[00:00:22] And welcome to episode 596 of the Pittsburgh Nerd Podcast. I'm Sean. And I'm Ian. And this is the only podcast that says...
[00:00:53] This is Ripley, the last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
[00:00:57] Nice.
[00:00:58] Yes.
[00:00:59] Ian is making a new friend.
[00:01:01] Yes, this dog.
[00:01:02] Yes.
[00:01:03] Oliver, my Nancy's sister's golden retriever, who is a moose.
[00:01:11] He's a big dog.
[00:01:13] Yeah.
[00:01:13] I mean, golden retrievers are big, but...
[00:01:17] He got into the giant line.
[00:01:19] Yeah.
[00:01:19] Yeah, he's a monster.
[00:01:23] And, like, he doesn't even understand he's a monster.
[00:01:25] That's the worst part.
[00:01:26] Like...
[00:01:27] He's a big old Marmaduke.
[00:01:28] Yeah.
[00:01:28] And, like, he'll be under the table, and the table will just move a foot.
[00:01:32] Yeah.
[00:01:32] Because he's, you know...
[00:01:35] But we're watching him and Mac, who is a French bulldog, and their cat, Sylvester.
[00:01:42] We're watching them for one more week.
[00:01:46] We've had them for two.
[00:01:47] We have one more week because the Nancy's sister, Christine...
[00:01:52] Their husband, John, they're in Italy seeing their son, Shane, who's stationed in Italy in the Air Force.
[00:02:01] So...
[00:02:01] Yeah.
[00:02:02] Yeah.
[00:02:05] Good buddy.
[00:02:09] Oliver!
[00:02:10] I'm on that.
[00:02:15] You need it.
[00:02:16] Just let him ride it out, Clark.
[00:02:19] Yeah.
[00:02:23] So...
[00:02:23] How was your Thanksgiving, sir?
[00:02:26] It was good.
[00:02:27] Good.
[00:02:27] Yeah.
[00:02:28] It was, uh...
[00:02:31] It was real good.
[00:02:32] Your first one in the new house?
[00:02:34] Yeah.
[00:02:35] Yeah.
[00:02:37] Phil.
[00:02:38] I saw Lisa had posted a picture of the, uh...
[00:02:41] The table.
[00:02:42] Spread here.
[00:02:43] Yeah.
[00:02:45] Yeah.
[00:02:46] It was good.
[00:02:46] We had, uh...
[00:02:47] All three girls were there, and then Lisa's kids were there.
[00:02:50] Yeah.
[00:02:50] Her mom and dad.
[00:02:51] Yeah.
[00:02:51] It was good.
[00:02:52] It was good.
[00:02:52] Good food.
[00:02:53] Cool.
[00:02:53] Busy.
[00:02:54] We were exhausted.
[00:02:55] I bet.
[00:02:57] Um...
[00:02:58] Girls brought a couple sides, and then they made some cookies.
[00:03:01] Yeah.
[00:03:01] And then, um...
[00:03:03] But we had...
[00:03:05] Jeez.
[00:03:06] Turkey.
[00:03:10] And, um...
[00:03:13] Mashed potatoes, of course.
[00:03:14] Yeah.
[00:03:14] I made stuffing.
[00:03:15] I made...
[00:03:17] Aunt Lou's stuffing.
[00:03:18] Oh, okay.
[00:03:20] Um...
[00:03:23] Can you remember?
[00:03:24] Mac and cheese.
[00:03:26] Uh...
[00:03:26] Sweet potatoes.
[00:03:29] Anna made.
[00:03:32] Brussels sprouts.
[00:03:33] Yeah.
[00:03:34] And we had a lot of...
[00:03:35] A lot of...
[00:03:36] And I made noodles.
[00:03:37] Yeah.
[00:03:38] Um...
[00:03:39] And then, we had regular gravy, too.
[00:03:41] Because noodles was something.
[00:03:42] Yeah.
[00:03:43] That's the German.
[00:03:44] Yeah.
[00:03:44] Coming out.
[00:03:45] The noodles.
[00:03:46] So...
[00:03:47] Seems like we had more stuff.
[00:03:48] I just can't remember what we...
[00:03:51] What we had.
[00:03:52] Yeah.
[00:03:53] Is that it?
[00:03:55] I don't know.
[00:03:56] We had all kinds of shit.
[00:03:57] Okay.
[00:03:57] So, yeah.
[00:03:58] It was a good spread.
[00:03:58] Everybody ate, got full.
[00:04:01] But the best part was...
[00:04:03] At least I made turkey pot pies the next day.
[00:04:05] Oh, there you go.
[00:04:07] Yeah.
[00:04:07] Oh.
[00:04:07] Yeah.
[00:04:09] With all the...
[00:04:10] Leftovers.
[00:04:12] That was good.
[00:04:14] Yeah.
[00:04:15] I was like...
[00:04:16] This was better than Thanksgiving.
[00:04:20] They were good.
[00:04:21] I mean, they were like turkey pot.
[00:04:22] Yeah.
[00:04:23] Well...
[00:04:24] That's...
[00:04:24] Not the little babies.
[00:04:26] These are like...
[00:04:27] Well, since Nancy's sister's in Italy...
[00:04:30] Nancy hosted Thanksgiving.
[00:04:32] It says my family pushed Thanksgiving to today for some reason.
[00:04:35] Saturday.
[00:04:36] Saturday.
[00:04:36] I was here.
[00:04:39] And...
[00:04:41] They had a smoked turkey.
[00:04:44] Her gentleman's suitor, Mike, smoked a turkey and a ham.
[00:04:48] Okay.
[00:04:50] And the leftover turkey she's taking and she's going to make turkey a la king.
[00:04:54] Oh, yeah.
[00:04:55] Yeah.
[00:04:56] And...
[00:04:56] Ham...
[00:04:57] Ham salad, obviously.
[00:04:59] But I got some of that set aside for...
[00:05:01] For breakfasts.
[00:05:03] Nice.
[00:05:03] Yeah.
[00:05:04] You know?
[00:05:05] Yeah.
[00:05:05] You got a little ham and eggs.
[00:05:07] Yeah, yeah.
[00:05:08] Especially, I mean, when that smoked ham too.
[00:05:11] Like...
[00:05:13] I made some ham and eggs today for breakfast.
[00:05:15] And her daughter Brittany was like, what smells so good?
[00:05:19] I'm like, well, I fried up some of that ham.
[00:05:21] Yeah.
[00:05:21] And I told her, I'm like, take some of that ham, fry it up.
[00:05:24] Make yourself a grilled cheese.
[00:05:26] Oh, yeah.
[00:05:27] With like a tomato or something with that.
[00:05:29] Yeah.
[00:05:29] And put that ham on that grilled cheese.
[00:05:31] It'll be phenomenal.
[00:05:32] Yeah.
[00:05:33] But you got to give it a nice fry.
[00:05:34] Yeah, yeah.
[00:05:35] You know?
[00:05:35] She's like, I might try to do that.
[00:05:37] Like...
[00:05:38] You know?
[00:05:41] I know a thing or two.
[00:05:43] Right.
[00:05:45] So...
[00:05:47] But, yeah, I mean, it was...
[00:05:50] Obviously, it was a little hectic with Oliver and Mac and...
[00:05:56] You know?
[00:05:57] People were here.
[00:05:58] It was a...
[00:05:58] It was a hectic day.
[00:06:00] Yeah, I'll say.
[00:06:02] But...
[00:06:02] It was nice.
[00:06:03] It was a fantastic dinner.
[00:06:04] You know?
[00:06:05] Yeah.
[00:06:05] Good.
[00:06:10] So, at least, uh...
[00:06:12] Oh.
[00:06:14] Can't go that way.
[00:06:16] But he's trying to go over my life.
[00:06:18] He is.
[00:06:18] He is.
[00:06:19] He's a nut.
[00:06:20] That's why.
[00:06:22] He's expecting you to just hand it to him.
[00:06:25] Like putting my hand in a lion's mouth.
[00:06:27] Yeah.
[00:06:28] Yeah.
[00:06:28] Good luck there.
[00:06:29] This is...
[00:06:30] It's a gigantic...
[00:06:32] I mean, I know golden retrievers get big, but this is a gigantic golden retriever.
[00:06:35] Yeah.
[00:06:36] Yeah.
[00:06:37] So.
[00:06:40] He's powerful.
[00:06:41] He is.
[00:06:42] He's stronger than he even knows.
[00:06:45] Yeah.
[00:06:46] Like, I mean, I've watched him, like...
[00:06:49] You get a child in a chair.
[00:06:52] Right.
[00:06:52] And he's just...
[00:06:55] The child is just...
[00:06:57] Like, they're on a swivel.
[00:06:59] They're just sliding across the room.
[00:07:01] Right.
[00:07:03] He's a gorgeous dog.
[00:07:06] I just coughed up a bone.
[00:07:10] Well, he's waiting so patiently.
[00:07:13] For his breakfast.
[00:07:13] Yeah.
[00:07:15] So.
[00:07:19] And we didn't record last week.
[00:07:21] There was some upset people.
[00:07:23] I'm not going to name names.
[00:07:24] I think we know who they are.
[00:07:27] Upset people.
[00:07:28] Super fan fad, of course.
[00:07:29] Oh, okay.
[00:07:29] But you were having more plumbing issues.
[00:07:35] Oh.
[00:07:36] So.
[00:07:37] Yeah.
[00:07:38] Don't even...
[00:07:38] Let's not even try this.
[00:07:40] Right.
[00:07:41] You know.
[00:07:42] But I did record last week.
[00:07:44] For those who don't know...
[00:07:45] Oliver!
[00:07:46] Holy heck.
[00:07:48] For those who don't know...
[00:07:51] I recorded a wrestling podcast with friend of the show, Jason.
[00:07:55] The History of Bad Ideas podcast.
[00:07:57] Oh, sweet.
[00:07:58] Yeah.
[00:07:59] So, we are doing that right now.
[00:08:02] Only for the big WWE pay-per-views.
[00:08:05] Okay.
[00:08:06] So, this was a preview of the Survivor Series.
[00:08:09] Which is tonight.
[00:08:10] We used to record it down on Sunday.
[00:08:13] So, you can catch that on their feed.
[00:08:15] If you go to the History of Bad Ideas podcast, you'll find the special co-production, a PNP Hobie co-production.
[00:08:23] Right.
[00:08:24] So, that's on their feed.
[00:08:25] And we'll do that again for...
[00:08:29] The World Rumble.
[00:08:31] And then maybe later on...
[00:08:33] Like, we want to get into a groove.
[00:08:34] Like, get a feel for it.
[00:08:36] And then maybe later next year, maybe in the summer, we'll do one once a month.
[00:08:42] Like, you know, like that.
[00:08:43] Yeah.
[00:08:44] It won't be a weekly thing.
[00:08:45] It'll be like a monthly thing.
[00:08:46] But that's something that I'm doing with Jason.
[00:08:50] Because I don't have anybody to talk wrestling with, and neither does he.
[00:08:53] Yeah.
[00:08:53] So, this is kind of our outlet.
[00:08:55] So, this is kind of exciting.
[00:08:57] But you can check that out if you want to hear...
[00:09:01] If you like pro wrestling, and you want to hear my thoughts, that's the place to find it.
[00:09:06] Right.
[00:09:06] So, I know it's been hectic and chaotic in your life.
[00:09:13] Have you watched anything?
[00:09:15] The New Alien.
[00:09:17] Excellent.
[00:09:17] Consider that.
[00:09:18] Okay.
[00:09:19] Oh!
[00:09:20] I want to hear your thoughts.
[00:09:21] I thought it was fantastic.
[00:09:22] So did I.
[00:09:23] Yeah, I thought it was like Ridley Scott at his best.
