‘Beef’ Season 2, Episodes 1-3: A Prime Cut of Chaos

20:02Rob:Plenty scenes. We do in plenty scenes. We get him just sort of rambling and you're like, oh, my. The filter is quite porous. Yeah. A lot. A lot is eking out into the world. I think what's your favorite? I mean, we have a whole himbo category for him. But my favorite ramble has to be the sort of the misc versus mist speech that he gives Eunice. That is my himbo moment. I mean, we'll come back to it. Okay, anything else you want to say before we get into some of our categories here, our superlatives? I'm really enjoying the season so far. I also just love kind of like the Rube Goldberg machinations of a show like this where it's, you know, there is this inciting fight that then leads to Ashley getting this job at work that then leads to her wanting Austin to have this PT job, which then leads to Austin seeing like these invoices and like connecting all of these dots and the way that we just have this like comedy of errors type build.

20:52I think it's just like great TV.

20:54Rob:It'll be interesting to see. I haven't seen episodes. I have watched through episode six just to like prep for everything we did, but we won't be talking beyond episode three, but I haven't seen seven and eight. So I don't know how the season ends. And again, season one really kind of ran off the rails at the end for me. So I don't know how season eight will land on season two, but it does move so quickly. So like when we see Josh embezzling under his dead mother's name, and you're like, oh, that's going to be a season long, like no, immediately is found out and then roped into a different embezzlement scheme.

21:28Rob:You know, I just love how quickly everything turns on this Rube Goldberg, as you put it. Even Ashley's like, I don't know all the, what's happening here, but this is definitely a crime. Like this is definitely weird that this money is being like funneled from one place to the next. So I'm with you. Just the way that the breadcrumbs are followed to like very quick conclusions. And then that leads to a dramatic change in some of these other characters. There's just, I mean, this is why it's beef, right? It's like confrontation, confrontation all the time between not just our four leads, but like the Korean overlords who are running this club, like all of these different elements.

22:00Ava. I mean, there's a piece of work, Ava. Just there to be like a professional hot person, I guess.

22:06Rob:Yeah, I guess so. Good work if you can get it. Absolutely. All right. Anything else? Let's get into it. Okay. Okay. this is the beef top 13. A combination of superlative is another sundries. All right. So each character's worst decision is how we're starting. We're just going to go with the four, the four mains here. So for Josh, what's your worst decision for Josh? I think it's gotta be the wee little embezzlement. And specifically using your dead mom's name, which is just way too close to your name. Very, very close and entirely too transparent. I will also say embezzling specifically for, $4 ,999 because it's under the limit.

22:45It's so blatant and obvious.

22:48Rob:What would you go for? $3 ,800 or something like that? I think you got to mix up the amounts for one. It can't be static. It reminded me a lot of George Santos at that shady Italian restaurant, just like racking up these random charges. You got to mix it up. There has to be a George Santos season of beef. Would watch. Definitely embezzlement. Not a great decision. Firing Deb. I just don't think you should ever fire a Deb in general. It's a great call. Yeah. She seems like she was holding that office together. She had all up here. Unfortunately, I think that's a mistake. Not quitting when Lindsay suggests it.

23:19Rob:Like that's a real a fork in the road moment of she's like, we could just quit and we would be happier if we just got off this this, you know, wheel. And he's like, no, let's keep going. Right. Would that have solved as many of their problems as they in that moment believe? No, but I don't think it would have led them like barreling head first into a thicket of other problems. That's true. How do you feel about the micro-bullet that Josh is rocking this season? Could anyone but Oscar Isaac pull it off? I don't know. It looks great on him, but I have some questions. Yeah, it really works for him.

23:49I mean, the man can rock almost any hairstyle and or facial hair, and I'm kind of on board for it, but in concept, I'm skeptical.

23:57Rob:I'm trying to figure out if there's an exception, and I would say maybe the makeup he wore as Apocalypse in the X-Men movie is my one exception. I don't know. Could that be his fault? He didn't seem like he enjoyed it. And then would you, how would you, what genre would you put the podcast that he listens to in? Is that a Manosphere podcast? I thought of it more as like an explainer, faux scientific podcast, but I have it for one of our other categories. So let's return to the pods. Lindsay, worst decision. I think for Lindsay, it's, she's not the only person involved in the fight that starts all this, but specifically the decision to pick up the golf club escalates the video in a way that basically nothing else in the plot does.

