on.
As I'm with you, I'm okay with this
pick. But what
is the appropriate temperature?
This is where there could be a problem. Sure.
The appropriate temperature in
Arizona is 74
degrees. That seems reasonable.
That's so
extreme. 74?
No, no, no. 75 75 75 no 74 is perfect 74 78 at a minimum what
i've been in 80 houses so 78 i can live i can live with 78 i've i've had to live the 80 house
before like saying like 70 was this your choice yeah like you made your own house 80 yes i've
you are the you are the problem.
Did that little extra nest egg you saved jettison the rest of your life to success?
I got like five extra cheeseburgers that month.
Okay.
I'm not at 80 household anymore, but 74.
It really depends on the house.
I don't even put my house at 74 on the weekend when it's cheap time.
I sleep in 73.
Yeah, I was going gonna say when when i'm
warm what is happening when i'm borland back me up here buddy we're 78 79 all the time okay see
78 but it's not it's not even money savings that's just a comfortable temperature temperature
78 is fine okay all right i don't want to feel my i'm gonna come over for dinner at some point
in the future spend some time with your wonderful family If we get there and it's 78 degrees, we're out. We were just turning around. I do drop it when we have guests over
good. Cause you respect more bodies equals more heat. When I'm warm, I go to 73. Remember
the Uber driver that made me roll the window down? Yes. Yes. I mean, that's a bit of a
distraction of the conversation, but it's the same point. I was in an Uber.
It was real hot.
We weren't moving.
It's an Uber where you get tipped.
You asked to turn on the air.
I said, can I turn the air on?
He said, no.
Need to save money.
Had me roll the window down in a stagnant, stinky area.
He saved 12 cents on that gas and lost whatever tip.
All right.
So your two picks then.
Give me your two.
My two picks are the putting the toilet paper on the wrong way.
Needs to go over.
And the second one is people that are cheapskates with a thermostat
that don't get their house comfortable.
For guests.
For guests.
Okay.
I think those are great.
I didn't realize how much I'd love this draft.
I can't wait to be on the clock again.
Yeah, I've got a couple more up my sleeve.
Yeah, I have a few here that I like.
I'm going to go.
So this is, I don't know how many of the listeners this will apply to,
because this one has become a problem since I am now a parent.
And it's nighttime. You finally got the kids to go to sleep which is a feat among itself every single night you get it accomplished
you sit down on the couch with the wife like i want to watch a movie and then you have incredibly
inconsistent volume in the movie oh yeah and. And they cut to this real intense dialogue
where for some reason they're done.
So you got to crank it up.
So you got to crank the volume up.
And the next scene is, of course,
half of their home exploding.
And now there's volume shockwaves
rattling down my hallways.
And I'm freaking out.
I'm grabbing the remote.
So now,
so now I have to watch these movies at night with my remote in my hand the whole time, constantly going up, constantly going down. Like what is, where are you? What are the audio
mixers doing? Nobody tells you that about parenting. And that is a real struggle.
That was the best thing about having a two story house when I had one was I didn't have to do that
quite as much
because i could just crank it and not worry as much about it but that's true i thought you were
gonna say here's a little uh asterix extra for the movie experience because i'm not gonna make it
an official thing but when whenever uh i don't know hypothetically a spouse of some sort
is you get real ready oh you get real ready to watch the show or the movie.
You finally turn off all the lights.
You finally start.
I'm tired.
And then two minutes in, it's,
oh, let me take my contacts out.
Or five minutes in, it's like, let me make a pot of tea.
You could have done all this in the preceding 30 minutes.
But you would already hit start.
Oh, you were a couple minutes in.
You're just starting to get the dialogue going going if you've ever been in a situation like
never is that your pick no no he was just throwing that out so i'm on the clock now right and mike
your two picks so far uh let's i vague booking and then and then inconsistent volumes in the
movies i don't know how you want to label that so So, you know, I'm just going, I have a few that I could pick,
but I'm going to go with the one
that just sticks out to me as laughable.
It's somewhat comedic.
It's mostly annoying.
It's entirely ridiculous.
And it doesn't quite happen the same way it used to,
but I'm going to go with the Bluetooth store talker.
Okay?
Oh, yeah.
The Bluetooth headset in the ear,
the no regard for human life anywhere around you.
I've been in the car.
I've been in the coffee shop in the cinema and it's mostly somebody that's
really,
they just want you to know they're important.
Oh yeah.
It's normally a big,
loud conversation.
No one's around them.
