MB:294 with Tiffany Corrada

Tiffany Corrada is a standup comedian and co-host at A News Show. You can find her stuff here https://www.instagram.com/tiffany.comedy/

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Transcript

SPEAKER_10 0:00

We're back. What is up, Mind Buzz Universe? Welcome back to another podcast episode of The Mind Buzz. I am your host, Gil, and working the board this evening. Today, this afternoon, whenever you're listening to this podcast, is the lovely Amber. What is up?

SPEAKER_04 0:33

Nothing much.

SPEAKER_10 0:34

How's it going?

SPEAKER_04 0:35

It's going. How's your week been? Oh, it's going good, actually.

SPEAKER_10 0:38

Yeah? Yeah. How's your week been?

SPEAKER_04 0:40

Do I ever say, like, oh, it's not going good? No, right?

SPEAKER_10 0:44

Um, I mean, there's been a few times where you've had uh uh a few things to say, but other than that, you've been grid.

SPEAKER_04 0:52

I was thinking about that the other day. I was like, I'm gonna do it. Being rude. I'm not one to be like, oh no.

SPEAKER_10 0:57

Oh yeah. Not doing so good. No, you for the most part you're you're very uh optimistic, right? Very optimistic. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm doing alright. Thanks for asking. How are you doing? Uh I'm doing good. I'm doing uh great. Uh we went to the movies this past week like four times.

SPEAKER_04 1:20

Um oh last week.

SPEAKER_10 1:23

Last week, this week, it's all meshing together.

SPEAKER_04 1:26

I know I'm like, what day are we? What day are we supposed to be on though?

SPEAKER_10 1:30

Yeah. But um I'm doing good.

SPEAKER_04 1:33

Napoleon dynamite.

SPEAKER_10 1:34

Napoleon Dynamite in theaters in the big screen. Uh it came out what year? 2004? We said 2004.

SPEAKER_04 1:42

We said 2004 because I said I was 14.

SPEAKER_10 1:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:47

Uh no, wait, 2004.

SPEAKER_10 1:49

It came out in 2004. Yeah. July.

SPEAKER_04 1:52

Is it 14? Yeah. I'm like thinking.

SPEAKER_10 1:56

No, 2004. You were 14.

SPEAKER_04 1:59

Yeah, I was 14.

SPEAKER_10 2:00

Yeah, and then prior to that, we also seen uh Super Bad, right, in theaters. Uh we did a double feature. I was so excited just to say double feature because theaters don't do double features anymore. So we watched uh what did we watch?

SPEAKER_04 2:17

Mortal Kombat.

SPEAKER_10 2:18

Mortal Kombat 2. And then right after that we went into uh Superbad. So that was fun. Uh if you haven't been to Milagro Theaters, Cinema. Milagro Cinema in Norwalk, you should Wednesda uh Monday, Wednesdays, Thursdays.

SPEAKER_04 2:40

Now they added Tuesday.

SPEAKER_10 2:42

So it's oh Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. What?

SPEAKER_04 2:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:47

Oh my god. They're not paying me to say this, but the cinema, uh Milagro is freaking awesome. I love going there.

SPEAKER_04 2:56

So on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, they do rewind movies every day. So Monday is comedy, so I need comedy movies. Tuesday, I don't know what they're naming it.

SPEAKER_10 3:07

We went to go see Super Bad, uh, Napoleon Dynamite, they played.

SPEAKER_04 3:11

Wednesday is uh horror, and Thursday is like a classic, which they're all classic now.

SPEAKER_10 3:20

Well they have romance, or you said that already?

SPEAKER_04 3:23

No, they already took romance off. They took it off, so they changed it.

SPEAKER_10 3:26

So like February.

SPEAKER_04 3:28

Well, because they were doing they were doing rom coms on Wednesday.

SPEAKER_10 3:31

That was good.

SPEAKER_04 3:32

Uh, and then they switched it out for you know what? I this is five dollars.

SPEAKER_10 3:36

They're five bucks to go see. I mean, what really drew me in was the night that we watched Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction is one of my absolutely top five films to watch, and to watch it on a huge screen was just the best experience of my life.

SPEAKER_04 3:55

And I think that's what we've been doing and why we've been so excited. Yesterday I had my book club, and then I like to start the book club with like a little like icebreaker question, and I was like, what's something, what's something small that like made you happy this week? And then everybody's like, you know, oh I got Monday off, I gotta spend time with my family, and then I was like, shoot, what what am I gonna say? And then I thought I was like, you know what? Seeing Napoleon dynamite at the theaters made me really happy. Yeah, I don't know why I didn't see it when it came out in the theaters. I don't know what happened.

SPEAKER_10 4:26

You're 14, you're doing homework. No, I wasn't.

SPEAKER_04 4:29

Oh my mom loved going into theaters, so that's why that's why when we came out when I was like, did we watch it in the theater?

SPEAKER_10 4:35

I feel like But we we looked it up, right? We looked it up. There was only selected theaters.

SPEAKER_04 4:41

No, but then it said, but then it said that it did get released like nationwide. But I remember it just going straight to DVD. So I don't know. We gotta get in the time machine and go back.

SPEAKER_10 4:54

Yeah, we'll look it up right now. Um, before we get to today's guest, um last week's podcast was very intense. I did say if you haven't listened to it, go back and listen to it. But look, wherever you are in your creative space, whether you're doing it, you've been doing whatever for a year, two years, three years, six months, I don't care. Look, you have free will to do whatever you want. So if you want to do something and you feel like you've reached a point where you want to do something, then go ahead and do it. Don't let any criticism or anybody tell you otherwise, okay? So that's made about the comments that we we talked about. Uh we were talking about certain uh people in or or just certain uh creators doing certain things uh that are out of the norm for for beginners or experts. Who cares? Who gives a shit? Just go out and do it. You want a headline and you've only been doing comedy for six months, go do it. Nobody cares. The only person that should care is you should just care about your craft and do whatever you want to do and fuck everybody else. That's it. That's all I want to say. Okay. Alright, so if I ruffled some feathers, who who am I? I'm nobody. Okay. So what else? That's it?

SPEAKER_04 6:42

You are somebody, and that was your opinion at the time, and I think you took a week to reflect on those things. And that's the good thing.

SPEAKER_10 6:48

Look, look, this is the cool thing about having something like this, is is it's in the moment, uh, and I have time to reflect and time to come back and say, you know what? I've said a couple of things, but I have free will to change my mind.

SPEAKER_04 7:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 7:09

Right? Okay?

SPEAKER_04 7:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 7:11

Cool. Cool. I feel better.

unknown 7:14

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_10 7:16

That's been having way uh heavy. Weighing heavy. I can't even talk right now because I'm so excited to talk to this next person and this next guest. Sorry I had to drag you in like that, but I know.

