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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. in the classic just stick with it yeah I was gonna say that's uh this was when you go to
the grocery store and you just get you know what you normally get yeah I got the milk got the eggs
got the bread get out check out yeah you can make a meal
yeah I mean you've eaten that meal before but it'll fill you up the thing is
is in this grocery store what happened is I walked through the door and went oh
no I'm at the grocery store I had no idea I needed things at the grocery store so
I just got the basics cuz that's what happened on the scat It was about two seconds ago when I realized I got the scat. Yeah episode 255 of the spitballers
Welcome in to what?
55
That button doesn't work on this show. Why don't you do it with your scat boys?
55 you
Use a list when you go to the grocery store
Not usually.
I mean, it just depends on, you know, obviously if we've got a recipe and we're doing something
specific then yes, but generally speaking if I'm just going to the grocery store I'm
just going to...
Yeah, and then you just grab the stuff.
Load up.
Yeah.
No?
No.
You're a list guy?
No, no, no.
Goodness, heavens no.
My wife... Heavens no. My wife tries to get me to use the list. You're a list guy? No, no, no goodness heavens. No, my wife
Tries to get me to use the list and here's the problem with the list is
that when I receive the list it is not anywhere near the
arrangement of the the grocery store and
That causes like it causes chaos for me that I'm like
Like how do I you you know what I mean?
It's like I'm going.
You wanna go top to bottom on the list.
Exactly.
But then you'd be zigzagging the store like crazy.
Yes, and so I miss crap all the time
and so I just say I'm gonna go and I will get what I get.
Have you thought about, see to me one of the worst jobs
in the world, and I know that people are very good at it,
so this is not an indictment on the job itself is an indictment on me myself but I am bad at
finding things oh oh and the idea of being one of the Instacart shoppers
that has to shop for other people I will make the least money per hour a person could make doing anything
because I can't even go and functionally get
three items at a store without getting lost,
questioning whether I'm getting the wrong one.
Like I will be a one star Instacart person
making 42 cents an hour.
When my wife gives me a list of like,
all right, we need these things.
I need like, show me photos.
Show me photographs of this.
That's a good call.
I need to know what color, this is the purple one?
This is the purple cam?
Oh, that's such a good idea.
Yeah, I mean, so if I was an Instacart shopper, it's over.
I'd be at that store, I'd get my first order, I'd walk in,
I'd leave seven hours later with everything
that's on whoever's list. I have no idea.
The best part of that, when you have that situation at the grocery store, is when you
can't find the item you're looking for, that means that there will be no employees anywhere.
Oh, for sure.
They will be nowhere.
You can go up and down the aisle and you will not find them.
However, if you know where your item is, the employees, they're just, they're-
Won't leave you alone.
There's way too many people working today.
Would you like any help?
Yeah, you're like, no, I've told you,
I don't want your help.
Be here when I can't find my stuff.
That is another interesting topic as we spitball here.
But the stores that have an overabundance
of people asking you if you need help,
those are real bad. Like a real problem to me. I know it's friendly,
but I can only tell people, no, I don't need help so many times before it becomes an oppressive
place to be.
Yeah, I wonder if anybody's ever fought back. You know what I mean? Like, do you need help?
No, no, I'm good, thank you. And then you walk five more steps. Someone else
comes up, you know, Oh, what can I help you with? No, I'm good. And then you walk five
more steps. You might hit a breaking point, you know, where someone comes up, what can
I help you find? Nothing. Yeah. It's, it's, uh, I don't don't know now now you can go to stores and just
order from like kiosks like McDonald's my son took his the robot he took a
scooter to McDonald's the other day because he wanted to express his
teenage freedom ah yes and and I'm like oh okay well at least yes you know he
has to go order and pay and all of that no No, no he didn't. No human interaction.
Cause he's just sitting, I ended up meeting him over there
after he'd ordered his apple pie.
Is that all he got?
And fries and burger and all of that.
Oh, okay.
And soda and everything.
And he's just sitting there, he'd ordered me one.
I'm like, oh man, he had to go up and do it twice.
No, it was a machine.
This is the future.
Also, wow, we're just distracted,
McDonald's, have you been inside
some of these McDonald's lately?
They're very nice.
They're elegant.
I hate to use the word elegant, but like-
Wait, McDonald's is a nice place now?
It's classical music.
Have you heard this?
It's super nice inside.
You're gonna love it.
Bring some candles.
They just got some Bach.
It sounds like I'm telling you a joke, but it's
It's wait. Hold on. It's clean
classical music quiet
Delicious don't let and and and suddenly the food tasted better
Is this cuz they?
Cuz you can order from the robots. So I think they don't have to pay people anymore
I don't know what it is.
It was shocking.
I was like, well, this is nice.
Welcome into the show.
I need to go to a nice McDonald's.
The one over by me.
You got to come.
The one that's connected to the gas station?
No, no, no, no, no.
Oh.
No, no, no, no, no.
I was like, oh my god.
That's next level.
No, no, no.
We'll go together.
It'll be like a double date.
I mean, it's so nice in the restaurant.
Do you have to dress up now?
You do have to tip, yeah.
Collared shirts.
Al Borland, how you doing today?
Doing well.
The judge is here as well, joining us on another Spitballers
episode.
We have, would you rather, some life advice
that we're doling out.
And then we're drafting the best streaming services.
So we're looking at those video streaming services,
you know, the ones that let you cord cut
and get rid of cable and pay so much less
to have nine of them.
Yeah, whoopsies.
We just made the same system, didn't we?
Man, I can't wait till I can pay one person
and get all of them. Oh man,
yeah. Like, oh that's gonna happen. If there was just one provider that would package them
into a- Nice, but we'll call it a bundle. Into like a bundle. Yeah. 100% is going to happen.
Oh for sure. For sure. Oh my gosh. It's all a cycle. It's just a circle? Yes. We just keep
living through the same things 20 years later. That's really funny.
All right, let's kick it off.
Would you rather?
Ken Shee from Patreon says, would you rather for one month be dumped into the middle of
a forest with a lighter, a knife, an axe?
A month?
And a rifle with six shots?
Or be dumped into the middle of a busy foreign
city without any extra clothes no money and no contact with anyone you know for
the duration of the month I mean this is obviously a very complicated scenario
to work out here it's unfortunately very easy for me. City? Yes, because if I am in the city,
there is a chance that someone takes pity on me and helps me out. If I am alone for
a month in the middle of the... I don't... A rifle with six shots, great. That's going
to help me none. That's a baseball bat at that point. Because you're not hitting anything
with six shots.
Well I mean if I have a lighter and I assume that part of the rifle is made out of wood
at least I have.
