#554 - The Amazing Race

18:24Joe Santagato:a level of like natural ability you need to have to kind of make the insertion into that lifestyle easier insertion like like like for instance are you a gymnast no could you be a gymnast sure Yeah, that's everything. But it would be a more enjoyable experience if you had more natural ability that would be better suited for being a gymnast. How am I going to get natural ability to get on the pummel horse? That's what I'm saying, though. People have that, whether it be flexibility or speed or dexterity or anything like that. I mean, you ran for a half an hour straight, dude. That's not nothing.

18:59Joe Santagato:I will tell you, every second of that was miserable. I know. Every single second. It's terrible. I hate it. But I love finishing it. you all you care about is finishing i care about the road toward finishing i feel like you're trying to try to equate this to uh i just i don't know i mean maybe we'll talk be fun we'll talk candidly amongst ourselves i mean committing to like a 5k in june is not crazy i think if i were to wake up tomorrow i could do a 5k yeah you absolutely could It's not like you can't finish a 5K. I mean, I could walk it, but I'm saying I could do it nonstop running. Yeah. But I just don't want to.

19:45Joe Santagato:Like, that's my thing, guys. The noise is coming out of you. What would you rather do? Close your eyes real quick, both of you. Close your eyes. I'm serious. Close your eyes. I'm not going to do anything joking. I'm going to fall for this, too? All right, fine. No. I'm coughing on nuts already, so where am I going to go from here? It's not a joke. Yep. saturday morning june 23rd okay you wake up you have a hot dog or you go run a fucking marathon what would you rather do oh by the way why did i close my eyes what was the point of that i'd rather have a hot dog it's 85 degrees and sunny out but i'm not saying run a summer marathon that's hard you said june i said a 5k i'm okay a 5k think about this you run a 5k in the morning in the summer right and you're all sweaty and whatever then you have a crisp fucking light beer and a hot dog after that's honestly probably the closest thing that'll get me to do it i'm saying that that nothing feels better than that i just I just fucking hate it.

20:59Joe Santagato:What do you guys not get? I mean, so do I. You don't have to do it, obviously. I know. But you do. I mean, I know that too. No, no, no. I also figure, I just got a gotham on you. A pretty good gotham too. So like I'm riding high right now. You are. So if there's a chance to convince me, it's right now. The Lemonati has spent decades keeping lemon on top and lime in the shadows. Their lemon agenda has infiltrated everything, even our music. That hit song named after the color of lemons? Not a coincidence. Big Lemon has been pulling strings in the industry for years. Think about it. But now, 7up is fighting back with their new lime lemon soda.

21:46Joe Santagato:Now lime comes first. 7up. Flip the sip Is there a need for convincing When I just have all your info already You know like I could Just sign you up And then if you lose to him in the race Who's to say I mean I will flat out Say that if I'm letting you know right now One of you guys is gonna end up in the tent I will pass out And fucking need an oxygen tank before I lose a race to you. I think you would win the 5K. I don't need that. You have time. And you just ran ahead. You also have, this is like, you know, you just fucking won MVP. This is like next, if I beat you, that's like you coming out the next year and hitting 200.

22:41Yeah, it's true.

22:43Joe Santagato:So if anyone here has something to prove, it's you. Oh. Oh. Yeah. All the pressure's on you now. Oh, I promise. So there is pressure, so it is happening. I didn't say that. Yeah. I didn't say that. I didn't say that. Don't worry. I think you'll win it. See? The hesitation. What is he saying here? I could run it in work shoes, like dress shoes, and I could beat you. Ooh. Work shoes? Yeah, I don't get dressed up for work. What's dress shoes? Like fucking like... Like loafers? Like loafers, yeah. Please don't. I think I would just take it more serious than you would. And you would win now? I mean, no.

23:24I don't get that.

23:25Joe Santagato:What do you mean you'd take it more serious than me? You would train harder? Absolutely. But I think you'd win. I don't know. I think that I think I do believe that if Frank committed and being like, okay, we're going to do it, that he would train harder than you. Let me make something abundantly clear. If I commit to anything, I'm confident I could do it well. I live life by a very strict set of guidelines. that if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it well. Yeah, we got that New Year's episode. I'm just saying, like, you guys think it's a joke. It is not. I don't think so. I remember someone in college, I got into an argument with someone in college because hindsight looking back on it, it was probably tone deaf that I said it, but I don't give a fuck.

24:03Joe Santagato:Oh. They said, like, Here we go. Oh, man, everyone that takes organic chemistry fails. And I was like, oh, I probably wouldn't. And they're like, well, it's hard. I was like, yeah, I get that. but like I just I'm confident in my skills right same situation here how is that tone deaf because it got to a point where I was just like I'm not saying you're dumb I'm just saying I'm smarter you know I'm not you I'm better to say to you did you take the class no but you know what I'm saying like it's it's I'm judging on how much you trained I think that he will train harder than do yeah but it's like yeah sure there's also a whole other part of this that i'm not even referencing yeah i'm worried about my tummy what about it you know how oh there's it's lined with if i stop i'm not starting you're fine it's a half an hour it's 40 minutes of your life June what?

25:11Will you late June? We're not You would have to look at the schedule First of all Alright I'm in I never committed It's a 5k So now you're forfeited I win automatically

25:23Joe Santagato:First of all I hold the fucking power here bitch Okay? You can mark that In your little fucking notebook You have no more paper left Because you're unprepared Just like you were For your half marathon That you did finish I actually have the backside Of all the sheets It's like double It's whole thing i would just need to be a really sick metal honestly that is very important and it's in it and i i try to know what the metal is going to look like before i get there how about the loser gives the winner their medal one of these yeah oh like i like he's got a coronation yeah yeah you stand above him on a like a bench and then he has to and you bend down well no i'm supposed like the winner's supposed to be on the bench that's what i said oh i thought you meant like No, and he's like on the ground and he's got to like put it on you.

