The Sloppy Boys - [UNLOCKED] Best Fall Facet

Episode Date: November 8, 2023

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Hey, welcome to the Sloppy Boys Blowout, I'm the Big Hand Bopper and I'm sitting here with Jeffy D. Hey, folks. And Tim K. What is up? What do you say? Ooh, just a little brisk, a little chill entered my room. It's getting a bit drafty over here. Oh, yeah, I see your curtains are flailing in the breeze.

Yeah, what happened over there, Jeff? Yeah, I just put on a little sweater, that's all. Just a light layer. Ah, I see. Jeff wants to dive right into the topic of the day. No, no, I'm setting the tone. A very loose topic that we probably won't have much to say about. No, no, I'm setting the tone, Mike.

Yes, yes. It's good. It's good to set the tone. Tony! Tone. mic yes yes it's good it's good to set the tone tony tone i think i don't know if i ever announced on the podcast but i finished uh sopranos oh right we do need to do a sopranos episode yeah well this was like in the summertime i i did it last time i was out there yeah i think you did mention it and we we were like, oh, we got to do one. Oh, tone. Yeah, we got to find, though, like, we need an angle.

Have we just said, tune in to the Sloppy Boys podcast? They're talking The Sopranos. Well, I was going to watch the first and last episode. That was going to be my little hack, but we could also say, like, Best Sopranos moment or something. But, Jeff, you've watched it all, no? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So first and last as a refresher or as a thought experiment about the beginnings and ends of the show?

Just sort of a thought process because like it starts way different than it ends up. Yeah. I remember season one is a little weird. There's a lot of like, I mean, the pilot especially has a lot of Goodfellas-ish monologues where Tony's like talking to um melfi and he's sort of like they have it feel like it's narration kind of yeah it's it's narration and then he's also saying like and i had to clean up some business if you know what i mean and then it shows him like shooting somebody it's way more like uh like a sketch or something i i saw a clip

recently and aj is like a baby yeah aj's grows like a weed it's. I saw a clip recently, and AJ is like a baby. Yeah, AJ grows like a weed. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. God, that's humiliating. I looked like AJ at that age, and I feel shame looking at him. But I love that thing you're saying. It can be so corny, yet I still like it when it's like,

I work in waste management. And you show somebody with a crowbar up a guy's ass, and it's like, I work in waste management. And you show somebody with like a crowbar up a guy's ass and it's like, hey. Jeez, I don't remember that. Yeah, well, how would we do this? It wouldn't be like best episode is kind of there's too many episodes. You just said best moment, best character, maybe besides the main character. Oh, that's fun. You know what I did the other day was Ralphie's pasta trick.

You see that going around the other day? What was that? Remember when Ralphie had that son-in-law that was dating Meadow for a minute, and he was like a dummy? But Ralphie's like, you take the pasta, and you put it in there with a little gravy and some butter on high heat, and you stir it in there with a little gravy and some butter on high heat. And you stir it up. This way, the sauce soaks into the pasta instead of just coating it.

And then it went around the other day. And a bunch of people online were like, I've done that ever since I saw that episode. It's so true. Interesting. I got to do that. So, you know, I'd get my grocery store Barilla Pasta just right before I pour in the Prego. Oh, I'd love the Prego. Oh, I'd love to do that.

Oh, I'm low carb dieting. Oh my. Oh, keto. I wish I could. Oh my God. My body is svelte with not an extra ounce on it.

Oh, oh, one strand of spaghetti would ruin me. Have you guys ever had that thing where you're eating a spaghetti noodle And one end of it, you swallow it Goes down your stomach, through your Colon, out your butt, and then you're still Eating the other side

Yeah, it's the nine hour Pasta noodle, the nine hour challenge I ordered one of those Instagram noodles You know the nine hour noodle i ordered one of those instagram noodles not you know the nine hour noodle i don't like these and then what happens two bullies come by they grab both ends of the noodle they pull tight now i'm like a pig on a spit rotating in rotisserie style sure you're trying to negotiate with these folks but they don't listen to reason i know they're using you as a double dutch jump rope one One end of the noodle's red with

marinara, the other's brown with shit, and I'm spinning and spinning and spinning, baby, whoa! Tim, you joke, but you did bring up a good point that when it comes out, it is a little different, isn't it? There's something about it. It stinks! It doesn't have that certain

je ne sais quoi. We're mad. It's got this sort of idea of spaghetti, like a long tubular thing, but it's just... It's thicker and stinks. Yeah. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for articulating that. Hey, hey, this whole wheat pasta stinks. All right, all right, all right.

Okay, okay. Okay, well, you want to get into it into it well there's a lot to discuss we are going to do the best autumn aspect autumn or fall i thought it was fall well i am i sort of think of autumn as fall best autumn slash fall aspect i like i like the alliteration with autumn aspect okay sure we could do uh hmm best facet of fall best fall facet sure that's pretty good yeah best fall facet so that's what it'll be and, we did this when we did the Christmas. We did the best Christmas aspect. And it's just the thing about the season that you love so much.