You're going to light your rifle on fire?
Hey look desperate times man.
Here's the thing about, first thing I thought about with the rifle, six shots right?
So you could hunt but you will need to keep some, I would need to keep some bullets for self-defense
from a bear.
And so how many bullets do you need for the hunting?
Your rifle's not stopping a bear.
Six shots would stop a bear.
Yeah, so don't use it for hunting.
You need all six shots for bear protection.
Now if it was a week in the forest
versus a month in the city,
I would be less fearful of dying and
dying is the
was the imminent thing that I was like I need to be in the city to not die
yes but a week in the woods you do have a knife
you do have a lighter so you're gonna have fire at night
um how do you get water?
getting through the yeah the water's gonna be I'm sure there's a river, little brook,
little babbling brook.
And as we all know, when you find a water source.
Just drink it.
Yeah, just don't.
Can you boil the water?
Do we have a pot?
No, we don't.
No pots, huh?
Can we add a pot to the question?
Can we fashion the rifle into a pot?
We can add a pot.
All right, we got a pot.
I'm gonna boil that water, be fine.
Al is trying to make us choose the forest,
is what he's trying to do.
I will say this. I'm just trying to find the pot. I'm gonna boil that water, be fine. Al is trying to make us choose the forest, is what he's trying to do. I will say this.
I'm just trying to find the line.
I will say this.
The forest sounds like a nice time for a time.
The city, the foreign city.
For like six hours?
Not at night.
Well no, not at night.
I agree with you.
I would love some shelter and protection,
but I'm just saying like,
if I would rather be in like the forest and nature
than in the middle of a foreign city, you know
I agree
That you can't speak the language. You know nobody you have no money
You are gonna have to sleep outside in that city. Probably. Yeah under a
At least in the beginning. Al have you ever spent like I'm sure you've been camping. Obviously, we've all been camping but
You haven't been can't know I've all been camping, but have you ever? No, we haven't. You haven't been camping?
No, I've never been camping.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
We'll examine that later.
But Al, have you ever like?
You've met my father.
Have you done the solo?
Have you ever done a solo camping?
I have not, no.
I want to do that.
Solo camping?
Yeah.
That's exactly the beginning of the story they'll tell.
He said he wanted to go solo camping.
It's so much risk going.
Mike, we had listened to that podcast you shared with me.
Yes, the Seth Rogen one.
Yeah, where he tells these stories that are true.
And that story was a guy wanting to go climb this mountain,
and he did it alone.
And I just kept thinking, it should go right.
You should be able to go hike, camp by yourself.
The problem is- Not in nature.
When anything goes wrong, you are done.
Right?
Yes.
You're just done.
Yeah.
We are for sure.
Yes.
We do not have the skill set to get ourselves out
of a nature issue.
So there's no way Mike is picking the forest,
because he doesn't even know what it looks like.
I won't survive.
Look, I've seen a forest.
Guys, I've seen.
I'll try and add my own wrinkle here.
Let's say you are given one month to prepare.
So, like one month, so if you're gonna be in the forest,
you can watch all the survival tutorials on
this is the best way to build a fire,
how you build a shelter, or you have a month that's like,
you can learn some of the customs,
learn the language at least a little bit.
Sure, that just makes it easier to choose a city.
Okay, all right, two weeks on Babel, or a month training for the forest. I mean we're all going to the city
There's just no line. There's no line where we're just gonna go
One night in the forest or a month in a foreign city. Yeah, I would take a night in the forest
Yeah, one. Yeah, I can there's the line
I will say this though when you when you say one night in the forest. I'm gonna be so hungry.
The idea, I'm gonna be starving.
It's gonna be a terrible night.
But what's crazy is the idea, the concept
of falling asleep in the woods with no tent,
no structure, just saying.
I will not be sleeping that night.
Oh my goodness gracious.
That night I'm sitting there with my back against a tree
with the lighter on in my little teeny area.
I don't know how I would survive.
I would be as worried about bugs as I am about bears.
I was gonna say, would you fire that rifle
three or four times blindly in the night? Just to let them know. Just to let them know, I'm about bears. As you say, would you fire that rifle three or four times blindly in the night?
Just to let them know.
Just to let them know, I'm over here.
Now, I guess you have the shots for protection,
but let's say you're, what are you even hunting?
Like a squirrel?
A deer.
A rabbit.
A rabbit, you're gonna blow the socks off a rabbit.
But here's the thing, I thought, oh yeah, okay,
maybe I'll become a true hunting man, and I'll get a rabbit. But here's the thing, I thought, oh yeah, okay, maybe I'll become a true hunting man and I'll get a deer. People who are hunters go out, like on purpose, excursions
for like a week at a time, you come back, what'd you get? Nothing. And they know what
they're doing. So you're telling them, just dropping me in a forest with a rifle like, go get a
buck.
No, that could be a wasted bunch of calories.
Yeah, I mean to me it's, I'm not hunting. I'm just, if one walks up, you know what I
mean? Like that's the situation. Oh look, there's a deer, let me get my rifle. I'm not
going looking because I'm not going to find him. He's going to find me.
Yeah, that's fair. I mean, I think
The real hope would be if they drop you off that you could get some sort of shelter built
That's how it is. I believe that is step one
How confident are you that you could set up, you know, like a lean to or something and and just have step one
What is a lean to Jason explain it to-to is when you build a structure,
but it's leaning to the other side.
And then you just lean the stuff across,
and then you get under it.
It's like it just leans to it.
So the city, then?
Yeah, the city.
I can tell you, if I had a month to prepare,
and I learned, I wouldn't be able to learn hunting and honestly if like
If I got a deer deer walks right up. I'm not proud. I got a deer. Oh my god. I'm never eating
No idea not only would I not have an idea what to do next I couldn't
Dear I hope he just tries to bite the light
a deer I hope he just tries to bite the light just like so hairy I couldn't skin a deer I couldn't drain a deer I couldn't carve up a deer like I just
physically could not do it say you just sit there and you would weep
they made me do this would you rather. And now we're both dead.
But if.
We're both dead.
So if I had the month.
He just lays down by the deer and fades off into the night.
If I had the month to prepare, I'm not looking at hunting.
I would be looking at building a shelter.
I would learn everything I could about building a shelter.
Step one, you'd Google what is a lean-to.
What is a lean-to and other versions of structures
other than lean-to.
I would find the easiest one to build,
and I am extremely confident I could never build it.
Like never.
I would fail to build a structure no matter what.
Somehow Jason's, this version of Jason in the forest
is like a man, he's got no arms, no legs.
He's just, could just.
