HEY BESTIES!

Welcome to the first episode of Yet another podcast. On today's episode, we YAP about why we decided to start the podcast, talk about what you can expect going forward, and share some of our hot takes! plz come back soon :')

Follow us on our socials to stay connected!

https://www.tiktok.com/@yetanotherpodcast

https://www.youtube.com/@YetAnotherPodcast

https://www.instagram.com/yetanother.podcast/

Thanks for listening. If you want to send us feedback or be featured in the next episode, click here: https://forms.gle/wFiToG4YZ8ZvJjBW7

Transcript

SPEAKER_02: 0:00

everybody welcome to yet another podcast we are your hosts isaiah i'm alex and alex and we're just gonna start talking about why we decided to make a podcast it's been about why did we start it's been about probably it's how long have we known each other we've known each other since like i think 2018 or 2019 2019 2019 so it's like what five five six years now six years Feels like we've been talking about this for almost like close to four years, no? Yeah, it's definitely been a while in the making. And I think it's because we just like get into very detailed conversations that honestly nobody asked for. And we're like, we need to take this online. But we've known each other for a lot longer than that. Yeah, like I guess some context is like we've known each other in like elementary school. But by known each other, it's not like we like Like, we were in the Pokemon card corner. Like, do you know how every school has, like, that corner where all the nerds go? We were playing Pokemon. Okay. We were playing Bakugan. This just shows our relationship at that age.

UNKNOWN: 0:58

What?

SPEAKER_02: 0:59

This shows our relationship. I thought it was Pokemon. Oh, no, no. It was Bakugan. It was Bakugan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Bak... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Do you actually... Really quick side topic. Do you actually know anything about Bakugan? Like, how to play the game? Yeah, because I swear, Bakugan, when we played it, like, I know they had, like, things that you would actually do in the game. Like, the actual game itself. But I would just, like... we would get the ones with the highest battle power, whatever it was called, and just roll it, and whoever has the highest one wins. Did you do that too? I don't even think we played it. I think I collected them, and then the most that me and my friends got to actually play in it was just whipping them at each other. Yeah, we just throw them on the magnet card, and then whoever has the highest power one wins. That's how we'd play. And I would just keep buying them. Every time we'd go to Walmart, I'd be like, Mom, please, please, please buy me a Bakugan. Did they have mystery ones as well? I think most of them are mysteries. They have the ones that are obviously in the containers, but I think they have lots where it's just mystery ones. And you would just keep buying them until you get a really high battle power. It was like gambling almost. Wait. Is that what got me my gambling addiction? I can't believe we're already yapping and we haven't even started the actual intro. Anyway, so this is why we wanted to start the podcast. Just picture us in a social environment where there's probably about like five to ten other people and then we just kind of go into... Yeah, all of your friends. Shut up. It's not your friends either. Get out of here. We have the same friend group. Yeah. And then we just go in these little, I guess as we call it, yaps where we just kind of talk. Yeah. And you know what? We're both... I think what it was is that we were both... 20 year olds now and to follow it just like everyone else making another podcast yeah well that kind of goes into the name like you had another podcast like we're honestly kind of generic but we're funny so it's okay yeah yeah exactly it's our yeah it's our quirky dynamic and then we also have uh never call me quirky again like actually no that's actually the biggest insult you can say to somebody you don't like being called okay let me set the scene for you you know you have a crush on some girl in school okay Random girl, right? And you confess your love to her. And she's like, oh, it's just that I'm not really looking for a relationship right now. But you have a really great personality. You're so quirky. I feel like this is a personal experience for you. I feel like this has happened to you before. Well, I have been called quirky, but I didn't like it. I don't know. I feel like quirky is just a nice way of saying you're really weird. But I like you even though you're weird. So what would you rather be called? sexy yeah yeah like cool mysterious maybe

SPEAKER_01: 3:37

mysterious you know how to become mysterious

SPEAKER_02: 3:39

kinda but no i think people call me quirky because i'm an overshare like i overshare way too much and i hate it but like you just i love gossip i love gossip i love talking shit like i love it i love that too but like i feel like at least for me like i don't maybe you can correct me i don't think i overshare do i overshare um you don't over share you over explain

SPEAKER_01: 4:03

yeah i do yeah

SPEAKER_02: 4:04

i think like five extra steps to explain something but i'm totally like that person we're like you know the first time we hang out like i probably won't like i'll probably keep it like light-hearted but then the second time i hang out i'm gonna tell you my entire life story yeah i'm gonna tell you every traumatic thing that's ever happened to me i'm gonna tell you everything that i hate about everything like it's i'm gonna get into it yeah well Yeah, I don't know. I don't think that's me. I think it takes a while for me to open up. We should, though. We should share when we became friends. When did we become friends, Isaiah? Well... What was your... I'll tell you. Obviously, I'd known him. I'd known of him, but I didn't really talk to him. I had no opinion of him because I don't think we ever exchanged dialogue for many, many years. Are we still in elementary school, though, you're talking about, or high school? Well, I'm talking about when we actually became friends. Okay. Because like you were always somebody that I would like see in the hall and I'd be like, I've seen his face before. I know who that is, but I would never like think to strike up a conversation with you. I never thought like, oh, this guy's cool. I'd be like, oh, there's this guy. His name's Alex. Like you had no space in my brain. And I don't know how to say that. Okay, I know that sounds so bitchy. That's crazy. I know it sounds crazy, but it's just like... Can I say my comment now about, I guess, where we're at? I'm still thinking about high school, seeing each other in the hall. This isn't just with you. This is with just high school in general. It's a blur. It's a blink. I'm sorry. I don't... I don't remember seeing a lot of people in the hall. I don't recall. But I used to love hall drifting. You never hall drifted? No, I just went home. If I was not in class, I would be going home. So this kind of shows you the differences between our personality. I think you're a little more introverted than I am. Yeah, it's weird. I'm introverted, but then when I want to be in an extroverted environment or if I'm comfortable, I would say I'm extroverted. But that's a key thing for me is being comfortable. See, me personally, my favorite thing to do is if you're out, and you meet somebody that's just like you have one conversation with and that's your best friend for the night and then you never talk to them again yeah it's like i love to hang out with people just once i don't know if that's like toxic like obviously i have like friends still like people that i hang out with regularly but like i love love love like hanging out with somebody just once like they would go for drinks maybe we just like do whatever so let's and then i'll ghost you forever let's loop this back around how did i get to stick around then terms of well you know actually there was contracts that we had signed binding us together where we both worked at a job together um no but no you were a little different because i think we also have a lot in common just like our views in the world like our takes like yeah we're we're different but i feel like we're different like a yin and yang kind of vibe yeah like i think like we say for example how i describe it if we both have somewhere to be We both agree that that's where we have to be. We just have different approaches to it. We would take different paths to it. But we're both airport dads. Yeah, especially me. Well, I'm an airport dad too, but I look at the directions before I go. You're just kind of like, here, I'm going to figure it out. You saw me at the airport. Yeah, this guy actually... hot souls are you kidding me and don't even try to like start small talk if we know that there's a flight coming up like don't talk to him just like let us get to the flight and then he'll talk like i was the guy that would stand in front of like the gate and just like be staring at the like just watching the time yeah down and then yeah yeah well i'm also like i'm listening to music like i'm chilling but i have it on my airpods on transparency mode and Okay, it was really cringe to say I had my AirPods on transparency mode. I don't know if you thought that was cringe. Why? I don't know. I just feel like I'm like, I have AirPods. No.

SPEAKER_01: 8:01

No.