SPEAKER_04 7:37

No, but I'm I'm glad that you started it at the top. Right. I don't think you did anything bad. I don't think we did anything bad. I think they're real thoughts, they're real, they were real conversations.

SPEAKER_10 7:50

That's the thing about this podcast, is I'm thinking a lot of what this podcast is, is me thinking out loud, me thinking about ideas, whether they're good or they're bad. And that's the thing. I look, I and this is I posted about this uh this week on my on my Instagram. I wanna be the friend that you can talk to about ideas, whether they're good or bad. And I wanna be supportive of anything. You wanna uh I don't know, you wanna write a comic book and you've never written a comic book before, fuck it. Go do it. You wanna be a photographer, go get a camera and start taking some pictures. I don't care. Like it's do whatever you want. That that's the main thing, right? Is do whatever you want. If it makes you feel happy, do it. And that's it. Just do it.

SPEAKER_04 8:53

But you do care. Don't say you don't care. Okay, I care.

SPEAKER_10 8:57

I care. I care enough to support your bad idea. Yes. If it's good, no, I just I I support.

SPEAKER_05 9:06

Look, I we get it, we get it, we get it. You had time to reflect. You support people, it's just getting worse. Just cut it there. You you had it, you had it a little three minutes ago. I was there. You had it three minutes ago. Let's just cut it. You're good.

SPEAKER_10 9:25

Let's get into today's podcast. I am very excited to talk to this next guest. Uh, please give it up. She is a uh stand-up comedian and uh podcaster. She's done a couple of podcasts that we produce here in the studio. Uh, please give it up for Tiffany Corrata, ladies and gentlemen. Yay. What's up, Tiffany?

SPEAKER_07 9:46

What's up? I was trying to be really quiet during all those, but I wanted to interject so bad. I'm like, what happened? It's like you gotta go back. Support your bad ideas. They should round them up. I support your bad ideas.

SPEAKER_10 10:05

I support ideas in general, whether they're good or bad. I I should. Yes, exactly. Right? I should. Um we were just having a a very deep conversation with with well, I had a deep conversation with uh another comic. Yeah. And we were just talking about just things and and just things in comedy that are happening uh now versus how they were. Because he he was an older comic. He's been doing it for like over what he said, like 20, 20 something years or whatever, and it was just my perspective as a new comic, feeling uh nostalgic of how other comics came up versus how it is now and social media and comedy clubs, and we were just going back and forth on our perspectives. That's cool, and I was just raising questions. I think it was it.

SPEAKER_04 11:00

It was also about like um, I guess the feeling of like, I don't want to say not it, chain of command is not the word that I'm looking for, but hierarchy. Earning, earning um, you know, your merit for certain shows, for certain things, for certain, you know, and we were having this conversation with him on what he thought about it because it there is some, I mean, I'm not a comic, again, I always say this, but I'm not a comic, but I'm heavily because we have these conversations, and we're just asking, like, yeah, what do you think about this? Like, is this something that should be earned? Is it something that and I think that's where we got into this conversation, which is a real conversation, and I don't think that there was anything said like, don't, you know, but I mean, Gil had a week to think about it, and it I mean, it is true, you know. If if you do feel that that you're ready for these things or that you want to earn them the way that you do, and that fulfills you, then great, you know, and then and that's that's the gist of what the conversation was. It makes sense.

SPEAKER_07 12:07

Go on your journey, however you need to figure that out, go on your journey, you know exactly.

SPEAKER_10 12:12

And and it's and again, it's their journey. Yes, not it's not yours.

SPEAKER_07 12:21

That's great, you know.

SPEAKER_10 12:23

Exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:25

And it's okay, we could talk a little shit sometimes. Like, I I think sometimes I no, I think that sometimes we have to say sometimes the things that we have to say, and it doesn't come it doesn't come, hold on, it doesn't come from a place of malice or even like, oh, why are they doing this and I'm not, it's just this more conversational of like, hey, like these are the thoughts that I'm having, but I think it's great that you do have the courage and that you're able to come back on here and say, Hey, I thought about it more, and this is what it is, because a lot of people will just not go back to it, and then it's just like, well, that's what it is, and I said what I said, but you are able to say, Hey, I had a little bit of change of Yeah, but I didn't have any really any comments on the events or whatever's happening.

SPEAKER_10 13:20

I didn't have any comments to say, I just rose the questions, that was it. I was just asking, hey, what do you think about this? And that was it, and kind of just asked more questions on top of it. And I just I mean, come on, we all we all we're all thinking it. And I think it's it's our job as as uh comic just to think think about the un the scene stuff that people don't want to talk about.

SPEAKER_07 13:50

That's all the in the inside baseball, uh a little bit is is what you're saying.

SPEAKER_10 13:56

Exactly, just a little bit. I know most people don't want to talk about it, but it's it's it was just questions that I had for an older comedy.

SPEAKER_07 14:05

Yeah, for sure. It's very cool. It's interesting. I definitely I want to watch it, and you should too. Yeah, undo it.

SPEAKER_10 14:14

So what's up, Tiffany? What's going on?

SPEAKER_07 14:17

I don't know, man. Same old, same old. Uh just doing comedy, trying to do the best, playing a lot of cyberpunk, watching a lot of movies.

SPEAKER_10 14:28

See any anything lately?

SPEAKER_04 14:29

Yes. Wait, sorry, before we get into that, how do you pronounce your last name? Corrada or Corrada. Corrada? Yeah. Okay. Got it.

SPEAKER_10 14:38

Corrada?

SPEAKER_04 14:38

That was it. I just want to want us to get it correct. That's that's awesome. I appreciate it. Go for it.

SPEAKER_10 14:44

Corrada or Corrada?

SPEAKER_07 14:46

Either it's corrada.

SPEAKER_10 14:47

Either or yes. Tomato tomato. Correct. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 14:51

If you know how to pronounce it, then it's Corada.

SPEAKER_10 14:55

But I was talking to Mikey earlier today, and I was like, oh, I'm gonna have uh Tiffany on the podcast.

SPEAKER_07 15:00

He was like, Tiffany, Krada!

SPEAKER_05 15:02

Tiffany. That's funny.

SPEAKER_07 15:08

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to um movies. Oh god, no, you're good. I saw Mandalorian Grogu like the night it came out. Um, and that was awesome. That was so cute, that was amazing. It made me cry. Uh Grogu is just like stupidly cute, like disgustingly cute that like makes you want to kill things, you know, kind of cute. And it's like, this isn't right, you know. It's like nothing has been that cute since Gizmo, you know what I mean? Like, like, and they look so like visually the same, and it's just like, why are we hardwired to love these like bat ear with the big eyes, like these little helpless characters? It's like, oh, they have so many of the same traits. Cause it was like I was just as obsessed with Gizmo, you know, and I'm like, I hate these fucking little puppets that make me feel, you know.