I've just got tear ducts baby.
Just screaming until the night is over.
Save me.
Oh, man.
All right, we're moving on.
Cody from Patreon, would you rather
sit at the DMV for two hours with no phone, TV, or electronics,
or for four hours but with your phone?
Four hours with the phone.
Dude, I could handle eight hours with the phone. Dude, that's, dude, I could handle. Eight hours with the phone.
Yeah, yeah.
Just have me start scrolling on some reels.
I'm telling you.
I'll miss my number.
It'll hit the four hours, and they'll call me up.
I'll be like, yeah, no, I'm good.
I'm good.
I'll be here.
I mean, we could get into this with the phones.
I mean, yesterday I was at the dentist's office.
I had to have some, they had to numb me up
and they had to do some work on a tooth
and when they numb you up, they have to wait for it to work.
You're familiar with this, right?
Yes, yes.
You know what a dentist is, Jason?
I am aware of dental procedure.
So you're in a chair and you're leaned backwards and and like
I have to sit there and wait and I can't. So you're saying you recline. I'm leaning in a way
where even if I get my phone out I really can't use it well because I'm kind of almost upside down and I just I want and so I had
to sit my point is that I had to sit in a place for like 20 minutes and that was hard
without a phone without a phone and I say this because it is like a huge indictment
on myself that I can't sit for 20 minutes because your inclination now is to pull out
the phone immediately.
Oh, if I hit a red light, I'm like, well, this is boring.
And yet, if we watch our children get on their phones, we want to punch them,
because we're like, you look pathetic. You're always on your phone. You're always,
you can't do anything without staring at that. It's one of the things that we- I said over my phone. Yeah, it's one of the things that when we do it, we justify the reasons we're doing
it in our head.
Yeah, I'm working.
But when the other people are doing it, they're pathetic.
Well, see, to me it's more like, you know, I'm done.
Like I'm all on the downhill.
Of your life?
Yeah, of my life.
Oh, you finished? So it's like I can I can eat poorly
I can you know just give up
The self-fulfilling done, but my you know my children
Get off that do better
You know that's so you're taking a more of I'm already in the retirement home philosophy exactly
And is that what our retirement homes are gonna be like? Just all the old people on their phones?
It's just a pod.
The old people now don't know how to use the phones,
but we're using them now and we're gonna get old.
I think we'll be on VR by then.
We'll just be laying down goggles on.
You know what, Jason, you've been saying that
for 20 years.
And I'll keep saying it for 20.
And I hope you're right.
But I'm a little disappointed with where.
But yeah, it's weird to think about we know technology.
So when we're 80 and our bodies don't work,
can you imagine if the old home, you go there and you're like,
I'm going to go spend some time with an old person
and make their day.
And they're just swiping TikTok?
Yeah, that's a weird mental picture.
It is very strange, but that is probably
what we will be doing.
That's what I'm gonna be doing.
Well that will be old stuff for the young people.
Yeah.
Because we won't be doing the new stuff.
And they'll be like,
that would be like if the old people now
are like making long distance phoneistance phone calls to the relatives
Right all right. I don't know where this is going
Yeah, the phone one
Finally it's the four hours if as long as you have your phone. That's easy two hours
You said 20 minutes was hard
Genuinely two hours sitting waiting just sit in a chair for two hours
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
One, I'm people watching every person in there.
So I'm gonna just try to tell the life story
in my head of every person.
Oh yeah, that's a good game.
Two, I'm counting every light.
It's just something I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna count.
I don't think that's gonna take you very long.
Every light in the building.
Do some pushups.
Three, I'm looking for vending machines.
But I guess in this case, I have to sit there.
Well, I think they're saying that you can just,
you're at the DMV.
You're just waiting at the DMV, yeah.
You can get up, walk around.
Four, I'm taking off all my clothes,
turning them inside out, putting them on backwards.
Okay, interesting.
And then singing how Chris Cross will make you jump?
It's just, I'm bored.
I'm gonna be doing some weird stuff.
If you drop this to one hour.
One hour, I'm doing that.
Versus the four, I think I can sit there for an hour I'll take the phone what is it
like being alone with your thoughts Jason hey don't know yeah all right what
if Jason would just start building like bejeweled blitz on the ground with some
rocks and stuff and start
playing it.
You have some sand I can draw with.
He, he grabbed all the sugar packets.
Yeah, he's going to make the game.
They got multi-colors.
I haven't said that game in so long.
All right.
Uh, Ken from Patreon, would you rather not be able to hear anything within a six foot
radius?
That's funny.
Like back up, sir, and say what you're going to say. Or only be able to hear within a one-foot radius.
Wow.
So you've got to be in the bubble.
I don't... I mean, if you can't hear outside of one foot, I think that most conversations,
I'll say all conversations happen outside of one foot.
All conversations.
Sure. Well, not a phone conversation.
Not the dental ones I had yesterday, but most of them.
Oh, a phone conversation. So you're telling me I got to put it on speakerphone and...
That is what we're saying.
That's fine. I mean, a foot is so short. Like, if I put the phone just down on the desk,
that's more than a foot for me.
But every conversation you have will be on speakerphone.
I don't talk on the phone a whole lot. I mean, I can still text. That's more than a foot from me. But every conversation you have will be on speakerphone.
I don't talk on the phone a whole lot. I mean, I can still text.
Not hearing what people say is really hard. It's more frustrating than, you know, we've
all joked about like, you know, somebody doesn't speak loud enough and how it's irritating.
We moved into a house. It didn't have any rugs, very echoey.
Everything that anybody said to me in the house, what? What was that? What was that?
Because of the sound reverberation? Yeah, because of the sound reverberation. And I
was like, not being able to hear would be just the worst.
Yeah, okay. But I feel like I have to do the six foot one. Yeah, I think you
have to do the six foot. I mean, if you think about conversations you have with people,
oftentimes they're they're over six feet. I mean, six feet is not how far away you are
far away is Mike and I right now. We're not six feet. You're you're definitely five. We're
five. We get we are not your head. You're head, yeah. We might be, Mike.
I think you're.
Don't move.
And then Al, will you get a tape measure, please,
and measure nose to nose, please?
I think you're exactly six feet away.
I think we're pretty close to six feet.
I'm taking the under.
What are you guessing, Andy?
I'm thinking we are three feet now.
I think we're six feet.
So Al has left.
Maybe five, 10.
Ooh, that's gonna be no bueno for hearing him.
This is such good audio podcasting.
Okay, so then look, Mike and I are sitting approximately.
So if you take the six foot one,
then you're saying like if you're watching a TV,
as long as the sound source is six feet away,
you can hear it. Yeah. That's doable. Yeah, otherwise, if long as the sound source is six feet away, you can hear it.