26:11Or you have to kiss my feet. Okay. Now we're getting into crazy fetish stuff. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Why not? If you're so confident. I mean, we're talking about fetish stuff. After the race barefoot. I'm not saying sexually kiss my feet. After the race barefoot. After the race barefoot. Do I have to watch? I don't want to be there for that. You absolutely have to watch. I don't want to see it. Joe watches. That's a punishment. Joe watches. Joe watches. Okay.

26:31Joe Santagato:All right. I also think that there's the joke that he would dust both of us. Yeah. Yeah. I'm smoking you guys unless you know I'm in really good shape right now too running wise unless a cramp happens you never know no that is true I would 5k I will let my legs break and I've seen I've seen enough videos of like people running and then that song pops up the Heinz yeah I would stop and like put your arm over me you know what I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to pick me up i'm going back fucking pissing on your face and i'm running more damn it's crazy it's gonna be one of those moments where frankie's at the finish line and he sees me coming but he sees joe stumble he's like i gotta go back i can't here's the only way i would do it if we all wore shirts with mario kart build outs on it like our character our cart and everything so i could say i finally fucking beat you in real mario kart wow what we would have to do is pick each other's shirts probably right that's funny okay let me let me now start putting what i need in order for this to make this happen and that's just the freedom to wear whatever i want okay i think that makes it less interesting if you get to do whatever you want you want me to dress up like bowser i mean you said bowser honestly though that's pretty cool that's funny i'm dressing up like bowser why i don't know do they have like nintendo 5ks they have everything what could that possibly mean i don't know like you're like the metal you get is like the power-up mushroom Oh, honestly, they could.

28:03I don't know. People had that on signs throughout the whole race. It was very nice. Oh, like power up. Yeah, I hit them all. Yeah, you got it. We know you did, dude. Whenever I see a dog.

28:12Joe Santagato:Would you drink for your pre-race prep? Yoo-hoo? No, I had electrolytes. Mile 10, though, Danny and JT hit me with a surfside. Crucial. What flavor? I see. Crucial surfside. Crucial surfside. It was really crucial. Okay, so there is one on June 21st. No. There's also June 16th, if that makes you feel better. Oh, also no. Right. June 21st? Okay. I mean, first of all, that's the day after my son's birthday, which you both have been invited to. Yeah, dude, get up early. So we'll all be there? No, because the day before, I will be eating all of the hot dogs and every beer. How about this? There's the Brooklyn Ice Cream Social 5K.

29:00Do you like ice cream? So look at this. This is the metal.

29:04Joe Santagato:An ice cream cone. It's a truck. Oh, that's actually pretty cool. That's good. That's a cool one. And you get ice cream at the end. Also, I could run with a bunch of Brooklyn hipsters who are probably walking it with their dog. No thanks. When's that? July 25th. Five days before your birthday. Actually, I have something the day before in Atlantic City. so we'll be there. There's no way. I can't do July. Then there's the Haunted Island 5K in October. I do like spooky stuff. Yeah, but at that point, we're so close to the October, just do the half marathon. It would be smart if they did like a 5K, but like you're chased by zombies or something.

29:42Joe Santagato:That would be cool. That would be kind of cool. That would be cool because then I think I'd do better because like when I get chased by things, which doesn't happen often, but like the idea definitely motivates me more to like, oh no, um so how about if i just pay an extra participant in this 5k and i dress him up as a ghoul and i have him about six steps behind you the entire time why do you get in touch with doug why cough's family yeah like why cough when you could swallow these nuts and on that note we do have some sponsors yeah we do have some sponsors of the show uh the first one being squarespace Squarespace is a website and a platform that's going to help you build your website.

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34:31Joe Santagato:Who am I to say? Okay, so thank you again. We love you. We appreciate it. Go check it out. Patreon.com slash The Basement Yard. Ooh. All right. I think it's my turn. Can you guys close your eyes for me? I want you to imagine something. I'm closing our eyes again. This is crazy. Oh, God. Now, see, are you going to prank me? No, I won't prank you. So your eyes are closed. Yep. You are seeing a big tray of buffalo wings. Hell yeah, dude. Now this is what I'm talking about. Fuck running. Okay. You open your eyes, and these are the options you have. Which one are you picking first? Which wing are you selecting first?

35:05That's a good Gwem Jim. I have an answer. Those are sauced bitches too. I think I have like the answer. I think I know I have the answer as well. Should we say it at the same time? Probably not. Okay.

35:22Joe Santagato:I'm going to go my number one. I'll tell you the worst one I see right now as well. Oh, you want to do that? Let's start with the worst one. Oh. Worst one I think is number six. No. Six. Eleven. Eleven? Dude, 13. Eleven has nothing on it. Yeah, but 13 has the broken bone thing. I hate that. Oh, yeah, that's bad. No. That's bad. Eleven is pretty bad, but also six, like, that's the one you bite into, and it's mostly cartilage, and it's not, like, enough actual meat. Six looks fine. The best one. Okay. Easily. Easily the best one is 14. Yep. 100%. 14 is the one. 14. What? You don't like 14? The best one is seven.