24:42So it's just like, it's not all her fault. Obviously, like it's taking two to tango there, but she is the guitar smashier of the two of them, it seems like.

24:51Rob:Yeah, that's fair. Who threw the wine glass first? I think she throws it first and then he follows it up by, there's already glass shards. Let me also throw mine. Okay. He was also holding his wine glass by the bottom, which like you're supposed to do to not like, But I was just like, that's a really douchey way to hold a wine glass to my guy. Okay. I would say, so we're in the midst of an embezzlement scheme. Yep. And we're embezzling in order to, you know, kickstart our dreams of a B &B and B &B. The brilliantly named. It's a very clever idea. Bath and barn. Brilliant idea. we see as the embezzlement is going on the purchases strewn about um the place and like in theory lindsey is sort of like figuring out how we're going like what pillows we're gonna have you know we can't have 500 pens we're gonna have certain pens but you're looking at some of these boxes and it's like there's a dyson box there's a louis vuitton box and i'm like why did you buy something from louis vuitton um it seems to me that lindsey is just sort of like the money's flowing.

25:54Rob:I'm going to spend it. That seems and seems like not a great idea. Despite her attempt to Google debt. Can I get a loan? She's trying to get to the bottom. She's trying to refi. Yeah, there's a lot there. Just just the pillows alone. The inventory is ridiculous. And I'm with you, like the luxury, like LV style stuff that is stocked there doesn't seem to really fit the bed and breakfast aesthetic that they might be going for. I don't want to assume too much about her design sensibilities, but at minimum, we're told they're colonial, very colonial. she loves some vagina okay austin what's austin's worst decision i think for austin it is i think most of his transgressions are are somewhat minor so far it's more just like being a dum-dum uh in really delightful ways but being so weird about the eunice stuff immediately lying about eunice is my answer right out of the gate and he didn't need to like he could have just come home and said i gave her a session yeah the chairwoman was not available so yeah uh eunice He doesn't have to talk about how flexible she was and how close.

26:55Do you think that actress is that flexible?

26:59Rob:Or was there a fake leg involved in that? I'm just going to give Soyeon Jung credit that she is that flexible, whether she is or not. I'm also just like, I'm dialed in on the entire Eunice situation in this evolving plot line. It's so much fun having them. I mean, you talked about it in terms of the cultural balance that Austin has kind of strewn here, not just as an Arizonian, but as someone who's like partially Korean. Right. And having Eunice come in who, I mean, look, she wants to be therapized physically right out of the gate. He wants a job. And here's the thing. If it's not him lying about the Eunice situation, it's him agreeing to take on this like responsibility for this entire wellness center when he, more than anyone knows, he's not even a physical therapist.

27:43Rob:Without even talking to Ashley about it first, his interesting moral, you know, He's like, it's wrong to buy clothes from H &M and leave the tags on and return them. But I will agree to this larger fart. It's wrong to forge a document saying I have a PT license. But I will agree to this$50 million endeavor inside of the club. His ethics are not airtight. How did you feel about him dropping the term epigenetics when he was talking about his relationship with the Ines? Just the endless string of things that he's saying or using incorrectly throughout these episodes. I mean, I fucking love it. It's priceless.

28:19Charles Melody, he's so good. And May, December, he's playing like a kind of naive and dumb for sure. But also one, like a guy who knows more than he lets on and is kind of like repressing a lot. This guy is a totally different animal. And it just plays for such great comedy through these three episodes. I'm sure there will be more to it because Charles Melody is gifted in that way. But I'm having a great time.

28:41Rob:Last but not least, Ashley. What's Ashley's worst decision? I hate to say it, but like, I think Austin is right that she should have negotiated for more. he's a little fussy because he didn't get a treat when they negotiated. This is just now occurring to me. How come this is all for you? Yeah. But they do have this like quite compromising video that looks terrible, regardless of what the truth of it is. And she comes out of it with a 45K salary in California at a country club, 10 days PTO and health insurance. I'm sure that's like, it's good, but I think she could have squeezed him a little bit.