Yeah.
That's doable.
Yeah, otherwise, if you take the other one, you're...
Now Jason, your phone, all your games,
all the audio on the phone.
I don't use audio on the games, my man.
Remember we talked about this, he doesn't use the...
Don't you...
Okay, we have the tape measure.
Don't you lean forward, Mike.
I'm gonna go to my microphone.
How far away are we? How far away are we five nine five foot nine oh no
yeah I took the under bro yeah all right Mike you win this one but you you you don't watch
anything on your phone ever I'm gonna watch a show on your phone that's a good watch shows on my
phone no what do you do on your phone for every minute? How can you play so much candy crush? It's
Sudoku bro. Okay, is it really? It's a bunch of different apps and games and I mean, they're all silent ones
well, I mean I'll scroll some reels and
Sometimes I don't
You're already at the stage where if you were in the old person home doing the games it is what we would expect
Yeah, Sudoku on your phone right give me some dates to eat not like to go on right
You know some old people stuff
Okay, is it date dates are old people food. Oh, oh yeah. I mean they're just right there with prunes. Yeah dates
Oh really yeah prune is a date though right? I have no idea, really? Yeah. A prune is a date, though, right? I have no idea.
I think a prune is a plum.
Oh, a prune's a dried plum?
Yeah, it's a grape version of a plum.
So a date's just a date.
A date's its own thing.
Yeah, a date is a date.
Oh, is it really?
I believe so.
It's not like a dehydrated something better?
No, a date grows on a date tree.
Yeah.
We have one.
Something like that.
For real?
Is it really a tree?
Yeah.
We have a date tree in our front yard.
Dates don't grow on trees.
Yes, they do.
All right, Kevin and Laura from the website,
we'd rather smell like bacon to everyone you meet,
or have every person you meet smell like bacon to only you.
Interesting.
Look, I like to smell a bacon, but not in my people.
Well, it would just be overwhelming.
If everybody smelled like bacon, like, that's too much.
It is way too much.
Yeah, I mean, you would definitely no longer enjoy
the smell of bacon.
Correct.
You'd be like, ah, is someone cooking some people?
I think it would be okay.
I mean, it might ruin the greatness of bacon,
but it's not gonna change the smell into something you hate.
I don't just hate the smell of people right now, and so if it smells like bacon
I might get used to the smell, ignore the smell, but I'm not gonna hate it. So I don't see-
You won't hate it.
I don't see the downside of everybody smelling like bacon.
Dogs would never leave them alone.
Dogs never leave people alone right now.
That's fair.
Man, I don't know. I think you'd get tired of it I think if
everyone smelled of bacon what is everyone smell right now neutral consider
people as non smelly yes and that's why you notice if they smell good or bad
correct because right now there it's neutral but you're only you're neutral
for a very short amount of time you're also not neutral if you're close you're
actually what's the smell distance of a normal person you're also not neutral if you're close. You're actually... What's the smell distance
of a normal person? You're never not. You're never neutral because when you leave the shower,
what is the scent of your shower gel? Because that's what you smell like. But you only within
like an inch. You're not smelling me right now. Yeah. I mean we're three feet apart. No Jason,
it's about 20 feet. We're you know. We're 8 to 10 feet apart here.
Right.
But you don't smell people unless they have put on a cologne
or if they have bad BO.
No, you smell like your shower gel.
But my point is, if I smell like my shower gel,
I use the shower gel.
My shower gel doesn't smell like much.
My shower gel does.
It has a very strong scent. There's no scent shower gel. My shower gel doesn't smell like much. My shower gel does. It has a very strong scent.
There's no scentless gel.
But you don't smell his shower gel right now.
That's my point.
You don't smell.
Well, what does my shower gel smell like?
You would have to sniff him.
You're asking also the wrong person.
I can never smell.
But it's nobody.
No, I get what you're saying.
Right now, unless you're within a one foot,
if I got one foot from you, I'd smell something.
Yes.
And it doesn't mean bad.
I just mean I would smell your smell.
Like everybody has a smell.
Yeah, everyone, yeah, your musk.
You think a foot is close enough?
Yes.
Oh yeah, yeah.
I think a foot, yeah, a foot to eight inches, yeah.
I mean, you can tell if someone's smelly
if you're a foot away.
Sometimes you can be much further with bad smells.
Or if you're just getting a car.
Or Axe body spray.
If you're getting a car with someone,
every time you're in a car with someone,
that car smells like bacon.
Oh, in this scenario, not just like in regular life.
No.
I don't keep bacon in my pocket just in case.
Or a pocket snack.
Yeah, no, a little griddle on the front.
But if you're in close proximity,
then you will smell it.
So would you rather smell like bacon to everyone you meet?
No.
I think I would do that because I'd be the unique bacon guy.
But I don't think you want to be the bacon guy.
Yeah, that's where I lean.
You don't want people, like even if people
like the smell of bacon, you don't
want to be known as the guy that smells like bacon.
That's a weird thing.
And it's not normal in this universe.
In this hypothetical situation, it's
still like abnormal for someone to smell like bacon.
And you're just saying the other one, you just get used to it.
Everyone's smelling like bacon.
Absolutely.
Give me everyone else smelling like bacon.
I don't want to be the weirdo. Hmm.
Would you still eat bacon?
Oh, absolutely.
I might eat people now.
I mean, what, you know, TBD.
Spidmollers to the rescue.
All right, Charlie from the website needs some advice, guys.
Here we go.
Here's what Charlie had to say. So it started
subtly. A smiley face emoji here, a thumbs up here, or there, but over the last six
months my boss seems to have discovered the wild and wide world of emojis. Now
every company-wide email is a kaleidoscope of colors and characters
that resemble an excerpt from a children's book
How do I put an end to this nonsense for the good of our company's professionalism?
You're doomed or
Are you I adore?
Here's what's funny. What is professional? Let me let me ask you this. Well, that would be what you would say Mike
I
find Me personally on my own
emoji use that much like you know sometimes people get a phrase that they
get stuck using all the time sure yeah we all do you know you get the habitual
I'm that way with emojis I will kind of fall in love with one emoji for like
maybe three or four months what What's your current emoji?
The sweaty smile emoji.
The sweaty smile.
I find myself using that all the time.
That's that's like the teardrop, but it's up top.
Okay.
Okay.
It's still smiling.
It's like the nervous.
It's kind of like, Hey, yeah.
Yeah.
It's like this thing happened, but I made it out.
It's that one.