SPEAKER_04 16:01

I like all the small characters in Star Wars. Exactly.

SPEAKER_07 16:06

Um, oh dude, you're gonna love this movie. There's like a whole section.

SPEAKER_04 16:10

Well, what's his name? Uh it's uh something frick. Um the one that's like Pat Baby.

SPEAKER_07 16:18

Um, what's his name? They are they are like a huge part of the movie. They're so freaking cute. They're so cute, and there's like so many like size gags, which are amazing. You know, anything that's like a size gag kills me. Like when something is like like in miniatures when something's like super miniature and they're like having like and then they zoom out and it's like there's nothing, you know. It's like Babu Frick is his name.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

Oh, that's his name. Yes, Babu Frick.

SPEAKER_07 16:48

Wait, moaning myrtle is nah. Why why is she there? Is she the voice actress?

SPEAKER_09 16:55

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 16:57

What the heck?

SPEAKER_04 16:59

That's so cool. She's like, Harry, bad baby. Oh, that makes sense. I could hear it now.

SPEAKER_10 17:07

And who is that?

SPEAKER_04 17:08

From uh Harry Potter.

SPEAKER_10 17:10

From Harry Potter.

SPEAKER_07 17:11

The ghost that haunts the toilets.

SPEAKER_10 17:13

What's her name?

SPEAKER_07 17:14

Moaning Myrtle.

SPEAKER_10 17:15

Moaning Myrtle. Voices Babu Frick and The Rise of Skywalker. Wow. Yeah, I could I could hear it.

SPEAKER_04 17:24

I like them, and then I like um what was his name?

SPEAKER_10 17:29

I don't know, you just call him the uh kucaracha. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:33

Do you know who I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_01 17:34

No.

SPEAKER_05 17:35

Oh my god. I just I talk over it. I'm like, when I when we go to Disneyland, I'm like, I want to buy the cucaracha because they have they have it there.

SPEAKER_04 17:44

Yes, yes. Uh sheesh, what's his name? Yeah, there's something about the smaller characters that are just like, yes. We gotta get a couple.

SPEAKER_10 17:56

We I think we gotta get a couple to keep them uh we have so much space in the studio that we can bring in some little.

SPEAKER_03 18:03

Yes, no more in our house. Yes.

SPEAKER_10 18:05

Oh, I was just uh telling Tiffany that uh about the Darth Vader that I got.

SPEAKER_07 18:11

Oh, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_10 18:13

Just like moving them around the house. Uh so Amber has like, we have this um this book, like this bookshelf, and she keeps like candles and all her pretty little stuff, and I just have a boom big uh 12-inch Darth Vader right there with this red lightsaber.

SPEAKER_04 18:29

And then I said, okay, I'll I'll let Darth Vader like hang out there. And then he got um the oh he's over there, what's his name? Kenny? Yeah, and then he like like put him, and then I was like, okay. All right, and then he got uh you got something else that you put up there too.

SPEAKER_10 18:50

Yeah, I got uh uh um A scary movie. Oh yeah, the the scary movie uh Ghostface? Ghostface with the tongue sticking out, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:01

And I was like, okay, I draw the line at this, and I was like, here you take it.

SPEAKER_07 19:05

I can't wait for the new scary movie. I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_10 19:09

Me too, maybe. June 6th.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

June 6th on next time.

SPEAKER_10 19:14

June 5th, June 6th, something like that.

SPEAKER_04 19:15

I'm so excited. I know. There's a lot of good movies coming out.

SPEAKER_07 19:20

Yeah, it's a good time. I really want to see Obsession. I haven't seen it yet. Um I really wanted to see Hokum. There's a lot of horror movies that I I want to see. That's on my list.

SPEAKER_10 19:31

Backrooms.

SPEAKER_07 19:31

Oh, I want to see backrooms so.

SPEAKER_10 19:33

Oh my god. I when I seen the the trailer for that, I'm like, yes. Yes, yes, that I'm excited to watch.

SPEAKER_07 19:41

It's a time for for liminal, liminal horror, uh, because they're making a movie of Exit 8, too, which is like a really liminal video game. It's like a Japanese uh video game where you're going through like a subway station and have you ever played I have your.

SPEAKER_10 19:57

I'm sorry, what is what's liminal?

SPEAKER_07 19:59

Like liminal spaces. Like that's kind of like what Backrooms is is about. Like if you why don't you Google uh I don't know, I can I Oh Salacious Salacious Crumb. Yes, I love him. They definitely sell him at Disneyland.

SPEAKER_04 20:13

Yeah, so it's like the cucaracha because he looks like a little cucaracha. Yeah. Uh what am I looking for? Uh just Google liminal space.

SPEAKER_10 20:25

Where I've heard that somewhere.

SPEAKER_07 20:27

It's like vaporwave, or like I don't know how to describe it. It's like vaporwave is like a genre of like music and aesthetic. Um, but it's a lot of like it's a lot of these vibes. Like I feel like this is what limbo would be. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_10 20:43

Or like a dream, right?

SPEAKER_07 20:44

Like a dream like yeah, and that's kind of like what backrooms, it's like, you know, part of that whole like aesthetic.

SPEAKER_04 20:51

Oh, it's the one where they are they go into the building, yeah, and then she's like, she can go through the wall, but then the guy is like trapped somewhere. Okay, got it, got it. Yeah, the trial's like, let's go watch this.

SPEAKER_07 21:02

Yeah, but like, yeah, so that's literally like those photos were like those have been around on the internet for like ever, but that's like that's definitely like the visual basis, right?

SPEAKER_10 21:12

Like an empty mall or exactly okay.

SPEAKER_07 21:15

I used to go, oh god, I used to go and do like photography of like dead malls in Florida and post it on Reddit are dead malls because dead malls are amazing, they're so cool, especially in Florida, because you had the like Burdynes department store that went out of business, but they had all these like crazy like marble aesthetics with like palm trees and stuff. What is it called? Burdynes.

SPEAKER_04 21:40

Burdynes, is it like a department store? Yeah, it was. Oh, okay. Yeah. So kind of like a Macy's or like a Merville.

SPEAKER_07 21:46

Macy's bought them and took over all their locations. Yeah. Yeah. But it was like a very classic and it like looks very 90s.

SPEAKER_03 21:55

Is that where you grew up in Florida? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 21:57

Miami, Florida.

