#518 - A Robot Is Pregnant With My Baby

1 Sep 2025 · 1 h 18 min · 27 chapters

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In short

The hosts riff on “thinking” body language (chin stroking, lip tapping), ancient Greeks vs Romans jokes, cartoons/superpowers, and then pivot to a news-style discussion about Chinese scientists developing robot surrogates that can carry a pregnancy. They debate whether robot pregnancy could ever replicate real biology, what it might cost, and whether it would be “weird/cold” or “doomed” next-step tech. They also cover Cambridge Dictionary new slang words (inspo, mouse jiggler, trad wife) and end with more banter about music/film creativity and imposter syndrome.

Guests

No guests are present; it’s a multi-host conversation (the transcript shows two main speakers, plus mentions of “Ant” as an absent third).

Key claims

Robot surrogacy would require solving complex pregnancy mechanics (umbilical cord, fetal development, breathing after birth). Pricing would likely be competitive with human surrogacy (they throw out figures like $30–40k and up to $100–200k). “Mouse jiggler” is a device/software to make it look like you’re working remotely.

Notable examples

Beetle Borgs; Men in Black (Tommy Lee Jones inside an alien); Bug’s Life; Hangover math gag; Cambridge Dictionary definitions; Netflix pricing tiers.

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Chapters

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The Art of Thinking

0:03 to 0:29

Discussion about the modern perception of thinking and its implications.

“The new PayPal app is like that, but for your money.”

The Art of Thinking

0:39 to 1:51

Discussion about the modern perception of thinking and its implications.

“I'm doing my, I'm doing my, like, I'm thinking, like, I've, I've, I'm, I don't know.”

Ancient Romans vs. Greeks

1:51 to 4:40

Light-hearted debate about the differences between Romans and Greeks.

“But I want to walk amongst where the gladiators were.”

Travel and Historical Sites

4:40 to 10:34

Discussion on travel preferences related to ancient sites like the Coliseum and pyramids.

“This is the universal for using your mind.”

The Concept of Robot Pregnancy

10:34 to 12:16

Exploration of new robotics technology involving robot surrogacy.

“I also sometimes think that I think, like, a fucking, like, what you would expect an android in a movie to think.”

Movies and Memorable Scenes

12:16 to 13:20

Nostalgic recollections of scenes from 'Men in Black' and other films.

“Where like the dude's inside the, when Tommy Lee Jones is inside the alien.”

Halloween Costume Ideas

13:20 to 14:00

Hosts humorously discuss potential Halloween costumes.

“There's, like, bitings and, like, there's just slime and goopies everywhere.”

Exploring Identity and Labels

14:00 to 16:55

The hosts discuss various identity labels and the complexities of modern identity.

“Someone's going to yell at us on comments somewhere.”

The Magic of Childbearing

16:55 to 18:53

A conversation about the beauty of carrying children versus robotic alternatives.

“I'm just throwing trigger words out now at this point.”

Robot Pregnancy and Its Implications

18:53 to 24:45

The hosts delve into the hypothetical scenario of robot pregnancy and its challenges.

“I mean, listen, there's certain things about women you can't replicate on a robot, right?”
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Robot Pregnancy and Its Implications

25:17 to 25:43

The hosts delve into the hypothetical scenario of robot pregnancy and its challenges.

“The new PayPal app is like that, but for your money.”

Fictional Futures and Personal Choices

25:43 to 28:00

The hosts reflect on personal choices regarding parenthood amidst futuristic scenarios.

“But I'm saying what you're describing is like when a baby is like growing from a fetus, whatever, like their noses are blocked and shit and like shit like that.”

Tumblr Nostalgia and Billie Eilish

28:00 to 32:51

The hosts reminisce about Tumblr posts and discuss Billie Eilish's music.

“And, like, the picture was just, like, someone, like, reading in front of a volcano or something.”

Tumblr Nostalgia and Billie Eilish

34:16 to 36:06

The hosts reminisce about Tumblr posts and discuss Billie Eilish's music.

“So liquid IV is going to keep you hydrated.”

Patreon and Live Shows

36:32 to 37:55

The hosts discuss their Patreon and upcoming live shows, engaging with fans.

“you're eating you're drinking you're thinking you're stinking a lot of the basement yard to join you for whatever.”

New Words in the Cambridge Dictionary

39:52 to 42:06

A conversation about new words added to the Cambridge Dictionary, including humorous takes on language.

“white, hetero, cisgender, white, white, white, white, white, white, white.”

The Mouse Jiggler: A New Work From Home Tool

42:06 to 44:48

Learn about the concept of a mouse jiggler and its implications for remote work.

The Concept of a 'Trad Wife'

44:48 to 48:38

Explore the definition of a 'trad wife' and discussions around traditional versus modern roles.

“But so now the wife is just a newer version and the trad wife is that.”

Defining the Broligarchy

48:38 to 52:50

Delve into the term 'broligarchy' and its implications in today's societal discussions.

“Here's a tradition that's weird that we should get rid of.”

Interviews and Broligarchy Encounters

52:50 to 56:00

Hear about personal experiences and interviews with people from the broligarchy.

“Okay, that sounds like what him and his boys are into.”

Exploring the Broligarchy

56:00 to 58:57

Discussion on the concept of the 'broligarchy' and its implications.

“Like the going from crypto and gold to women not respect.”

The Skibbity Phenomenon

1:00:33 to 1:01:58

Discussion about the term 'skibbity' and its cultural significance.

“The final word going in to the Cambridge dictionary.”

New York Diner Culture

1:01:58 to 1:08:36

A humorous take on New York's diner food and culture.

“But like that, there are things at like, like that for that generation.”

Spreadable Butter Dilemma

1:08:36 to 1:10:01

A light-hearted discussion on the frustrations of unspreadable butter.

“You guys love, but like snacks, you love to have snacks in your fridge.”

The Struggles of Spreadable Butter

1:10:01 to 1:12:09

Learn about the frustrations of unspreadable butter in restaurants and the preference for warm, creamy options.

“like you create a divot in your whatever you're putting it on?”

Olive Oil and Bread: A Culinary Delight

1:12:10 to 1:14:12

Explore the joys of dipping bread in olive oil and the delights of focaccia and Mediterranean cuisine.

“Probably not in the amounts that we were having it.”

The Idea of a Bread Bar

1:14:13 to 1:16:02

Discover the humorous concept of a restaurant that serves only different types of bread and spreads.

“Let's open a bar and they have no like entrees, but it's just different bread and bread.”
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0:36Welcome back to the basement yard. What are you thinking about so pensively over there? I'm doing my, I'm doing my, like, I'm thinking, like, I've, I've, I'm, I don't know. I'm not, I'm not really sure. Okay. That's like the thing that like people do now to be cool, to be like, oh wow, that person's thinking. Like, remember when we were younger, it was like this, and now it's - Who's this? Who's that guy? That's the thinker. Is he Greek? I think he's either Greek or Roman? Is he Greek? Greek is I mean back then. What's back then? Greek and Roman. That's the same thing to me. What's the difference?

1:08One gets fucked in the butt. The other does the butt fucking. Too hot for the start? I don't. We're in the beginning of the episode. I don't know that you can start with that. Alright. So let's back up. One enjoys anal. Take all this out. Just go back. Let's do the rewind.