So I'm in that mood right now, But do you have like a go-to favorite
emoji or does it rotate? I've got a handful. I mean, you got the heart. That's easy to
just say, you know, I like something. I think I use the face palm a lot. I do a lot of dumb
stuff. So it's like, ah, shoot, face palm. Try this. Try the sweaty smile for some of
those. Yeah. Can of those yeah like I did
something wrong yeah sweaty smile yeah you can try it okay I'll try it out like
you try it means you try it hard but whoops yeah it's endearing Mike do you
have a go-to emoji I mean I use the raffle face if if something is funny I go with that one or
skull emoji
Skull emoji. Yeah. Yeah, I like that one a lot
How many emojis is appropriate for this professional work?
I'm see that that's where I was gonna go is what kind of company are you at? Are you wearing a suit every day?
I do have casual Fridays. Can you wear jeans? I mean, we're bosses. That's right.
We use emojis.
Like a boss.
But how many emojis?
Oh, I emoji like a boss.
How many emojis would just be too many, Al?
Do you know, like if we were, let's say we were sending you
an email about work, and it was like, I don't know,
maybe about like performance review or something.
Performance review. Thumbs up, thumbs down. And it's just all emojis. Maybe about like performance review or something
Actually, that's a shortcut yeah, we'd be using the skull a lot like Mike like a stinky poop face. Yep. I
Like that this is not what I'd meant to do. I'm sorry. That's all right I think that maybe your boss is fun
Maybe you aren't fun.
The boss is fun the first time they do it.
The problem is, is if it becomes like too much.
I did, like Charlie, I'm sorry to say this,
but I did have the same thought Mike just shared,
which is maybe it's a you problem.
Like, the-
Oh, like you don't want fun?
Here's where the emojis are a problem.
If you can't make sense of the letter.
If it's like one of those things where,
because sometimes people will use an emoji.
Like you just brought up the sweaty smile.
I don't always know what the emojis mean.
I've been in conversations with people where it's like they
give the emoji of like the smiley person
but with the big glasses on.
Like the sunglasses?
No, like I don't even know if it's a groucho marks or whatnot
But they've just got like different
Like what is this my glasses emoji? Yeah, I'm like. I don't know. I don't know like the nerd yeah
Yeah, I think that is it's like a nerd
I'm like what are you saying so if if you can't make sense of the emojis if they're talking in so many emojis where it's
Like I think they're saying they're happy. No you're not like is like I like I'm a little stinker
Yeah, I didn't know that that's how that's how I interpret it
Yeah, there's a garage remarks one with the mustache though, okay, so but no that but that's disguise face. I guess it's a marks
Well, I was looking at the actual name of it. No, it's not called Groucho Marx.
I mean.
But yeah, when are you using that to hide?
So my point is this.
That's like I'm an embarrassment.
This is why I don't use the heart very often.
Because it gives the wrong message.
I think it can give the wrong, like a little too romantic.
Like I'm afraid to use the heart in mixed company texts.
A heart is fine, just don't send the smooch.
Yeah, that's cross-
So the heart doesn't mean-
No, the heart doesn't mean romantic.
The heart doesn't mean romantic.
Heart just means like, oh I love that.
Yeah.
That's cool, good for you.
I'm happy for you.
But the thumbs up.
But I've heard the thumbs up is now turning
into something else.
It's getting out of play.
That's the zoomers.
The zoomers are mad about the thumbs up.
I get it now. I get it because it means- Oh, we're old. No, no,ers are mad about the thumbs up. I
Get it because it no, no, no because sometimes the thumbs up Like I used to use the thumbs up a lot and I think I've replaced it more with the heart because the thumbs up
Seems like so young almost like sarcastic like a good job, buddy
But yeah, I mean it's just a thumbs up man. I can do that with a heart too. It is the okay fingers
Is that one okay?
That's the circle with three fingers up. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's that got stolen by a different group
That's okay. You know, I'm not supposed to use that either. Yeah, you gotta be careful. Oh, wait, wait
Gotta be careful. Marty says don't use that
Yeah, you gotta be careful. So we just can't use anything. I don't know. Here's the deal. So no emojis. Use words. Just stick with the skull. David from Patreon. Since moving to a foreign country last year, our kids have been having a hard time adjusting their taste buds to the local cuisine.
My wife and I enjoy going vegetarian from time to time, but the kids do not eat their
vegetables.
Fellow dads, what has worked for you to get their kids to eat their veggies?
What does that have to do with the local cuisine?
Foreign country, how do I get my kids to eat veggies?
Okay, I'm not sure the connection of being in a foreign country, but what I have found
if I want my kids to eat their veggies is I'm a bad parent and I fail because I can't
get them to do it.
Yeah, same.
So my veggies are chicken nuggets and they eat them so good.
They do make chicken nuggets with the veggies already
Built into them like you can find those at the grocery store sniff that out. No, they won't they'll never know What do you mean built in here? I mean like like they when they grind up the chicken they grind up some vegetables as well
There's only two outcomes Mike if they do that then they aren't nutritious
Right, that's of course. They're not nutrition. I. Well, I mean, I put the fake veggies in there.
Yeah, give me the real chicken nuggets.
The real stuff.
Dude, the Dino buddies.
From the chickens.
You might already be buying these.
Like, if you're buying.
Did you say the Dino nuggets?
Yes.
Those are our go-to nuggets.
You tell me there's veggies in there?
Well, your kids are so healthy.
Oh, I didn't know this.
I have a great parents. They're eating so many vegetables.'s well your kids are so healthy. Oh, I didn't know this. I have a great parents
They're eating so many vegetables either of your kids eat vegetables
There is sort of yeah, I mean they'll eat vegetables we make them eat vegetables my two older meal
But they I mean we had we still have to force the issue the biggest problem is that I don't eat my vegetables
Yeah, cuz they're but I and only so many years go by where I can be like, I'm the dad.
So I don't have to.
Because at this point, they're learning that you'll just give them the J cement.
Yeah.
I'm at the end.
I'm at the end.
I don't need to take care of myself.
Dino buddies chicken and veggie chicken breast nuggets.
There's a quarter cup of vegetables.
This is what you're talking about.
Made with one quarter cup of vegetables per serving.
Just get that.
Asterix, asterix.
Oh, well, this is totally different.
This is, I mean, it's the same brand that I buy.
Oh, it's not the one that you buy?
No, this is the same brand, but this is specifically
giant on the box chicken and veggie.
One serving of this product does not provide
a significant amount of vegetables.
Is this safe? That's the asterix. One serving of this product does not provide a significant amount of vegetables.
Is it safe?
That's the asterisk!
I mean, the asterisk says that.