SPEAKER_04 21:58

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:59

I am. Okay. Yes. I was like Florida, Latina, Cuban.

SPEAKER_07 22:04

Yes. Um but Do you like Long Beach? I do like Long Beach. Long Beach is pretty cool. I've enjoyed every time I've gone and stayed and been.

SPEAKER_10 22:15

I only ask. Oh I know. That was random. Now every time I hear Miami, it just immediately brings me to Dexter.

SPEAKER_07 22:26

Dexter, and it was filmed in Long Beach.

SPEAKER_10 22:28

Right.

SPEAKER_07 22:29

I love that. And then I'm like, yeah, like California is the better Florida. Like that's why I came here. Like it's just Florida, but better, like in every single way.

SPEAKER_04 22:40

But like Miami is more. No, it's still Florida.

SPEAKER_07 22:45

I don't like it. Yeah. I mean, I was there as a child, so I I can't probably judge it as well.

SPEAKER_04 22:50

How old were you when you came to California?

SPEAKER_07 22:55

30.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 22:57

33.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Okay. Okay. I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_07 23:06

I've in I've integrated very well. Yeah, obviously. Nice. Everyone thinks I'm from here.

SPEAKER_04 23:13

Yeah, I I didn't know you were from Florida. Yeah. That's cool though. That's good. That's a good thing. That's a good thing.

SPEAKER_07 23:20

That's that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 23:22

See, you're you're the third is she the third person we've talked to in the past couple weeks, right? That are that they're like, I love like California, Los Angeles.

SPEAKER_10 23:32

SoCal, I love Los Angeles, LA.

SPEAKER_04 23:35

Oh, that's so good.

SPEAKER_10 23:36

So good. We talked to Jonesy last week and he's from Massachusetts.

SPEAKER_07 23:42

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 23:43

And then uh before that, somebody else.

SPEAKER_10 23:47

Um maybe New York.

SPEAKER_04 23:50

It was from New York.

SPEAKER_10 23:52

Maybe, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 23:55

Oh, Vic. Yeah, Vic.

SPEAKER_10 23:59

Vic's from from East from the East Coast, I think, right? Yeah. East Coast?

SPEAKER_04 24:05

Yeah, and they were just like, I'm never leaving. I'm never leaving. Same.

SPEAKER_07 24:09

Yeah, it's like, no, there's no reason to move. Yeah. To be honest. You know, just stay here.

SPEAKER_04 24:14

And we get, I feel like we get so much hate. And I'm like, why?

SPEAKER_06 24:20

Because we're woke liberals. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 24:22

I know. That's what I was trying to explain to Gilbert today because I've seen um not to get political, but I don't care. Who am I kidding? Um, but because you know how we're having uh, you know, we're voting soon, and everybody's like, oh, vote for Spencer Pratt.

SPEAKER_10 24:39

Vote for and I'm like Who Okay, so who is Spencer Pratt? Can you pull up a video of him?

SPEAKER_04 24:44

He didn't know who Spencer Pratt was.

SPEAKER_10 24:46

Look, this I this is why I do the podcast to learn something.

SPEAKER_07 24:48

This is wild. We're like the same age. We are the generation. But I don't he didn't watch um shit. I didn't either, but I still I didn't watch the show. They were loudly assholes.

SPEAKER_04 25:01

He was from um the hills, right? Is that what it was called? I think so. And the lady Or was it Lagoon?

SPEAKER_07 25:06

See, obviously, I don't fucking know. I these were not these were not people on the radar. I didn't watch either. They were just known to be that.

SPEAKER_10 25:15

It looks like he's from the Hills Have Eyes.

SPEAKER_07 25:18

Yeah. Pretty much it, yeah, it should be.

SPEAKER_04 25:21

Yeah, her. Well, they were on this reality TV show, I think just for being like rich, yeah, teens. The hills. Yeah, in the hills.

SPEAKER_10 25:30

He looks like Willem Defoe if Willem Defoe grew up.

SPEAKER_07 25:35

I don't know. I don't know. Fuck it. I bet I felt it. Am I gonna follow through? Nah, I'm not. I'm not thinking that hard about Spencer Pratt.

SPEAKER_04 25:45

Well, he's running for mayor of Los Angeles.

SPEAKER_07 25:49

That's fucking insane.

SPEAKER_04 25:50

Like, that should not and people are like, yeah, let's turn Los Angeles red. And I'm like, Ew, why? Gross. No, but the thing that I was trying to explain to to Gil was that uh people have been doing this like trend and and then like in like the comments where they're like, oh, let's drive to Los Angeles and vote, and they're not even from here. That's crazy. Yeah, and they're like I'm I'm driving all the way from Arizona. Oh, I'm driving all the way from Kansas.

SPEAKER_10 26:24

Why why would they care anyway?

SPEAKER_04 26:26

Why does it bother you?

SPEAKER_10 26:28

What why does it matter? What does it matter to them if uh if California is a Republican state if they live somewhere else?

SPEAKER_04 26:37

A democratic state.

SPEAKER_10 26:38

No, um if in the event that Spencer Pratt um is elected, like what does it matter to them? How does it affect them positively or negatively if Spencer Pratt is the governor of California when you don't even live here?

SPEAKER_07 26:58

Because these are the same people that think that the Trump cares about them. You know what I mean? Like these are the same people that like think things are going well. Like and they blindly want to spread something that they think, you know.

SPEAKER_04 27:18

It it's they've made it a mission to like, you know, have everybody believe what they believe. And it's like it doesn't matter where it's at. And I think LA and California like hurts them so fucking much. It does. It lives rent-free in people's brains that they're like, yeah, we're gonna go. And we're like, shut the fuck up.

SPEAKER_07 27:38

You know, and the the the Trump man makes, you know, always makes jokes about LA and always talks about the woke California, and you know, everybody hates LA, you know. Everybody that's not here, everyone that's not here, yeah. You either hate it because you're not here or because you're a Republican.

SPEAKER_04 27:59

And and that's what I was trying to tell Gil earlier was like, even the people that are like, oh, I live here and I want it to be uh Republican, and I'm like, Okay, when has LA ever been like Republican, like conservative? Never like if you moved here from somewhere else, it's because you were looking for the liberal life, not because you came searching for freaking conservative life, like yeah, so to me, I'm just like, yeah, you're a fucking joke.

SPEAKER_07 28:29

I was talking, I was just joking with somebody recently where it's like I don't know, people kind of want to be conservative in the wrong way. Why don't we just see deathmatch and decide who's the leader then? You know, like maybe we should go back to that. Maybe we should be conservative in that way. We should have them duke it out in a ring and see. And the the best warrior wins. Yeah. Yeah. I mean it it it can, it can work. I think, you know, I think there are other things we can go back to.