1:31Take that out as well. Thank you so much. All right. What's the difference between the ancient Romans and the ancient Greeks? One enjoys receiving anal. One enjoys giving it. Oh, I thought you were going to say something completely different. Oh, no, no, no, no. I cleaned it up a little bit. You know, I cleaned it up because anal could be a messy topic. I like that. I like that. No, I think. You're talking about poop. Because of, yeah, because of. Because of butts. Because of butts. Right. You know? You want to go to the Coliseum? Should we go? I mean, I don't. It's just an old. I mean, maybe.

2:07But I want to walk amongst where the gladiators were. I don't want to be in the seats where the fucking normies were. Whoa. I feel like you could. Do they know who we are? Yeah. Do they even know who we are? The Romans? Let's do a show at the Coliseum. It's in ruins. Doesn't mean people walk the stands. Doesn't mean they can't sit there for a show. We're not doing a show at the Coliseum. That would be cool, though. Would it? Oh, the walls to touch there. I would have to. I'm surprised you wouldn't like to do that. Well, that's why I think. You wouldn't. If we went to the pyramids, you wouldn't want to go in?

2:45No. Go in. No. Touch the inside of a pyramid. No, no, no. I'm fine touching the outside. You know, I'm cool with the outside walls. Here's the issue with the pyramids. I've seen too many movies about mummies. I've seen like I can just mumble we stumble and mumble a lot over our words we fall over our words I just saw the clip of you trying to say much oxygen and it took you a couple minutes much oxygen think about if you stumble over your words in the pyramids you might be like releasing emotep you know what I'm saying you don't know what you're doing out there you just gotta be careful I'm more worried about the Beatles those are not real but there's a lot of them why are they in every movie There has to be some truth to the fact that there's pyramid beetles.

3:28I'm sure there are pyramid beetles, but I don't think they, like, dig under your skin and you could see them crawling up your arms and stuff like that. I'm not worried about them digging. I'm worried about, like, wings. Ew. Oh, why? Like a beetle's wings. Like they open their back and then you see like, yeah, like it sounds like a hell of a guy. I always think of a bug's life. Remember that scene in a bug's life? Yes. Love that. I do. That's a great movie. You know what's crazy? We found a beetle the other day at the lake and Miles opened its back shell and he's like, it has wings. And I was like, that fell.

3:58Bro, I thought that you were going to say he opened the wings and went, it's a girl. No, no, no, no, no. Like it fell when he did that. I was, I said to him, I was just like, don't do that. That seems invasive. Yeah. Like ass. Like it was dead. It was a dead beetle. It was a dead beetle. Oh, I mean, you know. One less dead beetle. I don't care. Yeah, well, be nice. Do we need beetles? The earth? Do we need a beetle? I mean, you never know. They could Borg. They could beetle into Borgs. They could beetle Borg. I knew you were going to make this about cartoons. I'm not going to talk too much. And it was live action, by the way.

4:27It was. It was live action. Was that the one with the purple guy? Am I allowed to talk about this? What? Am I allowed to talk about this? You're going to start naming years? I mean, if you want me to talk about 1997. No, you don't want me to talk about... lou elvis guy right yes his name was flabber that was his name yeah flabber the ghost you know horrible name but i mean i know recently we spoke about small soldiers and people were just like maybe don't talk about so much about the thing is we didn't talk about small soldiers okay one of us talked about it forever we this is a conversation it wasn't guilty by a social babe go back and watch that wasn't a conversation i i it disappeared off my radar i don't know where it you know but yes beetle borgs was a great show um is that the one with the girl will crack her knuckles and then turn into something yeah they each had like superpowers and one was just like he could do like you know like wait was she yeah i think she was a strong one one of them could move stuff with his mind and one of them was really fast which one would you want to be strong really oh wait you can move stuff with his mind yeah but like what's the what is all you know that's a great question all right joe super speed telekinesis super strength is telekinesis like Like, I can...

5:40You can kinesis with your tele. Yes. I know. But that's your thoughts? Yes. Like, I can go like this. This is the universal for using your mind. Exactly. You know, I mean, how many people have we seen do this? I know. You go like this, and you could lift up anything. But I don't know about anything. Can I read minds? No. Oh. That's telepathy. Yeah. I didn't know if telekinesis was, like, the umbrella term for all the telas. No. The kinesis is moving something. The pathy is like the mind. Yeah, the pathy. Thoughts. But like, so, oh, that's a good question because here's the thing. The strength, you can lift a bunch of stuff, but you have to physically get up and do it.

6:19Yeah. I mean, I definitely wouldn't pick that one because I would just pick, was it telekinesis? Yeah, but you won't be able to lift as much. Why not? Let's say with your, let's see, I'm putting the perimeters on the question here. Ant's not here, so he can't do it. Yeah, Ant's not here. Ant's not here. Well, you want to know where he is? You guys are like, oh, what happened to Ant Camel? You're not giving him any? He's at the Rainforest Cafe having Corona Ritas. He sent me a fucking picture. He's fired. Yeah. By the way. For a little bit. And by the way, having Corona Ritas is an understatement.

6:47He is downing those bitches. There's four. But like telekinesis, you could only lift up to your body weight. And strength, you can lift 10 times your body weight. Which is still not that much. I was going to say. It's still not that much. So you'd only be able to lift 1 ,000 pounds. Was it? The joke is you're 100 pounds and you're 5 '1". Right. You know? Okay. Now I'm understanding. Was it super speed? The fuck am I going to do with that? Super speed. Win a race? Who cares? I mean, you could go to one of our shows and be back that night. That fast? Super speed. The speed is super. Holy shit. I'm taking that.

7:29That's speed. That's super. I'm taking that. Yeah? Yeah. You completely cut out travel. That's insane. Yeah, but with super speed comes super metabolism, which means you need to eat all the time. Wait, why do you keep adding stuff? That's me. I'm the adder.

7:49I mean, you're making me go pick one. Which one am I supposed to pick? I'm giving you plus and minuses to each and every single one, Joey. So there's different... You know what? Fuck that. I'm taking the speed anyway. I get to eat more? Yeah, I think I might take the speed too. Fuck that. Because here's the thing. with like super strength, like cool. What am I going to do with it? Just walk around. What am I going to do? Yeah. What am I going to do? Like this? I mean, you know, maybe in like a severe emergency, but hopefully that never happens. Right. Telekinesis could be cool, but also like I would just become a lazy fat bastard.

8:19Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I'm with you on the speed though. Yeah, I would probably do that. And then you could go from just you to one of the three typical average kids that found a haunted mansion. And just like that, you're free to go. Who made you a Beetleborg? Is that the song? That's the entrance. Yeah, the opening song. Got it. You know, I really wish I could give you homework to go and watch something and you can come back and report on it. Or you can enjoy the things that you enjoy and I enjoy the things that I enjoy and then we share them on the show and then we both have an appreciation.

8:49No, because part of enjoying something is to be able to— Is jamming it down other people's throats. Jamming is a strong word. It is just simply introducing it to your throat and then allowing you to swallow at your leisure.