29:13Rob:I don't, yeah, I don't want to be like 40, 45K. It's not bad. No, no. But like it was the health insurance thing, which we will get to. We have a whole category for this. But like I had to Google because it was my experience when I worked minimum wage full-time jobs. It was my experience at all the like making no money bookstores that I worked at in San Francisco. If you work full-time, they had to give you health insurance. I don't know if that's like, but I was Googling California law. The landscape has changed, Joe. We're contractors through and through these days. Well, yes. No, I mean, they tried to get away with that.

29:45Rob:They would try to hire people to be many part-time workers. But if you were full-time, which Ashley already was, then she was already full-time at the club. So I was confused why she wasn't getting. But I think California law, I looked it up. California law says if you have under 50 employees, you don't have to give them, which is not the case in the bookstores I worked at. But if you have under 50 employees, you do not have to provide health care for even your full-time workers. Yeah. Fucked up. This does seem like under 50 based on the all hands attendance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I believe that that country club is under 50.

30:21Rob:So thank you to all the bookstores who gave me health insurance when they didn't need to. Amazing. Appreciate you. But yeah, I was a full-time employee at all the bookstores I worked at, but most of the staff would be part-timers so that the bosses could get away with not giving them health care, which is fucked up. Especially this kind of employee, like if you're working the BevCard on a golf course, it does seem like that specific sort of gray area where they will just nickel and dime everything they can get from you. I think you want the BevCart girls in like an ironclad HR contract. I mean, that's true.

30:50Rob:If anyone should have an NDA, it's whoever's working the BevCart. It's the BevCart girls, by the way. I fell down a rabbit hole about this because when I was, which was like several years ago during COVID, when I was still on TikTok, I like found this like BevCart girls account. Don't laugh at me. I found this BevCart girls account. I'm glad you got clean. I did. I'm just on Instagram reels now. You're heavily on Instagram. Mom, I'm online. You have nothing to talk about. But I found this like Bev Cart girl was like had this whole like very popular TikTok account. And I was just like interested in this whole world because she was squeezing these guys for so much money.

31:27Rob:And she would just give these like confessionals from her cart where she would like just talk about how like she's like, I put on the smallest clothing I could possible. And I squeeze these rich old guys for all this money and I get them drunk and I take all their money. And I'm like, great. Good job, girl. Power to you. Love it for you. Ashley does not want to do that. No. She wants something else. All right. Our next category is whitest white nonsense. What was your pick for Ashley's worst decision? Thanks. Thanks so much for asking. I would say either getting Austin involved with a club at all.

31:56Rob:So like I understand that he's like, hey, what about me? And she's trying to help him. But like her roping him into this is not going to be, it does not seem to be turning out well for her. No. Or throwing herself out of a moving car. Lady birding it. Lady birding it straight up. and then was it uptown funk that she was like muttering like uptown funk as mantra a very melking sort of like soothing self-soothing with bruno mars uh moment so at least like megan the stallion i can understand where the empowerment is coming from bruno not so much no all right whitest white nonsense this is i have a long list here so i think we came out of the gate pretty strong with save the frogs 100 save the save the frogs gala basically at the country club $100 ,000 raised for the frogs.

32:43Great work for the frogs. I'm sure they really appreciate it. But I do think the definitive answer to the whitest thing that's happening on this show is going for a run and listening to a podcast about porn research. That feels like about as white as it gets. Or maybe it's just even having a man cave slash jerk off dungeon in the first place, right?

33:01Rob:I mean, I think jerk off dungeon is reductive because that's also where all of his sports memorabilia is. It's true. There are many kinds of jerking off. He contains multitudes in there. I also had, I asked for eggshell. This is bone, obviously. Literally whitest white nonsense. Lindsay talking about her brother's book, Bloom Scully, which won the Pulitzer Prize. It's right up there with Past Lives, the novel called Boner. I'm like, all right. This is straight off a bookshelf. I don't know what to tell you. When my brother wrote a little book called Bloom Scully. Pause for applause. No reaction.

33:36Rob:Troy, William Fichtner's character in the mala necklace, the wooden beads, and also saying to Troy, appreciate you, mi amigo, see you mañana. Really tough stuff. The dog's name is Burberry. Is that not the whitest white nonsense? It's quite white. He's also a fucking star. You can support Burberry without supporting the name. I do. The brief moment where Burberry went off the map, and it's like, oh my God, did something happen to Burberry? I was as panicked as I've ever been watching television. How do you feel about Burberry's extensive wardrobe? A sweater for every occasion. Why not? Okay. I mean, better than the pillows.