[00:09:28] Well, it wasn't directed by Ridley Scott.
[00:09:29] But it had...
[00:09:30] But here's the thing I liked about this one.
[00:09:33] He had a lot of involvement.
[00:09:34] I think he produced it.
[00:09:35] Because it had him all through.
[00:09:37] Yeah.
[00:09:39] The thing that I loved was it went back to its horror roots.
[00:09:46] Yeah, it did.
[00:09:46] It was a horror movie.
[00:09:47] Yeah.
[00:09:48] Flat out.
[00:09:49] Yeah.
[00:09:49] I mean, it was a very well done science fiction horror movie using the xenomorph, the facehuggers,
[00:09:59] to an amazing level of fright.
[00:10:05] Yeah, yeah.
[00:10:06] No, it was great.
[00:10:07] Yeah.
[00:10:08] I just...
[00:10:09] I quite enjoyed it.
[00:10:11] Sat in the dark and watched it.
[00:10:13] Yeah.
[00:10:13] Yeah, it was great.
[00:10:15] And I was like, well, I'll give it a shot.
[00:10:17] And it was really...
[00:10:19] Because I watched a couple bad things.
[00:10:21] One was The Abyss.
[00:10:22] That was terrible.
[00:10:24] It was just...
[00:10:26] The James Cameron?
[00:10:28] No.
[00:10:29] Oh.
[00:10:29] Oh.
[00:10:29] It was like some town in...
[00:10:32] Oh.
[00:10:32] Oh.
[00:10:32] And it was being...
[00:10:38] Major fault.
[00:10:39] The whole city was going under.
[00:10:41] Oh, okay.
[00:10:41] One of the disaster type movies.
[00:10:43] Yeah.
[00:10:44] Got good reviews.
[00:10:45] I thought it was fucking horrible.
[00:10:47] Horrible.
[00:10:49] Watched that.
[00:10:51] And I watched...
[00:10:54] I watched that.
[00:10:55] And there was something else I watched that was bad.
[00:10:58] Oh.
[00:10:58] I know when I watched it was terrible.
[00:11:00] Twisters was fucking horrible.
[00:11:03] You didn't care for it?
[00:11:04] No.
[00:11:04] Wow.
[00:11:05] Oh.
[00:11:05] I thought it was terrible.
[00:11:08] It wasn't even about the science.
[00:11:10] I just thought it was like...
[00:11:11] I just thought it was awful.
[00:11:14] Okay.
[00:11:15] I could not...
[00:11:16] I just...
[00:11:20] I just couldn't...
[00:11:22] I couldn't get a grip on it.
[00:11:25] I must be wrong because Nancy felt the same way.
[00:11:28] And so did our friend Mike.
[00:11:32] Like, they were both like...
[00:11:33] Yeah.
[00:11:33] It was a bad movie.
[00:11:34] It was flat.
[00:11:35] Flat out bad.
[00:11:36] I...
[00:11:36] Wow.
[00:11:37] I just...
[00:11:37] I could not...
[00:11:39] And I wasn't comparing.
[00:11:41] Yeah.
[00:11:41] I mean, I knew it was a different...
[00:11:42] You know, I get it.
[00:11:44] Yeah.
[00:11:44] I mean, the opening sequence was good.
[00:11:46] Yeah.
[00:11:47] Like, that's what pulled me in.
[00:11:48] I was like, oh, this is...
[00:11:50] Yeah.
[00:11:50] This is all right right here.
[00:11:52] I can get into this.
[00:11:53] Yeah.
[00:11:54] And then it just fell.
[00:11:55] It just fell flat on me.
[00:11:57] I just...
[00:11:59] I didn't care about the science.
[00:12:00] Yeah.
[00:12:01] The science part didn't bother me.
[00:12:02] Right.
[00:12:02] And the fact of what they were doing didn't bother me.
[00:12:05] Realistic or not realistic.
[00:12:06] I thought it was actually pretty cool.
[00:12:07] I got into that part of it.
[00:12:09] Yeah.
[00:12:12] But I don't think they got in...
[00:12:13] I don't think they delved enough into the science behind it.
[00:12:16] Ah.
[00:12:17] I think they just scratched the surface with that.
[00:12:19] Right.
[00:12:20] On what they were doing.
[00:12:20] But I couldn't...
[00:12:23] I couldn't get into it at all.
[00:12:25] Okay.
[00:12:26] Yeah.
[00:12:27] Then I watched Deadpool again.
[00:12:29] As a palate cleanser?
[00:12:31] Not the same day.
[00:12:32] Okay.
[00:12:33] But the next movie I watched was Deadpool.
[00:12:36] And...
[00:12:37] Which was fantastic the second time around.
[00:12:41] And...
[00:12:42] Yeah.
[00:12:42] But I really liked Alien.
[00:12:44] I even thought...
[00:12:46] Ah, it was good.
[00:12:47] The ending of that movie...
[00:12:49] Mm-hmm.
[00:12:50] With the...
[00:12:51] The hybrid.
[00:12:53] Yeah.
[00:12:54] That was the thing of nightmares.
[00:12:56] Yeah.
[00:12:57] Like, I was like...
[00:12:59] If 12-year-old Sean had seen this...
[00:13:02] He would not be sleeping for days.
[00:13:05] Right.
[00:13:05] Because that thing was horrific.
[00:13:07] Right.
[00:13:07] You know, like, oh my God.
[00:13:09] You know...
[00:13:10] I just...
[00:13:11] I loved...
[00:13:14] Like, the whole...
[00:13:16] The whole thing was, like, just so well done.
[00:13:19] Right.
[00:13:19] Like...
[00:13:20] Yeah, it was.
[00:13:21] Acting.
[00:13:21] Everything.
[00:13:22] Everything was really good.
[00:13:23] Yeah.
[00:13:23] I really liked the...
[00:13:30] The synthetic.
[00:13:32] Andy.
[00:13:33] Andy.
[00:13:34] Yeah.
[00:13:34] I thought he was fantastic.
[00:13:35] Especially when he, like, became aware.
[00:13:37] Yeah.
[00:13:38] I was...
[00:13:38] Because he...
[00:13:38] It was such a transition.
[00:13:40] Yeah.
[00:13:41] I'm like, oh, she's got to take care of him.
[00:13:42] He's, like...
[00:13:43] Not right.
[00:13:44] Yeah.
[00:13:44] You know.
[00:13:45] And all of a sudden...
[00:13:47] You know, he was, like...
[00:13:49] He became aware.
[00:13:50] And it was like, ooh-hoo.
[00:13:51] Yeah.
[00:13:52] Who's this guy?
[00:13:53] You know what I mean?
[00:13:54] Yeah.
[00:13:54] Like, I really liked it.
[00:13:55] I really liked it.
[00:13:56] Even his facial expressions.
[00:13:57] Yeah.
[00:13:58] It was very good acting.
[00:14:01] So, I got into him a lot.
[00:14:06] But there was a certain point where...
[00:14:08] Maybe I just missed it.
[00:14:09] I don't know.
[00:14:10] But he was almost alive.
[00:14:14] And there was a couple points, like...
[00:14:15] Especially in the beginning.
[00:14:16] Like, when he...
[00:14:18] When he was freaking out and stuff like that.
[00:14:19] And he actually touched her.
[00:14:21] Yeah.
[00:14:22] You know.
[00:14:23] Like, to calm himself down and calm her down.
[00:14:25] Yeah.
[00:14:26] You know what I mean?
[00:14:26] Yeah.
[00:14:26] And I thought, hmm, that's...
[00:14:30] That's not Hans...
[00:14:32] Whatever his name is.
[00:14:33] Yeah.
[00:14:33] You know what I mean?
[00:14:34] Like...
[00:14:34] Yeah.
[00:14:34] It wasn't Bishop.
[00:14:35] It wasn't Bishop style.
[00:14:37] Yeah.
[00:14:37] You know, Bishop was...
[00:14:41] So monotone and...
[00:14:43] Get the job done and I gotta do what I gotta do.
[00:14:46] There was no feeling involved.
[00:14:48] Right.
[00:14:48] Do you know what I mean?
[00:14:49] Like...
[00:14:49] But what was interesting was he was the two sides.
[00:14:51] Like...
[00:14:51] Because once they had Rook's processor in him...
[00:14:55] Yeah.
[00:14:56] He became cold and heartless.
[00:14:58] Right.
[00:15:00] Where...
[00:15:00] Before and after...
[00:15:02] Yeah.
[00:15:03] You know, he was warm and feeling.
[00:15:06] Yeah.
[00:15:06] Yeah.
[00:15:07] It was very strange.
[00:15:08] But it was well done.
[00:15:09] Yeah.
[00:15:09] I thought so too.
[00:15:10] Yeah.
[00:15:11] You're a mess, dog.
[00:15:13] And...
[00:15:15] Yeah.
[00:15:16] So, I mean...
[00:15:16] I quite enjoyed it.
[00:15:18] It was very good.
[00:15:19] It's probably been the best one in a long time.
[00:15:23] I could say that.
[00:15:26] Like...
[00:15:26] Like...
[00:15:27] I know I'm in the minority, but I like Prometheus.
[00:15:31] Yeah.
[00:15:31] I liked...
[00:15:33] From that story aspect, yes.
[00:15:36] Yeah.
[00:15:38] But...
[00:15:40] If I want to see a straight out alien movie...
[00:15:42] Yeah.
[00:15:43] And I want to be scared...
[00:15:47] That's...
[00:15:48] That was a pretty good one.
[00:15:49] Yeah, it was.
[00:15:50] It was very good.
[00:15:51] Like, I mean...
[00:15:52] So, like, if you...
[00:15:52] Yeah, if you, like, take Prometheus and the second one that they did...
[00:15:56] Mm-hmm.
[00:15:57] Take it out of there.
[00:15:58] Yeah, with David.
[00:15:59] Yeah.
[00:15:59] You take that out.
[00:16:01] Like, you're looking at, like...
[00:16:03] Aliens 1 through 4.
[00:16:06] Right.
[00:16:06] And this.
[00:16:08] Right.
[00:16:09] And this is probably the best since Aliens, then.
[00:16:13] Right.
[00:16:14] Because Alien 3 is...
[00:16:16] Is bad.
[00:16:19] And...
[00:16:19] Alien 3 is the one with...
[00:16:21] Alien 3 is the one in the prison.
[00:16:24] Yeah.
[00:16:25] Yeah.
[00:16:25] Probably parts of that, but most of it was bad.
[00:16:27] Yeah.
[00:16:27] Like, it just wasn't a good movie.
[00:16:29] Yeah.
[00:16:29] And it's, like, you know, a shame, because, you know, directed...
[00:16:31] Like, all the stars align with that movie.
[00:16:34] It should be better than it is, and it's not.
[00:16:36] It's not.
[00:16:37] And then Alien 4 was the one where they brought...
[00:16:39] Like, they reincarnated Ripley, and she was, like, a...
[00:16:42] Man, she was playing basketball.
[00:16:44] Yeah.
[00:16:45] They killed the best guy off in the first five minutes of the movie.
[00:16:48] Yeah.
[00:16:49] Yeah.
[00:16:49] Terrible.
[00:16:50] Yeah.
[00:16:50] It was a bad movie.
[00:16:52] You're strong...
[00:16:52] One of your strongest actors you kill off...
[00:16:54] The first five minutes.
[00:16:55] Yeah.
[00:16:57] Drove me nuts, too.
[00:16:58] Makes no sense.
[00:16:59] Yeah.
[00:16:59] So, like, you had...
[00:17:00] Like, those...
[00:17:01] But, like...
[00:17:02] That was to the point where you're, like, I'm out of here.
[00:17:06] Yeah.