9:09can I make one request can you just pick up the phone take that out if my dad sees it he's going to kill me

9:20but yeah so back to what I was saying this is like the new thing for thinking oh we're going all the way back we're going all the way because this is what like Elon Musk does when he sits down and he says something that has no basis for truth where he's just like society is going to collapse because of soy you know like he says something like that right yeah so but that was the old one that was the old thinking one like oh okay or this i like to tap my lips you know who does that uh ruby she taps her look yeah she was like this because like i would do it jokingly to her oh i would like she has her little blankie called cozy and i'll put it on my head and i'll be like ruby i can't find cozy anywhere so now she does that to play around she'll be like it's very very cute but so we have the tapping yeah we have the chin stroking yeah oh if i had like a beard dude a little bit of this thinking with my beard hell yeah i mean you need like a how do you think you just get real tight your face i get tight i get tight i'm just you bite your tongue you bite anything i feel like i bite my lip a little when i think you know what i notice i i do this i go i go underbite i go does that i don't know what 90 of the time he's like this well no no i'm not doing this i'm going underbite up i'm going you do oh you give yourself an underbite i go underbite you know is that how you think how do i think i think i just think like Like, I kind of, like, I just, like, just stare into space like an idiot.

10:56I also sometimes think that I think, like, a fucking, like, what you would expect an android in a movie to think. I'm like, you know, like, my body. Oh, you're kind of looking all over the place? Like, you're doing math. And then, like, in the background, you would see, like, remember in The Hangover, where it's just, like, you see, like, 3x squared plus 4, you know. And all you're doing is trying to figure out. All I'm doing is trying to figure out. Like, a director's name from the 80s that's going to serve no purpose on this show. I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it could and might. but it could and might we don't know but speaking of beetle borgs and robots and would you just say droids crazy did i say droids did i think you did say droids i don't think i said droids at all frank word but there are droids uh being created in china i said a soft seat well i here's what's going to be really interesting yeah we talked we started off talking about butt fucking yeah and now we brought up China.

11:47What is going to be a hotter word to drive people away from this episode? Uh, butt fucking. I think so. What's more universally like butt fucking or China? I don't have an answer to that question. I'm questioning. I just said question. I don't have an answer to that question. Um, but China, I think it's Chinese. The scientists create or creating and like have it in beta. these like robots that apparently can have like a baby like birth a baby or like what's it called like a robot baby no not a robot baby like it's like a it like does the pregnancy like a surrogacy oh yeah so it's like oh we just take the jizz we put it in the robot and the robot holds it huh interesting that's how you think baby that's oh look at me tapping my cheek I would be very into this if I could watch if there was a window and I could watch it grow.

12:46It's just like sloshy sloshy in there. To begin with, yeah. It's probably disgusting. Gross. I mean this is interesting. In Men in Black the first one. I'm listening. Where like the dude's inside the, when Tommy Lee Jones is inside the alien. Oh, that was yucky. That's what I imagine it's like being in a fetus. And then he shoots his way out, right? He finds his gun and he shifts his way out. Yo, that movie is a fucking, like, sensory overload. When's the last time you watched that movie? There's, like, bitings and, like, there's just slime and goopies everywhere. That one dude freaks me out. The...

13:31Dude, that's Vincent D 'Onofrio. Can't park here. That's Vincent D 'Onofrio. Isn't that crazy? What? Yeah, that's Kingpin, baby. That's Gomer Pyle. Good for him, man. You know, that's private pile that guy freaks me out also whatever i just did i think i just like yeah you know that's pretty good i'm pretty surprised we should be that for halloween i'll be him and you be will smith i know how bad you've been looking for a halloween costume i can't be will smith for why not there's a big reason that i can't ah the mustache you would never cut just your mustache no it starts with s and ends in kin color all right so i can't do that can't do it um but i could be tom lee jones well you just have to be agent k he's k right agent k you have to be like this you know yeah i think uh we're kind of here's the thing as non-child carrying cisgendered heterosexuals white yeah you know uh of like doing well for ourselves financially males.

14:39Males. Bait alpha. I was going to say bait. Alpha. Alpha. Alpha cucks. Alpha. Is that it? We're not beta cucks. We're not cucks. Just make that very clear. Alpha cucks. What are we? I don't know. Something with great glittering. Someone's going to yell at us on comments somewhere. Everything that we are. Snowflake. Well, I mean, sure. Yeah, we are. We are liberal minded. Yeah. Snowflakes. in some corners of the internet, secretly gay. Yup. So how many things can we possibly have at once? I mean, so we're... Let's go over the list here. So hetero. Hetero. Cisgendered. Cisgendered. Male. White. Yeah.

15:19Which, you know, I guess by proxy I'm part of the white now. You are white. I think by definition I am not. What do you put on papers? Latino. Okay, so you're Latino. And then when it, because there's, it says nationality and then it says race. So wait, I think we're more white though, because I'm white. I'm 50%. If we put us in like a paint bucket. I'm 50 % Columbia. That's what I mean. So if we put us in a paint bucket and we twirled it around. No, hell no. It'd be more white. Hell no. You'd be more of a cream. Right. Bro, you put a single drop of a color in white and it becomes that color. My point is.

15:52White is such a, like a little whiny bitch. Hey, watch it. You are, you guys are little whiny bitches. I'm telling my grandma. I have to tell someone. Well, you guess what? I know, I can't tell her. You can't tell her. I can tell her when I pray tonight, dumbass. You're praying? I don't know. So you're a God-loving, white, cisgendered hetero? What does that mean, by the way? I'm a God-fearing man. Well, because I think, like, you're supposed to fear. Fear God? What's the line between fear and respect? This is what happens when Ant's not here. We get all over the place. Dude, I don't think we've stayed on.

16:23Not that he reels us in, because he would contribute. We haven't stayed on a topic for four seconds. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter. He would contribute something that's, like, just completely nuts, where he would just be like, have you guys ever, like, sucked? Yeah, slapped your friend's balls. Yeah, slapped your friend's balls because it was hurting them. Yeah. Because it was hurting them. So, yeah, so we're, I guess I'm guilty by association. Yeah, you're white. White. Yeah. Hetero. Right. Cisgendered of a higher tax bracket. Right.

16:54Liberal snowflake. Liberal snowflake. Snowflake. Secretly closeted gay? Secretly closeted gay. There's so much. I mean, you could probably throw at us. Millennials. We're millennials. Oh, people hate that. Yeah. You know, socialists. Are we socialists? I don't know. I'm just throwing trigger words out now at this point. Socialists. You know, AOC loving. Like, uh-oh. There goes half of our audience. Democrat. Yeah. Yeah. So, we're, you know. Why did we bring that up? Because I was going to say, like, how do we talk about this? Because, like, we don't carry children. Oh. So, like, I'm sure there is a group of women that are just like, oh, that's nice.

17:37Or I shouldn't even say women because that isolates. See me? There's that Libby boy. Someone blow his mouth with a gun. Yeah. Child bearing. People that are able. Child bearing. Child carrying able. That doesn't even sound like a sentence. Individuals, however they choose to identify, they're able to carry children. Right It's getting confusing guys Come on No I know what you're saying Like They might be like Oh this is This is cool But then also From someone that shares their life with a Hetero white devil No No Like From someone that shares a life with a woman that has That has carried three children She's bared them And bared them Yeah She's done a ton of Like with them She bares them You barely do anything But like I think the argument she would be made that she would make too is just like, that's also kind of like, there's a, there's a magic and beauty to carrying the children.