34:13Like, how many pillows does one need versus a toxin? You got to keep them warm, you know? Like, they just don't really have a lot going on.

34:19Rob:Okay. All right. This is fun. You're pro clothing on dogs. Depends on the dog. I don't do it personally. But you would. My dog will selectively have, like, maybe a bandana, you know? Okay. Like a jaunty bandana? Define jaunty. I don't know if a bandana can be unjaunty. For what occasion does the bandana come out? Usually a birthday, a holiday, you know, very festive specifically. Okay. Are the bandanas, like, if it's a holiday, if it's like Christmas. Yes. Is the bandana like Christmas themed? Of course. Why else would you be doing it? Got it, got it, got it. Who do you think I am? Very special person.

34:55That fits right into the whitest shit category. Let's keep it moving.

34:58Rob:Three last things. Vesper dropped a glass on the patio, which is one of the text messages that Ashley receives. Yeah. Strikes me as very white people nonsense. And then Ashley asking Eunice out to Chinese food. That was tough. Because she's Korean and in America. I'm going to book China bamboo house. That's real rough. All right. Eunice, though, very well-natured about it. You know, she's rolling with the punches. These American weirdos. She's like, pass me the mung bowling beef. I'll eat it. Look, she's a woman of the world. She's lived and studied internationally. She's familiar with all this shit.

35:29That's it.

35:29Rob:All right. This is an A24 show. A24-iest moment. Less a moment and more a fact. Like, I think just getting Yoon Yeo-jung on this show to begin with after Minari, like, that... I know she's on other TV, but this feels like exactly the kind of thing where you can connect the dots and see the pipeline of how it came to be. Yeah, this is different from doing Pachinko on Apple, I agree. Score by Phineas? Yeah. What about the bug motif? We have, like, ants, bugs in light pictures, the dead bee, which we'll come back to. Lindsay flicking an ant off her phone, ants on the oranges of the club. There's just like bugs everywhere.

36:09Rob:Felt very like, I mean, it made me think of counter bug from Disclosure or Deer Departed. But also it just like felt very A24 to have like a bug motif. It's exactly like you can see when the A24 logo comes up on the trailer and it's just the ants crawling in the shape of A24. This is this is their wheelhouse. But I think a lot of it speaks to just like the infestation in these specific like rich spaces. Right. It's like it's all veneer. It all looks very nice. It feels very nice. and then you look closely and the orange is covered with ants. I know, of course. But like, that's an A24 thing to do.

36:38Rob:Do you see the rot? There's bugs everywhere. Oh my God. The metaphor literalized? Are you kidding me? Speaking of which, there's a coyote on the property. Very, I mean, very pluribous. A majestic animal encounter. All right. Diabolical manipulation in these first three episodes. I gotta be honest. I don't find anything that's happened so far to be like super diabolical. So define diabolical for me then. Not in an Austin way, but in a Rob Mahoney way. What does it mean for you? Kidnapping someone and imprisoning them and torturing them. Oh, okay. So you mean like extreme. So I sort of meant like in terms of like twisted morally.

37:16Rob:For sure. But like where's the Machiavelli here? Like who is really pulling the puppet strings? So I would say Lindsay in her conversation with Woosh when she's like, does the chairwoman know you're making all the other women here at the club uncomfortable? You're making me uncomfortable right now. Fair. When she was just engaging in like smearing sunscreen on his half naked body. You know, that seems to be diabolical manipulation to me. I agree that inciting incident feels diabolical, but then nothing so far has come of it. Right. Like the doctor chooses to visit. Like where's the follow through?

37:50Rob:You want this to be in a very like intricate, long ranging plan. You may have heard this before. I want schemes on schemes on schemes. Hat on a hat. Yes. Rube Goldberg it up. OK. I was thinking more like morally reprehensible. Right. Which is a lot of this show. But I just think like, I think Josh making eye contact with Ashley and saying, is your job safe in episode one? It's not good. The whoosh. I mean, whoosh himself taking his shirt off for her to apply the sunscreen. That's morally reprehensible? He's been trying to manipulate her into skincare. Like he's doing his skincare. Look, if those abs are diabolical.