SPEAKER_10 29:04

Yeah. There should be like a tournament, like a uh like a triathlon, right? Yeah, you first first you get like blood test like first let's see if you're physically fit to be a person in office. And after that, let's let's go to the track and then let's see if you you can run a mile under, I don't know, ten minutes. Uh and then smart. Yeah, it's that's do an SAT test or something. There should be an SAT test to be in government.

SPEAKER_04 29:37

I mean Is there there may be being and your blood pressure has to be uh under I don't know what's the then the fuck I've never I'm out you have to have a normal blood pressure, more like have them solve like logic puzzles than anything.

SPEAKER_07 29:57

Like because it's like how could I I I think back to those tests all the time, like SAT, A C T and what it was like, you know.

SPEAKER_10 30:06

I don't even think I took an ACT. What is that? It's another one, it's another one, it's another one, I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 30:11

I I I was a straight A person. Yeah, I was in like AP and gifted and w you know, stupid shit. Isn't stupid, you know.

SPEAKER_10 30:22

Uh I think I had a 4.0 all the way up until like the ninth grade, eighth grade, and then I just thought I was like, school isn't cool. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Yeah, like the whole I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 30:36

No, I get that. I get that. I was I was an only child, so I had to achieve so I could earn my toys and my game boys, you know what I mean? That makes sense. I lived in my own world. Um uh because of that.

SPEAKER_04 30:54

Um I was a second kid, so my mom was just like, fuck it. As long as you pass, right? As long as you live.

SPEAKER_07 31:02

No, I had to I had to achieve, I had pressure, I had to do things.

SPEAKER_04 31:07

I I had my mom was like strict on us too and and doing things. And I've I've always been like smart. I'm just lazy. I just wanted to like not do it, and um, yeah, we had a lot of like crying matches at home where my mom's like, you're not getting up from the table until you learn your timetables. Damn. And it was like so things like that that I feel like now I'm just like, fuck my timetables. Like I hated it so much because I think the reinforcement that my mom was using was like it was pretty intense, you know. And and then I just like learned the bare minimum just to get her off my back type of thing.

SPEAKER_07 31:45

Yeah. I mean, I mean, school is is really just to indoctrinate people young to follow orders, anyways. Um and that's me as a straight A student, you know what I mean? I did things because I had to, you know, it's like I I I had a lot of toys and I had a lot of collectibles always that were kind of like my focus, and whatever obsession I was into, if it was like movies or bands or whatever, it's like could do whatever I wanted as long as I got straight A's, so I could express myself however I wanted as long as long as I achieved those things. Um so yeah, 3.9 GPA from college too. Like I just kept kept on keeping on, you know. It's funny because I do like structure, you know, at the same time. It's like structure's nice, yeah. But at the same time, I always just kinda looked forward to like being a person that didn't have to be forced to be somewhere all the time and just kind of be free and do whatever you want. And I've kind of like not ever abandoned the things I liked since I was a kid, you know, and uh it's like I've never had any problems with that.

SPEAKER_10 33:10

It's like Yeah, well that's cool. I mean, you don't like a lot of people when you know, after a couple years they they grow out of of whatever they liked, and and I think that's what happened to me, like with at least with school, I kind of I don't know, that it sounds now thinking about that's terrible. But thinking I grew out of like learning, but there's like a lot of other underlying things right that that were going on at the time where I was just like, uh I don't know if I don't know, school's not for me type of thing. But I mean I was 13 and making that decision at that age is is pretty wild.

SPEAKER_07 33:58

That is crazy. That's pretty wild right there.

SPEAKER_04 34:01

Mm-hmm. It is. But but I like I like I love learning. I like to know things, I like to read, I like to all that.

SPEAKER_07 34:12

But when it came down to like test taking, oh, I was like see, I was great at that stuff because I have a crazy memory. That's that's why I was always like it's it's more of a memorization, like a photographic memory. Which is what I kind of did too. It's like I'm realizing in adulthood, like a lot of it is like, oh, it's just like really good pattern recognition and like report.

SPEAKER_10 34:33

I didn't learn anything actually. I remembered it. I didn't learn it, I remembered it.

SPEAKER_07 34:36

Like, and that's why I'm like when you said like take an SAT test, I'm like shit, I couldn't take an SAT. I've taken them in my life, but I couldn't fucking take that now.

SPEAKER_02 34:44

I'm like, I I could take it, but am I gonna brain dead, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 34:49

I can't I can't do this.

SPEAKER_04 34:50

I feel that a lot of classes that they took out, because I remember like um one of my aunts saying, like, oh yeah, we used to have a class where they used to teach you, you know, how to write a check or how to open up a gimme that I actually took that in in high school. Yeah, I remember you saying that too, huh? That's so cool.

SPEAKER_10 35:09

Yeah, they called it uh senior math, which uh it's like the I don't know, like a just like a class for person math. Right. It's like a it was uh a class for the seniors. Uh to it was kind of like a I don't know, it was kind of like a bullshit class kind of thing. Yeah, they they taught you how to do like fill out your your W-2s, they they helped they showed you how to like uh okay, if this price is like $19.99 and it's 30% off, this is how you balance a checkbook. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 35:45

Those are the things that people need schooling on. Those are the actual things that adults need to know. Like, and that's what's crazy to me. It's like that's why I like so agree with learning and being knowledgeable and being well-rounded, but like, boy, they don't make it fun, and boy, they make it feel like you're gonna die if you don't get the straight A or the Like I don't need geometry.

SPEAKER_04 36:14

The fuck? Like for what? You know, I don't go to the the market and I'm like, oh, let me take out my like why do we have to What was that one um scientific calculator?

SPEAKER_07 36:24

Yeah, the T9, like the T9, and you would like type the big Texas one?

SPEAKER_10 36:29

Yeah, I just I remember the brand. I still have it. It was like big. I still have it.

SPEAKER_07 36:33

I have one too, like a Texas T90 or something. Like and they were like expensive to buy at the end. They were that was like a bitch at the time. I was like, mom, I have to get an $80 calculator, thanks. Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_10 36:45

It's it's so expensive just for me to have in. I'm just still writing like boobs. Boobs. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 36:51

Yeah, boobs, and then making like boob art with little graphs. You know, it's like that's it.

SPEAKER_10 36:57

D equal, what is it? Uh the three equals D?

SPEAKER_04 37:01

Eight equal equal equal D.

SPEAKER_10 37:03

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:04

Well, now the iPhone, the iPhone calculators uh are you can turn it into scientific right.

SPEAKER_10 37:11

If you turn it's like Is it called the scientific calculator? Or is it something else?