SPEAKER_02: 8:04

And as soon as I listen to an announcement, I have to stop everything, drop everything. I'm like, holy fuck, I missed my flight. That's kind of where I'm at. So again, I guess kind of going back to it, it's like we're both... Very similar in the sense of that, but we both have different ways of doing it. We're like, I'm someone who, like, you can relax a bit more, where I guess I'm a bit more stressed. Okay, wait, do you know, like, the type A versus type B argument? Like, do you know what that means? Remind me. Okay, so type A is, like, you like to be in control. Like, you want everything done in an exact certain way. Like, the type A people, imagine those people that are, like, cleaning their house every single time. If you leave a dish in the sink, they're mad at you. Like... it's that kind of vibe versus type B are like, we'll just figure it out. It depends on the environment. It depends on the environment. Like, say, for example, if we're like cleaning, I'm not going to be like, oh, there's a specific way to clean. It's like, no, just clean. But like, say, for example, like when it comes to navigate in an airport. Yeah, I'm probably... You bring the demon out. I'm very type A. I'm extremely type A. You know what? Yeah, I'm like that too. I like to call myself a closeted type A. well okay not too much but I think like in my heart in my heart of hearts I am a type B person I love to like roll the punches I mean you know I Ask everyone else to plan my birthday. I hate planning my birthday. Yeah, it's kind of annoying because you also give us like one week notice. You're like, hey, my birthday's coming up. Can you plan it? It's like one week to the birthday. But also it's like sometimes you got to roll up your sleeves and just start being type A and micromanage the fuck out of people. But I don't like doing it. But I recognize sometimes you got to do it. I don't like doing it, but I feel like I do it a lot with my friends. no

SPEAKER_01: 9:56

like i don't know i just

SPEAKER_02: 9:57

you know what i'm saying like like for example like every year we try and go to a college and i feel like at a certain point it gets to the point where like nothing's really happened and then i'm just like okay i have to type a and then i it's no longer i'm texting the group chat i'm texting everyone individually being like give me an answer now send me the money now this is where we're going so If you guys couldn't tell, we're planning a cottage trip with our friends. And I think that comment was a little bit pointed. You'll get the text tomorrow. It's like seven days. Have you watched The Ring? I think we watched it together, no? Did we? Yeah. It's like they're in on the TV, right? Yeah, yeah, you watch the tape and then you die in seven days. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did we watch that together? Yeah. Okay, here's another thing about me. I have a terrible memory. Like, you could ask me about what we talked about five minutes ago. I genuinely don't know. Like, I couldn't tell you. I don't think I could recall either. But how the fuck did you remember that we watched The Ring together, what, like three years ago or something? Do you know why? It's because I hate horror movies. I'm not a horror movie person, so you guys are all like, let's watch The Ring, let's watch The Ring. And I can't be the one guy being like, I don't want to watch a horror movie. But I love horror movies. Okay, but you have to realize that that situation is never going to happen to you. When are you ever going to watch this tape that's mysteriously going to kill you in seven days? But what's the enjoyment out of it? The theatrics of it all. It's such a bad movie, though. No, it's good because it's so outlandish what i love about horror movies is it's like it's something that you're not going to expect like it's just something different it's a concept or a thing that's just like inexplicable it's the supernatural it's outlandish i could go on for hours about it and honestly my favorite types of horror movies are the ones with obscene amounts of gore i know that's going to make it wait let me cook let me cook let me cook because i know there's some people that have this opinion as well and i and i just don't get it i just don't get it Have you watched the new Evil Dead movie? Of course I have not. No, I have not. Anyways, it's so like, it's campy in the sense of like, it's so, do you know what that word means? I'm thinking like you're going outside. No, like camp, it's like, okay, I think gay people just use it, but

SPEAKER_01: 12:07

it's like,

SPEAKER_02: 12:08

you know, when something's like really extra, when it's like, you know, it's really on the nail, but intentionally on the nail. I'm going to be honest. I've never heard of that word before. Anyway, sorry. Well, you know, we just, we in different, we in different circles, babes. We swing for different teams. Anyways, so this movie, it has like, okay, so pretty much TLDR, long story short, this woman has like a family and her sister comes to visit and she, her kid ends up stealing this, like, old book that's, like, a Necronomicon, which I don't think you know what that means, but it's just some demon book, okay? It's a demon book. And then it possesses the mom, and the mom goes, like, batshit insane because she's possessed, and, like, she slowly slaughters her entire family. I thought this movie was about a clown, no? The Evil Dead? No. Oh, I'm thinking of Terrifier. But, yeah, yeah, but with The Evil Dead, it's, like, the dialogue and the voice lines are insane because it's very, like, you know the iconic exercise, uh, exorcist line that's like your mother sucks cocks in hell like that have you ever heard of that

SPEAKER_01: 13:17

no

SPEAKER_02: 13:17

okay so when the exorcist it's like that's i think that's like the most iconic horror movie line i don't know the exorcist is from like 1970s i feel like every pop culture moment that's like like parody that in some way i don't watch horror movies unless i'm forced to in a group setting do you know like roughly what the exorcist is about i couldn't tell you Okay, this is like a whole podcast episode. So we're going to come back on this. Me explaining horror movie trips to you, I guess. But what was I even talking about with this? Okay, yeah. So anyways, she's just saying some like crazy shit. She's like, so she goes and talks to her like five-year-old daughter. And she is talking to her through the door. And it's like,

SPEAKER_00: 13:55

mommy's better now. Mommy's better.

SPEAKER_02: 13:57

And then she's amongst the door. And she's like, mommy's going to kill you. It goes crazy. And there's this one scene where they look through the peephole. And she's throwing people's limbs across the peephole. And I was laughing so hard. I was hysterical. Have you seen Nosferatu? No, but I want to. I genuinely want to so bad. You would find that movie hilarious? I would find it hilarious. I was hesitant to go see it. And again, I'm not one to see horror movies. So I don't know if this is just how, how they operate, but there'd literally be, I felt so bad for the people in the theater as well. Cause there'd be scenes where I think like, I almost like that. I guess people that watch horror movies were kind of like, Ooh, or like, you know, like getting excited about it. But I would just be pissing myself hysterically. Cause I'm just like, what the fuck are we watching? But it's like, I appreciate the theatrics of horror movies because it's so like far fetched and insane. And I just love it because, okay, let's say for example, watching an action movie or a drama movie there are surprises in it there are things that can catch you off guard but nothing's going to catch you as off guard as a horror movie because some horror movies the ones that i really vouch for and really appreciate are the ones that give you shock value that's so crazy i'm actually going to go on a whole explanation keep going keep going um like the ones that give you that shock value are the ones that are the best because like okay in sinister there's this one scene have you watched sinister no you haven't i'm gonna stop asking in sinister there's this one scene where you know the evil like guy whatever demon guy um so his whole thing is he gets kids to um like join forces with him and the initiation is you kill your family and this one kid he's like okay and it's all in like they record little like movie tapes right like who's they The kids, the kids, the kids, they kill their family and they tape it and they put on like a little like VHS. Oh my God. What's the big DVD or DVD? What's like the big one? It looks like a square, right? This is so Gen Z. Yeah. It looks like a rectangle. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. VHS. No shot. You call that a DVD. That's crazy. Okay. You, I honestly haven't like put in a movie in over a decade. That's crazy. Anyway, sorry. They're recording. So they record it. and you know it's like home movies and it'll be titled like mowing the lawn or something and it's like this weird movie and it's like literally just a pic like a video of like a lawnmower like cutting grass right right right and it's going and it's going and it's going and it's like shot top down and then it goes over somebody's head and then the first time i watched that i was like oh And then I replayed it like three more times. See, I don't get that. I don't know. It's just like the thrill of it. I see. I think it's, I, and like, this is how I've kind of explained horror movies to myself is that it's similar to like thrill junkies. Like it's like people that like roller coasters, right? Yeah. It's like the same thing. Like I love roller coasters. That's cause there's like excitement. Yeah. You know, like there's a point where like when you're about to go down on the drop, your heart's kind of like spiked. Yeah. Yeah. I just, and I assume that's what it's like for horror movies. It is. I just don't, I don't get that when I watch horror movies though. Cause like I would watch that scene and just be like, why am I watching? Like this doesn't. Yeah. You know, it doesn't scratch that part of your brain. It doesn't scratch any part of my brain. Yeah. Do you know what I'm scared about right now? What? I'm scared. Okay. This can sound crazy. I'm scared if I'm ever part of like a murder investigation, they're going to play back this video.