38:26Rob:I don't want to be right. That's what I'm saying. I just think, look, there's a lot of bad behavior on display. Is any of it so far like beyond the pale? Yes. It's like, it's not good. I'm not going to defend what people are doing. Blackmail and embezzlement and extortion. Like it's all bad. Yeah. Doesn't rise to the level of diabolical for you yet. I'm still waiting for the diabolical stuff. Stay tuned. Realistic shot fired during an argument. We can just skip past the part of what this says about me, but there's something specifically about when Lindsay says, you're very good at your job and doesn't mean it as a compliment, then I'm like, oh, oh boy.

39:01Oh boy.

39:02Rob:I think it's, yeah, listening to your podcast in your little shed isn't working on shit, Josh, is a pretty, pretty good one. But for me and like your own wife had to remind you it was her birthday. Yeah. Very like, but the herb garden has been our to-do list for five years. The mulch, the mulch, the runner about spreading the mulch. He spread the mulch. He finally did it. He did it, but there's rot in the mulch. But like this is like the herb garden has been on to do list for five years is that strikes me as very. Can we start using there's rot in the mulch as like our something rotten in the state of Denmark?

39:37Just like any time there's an A24 movie, there's real rot in the mulch.

39:40Rob:Anytime you haven't done something, but you do, you're very responsible. You're very good at your job, Rob. But like now I can't hear it the same way. This is the problem. But anytime you don't follow through, I'll be like that herb garden's been on to do list for five years. All right. This is the time to shine. This is probably our wealthiest category, which is himbo-iest moment. Charles Melton, stand up. They all belong to Charles Melton except for, oh, Dr. Kim at the golf course. Oh, my God. He's so good. Like, he's apparently a very talented surgeon before the tremor. So, like, I don't think he's, like, a total himbo.

40:14Rob:But he is such. He's kind of a himbo. But he's such a dingbat in that moment. I'm really hitting well today after four consecutive swings and misses. And his wife and their legal counsel who are actively discussing his medical malpractice are like, very good, you're doing so well. Polite clapping. That was the only non-Austin moment on my list here. I think they're predominantly Austin moments. But I want to float the idea that like almost every character on this show is kind of a version of a him. Like this is not the brightest group of characters. I would say the exceptions to that are the chairwoman seems on top of it.

40:50Oh, yes. Eunice seems pretty plugged in and, like, knows how to work people and also, like, understands how these worlds work. And also, by the end, like I mentioned with Ashley, like, she's at least seeing something that other people are not as far as, like, the crime in her midst.

41:02Rob:Yeah, she's got, like, most of the picture in place. For sure. But everybody else feels, like, kind of obliviously sort of dumb. Maybe just too comfortable to be perceptive is what it is. Yes, I agree. Except for Deb. Shout out Deb. Yeah, she was... We need more Debs around here. Any particular Austin moments you want to shout out here? I think it is the extended missed bit. The bit that keeps bidding. So good. Because it feels like it's going to be a throwaway gag. And he just keeps bringing it up. And specifically, does Marta have a missed team? That's where I really broke. He's like, I can really see it in the morning.

41:37They do great work. But does she need that much personnel?

41:41Rob:Straight up. Like, when we first see him, he is flexing for Ashley. And that's a great himbo moment. But I think the moment that his golden retriever, himbowiness, really first shines is when he texts her and says a bee died in the house. I cried.

42:03He tried his damnedest to save that bee.

42:05Rob:When he shows up to Lindsay, who's sorting pillows, and says, Miss, Miss, Miss, you're not alone, like trying to like save her. Yeah. And like all of his Reddit searches. Fiance weird sex why? All of that. It's just all good. I think overall. Yes I'll cancel our celebratory CPK dinner. That contrast of like the Gen Z person trying to solve all their problems on Reddit. Yeah. And the elder millennial trying to Google and having to like scroll past all the trash listicles to find some semblance of an answer. I mean direct fucking hits. What does it say about me that I do often search in Reddit for questions that I have?

42:44You're young at heart. You know. You're tapped into a different generation like that.