[00:17:06] You know?
[00:17:06] Yeah.
[00:17:07] I'm just...
[00:17:07] Like, I almost felt like when they killed him off, I just wanted to walk out of the theater.
[00:17:11] Yeah.
[00:17:11] I was like, come on, man.
[00:17:13] He's a badass captain.
[00:17:15] When you kill him off the first five minutes.
[00:17:17] Give me a break.
[00:17:18] Yeah.
[00:17:18] I don't want to see a midget shoot a gun.
[00:17:20] I want to see him...
[00:17:22] I want to see the captain pull out a sword and say,
[00:17:24] I want to see the pretty eyes.
[00:17:25] No.
[00:17:25] But, I mean, I wanted to see him.
[00:17:31] You ever stop?
[00:17:32] No, he doesn't.
[00:17:33] Oliver, go that up.
[00:17:34] Oh, you're in trouble.
[00:17:36] I'll just move the whole table.
[00:17:40] Oh, you think you're cute?
[00:17:43] Fucking dogs.
[00:17:44] Yeah.
[00:17:45] This is why I don't have them.
[00:17:47] Huh?
[00:17:47] Like, everyone...
[00:17:48] Like, I get this itching.
[00:17:49] I'm like, man, wouldn't having a dog be nice?
[00:17:52] And then I get Oliver for three weeks.
[00:17:54] And I'm like, oh, that's why I don't want a dog.
[00:17:56] Right.
[00:17:57] You know.
[00:17:58] I'll stick with cats.
[00:18:03] Cats are easy.
[00:18:05] They are easy.
[00:18:07] Between this and the monster logs,
[00:18:10] I got to clean up outside twice a week.
[00:18:13] Oh, the logs.
[00:18:15] Yeah.
[00:18:18] So, yeah.
[00:18:19] Alien and Longlist was fantastic.
[00:18:21] I highly recommend it.
[00:18:22] Obviously, you do, too.
[00:18:23] Yeah.
[00:18:25] I did also watch Rebel Rich.
[00:18:27] Okay.
[00:18:28] Which is a Netflix movie.
[00:18:30] Yeah.
[00:18:33] It got recommended to me.
[00:18:35] My dad actually was like,
[00:18:36] you really need to watch this.
[00:18:37] It's a very good movie.
[00:18:38] Okay.
[00:18:39] And it's got...
[00:18:43] Rebel Rich.
[00:18:44] Yeah.
[00:18:45] I should be prepared for this,
[00:18:47] but I'm not, of course.
[00:18:49] Here we go.
[00:18:52] Aaron Pierce is the main character.
[00:18:55] He will be playing Green Lantern and Jon Stewart
[00:18:59] in the Lanterns TV series.
[00:19:01] All right.
[00:19:01] So, that was one reason
[00:19:03] that kind of caught my attention.
[00:19:04] Like, once I heard it,
[00:19:05] I'm like, oh, I should give this a watch
[00:19:06] to see who this guy is.
[00:19:08] Right.
[00:19:09] But it also has Don Johnson in it
[00:19:11] as the sheriff.
[00:19:14] And it's a bit of a...
[00:19:19] It pulls a little bit from like a
[00:19:26] first blood type of feel.
[00:19:28] Okay.
[00:19:29] You know,
[00:19:30] the main character is a former Marine.
[00:19:35] While he didn't serve in combat,
[00:19:37] he was a trainer in,
[00:19:41] like, their martial arts
[00:19:44] and, like,
[00:19:47] all weapons, one mind.
[00:19:49] Okay.
[00:19:50] Like, it was like...
[00:19:51] Like, looking over,
[00:19:52] he's like,
[00:19:52] I think he's on the Wikipedia page.
[00:19:54] You know?
[00:19:54] Nice.
[00:19:55] Um,
[00:19:56] but essentially the story is
[00:19:58] his cousin
[00:19:59] gets busted for weed
[00:20:01] and he's trying to bail him out.
[00:20:04] Okay.
[00:20:05] And
[00:20:06] he's on a bicycle
[00:20:08] and
[00:20:08] he gets
[00:20:10] stopped
[00:20:11] and he has all this money on him
[00:20:13] and the cops
[00:20:14] confiscate the money
[00:20:17] saying they have probable cause
[00:20:19] that he's making drug deals.
[00:20:21] Oh, okay.
[00:20:22] And his cousin was busted for weed.
[00:20:25] Okay.
[00:20:25] So,
[00:20:27] he's trying to get
[00:20:29] the money back.
[00:20:30] Okay.
[00:20:31] And he's trying to get his cousin
[00:20:32] bailed out
[00:20:32] because his cousin
[00:20:33] was a snitch.
[00:20:35] All right.
[00:20:36] So,
[00:20:36] he knows,
[00:20:37] like,
[00:20:38] if you transport him
[00:20:40] to
[00:20:40] the state prison,
[00:20:42] he's gonna get killed.
[00:20:44] Okay.
[00:20:45] And
[00:20:48] the sheriff is like,
[00:20:49] ah,
[00:20:49] not my fucking problem.
[00:20:51] And we confiscated the money legally.
[00:20:53] Yeah.
[00:20:53] And you'll never get it back.
[00:20:56] Wow.
[00:20:56] And,
[00:20:59] you know,
[00:21:00] he ends up
[00:21:03] taking matters
[00:21:04] into his own hands
[00:21:05] a couple of times.
[00:21:07] Really?
[00:21:07] You know,
[00:21:07] like,
[00:21:08] it's a very good movie.
[00:21:09] I mean,
[00:21:10] it's not,
[00:21:10] I say it's,
[00:21:12] it's like,
[00:21:12] it's kind of like,
[00:21:13] um,
[00:21:14] first blood,
[00:21:15] but only in the aspect of
[00:21:18] small town sheriff
[00:21:20] versus
[00:21:22] highly trained
[00:21:24] soldier.
[00:21:24] Yeah.
[00:21:24] You know what I mean?
[00:21:25] Like,
[00:21:25] that's the only real comparison.
[00:21:27] The stories aren't the same.
[00:21:29] Um,
[00:21:31] because this delves into
[00:21:32] the corruption
[00:21:33] of this small town sheriff.
[00:21:35] Right.
[00:21:35] Where,
[00:21:36] like,
[00:21:36] the other one was just like,
[00:21:37] yeah,
[00:21:37] we just didn't like him.
[00:21:38] So,
[00:21:38] we're gonna,
[00:21:39] we're gonna put him in jail.
[00:21:40] Right.
[00:21:40] You know,
[00:21:42] um,
[00:21:44] it's a very well done movie.
[00:21:46] I highly recommend it.
[00:21:47] Yeah?
[00:21:48] Yeah,
[00:21:48] like,
[00:21:49] I mean,
[00:21:49] it was like one of those films,
[00:21:50] I guess I'm watching it,
[00:21:51] I was,
[00:21:52] you know,
[00:21:55] it's one of those few Netflix movies
[00:21:57] that as you watch it,
[00:21:58] you're thinking,
[00:21:59] wow,
[00:21:59] this should have been,
[00:22:00] it maybe,
[00:22:01] maybe it fits Netflix
[00:22:03] because maybe it wouldn't have done
[00:22:04] as well in a movie theater,
[00:22:06] but I feel like,
[00:22:08] this probably should have been
[00:22:09] in a movie theater.
[00:22:10] Right.
[00:22:10] Like,
[00:22:10] with the right marketing,
[00:22:11] this could have done,
[00:22:12] yeah,
[00:22:13] relatively well.
[00:22:15] Right.
[00:22:15] You know,
[00:22:16] and,
[00:22:21] like,
[00:22:21] it was just very well done.
[00:22:23] I,
[00:22:23] like,
[00:22:24] the action sequences
[00:22:25] are top notch.
[00:22:26] Yeah.
[00:22:26] Like,
[00:22:27] the,
[00:22:28] everything he kind of does
[00:22:30] is with a reason
[00:22:31] and a purpose.
[00:22:32] Yeah.
[00:22:33] like,
[00:22:33] it,
[00:22:33] it was,
[00:22:36] I enjoyed the shit out of it.
[00:22:38] Like,
[00:22:38] at the end of it,
[00:22:39] I was like,
[00:22:41] wow,
[00:22:41] I wish there was more,
[00:22:43] you know?
[00:22:44] Right.
[00:22:45] Because the way it ends,
[00:22:46] I'm like,
[00:22:46] I'm kind of like,
[00:22:46] I just want to see how,
[00:22:48] like,
[00:22:48] what happens.
[00:22:49] Like,
[00:22:50] so,
[00:22:51] that's on Netflix.
[00:22:53] That is really,
[00:22:54] really good.
[00:22:55] Um,
[00:22:57] I also watched
[00:22:58] season six,
[00:23:00] part two
[00:23:01] of Cobra Kai.
[00:23:03] Okay.
[00:23:04] Good?
[00:23:05] Bad?
[00:23:05] Ugly?
[00:23:06] It's Cobra Kai.
[00:23:07] Yeah,
[00:23:08] yeah.
[00:23:08] You know what I mean?
[00:23:08] Like,
[00:23:09] at this point,
[00:23:09] like,
[00:23:11] that show is so
[00:23:13] batshit crazy
[00:23:16] that you just,
[00:23:17] like,
[00:23:17] it is what it is,
[00:23:18] I'm just going to enjoy it.
[00:23:20] Yeah.
[00:23:20] You know what I mean?
[00:23:21] Like,
[00:23:21] it's gone from,
[00:23:22] like,
[00:23:23] the original premise
[00:23:24] and idea of,
[00:23:25] like,
[00:23:29] Johnny and,
[00:23:30] um,
[00:23:31] Daniel
[00:23:32] and their kind of rivalry
[00:23:34] and their kids
[00:23:35] kind of getting involved
[00:23:36] in it
[00:23:36] to,
[00:23:37] like,
[00:23:37] this
[00:23:38] over-the-top
[00:23:39] insane
[00:23:43] melodrama.
[00:23:44] Yeah,
[00:23:44] yeah.
[00:23:45] And,
[00:23:46] like,
[00:23:46] the last episode
[00:23:48] has,
[00:23:49] like,
[00:23:49] again,
[00:23:49] like,
[00:23:50] just a battle royale
[00:23:52] of karate.
[00:23:53] Yeah.
[00:23:53] You know,
[00:23:54] like,
[00:23:54] I mean,
[00:23:54] it's like,
[00:23:54] you're just like,
[00:23:55] oh my god,
[00:23:56] I can't believe this is happening.
[00:23:57] This is amazing to watch,
[00:23:58] but I can't believe this is fucking happening.
[00:24:00] Yeah.
[00:24:01] And,
[00:24:02] so,
[00:24:02] you,
[00:24:02] you reach,
[00:24:03] like,
[00:24:03] it's reached that point of,
[00:24:04] like,
[00:24:07] it's almost become the Fast and the Furious
[00:24:09] of,
[00:24:10] like,
[00:24:11] TV shows.
[00:24:11] yeah.
[00:24:11] Like,
[00:24:12] like,
[00:24:12] how over-the-top can we go?
[00:24:14] Yeah,
[00:24:14] yeah.
[00:24:15] And,
[00:24:15] you know,
[00:24:15] and there's still a third part of this sixth season to go,
[00:24:18] and I'm just like,
[00:24:20] oh man,
[00:24:21] you know.
[00:24:22] Are they still friends?
[00:24:25] Yeah.
[00:24:26] Yeah.
[00:24:27] But,
[00:24:28] I mean,
[00:24:28] it's just,
[00:24:28] it's like,
[00:24:31] it's fun,
[00:24:32] and if,
[00:24:32] at this point,
[00:24:33] like,
[00:24:33] if you've gone this far with Cobra Kai,
[00:24:36] you have to ride it out to the end.