SPEAKER_01: 17:18

No. You know what? See?

SPEAKER_02: 17:19

No. Cause I also watch a lot of true crime and I watched like videos of serial killers getting caught. and, like, the interviews that happen when they're getting caught. Like, when they're in, like, the police, like... When they're in the police room and it's, like, top-down camera. Oh, those videos are crazy. And it's, like, the investigators already know they committed the crime, but they're just trying to get them to confess to it. Yeah. So they're, like, lying in circles. I just watched that, and it's so crazy. Fuck, they're going to think I'm a serial killer now. No, I think there's much... Like, I've met, like, worse, like... What are they called? Crime junkies? Mm-hmm. Is that what they're called? Yeah. Well, that's what we're going to call them. Like, I went for a little crime junkie phase, and it got to the point where, like... I wouldn't be able to sleep. Right. Because you'd be thinking about how to commit the perfect crime. No, it was more the opposite. It was more like I was the victim. Like, I remember there's... Do you know the Ted Bundy Netflix one where it's Zac Efron? Yes, but I haven't watched it. Okay, so I watched it. And, like, I remember very specifically, like, I had the dream that night after watching it. There was, like, this one scene that... It was the last scene and it just got to me for some reason. Okay. And I'm not even joking you. I remember, like, having a dream and it looked like real life. I was in my bed sleeping and then I hear this knocking on the door and then so I like wake up and again I'm still dreaming right now but like it didn't you were in the dream verse like you were dreaming in your dream yeah but it was like one for one like I swear to god it was one for one yeah okay and so I go to like my front door like and you know I walk I walk up the stairs and I go to my front door and I open the door it's Ted Bundy I'm not even joking I say it was a dream I woke up screaming I I literally like I I was I gasping for air. What do you think the psychology behind that is? Oh, God. I have no idea. I know there's some... Not all years are spinning up here. I know that for sure. The lights are on, but nobody's home. I've always had bad dreams, though. That's why I don't think I can do horror movies or crimes. Even as a kid, I had bad dreams. Do you still dream? I dream all the time. I'm not going to lie. a lot a lot of them are like I want to say night terrors but like they're like I would say like what you would call them as nightmares right like anytime I have a dream I always wake up and I'm like that was fucked and then it takes a while for me to like calm down and go back to sleep wait are you like the type or like you imagine bad things happening to you or the people you love all the time see what does that mean do you know do you know I don't I don't actually know what it means that much it's because like I Like we can definitely Google it because Google is free. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be like, I just remember like, so like, for example, like one time I fuck, I was probably like 10 and my dad was watching like the Godzilla movies. I was like, Oh, okay. Like, yeah, I appreciate it now. But as a 10 year old, I was terrifying. Um, and so I watched it and I was like, Oh, okay, cool. Whatever. Like that night though. Um, this was when I was at my old house and my old house, it was, uh, what's the street called where it's like one way. You know what I'm saying? Where it's like one way and it's like a lane. Something like that. You know what I'm saying though. It's like one lane and then it's like the circle of all the houses around. Oh, Crescent? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay, so picture the Crescent, right? My old house is right here and then it was just the view of the road. So we're like right in the center of the Crescent. Oh, okay. So you just see like the road winding up. Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. And so my dream was is that I was sitting in like the front room of like my house. The foyer? Foyer, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there was a window that viewed directly down the Crescent. I'm not even joking you. I had a dream of Godzilla walking down my crescent and I later was like, I'm dead. I'm on a crescent. Like he's coming in. We're trapped. We're dead. That's it. Okay, really random. There's a trailer for a new horror movie that dropped today and I watched it. It's called Woman in the Yard and it's like this woman like looks out the window and there's just like a woman in all black in the yard. See, that sounds so stupid to me. Like what is it? But the trailer, we'll watch the trailer after this. It's actually kind of good. But like, did you see the one that came out last year where it was like The family's, like, swimming pool was, like, haunted? Oh, wasn't it just called Swimming Pool or something like that? Okay, but that's, like, the genre where I don't watch it, or if I were to watch it, I would watch it as a comedy movie. Because I don't actually like comedy movies. Would you call it comedy movies. Oh, comedy movies. I don't actually like them. If you put on an Adam Sandler movie, I'm not going to laugh once. Really? I am not going to laugh once. Nothing against Adam Sandler in particular, but just that genre of comedy movies, I'm not going to laugh. There's some Adam Sandler movies where I would definitely agree with that. There's also some where... I feel like I grew up on, like, for example, like, Grown Ups. Grown Ups was, like, one of those movies that was just on my house. It was in everyone else's house, too. It was, like, background noise to a certain point where, like, it was just always Grown Ups. And so, like, there's, like, I enjoy Grown Ups, but then there's other Adam Sandler movies where I just can't stand. Maybe I'm fucked in the head because I... You don't like comedy movies at all? Well, there's some that are exceptions. Like, Superbad. Meh. really really well like I watched it the first time and there's like there's some funny jokes but I probably had like a light smile on like there was nothing that was like dropped that hilarious or something that made me really laugh I don't think it's a bad movie I'm not shitting on it but it's just not the kind of movie that I actually get entertainment from do you get any so okay I guess my next question to that is is like do you get like do you laugh at any form of entertainment yeah so what is it then if it's not comedy movies well Okay, don't do me like that. I told you I laugh in horror movies. Doesn't that count? Yeah, no, I remember this one time. You're going to have to remind me what it was. This is when we, like, also first started to hang out. Like, probably about a year or so into us knowing it. Okay. And I just remember very specifically, you put on this one... I think it was... Shark Exorcist? Yeah! I love Shark Exorcist. See, that shit was so stupid. I'm sorry. But isn't that funny? I don't... Okay, I get that some of our sensitive humor are different, but it's like, I, okay, maybe let's get a little woke with this for a second. Maybe I like it because subconsciously, I like watching people fail. So in horror movies, when people like die and shit, I think it's kind of entertaining. Except, okay, my exception is though, if it's like, for example, Marley and me, I was really sad when the dog died. Okay, that's good. Yeah, like, I have empathy. Like, I'm not insane, guys. When you said that, like, I enjoyed seeing people fail, I thought you meant in the sense that, like, you enjoy seeing a bad movie and, like, the people that made it. Well, that too. That too. Like, and Shark Exorcist is a terrible movie. It's on IMDb's, like, I think the reason I even knew about that movie is because IMDb has a list that's like the worst rated movies of all time. And that's like in the top 15 or something like that. I understand that movie was like, but it was then like, that was a dreadful night. Yeah. No, but watching it, it's like, I find it so entertaining because it's so bad. So nonsensical that it's like, it's so bad that it's good. I see. I don't get that. Like, okay. Have you ever heard of the room? No. Okay. So the room was another horror movie. No, that's not a horror movie. It's like, it was a really bad movie. I think that was like in the top 10 of the worst IMDb movies. But then it was so bad that it was good that like meme culture and pop culture got a hold of it. And then they remade it with like James Franco, one of the Franco brothers. It's the one movie where it's like, oh, how much? Yeah. Yeah. It's like that. Yeah. Yeah. So the memes, I haven't seen it. No, but like they remade that movie with Hollywood actors. So like fucking stupid. And, like, I think there's... I think the true film critics are the ones that appreciate the terrible movies. Like, I think, like, there's, like... Oh, I laughed during Wicked. What part? I don't know. They tell jokes. Ariana tells jokes. No, yeah, no. There was a couple points where, like, she was, like... Yeah, like, I laughed in how, like... silly her character was oh yeah because it's so like extra like her just sitting there like little hair flipping yeah but I kind of like I loved it like I loved it and I thought it was funny but like maybe this is just me I feel like Ariana Grande at least maybe my experience with Victoria she always just kind of plays that like airhead role not saying that she's an airhead but like you know what I'm saying like you're actually gonna find me personally tell me I'm wrong okay is the only things you've seen Ariana in um Wicked and Victoria's yeah well she's done other things you know like what Scream Queens oh but she did play kind of ditzy in that like that's what I'm saying it's like I feel bad because in a sense it's like she's super talented but I feel like that's where we get into the like thing where it's like maybe there's more complexity to her character we haven't seen let's just watch Wicked Part 2 and come back to this okay I am excited for Wicked Part 2 but I feel like we yapped so much about movies that we didn't even get into our hot takes no Okay, I think we should do that. So we're going to do some hot takes so that you guys get a little bit of insight into our characters and how we'd be feeling about things. Do you want to go first? No, you can go first. Okay, so my first hot take is that situationships don't count as real relationships. Do you have any thoughts about that before I... Just any natural ones that come to your head? I think it's conditional. In what sense? Okay, if I'm in a situationship but I want to be with that person... Wait, wait, wait. Okay, let me start over. If I'm in a situationship, but I want that person, it counts. I conquered you. Wait, conquered's not the right word. I know what you're trying to say. Oh, I got the bag. I secured the bag. But if I'm in a situationship, and I'm just like, you know... getting fucked over, over and over and over. It doesn't count. Okay, so I guess some context. Before I answer that, some context for myself. I've never been in a situationship. So I think that's some context. I've been in like one, some could argue two, but one that is on the record. Situationships or talking phases? Well, where do we draw the line? Oh, that's a great question. Well, I think like, If you do any... No, that's going to sound so silly. I was going to say if you do anything more than just, like, talking. Yeah, like, dating. Like, we were, like, dating. Like, we were going on dates. But you weren't, like, exclusive. No. I don't know. That's where it comes with the situation. Like, what you just described where, like, say, for example, it's a situationship. Yeah. And you still think that, like, there's, like, some sort of... See, I would define a situationship as, like, there's potential of growing into a relationship, but, like... It's toxic because it's not so clear like what's going on. Like a situationship to me is like you have no clue what's going on with this person. You might start dating. You might never speak again. Maybe you are on and off. Like it's really confusing. Like a situationship is where you're confused as fuck about where you stand. See I guess my stance on that and like no offense to anyone that's been in a situationship before. I just think that like one it's either a lack of not a lack of but like one person in the party doesn't have the emotional intelligence or vulnerability to explain what they want. Okay, Professor Woke. I'm being so for real. This is my stance on situationships. They're not relationships. If it was a relationship, you guys would communicate what you both want. So there's either some form of manipulation happening from one party or the other party just doesn't know how to communicate what they want.