Yeah. Yeah. It really gets us talking and it gets us sort of like drilling down to really what it's all about. Yeah, because there's a lot of stuff these days, a lot of window dressing, a lot of things to get distracted with. But when you get down, you want to, what we're doing on the show is we, we pop the hood. We take a look on what's going on and you have the sausage, you know,

you know, in your car, how they make sausage under the hood. What we got here. We rake away all the bullshit and find really what's at the bottom of the leaf pile. Yes. Yeah, that bottom of the leaf pile. I like that, Mike. I used to, I had a friend in my neighborhood. One time, it was in the fall.

There was a huge, his neighbor put out like a humongous pile of leaves at the end. It was like all the leaves in their yard. It was on the street. And we took our bikes and rode them down the hill and kind of like stood up on the uh you know bar what's it was like yeah like the the pegs do you have pegs uh no like where you're like that would go between your legs that bar oh so we'd stand on that and then once you hit the leaves leave pile leave pile the leaf pile it would just like spring you forward and you'd shoot off and like do a flip it was so fun into the leaves into the leaves it was like the best day of my life so you're like an evil Knievel in this particular

moment yes and afterwards I thought what if there was something in there sticks or worse thorns. A worm. Sticks or stones. My bones. This is also a neighbor. They had a dog, like a collie or a, yeah, like a lassie type dog. And he was never like doing that well. His name was Happy. You'd bike by his house and you just hear like, the dog was sick with something.

They had to take out his vocal cords, so he couldn't bark. He just had like a whisper like that. But it was just his name was Happy, and it was just like, this dog is not doing so good. They gave him an ironic name. That's sad. Yeah. They changed his name.

Now, you know I don't care for the dogs, but that's sad. I feel bad for that beast. I love dogs. Yeah. Big dogs. The bigger the dog, the bigger, I don't know, my dogs, but that's sad. I feel bad for that beast. I love dogs. Yeah. Big dogs. The bigger the dog, the bigger my heart is for them. Yeah. I hesitate to bring this up after that whole brown noodle incident, but have either of you ever had to pick up dog shit with a little green bag?

Yes. Yes. I'll give you one better, Tim. Still warm. And hot. Hot muck. That's awful. Burns right through the bag. I can't believe you did that. Humili Tim. Still warm and hot. Hot muck. That's awful. Burns right through the bag.

I can't believe you did that. Humiliating. You guys are nasty. You guys are... Shame on... You know what? Shame. I hope you feel shame.

It's not like I picked it up and squeezed it so it shot out the ends of my hands. You tried. No, I did not do that. I definitely would not do that. I heard people say that somebody one time was saying in the winter they like to hold the little baggy worms their hands up on the water hole. No.

Look, in the winter time, this is not crazy thought, I love my hands to be warm. But there's got to be other ways to do it. Sure, and I'll say this yeah for me in the summertime i do cool my hand down with cold turds yes yeah well come on who among us haven't done that you get a cold fresh cold turn out of the freezer and you will hold it with your hand. You roll it around in your hands, put it on the back of your neck. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

On the back of your neck. Lean your head back. Oh, that's nice. But guys, why are we talking about the winter and the summer? I'm so confused. I think at this point of the pod we're just kind of talking about seasons in general. Because if you want to talk about the best fall, you got to talk about the other

ones. Just sort of see what's happening. Spring is kind of a nothing season, I think. Nothing season? That's where your boys were born. That's true. That's very true. You know what? I happen to like that season as well.

They should group together. You know the President's Day is a couple presidents and they group together have a weekend. Why can't there be You know, the President's Day is a couple presidents, and they group together and have a weekend. Why can't there be Boys Born Day? It's a three-day weekend. We're in the spring, because that's when your boys were born. That's nice. You know, I was born in the fall. Oh.

Oh. Mike, I might have to change my answer. I know. I hope you guys both have Mike's birthday. Maybe that'll be mine. When does the fall start? It's actually, I think it's like September 21st. Oh, so we're...

So we're launching into it here. And that's good because, you know, there's a lot to look forward to in the fall. But I'm not going first. I'm not going first. It sounded like I'm going first. I'm not. I'm going last. No, I didn't think you were.

Yeah, I'll go first. Well, that would leave me right in the middle. Second lucky number two. You are the bullseye. And I hate to bring this up after the brown noodle incident and the dog baggy talk. But number two is reminiscent of feces. Yep. The feces. Yep. The fecally stuff.

What is this show? We set out to have a shit-free show. We pledge every episode to have a shit-free show. We do this a lot, though. We come back to this idea of when your food is digested and it's different than when it started and it smells. It just sucks. It sucks because if you take it

back to the shack guys when we had an idea for podcast it was the three of us sitting around stoned on a couch having a conversation that didn't mention shit and we were like we should do this this we've been having a shit free conversation all night we should be recording this and really yeah dude that's great and then what happens every week minute one we're talking about a long spaghetti noodle that'll be turned into a whether it's turd talk or log language crap communication Crap communication. That's what we're getting here on the Sloppy Pod today.