36:03Joe Santagato:Are you out of your fucking mind? It's a drumstick. Yeah, it's a drum. No, flats over drums. No, flats. Flats, baby. You're a drumstick kind of girl? You two are those. All right. We're everybody. We are the world. We are the children. We are the world. We are the world. We are the children. We are the children. We learn to fight. We learn to make a better place. So let's start giving. And you're nobody. if you're going flat the 12 is better the 12 or the 10 is better than the 14 14 here's the thing about 14 is that it's an even cook and it's a good sauce application on there and she's and she's got meat on her and there's a ton of sauce on it yeah hell yeah like that's number one i will also first of all i would go any flat on there over any drum on there seven is an outrageous answer by the way it's the best looking wing no it is absolutely not four is better three is even better than seven three is really good wait there's the lemonati has spent decades keeping lemon on top and lime in the shadows their lemon agenda has infiltrated everything even our music that hit song named after the color of lemons not a coincidence big lemon has been pulling strings in the industry for years.

37:27Joe Santagato:Think about it. But now, 7up is fighting back with their new lime lemon soda. Now lime comes first. 7up. Flip the sip. It's one that's not labeled that kind of has a fat ass right under 6. What is that about? What's going on? Yeah, I think it got cut off. I don't know what's going on there, but she's got some potential to her. 16, throw it out or I'm gonna scream well 16 might be a deceptive picture because it just might be from a weird angle you know what i mean maybe 13 is bad really really bad 11 is probably the worst one i would say the best drum on there could be three i would agree three looks like a drum stick three and seven have the best ones i can't believe you like seven is seven is not even like top five oh yeah seven's crazy seven is so bad nine is better than seven i agreed eight oh my god eight it's a lovely little Dude, four is a good-looking wing, dude.

38:21You know what's a sneaky good one? Five, because you get your thumb in there and push the meat off. Whoa, dude. Thumb, dude. That was crazy. Thumb? Get your thumb in there? You know, it's like you... Dude, how do you eat these things in public?

38:32Joe Santagato:First of all, yeah, why are you using your thumb to eat chicken wings? No, I'm saying you push, like, you grip the bone, you push it down. I can't be doing this. I mean, people who are just audio are probably like, what are they talking about? Yeah, go show us how you grip from the base and push down with your thumb. With your thumb. Yeah, yeah. Two's got a good coating on it. Wait, how do you, serious question. If you're, and I want a visual representation of what I'm asking. Oh boy. If you're going to eat five, how are you eating it? It depends how I'm feeling. Normally I would just rip the bone apart, take one out, and then I eat it like a drum anyway.

39:03See, but why are you trying to civilize chicken wings? Civilize. They're meant to be filthy. Okay, so even if you do it the way where you just put the whole thing in your mouth and you pull, the five has a good thumb hold right there.

39:17Joe Santagato:wait how do you eat chicken wings well a flatter drum you got to tell me a flat a flat you you shove the whole flat in your mouth i've the whole flat my mouth and i pull out and then if there's if there's anything in the middle i hold it sideways and i i break through oh i see how do you um i'll do that if they're like super tender but i don't like leaving a bunch of meat in the middle that i gotta like fish out there's i'm telling you right now there's more meat on a t-rex carcass than there is on those wings when i'm done with them okay there's no there's no meat left on a t-rex all right i was trying to figure out what you meant by fossilized bones now got that oh yeah i didn't know i thought i was like what nice um but or there's sometimes where like if it's not coming off like that then i'll i'll uh you ever do the thing where you just press down and just comes off no that's what i was saying well i've never done that that's what i'm saying the thumb thing but like it looks cool when people do it wings wings are one of the foods that like i fully sack like i i i submit myself to the mess because like there's certain foods that like you know they're going to be messy but you try to not get it let it be messy you know what i mean like everyone does the twirl with the spaghetti and like you avoid the mess.

40:40Joe Santagato:Oh my God. People who eat spaghetti with a spoon and a fork. Come on. People do that. Come on. I get it. I'm not going to, I'm not that upset at them. But don't slurp either. Don't be slurping spaghetti. I understand the upset. Do you slurp? I sneak a slurp in every now and then. What about soup? Are you just like a loud slurp? I, I, I, there's, but I'm not doing it to be like annoying. Every now and then a slurp sneaks in and that's just because it's just sometimes it's too hot and I want to eat it. so you slurp just like just like like i said it's like a bit of a litmus test just to see how hot it is a yeah but that's not slurping slurping's like well then i have to yeah you know but then once i'm like oh this is good i'll either just drink it or i'll just like spoon it yeah most of the soups that i have now i drink like it's a cup like you ever ordered like sushi and it comes with a miso soup yeah i just take it and i drink it like it like that yeah it's fun yeah i like it new way of doing stuff oh what do you do me with a straw no you are a straw guy though i love straws huge i don't know if this came up on the show or not when we went to austin this dude had straws in his fucking luggage all right you brought straws him in that's stupid and shot glasses we used both things first of all you and greg use the shot glasses to take shots of rose it's such a great thing it's greg's idea yeah yeah of course that's greg's idea that is i mean i get it because you don't want to share the bottle and stuff like that but there was also cups i was there's also cups everywhere there's cups everywhere and like Normally, Airbnbs will have wine glasses as one of the cup options.