They're talking about money and numbers.
Yeah, walking through the aisles or closing a deal or realtors or these type of things.
I just think it's obnoxious.
Well, every time they come up near you, you turn around because someone is talking to you.
And haven't you said hello to one of those people once or twice?
I've done that.
I for sure have done that.
Where you're either ignored because they're in a conversation
or you actually say hi
thinking that they said something to you
and they're just,
it's like oblivion.
You're not even in the realm of,
Oh, I get two picks then, huh?
You do.
You're back up.
Oh, okay.
All right, this one is just petty.
Let it just be real.
It's the same side couples.
Oh, yeah, same siders.
It's the same siders.
Get out of here with your same side.
What is happening?
Okay, so you're with me.
Oh, 100%.
I have gone out to a date night and felt like I want to sit with my wife in the booth and we sit in the same
side of the booth and I go this is weird you know like you dabbled I dabbled and I I dabbled
you know it's my college years experimented and and then I found out this is ridiculous because
it is you can't talk to each other.
No, you can't.
And it's just weird, man.
And I said it was petty because I thought maybe.
There's this level of adoration and love that is so great.
I've never experienced where I must sit next to you, side to side, not look at you in the eye, but just eat so close to you that I love you so much.
But no, it's just Al Borland shaking you that i love you so much but but no it's just
it's just al borland shaking his head have you same-sided before probably in high school oh man
look yeah is there a tv on the other side of the booth i've same-sided one time with a with like
a high school girlfriend because it it just happened and it's like, what do you do? Now, I've also been in the restaurant where you kind of have a weird round booth arrangement
where if you sit across from each other, it's a vast distance.
Oh, yeah.
But if you, you know.
You go 90 degree.
See, that's what I'm saying, man.
What are the same-siders trying to prove?
What is more intimate?
You're going out for a nice romantic dinner.
What is more intimate?
Sitting next to someone so you're rubbing elbows and knees
or looking them in the eyes while you're having a discussion
instead of turning your head like a crane and leaving with a neck ache.
Andy, do you know what the same-siders are saying?
What are they saying?
They're saying we're waiting for people.
That's what they're saying. They're saying, oh no,
more people are going to be joining us soon.
That would make me happy. Please don't serve
me yet because we're clearly
waiting for someone to come sit on the
other side of this booth. If I was the waiter,
if I was the waiter, I would
intentionally shame those people.
I would assume that they have other people
and then if they say.
Oh, you guys need more time?
You're still waiting for people?
Still waiting for the other couple?
No, no, no.
We're it.
But then who's going to be sitting here?
That's what I would do.
So slow drivers, the Bluetooth headset store talk or whatever you want to say.
The same side booth couples.
And Mike, it's back to you.
All right. or whatever you want to say. The same side booth couples. And Mike, it's back to you.
All right.
I'm going to go with repeating myself,
and especially when it's just,
you're saying something that just has,
it's so meaningless,
and you're just throwing something out.
You're like, yeah, I saw Frank at the store.
Huh?
I saw Frank at the store.
Huh? If I get to the third one. So you Oh, I saw, I saw Frank at the store. Huh?
Like if I,
if I get to the third one, you don't like deaf people.
Got it.
It's not that it's,
I mean,
maybe some of it's on me.
I'm not speaking loud enough because what I'm saying is not really that
important.
What's that?
But by the time I get to the third,
the second repeat,
I was like,
Hey,
was this worth it?
Was this whole exchange?
I would not have entered into
this if i knew i had to say it three times exactly the energy that it takes like you you know the
first time you're talking to someone you're giving good energy but then it's like wait oh you didn't
you missed that i have to i now i have to emulate my performance the third time is definitely where
it's not authentic the third time you're i'm out this is a shark tank
for those for those reasons but what's terrible about trying to get out then is when you've been
asked multiple times it seems way more important than it is the repeating makes something trivial
seem important yes and then you're like this is not this important i'm giving up yes and then and
i do and then they're not happy.
Yeah, and then that's a whole other thing.
Yeah, it's a whole other thing.
I'm just trying to tell you that Frank went to the store.
It's not important.
I just wanted you to know I got you a napkin.
That's it.
All right, Jason, you get two picks.
All right. The first one is people that chew with their mouth open
and talk while they have food in their mouth.
Stop.
It's just like...
The messy eater?
I don't care if they're messy or if no food ever spills out.
I don't want to hear what's inside of your mouth
when there's food in there.