SPEAKER_04 37:16

I think so.

SPEAKER_07 37:16

Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_10 37:17

Is it?

SPEAKER_04 37:18

What did I see the other day that they were like, oh, um when Jen, because what are they now? Like Gen Alpha or Gen Oh Gen Z or something like that. Children? Okay, yeah. And they're like, oh, um when they talk shit about us, but I didn't use uh scientific. I didn't use chat GPT to to pass my classes, and I was like, Okay, okay, all right, all right.

SPEAKER_07 37:45

No, we use Wikipedia, like the people's people, all right?

SPEAKER_04 37:49

Yeah, or actual encyclopedias.

SPEAKER_07 37:52

Yeah, dog. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 37:53

We had a whole set of encyclopedias.

SPEAKER_07 37:55

So did yeah, growing up as a kid. Ugh, encyclopedia collection that was.

SPEAKER_10 38:02

A dictionary.

SPEAKER_03 38:03

We we still like you people a dictionary. We're all talking about uh encyclopedia. He's like, yeah, I had a dictionary.

SPEAKER_04 38:12

I just got one too.

SPEAKER_07 38:14

I had a thesaurus.

SPEAKER_04 38:17

Oh my love.

SPEAKER_02 38:22

I don't know how to use a thesaurus. I thought it's thesaurus, it was like a type of Jurassic Park character.

SPEAKER_07 38:31

A character, not even the same character.

SPEAKER_04 38:33

I sort of the Jurassic Park character. I still remember the salesperson coming to our house to sell encyclopedias. That is yeah, that was a thing.

SPEAKER_07 38:44

That was a thing.

SPEAKER_04 38:45

Because you're very little our age, right? Yeah, 93. Okay, I'm born 90, and then he's 91. So now we're gonna be able to get away.

SPEAKER_07 38:51

Yeah, you're not, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was like, yeah, no, it was total same experience.

SPEAKER_04 38:55

They would come like door to door and be like, hi, I'm selling, you know, encyclopedias. Would you like to buy them? And my parents were like, sure. Right? Because for us, like in our my I'm first gen. My parents were both born in Mexico, but raised here. But having an encyclopedia was like like a status symbol almost because you got a computer, that's basically the first computer.

SPEAKER_07 39:18

You're like, I have knowledge.

SPEAKER_04 39:19

It was like, oh, not everybody has encyclopedias in their home, they must be smart. Yeah. And that's what that kind of like, you know, or you could afford it at that time. Yeah. So I didn't I didn't know that until I way. How much were they?

SPEAKER_07 39:38

Can you can you pull it up to see how much historical pricing of encyclo encyclopedias?

SPEAKER_10 39:42

We're just looking at 1990, like 1999 prices of just like random stuff.

SPEAKER_07 39:49

Oh and it That's just sad. I don't know if I want to know.

SPEAKER_10 39:52

It was pr but it It was Target, the one that I showed you too.

SPEAKER_07 39:56

It was Target? No shit.

SPEAKER_10 39:58

Prices were pretty pricey for 1999.

SPEAKER_04 40:02

Um price in I think they bought them like a 1995. Let's see. There you go. Like cost in 1990, yeah, it's a 1995.

SPEAKER_06 40:13

No. Whoa.

SPEAKER_04 40:16

See, that's what, yeah, they were a thousand dollars. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 40:20

No.

SPEAKER_04 40:20

That's why I'm saying that it was like um, it wasn't like, oh, you're rich, but it was like, oh, they can afford encyclopedias.

SPEAKER_10 40:28

You're encyclopedial.

SPEAKER_04 40:29

Who the fuck did my parents have these? I don't understand how they did because. Yeah, we had them all on a bookshelf and then they're alphabetized.

SPEAKER_10 40:41

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 40:42

Like that was when people made a living wage, I guess.

SPEAKER_10 40:46

In 1995, a brand new print set of Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, retailed up for approximately $1,000 to $1,400, depending on the binding and special features selected, such as premium leather covers. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_04 41:05

Yeah, that's why I'm telling you, I remember this.

SPEAKER_07 41:07

That's crazy, dog. That is like kind of having a computer, even more so.

SPEAKER_10 41:14

It's like it's like we could you could get a computer now for about a thousand bucks, right?

SPEAKER_04 41:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 41:21

You know, probably more now.

SPEAKER_04 41:22

Like, and then you had to like the thing that kind of sucked after a while was that things were always because they're changing the internet, you know. I mean, there was the internet, but we didn't use it. So every so often the editions, that's why this is the 15th edition.

SPEAKER_07 41:37

Yeah, because they have the world keeps discovering things shocking, you know. We gotta add to our history and the the new developments.

SPEAKER_10 41:46

Imagine a world where there's no world, there's no internet, but there was still encyclopedia. Encyclopedia. Imagine how many like editions they'd be changing like every hour. Yeah, that would be insane. Yeah, these are the ones we had, and they're just be like an insane person, just like, I gotta get all of them, I gotta get all of them. And they're just on uh skid row sleeping on their house of books. Encyclopedia.

SPEAKER_07 42:16

I mean, I just want to imagine there's somebody that has like every encyclopedia that's ever come out.

SPEAKER_10 42:23

Ooh, I like the red ones. The red ones are nice. Yeah, the red ones are nice. How much are they going for now on eBay?

SPEAKER_04 42:29

It's at $150. Oh, okay. Oh, I guess. My parents gave them away to my the Angie. I should have asked if she still had.

SPEAKER_10 42:39

Oh, you should have.

SPEAKER_04 42:40

Because her daughter's gonna be. Ooh, there you go.

SPEAKER_10 42:43

Text her right now.

SPEAKER_07 42:44

Text her right now. We need to grab that shit and sell it. I just listed uh because I collect video games and stuff, but I just listed on eBay.

SPEAKER_10 42:56

Uh do you do you buy and sell or you just collect?

SPEAKER_07 42:59

I've just collected like my entire life, and um I had an extra copy of uh Pokemon Leaf Green um for Game Boy Advance with the box, with the manuals, uh, with everything. It works, and I've just been holding on to it because it's an extra. Like I I literally have meticulously collected every single Pokemon game that's come out, every Nintendo system that's come out, you know, and I'm like, this is my little my little nest egg. And so I just listed it. I'm very excited about it. Um where did you list it? eBay.