42:29Joe Santagato:Yeah. So I don't get bringing shot glasses. Oh, you know what? It's the party. Yeah. The party's here. I don't know what you guys do without me. Don't take shots. No, no, not the shots. We didn't even take shots. I'm saying like you guys were playing with my Switch. If I wasn't there, I don't know. The Switch was massive. What were you guys doing? If I wasn't there, just staring at each other? Conversation. which was massive i will say i'm not i didn't say anything about the switch the shot glasses though what what would we do without you let's look at the 33 years of history before i don't know what you guys are doing we were partying i don't know what you guys are doing we were partying beer pong beer puff cup guys hey guys guess who showed up the guy that has shots in his luggage oh yeah i have yeah i don't know i said i don't know i i get like the idea i was just prep it was just just in case it's just prep also we got stuck there atst patty's day they came in real handy i like how you say came in handy as if you were in the third world and you wouldn't have been able to find shot glasses anywhere we didn't have to you were in also you were in austin texas you could have walked down the street to a cvs and gotten disposable shot glass we we did do a shot of jameson which i did not want to do no he did not but i was i was bullied into that no disrespect to the jameson team days of drinking jameson are long behind me yeah just like days of drinking dude i was a big jack daniels fan to the point where it was oh my god i loved jack daniels probably as much as i assume kid rock does yeah back in the day i had jack daniels and probably had a picture of me holding it and then the picture of you know john belushi chugging it with a sweater that says college yeah you know what i'm talking about also when jack daniels came out with like the honey dude that's hold on though i do want to say that remember this was a couple years ago but but jack daniels and coke made the the jack and daniel's are good dude the jack and cokes in the can i was like this is innovative and genius i i'm not kidding when i say this i was a big jack and coke drinker for years and years and years it was the only cocktail i knew years and years and years i've seen like bottled or canned cocktails and i've tried a couple the only one that i believe is like exactly what it was when you get it made at like a bar or something or make it yourself yeah was the canned jack and coke it truly was like well i you would hope because it's both brands i know but this really does sometimes sometimes they like you know they like over engineer something yeah and like it takes away the spirit of it like no brother this just feels like they went like they literally went jack coke boom and i was very i was happy with it yeah um they have jack and coke zero ones too that's the ones i get whoa you're a savior for drinking coke zero i've just gotten into the diet soda like universe i i never got into like i feel like diet coke people are like fiends like there's a cult behind diet coke yeah there are it's it's wild yeah they must make so much money just from diet coke i mean i imagine the fridge cigs is like a thing now what the oh fridge a fridge cig that's what they call diet cokes if you haven't seen like people making like shirts that say like pass me a fridge cig and it's like um like clearly looks like a pack of cigarettes like a marlboro red and it's open and it's just a thing of diet coke i love that that's so funny yeah no people that like there's two types of people people that just don't drink diet coke or people that have it with every ounce of their being and will defend it until the day aspartame's not even that bad for you i mean it isn't i know but i'm saying like those are the people it's not like casual i know diet coke drinkers bro i like i guess i just it was just one of those parts of life that you don't think about for so long but now that i'm like conscious and realizing what's going on it's kind of like incredible a diet coke is zero calories i am holding on to whatever of my youth i have left by refusing to drink diet soda of any type what do you mean because like i will convince and not will i fully have convinced myself that like cane sugar yeah sodas like you know how they do like the mexican cokes and like i i think a lot of soda brands are now rolling out more like cane sugar options than high fructose corn syrup but like i will convince myself to the day i die like i'm being a healthier person by having that compared to the high fructose corn syrup i think that as long as you're not abusing either you're being healthy no high fructose corn syrup i like oh there is high fruct i thought if you had cane sugar then you don't that's what i'm saying high fructose corn syrup in any capacity i can only speak for myself is not good for me like whether it's one or whether it's five but i'm saying i have convinced myself that just the exact same drink with the exact same sugar content but just with cane sugar is better for me, despite the fact that it's 130 % my daily value for sugar.

47:36Joe Santagato:So like I am not there on diet soda of any child. Like someone once, where were we recently that someone had a diet orange soda? And I was like, just don't have it at that point. I mean, it probably tastes the same and it's zero calories. That's absurd. I am one of those people that I believe with so much confidence I can taste the difference between diet and regular you probably could but it's not worth the the diff like the health difference yeah because something like orange soda too has like a lot of but like i do look at like i know i i like i am a skeptic i think you know that about me i look at diet soda and just say like we there's something we're missing like this is too good to be true yeah to be a real thing and for it to not like in 10 years it forms into like a glob monster in our stomach and eat us somehow you know what i mean like there's something we don't get yet well that's the thing like people say like the aspartame is like the bad thing which it is technically like not good if you had a lot but the but the amount you would need to drink in a single day is like 30 cans like dr mike says it all the time on his show the dose makes the poison yeah not anything like water which too much will kill you but exactly i uh but yeah it's it's outrageous i don't really like i guess just not drinking soda at all for so many years i don't really like crave it uh but i find it fascinating i will tell you right now we have the mini ones of like that's that's smart and and responsible ginger ale and whatever yo i'm gonna tell you right now real like i've had like you You know, like you have like Coca-Cola and then you have like off-brand like real cane sugar cola.

49:25Joe Santagato:Nothing is as good as the real stuff except for ginger ale. Yo, I had real like real legit ginger ale and I was like, what have we been missing out on our whole lives? This is so good. What are you talking about? It's just so much better than like Schweppes. What's real ginger ale? Like, when you get ginger ale, like a Canada Dry or Schweppes, no disrespect, it's like high fructose corn syrup and, you know, like ginger extract and stuff like that. Like, when you get like legit ginger ale. Where would I get that? What is it? They bottle it. They sell it at the store. It's just ginger? It's basically just like soda water, a little bit of cane sugar, and like ginger juice.