42:48Rob:I think we've talked about this before. It really depends. Like if you're trying to find like the best socks or mattress or whatever. I find it to be actually quite good. Like a product sort of thing. Because you're going to get hopefully, because I can't trust a single like bustle list of best of whatever. That's all SpawnCon. But like if you go on Reddit, you're looking for the best whatever. Yeah. And you're going to see some comments that are clearly like copy pasted from Casper mattress or whatever. And they're like, this stuff is great. It's not. But then you're going to get some real real.

43:19Rob:Some true true. I think that's the huge part of it. Not that there aren't bots on Reddit, but it does feel like one of the corners of the internet where some real people still inhabit it. So we'll take it, even if the advice is sometimes kind of dog shit. And largely, everything is a cesspool. So what's this little cesspool that at least has people in it? Next category is name drop slash celebrity cameo. And I was wondering, like I gave you these categories before you had watched all the episodes. So I don't know if you were like, what do you mean? I had already seen it. And there's really only one answer for me.

43:50And it's Baron Davis.

43:51Rob:Oh, it's Baron Davis. It's Baron Davis specifically. It's not Michael Phelps. The Michael Phelps bit is funny. Yeah. And the whole Venmo exchange. And I mean, really just the idea of being like in over your head based off a bullshit bed involving Michael Phelps is funny. But tell me, give me the context for Baron Davis that I'm missing. I mean, Baron Davis is like an amazing of his time player. A classic like, oh, if he didn't get injured at this one wrong time, everything would have been so different for him. He has this like signature moment, one of the greatest upsets in NBA history. Also like has tried to be an actor maybe like 10 years ago or so.

44:23It never quite popped. Dated Laura Dern for a while. It's just like a larger than life personality who I love seeing in basically any context. Great. Clearly Laura Dern, at least somewhat agreed at the time. I can't attest to what she thinks now. And then Mr.

44:40Rob:Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco is also here. Great stuff. Okay. Most cutting critique of Gen Z. I think it is in terms of what's really cutting. There's a lot of stuff that is accurate and feels like it is pointed directly at Gen Z. I think the thing that is really like, you're really going deep with this is Austin and Ashley's inability to handle like even the bare minimum of conflict. It's like anytime there's any friction. Let's never fight like this again. Let's never ever fight like this again. There's a lot of talk about emotional openness. And then anytime any emotional openness is expressed, it's like Ashley can't even look at him.

45:13she has to stare out the window and then jump out of the car. So it's like, maybe not true of everybody, but there is a generational divide in terms of that kind of conflict avoidance, especially juxtaposed with a golf club guitar swinging all out fight.

45:27Rob:I think you're right about that because I think the whole part where Austin's talking about the system, right? The people in charge have made it impossible for us. Everyone grabbed the bag before we could. It's unfair globally. And then he's like, I heard antitrust laws might help. Like all that stuff. But that, again, And I feel like I remember that being the millennial cry, you know, that's just sort of like generational turnover, generational sort of moment. Interestingly, as much as I said that Gen X is usually left out of it, I think Ashley is conspicuously absent parents, absent Gen X parents.

45:59Rob:I thought, you know, like her dad, just like her stepmom not inviting her to whatever game they're watching and her dad just like not. She's like in the hospital waiting room and he is not able to make a second for her. So, yeah, her home situation, we haven't really seen or heard much about her mom yet, but she does try to call her dad, who it seems like basically just has a whole new family and a whole new life. And she's unfortunately not a part of it. another thing Josh copying a different fitness influencers content to create his own like word for word to create his own fitness influencer content I thought was like I mean I don't know if that's specifically generational but it is very like something you see all the time so I thought that was really good just you know collecting data from lots of different sources just trying to build those glute bridges you know what I mean I mean and stack them you know alright similarly elder millennials what dragged them the most I think this one was just the like blaming all of your shortcomings on the entitlement of younger people and the show also feeds into not entitlement but like actually so a bit about like i worked nine whole hours yesterday i worked nine whole hours is really good they're playing both sides of this divide uh but yeah i i think the way like the way that josh and lindsey are trying to navigate how to even interact with these people how to manage them how to manipulate them how to be a little more diabolical and ultimately like how they're steering this situation and really all they can come up with was like these fucking entitled kids.