18:34Of course. You know, and like, think about what a robot kid would come out like. Well, it would, would it be a robot kid or a human kid? It would be a human kid, but I'm saying like, you know, even, even women who choose to do surrogacy in like another woman, there's a, there's a human aspect to that. Yeah. You get rid of that completely, and it's just, you know, wires and hooks and wires. Yeah. And other hooks. I mean, listen, there's certain things about women you can't replicate on a robot, right? All right, what are you talking about? A vagina. Oh, yeah. I mean, you could put a vagina on a robot.

19:09Yeah, but not a... It ain't the same, though. It ain't the same, baby. It ain't the same. You could put a Ferrari engine in an Audi and what's going on. You know what I'm saying? I don't know either. I don't know either I don't know who makes the engines to be fair Yeah it's the Germans Yeah someone

19:29No we're good now we're good Stupid episodes But the Chinese Pregnancy robot What do we think retail That would go for Oh I mean a car It's bread I mean if we're doing to the American dollar Which, what is the, what do they got over there? Yen? Or is that Japan? I know that Japan has it. What's the dollar, what's the currency in China? What is the currency in China? Which, listen, we can make a ton of arguments about the - Man, I really wish I knew how to pronounce that. We can make a ton of arguments about the effects that Donald Trump has had on our world. I will never say China the same ever again.

20:14Yeah. What is it? It's CNY. It's the Chinese. Come on. You don't want to. You don't want to. Well, I just don't know how to say them, but it translates to the people's currency. Okay. That's weird. These are the people's currency. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So whatever the Chinese currency is. Yeah. What's that to the dollar? How much is a surrogacy, do you think? Surrogacies can get up there, buddy. They could be in the tens of thousands of dollars. I would say they could start at like 30 to 40, right? it's way more than that really yeah it's like 100 to 200 wow you're asking someone to carry a baby that's a lot yeah i guess you know we've been very we consider ourselves very lucky that we were able to have three healthy young beautiful children yeah so it's not something i've looked into right yeah so if a surrogacy for human is 100 to 200 right here's a robot hold on it's gonna be more but would it be more because then what would entice people to use the robot over the person i think that there's just it i don't know listen let me put on let me take off my hat and put on my chinese business hat it would be 718 000 people's currency but what is that American.

21:33$100 ,000. For what? Robot surrogacy? Just for a surrogacy is that. Hmm. Wait, the dollar doing okay over there? Can we go shopping in China? I don't know. I mean, China is like an expensive place from what I gather. Interesting. I would say if I have my Chinese business hat on. Right. I would say that they should price it a little more expensive, but not too much more expensive than what surrogacy is. Okay. Because what's the, well, like you want it to be competitive. You can do it with fucking all these like big tech companies like fucking Netflix. Listen, Chinese robots, listen to Netflix. Oh, you're talking straight to the robots.

22:21Oh, yeah. Now we're in. Oh, you're trying to form a union? No. Oh. I don't want them to talk. I'm just trying to talk to them through me. Don't talk to Netflix. Okay. Start low. And then through time, every year, just increase. That's what Netflix did. Netflix was like, yo, it's$10 a month. It's better than cable. We have everything. And it's been 10 years and they're like, we have nothing. We have our own programming. You best believe you're going to watch, you know, season eight of fucking, you know, I don't know what the hell is on there anymore. and it's now$40 a month. Is it? Netflix is up there now.

23:04To get, like, ad-free, multiple people can use your thing, it's got to be at least$30. Bro, the only thing I've bought ever is Hulu. Everything else I have from other people. You say that now until they're going to get you. Get you. How do you still have Netflix? Someone's paying for you to have Netflix. No. Whose Netflix is it? I have a lot of them. A lot of them. Really? Yeah. My mom's cable, I can sign into, like, anything. She pays for cable. Well, yeah, I pay for cable, too, but, like... But I don't pay for cable. I mean, so now what people are doing is it's, like, it's a different tier model.

23:38So, like, base Netflix is, like, you can have it in three devices in your one home. Or you can do it, like, you know, the holy shit package, which will be, like, 30 bucks a month. And you can have up to three different IP addresses. So, like, you can have it at your house. I can have it at mine. And Greg can have it at his. Yeah. but that's what I'm saying. So if the Chinese robots were smart, right. Start low. You're saying they're not smart. I don't know. I haven't seen or spoken to them. I mean, they're, they're giving birth. How dare you? Are they? I don't know if they're giving birth. See, how do you give birth to a baby through a robot?

24:15Like, can you just, yeah. Can we just like, is it like a, like a sail, not a sailor, like a diver's helmet? Like you're open it up in the water. Yeah. I mean, I could see that being the case, you know, How does it grow an umbilical cord? I mean, I imagine there's a lot of stuff they've got to figure out. And that too. Chinese science. Chinese science. Is going to take care of the umbilical cord. Chinese science needs to figure this out. But, I mean, there's also innate historical things that they are not going to be able to replicate. Or like they're going to have to try to replicate. Because think about it.

24:53When the baby's in there, they don't breathe. And then they come out and it's like... So, like, how do they... Like, what do they have to do to get that? Why would that change? What do you mean why would that change? They'd be in, like, the placenta. Yeah, but I'm saying, like, they gotta replicate a bunch of shit. I don't know if you know this. Pregnancy is complicated. This episode is brought to you by PayPal. You know how a mom's bag has everything? Sunscreen? Snacks? A stapler? The new PayPal app is like that, but for your money. Shop, pay, manage your account, and earn rewards all in one place.

25:31And with purchase protection on eligible items, biometric security, and pass keys, you're protected at every step. Download the new PayPal app to get started. See paypal.com slash protection terms. Frank, it's very easy. It's two steps in and out. Yep. No, I know. But I'm saying what you're describing is like when a baby is like growing from a fetus, whatever, like their noses are blocked and shit and like shit like that. But what I'm saying is we don't know what we don't know. Right now. Correct. You know? Right now. We don't know what we don't know. You know? Right now, I would say the vast majority of people on this planet have been delivered via birth.

26:14Whether it be cesarean, whether it be natural. By the way, cesarean sounds like a lovely rap. Oh, really, really yummy. I would eat that. We don't know the possible ramifications of trying to engineer that outside of it. That's what I'm saying. Because we haven't done it yet. Yeah. So like a robot baby dude, I'd be like, bro. So what's it going to be? Kind of weird, probably. You think so? And like cold. Yeah. Like, bro, you grew up around nuts and bolts. Come on. I mean, I'm sure that they'll probably have like a pretty like high end cushy situation in there. Yeah. Yeah. This seems like it's the obvious next step for humanity because we're doomed, but I wouldn't do it.

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26:59Yeah. Like if, bro, tomorrow someone would be like, you can have a kid next week, but we're going to grow it in this Chinese robot. I'd be like, fuck that, dude. No, you don't want to do it. No, I mean, I just, ugh. Your son, you'll be able to watch your son grow or daughter. Oh, I said son first. Oh, you don't know. You don't know. That's crazy. I mean, don't even start with that because I would rather a dollar. No, you'd rather a dollar. I would rather a dollar than a child. No, I'd rather a daughter because then I don't have to worry about like, you know, not a different set of worries, man.