50:10Okay.

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52:59Joe Santagato:In my head, though, it's like I feel like I'm getting more of an answer with the one that has the sugar in it than the one that tastes the exact same and doesn't. Does that make sense? Like, I feel like I understand that. Right. What the fuck is that over there? But all that requires is for you to be open to being wrong about it. But listen, you know me. I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do that about certain things in life. not soda you think i'm gonna be you you want me to admit that i'm a human and i can and that i'm wrong about soda i'm an idiot yeah what am i thinking who do you think you're talking to here that's so funny are you diet guy uh yeah diet coke for sure yeah you're big on diet diet coke i mean well it's just wasted calories the other way already or you know if you're drinking already getting those calories do the diet coke i just i also fuck do i need to try a diet no i'm not doing this we got diet coke in the fridge wait have you you've tried one before i'm not even kidding i can't tell you the last time i had a diet coke bro it's kind of incredible i'm getting the diet coke he's gonna try it that's kind of insane i guess i'll try one now yeah it's kind of wild oh look yeah oh oh yeah you're limping he's so big limpy some big limpy what does that mean all right before we get to uh frank trying to diet coke for the first time in 10 years probably more than that maybe 20 we do have some more sponsors the first one being rocket money rocket money is an all-in-one personal finance app that is just focused on putting money back in your pocket so they're going to do that in a couple of ways one being unwanted subscriptions maybe you signed up for something a while ago and you've been paying for it but you haven't really been using it or you signed up for a free trial and you had plans on canceling it you never did you've been paying for that or just good for finding all of your expenses in one place and then realizing i can get rid of a couple of these things so that i could save more money They also have a budgeting tool so that you could set a budget for yourself every single month.

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58:14Joe Santagato:I'm just – I'm not even – like I can't tell you the last time I had a Diet Coke. Give a – when do you think the last time you had a Diet Coke was? Truly. truly like what are we saying like had like ordered one and got one or bought one from the store did it touch your lips yeah when was the last time you drank it maybe 15 to 20 years ago and when was the last time you had a coca-cola saturday okay so you're you're not uh a stranger to the taste yes i i i i have gone on record i'm gonna be a real fucking hero here and say that i believe coca-cola is the best soda okay you know but like i'm just looking at this it's a dc babe it was to the point that like coca-cola came out with like a line of like vintage glass bottles when i was in high school and i like bought some for my dad and i you love it don't you i do well then you're gonna think this is i think i actually put brought it in on that episode we did months ago years ago like bringing in old stuff i saved one and filled it with sunflower seeds put the top back on it and wrote frankie on it because i was like this is me in a bottle what the hell does that mean well you put sunflower seeds in a in a yeah i drank the soda out of a coca-cola bottle yeah filled it with sunflower seeds like a plastic bottle no glass it was a glass bottle and then you filled that with seeds and you put the cap back on yep and you said this bottle is representative of me you got it just a simple guy just give me some seeds and some soda i'm chilling frankie yep that sounded good give me the sound i smelling it like it's wine i mean aerated i can already i i well i can't say anything because i i know it's a diet coke i can't see it i'd be like i smell a difference but like

1:00:20you gave that a big taste that tastes like the 90s it tastes like the 90s we always had coca-cola

1:00:27Joe Santagato:at my house in the 90s and diet coke my mom was one of those people that was just like diet coke yeah yeah dude is it good yeah i mean it's definitely diet you can it's like it's extreme for you again i'm i it could be mental because i know i'm drinking it so like i think you'd be able to tell i do too but like to be fair i can't sit here and say with 100 certainty i think i could tell you'd be able to tell because then when you drink a normal coke you go whoa it's a lot of sugar and that's zero so imagine the guilt you have from having like why am i peddling like but like you're really working hard for coca-cola no i it's honestly like it's because it's very recent to me that like i just started like having like the little uh little nips no you need your fridge dart my fridge dart no they're like uh whatever the smaller cans and uh i'm like how like it's just zero calories is crazy to me and it's a soda like i'm tasting soda in my mind yeah i mean it's just it's just a weird another thing that makes it really cool is that like they have their recipe like in a basement in like a vault somewhere i think that's pretty cool do they why do you know that that's like the thing that people know about coca-cola they have a recipe on like papyrus and they have it in a basement yeah in a vault you never saw the coke vault pull up a pull up a pull up a picture of the coke vault the coco vault if this is a real door and not i was tricked it's a fucking sick vault dude fuck off i thought that was that's real yeah i trust this image yeah all the other ones could be potentially artificial yeah but this one looks like there's a line and a thing and oh you can like walk by it yeah dude Where is this?

1:02:23Joe Santagato:I think in Georgia? Yeah. Atlanta. It's like a thing. It's a sick keyhole. Yeah. Look, man. I think that makes it also way cooler. No one's vying for... I guess technically it is with Diet Coke also, but it's like a legit secret. And it's like, you'll never know. It's like where Mr. Krabs has the Krabby Patty formula. Sorry. I mean we are just on the cusp of Understanding Spongebob references Cause it Oh you guys don't No we do I mean it debuted when we were like 8 Of course I know Spongebob Oh It debuted when we were like 8 I loved Spongebob Big Spongebob You don't even know Spongebob Yeah I know Spongebob You know the new shit You know where Spongebob is like a fucking full idiot We remember when he was annoying Huh Hmm You know the episode where it's like Yeah And they keep talking like that That's the old animation, and it's not just a boulder.

1:03:21It's a rock.