And when you talk with your mouth full,
you better be three. you know what i mean like that's when my kids got to four is like when when that was
outlawed so that's one and now my second one here is there ever an opportunity where it's appropriate
just to clarify an emergency so like what so like what about like a full you know you're eating your bowl of cereal
and then all of a sudden someone's got a gun to your head that's it like guns don't shoot
i mean i don't know when you can't just finish your that's when you turn to you just hold up
the finger the one minute finger up to the assailant hold on hold on let me finish this i'm chewing um okay i don't
want to be rude okay so the uh the last one this is a complete not vote getter like i the poll is
done because this one i don't know how many people out there hate this but i hate it oh it it drives
me up a wall it's uh-oh it's freaking 2019 it's not 1992 anymore way to date the podcast i'm just
well whatever it's 2024 it's 2028 it's not 1992 anymore and when radio commercials or any kind of thing say go to www.go backslash oh my word it's not a backslash
a backslash goes the other direction this is a it's a forward slash it's you know grammar police
fantasyfootballers.com slash uh but slash is acceptable slash is acceptable you don't have
to say you don't have to say is acceptable. You don't have to say
You don't have to say
the forward slash?
You don't have to say
forward slash
because you know
what you mean.
But when you say
backslash
you're actually
saying something wrong.
Wow.
I can't believe
that bothers you.
I really can't.
It's not a backslash.
Because we've reached
the point where
it doesn't matter.
To me it just doesn't matter.
To me you should be able
to say slash
backslash
forward slash
it don't matter because you know what button to hit. Here's why it matters. It's called a web address. To me, it just doesn't matter. To me, you should be able to say slash, backslash, forward slash.
It don't matter because you know what button to hit.
Here's why it matters.
It's called a web address.
Here's why it matters.
If you can't get that far through the web address without instruction,
you don't belong on the internet. I totally understand and get that everyone's going to know what to do.
Yeah.
Okay.
Now, there are people that are being taught wrong,
and so they will now believe that that is a backslash.
They hear it all the time.
They know what they're meaning, and so they get it wrong.
But my real issue with it is that where you hear it is always the old mediums.
It's always the old radio show that's, you know, it's like it just feels outdated old busted so that's why i hate saying
backslash why is that one the backslash when like when they did the the naming conventions
right of these symbols why is that one the backslash i always i was on leans backwards
i always wondered that with greater than or less but. I've had a hard time with that in my life.
But it leans forward.
No, no, no.
Think about the pipe, right?
The straight up.
Now, if you were to say lean forward.
I would go to the right because that's the direction I read.
I agree with Mike.
Wait, you would lean to the right?
Yes.
Like a forward slash.
Exactly right.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah, he's right. So, yes, you agree. We should never talk about this again. Oh, that's true. He's right.
So yes, you agree.
We should never talk about this again.
You know what I mean?
No, you win. You got it.
Never again.
Mike, your final pick.
Alright, you know it was coming.
I had to save it for last because you guys don't
care about these things, but it is small talk.
It is the worst thing in the entire
world. I am going to be around you for 10 seconds.
I don't need to converse with you.
I don't care about the weather.
I don't care about the sport team.
Such a fine line between being polite and small talk, isn't there?
Yeah.
I'm fine with a head nod, with a hello, a good morning.
End of discussion.
That's it.
That's all we need to have.
You don't want us to throw in the, boy, it's pretty cold this morning.
Oh, that's what I just said.
I don't need to hear about the weather.
I don't need to hear about the temperature.
I don't need to hear about things that just.
But maybe people value what you have to say so much.
No, they don't.
They want to hear what you think about the weather.
They value what they are saying.
Mike, how's your day going?
How's your day going?
Oh, you put it back.
The big fog.
But that's not a bad thing to be like, how's your day going?
Maybe I actually wonder how you're doing today.
But you don't.
But I could.
No, you do not.
Some people do care about you.
Yeah, some people do care.
Yes, when I go home and my wife says, how was your day?
Does it make a difference who's saying it?
Small talk to me is defined as, this is somebody I do not know.
Okay.
And I'm not going to be around them for very long.
So kind of meaningless.
Strangers.
Trivial conversation.
So if you're in an elevator with someone and they say, how's your day going?
Like we are just wasting our energy in this conversation.
You just say, it doesn't matter to you.