27:40No, no. I mean, yeah, I get that. I'm prepared. I think. No, no, you ain't. No, I mean, like, I would rather have a daughter first so that I don't, like, then whatever. Well, you know what they say, Joey? Yeah. Man plans, God laughs. Where'd you hear that? That was your mom. Like a Tumblr post? Oh, a Tumblr post. Back in the day? Yeah, I was going to say. And, like, the picture was just, like, someone, like, reading in front of a volcano or something. Dude. With their socks on. You know which one I loved back in the day on Tumblr? She believed, and then he lied. He lied. And I was like, oh, you bitch.

28:18Wasn't that like a Billie Eilish song? What? Wasn't there a song that was like, it was that. It was like, he cheated, she believed it. Heed. Or something. Wasn't there a Billie Eilish song that was like. Oh, like the title was something like that? Yeah, some shit like that. Oh, maybe, I don't know. I thought you were saying Billie Eilish created She Believed He Lied. I was like, there's no possible way. I mean, we don't know William Eilish's, you know. Or what's Billy's first real name? It is William. Oh, it's William. Yeah, it's William. That's what I thought, honestly. Yeah, it's William Eilish.

28:51Williamette. Yeah. You know, just to make it gender specific, because I know how specific. And her brother's name? Famous guy? Go ahead. Phineas. Frank, I swear to God, I would have bet my house that you didn't know that. Well, you should have bet your house. God bless. Because I would have had two houses now. Doesn't it make you feel like a piece of shit when you see a brother and sister, and they're able to be both very talented and very famous and make really good music, and just like do do do do that and you're just like i can't even play a piano i think we have talent joe i think we've yeah but not i think we've proved that we have talent i think you're referencing all of your siblings that have none no that's not what i'm i'm kidding your siblings are very talented in what that's so fucked up you saw what you just did to my fucking what the hell did i do i was talking about my siblings oh my brothers they use hammers cool they use hammers I think that making music is probably the most satisfying feeling.

29:47I could only disagree so much. It's got to be the most satisfying feeling. I think you're more than sloppy toppy. I'm not touching your hand for that one. You can't talk about the rewarding part of sucking dick and then expect a high five out of me. First of all, I'm saying, never mind. You're saying, oh, receiving. Yeah, it's a joke. Do you understand my trepidation to slap your hand on that? Sure. Okay, well then at least. I mean, I think your trepidation should start with, why did you think I was talking about the other way?

30:23Add it to the list. No, I do. I think that making a song just from, it's nothing, and then all of a sudden you start doing like, dum-ba-dum-ba-dum. I can't agree with that. I think you're more of a music guy. You've always been more in tune with, I think that's why you always loved Mac Miller, because you saw like the genius and behind the music. Uh-huh. I feel like that, but for movies. Making a movie. I feel like when you look at someone that is like a writer and director, I know there's a whole team of people that goes into making movies. Music could be a little smaller of a team, but like the people that can do like successful like writing, directing.

30:59Yeah. Like that. Like, all right, let's use the show Baby Reindeer. Not a movie. Right. He wrote, he directed, he acted. Crazy. That's insane. Yeah. You know? But I can see. I agree. No, I agree with that as well. I think that's also something crazy. I feel like the amount of imposter syndrome you have to have in order to do that job is kind of crazy. Because when you're on a set, especially something like a fucking Marvel movie where it's like, we all look like idiots in this room. You know, like jumping around and pretending to be like superheroes like we're three years old, dressed like this, and green screens all around.

31:34But then it comes together and it's like this fucking incredible thing. and you're like, holy shit. I was there that day. That's me up there. That must be so crazy. I mean, that's why one of the reasons why I don't re-watch our episodes or anything like that because I feel like icky. I feel like, who is that? What am I doing? You know? So like I can imagine a movie or TV. I think Johnny Depp does that too. He doesn't watch his own stuff. I've heard that about a lot of people that don't watch their movies. I mean, I could see the argument of just like you're paying respect to the person like the team because there is a whole bunch of people that goes behind that stuff but like i wonder with musicians do they listen to their i guess musicians is different because they have to play them when they're yeah when they're performing or stuff yeah that's got to be strange how did we get from talking to about this from fucking robots we did start where it had what was the first conversation we had the uh romans and greeks and thinking oh right romans greeks thinking but it was specifically about the romans and greeks what was it um what was it again you brought it up what was it their love of butt sex and we have that uh listen everyone we do have uh some sponsors for today the first one being how you doing a little bit of boom happy thursday okay they're the new sponsor on the show uh happy thursday is great okay so these are a spiked refresher they're very refreshing also bubble free.

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40:12I don't even have it in my house Do you have a dictionary? Oh no I mean we used to Growing up I remember that son of a bitch I had a dictionary I remember that son of a bitch Son of a bitch Yeah Because like we would always My mom Anytime we would say like What does this word mean My mom would be like Get the dictionary you know dictionaries now that so you got a phone phone's a dictionary yeah you know whoever created the dictionary is probably pissed off his sales away i think it was oxford and cambridge right those are the two big ones right i uh why do they get to have it i think that if you make it then you get to have it i think that's yeah but like someone hasn't created a cooler dictionary urban dictionary i guess they have technically they have a cooler dictionary what What are these words?

40:55All right. So new words have been added to the Cambridge Dictionary. And I want to see which of these you actually know, Joey. You think they're words that I'm not going to know? Like they're like interesting? Here's the thing is I'm kind of projecting because a lot of these I don't know. Okay. Or didn't know. Okay. And I want to know. So first one, easy. Added to the Cambridge Dictionary, inspo. Interesting. Okay. Inspiration. Duh. But we're saying it because we're shortening. Well, yeah. I don't know why we're doing the. If we're adding shortened words to the dictionary, I can add$500 million.

41:28Because apparently you get money for that. They have to catch on, though. I mean, give me a word. Father. Dad. You see, like, that one already had one. But, like, give me another one that, like, I can shorten. Banana. Nanners. Throw that in the fucking dictionary. Good. People use that shit. I mean, yeah. You know, Sammy for sandwich. Or baba for bottle. Yeah, but that's baby talk. If we had a Baby Talk dictionary, that'd be a bajillion fucking pages long. But yeah, inspo. Short for inspiration, something, especially something posted on the internet that gives you ideas for doing something or that makes you want to do something.

42:05Yeah. Easy. Do that one.