1:03:22Joe Santagato:Yeah, how about Hinyoy Minyoy? Who's that? Who's that, bitch? DoodleBob. It is DoodleBob. You remember DoodleBob, right? That's a very easy one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about the Krusty Krab pizza? Is the pizza for you and me. All right, he knows that one. All right, good. That's the same thing as the boulder and the rock. Sorry to bring up SpongeBob, everybody. God. Why are you sorry? I don't know. Is there like a point of, is this like a hot button subject here? No. I think SpongeBob is still a universally loved piece of intellectual property. I don't think there's a lot there for people to get upset about.

1:03:56Joe Santagato:You ever see the dude who does SpongeBob's voice? Tom Kenny? Whenever I see him do it, I'm like, I don't know if I like that. He, I don't like seeing. If you would ask me to draw the guy that does SpongeBob's voice, that's who I would draw. i would draw ariana grande's boyfriend for sure yeah all that video that went viral of him singing at the like because that's how a lot of people don't know that that's where ethan slater got big is he did spongebob on broadway which is like a sentence that's never been uttered before i got big on broadway because of spongebob and uh he looks like yeah that's spongebob he's a spongebobby he's a seasoned spongebob yeah like he's a well do you have you ever seen the guy does Mr.

1:04:40Joe Santagato:Krabs? You know the actor. You've seen him in other things, but like... Pull him up. Mr. Krabs. Clancy Brown is his name. Clancy Brown? You could just write Clancy Brown. Yeah, you know this guy. He does a lot of voice acting. Yeah, so does Tom Kenny. Wait, that's him? The dude from fucking Shawshank? Yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah. That's Mr. Krabs? The guy from Shawshank? Yeah, dude. dude just want a bucket of suds for me and my fellas yeah he's done a lot wow dude being a voice actor is probably a pretty cool gig i would do it i think it's cool i would love can you you can't can you do voices i'll figure it out well no that's not that's how the job works they're not gonna hire you you can figure out anything all right do like do mr krabs yeah do mr krabs but i'm not mr krabs do a crab that's greedy and loves money i don't know yeah see you're fired actually yeah you'll never get it i feel like we would be good voice actors me that's it i don't know maybe i don't know i could probably i could do my voice but i don't think it's interesting enough i think you could do like i don't have like an interesting voice but like i think the part of voice acting that you would be good at is like you're not just doing your voice you're like turning it up for a little bit you know what i mean like yeah yep you're joe hello but you're a skater that really loves to hang out and eat tacos i'm a skater yeah like i just like like skating yeah okay that was not bad see i wasn't doing a voice exactly you were so enveloped in the character is that the word enveloped envelop yeah is that a word yeah like an envelope that's my yeah yeah how would that it's okay when you're like fully in something you're enveloped in it i had no idea or buy it envelop by it maybe thanks for the actual syntax thanks for that you're welcome that's the only one you get after you fuck the way you spoke to me earlier i didn't said after you fucked yeah come down whoa what happened no so you're you're like a like you're a you're a skater that just loves tacos like a californian skater yeah but see like there you go dude like you just got to be yourself but like draw it up a little bit you know you would have been really good in like those 90s like like rocket power yeah that's what i was thinking honestly yeah i think we would have been good in rocket power real quick rocket power right you've watched that and obviously you're like which one of these guys am i which one did you think you were i wish which one did you want to be i wanted to who didn't want to be otto everyone wanted to be otto i didn't who did you want to be the other ones what's his name squid no who's squid who's i think i want to be no that's why i'm confused who's the other guy with that with the backwards hat otto twister it's a twister is his name twister do we know otto twister squid what's the girl's name damn i don't remember i don't i guess i i don't remember rocket power as well as i thought i did and earned your goddamn paycheck yeah bitch otto regina you wanted to be a law oh no maurice i had no idea you wanted to be maurice off the name alone that sucks click on maurice this guy had a nickname he needed a nickname he's twister bro twister oh it is twister damn i thought it was just like i want to be maurice no no no as soon as i heard maurice i'm like i'm out dude no no i wanted to be him though because i was like yeah i'm probably not auto but at least i could be twister i of course want to be auto dude look at auto look how fucking rad he was like those glasses are you kidding me it's kind of crazy i mean i don't I don't know where the mustache thing came in.

1:08:37Joe Santagato:That's a later version. That's honestly a weird one. Twister was cool. Twister's a sick name. I will, the backwards Kangol is kind of bananas, to be honest with you. Yeah, you know what, though? I'm confident you could pull it off. I don't know. You could have, like, the little hair flip in the front like that. Like, I think you'd do all right. Did you watch this show? I didn't. I was, it was on during my time. I just, I never watched this one, though. Oh, yeah, I loved, I loved that show. What was your thing? show i think it was uh kids codenamed kids next store yeah where is that it was like kids that are like spies and they're like this is number one number three number two number five they're like spies they're home they're like spy they were numbered yeah they would call themselves each other like number one and he was like a kid also yeah why were there bald kids there's always a bald kid yeah i guess wait there was bald children in the show you're talking about yeah number one was bald pull it up number one was bald and also call calloo calloo calloo caillou caillou can't believe i knew that and you didn't calloo callua i've never heard of this show oh i've seen a picture of this yeah you've definitely seen it oh i've seen that that reminds me of danny this guy my danny yeah you're danny yes definitely number two that's number two oh yeah i could tell by his hat yeah dude they lean into they lean into the numbers pretty hard Going back to Rocket Power, hindsight, I think if we watch it, it wouldn't be very well representative of, like, the guy that plays Tito.