SPEAKER_01: 28:47

And

SPEAKER_02: 28:47

therefore, I don't think that person's ready to date. Or be in a relationship. But do you know what's always really funny? What? When your friends are in situationships and they like talk to you about it and because you're not in it. Yeah. Okay. No, no. I think you need to be in a situationship to get the appeal in it because when we, you know, I'm a mutual friend that I'm thinking about. Yeah, I do. I'm not going to say her name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But when she talks about her situationships, I'm listening to it and I'm like, what the fuck? Like, what is wrong with you? See, but. Then like, you know, in my, I don't know what we're going to call it for the purpose of this conversation. I'll call it a situationship, but I don't know. I don't know what the definition is. When I was in it, I was like, oh,

SPEAKER_00: 29:24

it's fine. Like we're going to be in love and we're going to start a family and own a horse. See, maybe I

SPEAKER_02: 29:30

guess my stance on it is like, at first, I guess I kind of was like, I'm like, oh, okay. Like, yeah, it's, there's, I guess a bit of that gossip and entertainment to like, of seeing someone else go through it. But then at a certain point I was just kind of like, I don't know. It just made me get upset or frustrated in a sense. Because I found that most of the time, and maybe this is just a bias towards you guys because you were my friends. I always thought that the other person was what I described before, where they're either manipulative or emotionally unavailable. And so to me, I was just kind of like, oh, you guys deserve better. Yeah. Well, that's usually what it is. But I think it kind of goes deeper than that. I think that kind of talks to Gen Z. I feel like without getting too far into it, like... dating is so weird now where people are terrified of a label for like no reason but I think again I think it just goes to my point that like people just don't one know how to communicate what they want or two just like so I don't think they like being like locked in either I had this friend that I met at school and you know like we just casually like shoot the shit talk about things like one time she's talking to me and she gets a text you know I'm nosy as fuck and the name is just like I think the name in her contacts, just like M or something like that. Right. Like one letter. And I was like, who the fuck is M? Like, why is M texting you? And she was like, um, oh, I remove a letter from his name every time he pisses me off. And when like he runs out of letters, he's getting blocked. I don't get, that's crazy. That's, and then I, and then she like, well, yeah. And then like, she says that to me. And then she also says that like her talking stages, the minimum is like three months. Maybe I'm not built for that lifestyle, man. That's crazy. But what pisses me off is that people are like, oh, talking stage, talking stage of this, talking stage of that. But you're just dating. You don't have to say that you're in a relationship. But if you're seeing this person multiple times a week, if you're romantically involved with them, if you're sexually involved with them, anything. Just put a label on it. You don't have to say, oh, this is my fiance. This is my boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever. But you're You're dating a person. Why are you saying, oh, I'm in a talking stage? Oh, how long have you been talking? Eight months. What the fuck? That's not a talking stage

SPEAKER_01: 31:48

anymore. Yeah, I know. I get what you're saying.