[00:24:37] Yeah,
[00:24:37] yeah.
[00:24:38] You know what I mean?
[00:24:38] But it's just,
[00:24:39] it's like,
[00:24:43] it's so over-the-top.
[00:24:45] It's so ridiculous.
[00:24:47] Yeah,
[00:24:47] it's so,
[00:24:50] almost an eye roll.
[00:24:52] Like I said,
[00:24:52] like a Fast and the Furious movie.
[00:24:54] Yeah,
[00:24:55] yeah.
[00:24:55] Like,
[00:24:55] you're just like,
[00:24:56] this shit would not fly in real life.
[00:24:58] Right.
[00:24:59] At all.
[00:24:59] But yet,
[00:25:00] here we are.
[00:25:01] You know,
[00:25:02] so,
[00:25:03] it,
[00:25:04] it's fun.
[00:25:05] I enjoy it.
[00:25:06] But,
[00:25:07] like,
[00:25:07] if you were to start at season six,
[00:25:09] you'd be like,
[00:25:09] fuck this shit.
[00:25:11] Like,
[00:25:11] you have to have gone for the whole ride.
[00:25:12] Yeah,
[00:25:13] and I made it through four seasons.
[00:25:15] Yeah.
[00:25:17] Maybe four and a half.
[00:25:19] Yeah,
[00:25:19] four and a half.
[00:25:20] Yeah.
[00:25:20] And I just stopped watching it for the rest.
[00:25:22] But,
[00:25:23] you know.
[00:25:24] I mean,
[00:25:25] it's fun.
[00:25:25] I enjoy it.
[00:25:27] Yeah,
[00:25:27] I know.
[00:25:28] You know.
[00:25:28] I enjoyed it too.
[00:25:29] I was like,
[00:25:29] it is batshit crazy.
[00:25:31] Yeah,
[00:25:31] like,
[00:25:31] I mean,
[00:25:32] you,
[00:25:32] you,
[00:25:32] you've,
[00:25:34] like,
[00:25:34] when you had the karate battle royal in the school.
[00:25:38] Yeah.
[00:25:39] You know,
[00:25:40] and like,
[00:25:41] everybody was kung fu fighting.
[00:25:43] Yeah.
[00:25:43] You know,
[00:25:44] I was like,
[00:25:44] oh,
[00:25:45] this is bad.
[00:25:46] You know,
[00:25:46] like,
[00:25:47] there would be SWAT at this school.
[00:25:50] Yeah.
[00:25:50] Like,
[00:25:50] in the middle of this,
[00:25:51] there would be like a SWAT team,
[00:25:54] just sworing all of them.
[00:25:55] Yeah.
[00:25:55] But no,
[00:25:56] like,
[00:25:56] this thing went to the end,
[00:25:58] you know.
[00:25:58] I was like,
[00:25:59] oh,
[00:25:59] this is bad.
[00:26:00] I know.
[00:26:02] I know.
[00:26:03] It was bad.
[00:26:03] Yeah.
[00:26:07] All right.
[00:26:08] So,
[00:26:10] there was that.
[00:26:12] I also watched a show called The Diplomat.
[00:26:15] Okay.
[00:26:16] It's got,
[00:26:17] uh,
[00:26:18] Kerry Russell
[00:26:20] and Rufus Swole.
[00:26:21] Okay.
[00:26:22] Oliver,
[00:26:23] go.
[00:26:31] This dog is crazy.
[00:26:34] He's like,
[00:26:35] there we go.
[00:26:37] Oliver's finally settled.
[00:26:40] Um,
[00:26:41] that dog dropped some bombs outside.
[00:26:44] He does.
[00:26:46] He fucking shits boulders.
[00:26:48] The other day,
[00:26:50] I,
[00:26:51] we went shopping
[00:26:53] and I told Brittany,
[00:26:55] Nancy's daughter,
[00:26:56] why don't you take them out?
[00:26:58] Yeah.
[00:26:59] And I'll start bringing stuff down from the car.
[00:27:02] Right.
[00:27:02] Well,
[00:27:03] she takes out Oliver and he,
[00:27:04] he,
[00:27:04] he dropped one
[00:27:06] and I'm coming down the hill
[00:27:08] and I like,
[00:27:09] tasted it.
[00:27:10] Oh,
[00:27:11] you know,
[00:27:11] they're like,
[00:27:12] oh,
[00:27:13] oh,
[00:27:14] you know.
[00:27:16] Yeah.
[00:27:17] Get some science done.
[00:27:20] A joy.
[00:27:23] He does,
[00:27:24] he has,
[00:27:24] he has,
[00:27:25] he has,
[00:27:26] she gives him expensive dog food.
[00:27:27] I just pooped out blue buffalo.
[00:27:29] Yeah.
[00:27:31] So,
[00:27:31] something like that.
[00:27:32] I get something expensive.
[00:27:33] It's high.
[00:27:34] Yeah.
[00:27:34] It looks good.
[00:27:35] Yeah.
[00:27:35] I mean,
[00:27:36] it's healthy looking.
[00:27:37] Yeah.
[00:27:39] I did something
[00:27:42] I've never done before.
[00:27:44] Okay.
[00:27:44] I cut down my own Christmas tree.
[00:27:47] Yeah.
[00:27:49] Lisa mentioned that a couple weeks
[00:27:50] and we didn't show you
[00:27:51] where you're going to be doing that.
[00:27:52] Well,
[00:27:52] we were supposed to go down,
[00:27:53] like you have to buy
[00:27:55] a pass.
[00:27:56] You can do it at a state forest,
[00:27:57] which you want.
[00:27:58] They have sectioned off areas,
[00:27:59] I guess.
[00:28:00] And they want to thin anyway.
[00:28:02] Yeah.
[00:28:03] And the place we were going to go to,
[00:28:06] it was like three hours south.
[00:28:08] Yeah.
[00:28:09] Two and a half hours for me.
[00:28:10] South in the Monongahillie County
[00:28:12] or wherever,
[00:28:13] somewhere in West Virginia.
[00:28:14] Yeah.
[00:28:15] On the Monongahill Forest.
[00:28:18] I don't know.
[00:28:19] Yeah.
[00:28:20] But,
[00:28:21] last weekend they were having a blizzard.
[00:28:24] Yeah.
[00:28:25] This week they were having
[00:28:26] about four inches of snow,
[00:28:27] which probably the snow left over.
[00:28:29] I was like,
[00:28:30] I don't know.
[00:28:30] Both of us looked at each other.
[00:28:31] I don't think we're going to get in there.
[00:28:33] Yeah.
[00:28:33] Neither one of us have four-wheel drive.
[00:28:35] I have all-wheel drive,
[00:28:36] but I don't think we're going to get in there.
[00:28:38] Right.
[00:28:39] And so we went to a tree-cutting farm.
[00:28:41] Yeah.
[00:28:43] And it was cold as hell.
[00:28:45] LA went on the tree.
[00:28:47] And we drove up on the tractor
[00:28:48] and they give you this saw,
[00:28:51] you know,
[00:28:51] Yeah.
[00:28:52] Bow saw.
[00:28:54] And I know I'd use bow saws
[00:28:56] on my dad's farm.
[00:28:57] Yeah.
[00:28:58] All the time.
[00:28:58] We had like four of them.
[00:29:00] Yeah.
[00:29:01] And I don't know if I was just doing it wrong
[00:29:02] or my angle was bad.
[00:29:04] You know what I mean?
[00:29:05] Right.
[00:29:07] And the saw kept bending weird.
[00:29:09] I'm like,
[00:29:09] what is going on here?
[00:29:10] I finally cut it down,
[00:29:12] but it took some work.
[00:29:15] And so we bring it back
[00:29:18] and we put it on the car
[00:29:20] and I winched it,
[00:29:21] you know,
[00:29:21] to the car.
[00:29:22] And then I didn't even know they had,
[00:29:23] but they had string there.
[00:29:24] Yeah.
[00:29:26] So I used some more string to tie it on.
[00:29:28] We only had to go about 20 miles,
[00:29:29] but I had to go on Sezley at one point,
[00:29:32] which.
[00:29:32] Yeah.
[00:29:33] With a tree.
[00:29:33] Yeah.
[00:29:34] I can see just like final destinations.
[00:29:37] Yeah.
[00:29:37] When this is happening all over the place.
[00:29:39] Like Griswold.
[00:29:40] Oh yeah.
[00:29:40] Yeah.
[00:29:42] That's what I felt like.
[00:29:43] It was fun.
[00:29:44] And so we got home.
[00:29:46] And I'm like,
[00:29:47] okay.
[00:29:47] So I was like,
[00:29:49] I think we're going to need a bigger tree stand
[00:29:50] because she only had a tree stand
[00:29:51] for five and a half to six foot tree.
[00:29:54] Yeah.
[00:29:55] I was like,
[00:29:55] let me see how this big this tree is.
[00:29:58] Yeah.
[00:29:58] Took the ruler out.
[00:30:00] Measuring tape.
[00:30:01] I mean,
[00:30:01] yeah.
[00:30:02] And I had her hold it on one end
[00:30:04] and I went to the other.
[00:30:06] Yeah.
[00:30:06] It's,
[00:30:06] you know,
[00:30:07] 10 and a half feet.
[00:30:11] Yeah.
[00:30:15] Yeah.
[00:30:15] You're,
[00:30:16] you're shooting basketballs at it.
[00:30:18] Yeah.
[00:30:19] Wait,
[00:30:19] let me,
[00:30:20] I'll show you a picture.
[00:30:23] And I was like,
[00:30:26] it just didn't look that big
[00:30:27] when we cut it down.
[00:30:29] Wait,
[00:30:29] it took us a while
[00:30:29] because they had some shit trees there.
[00:30:31] Yeah.
[00:30:32] And,
[00:30:36] yeah,
[00:30:36] that's a beast.
[00:30:37] I know that the,
[00:30:38] how high that ceiling is.
[00:30:40] So like,
[00:30:40] yeah,
[00:30:40] that's,
[00:30:41] that's a monster.
[00:30:42] Yeah.
[00:30:43] And where it is,
[00:30:44] that's the Oliver of trees.
[00:30:45] They had to cut the top off,
[00:30:47] not the top,
[00:30:48] but the very,
[00:30:50] there's always that one.
[00:30:51] Yeah.
[00:30:52] Okay.
[00:30:52] The thing was this long.
[00:30:54] Yes.
[00:30:54] The top of it.
[00:30:55] Yeah.
[00:30:55] I mean,
[00:30:55] it was just,
[00:30:56] you know,
[00:30:56] when you get trees like out,
[00:30:58] they're cut,
[00:30:59] they've,
[00:31:00] they've trimmed them.
[00:31:01] They want to make the perfect tree.
[00:31:03] Right.
[00:31:03] You know what I mean?
[00:31:05] This is like a tree from the wild.
[00:31:07] Yeah.
[00:31:07] So,
[00:31:07] I mean,
[00:31:08] you know,
[00:31:09] and,
[00:31:10] and I cut the top of it,
[00:31:12] but the actual top of that tree was bent this much.
[00:31:17] Yeah.
[00:31:20] I was like,
[00:31:21] holy fucking foot,
[00:31:23] foot and a half of,
[00:31:24] Oh,
[00:31:24] I cut,
[00:31:25] I cut at least a foot off.
[00:31:26] Yeah.
[00:31:27] Or foot and a half off the top.
[00:31:28] Yeah.
[00:31:28] Just to bring it down normally.
[00:31:30] Yeah.
[00:31:31] It was insanity.
[00:31:33] And then they took the tree and they put it on this shaker thing.
[00:31:36] And like,
[00:31:37] it's like a rumble disc.