1:10:07Joe Santagato:How he's just, like, a caricature for, like, the Hawaiian man. Yeah, I mean. You know, and it's like, all right. What am I going to do? I don't know if we could repeat some of those sayings. Frankie, you want to do a voice acting thing for me? Yeah, I, sure, yeah. You have something? I have a villain released after a thousand years from a crypt who sees an old friend. Give me more here. Do villains have friends? Let's get that out. Other villains, dude. That's fair. But do they even like each other or do they use each other? I mean, even, I'm not going to say it. Yeah, they have friends. Or, you know, like a companion that has released this villain from the crypt.

1:10:44Ah, yes. So am I the other one? I've released you. Yes. How many years? Thousand years.

1:10:50Joe Santagato:Thousand years. You're probably like sore a little bit. Am I, like, what kind of villain am I? Am I, like, a real, like, cheeky son of a bitch? Or am I just, like... You're an evil bitch. I think, but I think I'm, like, funny and witty, and I try to be, like, ha, ha, ha, like Hades from Hercules. No, no, no, you're a fucking evil... Yeah. Oh, I'm a real scumbag. Yeah, yeah. Like a real douche. There's a reason you were locked up for a thousand years. It was, like, now, within this prison of mine. Yes, sir. Yes. Do I have access to speak, or is it, like, I'm, like, in carbonite, like, I can't speak?

1:11:18No, this is your first time. This is like genie coming out of the lamp Like 10 ,000 years

1:11:23Joe Santagato:Such a crick in the neck So that's you but evil Okay That's tough I think I can do it I would say even you are stone And you're kind of like You're coming out of it You're coming back You have to release me But you have to say something to release me I can do a What's that called Incantation And then you start breaking out of your shell Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Follow me here. I don't know how to do this without sounding offensive. Drink a Diet Coke. What is the Evil Dead one? Nos, Farakta, Nikto? Oh, I don't know the Evil Dead one off the top of my head. Isn't that like... It's like Kunda, and I'm going to stop there just in case.

1:12:07Something like that. Yeah. That was the bad one. Let's pretend I did it already. Yeah, okay. All right, all right. And you just break it. Oh, yeah.

1:12:21Okay Oh I'm back

1:12:24Joe Santagato:Yeah Why am I evil? Who am I evil against? Let's make that clear Those damn kids Soon as I get my hands on those Damn kids It's pretty good Please don't take that out of context You are

1:12:49oh my god the government will be already second

1:12:56Joe Santagato:okay all right i'm thinking like scooby-doo that's why i said that please don't take that out of context oh yeah yeah oh you're really i mean i'm stretching i I'm just in stone. I feel like you're twitching up the cowboy a little bit. Can we get a little more skeleton in there? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I finally got it. No? I mean, I appreciate your commitment. I'm trying. No, man. You are. I'm thinking like Skeletor from like the old He-Man ones. I think it's good. Where he's just like, yeah, you know, something like that. I don't know. We should do a whole episode with this. You give me this. What does that mean?

1:13:35Joe Santagato:All right. You're. Oh, wait. I don't. Okay. you're an old evil genie genie yeah but like you're kind of like you think you're like you're funny but you want to take people's souls can genies do that and i let you out and i let you out but i think you're gonna do good right but like you're like i you don't know who i you you don't even know who you let out who are you i'm just me a dude yeah but you're just like you found my lamp. And I found your lamp and I think like, oh man, great. Now I got a genie lamp. But like you're an actual bad person. Genie. An old guy. I mean, you are thousands of years old, but you were genocized.

1:14:22Joe Santagato:Genified. What does that mean? Turned into a genie when you were 34.

1:14:29Joe Santagato:So I'm just me? I mean, that's for you to decide, my friend. So what am I doing? I rubbed the lamp and you're coming out and it's like i think i'm like oh my god yes i have a genie but you're like little do you know who you just let out big boy you don't need to say that big boy yes all right you have no idea who you just let out big boy what wish do you want let me know what wish you want big boy he comes out he's just hitting on you oh come here rubbed my lamp who needs a wish a shirtless wig you honestly sound like will ferrell right now oh what there was a little will ferrell in there you know that would be a funny movie like do you ever see do you remember the sketch he did with garth brooks in the 90s where he plays the devil and it's like the devil's gonna play this guitar but he sucks at it yeah yeah you remember that she's like oh i'm gonna shred this he's like hold on hold on yeah i'm getting it oh oh imagine oh dude imagine rubbing a lamp and a genie popped out yo after i saw a line when i was a child i was rubbing everything in my yeah i mean i i bet you were yeah uh it's fair too yeah i was myself jesus i used to like i'll skip that one yeah i don't gotta write that one too close yeah uh i used to think the same thing like if i were to like just like remember how in like dexter's laboratory he like lifted up like a family portrait and there was like a button i love that i would like search behind like things hung up in my house be like maybe there's a button to like a secret lab i think that when people have shit like that in their house i think it's so cool do you think when you have a giant house because we know you'll have like because People have installed modern-day bookcases where they move a book and it opens to the man cave.