SPEAKER_02: 31:50

Yeah, it'll be like, oh, I'm in a talking stage and we're actually married, but it's not like that. We're just friends. Yeah, I don't know. It's just like... I just see it as a waste of time. I'm going to be so for real. I also hear, for example, being... Being... I wouldn't be able to deal with that like I wouldn't like say for example if someone like maybe like if I'm talking to someone and they piss me off like I'm I guess where I'm at right now I'm just like oh not worth it move on you know like I don't I don't need to humor that anymore like well I think like so for me you know because I was a tinder hinge bumble batty for a while yeah um For context, I've never been on any of those. Yeah. Okay. I can tell because your ego's still intact. Me personally, I have been damaged, bruised, and beaten by all these fucking dating apps for years up until recently. And like, it was fucking terrible all the time. It sounds awful. But I think, okay, so with the whole talking stage, this is how I define it. if you're on these dating apps, because honestly, I saw this statistic, most people meet with dating apps nowadays. It's not like how it used to be. I think how people describe it, though, I see that as well, where everyone's meeting on dating apps. But then you talk to someone about dating apps, and they're always like, it's awful. But I mean, I'm in a relationship right now with somebody that I met on a dating app. See, that's just it, though. Your current relationship right now is great. It's super healthy and everything, at least from what I... I hope so. I think it is. Sorry, I felt like I interrupted you there. It's okay. What was I even saying? Oh, yeah, so... how i would define it is like if you're in a talking stage that's like we met on the dating app we're texting each other like we're texting each other maybe we're calling each other maybe we've been on like one date but i call it dating as soon as you go on like a few dates and you don't have to put the label of like we're together we're exclusive we're this we're this but i think people are so afraid to use the word like oh i'm dating this person i don't know why why do you think that I don't know. I feel like it's because dating apps have given us so much choice when it comes to choosing partners. They're like, oh, I don't want to tie myself down because honestly, it's like it's a fucking side hustle almost. I think everything comes back to having a side hustle. Guys, start a side hustle and just date six different people and make them pay every time. That's a side hustle right there. At that point, just make it seven and you just get a free meal every day. you know what I'm saying a date for every night of the week yeah don't get me wrong you're gonna need a spreadsheet to manage everything but you wouldn't have much luck because you'd have to pay yeah I guess because I'm a male but like yeah I don't know I just don't I think wait what was even the prompt it's just what was your hot take even about situations situationships don't count as a relationship I mean I think they count because a relationship is like two people being together. I don't think it's a healthy relationship. You shouldn't aspire to be in it, but I think it counts as a relationship. Yeah. I don't know. I don't, I don't, I wouldn't consider it as like dating. Cause like, I don't know. I think like dating, there's like partnership. There's no partnership in a situation. Like you're never like the way that I picture this, right? Okay. Say for example, like you're moving out or like, say for example, you go on vacation with your family. Let's use that example. You go on vacation with your family and say, for example, you have like a pet. Okay. And you need someone to take care of the pet. Are you asking your friend or your situationship? It depends on where the situationship is. What do you mean where? Every situationship is different. We have to really get into the root cause of the situationship. Is it that this person doesn't want to commit to you, but they're still a good friend? Is it just friends with benefits? There's so many different types of situationships. If they didn't want to commit to you, they wouldn't help you. When we think of our friend, our mutual friend who's been through a situationship, that was pretty long term, she would have asked him to watch her cat. And do you think he would have? I think he would have. But when I think back to my whatever we're going to call it, I would never have allowed that in a million years. Yeah, you're very protective of your cat though. Yeah, because that's my son. That is my baby. So I guess your stance is that situationships are relationships. And I guess my stance is situationships is just manipulation and emotional immaturity. Okay, let me read my prompt. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, tipping culture. So background for you. I'm a waiter, like pretty much full time. Like minimum four nights a week. And tipping... okay, when you tip me, I'm happy. Honestly, tip me for everything. But like, I think some tipping is a little insane. Like for example, when, okay, I saw this picture online and it probably was fake, but it was like a picture of somebody like a tip option at self checkout. And I'm like, I'm tipping you to bag my own fucking groceries. I've seen that before. So I, um, I went to a baseball game. And I guess how the stadium is now is like, imagine they just have like a fridge. You grab the can and self-checkout. You go and scan it. Fucker asked for a tip. Do you know what the guy did? There was one guy working the sand. Do you know what he did? As I scanned it and I was tapping my card, he came over and opened the can for me. And it was unconceptual. I just thought this random stranger was taking my beer. I turned and I was like this. I was ready to swing. No, but sometimes tipping is like, I don't get why... because as somebody that works in the service industry, it's like when I'm getting a tip from you, it's because I'm committing however long you're there to making sure you have a good time. I am babysitting your adventure in this restaurant. I am sitting there making sure that little baby doesn't cry because his water is empty. Little baby doesn't have to get up to get more snacks. Little baby gets his nachos within 15 minutes, whatever. And you know what? That shit's fucking hard because Oh, here's the big thing. Allergies. When bitches have allergies to the dumbest shit, I have to go back and bat my eyelashes to the kitchen. What's the worst allergy? People have actually printed out a list of their allergies and handed it to me.

SPEAKER_01: 38:28

It's

SPEAKER_02: 38:29

happened two or three times. It's not all the time. Those people where they're allergic to everything? It's actually very serious? There are certain allergies that I think you're lying to me, but there's other allergies where I know you're not lying. If you print a list, you're not lying. Yeah, 100%. Like when people will think about when we worked at fast food and people would ask for no salt on their fries because they think they're woke as fuck and they're going to get fresh fries. Yeah. Like that's fake. Or I saw somebody said like, I don't believe people with onion allergies. I don't believe people that are like a hundred percent dairy free. Like if you're lactose intolerant, all the real lactose intolerant people be eating milk and cheese anyways. They don't give a fuck. But when you tell me, Oh, no dairy in anything. Why? Yeah. Like if you're vegan, like, That's a different conversation. I don't think you're lying about being vegan. Yeah, that's not an analogy. No, people be allergic to the dumbest shit. I just think you're a little bitch. Quite truthfully. Maybe I just need to be educated. But anyways, back to the whole topic. As a server, I am putting in a lot of effort. But then I also... If I'm ordering at the counter, I'm not leaving a tip. If I'm at a restaurant, I leave tips. I get it 100%. Now... okay this is going to be hot take as a server but some servers now are actually really entitled with their tips they're like don't come to a restaurant if you can't tip me 20% but like quite truthfully if I'm your server and I'm shit that day for whatever reason and you tip me nothing I know I was shit too like I think like at least for me like This is for in terms of serving. If I go to a restaurant, and I've told you this, call me cheap if you want to, but 15% standard. Yeah, 15% standard. And then I do kind of raise it if I think they did the extra above and beyond. Yeah, 15% is you got me my food with no real issues. And I wasn't like searching around for you. If you did like the bare minimum to make sure that I wasn't like upset at you, 15%. If you tried to spend some time like connecting with me a little bit, like even like just talk to me and we're friendly, 18%. If you actually like did a good job of like customer service and I actually like liked you as a person, 20% or more. See, I guess like for me, it's like 15% is like you just like bring me my food. yeah no well like no I always do 15% too but like I and then 18% is like just like bare minimum and then 20% is like oh like I actually had a posting conversation see 15% is like you gave me my food and maybe you said hi um But even if you're a little bit bad, as long as I got my food and it wasn't completely wrong, it's very rare I tip somebody under 50%. The last time I can think about, I was at this random bar and I ordered a salad and a beer. Don't ask me why I got a salad at a bar. And I got my beer at whatever time. And the server, he's like, you know, obviously it's a younger crowd. There's a lot of pretty girls around. And he's like, he definitely didn't punch in my salad into the system. There was nobody making my fucking salad. And I'm like watching him, I'm watching him flirt with all of these girls. Okay, but my other people at the table, they all got their food. And like, it was literally just my salad. And like, it's one thing if I could just flag him down and be like, hey, like, I would get it. But then it's like, He's not at the table. He is not at the table. Everyone's finished their drinks. I wasn't drinking that much that night, so I don't think he's really doing refills, but just completely ignored our table. I'm watching him flirt with other fucking girls all around, being all smiley, being all this. He comes back. He's like, all right, y'all ready for the bill? And then I'm just like, okay, whatever. And then the salad's on the fucking bill. And then I was like, okay. How'd you bring that up? That must have been so awkward for him, no? What? You being like, you're charging me for the salad, but you never brought it. No, I literally said that. I was like, you didn't... I never got a salad. And he just went like, oh. That's it? And then he was like, I'll be right back. And he took the salad off the bill. And I was just like...