All right, fall. Yes. Fall has a special place in my heart. As I said, my birthday is in the fall. So that was in Halloween, and my birthday are all kind of the same. I'm on November 3rd, for those of you who want to start getting a gift sent to the Sloppy Boys P.O. Box wherever that is did we say like if anyone

ever wants to send us something you have to ask us also Tim you asked me if I had a key and I was like I gave you the key, do you have the key? oh boy no I Do you have the key? Oh, boy. No, I don't have the key. Oh, God damn it. Keys are the most like, if you don't know what a key goes to, just throw it out, because

you're never going to find out what that goes to. I bet you we're going to open up that P.O. Box, and there's going to be a bounty of riches unlike anything a podcast has ever seen. We're going to open it up, and Southern Comfort just flows out of it like a wave. It's just loose. The shining. I like the coziness of fall. You know I'm a cozy guy.

I like the weather changing. I do like, it reminds me of the Peanuts, you know, the Charlie Brown. I like the overcast skies. I like the warm autumn muted earth tones. I like the clothing. I like not being hot all the time. I am so fucking hot these days. I like to wear the corduroys and a sweater.

Ooh, you know, I've been on Depop a lot lately. What should show up two days ago? A nice, new to me, but used, cashmere sweater. Ooh. Oh. Red. I've never owned cashmere. I've never touched it.

I put this thing on. It just hangs off the hand, man. This thing fucking hangs, baby. It's just dripping off my arms and chest. Tim, next time I see you with this, you have the green light to give it a little feel. I'll let you put it on, even. Here's what I want.

You give me three minutes. Anything goes. Anything goes. I can touch it and rub it. And then when that three minutes is up, I'll never touch it again. Good. We'll never talk about it.

We don't know what happened. We don't want to know what happened. Yes, cashmere. Cashmere outside for me this fall. So all this stuff, there's a certain feeling I get in the fall, but there's one feeling in particular that I have over the past I think

decade and that's been going on my whole life it's really been one that sticks with me and I can only describe it as do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do

I'm talking that Halloween vibe man I'm talking that Halloween vibe, man. I'm talking spooky stuff. You're watching some movies. You're getting a little scared. It's darker now. People are putting some Halloween decorations out. Somebody in my neighborhood put a ghost out on a tree, which I thought was very entertaining.

Because you have other holidays that are like you know christmas is obviously what it is and st patrick's day and easter and thanksgiving but there's something about it there's like a yeah it's like a holiday where you're like oh the the point is to get a little scared about stuff those other holidays they just are what they are like face face value. You know what you're getting. Yeah. With Halloween, there's a little extra something, isn't there? And you can do Halloween, you can do like

the kids version where it's just like pumpkins and stuff, or you can do the adult version where it's like, scare the hell out of you. Oh, yeah. Scare you. So, yes. The Halloween, but not just Halloween specifically. I'm going to say for this one, if we can fit Tim in the, oh, that's what we're going to do. We're going to tweet it.

We're going to tweet out our three facets, and then the slopheads are going to see a poll. They're going to choose the winner, and then the winner reigns supreme. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I want to say that spooky kooky feeling and if you have any room for emojis do the jack-o-lantern and the ghost

that spooky kooky feeling yeah that spooky kooky feeling and I have no room for emojis but it fits nicely wow that's good yeah that's fine

I hope people know what the hell I'm talking about for emojis. But it fits nicely. Wow, that's good. Yeah, that's fine. I hope people know what the hell I'm talking about. I mean, I could take the spaces out, capitalize the beginning of each word, and then maybe fit in some emojis. Nah, that'll look weird. Spooky kooky could be one word. I could lose that and just say spooky kooky feeling.

It would get you your pumpkin. I think that is like people are like oh i know that you want to get rid of kooky and it's just spooky no you want it not kooky because you want to be a little kooky here's what i like about your thing mike too is there's an equalizer here where there are some signifiers of fall that are work better in in the northeast where you are right now but yeah when it comes to the spooky kooky feeling la is a really big halloween town and i didn't hear this like pointed out until i read a tweet three years ago that it's not normal for adults to celebrate halloween with as much if not more passion than the children. With such panache, with such gusto.

Yeah, yeah, right, right. Everywhere else, if you're our age, you got three or 10 kids and you get them their costumes. You take them out trick-or-treating. You walk them around, you feed them candy, and then you bring them home. Yeah. In LA, the whole month, you have 31-year-olds.

Mm-hmm. Just, it's for for them and they're watching the scary movies and they're doing the decorations and they're doing all the spooky kooky stuff and it's for them and it's an adult holiday and then even when kids are in the picture the parents are like yeah i made i dressed the kid up like yes that movie i like thank you you know i that that prestige tv show that i watched it's the parents this mom of three she's dressing up as jessica rabbit and fucking other husbands on the night of the big night and the husband's cool with it because he's roger and he gets his own he gets his own little slice you know yeah he gets to take a dip in the dip oh and you know? Yeah, he gets to take a dip in the dip. Oh, and you know while she's fucking him, he's having an orgasm.

Right, right, right. And we know what that leads to. Jizz launch is what it leads to. Jizz launch. And you ruined it. No, uh... Another year ruined. By Tim discussing material. Discussing.

There's just so much to be said about it. I know. I think the advent and popularity of things like Instagram and TikTok have like pushed Halloween into like another level of people wanting to buy stuff and go to Spirit Halloween costume stores

and buy all the things and dress up and do several parties because they could take a picture of it and share and like and subscribe. And get that sweet attention. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Get that dopamine hit with each hearted post.