[00:31:39] Yeah.
[00:31:39] And it gets all the dead out and stuff like that.
[00:31:42] Yeah.
[00:31:42] Or animals.
[00:31:43] I don't know.
[00:31:43] Yeah.
[00:31:43] I was expecting a fucking squirrel to come on.
[00:31:45] Once he fucking held it up,
[00:31:46] I'm like,
[00:31:48] it's a big tree.
[00:31:51] You literally can't gristle all this fucking thing.
[00:31:54] Yeah.
[00:31:54] It's fucking crazy.
[00:31:56] It's insanity.
[00:31:57] It's insanity.
[00:31:57] Yeah.
[00:31:58] And,
[00:31:59] um,
[00:32:00] I got it home and I'm like,
[00:32:03] I couldn't find that bow saw.
[00:32:05] I have one at home.
[00:32:08] And,
[00:32:08] uh,
[00:32:09] so I was like,
[00:32:10] fuck this.
[00:32:11] I just took a chainsaw and just lopped the end off and trimmed it with a chainsaw.
[00:32:16] Yeah.
[00:32:17] It was like,
[00:32:18] yeah,
[00:32:18] but it was crazy.
[00:32:19] Oh,
[00:32:20] then we had to buy a new freaking tree holder.
[00:32:22] Yeah.
[00:32:22] It's something that'll support a 10 foot tree.
[00:32:25] Yeah.
[00:32:26] You know what I mean?
[00:32:26] Yeah.
[00:32:27] It's the biggest tree holder they make.
[00:32:29] Yeah.
[00:32:29] Of that size.
[00:32:31] When you,
[00:32:31] I think you get into commercial after that,
[00:32:33] but I mean like,
[00:32:34] yeah,
[00:32:34] you're like,
[00:32:35] you're going to home Depot at this point.
[00:32:36] I did.
[00:32:37] Well,
[00:32:37] I went to Lowe's to get this one.
[00:32:38] Yeah.
[00:32:39] Um,
[00:32:39] and it was the biggest one they had.
[00:32:40] And you're probably not going to find something that size at a Walmart.
[00:32:44] No,
[00:32:47] we didn't.
[00:32:48] Yeah.
[00:32:49] So,
[00:32:50] yeah.
[00:32:51] So,
[00:32:52] and I looked at it.
[00:32:54] And I'm like,
[00:32:55] I think we need more things.
[00:32:57] You know what I mean?
[00:32:58] Like,
[00:32:58] Oh yeah.
[00:32:58] Like,
[00:32:59] yeah.
[00:32:59] The amount of lights you had was probably for like a six footer.
[00:33:01] Well,
[00:33:02] yeah.
[00:33:02] But I looked online.
[00:33:03] I was like,
[00:33:04] you know,
[00:33:04] I did the old Google,
[00:33:05] uncle Google.
[00:33:06] I was like,
[00:33:07] how many lights should go on a,
[00:33:09] you know,
[00:33:11] 10 foot tree,
[00:33:12] a 10 foot tree.
[00:33:14] I mean,
[00:33:16] it was like,
[00:33:17] what the fuck?
[00:33:17] No.
[00:33:18] Google was like,
[00:33:20] something like two or 3000.
[00:33:26] I'm like two or 3000 lights.
[00:33:30] I just couldn't believe it.
[00:33:31] And we had,
[00:33:32] and we bought like,
[00:33:34] I don't know,
[00:33:35] 600.
[00:33:36] Yeah.
[00:33:37] And we had another 400 in home.
[00:33:42] So we put a thousand.
[00:33:44] Yeah.
[00:33:46] But the tree is so big.
[00:33:48] We had to,
[00:33:50] normally two people can do a tree with lights.
[00:33:53] You know,
[00:33:54] you just feed it around to each other.
[00:33:56] Yeah.
[00:33:57] You know,
[00:33:57] this one,
[00:33:57] we had to have three people.
[00:33:59] We'd have like a complete diagonal on the tree.
[00:34:02] Yeah.
[00:34:02] The way we'd pass,
[00:34:03] pass,
[00:34:03] pass.
[00:34:04] And everybody's on ladders.
[00:34:06] Well,
[00:34:06] yeah.
[00:34:06] For the top parts.
[00:34:07] Yeah.
[00:34:08] Yeah.
[00:34:09] One was on a chair and the other one was on a stepstool and I was on a
[00:34:12] painter's ladder.
[00:34:13] Yeah.
[00:34:15] Crazy.
[00:34:16] That is insanity.
[00:34:18] It is.
[00:34:19] It's massive.
[00:34:22] Massive,
[00:34:22] massive tree.
[00:34:23] It's probably longer than your car.
[00:34:24] Oh,
[00:34:25] it was.
[00:34:26] Yeah.
[00:34:28] Most certainly.
[00:34:30] Yeah.
[00:34:31] And so I had it winched in,
[00:34:33] you know,
[00:34:34] and then one of the winches broke,
[00:34:37] not broke,
[00:34:38] but it just got,
[00:34:39] it folded in on itself and I couldn't get it to release.
[00:34:42] And meanwhile,
[00:34:43] I'm ratchet strap,
[00:34:43] ratchet strap.
[00:34:44] And I'm,
[00:34:45] I'm freezing.
[00:34:46] Yeah.
[00:34:47] Right.
[00:34:48] And I can,
[00:34:48] I was like,
[00:34:49] I can't,
[00:34:49] I can't get this.
[00:34:50] I had extra straps.
[00:34:52] Yeah.
[00:34:52] And so I did the ties,
[00:34:54] you know,
[00:34:56] and like I went through the tree and looped it around the tree and went to
[00:35:00] the other side and added on.
[00:35:01] And then I did the same thing three more times.
[00:35:03] And one of the,
[00:35:04] one of the ratchet straps was working.
[00:35:06] Right.
[00:35:07] And I had that going,
[00:35:10] but,
[00:35:11] uh,
[00:35:12] I had that going for me.
[00:35:14] And then I discovered the twine and I was like,
[00:35:16] huh,
[00:35:16] they have twine.
[00:35:17] Yeah.
[00:35:17] And some kid was like,
[00:35:18] I hope you put it up.
[00:35:20] I'm a boy scout or something like that.
[00:35:22] I was like,
[00:35:23] all right,
[00:35:23] boy scout.
[00:35:24] Yeah.
[00:35:24] I'm freezing.
[00:35:25] So have at it.
[00:35:28] And he did some knots.
[00:35:29] I mean,
[00:35:29] he did the right knots and everything.
[00:35:30] Yeah.
[00:35:31] But like,
[00:35:33] and I'm watching around me and I'm like,
[00:35:36] man,
[00:35:36] they're just,
[00:35:36] they're just going over top of the tree.
[00:35:38] They're not looping it through the tree or nothing.
[00:35:41] They're just right over,
[00:35:43] right over,
[00:35:44] right over.
[00:35:45] Yeah.
[00:35:45] Like,
[00:35:46] I don't know.
[00:35:46] Huh?
[00:35:47] I was like,
[00:35:47] that seemed pretty shady to me.
[00:35:49] Yeah.
[00:35:50] You know what I mean?
[00:35:51] Like,
[00:35:51] it's not like secure.
[00:35:52] Yeah.
[00:35:53] You know,
[00:35:54] now if I had my truck,
[00:35:55] you know,
[00:35:55] that's an easy fix.
[00:35:57] Yeah.
[00:35:57] Pop right in the back of the truck.
[00:35:59] Well,
[00:35:59] the 10 footer would have been an issue.
[00:36:01] Yeah.
[00:36:01] It's only had an eight foot bed over the trunk,
[00:36:03] but yeah,
[00:36:04] still you could have made that work.
[00:36:05] Yeah.
[00:36:05] I could have made that work and I could have tied it in and just two feet
[00:36:08] hanging over the end,
[00:36:09] put an orange flag on it,
[00:36:10] call it good.
[00:36:11] But if the tree was so long,
[00:36:13] I said,
[00:36:13] at least I feel like I should have an orange flag on this fucker.
[00:36:16] Yeah.
[00:36:16] I mean,
[00:36:16] it's hanging this far off the back of the tree.
[00:36:18] Yeah.
[00:36:18] Back of the car.
[00:36:19] I mean the top of it.
[00:36:21] Yeah.
[00:36:22] But,
[00:36:22] uh,
[00:36:23] it was definitely an experience,
[00:36:27] but they didn't have like good trees.
[00:36:28] They had to actually,
[00:36:30] I guess they had a bad year.
[00:36:32] And so like they actually had trees shipped into them as well.
[00:36:36] Yeah.
[00:36:36] Free cuts.
[00:36:37] Yeah.
[00:36:37] Because their trees were just not very good.
[00:36:40] Yeah.
[00:36:42] It just weren't.
[00:36:43] I mean,
[00:36:43] some are like Charlie Brown.
[00:36:47] Some of them,
[00:36:47] but even some of the big ones,
[00:36:49] the backside of them were like all bare.
[00:36:51] Yeah.
[00:36:51] Like it was just not a good selection of,
[00:36:53] I guess.
[00:36:54] I mean,
[00:36:54] it was,
[00:36:55] it was a drought.
[00:36:56] They say there was definitely a drought this year.
[00:36:58] Yeah.
[00:37:00] Just,
[00:37:00] and I,
[00:37:01] and I know that,
[00:37:01] I mean,
[00:37:02] it doesn't seem like it,
[00:37:03] but right.
[00:37:03] It was a dry summer.
[00:37:04] It was.
[00:37:05] And like the creeks are tell sign of that.
[00:37:08] Yeah.
[00:37:08] Like I've been to Mingo Creek and it's low,
[00:37:12] very low,
[00:37:12] like so low.
[00:37:13] I don't even know how they stock it.
[00:37:14] Yeah.
[00:37:15] That's how low that Creek is.
[00:37:16] Yeah.
[00:37:17] Um,
[00:37:18] and just the Creek down in California is low.
[00:37:21] I mean,
[00:37:21] you can see where the original banks were.
[00:37:23] Right.
[00:37:23] You know what I mean?
[00:37:24] Like,
[00:37:24] and it's like,
[00:37:27] but,
[00:37:28] Oh yeah.
[00:37:29] So yeah,
[00:37:29] I did that.
[00:37:30] I'm sore.
[00:37:31] I could imagine.
[00:37:35] I could imagine.
[00:37:37] So that was the Creek.
[00:37:39] Yeah.
[00:37:41] Is it?
[00:37:42] I,
[00:37:42] I,
[00:37:42] I'm going to guess this is something that you're going to have to do like next
[00:37:46] year.
[00:37:46] Oh,
[00:37:47] we'll probably do it next year.
[00:37:47] Yeah.
[00:37:48] I don't mind doing it,
[00:37:50] but you can't bring any kind of power.
[00:37:52] It all has to be bow saws that they supply or even in the Mononghi Hill of
[00:37:58] Forest.
[00:37:58] You can't bring power.
[00:37:59] Yeah.
[00:38:00] It has to be,
[00:38:00] you can't bring a chainsaw.
[00:38:02] That's what I'm saying.
[00:38:03] Yeah.
[00:38:03] Or a pole saw.
[00:38:04] Yeah.
[00:38:04] I mean,
[00:38:04] a pole saw could probably cut through most.
[00:38:07] I mean,
[00:38:07] even though it's a 10 foot tree,
[00:38:09] the base is only about this big.
[00:38:10] Yeah.
[00:38:11] You know what I mean?
[00:38:11] It's not like I'm cutting through.
[00:38:13] Yeah.
[00:38:13] But,
[00:38:14] um,
[00:38:16] you can't bring anything like that.
[00:38:18] It has to be ax hatchet or a saw.
[00:38:21] Yeah.