SPEAKER_01: 42:35

That's all he did?

SPEAKER_02: 42:36

Yeah. That's crazy. And then I was just like, okay, whatever, like... I'm not tipping you. I just got a beer. It's not like I had a$100 bill and walked out. I think that's valid. I was just pissed off. Maybe he was just trying to watch my big back and didn't want me to eat. No, I think that's valid. If I was him and I didn't get tipped on that, I'd be like, yeah, okay, that's fair. Yeah, but that's what I mean. I'm realistic. That's valid. But also, on the flip side, I can tell what you're going to tip when you walk in. Like what? That's like some superpower you have? Well, no. It's just like, it's about... what your vibe is okay so what is my percentage you look like honestly you would tip well really because you look woke oh that's kind of a compliment no you look like you would tip well if you came in i would definitely be like risen you up trying to like get every penny off of you i would be asking you like everything about yourself because i feel like you're gonna tip well but then like i'm very easy to be one over but i feel like most gen z's like understand that... I think it's because we get it, right? Yeah, like, most Gen Zs nowadays have to work some shitty-ass customer service jobs. Like, they get it. Yeah. Honestly, this is going to sound really weird. I think boomers tip well. I think the ones... The people that don't tip me well... What age is boomers again? They're, like, 50s, 60s, some pushing 70s. Yeah, that's fair. I think the ones that don't tip well are millennials and... really, really old people. I don't even know what the generation's called, but the ones where their teeth are falling out. They don't tip me well. They honestly tip me what they think is well. I remember these ladies. I was with them for so long. It was these two old ladies. They came in. Their bill wasn't super big, but then what they did... I think their bill was going to be$40,$50. No. Wait. It was$58.$58. It was$58. They had a$50 bill and they're like, oh, I'll pay the rest on debit. That is a red flag. Because you punch in the$50 bill and then it's$8 left in the transaction. So the tip options are going to be for the$8, not for the entire bill. So then they tipped me like 20% on the$8. That's so sketchy. Yeah, and, like, you know what? I got it. But I think it's also, like, that's where I say, like, some servers are entitled because some servers, like, ones that I've worked with, that would ruin their whole day. Yeah. They would make it everybody else's problem. Like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But, like, I got it, and I was like, eh, she's probably just dumb. So, like, have you ever confronted someone about a tip? Never, because tips are optional. Like, I get a little bit, like, irked if I don't get tipped, especially when I know that, like, I gave you a good service. I kind of look at it and I'm like, okay, what did I do wrong? But I'm never like, just so you know, you should be tipping your service. I've never been like that because tips are optional. I've had that experience before. Really? So there was this one time, and it was in New York, so I think a tipping culture okay in america it's a lot different yeah because they get paid like two or three dollars as their minimum wage so yeah i think that's what it was so we're in new york at the time and we're at like yeah we're at a pretty nice restaurant and like i was younger so like i i don't think i got it and like there was the way that it was like we would wait how young Like, were you, like, a teenager and choosing to be a teenager? I'm being so for real. It was, like, last year. Yeah, you said you were young. I'm imagining you were, like, 15. I'm just trying to cover it up. Okay. Just because, like, I'm so embarrassed by this story. Like, so embarrassed by this story. And the way that we would have divvied up the bill, like, we would have divvied it up. but the way the restaurant is just kind of the one slap it on the table and you just kind of don't question it. So we're all there with our calculators trying to, you know, and I guess we calculated wrong. Um, and the waiter comes back and he goes, just so you guys know, like in New York, like the average percent for a tip is like, I can't remember what he said. He said like X and either way, 18 or 20 years, either way. I was deer in headlights. Like I was like, Oh, I'm so sorry. And then I think I literally just went into my wallet, grabbed two bills and put it on. I think I literally gave him$40 in that exact moment. Cause I was so embarrassed. I was so fucking embarrassed. Wow. Yeah. I don't know. I'm just like, I guess that's like the culture there, but like, yeah, like, yeah, it's, it's that thing where like, because tipping has kind of like inspired this thing where like, you know, for me and like other restaurant industry staff, like, you're paying your bills with money that other people are giving you. It gets a little stressful. I get it. I think that's a little crazy. I was so embarrassed, dude. I don't think I would go back to that restaurant anyways. You would never show face. Say, for example, if that happened to me in the area that I live, I would never go to that restaurant again. You would never see me ever in that building again. Also, guys, we're Canadian. that doesn't uh yeah but i hear there's like canadian accents anyways uh so my thing on tipping is it depends like yes i'm tipping restaurant industry but okay actually i tip my barber that's the only like other person i tip and it's because we go way back okay he knows my preference he knows that i want to sit in the chair he's going to ask me what i want And then I don't want to talk to him after that. So, yeah. So because I hate barbershots, small talk. So do I, because I use, I don't, I feel like you probably did this as well. I, so like I get my haircut now by a family friend, but before the barber I went to, I would tip him more the less he talked to me. Yep. Almost like kind of doing like the dog trick of being like, talk to me less. Isn't that Pavlov's training or something like that? I literally would tip him more if he talked to me less to the point where he would come up to me and be like, Hey, how's it going? What do you want? I'd be like, Oh, I'm good. Like, this is what I want. Cool. I sit in my chair. I call my phone as he's cutting my hair. That's it. See, okay, that's the one thing, actually. I've never, like, I feel so awkward pulling at my phone while I'm getting my hair cut. I don't care. But I think it's just the hair shop I go to. It's very, like, I don't know how to describe it without sounding insane. But it's just not the kind of place you pull at your phone. Like, everyone, I think it's because it's, like, a bunch of, like, men that are, like, really macho men. So like I go in there and I guess I feel like I'm trying to be like incognito in a sense, like inconspicuous. Also, if you pull up my phone and I'm on Instagram, it's going to be like RuPaul's Drag Race. Like yada, yada, yada, like dumb Twitter drama, stupid memes. And then I feel like they're going to be like they're going to they all speak another language. I'm so sorry. I don't know what like where they're from. That's fair. But they all speak another language with each other. And I just was so self-conscious. that they would just like talk shit about me in their language. So I'm just like, I'd be sitting in the chair, just like straight face, just like, That's crazy. For however long it takes to cut the hair. That's crazy. Yeah, and I don't have my glasses on either. That's another thing about haircuts as well.