42:10Mouse jiggler. Excuse me? That's a word that we're adding? Yeah. Mouse jiggler? Well, we're not. Over in Oxford. Jiggler. but mouse jiggler yes this is being added to the dictionary folks can i get a country of origin well i guess ours i mean yeah i mean or english-speaking countries apparently can you use it in a sense um

42:40i uh was building my computer and made sure i put a mouse jiggler in there is a mouse or i was home at work and i had to make sure my mouse jiggler worked

42:56okay the first one sounded like you were talking about like a fan the second one sounded like something with masturbation so i'm very confused well i mean is it a mouse is it just like uh is that what's a mouse jiggler joe it's a it's a fan no like an actual fan no it's not what is it so it's a device or piece of software used to make it seem as if a computer mouse is moving so it seems as if you're working when you're not this is a new oh this is a new thing for like work from home people nice which i imagine that people are gonna is not cool i think you know i think get it bug it i mean you jiggle the mouse like i know that people i've seen a bunch of people with like really fun ways to yeah i've seen that too they like rest something like specifically on one button very lightly yeah so it looks like they're constantly on uh i we have a friend that uh would wake up put himself in a meeting with no one and then go back to bed and then his boss would be like oh my god you're in a meeting at 8 a.m yeah good for you yeah and then they can't join the meeting and it's literally nobody well i i had asked i was like can your boss joined the meeting and he's like yeah but he's not and i was like okay i mean which is fair like your boss is probably not going to join your meeting you'd also need to collaborate with somebody else on that because you can't just make a meeting with a fake person i imagine they would have to be like someone else in the company i think it was more of a quiet quitting situation so are they still working for that company i know who it is no no okay all right do we know if the jiggling of this yeah had anything to do with it i'm certain it did i'm certain that that has something to do with it okay um trad wife okay this is just a word for um like a traditional wife like obviously like someone who's like oh you know what i think i'm gonna or like a stay-at-home mom or something like the traditional cook clean type of thing literally it says traditional trad wife is short for traditional wife a married woman especially one who posts on social media stays at home doing cooking cleaning etc and has children that she'd take care of right why are we renaming that i don't know why are we just like what's the modern wife you know that's a great question i don't know what that's a great question because i think now more than ever women are like the breadwinners in their home so a modern wife might mean something different than it did 30 years ago definitely 60 years ago yeah back 60 years ago i don't know i I don't want to know what modern wife was back then.

45:37Yeah. But so now the wife is just a newer version and the trad wife is that. I guess. But here's the thing. Like traditional, like this is me. This is me being, I know you hate when I do this. I know what you're doing. I know you hate when I do this. I don't think I'm going to hate this. Traditional is subjective. I agree. Because traditions are different. And also it is not only different for regions. it's different based off of religion it is different based off of race ethnicity societal norms and whatever country hemisphere yeah i agree with you so like how do you define what it like i guess is that true though like i think that like the like a traditional wife if you if you told someone to define or not define it but like guess what that would mean i feel like Sure.

46:31That's kind of what you would guess. Sure, but like also, but who, but in that, my first argument would be like, traditional to who? Yeah. You know? Yeah, that's what I mean. Well, I mean, I don't know. And also, you can argue it's a little disrespectful. What's disrespectful? The idea that a traditional wife is one that is put within these parameters.

47:01I wouldn't, I wouldn't be like, I know you wouldn't because remember. No, no, no. Why? That's not what I mean. I mean, like the, I don't think it's, if someone were trying to offend me in some way, like, oh, you have traditional values or you have whatever. It's like, okay. Like you can put a thing on it, but like, as long as it's not like. But there is a lot of people on the internet that would argue that traditional values are very exclusive of certain types of people, certain roles in the household. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that it's okay. They're discriminatory sometimes. I think it's okay to say something like traditional as long as you're not at the same time saying it's wrong or right.

47:44Yeah, but a lot of times traditions are held in high regard. so you are they have kind of already planted their flag there like okay i mean because i can no one calls something bad a bad tradition they just call it like a fucking toxic i mean i feel like there are times where you're like oh they're more like traditional and they're you know whatever like oh that's a good point sort of like but you do that sure all right i mean listen i think this these are the intellectual conversations people come here at the end of the day if she want to work she gonna work she wants to follow her dream she gonna follow her dreams all right traditional or not i don't give a fuck what the dictionary says she gonna get the bread if she want the bread you know the only tradition in my household love that's awesome you know here's a tradition it's called love your wife yeah a partner and you want the best partner you want your love your partner thank you frank gotcha you want your partner let's move away as traditional as being that.

48:45How about it becomes more inclusive? Here's a tradition that's weird that we should get rid of. Same tradition like that. Yeah, that was a mistake. Mistletoes. I know, we're off topic. Fuck you. Leave the mistletoes. You love the mistletoe? Any excuse to kiss my wife. First of all, it's not just your wife. It's whoever walks under this thing. Well, I won't kiss them. Then you're not being very traditional in that moment. There's a rule, Frank. You kiss everyone. I'm gonna, any excuse I have to kiss my wife, I'm gonna do it. No one's saying that. I know what you want to get rid of. You want to get rid of kissing wives.

49:18Get them, right wing. I'm back. You're trying to set me up. I mean, I was never there to begin with. You son of a bitch. We got the right wingers back. I think kissing your wife is awesome and doing the thing to your wife is great. But like, if I'm walking by, I'm bringing the turkey to the table and my Aunt Rose is walking by. Now what do we do here? Well, listen, turkey on Christmas is crazy. I got my six mixed up. Second of all, I'll meet you halfway. Let's get rid of those funny, hilarious people that at the Christmas parties takes the mistletoe and puts it on their belt. Let's get rid of them.

49:51Bro, shot. Sure. I've never experienced that, but I know that it exists. What, shooting? No. Well, no. I haven't been shot, but I don't. But, like, I've never seen anyone be like, oh, my God. You hear that, guys? Don't shoot Joey. Don't shoot me. Please, God. Yeah, we can get rid of them. yeah or like over the mistletoe though it's like oh you got it and it's like aunt doris what is this no i'm fine with it i'm fine i mean unless aunt doris is coming in for like a smooch in between in between the puckers bro you're making it seem like i'm saying you can't kiss your wife i know how much you want to get rid of men and their partners kissing why would i do that trying to get the right wing people back on our side what you're trying to do is you're setting up a TikTok clip where there's music going to be playing and there's going to be an edit.

50:44Frank loves his wife. And look at Joe. He's a piece of shit. It's like, the fuck? I don't make those. I'm saying I don't want to kiss my aunt. It's Maya or B-Y pod bonus. Like, it's not me. I don't do this. You're doing it. You're setting the narrative. No, I'm not doing it. It's not me. I'm not standing for it anymore. You don't have to stand for anything. You're not standing for anything right now. You're sitting down, trad bitch. You just used it. Now you're using it as a slur. No, it's not a real word. That was a slur. Not a real word. What is the other word? All right. There's three more here that I know.

51:15One of them you know. The other two I legitimately don't know. Delulu. Delusional. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You didn't know that? No, I know Delulu. Oh, okay. I know Delulu. It is funny. It was said in like a cute way, like unaliving. You know, like, ooh, they're Delulu. Unaliving. That's going to make it. Is it not on that list? It's not on this list. Give it time. The last two. I've heard of one of them but I wouldn't be able to tell you what the definition is and I don't think you would be either but here's the one I've never heard of I think you'll get it because you're a smart person broligarchy

51:51that's awesome the broligarchy the broligarchy is getting added to the dictionary first of all I've never heard that word but that's a hilarious way I'm pretty smart I know what an oligarchy is I know what bros are. Doesn't take much to put that together. I mean, I thought the word would be like manosphere. Don't they? They've been using that. There's more for all of this? Well, explain the definition. So the definition is a small group of men, especially men owning or involved in a technology business, who are extremely rich and powerful, and who have or want political influence. The word is a mixture of bro and oligarchy.