Yeah, but I feel much better about my parenting.
Oh, it sells. These sell.
Wow.
The asterisk to the headline is,
this product does not contain or does not provide a significant amount of vegetables.
Wow. That is hilarious. That really is. Man. I want some nuggets now.
How often do you go to the... How often do you go to the... How often is the nuggets a go to? Is it weekly?
For the kids probably maybe once a week. Yeah. a week? Yeah it used to be a lot more when they were younger I mean yes
when they were younger dino nuggets were just that was what was for these a snack
at least at one point. The worst part for my household about the nuggets is like
the kids will like the just the garbage frozen ones and then you nuke them for a minute
and they're all nasty and soggy.
They're fine with that.
But actual like gourmet, we're talking McNuggets,
they're 100% out.
And I don't understand what happened with my children.
They don't like McNuggets.
They don't like Wendy's nuggets.
They won't eat Burger King nuggets.
It is, yeah, no, your faces are-
Bad parenting?
Your faces are super appropriate.
I don't know, they got together and they decided
that they don't like those types of nuggets.
The good ones?
Yeah, I know.
So you brought up Wendy's-
And they want the dinos.
You brought up Wendy's and you brought up Burger King.
Those are great nuggets.
Yes!
I mean, those are top notch nuggets.
Burger King has good nuggets? Oh, Burger King's got great nuggets great nuggets. They're actually super similar to Wendy's which are good.
There's one of those by my house now. Oh, and I haven't frequented a Burger King in about 25 years. The best part
Don't ask questions, but you can get about 20 nuggets for like $2
Don't ask where they came from. Yeah, just a quarter, quarter, quarter cup of vegetables in there?
Because that's the only way I'd eat them.
The healthy nuggets.
Alright, let's draft.
The Spitballers Draft
We are drafting the way you watch television. The best streaming services.
Jason, you got to be happy you're through the scat and you, the best streaming services. Jason, you gotta be happy you're through the scat
and you got the number one pick.
Yeah, I'm happy I'm through the scat for sure.
As far as whether I'm happy I have the number one pick,
I don't know, there's a handful here
of worthy streaming services.
I feel like there is the 101,
but I don't know if it outweighs,
because I'll be third so I get to go back to back, I don't know if it outweighs like cuz I'll be third so I get to go back to back
I don't know if it outweighs that yeah
I mean
I think that there's like some heavy hitters and if you get two of the heavy hitters and I get the 101
But then like I'm adding up some you know, some tier three level streaming services
I don't know. So I'm gonna kick it off here with I think I
Don't know if this will be the one
that everyone has on the top, but they have been king.
They are the creation to me
of the real true streaming service.
They've got some of the best classic shows.
They've got stand-up comedians.
Everything that I default to when I turn on my platform
and I go, what do I want to watch?
Well, what service do I want to turn on first?
I pull up Netflix.
Yes.
That's my go-to.
Netflix is the number one.
It is the 101.
And I take it.
Andy says, really?
And he's shaking his head no.
No, it wouldn't have been my one, but it was my two.
OK.
And I was just going to take the remnant of the two
at the top of my list.
So you're telling me when you, it's nighttime?
No, I'm not, I agree.
I agree with you.
The default go-to is Netflix.
Okay, okay. And if we were drafting
the default go-to streaming services,
I would have drafted it first.
But you're saying there's a better one.
I'm saying Netflix is right at the tippy top.
You mentioned classic shows, Stranger Things is on there.
You know, you'd to go to that one.
I think Netflix is worthy of the number one pick.
Totally fine.
Great.
It's what I open first and look.
It doesn't mean I'll end up on there,
but it's always the first one I look at.
I agree.
I actually do that too, for sure.
In my opinion, the best streaming service
is the best consistent quality of television program.
I am not going breadth.
I know what you're thinking.
Are you going hoity-toity?
I'm going, it's now called Max.
Yeah, exactly.
It's HBO Max.
It's where HBO lives.
It's the best quality television that has ever
been produced on a consistent basis.
And so whether that's Succession or Game of Thrones or you know
You go back to the wire and all the classic great Sopranos the greatest television ever has been produced and you I think you'd agree
I
100% agree it is true. They don't have as much content, but the right quality of content is
Peek it was a very and I guess they have comedians too, but like mentioning the comedy on Netflix,
I think strong point.
Oh man.
Strong point for that.
They have such good comedy specials.
That was so smart of them to do that.
Yes, stand-up comedy is the best.
All right, that is interesting.
Okay, so you have taken Max, Netflix is gone.
My first pick is easy.
I hate that I took Max, by the way.
Oh, I know that you don't get HBO.
I mean, it should be HBO.
It was HBO.
Then it was HBO Go.
Then it was HBO Max.
Now it's just Max.
But HBO is what I want.
That's the part that I want.
You know, they've been talking about getting rid of the M
and the A.
Oh, really?
Just because X.
Oh.
But Elon got there first.
Yeah.
I bet they could still do it.
Yeah.
All right, so the first pick will get out of the way It is it's the number one family one. Yeah
It's the clear man. We both had to sacrifice that
Yes to you it is the Disney Plus and not only is it the best by far the best family streaming service
I mean like I watch Marvel movies a lot when you get all the Marvel all the Star Wars Yeah, I go Marvel movies a lot. When you get all the Marvel, all the Star Wars.
Yeah, I go back to them frequently.
I don't know, there's something comforting about it.
And you're a movie guy, so that is just a whole repository
of repeat watches.
Yeah, they've got a bunch of the shows.
The shows are, they've had some good ones.
Some good ones.
All right. They have had good shows. They've had some good ones. Some good ones? All right.
They have had good shows.
They've had some that started great.
Yeah, but it's like, they've had some good ones.
But for the amount that they've put out,
I feel like the quality has been what you wanted.
Well, they put out a ton of just like small little shows.
B-level.
Yeah, B-level shows.
All right, Mike, Disney+, we knew that was gonna be yours.
Yes.
I figured Max was going to come to me.
Really?
Yeah, I don't know.
Did you think one of us would take Disney Plus?
No, no, I thought when you were talking about the level of television,
cuz I feel like there is a shifting sense of Apple TV.
Yeah.
Are you taking them?
I'm taking Apple TV.
Here you go, but that's what I want to be. I'm taking Apple TV. I do feel like they're growing. Yeah. Are you taking them? I am taking Apple TV. Here you go, but that's what I wanted.
I'm taking Apple TV.
I do feel like they are making their growing.
Yeah.
I'm so upset.
And when you like.
And they did not start that way.
No, no.
It was just when it first came out,
it was like the Tom Hanks movie.