SPEAKER_10 43:35

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 43:36

Yeah. And it's worth for like any bites yet? I listed it yesterday. So um I've sold some uh like SNES games, NES games, some older things that I inherited from my parents. Because I basically inherit like I grew up playing the S N E S and the NES that my parents had. What is what is um? The Super Nintendo and the Nintendo. Um Nintendo Entertainment System. Um with Rob, you know, the little m you know robot that connected to the Super Nintendo and the gun, you know, like all that stuff. Um video games are my friends, okay? That's why I know so much about them. Um and then I when Game Boys were a thing, it was like Oh, we had a Game Boy. Like ah, you know, I could play Pokemon and a purple Game Boy. Yeah, jealous of that. I had the Pokemon, Pokemon edition. That was like that came with Pokemon Yellow. That was the edition. Oh, okay. I remember that one.

SPEAKER_04 44:34

I remember that.

SPEAKER_07 44:35

Yeah, I had that.

SPEAKER_04 44:36

That was like now I think about like everything that we had, and I'm like, uh, if only my mom was a bigger hoarder. It's so funny. I have all of those.

SPEAKER_07 44:43

I have all yeah, I have I've kept all of them. And I I I I purged a l-I mean, I still have too much shit, to be honest with you, but I purged so much before moving here, and I still have a lot of shit. Like, it's a lot of Pokemon stuff. Like, I kept the core things that I'll always care about, which is like all the game systems, all the games, every handheld that I've ever had, you know, like just it's just a lot, and like every Pokemon thing I've collected over time, um, and some other like random things that I've collected. Like I used to have a full Lord of the Rings action figure set from like each movie. Like I had like every single character, um, but I donated a lot of them before I moved because it was just it was just so much. I kept like my favorites of all the sets, you know, but I like I did donate a lot. Like I had like very meticulously collected the entire action figure release of Star Wars episode three, Revenge of the Sith, and it was just like, yeah, I went to town, like every Walmart and Target within like a certain radius. It was like, which which ones does this one have? You know, which one which ones does this one have? And like, yeah, I I kept some favorites, but I couldn't I couldn't keep all of that. It was crazy.

SPEAKER_04 46:08

Um do you display them? Like, are they displayed in your house?

SPEAKER_07 46:11

Yeah, yeah. My whole house is like all crazy. My whole house is just all basically this, but just like everywhere, you know.

SPEAKER_10 46:21

Do you do you open them?

SPEAKER_07 46:22

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 46:24

Yeah. Me and uh me and my my buddy Andy, we uh he doesn't open any of his uh what are those things called? Uh uh um what? The Oh the Pops? Yeah, the pops.

SPEAKER_07 46:37

Okay, that I don't even get because that's just whatever.

SPEAKER_10 46:41

Yeah, he has them and he has them like displayed all over his like uh whatever, his his house. And um I was showing him like pictures of like what I had, and he's like, Oh, don't even get me started. Like we had this whole thread of like just showing each other like the ones we had. He was like, dude, why do you open them? And I was like, I I don't know. I just I just I don't know. I just feel like I want to play with like I want to play with them and and like I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 47:06

I Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_10 47:08

But um the the scary movie one I haven't I haven't opened it yet. I yeah, I couldn't. Never told me not to open it until Christmas.

SPEAKER_07 47:16

Until Christmas. No, I didn't. Oh, um no, I'll call I'll I'll suffer through a pop if it's something I like, you know. Like I'll I have the Mewtwo pops that came out. Um yeah, something that I like I have twin the Twin Peaks pops. Oh nice. Okay. Like it's like who doesn't want a pop of Dale Cooper? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:38

I was like, that's great. Didn't didn't um the company go out of business? Which company? Am I wrong? Pop Funko? Uh-huh. Funko Pop? I thought I had heard that they were gonna stop um creating new Funko Pops.

SPEAKER_07 47:55

Did I dream this? They've created every single character that could possibly exist at this point, right? So I see, I see some and I'm like, there's a Funko Pop of that? That's crazy, you know? It's like I always shocked by how many.

SPEAKER_10 48:08

I think though that like these things are just like if you're a collector of these things, like it's just like where does it become like too much? Because there they have so like like you just said, they have characters and characters of just anything across all media, it's not just TV, it's not just movies, it's sports, it's it's everything horror genre, thriller, it real people characters, right, cartoons, celebrities, pop culture icons, you know, whatever that is.

SPEAKER_04 48:45

Oh, they're going through financial struggles. Okay, they're down 14% because people are not opening them.

SPEAKER_10 48:51

That's why open up your shop.

SPEAKER_04 48:55

I just think that they're turning out way too many, and then it's like there I'm not saying that there's no like excitement, but it's like how do you even choose what you want? Like Gilbert's saying, like there's way too many for you to be like, oh, I want this, where I feel like sometimes, and it's not always good, but like sometimes when it's something that's very like niche or exclusive, and then it's like, okay, I need to get my hands on this.

SPEAKER_07 49:24

Yeah, and it's like we live in an economy of excess, you know, and it just they just bank on people with nostalgia and you know that light rock.

SPEAKER_10 49:34

That's a big thing going on now, you know. Right?

SPEAKER_04 49:37

Yeah, the nostalgia factor.

SPEAKER_10 49:39

The nostalgia factor because now the kids in the 90s have money and now we want to feel how we wanted to when we were kids, and they're it's psychology. They're yeah, they're they're basing their they're squeezing money out of us.

SPEAKER_04 49:56

I also feel like it's not that it's not acceptable, but I think that for a while it was like, oh, adults collecting things, like you know, and it's like now it's it it people are leaning in more to that it's true, to wanting to have these things and what it does to you, and then it's like more like, well, if you want it, you want it. Like, you know, and it's I think our generation is turning that coin in like it is funny to see, like, because I I've kind of always been like that.

SPEAKER_07 50:26

Like I never really abandoned any toys or things, like I always just kind of did whatever, and you know, I I middle school and high school, I had toys and dolls in my bag on my purse the same way I do now. You know, that's that's just a trait that's never changed. Um I used to carry around like my favorite Star Trek action figures in high school because I had a really big Star Trek phase and I would crack my friends up because I would just suddenly have Spock, you know what I mean? Like be like super random, you know. Um and I would fuck around with my friends, you know, in like art class and like take stupid photos of like Spock making out with Kirk and like check off butt fucking Spock, you know, like that was that was that was that was kind of what we did uh during uh band class. Um but I yeah, I always had crazy hair, I always carried around dolls and shit, and I was just like, whatever, fuck it. And now it now like the the bag charm is like a thing, and I think that's so funny. Like I just think it's hilarious. I'm like, wow, now I just blend in, you know.

SPEAKER_04 51:36

Like now they're like, oh my god, where'd you get it?

SPEAKER_07 51:38

And I'm like, I've had it. Girl, I've been having these, I've I've been collecting toys for I have like a whole bin full of like plush keychains that are like all Pokemon and just different things.

unknown 51:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 51:53

Nice.