52:29Yeah, yeah, yeah. That sounds like the ultimate nightmare. Yeah, it does. This sounds like what fucking, like, what's his name? Jack Doyle? Who's a little streamer? Who the fuck is Jack Doyle? I don't know. Who's the little streamer that, like, does, like, IRL streams all the time? Jack Doyle? Who, I don't know. That's what I said. I don't know. Oh, Jack, yeah, Daugherty. Daugherty. Okay, that sounds like what him and his boys are into. It's like they call themselves the broligarchy. but the term that i usually like here is like the manosphere what's that it's like that reminds me of like it's like a similar thing if they put manatees on the sphere in las vegas that that's when that's like the only acceptable word yeah for that it's yeah but that's not it um as you can imagine that isn't but it's like when it's like uh it's kind of like the podcast bro type of people that are like, you know, like, I don't like that we're defining that now.

53:31No, but that's true though. Like the guys that are just like, listen up. All right. My fucking bitch wife got pregnant. Oh yeah. Oh my God. How dare her. Also, she, when I went to marry her, I have one simple question for women. One, would you accept a high value man like me? And two, did you have$400 ,000 in the stock market immediately? And if you don't, you are not a woman for me. if you do have money what man gave it to you fucking idiots i mean you know what i love asking grown men right asking grown men being like uh would you would you let your your uh your girlfriend or your wife go to the club yeah i'm in my third i won't be there i know exactly who this is because you remember they tried to interview me in la last year what wait a person no no i know you weren't there i wasn't there you left no you told me about this but it was like a person that you know on the internet no oh but it was just like one of the people i imagine is in the broligarchy i imagine it's a broligarchist he comes up to me we're on rodeo drive because we're like oh we should like when when in when in la check out rodeo drive yeah you left and I was just like this guy comes up to me he goes yo dude I have a YouTube show I think I I think I know you the backyard man so good yeah you know when they know us but they don't you know backyard again my favorite yeah that was the really good one because it was a really cool show and he's like can I interview you for my YouTube show and I'm like what's it about he's like oh we talk about just like hot topics or something like that or whatever and I I was just like, sure.

55:17He's like, I'm going to ask you two questions, all right? And I was like, what are the questions? I, for some reason, felt inclined to ask. And he goes, well, the first one is, what do you feel would be a better investment, crypto or gold? And I was like, dude, I know you're asking the wrong person. Wait, was he filming at this time? No, it was before he was filming. And he's like, crypto or gold? And I was just like, what's the next question? Yeah. And it was just like the immediate next question. That's where he started. The next question was, what do you think is the reason why women don't respect men?

55:54And I was like, dude, I'm not doing this. Get out of here.

56:00Like the going from crypto and gold to women not respect. That was the broligarchy. I had a brush up with the broligarchy and I made it out alive. It's like, what do you think is better? Crypto or gold? And it's like, all right, next question. Why are women just such a bitch? Yeah. You know? Ladies, bitch, right? Yeah. So anyway. This guy's fucking crazy. I think what makes this also funnier is the fact that there's going to be an old, snotty British white man in Oxford. At Oxford. Just being like, so now today we're talking about the rise of the broligarchy. Yeah. We need to examine. I will say, the broligarchy is a way better term than manosphere.

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1:01:56To be fair, that wasn't like something that ever caught on. It was just you and I. It was just you and I. But like that, there are things at like, like that for that generation. Yeah. That like are funny now. Skibbity is one of those things where like a new thing. Kids, bro, the other day, my nephew, my cousin, I should say, and Miles were hanging out and they just go, yo. And I go, what? And they go, six, seven. I was like, what? I was like, yeah. and they're like six seven i'm like those yeah those are numbers dude like six seven one no i have no fucking clue what it means like that's just one of those things where i'm we're we're at an age now we're like that should happen so we can't even just be like oh okay this is an inside joke with them but like it's an inside joke with a whole generation of kids that are not for us bro there was a fucking edit the other day of me saying that what six seven yeah i said it on a podcast or something and then it was like they turned it into a fucking edit of me saying something.

1:02:53Oh, and it's like the and it's like six, seven, and it's like boom, and then like things blowing up behind you. I don't know what's going on. You know what it is. Over there. But like Skibbity's one of those things. Yeah. It's another world for me. Yeah, it's just one of those like inside jokes that you just don't know. But what do you think Skibbity is? I honestly, I feel like I should know this, but I don't think I do. Give it a shot. I think it's just like a negative thing i don't know okay like negative what do you mean it's like it's like an adjective i don't know like to describe something is it something like brainless like idiotic shit i don't know so like if you were to call like someone would possibly call this show skibbity sure yeah like an adjective in that way okay the definition that is going into the the the dictionary.

1:03:42It says, a word that can have different meanings, such as cool or bad, or could be used with no real meaning as a joke. So, that's not a definition. That is whatever a definition isn't. So, the definition of the word is that it lacks a definition. How can that be written into a book? This is what I mean. I am so, anything and nothing could be skibbity.

1:04:15I feel Delulu right now. Okay. Well, is that like our dead ass? How that could mean so many things? No, but dead ass just means like it's in the confirmation. It's like either it is... But you could also like that? Yeah, like really? Yeah. That's like serious. Like you're seeking out like the affirmative. Also, there's a difference between like I'm dead ass serious or I'm dead ass serious. Like breaking it up, those are different. I don't know if I've heard the second one as much. Like dead ass. Like yo, serious, dead ass. Dead ass is like - Dead ass. Kind of crazy when you think about that word.

1:04:55Like that's probably a word that like our parents are like, what the fuck is that? I think the only one that I think that our parents might have been able to use as like, and it's really more just New York. I'm sure other people use this now because like New York culture has become like, you know, people in like Iowa are wearing Timbs. but they're like mad. That was the one for us. They were just like, huh? Like, yo, I'm mad serious. Like, but even that has more of a pathway to making sense because like, it's meant to like give like weight to something like, yo, I'm mad happy. Like very, you know, like I'm mad serious, you know, like, but like skibbity just means it can mean cool or bad.

1:05:38It could mean Something but nothing Yeah That was like us when I would call people legends Like that was good and bad But that was just more sarcasm Yeah yeah Like this is not anything Literally it is nothing By definition Hey I'm not gonna fight with all the people out there Who fuck with the word skibbity I mean yeah cause they'll get ya Yeah dude You can beat them up Not a lot of them How many do you think? six did you see john mulaney wrestled three 14 year olds on a show did he yeah did he lose he got his ass kicked he's not a very big dude yeah but also like i think it's just like 14 is big like i've seen some freshman in high school dude i've seen some big 14 year old there was a freshman in my high school who played on the o-line he was 300 pounds he would whoop my ass yeah but like you never saw that i'm because he had his show his like live show on netflix and i think on the very last one he like wrestled three 14 year olds yeah no and like richard kind is in the background like yeah get him never seen that but god bless you should you should check it out i'll go check out john mulaney being wrestled by three 14 year olds uh don't google that there you'll be on yeah i'm not gonna google three 14 year olds i feel like we should create a new york dictionary this has been done a million times has it yeah what are you typing are you doing it i typed in new york dictionary but it's only giving me the definition of ny which is new york yeah but like if it were like urban dictionary but just for new york i feel like that'd be cool i i think we kind of like covered that and like you said like now with tiktok and whatever and i feel like new york has kind of become this like place where people are like aware of how people talk in the the lingo and whatever it is the the natural progression of the human race that we are just going to like like it it's a thing it's an organic thing and then a company or someone gets a hold of it and makes it like a cool thing and then it's not cool anymore yeah like that's what happens didn't you tell me you once went to like a place in brooklyn that was just like, we have like a high-end chopped cheese.