[00:38:23] That's a,
[00:38:24] it's good.
[00:38:25] like I,
[00:38:27] even with those little electric hand saws,
[00:38:29] you just,
[00:38:31] right through that.
[00:38:32] Fucker.
[00:38:33] It was like,
[00:38:34] it was crazy.
[00:38:36] Yeah.
[00:38:37] And the tree was actually bigger than that because I cut the tree.
[00:38:46] Like there's,
[00:38:51] there's probably two feet.
[00:38:54] I left.
[00:38:55] Yeah.
[00:38:56] As a stomp.
[00:38:57] Yeah.
[00:38:57] So it was really a 12 footer.
[00:38:59] It was probably like 12 foot.
[00:39:00] Yeah.
[00:39:01] By the time I,
[00:39:03] maybe 13.
[00:39:03] By the time I cut it down.
[00:39:05] Cause I left a stump like this.
[00:39:07] Yeah.
[00:39:07] Yeah.
[00:39:08] You know what I mean?
[00:39:10] It's such a bad,
[00:39:13] she went off in the distance.
[00:39:15] Cause we're low.
[00:39:16] We looked for like 45 minutes and I was like,
[00:39:18] we're getting a tree somewhere now.
[00:39:20] Cause I'm freezing.
[00:39:21] Yeah.
[00:39:21] I got to cut the fucker down.
[00:39:22] Yeah.
[00:39:23] I'm fucking done.
[00:39:24] Yeah.
[00:39:24] Yeah.
[00:39:25] And,
[00:39:25] um,
[00:39:26] I wasn't done.
[00:39:27] I was having a good time.
[00:39:28] It was just,
[00:39:28] I was getting cold.
[00:39:29] Yeah.
[00:39:29] And,
[00:39:30] um,
[00:39:32] so I went down and she goes,
[00:39:34] Oh,
[00:39:34] that's a nice one down there.
[00:39:36] And it was like,
[00:39:37] she was like,
[00:39:37] how about this one?
[00:39:38] And she,
[00:39:39] the tree's like 18 feet tall.
[00:39:45] The tree from the center of Huluville.
[00:39:47] Yeah.
[00:39:47] I was like,
[00:39:47] you just can't,
[00:39:48] you can't see it cause you're so close to it.
[00:39:50] But yeah,
[00:39:51] like from a distance,
[00:39:53] yeah,
[00:39:53] I'm looking at her.
[00:39:54] I'm like,
[00:39:55] I could fit three of you on that tree.
[00:39:58] Like,
[00:39:59] if I put three of you on,
[00:40:00] you know,
[00:40:01] on each other,
[00:40:02] on your shoulders,
[00:40:04] there's three of you that can fit the height of that tree.
[00:40:06] I was like,
[00:40:07] that's an 18 foot tree lease.
[00:40:09] And I was like,
[00:40:10] and she's like,
[00:40:11] how about this one?
[00:40:11] This is a nice one.
[00:40:12] I was like,
[00:40:12] yeah,
[00:40:12] it's,
[00:40:12] that's nice.
[00:40:14] And I just kept walking the Homer Simpson fish into the bushes.
[00:40:19] Yeah.
[00:40:20] You know,
[00:40:21] but that's what I kept saying.
[00:40:22] I was like,
[00:40:23] yeah,
[00:40:24] it's a nice tree.
[00:40:24] And she's like,
[00:40:24] what?
[00:40:25] I liked that one back there.
[00:40:26] I was like,
[00:40:26] well,
[00:40:27] that was like a 20 foot tree.
[00:40:29] Yeah.
[00:40:31] I'd have to rent a U-Haul to get it back.
[00:40:33] Yeah.
[00:40:37] All the who's are going to be gathering around it on Christmas day.
[00:40:40] Yeah.
[00:40:41] And they wrapped it.
[00:40:42] They do wrap it.
[00:40:43] Yeah.
[00:40:44] And,
[00:40:45] and I'm lugging this thing back to the car,
[00:40:48] you know,
[00:40:50] dragging it.
[00:40:50] Yeah.
[00:40:51] At this point,
[00:40:51] I didn't want to pick it up yet.
[00:40:53] I don't know why it was just dragging it by the base or branch.
[00:40:57] You know what I mean?
[00:40:57] Yeah.
[00:40:58] And I get it over the car and I'm like,
[00:40:59] put it next to the car.
[00:41:01] I'm like,
[00:41:02] God damn it's,
[00:41:03] it's as long as the fucking car.
[00:41:07] You know what I mean?
[00:41:08] Like the roof.
[00:41:09] Yeah.
[00:41:09] It's way longer than the roof.
[00:41:11] Yeah.
[00:41:11] You know what I mean?
[00:41:12] It was probably sticking out.
[00:41:15] I don't know.
[00:41:18] This far from the roof and in the back,
[00:41:20] it was sticking out like that.
[00:41:21] Yeah.
[00:41:21] I mean,
[00:41:22] like the average car is like eight feet long.
[00:41:25] Yeah.
[00:41:26] It wasn't like all the way to the grill.
[00:41:30] Yeah.
[00:41:30] I mean,
[00:41:30] it was just sticking out a little bit of the top and sticking it out.
[00:41:35] Probably a foot or two on the end.
[00:41:37] Yeah.
[00:41:37] It was just,
[00:41:38] it was,
[00:41:38] it was,
[00:41:39] it was a tough one.
[00:41:41] I'm like,
[00:41:42] man.
[00:41:43] So we had,
[00:41:44] we brought it in,
[00:41:45] let it fall.
[00:41:45] It didn't really need to fall because it was outdoors.
[00:41:47] I mean,
[00:41:48] yeah,
[00:41:48] it already fallen,
[00:41:50] but it was wrapped.
[00:41:51] So we let,
[00:41:52] we let it fall a little bit more,
[00:41:53] but.
[00:41:55] It's a beast.
[00:41:57] It's a beast of a tree.
[00:41:58] Sounds it.
[00:41:59] Ugh.
[00:42:02] I was so,
[00:42:04] yeah,
[00:42:05] it takes up the,
[00:42:05] yeah,
[00:42:05] it's big.
[00:42:06] I mean,
[00:42:06] it took up the whole front window.
[00:42:07] Yeah.
[00:42:09] It's,
[00:42:10] it's so big.
[00:42:13] Anyway,
[00:42:14] so.
[00:42:14] Like the trains that you'd need to get around that thing.
[00:42:18] You know,
[00:42:19] it comes around,
[00:42:21] it's going to be like a different day.
[00:42:22] You know?
[00:42:23] Yeah.
[00:42:24] You could probably put the big trains on it.
[00:42:27] Yeah.
[00:42:27] Because it dwarfs.
[00:42:28] Yeah.
[00:42:29] It would dwarf a train set.
[00:42:30] Yeah.
[00:42:33] So funny.
[00:42:34] Anyway,
[00:42:35] so that was my experience yesterday.
[00:42:37] Cutting down a tree.
[00:42:40] Now,
[00:42:40] during the holiday,
[00:42:41] I know you said you're going to Kennywood at some point.
[00:42:43] Yeah.
[00:42:44] And we do have a writing from super fan Thad with his review of that.
[00:42:48] But are there any other Christmas festivities you'll be taking part of this?
[00:42:52] Uh,
[00:42:53] uh,
[00:42:53] we're going to go to Phipps.
[00:42:54] Um,
[00:42:55] I got the fifth conservatory.
[00:42:57] Yeah.
[00:42:58] She's a member of Phipps.
[00:42:59] Okay.
[00:42:59] So we get,
[00:43:01] um,
[00:43:03] you know,
[00:43:04] Phipps always changes their stuff around and they have a big Christmas thing.
[00:43:07] Right.
[00:43:07] And then they have like a,
[00:43:09] uh,
[00:43:09] donor night.
[00:43:11] Yeah.
[00:43:12] Um,
[00:43:13] for their members.
[00:43:14] Yeah.
[00:43:14] And so you can go and they have like,
[00:43:17] make some food and drinks and stuff like that.
[00:43:20] You get to walk around Phipps special things.
[00:43:24] Yeah.
[00:43:24] So I know we're doing that one night.
[00:43:26] Check that out.
[00:43:29] But,
[00:43:29] uh,
[00:43:30] probably after work and then just go up and check it out.
[00:43:33] Yeah.
[00:43:33] Cause the Phipps lights are nice.
[00:43:34] I mean,
[00:43:34] they do a nice job at Phipps.
[00:43:36] I know it's flowers and plants and stuff like that,
[00:43:38] but it's,
[00:43:39] it's actually kind of nice.
[00:43:40] I didn't even know they did anything at Phipps.
[00:43:42] Phipps can really?
[00:43:43] Yeah.
[00:43:45] I mean,
[00:43:45] I,
[00:43:45] I'm a doubt that I'm just,
[00:43:47] I didn't what it is.
[00:43:48] I mean,
[00:43:48] that's all it is is flowers.
[00:43:50] I mean,
[00:43:50] but I mean,
[00:43:50] I didn't know they did,
[00:43:51] they did anything for Christmas.
[00:43:53] Oh yeah.
[00:43:54] Yeah.
[00:43:54] I didn't,
[00:43:54] I didn't have big points at it.
[00:43:56] They have all kinds of displays.
[00:43:57] Yeah.
[00:43:58] I mean,
[00:43:58] I know what,
[00:43:58] I know what the conservatory is.
[00:43:59] It's,
[00:44:00] it's,
[00:44:00] it's,
[00:44:01] it's,
[00:44:01] it's some flowers and stuff like that.
[00:44:03] But I didn't know they,
[00:44:04] they had like a Christmas display.
[00:44:06] Oh yeah.
[00:44:06] They have a huge Christmas display.
[00:44:15] We'll do that.
[00:44:16] I thought maybe,
[00:44:16] you know,
[00:44:18] go to Carnegie for the trains.
[00:44:21] No,
[00:44:22] no.
[00:44:22] You're a train guy.
[00:44:23] No.
[00:44:24] Never have been.
[00:44:25] Go to the McKee sport there to the,
[00:44:26] uh,
[00:44:27] nah.
[00:44:28] Train club.
[00:44:30] That's the weirdest thing.
[00:44:31] Where do you park for something like that?
[00:44:33] I don't know.
[00:44:34] I've just never been a train guy.
[00:44:36] Yeah.
[00:44:36] I never,
[00:44:37] never found the interest.
[00:44:39] It doesn't like click with me.
[00:44:42] I get,
[00:44:42] I think they're cool.
[00:44:43] Yeah.
[00:44:44] And I,
[00:44:44] and it's cool how they smoke and you know,
[00:44:46] the good ones and stuff like that.
[00:44:48] But I've just,
[00:44:49] and I'm,
[00:44:50] I like to watch it,
[00:44:52] but I'm not one to like,
[00:44:54] I'm not into it.
[00:44:55] I don't have one.
[00:44:56] I don't really want one.
[00:44:58] Yeah.
[00:44:58] Does that make sense?
[00:44:59] Yeah.
[00:44:59] Yeah.
[00:44:59] No,
[00:45:00] like I,
[00:45:00] when I was a kid,
[00:45:02] my grant,
[00:45:02] my grandma,
[00:45:03] Santa,
[00:45:04] my mom's mother.
[00:45:05] Yeah.
[00:45:06] Would take us to go see the,
[00:45:08] uh,
[00:45:10] the,
[00:45:10] the train display at the,
[00:45:12] uh,
[00:45:13] I get with the Carnegie science center.
[00:45:15] Right.
[00:45:16] At that time.
[00:45:17] And I mean,
[00:45:18] that was massive.
[00:45:19] Like,
[00:45:19] you know,
[00:45:19] you'd,
[00:45:19] you know,
[00:45:20] and you'd walk around and you'd see all the stuff.