Yes. You know, here's the thing about me. I think this says a lot about me. It doesn't say that much but keep going no I get a bigger dopamine hit when I like someone else's post oh isn't that nice yeah you get a bigger

dopamine hit when you click that heart and you give that's right that's right did I ever tell you this was during this was during birthday boys I forget who it was but i was standing behind somebody they were sitting in a director's chair and i was looking over their shoulder and they

were on instagram just scrolling through and my eye caught it i wasn't like eavesdropping or anything but this person they went to a post i had just posted and they went up to i saw their thumb go to it they looked at it they went past it they went back to, I saw their thumb go to it, they looked at it, they went past it, they went back to it, and then they kept going. I think it was like a picture of Lisa Simpson or something. But like, you know, that's the fear we all have about if you post something, fear in such quotes. Mike, that's a classic Van Arts moment. Your boy would never do that to you. No, that wasn't...

Oh, it wasn't Van Arts. You said it was a director on Birthday Boys. It wasn't me. It must have been Van Arts. No, no, it was in a director's chair, sitting in one of those types of chairs. So I was standing behind him. Anyway, we were at the monitors. I forget if it was somebody from costumes or hair and makeup. Anyway, you know when you put

something out in the world, you're like, oh, I hope people like this. But to see someone actively be like, no, I checked it again and I don't like it. Well, Tim and Mike, I'm going to say no emojis on this one because emojis are kind of like

they sway. They draw the eye. It's a little much. Well, emojis won't fit in this one anyway. Yeah, there you go. Great. Okay, Tim, let's hear what you got. Okay, well, there are many facets of fall. And I thought of a lot of them.

Good. And I'm not going to say them because I don't want to step on Jeff's choice, but I've got some runners runners-ups that after we tweet this out we'll circle back because oh my god facets galore aspects everywhere you know yep yeah but if i had to choose one it would be a certain crisp nipple to the air oh that's right folks the the temperature has just fallen and it's it's it's maybe it's morning you've stepped outside you've been oh hot summer day hot summer day hot summer day oh on this, you stepped outside and you jammed your schnoz up into the air. And what are you getting this time? It's not just the cool temperature, but it's the nip to the air. You smell it.

It smells. Oh, is a neighbor having a fire in their fireplace? Or is it the crackly dead leaves on the ground? But it's all it's the temperature it's the cool temperature and for a sweaty guy like me it's certainly nice to have a break from the heat but then that feeling that goes kind of into the nose the crisp nip i agree it's a crisp nip it's a sting is the wrong word but it's like uh it's almost like when you have a menthol gum or something. It's kind of that when you breathe in really sharply and it's a little sting.

Not a sting, but a zing, yeah. A zing, yeah, a zing's good. No sting, but a zing. This doesn't fit, so I'm going to say certain crisp nip in air. That's good. That fits? Certain crisp nip in air. That's good. That fits? Certain crisp nip in air. That's great.

Certain. Man, that's really good. You're telling me. Anything else to say about it? Well, it's that certain crisp nip. I want you to elaborate because I think you're hitting on something strong here, Tim. The nip is crisp and it's certain to say the least. I guess what I'm

by choosing the crisp nip is crisp, and it's certain, to say the least. I guess by choosing the crisp nip, I may be stealing and encapsulating a few other things, because I'm saying those leaves are in there. That fire is in there, and the cooling temperature is in there. And the clothes, like you said. You can put on a sweater if you want. Yeah. Oh, come on.

That's wonderful. Cashmere, why not? And that change, I'll get into it more in my runners up but it is uh my life for the late summer especially it's like i plan around sweating as a big sweaty guy you know like especially like if i'm in like uh like new york city handman territory i kind of know like there's going to be multiple times throughout the day where I have

sweated through my clothes and I'm going to need to stop for a shower or something. It's like extra added time. I'm late. Maybe I'm going to a cool of a hip event and I look in my closet.

I say, should I wear my handsome, good looking clothes? No, I have to wear like the clothes that will be dressed for comfort. I'm wearing baggy stuff. I'm wearing light stuff. have to wear like the clothes that were dressed for comfort. I'm wearing baggy stuff. I'm wearing light stuff. I don't like the way I look. I got to dress the way that I want to feel so that I'm not talking to somebody at a party with a river running down

my forehead. So by the time we hit that crisp, cool air, it's telling me, Timmy, air it's telling me timmy the sleeves can get long oh the pants can get denim my life isn't led by the heat and this fear of heat and the fear of being sad it's not even just sweatiness because we've talked about mike you're saying in the summer in new york when everybody's sweaty it's kind of nice it's an equalizer you're like hey everybody's pitting out who cares but it still drains you it saps you of your energy and and for me it goes beyond just like appearing to be sweaty but it's like i can't even do too many things in a day you know i gotta lay down and look at my phone oh yeah it's an ambition killer yeah man the amount of times i've like walked to get coffee and i look at my shirts and

i'm like well what shirt do i want to sacrifice for this coffee walk in the summer? Because I'm going to sweat it out and discard it. So I'm not going to wear a shirt that I like. I'm going to wear like a basic ass thing that I can just fucking pit out. Nasty. You know what I did today? Actually, I was at Walgreens waiting for a prescription to be filled, even though, even though it was called in two days ago.