That should be your, how's your day going? It doesn't matter to you that should be your how's your day going it doesn't matter to you right but how's your day
going you don't need to know but like but now now they look at me like hmm oh this guy's a jerk
you're like no i just you don't care no they're the jerk yes for being so rude with their kind
question for putting because it's not a kind question it is meaningless it is it is an as i said there's a fine line between you being a curmudgeon it is not like being polite and small
talk like okay one i i don't have the the social courage to do it but just of if if that ever
happening in an elevator hey how's your day going dude it's going really bad. Let me lay it out for you. And just unload on them of why your day is going so terrible.
And they will never ask someone again.
Maybe the real thing is that you don't want to be dishonest.
Maybe you want to be honest.
And since you know you can't in a small talk situation,
it feels disingenuous and fake.
You are 100% correct.
All right, I'm going to book in.
Authenticity.
That part is valid to me because you're not really telling the truth.
You're both lying to each other for courtesy's sake, and I get that.
Because maybe you really need to tell somebody what's going on, but you can't.
Because they don't actually care.
All right.
I'm trying to understand.
I've got slow drivers, Bluetooth headset talkers, same side booth couples, and I'm trying to understand. I've got slow drivers, Bluetooth headset talkers, same-side booth couples,
and I'm going to book in my slow drivers with slow walkers.
Sure.
I'm going slow walkers.
Andy's got places to be.
It really is.
Real fast.
At the end of the day, most of my pet peeves could be solved by being a patient human
and just being kind.
But I think that probably goes for a lot of ours.
We could probably forgive them.
But the slow Walker situation,
here's why I don't like that.
I get that.
Some people can't walk fast.
That's okay.
But it's a whole lot more awkward to pass somebody on your feet than it is in
your car.
Yeah.
So if you're,
if you got the long walk up to a movie theater or to the mall,
or like if,
you know,
we go to Chicago,
New York, there's a lot of
outside walking it's an awkward pass you really got to be on a mission to make that you got to
act like you're going somewhere you can't just do a real slow casual barely pacing faster pass
because then you're walking hand in hand with that person yeah then you're a same side couple
with them it's super awkward when i'm at the mall
and i'm going somewhere when you pass someone you got to do like a mini jog you got you got to
no i'm i'm running late to my job you really need an excuse to pass them because you can't just be
an impatient person right because you're saying you're saying with your actions you're so that
you're doing it wrong. Yeah, you are.
You're wasting my time.
Get out of my way.
Watch me.
This is how you do it.
Pretty much.
Now, all that being said, we have a platform here to instruct people.
And so I hope people learn things today.
I hope they learn to put the toilet paper on the over.
To walk a little faster, drive a little faster.
Actually, you know what?
First of all, you're right.
It's a forward slash or just slash.
The thing is, it's more the lack of awareness in those situations
than it is the actual offense.
You want to walk slow, that's fine.
If you are aware that you are impeding people around you,
you want to drive slow, that's fine If you pull to the right, right?
Right.
Oh, you can always make an adjustment.
I'll sell my wife down the river one more time as we close.
Wow.
My wife has this one famous thing that I think happens all the time.
She doesn't.
She's not aware of the spatial constraints of the shopping cart in the store.
Does that make sense?
So like a depth perception problem?
We really don't know.
Science hasn't told us what's happened to her yet.
But she's always kind of getting in the way of people with the shopping cart.
So understanding how you block people into the aisles
or the person that ends up,
you ever been in the awkward almost collision
where you come out of the aisle and the other person oh yeah she's a hundred for a hundred
on those ones so we've all got these things that happen to us but i think it's just a you know i'm
hyper conscious and aware of people around me and that's not so good either yeah people moving slowly
so what did we learn today we learned that i may have to do some same side sitting with my wife to make up for selling her down the river today.
I learned that a who's gal is jail.
That was news to me.
Is it prison or jail?
Just jail?
Like going down with the paddy wagon down to the jail?
We all were who's gals.
Yeah, you know.
All right.
Kind of makes me want to go now.
I want to check out the huge gas.
Yeah.
I believe it's like old west talk.
Yeah.
That's why I do this voice.
But that's just a guess.
And I learned, I think we all figured out why it's the forward slash,
why it was named that.
Yeah.
Did you change, Mike? No. Do you understand now Why it was named that. Yeah. It wasn't forward. Did you change, Mike?
No.
Do you understand now?
I totally understand.
But I'm just saying it wasn't willy-nilly.
They just picked.
Okay, that one's the backslash.
I think it makes sense now.
It matters.
Words matter.
Words have meaning.
This is one of those your, your guys over here.
If you put a question mark, it's different than a period.
Thank you for joining the show.
We'll see you next time.
Goodbye.
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