[00:45:23] And I,
[00:45:25] I,
[00:45:25] I,
[00:45:26] as a kid,
[00:45:26] I was like,
[00:45:27] eh,
[00:45:27] this is okay.
[00:45:28] You know?
[00:45:29] Yeah.
[00:45:30] Something better we could be doing.
[00:45:31] I would think,
[00:45:32] you know,
[00:45:33] I,
[00:45:33] I never really got into it either,
[00:45:36] but I'm,
[00:45:37] I know that's like,
[00:45:38] like going to see the trains at the,
[00:45:41] the Carnegie science center is like a,
[00:45:43] a Pittsburgh tradition.
[00:45:46] There are many people who do embrace that.
[00:45:48] Yeah.
[00:45:48] And that's fine.
[00:45:49] I get it.
[00:45:50] And I've done it before.
[00:45:51] Yeah.
[00:45:51] I just,
[00:45:52] I,
[00:45:53] it's just not my,
[00:45:54] uh,
[00:45:56] it's just not my thing.
[00:45:57] Yeah.
[00:45:58] So,
[00:45:59] and they had light up night of like two weeks ago.
[00:46:02] What's that?
[00:46:03] They had light up night a couple of weeks ago.
[00:46:06] I will never,
[00:46:07] ever go to a light up night.
[00:46:08] The girls went to that.
[00:46:09] Did they?
[00:46:09] Well,
[00:46:09] Anna and,
[00:46:10] uh,
[00:46:10] Elliot went.
[00:46:11] Yeah.
[00:46:11] You,
[00:46:12] you could not pay me enough to go to,
[00:46:14] I think Anna Brie and Elliot went down.
[00:46:16] Yeah.
[00:46:19] So,
[00:46:19] yeah.
[00:46:21] Um,
[00:46:25] yeah,
[00:46:25] I,
[00:46:26] I,
[00:46:26] I wouldn't want to get on there either.
[00:46:27] They said they had a good time.
[00:46:28] Yeah.
[00:46:29] I just,
[00:46:31] it doesn't,
[00:46:32] uh,
[00:46:35] it doesn't pique my interest,
[00:46:36] put it that way.
[00:46:37] No,
[00:46:38] me neither.
[00:46:38] Like,
[00:46:39] there are very few things like that.
[00:46:41] Like,
[00:46:41] I mean,
[00:46:42] I've been to a Superbowl parade.
[00:46:44] I've been to a penguin Stanley cup parade.
[00:46:47] That's never need to feel the need to ever do that again.
[00:46:51] You know,
[00:46:51] they win a championship.
[00:46:52] That's great.
[00:46:53] I'll watch it on fucking TV.
[00:46:55] You know,
[00:46:56] I,
[00:46:56] I've been there.
[00:46:57] I've done that.
[00:46:58] No need to ever do it again.
[00:47:00] Wow.
[00:47:02] Well,
[00:47:02] cause like the whole problem with that is it's,
[00:47:05] you're just,
[00:47:05] you stand there.
[00:47:06] Right.
[00:47:06] Like,
[00:47:09] you know,
[00:47:09] we,
[00:47:09] we took the gateway clipper over at the point point state park.
[00:47:13] Yeah.
[00:47:14] And I worked our way up and we were right there in front of the,
[00:47:16] uh,
[00:47:19] the,
[00:47:19] the steel workers union building,
[00:47:21] which is where the stage was.
[00:47:22] Right.
[00:47:23] So.
[00:47:25] Like it,
[00:47:25] it just,
[00:47:27] you,
[00:47:28] so you stand there waiting for the parade to get to you.
[00:47:31] You watch the,
[00:47:33] the thing on the stage and you're done.
[00:47:35] Yeah.
[00:47:35] You know,
[00:47:35] like,
[00:47:35] I mean,
[00:47:36] like I'm,
[00:47:37] I was,
[00:47:37] I was never a guy who was in the parades anyway.
[00:47:40] Yeah.
[00:47:40] Like again,
[00:47:41] like I'm shit on everything people love.
[00:47:43] Like,
[00:47:43] yeah,
[00:47:43] I know,
[00:47:44] but like,
[00:47:45] again,
[00:47:46] I was never somebody who woke up on Thanksgiving to watch the Macy's day parade.
[00:47:51] Right.
[00:47:51] You know,
[00:47:52] I did.
[00:47:53] Yeah.
[00:47:53] I mean,
[00:47:53] and there are people who get into that and like still do.
[00:47:56] Yeah.
[00:47:56] But I was not one of those people.
[00:47:58] Like it was like,
[00:47:59] cause I,
[00:48:00] I watched it.
[00:48:01] It was like,
[00:48:01] coming up next is Superman.
[00:48:03] And it's like,
[00:48:04] Oh,
[00:48:04] it's just a balloon.
[00:48:05] I'm not actually seeing Superman.
[00:48:07] Yeah.
[00:48:07] Yeah.
[00:48:07] Like there's nothing going to like,
[00:48:08] so like that shit,
[00:48:10] like I was like,
[00:48:10] fuck this.
[00:48:11] This is dumb.
[00:48:12] You know,
[00:48:12] right.
[00:48:13] You know,
[00:48:13] going to see parades,
[00:48:15] like locally.
[00:48:16] I was like,
[00:48:16] it's fire trucks and a couple of local bands.
[00:48:19] This isn't cool.
[00:48:20] Like,
[00:48:20] you know,
[00:48:21] like it,
[00:48:21] so like stuff like that,
[00:48:23] I just don't get into.
[00:48:24] And.
[00:48:26] Well,
[00:48:26] it's funny because in parades and in towns and small towns and stuff,
[00:48:30] like that,
[00:48:30] New York and yeah,
[00:48:32] all this bridge,
[00:48:33] you know,
[00:48:33] it's light at night.
[00:48:34] It's the kickoff of the shopping season.
[00:48:36] And where the fuck are you going to shop in McKeesport?
[00:48:40] Yeah.
[00:48:41] You know what I mean?
[00:48:41] Like they have the parade.
[00:48:42] So everybody would come down to town,
[00:48:44] go to the parade,
[00:48:46] go look in the windows,
[00:48:47] see,
[00:48:47] you know,
[00:48:47] the window.
[00:48:48] Yeah.
[00:48:50] Whatever.
[00:48:51] Yeah.
[00:48:51] And the parade was today.
[00:48:52] Right.
[00:48:53] Showing the windows and,
[00:48:54] you know,
[00:48:54] all that kind of crap,
[00:48:55] you know,
[00:48:56] like,
[00:48:57] um,
[00:48:58] you know,
[00:48:59] all the displays and all this stuff and,
[00:49:01] you know,
[00:49:01] go shopping and.
[00:49:03] I was going to shop in McKeesport.
[00:49:05] Yeah.
[00:49:06] There's nowhere on Fifth Avenue to shop.
[00:49:08] No.
[00:49:08] No.
[00:49:10] Maybe a vape dealer.
[00:49:12] Yeah.
[00:49:12] No,
[00:49:13] really?
[00:49:13] Yeah.
[00:49:13] I mean,
[00:49:14] that's it.
[00:49:14] I mean,
[00:49:14] there's nothing down there.
[00:49:16] I mean,
[00:49:16] I.
[00:49:17] Hand out free samples to the kids.
[00:49:19] Yeah.
[00:49:19] It's just.
[00:49:20] It's strange to me there.
[00:49:22] Yeah.
[00:49:22] But in small towns,
[00:49:24] you know,
[00:49:25] yeah.
[00:49:25] spare,
[00:49:26] especially in like rural areas,
[00:49:27] the small towns,
[00:49:29] that parade's a big deal because they,
[00:49:30] they still have mom and pop shops and stuff like that.
[00:49:32] Yeah.
[00:49:32] Hot cocoa.
[00:49:33] And it's a whole community thing.
[00:49:35] Right.
[00:49:36] When are you going to get down in McKeesport?
[00:49:38] Yeah.
[00:49:38] Shot.
[00:49:39] Yeah.
[00:49:39] I mean,
[00:49:40] you know,
[00:49:40] I mean like there's just not much down there to go to.
[00:49:43] No,
[00:49:43] there's not.
[00:49:44] So the parade never really,
[00:49:45] they're doing it on tradition now,
[00:49:46] not on.
[00:49:48] You know what I mean?
[00:49:49] Yeah.
[00:49:50] Um,
[00:49:51] they're doing it of years gone past where it doesn't really make sense to have a
[00:49:55] parade in McKeesport.
[00:49:56] I'm not saying they should get rid of it.
[00:49:58] I'm just saying that.
[00:50:00] It's kind of lost its luster because there's no shops and stuff to go down to.
[00:50:05] Yeah.
[00:50:05] You know,
[00:50:05] there's no vendors down there selling hot cocoa or warm peanuts,
[00:50:09] you know,
[00:50:10] all that kind of stuff that they,
[00:50:11] yeah.
[00:50:11] Or,
[00:50:12] you know,
[00:50:13] like they sell those cinnamon pecans and stuff like,
[00:50:16] or cinnamon almonds or.
[00:50:18] Yeah.
[00:50:18] Yeah.
[00:50:19] There's nothing that,
[00:50:21] you know,
[00:50:21] there's just nothing down there to do.
[00:50:23] No,
[00:50:23] I agree.
[00:50:24] I agree.
[00:50:25] Anyway,
[00:50:26] but yeah,
[00:50:26] I,
[00:50:26] I never just get into any of that.
[00:50:28] Like,
[00:50:28] you know,
[00:50:30] I like the ultimate,
[00:50:32] like,
[00:50:33] I'm sure like someone's like,
[00:50:34] you're the ultimate Scrooge.
[00:50:35] Cause I don't get into any of that type of stuff.
[00:50:37] Yeah.
[00:50:37] You know,
[00:50:38] and,
[00:50:39] um,
[00:50:41] like we went to,
[00:50:42] we went to Gettysburg.
[00:50:43] Yeah.
[00:50:44] Um,
[00:50:45] for Halloween,
[00:50:46] near Halloween,
[00:50:46] not,
[00:50:47] not for Halloween,
[00:50:48] but yeah,
[00:50:49] we were there the weekend before.
[00:50:51] Yeah.
[00:50:54] And they had a Halloween parade in Gettysburg.
[00:50:56] Yeah.
[00:50:57] Yeah.
[00:50:57] It was kind of weak sauce,
[00:50:58] but I mean,
[00:50:59] it was fun.
[00:51:00] Yeah.
[00:51:00] To a certain extent,
[00:51:01] but you know,
[00:51:02] went through the four school,
[00:51:04] that whole turn,
[00:51:06] turnabout thing.
[00:51:07] The center of town is like a circle.
[00:51:10] Yeah.
[00:51:11] And,
[00:51:12] uh,
[00:51:13] that was kind of cool.
[00:51:13] And then some of the shops were open and there was food and business and kids.
[00:51:17] And it was more of a vibe.
[00:51:19] Well,
[00:51:19] at that point,
[00:51:20] cause that's for the locals.
[00:51:22] Like maybe you get some tourists coming in for Halloween because of the,
[00:51:26] the haunted aspect of Gettysburg.
[00:51:29] Yeah.
[00:51:29] But like overall,
[00:51:30] like at that,
[00:51:31] that point,
[00:51:31] like the travel season's over,
[00:51:33] the tourist season's over.
[00:51:34] So that's for the locals.
[00:51:36] Yeah.
[00:51:36] You know,
[00:51:37] that,
[00:51:37] that's for the people who,
[00:51:38] who,
[00:51:39] who still live in Gettysburg year round.
[00:51:41] Yeah.
[00:51:42] Yeah.