And I don't know why it wasn't filled. All right. Anyway, I'm waiting about 10 minutes. And I go make my way over to the ice cream cabinet. And I open it up and I just back right into it. Your ass? Well, I didn't touch anything, but my back and backside was just facing it. And I kind of closed the door as much as i could without me getting stuck inside sure and it did the trick and they looked at me the employees there said you can't do that anymore sir i said oh fill my prescription oh just try and stop me and they did physically

all right jeff what do you got all right You're starting to hit on it, I think. Both of you are starting to hit on it. That's cool for us. Like, you know, we have room to grow and it's nice to know we're on the right track. Yeah, yeah. We're giving it our best shot. That's nice. Because you're right, Tim.

When the fall starts, when the autumn starts, there's a change, is there not? Yeah. You feel it. And then, Mike mike you're right also later in the fall later right there's so many treats lined up for the fall you have halloween some people are thanksgiving folks some people like football i don't know i don't care but there's a lot going on in fall you know you what do you mean you don't know you know what football yeah i know i know what it is but it's my thing. It's a ball you hit with your feet.

You know what it is. But I want to go back to Tim's thing. There is a quality in LA. Since I moved to Los Angeles, which I've been here goddamn near two decades, there's a certain quality in the weather

being the same most of the time of a stagnation it's like time stands still which is kind of perfect for hollywood if you know what i mean you know it's like these these stars aren't allowed to age etc etc people are sort of uh crystallized if they're in a film frozen in time it's just always sunny and 70 always We really only have two seasons. We have hot LA and we have crisp LA. And we love crisp LA, right? When you've spent six whole months in a big fat spring summer season, you want to break free, don't you? You want to break free.

It's beautiful, but it feels like nothing can change. There's no activity out there. You stagnant you feel plateaued and so with the coming crisp there's like there's some activity out there change is possible yes all the all these good things are ahead of us not behind us there's we can get some action out there so i'm gonna say and some of that action mike is your halloween like you love so much i'm gonna say my fall facet is the promise of what's to come oh wow you know he's really it's grouping together yes because i could imagine like let's say you said back to school some people like like some people hate back to school yeah but some people were like oh yeah right that feeling but if that's a positive feeling you know starting a new semester

whatever underneath all of it is maybe this is the summer where i finally get laid maybe this is the semester where i finally make the honor roll and the team yeah thank you maybe i'm gonna become the star of the football team throw that touchdown pass you know so yeah and and or maybe my team maybe i'm a viewer maybe the dodgers are gonna win the world series you know but you're you're kind of there's a certain excitement yes i think you're right so the promise of what's to come and you can lose the if it doesn't fit promise of what's to come see i would have thought that would be something like a a winter like new year no you'd be wrong mike because it's fall yeah mike you're a great guy but you'd be dead wrong Mike, because it's fall. Yeah, Mike, you're a great guy, but you'd be dead wrong. I just, I feel like fall is the crispy dead leaves.

We're talking about Halloween with all the skeletons around, but it is your thing. Yeah, people do say spring is new life, and that's true. But in LA, like I was saying, you know, I really laid the groundwork there with how it's the same all the time. And the different thing and the new activity is the crispness gotcha gotcha you know tim you just mentioned baseball the world series isn't it funny how baseball is played in the summer the whole season and then right at the end with the world the playoffs it's fall it's like i think they start on in october i know and it is funny and it's like and i kind of associate it just that last little bit and if you've ever been in like, go to Cooperstown, New York in October, Jesus Christ is the most pleasant shit in the world. And you watch baseball, you're like, this is baseball. But yeah, there's like 162 games that happen in the summer. Jeff, what's your wording on this? I want to tweet it out. Sorry, I want to post it on X.

you're wording on this i want to tweet it out all right sorry i want to post it on x promise of what's to come promise of what apostrophe s to come see you ever let's do uh see oh oh it's the perfect number of characters. Okay. That spooky, kooky feeling certain crisp nip in air promise of what's to come tweeted. I've got a whole list of my runners ups. And I really feel like with baseball is like a huge one on where I am a poser of a baseball fan. I'm, I don't pay attention the whole year. And then I,

and I like to be really into the Dodgers kind of like during the, the NL West, you know dodgers kind of like during the the nl west uh you know the kind of like by the usually they don't if they're on the cusp of making it to the world series and then they don't or then they do and i even peter out during the course of the world series but there's usually a three day three day era where I'm really into the Dodgers. And, um, it's in a big city like LA that doesn't really have a lot of unifying things that Dodgers are not even like, I guess the Laker game would be a little bit more unifying, but if you go to echo park and you go to a bar and you're right at the bottom of Chavez ravine, it's one of the few times I ever feel like connected to Angelino's because

Hey, this city is doggy dog. We're all trying to book the same role in that next silver screen film. The next Wolverine versus Deadpool. It gives you a small town community vibe. Yeah. And now you could swear you could be walking on sunset Boulevard and Echo Park and,

and swear it's Cooperstown, New York for one moment there. Everyone's picking up a baseball and hitting it with a bat. Yes, I like that. I like the baseball stuff. What I was going to say about playoffs or the March Madness stuff,

the first, or the hockey playoffs, I notice this a lot, the first couple weeks of it are so great because there's so many teams playing. Not a couple weeks. But then as it peters out, you just lose steam because teams aren't playing as much because there's not three games on a night type of thing. Right. You know what's kind of weird is going looking for a game on TV now,

you're like, it's on TNT? This is where this happens now? TNT? Yeah, I feel like hockey is on TNT. This is where this happens now? TNT? Yeah, I think my hockey is on TNT. TBS? Crazy. Turner? Hey, what does ESPN stand for?