SPEAKER_00: 49:46

I'm sitting there with my glasses on my lap. No, I hate it when they cut your hair and

SPEAKER_02: 49:52

they're like, do you like it? And then you're like this for five minutes trying to get your glasses where you're like, I can't fucking see. Yeah, and then I sit there and I go, yeah thank you yeah and then you walk up you never say and then and then you get to the car and then you start crying one time when i was like oh i was probably like grade three or something but my mom's friend was a she had a salon i don't know i haven't seen her since then but she had a salon that was close to our house so we went there and she like cut our my hair And, you know, when I was young, you probably remember this. I loved the, like, faux hawk moment. Yeah. Like, I loved to just, like, have a little pyramid growing on my head. And she, like, she fucked it up. And she cut it shorter than she meant to. And then she just kept cutting and cutting. I don't think she knew how to work with black hair. And eventually, I just had a buzz cut. Do you remember when my mom cut your hair? That's a story for another day, y'all. I don't want to disrespect. She's a lovely lady. But that... That fucked my shit up for a year. I just remember... I'm sorry, I'm going to... We'll talk about it. I just remember you going to the bathroom. Yeah. Looking in the mirror and turning to me dead in the eye and being like, is it okay? And I just started laughing. No, but then what was worse, then we went back and... Actually made it worse? Well, no. Yeah, and then you guys were laughing together and you were both just laughing at me as I'm sitting there, a victim of hate crime. Bye. It was crazy. What were we even talking about this for? Oh, yeah. So they shaved my head bold. And then I started crying because I didn't like how I looked. Like, I looked like an egg. Like, I have a really round head. So if I go for a buzz, I feel like I just look like a Malteser. And she's like, she sees that I start crying and she feels really bad. So she's like, look, look, it's okay. And then she pours glitter into my hair. So I have a fucking buzz cut. I have glitter in my hair and I'm crying. We got a free haircut, by the way. But that ruins my shit for months to come oh my god that's so funny yeah that was insane so i tip my barber he keeps me looking correct he gets a tip

SPEAKER_01: 52:08

yeah

SPEAKER_02: 52:09

and i think i honestly tip him the most out of anybody i tip him like 35 i mean i see like for there's some people where i don't even tip a resent i do an amount yeah that's my tattoo artist and my new hairdresser Yeah. Oh, tattoo artists. I also tip tattoo artists. Yeah. I don't do a percent. I'll tip. I think I'll do close to... Depending on how much it is, I'll do close to$50 to$75 a tip. Damn. Let me learn how to do a tattoo real quick. Do you want a tattoo? Do you want a tattoo? I just got a couple. So yeah, I guess you kind of summed up my tipping culture. I guess people know me and just look at me and just milk the shit out of me for tips. One more thing though on tipping. If you... If you're like a cashier or something, and the tip option comes up, and you say like, oh, there's an option on the screen for you there, I'm not tipping you. Even if I was going to tip you before, I'm not tipping you. Because I find that really great. The job that I work at, we do that, and I hit no tip before I turn it. Just because I'm like... yeah I can't be asked it's so fucking embarrassing in my opinion you're sitting there with your tail between your legs quivering like please give me 80 cents yeah that's just it I'm like insulted to a certain standpoint where I'm just like and you pull it at your like six other employees that's just it right so I end up with like 10 cents in my pocket I'm like wait show them your tip jar like I'm sorry if this is gonna pick up on the mic but it's like what the fuck am I like a dirty little whore like there's no bills just coins it's not even like it's toonies and loonies like it's fucking quarters like yeah you got a little jar of crack change yeah it is my crack change it's like okay all right what's next what do we got probably have time for one more and I'm not gonna lie I kind of want to do one of yours okay just because I feel like you get it you can choose either one of your other two okay okay okay okay okay I'm scared to talk about this one, but I'll talk about it. But I'm scared. I think I'm... Sports culture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't cancel me. Don't hate me, please. No, I don't think it'll get canceled. Okay. I find it like... insane watching people who are really into sports and i i really respect i mean you see me i you i am not playing sports with his body but like people that actually like play sports like even recreationally i have respect for you it's a good way to get exercise you play sports professionally that takes a lot of work a lot of people try to do it and they don't make the cut like that is a good thing if you're a professional but it's just like there's something cult-like about like sports bars for example and when you're in a sports bar and everyone's watching the game like I don't know if it's just something I don't understand but I'm like who the fuck cares okay let me give you some respect as I'm like literally wearing like a race card team jersey right now okay um basically uh like there'll be times where like I'm a Chelsea fan which is soccer I'll I'll be home alone I'll be home alone oh god it's so fucking embarrassing I'll be home alone and I'll be like in my chair and I'll visibly get frustrated if my team fucks up. It's not like I'm slamming my desk or anything like that, but I'll literally be like, I can't believe he missed that shot. I don't know what it is. And I don't know what I have this emotional tie to. I've been watching them for almost 10 years now. I've seen the team be great to shit to great to shit. I've seen the ups and downs of this team. But for example, I've never been there. They're in London. Yeah. I've never been to the stadium. I've never. Well, okay. I think about like, do you know the times we would go like see sports games and stuff? Yeah. I would be there. And my thing to get me through that is I just drink as much overpriced beer as I can and cheer when everybody else cheers. That's the best part about baseball. That's like, and I, I guess I kind of like the camaraderie of it. It's great. It's so much fun. That part is kind of cool, but like, Okay, for example, I'm thinking about, like, I've worked customer service for many years at this point. Thinking about all the people, like, who watched the game last night, know the fuck I didn't. Like, what game? That was, like, the... What was it? The... The Canada vs. US game. Like, the hockey game, the big hockey game that happened, like, two weeks ago. Whatever the fuck it was, where it was, like, the four nations facing off against each other. I couldn't give a fuck. But, like, literally, like, it was the same thing as well. It's like, I worked the day after, and it Did you watch the game? I was in class. My professor, who normally wears business attire, was wearing a Canada jersey. He spent five minutes talking about it in class. I'm like, this is what I'm paying thousands of dollars tuition for? Your little small talk about stupid shit? I don't know. I don't think that I get annoyed, but I don't understand it. Something in my brain can't comprehend the hype Behind like. Watching sports. Like playing sports is cool. I think you're cool if you play sports. Yeah. But just like watching sports. Like watching the game. I'm like. This is not entertaining. And it could be my brain rot. It could be the fact that I have like. Low ass dopamine. Was it? But just sitting there watching people kick balls around. Is it like. I'd rather watch cat TV. I guess is it like. I'm going to ask you a kind of like. I guess like free categories of this question. Is it like. Say for the actual activity that they're doing. Like the actual sport itself. Is it the. you don't get the competition or you don't get like the culture of like being a part of it. Kind of everything. Okay. I like actually like I, again, now I don't play many sports, but like there's times we've like played soccer, even just kicking the ball around. I've played like a couple of basketball games. Yeah. That's fun. Like it's an activity, but it's like watching other people do it. I guess it's the same thing as like watching people on Twitch, play your favorite video games. Cause I don't do that either. I think I'm just the type where I'd rather do it than see it. I'm watching sports. Watching sports feels like watching Twitch streams for boomers. That's how it feels to me. It's funny because I feel like the boomers are always like, you know, kids nowadays just want to watch other people play video games. What the fuck's that about? And then you go and watch every sports game. You're at the bar at three o'clock every day watching the fucking game. Yeah. I think like my perspective on that is like, and I don't know if this is it for soccer. I think it's just because like I grew up in soccer. But you also played a lot of soccer for many years. Yeah. But like, I think it's like, It's because I don't have the time to play it now. I think it's because I get to watch such a high competitive level of it for a short period of time. I think that's what it is for me. It's because I had that emotional connection. I don't have the time to invest in that hobby now. So now I watch others do it for an hour instead of devoting the amount of time that I was able to in the past. Do you get what I'm saying? I get what you're saying, but it's just like the fact that it's... big part of culture. Everybody's like... Let me give you an example. At our New Year's party this year, there was a point where I don't know what sports game came on because I wasn't paying attention. Was there a sports game? Somebody put sports on.