And it was like, I have absolutely no interest in it.
They tried to start that way.
They launched with C, you know, with the Jason Momoa.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It wasn't good, but it was like a highly produced.
Yes.
They wanted to do these high quality shows,
and they have been crushed.
I love Foundation.
That's why I wanted Apple to give that to me.
I still have many Apple TV shows I need to watch,
but I feel like when I have started a show on Apple TV,
you go, oh, this is.
Severance?
Oh my gosh.
Severance is a great show.
Morning show.
Severance is.
Morning show's great.
So good.
I mean, you can list them, but I'm saying it.
I think they're always surprising to me just how good
the show actually is.
Well, production.
Yeah, the production of the show.
Silo.
Yeah. It's not cheap. Ted Lasso? Yeah. Man, maybe we The production of the show. It's not Chee. It's not Silo. It's not Chee.
Ted Lasso? Yeah. Man, maybe we should have taken them higher. I thought Andy was going
Apple TV. I don't think it belongs above the other two that we took, Jason, but I do think
it was one I was hoping Mike would let slip through. See, this is why, right here what
just happened is the exact reason why I'm in the worst spot
to be at the 101.
Yep.
Because you've got two bangers.
You've got two great options here.
I'm pretty happy with it.
Disney Plus and Apple Plus is going to be worth more than whatever my next pick is with
Netflix.
Don't mess up, Andy.
Well, look, there's no way to get it right because we're entering a different tier.
And so I guess what I will go with,
I will go with the home of Monday Night Football,
and UFC, and sports.
I debated this one.
I'm gonna take ESPN+.
Yep.
ESPN+.
Soon to be just ESPN.
Yeah, yeah, is that what's happening? Well, yeah, the ESPN's gonna be. ESPN Plus. Soon to be just ESPN. Yeah. Yeah, is that what's happening?
Well, yeah, the ESPN is going to be just a streaming service.
Not on any cable networks?
It'll still be on cable and satellite and stuff,
but I think you're going to be able to just buy and stream
ESPN.
Kind of like the way Max works now.
Yes.
Yeah, OK.
Yeah, I'm going to go with the ESPN Plus with the sports.
It's a good pick.
That's the only place you can get any UFC event now, right?
Is ESPN Plus, pretty much?
Maybe an occasional pay-per-view, but.
The pay-per-views, it's weird.
I think the pay-per-views go through ESPN Plus,
which is this weird racketeering.
Yeah, you've got to do both.
You pay for ESPN Plus, and they're like, OK, now
do you want the big fight? It's still more that's extra
Yeah, but they're getting them they take that works because I buy both
It's like that government so Jason already bought this two picks here and I do have a couple
I'm hoping sneak back through. Yeah. I mean one of them is is clear and easy
I think there's one left that is a tier above. When you said the home
of, I was like, oh no, you're going to take it. And then you went Monday Night Football,
I'll go Thursday Night Football. I'll get the boys, I'll get a lot of good programming
on Amazon Prime. What is that? Amazon programming. Programming. On Amazon Prime.
Amazon Prime, they really entered a new tier with Thursday Night Football.
And they're the home of the Lord of the Rings show that spent all that money.
Yes.
So they're at least trying to spend big money.
Oh yeah.
And they have a ton of movies that you don't want to watch.
Yes.
But they have a lot of them.
That's a good pick.
I find that I don't go there as often to watch shows
But when I do I always end up finding something I like so I'm I'm a fan and good. Yeah, there's plenty to watch
Yeah
And between the boys and that Lord of the Rings show, I love both of those. So have you watched that?
Oh, yeah, you like it. I loved it. Oh, it was thought it was a great first season
Alright now that a billion dollars got a little bored. Oh, yeah, you like it. I loved it. Oh, I thought it was thought it was a great first season All right now is it a billion dollars good. I got a little bored. Oh, no
And I'm ashamed to say it. Yeah, I know my phone haven't started it. It's good
All right, and now
Hmm, I guess we're getting to a different
Tier and so I'm going to take something that will allow me to stream so
many different things. I use this to watch almost all of my sports. And since we're talking
about Monday Night Football or talking about Thursday Night Football, you're going to need
this usually to watch the NFL this year if you want to branch out. I'm taking YouTube
TV as my
streaming platform you don't actually need it yeah I know you don't have you
I know you can get something to do without it yeah but I'm getting a
discount Mike you are I'm getting that you are you're saving that money because
I got YouTube TV no and I and I love YouTube TV I it's genuinely like so much
better than my former cable.
How much of the enjoyment of YouTube TV comes from you get to basically tell your former
cable provider to eat it? 55%. 55%.
I feel like that's a strong... You feel like you're taking a bold step.
That should be part of their slogan, is like, YouTube TV, tell your cable provider to eat
it.
Yeah.
Because we all want to.
We were stuck with them for so long and they didn't improve anything.
And you keep seeing them like, hey, new customers get to pay nothing while you're paying maximum
charges.
I'm a loyal customer.
Shouldn't I get a discount?
No, only new people.
Yeah.
Is it back to me?
It is back to you.
OK, I'm going to take a controversial pick.
Oh.
Maybe not controversial at this point.
I think an appropriate pick at this point.
Underrated.
And the thing about this streaming service
is that it is the one that I have intentionally canceled
the most and then realized super fast, whoops, I needed that.
It's the whoops I needed at Channel.
I think I get it for one thing, I need it for more.
It has become a powerhouse in my opinion.
It is getting stronger by the day.
It is Paramount+.
Okay.
Paramount plus is the home of the-
Talk me into Paramount plus.
It is the home of the new seasons
of Yellowstone.
That is where.
Not Yellowstone related.
Talk me into Paramount Plus.
They are also the home.
Yellowstone spin-offs.
They are also becoming more places have merged into them.
It is where all the CBS shows are.
So if you are into Survivor or Star Trek or any of those.
It's not going well. It's where Comedy Central has merged into it's where Nickelodeon merged into all of them and the NFL has
Exclusive games on Paramount plus yeah, cuz everyone has a game. Well, look at least they got a game
At least they got a game. So in my opinion it is I think it's great
I think I have resubscribed to Paramount plus so many times when I thought I didn't need them. What's the demo?
What's the what's the average age range? It's also showtime by the way. Did you know that I mean like showtime?
Of course I did show times a part of that because I don't have paramount plus billions
Brooks don't you watch this show? Oh, yeah
There you go.
All right.
So 1883.
I haven't done it.
Strange New World, Star Trek?
Come on.
Yeah.
OK.
All right.
No, I know people love the Yellowstone.
I've just not walked down that path.
You guys were Yellowstone maniacs for quite some time.