Sports in Spanish. That's not my joke, but... I don't get that joke. Hold on, I'm going to... I think it was on SNL. Entertainment Sports. Oh. Electronic.

Oh. Interesting. Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Oh. Electronic. Oh. Yeah, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Hmm. ESPN. Did you see that they have the Ocho now? Do you remember the Ocho? Yeah, from Dodgeball?

Now on... Yeah. That's real? Now on... I think it's ESPN just like ESPN2, but whenever they do like weird sports. Oh, yeah. They have graphics for ESPN, the Ocho. They do have.

You think they took that just from the. Yeah, just fully. They do have things like tag. And I saw something where jugglers were juggling and trying to like hit the other person while they were juggling. I saw one where. Are you familiar with horses doing dressage? No. Like the horses will do like a

weird little like showy trot or whatever that's not equestrian it's like horses dancing it might be part of equestrian um mike have you seen dressage when horses do like the yeah like you might have seen snoop snoop had a video last year where he was just like, this horse is crip walking, man. Dressage. They have videos of little kids doing it with like ponies, like fake pony head on a stick and going out and like doing hurdles and doing the dance moves and stuff. And it was on the Ocho anyway.

I got to check this. I got to get the internet. Check it out, folks. I got to sign on. Olympic sport of dressage is derived from the French term meaning training, and its purpose is to strengthen and supple the horse while

maintaining a calm and attentive demeanor. Ugh. Okay. Tim, I thought you were, I thought yours was, one of yours was going to be the apple cider donut. No, Mike, mine is the apple fritter. And I forgot about that. And now I'm thinking I should have done that.

And I was posting, didn't we get those? And we were posting them on Instagram last year. Folks, get into the apple fritter. It's the best. Well, we did best donut last year, I think. It's the dark horse of the donut scene. It's crinkled up so it gets more surface area. So it gets more oil, gets more fried. Yes. Yes. Oh. No, you made a great argument for that, Tim. And you know what? Thank you.

When we talk about best donut, we did best Halloween candy last year, and that was really fun, if you remember. I had an idea that came up because we were talking about nerds gummy clusters. Yes, those are good. And you know how I love a sour patch, right? Yep. I think we should do an episode. This is sort of best candy related. Best gummy. Oh.

Mmm. Mmm? Think of all the gummies out there. Could it be my recent nerds gummy clusters that I liked the first one and then turned on? It could be. Gummy clusters that I liked the first one and then turned on. It could be. But that could be a good Halloween candy adjacent blowout.

Yeah, that could be good. I already know what I'm going to do. I already know it. And it's not Starburst Softs. Does anyone want another soft? I'm killing them back here. Hey, you, what's your favorite food? Oh, me? Starburst softs

Favorite food Hey, last soft Last soft Taking the last starburst soft Starburst soft We might not have Wait, they're not called that They're just called something else we just call

them starburst i think they are starburst softs they're like puffs or something that which is fucked up i don't think we'll have time for something like that during october because i think jeff is curating a spooky watch zabba booba buds zabba booba buds yeah zabba booba Zaba Boova Buds. Zaba Boova Buds. Yeah. Zaba Boova Buds. That's great. So Jeff wants to do, oh, but only three Zaba Boovas. No, no, we'll do four. We'll do Night, Dawn, and Day in Reanimator. That would be the most fun, I think.

Night, Dawn, Day. But then that could be a segment. Couldn't it? Could it not be a segment? Oh, I'm sure we'll find a way to squeeze it in. Or, hey, gummy of the week, you know? Yeah, we each bring a new gummy each week. I don't want to be on the show.

A show where we watch zombie movies and talk about gummies, two things I don't give a fuck about? How did this happen? I used to be a TV writer. What the fuck is going on here? Well, it all fell apart during the best fall facet episode.