SPEAKER_01: 59:18

Oh, I do

SPEAKER_02: 59:19

remember. Was it hockey maybe? I don't know. I think I walked out of the room at that point. That's what I'm saying. I play hockey and I'm with people. I have opinions about that New Year's party. oh i know you do because yeah i was like well i was like where the fuck am i because not to sound like i'm like better than you like but i had options wait okay let me cook oh my god no i love you and i love our other friends but the plus ones that were added changed the dynamic entirely And that was like, cause plus ones are fair. You know, people want to bring their friends or people are seeing whatever. I brought a plus one for fuck's sake. So I sound like a hypocrite, but it's just, yours isn't a plus one. Yours was your partner. Like that's different. I just, all of the people that other people brought, I hated. Yeah. Yeah. And then when they put on the sports game, that was kind of the moment where I was like, Oh fuck. Like I'm in the wrong place because it's new year. I got a buzz on and I, now your people are talking about like hockey like i actually feel like uneasy yeah yeah and i don't know how to describe it but it's like i guess i just have this assumption that like people that are into sports are very different than me and i'm not gonna get along with them maybe that's what it is i like sports well i know you like sports but when was the last time we've talked about sports alex well i know you don't like sports so i don't bring it up to you and that's why we're friends That's valid. Yeah, okay. That's fair. Because my thing as well is I agree with you. There are some times where it's too far. Did you see what Philadelphia did when they won the Super Bowl? You know I don't know anything about that. Bro, okay. I need to show you some TikToks after because the team's green, right? Like their color's green? Yeah, their color's green. So Philadelphia, win or lose, they're destroying that city. And when I mean destroyed, they're taking light posts out. They're flipping cars. They're lighting shit on fire. Win or lose. That's how they celebrate. So picture everyone in green jerseys and the TikTok doing its thing of them just destroying the city. And then it just plays the Emerald City song from Wicked. That would have actually gotten me into it. See, that's funny. But at the same time, it's like, get rid of that sound of the Emerald City. I'm just like, the city is just okay with, I guess, them... Like, cause they won. Yeah. Like to me, that's crazy. I think, okay. McDonald's renamed one of their McDonald's officially to McDavid's. I saw that. I saw like things like that. Or I remember you were telling me the story about like guessing the Gatorade colors, the Superbowl. Yeah. I bet on that.

UNKNOWN: 1:01:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:01:54

It's not kind of crazy though. I think that's crazy. Yeah. But like, I think that's just more like humorous. Cause like, at least for me, I'm just like, One, I think that's just dumb fun. That's a good sports conversation to get people involved in the sports, but they don't have to know anything about the sports. For example, when the Super Bowl is happening, I can text someone and be like, what Gatorade color do you think it is? And you can have fun with that and not know anything about what's happening in the Super Bowl. So that was my way of me having excitement for the Super Bowl and me reflecting that without me going around and being like, who do you think is going to win? Because you're not going to give a fuck about that. But if I go up to you and go, oh, what color Gatorade is going to be, everyone could be like, oh, that's fun. Like, you know? Okay, wait. So, like, what sports don't you like? What sports do you like watching and what sports do you not like watching? Like watching or like? What? Well, like, for example, I hate football. Why? I'm going to get canceled. Okay, we can talk about it after. To sum it up shortly, I think that the way that the league is run is... It's... To make it easy, it's run by a lot of old white dudes. I'm just going to say it like that. We're just going to say it like that. Hockey, I just don't like hockey culture. And you know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm talking like high school boys. Hey, buddy! I hate hockey culture. I hate what it turns people into. I hate it. They're going to revoke your Canadian citizenship. Fucking do it. I dare you, pussies. So I don't like hockey for that reason. Um... Other than that, I'm pretty open to it. Can I tell you one of my guilty pleasures right now? Tennis. Fire. Tennis is a fire sport. Tennis is fire, dude. Like watching it? Yeah, they're fire. Some of the shit they do is crazy. But you know what? Maybe I need to actually sit down and watch a sports game. Because I just can't do it. I can't bring myself to do it. I'm down to have that experience with you, but I can make it easy for you. Knowing you, you're not going to like it. thank you reading actually because okay i like that okay wait wait wait wait wait i'll let you make your statement wait wait i like the idea of reading

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:09

yeah

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:10

but i am so brain rotted that like i feel like i can't sit down to read but i also feel like my life is full of distractions and obviously like phones and stuff you go a large part into this but like i have a loud household I have a cat that's always doing some crazy shit. If I'm like, okay, I'm going to read a book today. I'm going to open up the first page. I'm going to read three words and I'm going to get distracted over and over and over and over. And then sometimes I just be checking my phone. No guilt in it. So can I, uh, I used to be like that. Oh, okay. And so I, I, I've since adjusted and yeah. Um, he has plans now. Sorry. He has plans now. Yeah. Uh, you, you have to build your, uh, brain to it. to a sense. My sessions of reading have increased. At first, it was one or two pages, and now I can read 75 pages in one sitting type thing. One, the book has to interest you. I'm also at the point where for a while, I tried to force myself to read books. I was like, why am I doing that? If I don't like the book, I'm going to stop. Same with a TV show. If I don't like this TV show, I'm not going to continue. Did you start with comic books? Yeah, I did, to be truthful. I did start with comic books, and don't get me wrong, some comic books are good, but a lot of the writing in it I don't think is as good as actual books. And now, since I've started to get into books, this is going to be a hot take. I think a lot of books are better than most TV shows that we consider great. Is that a hot take? I feel like everybody says that trying to be different. I think an average book is better than great TV shows. For example, Game of Thrones... Okay, but I'm actually a Game of Thrones hater. Okay, let me say this. Everyone thinks that Game of Thrones is, like, one of the best TV series. If you compare it to fantasy books, I don't think it makes a lot of people's, like, top five or top ten books. It's an average fantasy book, in my opinion. I mean, maybe one could argue, though, that, like... Like, when you're reading something, it's more up to you on how you interpret it and how you, like... imagine it because i feel like when you're reading something like a fiction book you're meant to like draw to your own conclusions and like make your own deductions from it so maybe you're reading a fantasy book your mind is just so vivid you're like wow this is better versus game of thrones that's like written produced shown by actors like it's you're gonna perceive it a limited number of ways. I just think George R.R. Martin. Like, I'm just going to be so for real. Oh. That's a hot take. I'm going to be so for real. But I guess what I was saying with the books is like, oh, shit. I give him one Amaretto Sour and he's calling people. Bro, I'm telling you.

UNKNOWN: 1:07:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:04

I don't even remember how we got the books. I, yeah, I don't know. I encourage you to just build that muscle memory for the books. Cause like, I'm sorry. Like it's cause as much as you said, it was like, I guess like you had so many distractions. There are some times where like I use it as a way as like an out. Like if I feel like I'm like clustered or like my thoughts are everywhere or I'm like overwhelmed, I'll read because I just sit there and I just, it's, I, that's all I focus on. And then you almost get like a runner's high, but like for reading, you get a reader's high. And you're, I, it's like a high, like you'll time travel, like you'll two hours later. You're like, yeah, it's, it's incredible. It's such a, it's such a good feeling. Okay. That's, that feels like a good way to like kind of wrap up on the hot taste because that was educational. Yeah. You've just inspired me. Everyone read a book. Everyone read one book. Everyone read a book, dude. That's your homework. that's my homework too I'm going to read one book I know I know exactly what's going to happen and if it's Robert Munch don't at me I don't want to hear about it I know exactly what's going to happen we're going to do the next episode and I'm going to be like I said did you read a book and you're like no it depends on when we do the next episode okay that's fair I'm probably not going to read it I know you're not going to read it well anyways thanks so much did you want to close no I opened you closed it's only fair you want me to close oh you're putting me on the spot I don't know what to say I'm sorry you're gonna have to close man thanks so much for joining us in our first episode of Yap I hope you guys uh enjoyed listening to us literally just yap about nonsense for yeah a good 50 minutes get sidetracked and we'll see you again soon yeah thank you guys all right I thought that was good no I liked that I felt we looked