[00:51:43] So it,
[00:51:45] it,
[00:51:46] yeah,
[00:51:46] it's weak sauce.
[00:51:47] Cause it's,
[00:51:47] it's not meant for the touristy types.
[00:51:50] Yeah.
[00:51:50] You know,
[00:51:51] a lot of people know.
[00:51:52] Yeah,
[00:51:53] I'm sure.
[00:51:55] But anyway,
[00:51:59] our ramblings.
[00:52:00] Yeah.
[00:52:01] The,
[00:52:01] the trappings of,
[00:52:02] of Christmas,
[00:52:03] like the stuff that you like,
[00:52:06] you do.
[00:52:07] Yeah.
[00:52:08] You know,
[00:52:08] it's like,
[00:52:15] well,
[00:52:15] I'm sure like,
[00:52:16] you know,
[00:52:16] no,
[00:52:16] I'm the bad guy.
[00:52:19] Right.
[00:52:20] As,
[00:52:21] that's all I wanted.
[00:52:24] So we,
[00:52:24] we do have a couple of write-ins from our good friend,
[00:52:27] super fan,
[00:52:27] Thad.
[00:52:27] We'll,
[00:52:28] we'll start with the one from the week before.
[00:52:30] All right.
[00:52:35] Um,
[00:52:39] hello.
[00:52:40] My two favorite hosts who like to black Friday shop at Victoria's secret.
[00:52:43] No,
[00:52:45] no black Friday shopping for me.
[00:52:47] I don't know if you did any.
[00:52:48] No,
[00:52:48] no,
[00:52:49] he just,
[00:52:49] he just went to get a tree.
[00:52:50] Yeah.
[00:52:51] Okay.
[00:52:53] Yeah.
[00:52:54] Again,
[00:52:54] another one of those traditions.
[00:52:56] You could not drag me to black Friday shopping.
[00:52:59] Right.
[00:53:00] You know,
[00:53:01] fuck that shit.
[00:53:03] Right.
[00:53:05] Um,
[00:53:09] time for everyone,
[00:53:10] but Sean's favorite.
[00:53:11] That's holiday light review at Kennywood.
[00:53:15] Wow.
[00:53:16] What a site.
[00:53:17] Kennywood would all out,
[00:53:19] all out.
[00:53:21] Griswold this year.
[00:53:22] Now boasting 3 million twinkly lights throughout the park.
[00:53:28] Enough to lights to make a Karen,
[00:53:31] a V a villain like Sean to call city council on the park.
[00:53:36] Well,
[00:53:36] if I live next to it,
[00:53:38] I probably would.
[00:53:38] Yes.
[00:53:39] Right.
[00:53:39] Uh,
[00:53:40] the lights were gleaming.
[00:53:41] Uh,
[00:53:42] the turtles were screaming and super fan.
[00:53:44] Thad was in,
[00:53:45] we're enjoying himself in a non-perverted type of way.
[00:53:50] On the kiddie land train.
[00:53:52] Oh,
[00:53:53] good Lord.
[00:53:55] Kennywood has some awesome new attractions this year with a synchronized light show.
[00:54:00] The same type of light show super fan.
[00:54:03] Thad puts on for Halloween and Christmas.
[00:54:05] It was really well done.
[00:54:07] They extended into lost Kennywood and you can take a picture,
[00:54:10] have your picture taken with Santa.
[00:54:15] No.
[00:54:16] Um,
[00:54:16] no.
[00:54:17] Um,
[00:54:18] they also have a new area called Christmas town where all the good boys and girls can meet
[00:54:23] Rudolph and the characters from Rudolph.
[00:54:25] You know,
[00:54:25] the same,
[00:54:26] the snowman,
[00:54:27] Clarice,
[00:54:29] bumble,
[00:54:30] Rudolph,
[00:54:31] and the soulless ginger Cornelius.
[00:54:34] Well,
[00:54:34] I mean,
[00:54:35] if I really want to meet Vince Neil,
[00:54:37] I guess I could go.
[00:54:38] Right.
[00:54:39] Right.
[00:54:39] Um,
[00:54:40] what a great time I had.
[00:54:41] This was one heck of an experience for all the good boys and girls and adult boys and
[00:54:46] girls.
[00:54:47] Thank you.
[00:54:48] Kennywood for caring about my experience.
[00:54:51] I bet evil soulless villain Grinches like Sean would actually smile if he went.
[00:54:57] I can see him with an ice cream sitting on Bumble's lap.
[00:55:00] Well,
[00:55:01] hold on.
[00:55:02] I am not sitting on Vince Neil's lap and to know I would not enjoy myself.
[00:55:07] Right.
[00:55:09] I got to eat my favorite things,
[00:55:12] some potato patch fries and gravy.
[00:55:14] And it was washed down with some free lemonade in my souvenir cup.
[00:55:18] I also had some Kennywood pizza and a dipped ice cream cone.
[00:55:23] Ooh,
[00:55:24] that's a witch's brewery.
[00:55:26] It is.
[00:55:26] Yeah.
[00:55:28] But I mean,
[00:55:28] I get free lemonade on a cold evening.
[00:55:35] It does not sound.
[00:55:37] No,
[00:55:38] it doesn't.
[00:55:38] Like,
[00:55:38] like lemonade is a summer drink.
[00:55:41] Right.
[00:55:42] Like,
[00:55:42] I don't see how you're drinking lemonade and a Christmas thing.
[00:55:46] And on top of that,
[00:55:47] lemonade with potato,
[00:55:49] with French fries and gravy does not sound good at all.
[00:55:53] Right.
[00:55:53] Like that right there is,
[00:55:55] is a witch's brew of,
[00:55:57] it is,
[00:55:58] you know,
[00:55:58] but you throw on the,
[00:55:59] the,
[00:56:00] the pizza and the ice cream.
[00:56:02] Like,
[00:56:03] I'm glad you sleep by yourself.
[00:56:07] Um,
[00:56:09] the large indoor strength train display was awesome.
[00:56:12] So Kenny was also going that route.
[00:56:13] It sounds like,
[00:56:14] thank you Kennywood for caring for my experience.
[00:56:22] Well,
[00:56:23] I mean,
[00:56:23] again,
[00:56:24] the,
[00:56:24] the,
[00:56:25] just the,
[00:56:26] the hope,
[00:56:26] the show that you are for Kennywood.
[00:56:28] I,
[00:56:28] I want to,
[00:56:29] if that is trying to get a Kennywood endorsement,
[00:56:33] right?
[00:56:33] Like super fan,
[00:56:34] that's email brought to you by Kennywood.
[00:56:36] Right.
[00:56:37] Because I mean,
[00:56:39] that's just shameless.
[00:56:41] Right.
[00:56:45] And this week,
[00:56:46] Thad writes in,
[00:56:48] um,
[00:56:49] damn lazy host.
[00:56:50] Can't put together a podcast last week.
[00:56:52] I had a great Kennywood review.
[00:56:54] Well,
[00:56:54] I just read your Kennywood review and Ian had issues that required his attention.
[00:57:01] Hence no podcast.
[00:57:02] Yeah.
[00:57:03] Um,
[00:57:06] he asked what we had for Thanksgiving.
[00:57:07] Um,
[00:57:09] no,
[00:57:10] I can't get into that.
[00:57:14] Yeah.
[00:57:14] I watched the fall guy.
[00:57:15] It was not as bad as Sean said it was.
[00:57:18] Huh?
[00:57:19] I'm glad you enjoyed it.
[00:57:20] Yeah.
[00:57:21] It,
[00:57:21] it didn't hit the note for me.
[00:57:23] I'm sorry.
[00:57:24] Um,
[00:57:27] and he also mentions,
[00:57:28] you know,
[00:57:29] he's on a roll.
[00:57:30] He's won two weeks in a row beating me last week.
[00:57:33] Very handily.
[00:57:34] Yeah.
[00:57:34] And,
[00:57:35] uh,
[00:57:36] my epic streak continues at this point and thinks he's going to get a third in a row.
[00:57:42] So you,
[00:57:44] you've actually,
[00:57:45] uh,
[00:57:46] your team has actually recovered in fantasy football.
[00:57:48] Yeah.
[00:57:49] It's come up.
[00:57:49] You've,
[00:57:50] uh,
[00:57:51] you've got yourself in position here coming down the stretch.
[00:57:55] Yeah.
[00:57:55] We'll see.
[00:57:56] Yeah.
[00:57:57] It falls apart.
[00:57:58] Well,
[00:57:58] I mean,
[00:57:58] right now you're in fourth place.
[00:58:00] Right.
[00:58:03] So,
[00:58:05] I mean,
[00:58:05] that's not too shabby based upon how you,
[00:58:08] how you started.
[00:58:09] Yeah.
[00:58:09] I was bottom of the barrel there when I first started.
[00:58:12] Yeah.
[00:58:13] Yeah.
[00:58:13] Yeah.
[00:58:13] I'm,
[00:58:14] I'm eliminated.
[00:58:14] I'm at two and 10.
[00:58:16] Okay.
[00:58:17] Um,
[00:58:20] just a disaster of a season.
[00:58:22] And I don't know what I could have done to fix it.
[00:58:25] Yeah.
[00:58:25] You know what I mean?
[00:58:25] Like that's the shame.
[00:58:27] Like they're so often,
[00:58:28] like you,
[00:58:28] you can look at a season and go,
[00:58:32] boy,
[00:58:33] I,
[00:58:33] I,
[00:58:33] I screwed this up or I shouldn't have picked up this guy or.
[00:58:36] Yeah.
[00:58:37] Like I can't.
[00:58:40] You wouldn't have drafted any differently.
[00:58:42] No.
[00:58:43] Like none of the moves I've made,
[00:58:45] like,
[00:58:45] cause it's just,
[00:58:46] I mean,
[00:58:46] I've had a couple of stinker weeks.
[00:58:48] Like last week was a stinker week,
[00:58:50] but even if I,
[00:58:52] dad scored 150 points.
[00:58:54] Yeah.
[00:58:54] Like I,
[00:58:56] even though I,
[00:58:57] I,
[00:58:57] I,
[00:58:57] I,
[00:58:58] I took a shit in the bed.
[00:59:01] I probably,
[00:59:02] even if I had a good week,
[00:59:03] I still wouldn't have beat them.
[00:59:04] Right.
[00:59:05] You know what I mean?
[00:59:05] Like,
[00:59:06] right.
[00:59:06] It just wasn't in the cards because even with a good week,
[00:59:10] he still would have outscored me.
[00:59:12] Right.
[00:59:13] And that's what's happened.
[00:59:14] Most weeks I've had a good week.
[00:59:16] It's just the guy I'm playing scores 150.
[00:59:21] Sure.
[00:59:22] You know?
[00:59:23] Yeah.
[00:59:25] And I'm kind of hoping I can break that cycle this week,
[00:59:28] but you know,
[00:59:29] you never know.
[00:59:32] We'll see.
[00:59:33] Yeah.
[00:59:34] But yeah,
[00:59:34] I mean,
[00:59:35] you're,
[00:59:35] you're at seven and five.
[00:59:36] You're in fourth place.
[00:59:37] You're,
[00:59:37] you're in a position to make the playoffs,
[00:59:39] my friend.
[00:59:39] Yeah.
[00:59:40] I hope,
[00:59:43] I hope I can.
[00:59:44] Yeah.
[00:59:47] All right.
[00:59:47] Well,
[00:59:48] I get ready to go to my parents' house for Thanksgiving.
[00:59:52] So we're going to call this a shorty.
[00:59:54] Yeah.
[00:59:55] Is there anything you'd like to add to the proceedings?
[00:59:57] No,
[00:59:58] I'm good.
[00:59:58] All right.
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[01:00:40] the dreamer has awakened.
[01:00:42] Peace.