That's when things were still going good for the sloppy boys of Blum. In this moment too, Hanford's shirt is off. Me and Jeff are beet red from our drinks. Fucking miserable on here. What are we doing here? With series. No, other runners-ups i wanted to say

people there's foods like like your um your apple fritter your apple pie your apple crisp but in general like heavier one fall i was making myself poutine at home you know like putting the fries in the oven and stuff heavier foods i got a craving for gravy you know yeah that can be kind of gravy craving yeah a gravy gravy and i've mentioned this before in the pod my music taste changes summer is uh summer fun and then suddenly the the the days get shorter the temperature gets lower i don't know melancholy and the infinite sadness is making its way into the into the car um some of my old indie staples that are a little more you know your pavement your dinosaur junior you're built to spill your modest mouse i don't know why i dip back into the indie rock that makes sense

that was my college era and ithaca was a really like iconically autumnal town so i associate a lot of my mopey smart boy indie rock with that vibe or then even later like bonnie vere that's kind of a fall band to me yeah yeah it is yep i love it don't you know i love it and here's a here's a thing the fall fashions are a funny thing because even though i was just telling you guys in the summer i dress all light you know and then lots of people hanford i'm sure you're pumped when you get to bust out the the flannels and plaids and stuff like that and i you know i like a a crew neck sweatshirt but it's kind of funny in the fall where i'm i feel like i don't my style is like hawaiian shirts and shorts uh so it's kind of funny in the fall you don't really

picture tim as a as a flannel man you could bust out the hawaiian shirt long sleeve yeah that would be cool you gotta get nasty those are those look odd it's like it's like when you're looking at someone and they shave their eyebrows and you're like what's wrong here oh you know what you guys should start wearing this fall boots you need more boots yeah get a boot boots are fucking expensive real ones damn right boots are made for walking um i don't own any boots if you're an adult and you live in new york like when i lived in new york i was a kid so i'd wear like stupid like galoshes velcro snow boots my mom put on me but like what do you what do you mike do your boots look like like hiking boots like i got a

pair of yeah hiking boots that kind of look like like 90s throwback hiking boots they're from a company called danner if i lived in new york would i be wearing like leather doc martin style or like timberland style you could docs are good but like you know there's all sorts of like hiking boot i don't want to call them like mumford and son's boots but you know what i'm saying like leathery it's like red brown boots that cost you fucking three hundred dollars yeah i think i'd go more i go construction boot the ones i'm talking about have kind of like a nylon on them too it's leather and nylon as one leather meets nylon in symphonic concert yeah get yourself a pair of wolverines or a pair of red wings let me look at these wolverine wolverine boots shing it's not the wolverine i know and love

but yeah i like i like doc martens but i just don't i couldn't uh i don't think they'd look right on me i've tried them on before and it's like this is just does not work for the hand you've had a couple pairs of Docs. I have one pair that I'm looking at them now. They're kind of like, they're almost like dress shoes. They're not like the cool combat boot types. I'm looking at these Wolverines, Jeff, and there's some nice slim, like, leather, like, elegant ones. I think you can pull this off.

I don't see me or Hanford in Wolverines. I see Mike in a more hiking boot like a lace-up hiking boot patagonia friendly adjacent that's what i have and i see myself in maybe in more of a clumpy clunker i don't think i could pull off the elegance of this if i want a clunker try red wing you gotta get red wing red wings those are good as fuck look at red wing boots but these are all sort of you know these are all dapper also i think you're a dapper guy you could be these are yeah red wing this is like when a guy like me goes on queer eye and then they have

them like come on out tim show the new look and like i'm like layered up with like three shirts and a days just keep getting better. It would have never been able to think of that song. It's so funny. That's the theme. Um, you know, I'd be wearing like, like three button down shirts all open.

And then, uh, a denim, like a jean jacket with the sleeves rolled up. And I'd be like, how do I look? And I would be wearing these red wing boots. I'm ready to go to that dance. And my jeans, my jeans would be cuffed up and my hair would be wearing these red wing boots i'm ready to go to that dance and my jeans

my jeans would be cuffed up and my hair would be slicked back and i'd be having like a sculpted beard and i'd be like i don't know i don't know what's going on here guys i'm going to my step son's recital and i hope he recognizes me step son's recital is exactly... Where's Tan? Tan, get this stuff off of me. You gotta look hot for your stepson's recital. Listen to me. Isn't fall cuffing season?

It's the beginning of cuffing season. Yes, Mike. Okay. People are done flirting and getting whatever they can get their hands on. Whatever they can get their... When you get your hands on a hip, a love handle. Yeah.

They want to grip the hip. Grip the hip this fall. No, in the fall, they want to find somebody nice and really sort of nuzzle into the warmer months and say, I found my person. They don't want to do a beach trip, a fun and flirty beach trip. They want to do a Netflix and chill. Yeah, baby. They want to hibernate

with a big papa bear, you know? Oh, brother. Is that supposed to be you? No, I'm not. You're no papa bear. You're barely a baby bear at the gym. Barely a baby bear? I'm firmly a baby bear. At the gym?

Yes. Yes. Are you still working out? I went today, my dear boy. Legs and abs. Legs and ass. No, no, no, no, Jeff. Legs and ass.

Legs and ass. If you follow that leg all the way up top, especially when you're over on the rear side, you're going to hit that ass. I've never heard of legs and abs. Every gym guy says leg day. Oh, yesterday was leg day. Oh to hit that ass. I've never heard of legs and abs. Every gym guy says leg day. Oh, yesterday was leg day. Oh, I can't believe it. No one says legs and abs. I throw in a little ab for good measure.