All right.
John Dutt.
Go ahead. Sure.
I'm gonna take one that is just, it's super versatile.
Apparently has live TV, but I don't know about Hulu.
You got to.
Hulu has a just-
Live TV.
Yeah, they have, I guess they have live sports.
I don't know, but they just like,
that's where your TV shows are.
Like if you don't wanna subscribe to a cable provider
or a YouTube TV or something like that,
your show is more than likely gonna end up on Hulu.
It's funny, cause that Hulu to me is the Handmaid's Tale
as an original series and a bunch of documentaries.
Like I just feel like every documentary I watch
somehow ends up on Hulu.
I never even think about the live TV stuff
but they certainly have them.
Yeah, it's available and then the last one I'm going to take
it is not a paid one although you can pay
but I use Twitch all the time.
And I thought-
Do you really?
I do.
On your TV?
Usually on my phone or my iPad because I've been-
For watching gaming?
Yeah, I watch people game and the,
when this idea was, when I heard that Twitch
was growing in popularity and you're like,
all the young kids are watching people play video games.
You're like, well, that's kind of weird.
Why would you just sit and watch someone play a game?
And then I saw the perfect analogy of someone
was talking to a kid like, why do you watch Twitch?
You can play video games.
Why wouldn't you just play them?
You watch people play football?
You're like, oh, yeah, I do because they're
Real they're like there's so much better than me at a sport. It's often very fun to watch excellence happening
So there are people on twitch like who are our level at a video game that you will never achieve
And then there's just the community aspect of it. Like I watch a guy
Play achieve and then there's just the community aspect of it like I watch a guy Play
Old adventure games like the games I grew up playing which aren't necessarily the most fun for me to go back and play again
But he plays through them and like it people are in the chat room just having a good time
You know live in the that retro life and it's more communal
Yeah, and I've watched videos on demand of it and
then I've watched it live and there's something different there is a magical quality about
knowing that this person is doing this right now I can talk to them so we tell our listeners
that this is live right now they're listening to us like we could we could but I love twitch
it's fantastic I see you out there Joe.
All right my final pick is is going to be a tandem with
the previous one because it's where I get all the other seasons of Yellowstone. It's
also worthy of a pick exclusively to watch the office over and over and over again. I'm
taking Peacock. But then I mean they have whatever Yellowstone show they have in the office, and like that's
it, right?
As far as I know, Killing Eve.
Killing Eve is on there maybe?
What is that?
No, maybe not.
And then a football game.
They're going to have a playoff game.
I don't even think Killing Eve is on there.
Yeah.
Psh.
I think they got some BBC stuff over there.
I don't know.
It's the office channel.
See, that's what I mean.
It's subscribing to the office every
month.
And they probably clean house only offering the office.
When they pulled it, Brooks, you remember this, they pulled the office off of Netflix
to make it exclusive to Peacock. You have to wonder how many people subscribe exclusively
for that.
90% of their base, I imagine.
It's wild. All right, Jay, you get one less, bitch. Do I? People subscribe exclusively for that 90% of their base. I imagine wild
All right, Jay, you get one less bit
You did not is parks and wrecks on parks and rec on there, too. Oh, yeah. Oh, you're dead that has to be included
Okay, okay
I get to pick anything that's left all the streaming services the other ones. Yeah
you want me to start listing some for you?
Such as. There's a lot of them. There's really only one that I know of that's like a main
service that I've actually ever used. Is it the Walking Dead one?
Say, you can list a channel and then put plus on it and it exists. Yeah, that's true. Hmm,
okay. I didn't think about the walking dead
There is a walking dead one and a better
Call Saul one better call Saul's probably I thought and then on that not well, they're not did they get rid of that
No, not a new ones. Yeah, there's new ones
well, I'm saying like when they you have to for for a show on Netflix, you have to wait a period of time where
AMC is going to
offer it to you day over the next day. Looks like Mad Men is sitting over there.
AMC's got a lot of them. Alright I'll take AMC. Walking Dead. Breaking Bad is gonna be on there.
Yeah I mean I was gonna go the only other one I know is Discovery Plus and I
is that still standalone? I don't know, it might be part of Macs.
This is why I have the number one.
I can't wait till they bundle this
into like a cable service.
See, it's just.
It is wild that that happened.
Yeah.
I mean, we just named 12 services
and there are others that are out there.
And if you want all of that content,
you have to, I mean I mean the luxury I guess of picking one
Bundle or I'm sorry one streaming service is nice
Because you couldn't do that before that's true. You couldn't but right now if you just want to have Netflix
I think every I think we'd all be like, okay, I've got Netflix. I've got enough to watch that's that's my father
My father I think has Netflix and it's just like whatever they have that's enough
That's my father. My father, I think, has Netflix,
and is just like, whatever they have, that's enough.
Yeah, and I do agree.
It really is.
Netflix is like, it is the one that is, it's the Coke.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
Of the soda.
It's not my favorite, but it's also what I think of
when I think of streaming.
Well, I mean, they're a streaming service,
and they don't have to put plus.
Ooh. Yeah.
Because they didn't add, they created the streaming world.
They didn't have to take what existed and then be like, but when does Netflix Plus come
out?
It should be called Netflix Plus because Netflix was DVDs.
That's true.
This is the plus.
What was the name?
Or this is the minus.
They tried to branch Netflix into two companies.
Oh yeah, the minus. They tried to branch Netflix into two companies. Oh yeah, the fake...
And the name of the DVD place was going to be so ridiculous. I'm trying to buy you some
time. No, no, no, I'm trying to find it. We have to find the name of this. Do you guys
remember this, Inducers Alley? Oh my gosh. I don't even remember this. You don't remember
this? No. It wasn't Kibble, was it? In 2012, the company acquired DVD.com.
No, no, I found it.
Yeah.
They tried to divide Netflix to be DVDs,
and then they came out with the streaming, and it was called?
They were going to call it Quickster.
There it was.
Q-W-I-K-S-T-E-R, Quickster.
I remember when it came out, and they were destroyeded the internet on the way quickster was it with a QW. What do you do?
Here's the 2011 Netflix scuttles its quickster plan quickster
I would not have drafted quickster
Like you don't you don't succeed to the level of Netflix
if you went with Quickster.
There are names that can bury you, huh?
Yeah, like Quickster.
What did we learn today?
I learned that there is a date tree.
Dates grow on trees.
Yeah, what did I learn today?
I learned that I am not as good of a dad as I thought when I was giving my my kids the chicken
Vegetables due to the asterisk it is it is a lie
I learned that I do not want to be stranded with either of you two in the middle of a forest Al
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