1:16:33Joe Santagato:Yeah, yeah. Which we can agree. I hate the man cave. Man caves are so stupid. I just have a house, and I feel like this is the man cave. This is the man cave. What gave it away? The sign that says parking for Yankee fans only. I hate that so much. Oh, the bathroom? It's a urinal. And guess what's in there? of david ortiz's face yeah like i don't need all the signage i don't want yeah or like even worse you go not even worse but like in addition it people's like man caves and there's 80 tvs who needs this yeah and it's like that's that's my chair that's the holy that's the holy throne here's the rules rule number one no bitching why rule number one i'm always right rule number two fuck the patriots it's like all right we get rule number one yeah we knew you've been to hobby lobby we understand yeah it's rough um what was the question oh will i do the bookcase i could see that being like cool for like a reading nook i would love that i mean yeah i don't know that unfortunately it would make a lot of sense but i think that it is cool or like a button you could have a button on like a bust of william shakespeare and you like push his head back press it and the door opens i could see you having like a room that has like floor-to-ceiling bookshelves oh i really like that i like a uh a book like a library ladder hall you want a library ladder when i could just like kick off and be like what do you need yeah but here's the thing they used to be filled with cool looking books now the spines of all the books are like white and colorful like back then it was like old bound leather yeah like spell books yes you know what i mean i want to open a book and cough bro yeah i want it to be dusty and have like asbestos in the pages i could see you having something like i am going to go out on a limb i think you should and if you don't you kind of suck i'm dropping the ball i should just buy encyclopedias i don't even know what they do anymore haven't opened one since third grade literally like an absolutely defunct form of technology because of the internet also an almanac forgot what that is i think it's just like the world like pictures of maps yeah like what is an almanac it's like a somewhat agriculture i feel like that word no it's stupid it's just like oh here here's a map of america also here's a map of the eastern part of america and also here's a map of the northeast and it's like i don't need a whole book for maps yeah it's stupid although when i was in london there was a store we walked into and they had a bunch of old maps from like old bro i'm gonna do those are kind of cool books after 1999 suck yeah so trash i need an old book that smells like shit and probably has like some blood on a page and i'm gonna go further like not what are they called soft cover books yeah paperbacks paperback books are stupid oh i like paperbacks nope you like hard covers hard covers are way better dude no i'm reading it i want to put this thing down and it makes a stunch yeah like paperback it's just like like fuck we got books around here somewhere right there oh yeah perfect oh you got two examples right there yeah look at that so this is greg's book no disrespect to greg but it's a paperback so it's right it's a greg book yeah careful he'll text you oh wow there's a there's a there's a quote from you on the back of this yeah you don't know the story behind that no bro me and greg were like friends but not really yet and then he asked me be a part of his book because i had a youtube channel that was popular at the time and he was trying to use me classic no that's what that's the joke that i make but like he he had approached me i was like hey i'm writing a book i would love for you to like you know do this thing and i wrote something what does it say i loved every second of it i wrote the actual quote that i wrote was i loved every second of it and i don't even read books and the person was like all right we're shortening this yeah i mean jokes aside it's wildly impressive that he wrote a book yeah to publish books i've heard nothing but good things about it i've not read it however listen to this all right and then this is a book this is not a t-shirt this sucks i don't even know i don't even know what that is.

1:20:59Joe Santagato:I don't even know what it is. No disrespect to Gary Vee, Jessica Alba, and Tony Hawk, but They're on the back of that? Yeah, they wrote something. Listen. You ready? Just listen. Okay? Actually, I'll give it a more fair shake. I'll drop them both like this. One like this. Okay? Come on, dude. You like a big... A booming... That's like I'm smacking my ass with a roll of fucking newspaper and when would that be appropriate well like i want to put a book big a book a big book down and like yeah you know what i mean yeah i like old pages do you remember when there was a video that went around of like like joe biden was getting sworn in with a book that looked insane it had a lock on it when books have locks on them i like that name two incredible movie books well something from harry potter i just can't remember like the name of the books i wasn't gonna think of that one i was gonna go with the spell book from hocus pocus yeah that's a good one well that's a good one or the book from the mummy i don't remember the mummy you don't remember dude what a book it has like a a lock on the front that like it like opens like like scarabs like that and they put it and they turn it and it's it's fucking good dude this isn't gonna work the mummy book oh yeah there it is wow it worked i think is it a real book that thing dude that looks a little too mechanical i know that it's it this is it though yeah it's the death book and the oh spoiler but death book and the life book nice spoiler the movie's from like fucking 1999 it's great great great great job there with the year it was right 1999 i'm on it yeah good movie by the way what about the necromonic on necronomicon whatever yeah that one's just a scary looking what's a necro it's from the evil dead series it's like it's bound in human oh well those are real versions of it which is kind of creepy why uh it's bound with human flesh and all the pages are written in blood yeah i mean it's from a movie like a book made out of flesh is probably disgusting yeah let's not sit let's not look at the images just in case i'm good just in case something pops out yeah necro what was it necronomicon necronomicon yeah it's like necromancer but a book what's more that a necromancer is like someone that does like evil dead like uh magic uh raises the dead yeah i'm only familiar with necrophilia not that i'm familiar with i'm familiar with the term that well that one i'll get yeah yeah necro necro is like yeah prefix for like having to do with the dead i believe and then philia is obviously the greek what's what's it's prefix in sussex post fix for like love right you know that's why it's called philadelphia phila right city of brotherly love it's ironic because i hate it oh yeah that place i hate their sports teams yeah um well maybe we can end on necrophilia nope shouldn't we we started with swastika ended on necrophilia what an episode bookends of this episode are very interesting yeah what are we gonna name this one oh that's a great question i have no idea um that's a problem for another time frank where can they find you the frank alvarez all over and patreon patreon.com slash the basement yard and the basement yard all over social media and nope he doesn't get one today nope you can find me at the finish line yeah of the half marathon and you guys can go follow me at joe santa gotta go follow the show at the basement yard on tiktok on Instagram.

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