Oh, great. And I guess you probably have a six pack of them. No, I wish. Oh, Tim, do we have any trolley bully boys oh yeah there's one here someone guessed jeff's appropriately they said uh because jeff's was promise of what's to come and someone says what's to come in chicago means chicago winter so sorry duds he knew oh damn they got you somebody says fuck yeah i finally got to vote in a poll. Okay. Nice. Hey, congrats. What about that leather spheroid we love to toss?

Football? We touched on that. We touched down that. Lots of people just here supporting, saying Halloween, crisp, nip. Well, one person said I read that as faucet. Well, it's facet. That's what I thought was going to happen. Damn.

The autumnal sentiment uh jackie says her birthday happy birthday jackie hey uh don't forget about those crunchy crunchy leaves yeah but then you rake them up in a pile and you dive in yeah got to what's to come those beautiful gravelly icebergs in every parking lot that's yeah that's i hate that in the spring. I hate muddy March, you know? Yeah. Apple cider donuts.

Somebody says feel bad for nuts. Everyone knows what yours is, Jeff. Interesting. Somebody says crisp nip is sauce now. Nobody says pumpkin spice latte? Question marks. Taking the AC out of the window. Now, do we have, Tim, do we have the requisite 200 votes?

Michael, we have 192 votes. Ooh, let's go, folks. No, I just refreshed. I refreshed. We have 213 votes, which means... Oh, it is time to read the thing. The results are in. What's the best fall facet? In a dismal

third place, with a painful 8%. Sorry, Mike. Promise of what's to come. No, really? Yeah. I'm so shocked. I think, Jeff, that makes sense for LA people.

No, it makes sense for the whole world. No, it doesn't make sense at all, as a matter of fact. I'm thinking about it. This is yet again another scenario where people didn't listen to the episode. They didn't do the research. They don't know what they to the episode. They didn't do the research. They don't know what they're talking about. They didn't understand the assignment? Nope.

Nope. They're going to listen to this and be like, I fucked up. You know that Oppenheimer meme where he's holding his head and he looks like he's overcome with guilt? Yeah. It's going to be one of those for everyone listening. For all 213 people? Well, minus the 8% that voted all 213 people well minus the eight percent that voted for you yeah minus the eight percent i guess that's not bad zev with eight

percent mean two and three you still got like 60 probably like 17 or 18 people voted for you not bad no that's nothing to celebrate tim wow he wants success he wants a w he wants to fly the w and he doesn't want to post his L. Landslide. That's what the J-Man goes for. He's going to be posting Ls and wishing for a W. That Fleetwood Mac song, Landslide, was it about losing a Twitter poll? Okay. Now it's down to the Hanman and Kelpie K.

And the winner of what's the best fall facet with a victorious 63% over 29%. So this is a sizable victory here, guys. 63, 29, and then eight? What did I get? 63, 29, eight. Yeah. Oof.

I don't even know if that adds up to 100, but I'm not going to look into it. The winner is certain crisp nip in air. Tim Galbag is the motherfucker. What the hell? If I had had my emoji on there,

people would have voted for it. Yeah, but that's the problem. Yeah, but mine would have had a little leaf. Mine would have been funny because I would have put a nose and a leaf, and people would have been like, that's what I'm going to do. Hmm. Well, the nose emoji is very funny. I get it.

Yeah, it is a good one. I guess, you know, mine is only about half of the season anyway. Yeah. Because you don't get spooky kooky in November I guess, you know, mine is only about half of the season anyway. Yeah. Because you don't get spooky kooky in November. No, you do. I'm already seeing Halloween shit out there. No, in November, like after Halloween. Okay.

September, yes. You have. You have. You have. Well, folks, that's going to do it for us. The results are in, and nobody is happy. Yeah, I got to be sad until next week. Oh, shit.

That's the tough thing about these polls. You win, it's the highest tie you've ever had, but you got chances. It seems like you'll never come down. Winning these polls, it's almost a bad thing. It's like, you know, child stars, celebrities, like, hey, that's great, that kid's famous, but then they all kind of flame out and have drug problems and stuff. I feel like that happens when we win the poll here.

Well, Tim, I'm looking forward to getting further into the fall here with more of that crispy, nippy feeling because it's too hot in here and I have to end the podcast now. I want to hear what music you guys, chart your music listening over the course of the fall and see if your your yacht rock gives way to a folkier indie sound. Ah, I'll let my Spotify track it for me. Thanks, Spotify. Thanks, Spotify.

And thanks for listening. We pray to Lord algorithm. We love you folks, and if you're planning on going down to El Paso at the end of September, come see the Sloppy Boys documentary at the El Paso Film Festival, premiering September 29th? Yep.

30th. Yeah. 29th. 29th. We're going to be there. We're going to be in El Paso. We're the stars of a documentary that Robert Olguin shot. This is big stuff. This is cool for me. paso we're we're the stars of a documentary that robert olguin shot this is big stuff this is cool for me it's a documentary about the making of sonic ranch and you could be there and watch it and you could run into us in person and if you do say i challenge you to a shootout and we'll meet you outside at high noon and and because we're

the sloppy boys and our thing is about cocktails, it'll be shootout with shots of liquor. With fucking Patron. It's a shootout. That's classic, man. That's classic us. All right, bye, folks. Love you, folks. Bye. Bye.

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