47:27Rob:Right. These young idiots. And then Ashley and Austin are like these dumb old fucks. Right. Like that's what we're dealing with here. I will add to that. The whole sequence with the foam roller. Oscar Isaac rolling out the QL muscle on the foam roller while talking about how entitled these kids are was pretty phenomenal. Why do you got to do this to us? Also, Lindsay with the MySpace angle and the face tuning, you know, for her selfie. She is quick on the trigger on that touch up. Like really impressive stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And then LCD sound system at the bowl. You cried through the entire encore.

48:05Rob:Needle drop. That's needle drop. I think for me, it is the combo of Red Wine Supernova and Clarity. Kind of like the his and hers moments at the household in terms of like you got a chapel girl and an EDM guy. It's like, honestly, maybe this just won't work out. Ashley just really is a chapel girl. She is a chapel girl. Absolutely. For what it's worth, I'm not a chapel girl. I'm also a chapel girl. I would say of the hits, Red Wine Supernova is definitely my favorite. Very good. More of a kaleidoscope guy, but we got to be sad sometimes. I thought you were going to do the A.A.Y.S. The A.A.Y.S.

48:36Rob:felt like a real Rob call. I would say it is, I mean, thank you, Phineas. The Billie Eilish, what was I made for? Speaking of you have to be sad sometimes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. moping on the couch to what was I made for. Really good. And then there's the acoustic Tame Impala cover. Really, really good. I can't remember if I sent this category over to you. Pop culture reference. Did I send that to you? Oh yeah, you did. Okay. What do you have? I think for me, it's like, I mean, this is just shoehorning and like another himbo moment, but thinking that Kim Jong-un was a member of BTS. Really great. Eunice did really roll with that grace.

49:13Rob:I was saying like, she must want him real bad because she is putting up with a lot. He's like, therapize me, please. And Charles Melton is like shirtless for half of these episodes. And it's honestly, I was I didn't do a lot of research into sort of actor interviews, but I forget what I was genuinely forget. Just glue bridges. I was Googling something for Charles Melton and it was just all like what his fitness routine was for this season of beef. Many people are wondering. I think it's the Anthony Edwards goose slash doctor from ER exchange. this will come up a bit more in later episodes but Josh is like really one of us honestly well I mean in this episode to make the dual Anthony Edwards like ER Top Gun NBA reference yeah it's about as direct hit as you're gonna get from me welcome to the ringer Josh Martin we're just coming off the pit like there's just a lot in the sauce here yeah okay uh eat the rich the the the moment where you were like let's let's eat them up I honestly, I don't, I know there's a lot of exorbitant throwing around of money, but I didn't feel like a real inspiration to eat the rich.

50:26Did you feel that acutely at any point?

50:27Rob:You think saying Monet, Manet, making money. Actually, this is the one. Not just saying it, but the whole idea of like art investment as a replicable strategy, especially for a country club GM. Yeah. That's a great call. The Dracula orchids at the other. The$500 pen. Yeah,$500 pen. Honestly, this is the one. B &B culture more broadly, specifically luxury B &B culture. Something I'm like not dialed into at all. But yeah, this idea of like, because I've stayed in like, you know, quaintly shabby B &Bs. I stayed in a lot of teapots. Yes, and so much ruffling. Maybe a room full of dolls. Have I told you that story?

51:12How do they all have a room full of dolls?

51:14Rob:This goes back to - to when I was working in the bookstore and there was a film festival, the Napa Valley Independent Film Festival had were showing films in one of our stores in Calistoga. And so they wanted me as a representative of the of the larger bookstore company to like oversee those screenings at the Calistoga bookstore. And then they wanted me to drive back at night, like over the mountain to where I lived. And I was like, you can't absolutely you can't put me up somewhere in Calistoga. and the company's like, could she stay in a cot in the store and like use the public restroom in the store?

51:53Rob:I did have health care, but I didn't have a lot at the smoke store. And I was like, I was like, you want me to take like a horse bath in the public restroom in Calistoga over the course of this weekend? So then they finally agreed to, they, they booked me an Airbnb, like not Airbnb, a B &B. And I went in and I had not been there yet. It was late at night. It was like my only option. I walked in and the room was full of haunted dolls. The fact that you had no expectation. This wasn't like a thing you booked on kitsch. You know, it's like you just walk blindly into a doll room. Yeah. Haunted like porcelain cracked face dolls.