1:07:55And it's just like, fuck you. Yeah, yeah, that kind of shit is... You know what makes a chopped cheese good? That it's basically cat food. Yeah.

1:08:05Dude. You know, I don't want a fucking Wagyu brisket. This is for everyone who's like visiting New York. If you want to get a good chopped cheese, if you see someone taking a shit outside of a deli, you go in there right now and you order all the food because I guarantee it's amazing. I'm not kidding. in New York City the shittier the place looks the better the food it's crazy bro you walk you see like the like Department of Health rating on the outside if it's an A it has good food if it's got a B it's probably not very good if it's a C incredible yeah it's probably great or if the place got shut down that food must have been awesome if you're really lucky there's like blood on the floor oh yeah oh yeah and the same exact like they have bags of chips that like expired in 2009 yeah you know what i'm talking about you know what i hate fucking seeing in those delis you know uh they're like called like snowballs yeah it's like a cake but then it's got like sprinkles disgusting and they're always from 2008 well like the the famous thing is that Twinkies apparently don't go bad.

1:09:10Bro, I'll tell you this right now. I'll fuck a Twinkie. Oh my God. I'll take down a Twinkie. Me too. I'll throttle a Twinkie. My mom puts them in the fridge. You and your family about cold food. I didn't do it. I only do it with chocolate. I put chocolate in the fridge. You guys love, but like snacks, you love to have snacks in your fridge. You guys must have a Viking size fridge. Hold up. Do you put peanut butter in your fridge? No. and people that do, I know. Why do they do that? So stupid. Why do that? We want it to be creamy, not like a hearty. It's shelf stable and if I were to put peanut butter in the fridge it's coming out a rock, dude.

1:09:48Well, what? Not a rock, but what? I mean, pretty hard. Have you ever had almond butter? Yeah. That's what I imagine it's like. Almond butter is impossible to spread. But also, have you had like butter out of the fridge that you try to spread and then it just like you create a divot in your whatever you're putting it on? Bro, I absolutely hate that. If I go to a restaurant, especially if it's a nice restaurant, it's like, yo, you guys are not paying attention to the details. I turn to a snob like the guy from Ratatouille. But I get in there and it's like, you give me a piece of bread that I can't just like spread.

1:10:18And it's like hard and I got to like. Here's the thing. If you're giving me something that is meant to be spreadable, this should better be spreadable. It better be spread, spread eagle. Like when you go to like a pizzeria or like somewhere like an Italian restaurant and they bring the little containers of butter. Yeah. That look like they came freshly out of a butthole. You know what I'm talking about. I do. And you have to, like, if I open it, it better be ready to get spread. It better be spreadable. Because daddy's looking to spread. Yeah, he is. I'm not looking to fucking put this thing on there and then it's just a ball of butter.

1:10:51Yeah, that's so fucking annoying. It drives me insane. I hate that. Although I learned a secret. What's your secret? You just hold it in your hand. And the warmth of your hand will speed it up pretty quick. Yeah, I mean. But, like, you're making me work at a restaurant? I don't want to have to hold this butter's hand. I want it to be spread eagle for me, ready. When I get there. I'm ready to go. Exactly. Warm, creamy, and spread eagle. Now you're talking my language. That's how I like my butter. You know, and I will say this. More than butter, more than bread and butter, the absolute best thing.

1:11:23And I honestly, I don't think I'm like late to the game. I might be with you on this, so I'm ready to hold your hand. the the thing that's better than bread and butter is bread with olive oil with salt and balsamic in there my fucking dog oh my god this is my fucking boy and it doesn't even need to be balsamic because greek restaurants will do olive oil and red wine vinegar just something else i am like just such a simple like oh my god dude nothing where did we go recently that they He brought out focaccia and just a fucking pail of olive oil. Yeah, and I fucking drowned myself in it. Dunk. Yeah.

1:12:02Where was that? Where was that? I don't know. But I could literally not stop eating that. Oh, in fucking Detroit. Oh, right. That's where it was. I can't stop eating it. And you know what makes me feel better? Is olive oil good for you? Probably not in the amounts that we were having it. No, no, no. People drink olive oil, like shots of it and shit like that. But like If it's not fried It's good fats Yeah it's good fats Yeah You know I'm with you there 100 % I fucking love it I'll take olive oil I'm like good on butter Like I don't Like I don't put it on my pancakes And shit like that I don't do that I like butter Yeah I like butter too But not like But if it's If you're gonna put Spread eagle soaking wet Horny Yeah More like butter Yeah And just like in a Like You know what I'm talking about Like a good olive oil Yeah With some seasoning in there Yep You know You don't need salt Because the vinegar Is gonna add a little salty to it But Holy fuck Oh my god You scared me sir You scared the shit out of me Holy shit sir You scared me Oh okay But yeah I get I get what you're saying Yeah About the Say it again With the spread eagle The butter Being spread eagle I want this butter Fucking Pussy out

1:13:18Yeah I'm talking No, no, no, yeah You know You know what I'm talking about Of course I do What are you talking about? Wait I just want to make sure I want to confirm we're talking about the same thing Oh, I'm talking about Olive oil with What's it called? No, no, no, no How do you like your butter? Oh, the butter? Just Fucking Ripped open Yeah Ripped open how? Spread Spread As far as it can go Gotcha Open butter

1:13:48That's the kind of butter I like Yeah Spreadable Creamy He's leaving now

1:14:00He's leaving Oh good times And a good bread Don't give me like Hard bread Well not even just hard bread but like I want bread that's just like fresh if you're giving me cold bread no this shit better be warm and it better be a focaccia I'm down yeah a pillowy focaccia or you know what I don't know if you you we've gone to and I'm sure you in your private life has also gone to Mediterranean restaurants yeah or Middle Eastern yeah when they just bring out complimentary you know baba ganoush or hummus or fucking you know what's the other one I'm looking for what's the other one with the green in it with the green and just hot off the fucking press I love pita bread or naan naan bread fuck me garlic naan is Let's go.

1:15:09Yo, yo, yo. Let's open a restaurant. Okay. See, this is what you go. Why? Why? You go too far. All right. A bar. Let's open a bar and they have no like entrees, but it's just different bread and bread. You can do a bread butter. Like here's like an American, like an American sourdough loaf. Oh. Or you can do like pita and olive oil. Or you can do like naan and like butter chicken sauce or something. You want to start a restaurant with the stuff every other restaurant gives away. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. The stuff that they give away for free but will profit off of it. A bread bar sounds fantastic, honestly.

1:15:54Bread bar. Bread bar. Copyright. Copyright it. Copyright infringement. I don't know what I'm saying. Patent pending. That was hysterical. That was really good. Oh, my God. What is that guy thinking? Beauty happens when Ant's not here. We miss him. But beauty finds a way. Yeah. Well, there you have it, folks. Hope you enjoyed the ride. That was a lot of fun. That was. I had a good time. Frank, where can they find you? I don't know. You guys can go follow the show at The Basement Yard on TikTok and Instagram. And like Frank said, go to TheBasementYard.com. There's still tickets left to some of our live shows.

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