52:29Rob:Oh my God. I stayed there that night. The next night I just did the drive home. I was like, you know what? I will risk life and limb to drive over this mountain. If it's a cot in the back of the bookstore or haunted doll B &B, I'll risk my life driving. There are worse things than driving into a ravine. Okay. And then last but not least, this is a crossover from The Pit. We're calling this Libbin Out with the Beef. Ashley has a serious medical condition, some torsion, which we experienced this season on The Pit, actually. Big moment for ovarian cysts. Yeah. Great stuff for ovarian cysts. What about this storyline did most ping this for you?

53:07I mean, just the health insurance situation we've been talking around more broadly. That is like the dividing point between like levels of income, levels of status, I think is for one, like very true to life. But also, I mean, clearly the show living out.

53:21Rob:Ashley being like, can they bundle something? Do I have any weird moles that I can have removed while I'm getting this surgery? And also being like, you have one near your scapula. But I love that thought process of like, what can I bundle? What can I get done? Yeah, what can I get done inside of this surgery? is like, yeah, living out with the beef. That was literally a plot line, now that I'm thinking about it, on adults where somebody went in and was like having to get a procedure done. And it's like, how many other major procedures can I double and triple dip while I'm under? Yeah, the anesthesia will work for all.

53:51Rob:Like just blanket anesthesia for all of it, right? Okay. Anything else that we haven't mentioned that you wanted to call out? I mean, there's so many great like running bits or just like one-liners in the show. I can find myself or imagine myself saying the slops are smelling great just many times throughout my life. What is, I didn't understand that. Oh, he was making sloppy joes. Oh, sloppy joes. He was out there. He was like grilling the buns. I was like, are those little pecan pies? No, those were warmly toasted hamburger buns. But the slops are smelling great. The slops are smelling great.

54:23I'm not making slops, but I might make slops just so I can say this.

54:27Rob:Would you call them, you would call them slops? I think you have to now. Okay, great. Anything else? I would also go for a celebratory dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen. I'm not, I'm not above it. Would you throw a DiGiorno or two in the oven as we did well today? I mean, only triple meat. You know? Like, if we're going to do it, we're going to do it right. Are you cheese in the crust or no? Why not? Okay. Wow. Wild it out. Triple meat and cheese in the crust? Again, like, if we're flexing, you got to flex. You really have to treat yourself now and again. CPK is the way. All right. That's the beef, episodes one through three.

54:59Rob:This is the diabolical way that we decided to cover three episodes of television. We'll be back with four, five, six. Will we do the exact same format? Who's to say? Probably, but we'll see. I also, I want to put out our services for something on this show. I know it's a little late in the game considering they're binge dropping it. The Photoshop work that was done to put young Oscar Isaac and young Carrie Mulligan in a wedding photo together, I think we could do better. It's the way in which they're so clearly, like, he's supposed to be looking at her, but he's looking like... In opposite directions, basically.

55:30Rob:To the left of her. Yeah, it's tough. I would say the Photoshop of younger Oscar Isaac and young Oscar Isaac is better than the one of young Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan. Now that I think about it, though, the young Oscar Isaac and A-Rod might be the worst of the Photoshop. Yeah, I was like, do you want to lend your sports expertise to any of the sports memorabilia that we see? We get the Tiger Woods, Stryver, like anything else that you want to shout out that you noticed in the background. The Tiger Woods bit is great, especially after the golf club debacle and the fight. Overall, I find the argument that Ant is the future, and thus you should invest in the sneaker now to be quite persuasive, it's not like a Victor Webanyama level version of the future.

56:08But if you were going to make a long-term investment, I actually think it's a pretty savvy play. Maybe more savvy than buying a bunch of super expensive audiophile equipment, perhaps.

56:17Rob:Or money. Money. Money. Money. All right. Thank you. How dare they? How dare us? Thank you to Devrinaldo. Thank you to Jacob, who's working on this episode. Thank you to Kai Grady. Thank you to the beef itself. Carey Mulligan. Carey Mulligan. And Oscar Isaacs Mullet. Yeah. And we'll see you soon. Bye.