SPEAKER_04 51:54

I did, I went through my phase where I like purged everything. I was um I was huge like Hello Kitty fan. Yeah, and I had like everything in my room was Hello Kitty, like sheets, uh you know, pillowcase, uh the trash can, the trash can liners. I had a phone, I had like you know, the what is it called? You're describing the perfect. Yeah, I just had I had everything, and then I remember my mom putting like shelves all around my room so that I could display every single Hello Kitty that I had. And I had like collector ones, I had I'm obsessed, yeah, and and I I was obsessed for like years. I mean, every birthday I had, I wanted a Hello Kitty birthday. Like it was just like this like top-notch obsession, and then for my 11th birthday, I had a Hawaiian Hello Kitty. Yes, and I remember that there was um there was one Hello Kitty that we seen. No, it was a shirt, and we couldn't find uh Hawaiian Hello Kitty anything at that time, yeah. Cause she was kind of rare, I remember. She was really rare.

SPEAKER_07 53:03

Now you she was like bronzed, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 53:06

She was a different color, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 53:08

She was like like she was like toasted, she was like a toasted marshmallow color.

SPEAKER_04 53:12

Like it was cute, like but it was something you did not see. So we ended up having my birthday party in Senada, where my mom is from, so in Mexico, and we had all the decorations, piñata, everything that goes with like having a birthday party, everything was customized to be the Hawaiian Hello Kitty. And that birthday is when I got like tons and tons of Hello Kitty things. And then I got older, you know, I started high school and I still wanted to have like uh my Hello Kitty, but then I was like, I know, like I just had this moment of like I'm changing, you know, this and that. And then I just remember telling my mom, I don't want anything. And she's like, Are you sure? And I was like, Yeah, just I don't, I don't want anything. And I remember putting them in like giant, like I know now I regret it 100%, but we put it in like giant, like just like trash bags, and then um we ended up giving it's like that scene from Toy Story where exactly what Emily when Emily packs away all her toys. Can't do that, so we gave Emily Play the song. No, cue the song. We gave everything to my best friend's niece, which I should ask her because I still see her. Um but now I'm like, shit, I wish I had everything back. And my mom kept one thing and she kept my comforter. Oh that she still uses, and the other day she's like, Do you want it?

SPEAKER_09 54:44

And I was like, Yes.

SPEAKER_07 54:46

No?

SPEAKER_04 54:46

Yes, I hope you said yes. Yeah, you said yes.

SPEAKER_07 54:48

Good, good, good. Are you looking up Hawaiian Hello Kitty? Because I think it's hilarious that you're like, she's a different color. Yes, she is. Pull it up, I want to hear it. Like she's so cute.

SPEAKER_06 55:02

See?

SPEAKER_04 55:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 55:06

No, I'm doing this. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_08 55:10

Yeah, that's somebody else. Everything was beautiful, not the Jesse song.

SPEAKER_02 55:18

That's Hill Kitty when you're packing up all your shit in your room.

SPEAKER_06 55:23

The one that we did was this song.

SPEAKER_04 55:26

That's sad. Oh, it was this one. No, that's the white one. Yeah, you don't want the white one. Ah, I don't know where I went.

SPEAKER_02 55:35

You don't want the white one.

SPEAKER_04 55:36

No, she was this. Okay, alright. But she had tan. Like this attire. She had a tan. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 55:43

Nice.

unknown 55:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 55:45

So she was like an exclusive um thing that.

SPEAKER_04 55:49

And then I went through like my Powerpuff stage. Yes. And my mom hung them from like the ceiling with fish wire so they look like they were flying. That's so cute.

SPEAKER_07 55:59

Uh I love I had a Powerpuff Girls moment too. I was really into bubbles. Because I would always fix I always fixate it like on a character, you know, and then I collect that character. So for me when I was a kid, it was bubbles.

SPEAKER_10 56:10

Yeah, bubbles cute. Are you into anything right now?

SPEAKER_07 56:13

I mean, I mean, I'm always into Mewtwo. That's always I'm into yeah, Mewtwo from Pokemon, you know. Oh, okay. I'll call a cat. Yeah. Purple cat, purple cat. Um yeah, I've got my my Mewtwo tattoo. My Mewtwo tattoo.

SPEAKER_06 56:28

How do you spell it? Uh M-E. Oh, M-E. W. And then like two. Two, yeah. Oh.

SPEAKER_10 56:38

Oh, okay. Yeah. I know which one. I know who it is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 56:42

Yeah. Okay. I'm always obsessed with Mewtwo. I have my Mewtwo on my back. I got uh a team of Mewtwo's in the games. Uh I got a whole rack, a whole like display full of Mewtwo's at my house and a few shelves of plush. And to this day, if I see a new one come out, I still grab it. You know what?

SPEAKER_10 57:05

I'm not surprised that they haven't done like a live action movie movie. They have. They have? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 57:10

Detective Pikachu.

SPEAKER_10 57:12

A live action movie of Pokemon? When did it come out?

SPEAKER_07 57:16

Dude, it is so good. 2017, I think.

SPEAKER_10 57:19

Really?

SPEAKER_07 57:20

Yeah. Pull it off. Um no, Mewtwo was in it too, and I just like lost my shit in theaters. I was like, you know.

SPEAKER_10 57:33

Did they really?

SPEAKER_06 57:34

Yeah, dog.

SPEAKER_10 57:36

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 57:38

Yeah, it was so cool. That's a toy. Yeah, but I have that toy. Um they had Burger King toys for Detective Pikachu. Yeah, this one.

SPEAKER_10 57:49

Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, now I remember.

SPEAKER_07 57:51

Yeah, I honestly, like, I loved that movie. I mean, I I recognize it's not like the best film in the world, you know, but it's like it was fun, and I thought the Pokemon looked gorgeous.

SPEAKER_10 58:04

I just read this article about um like sequels and uh like IPs that uh like in 2005, those were like the two highest grossing uh films in this year was like sequels and like reboots. Retreads, etc. Retrends.

SPEAKER_04 58:24

Yeah. It makes sense because we're the ones we're the ones, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 58:27

We're ticket, yeah, buying the tickets.

SPEAKER_04 58:30

The nostalgia churn, you know. Like on Monday, we went uh when we went to go see Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah, uh, we went and invited like my sister, and because that was my sister and I, like that's our favorite, one of our favorite movies. And then our parents watched it too, and then they they went, and then my niece, uh, she's going to be 18 this year, and then she took her boyfriend, and I thought in my head, like, oh, for sure he's seen it. And then when we came out, I was like, was this the first time seeing it? And he's like, Yeah, he's like, I've never seen it. And I was like, was he just cracking up? What do you mean? He thought it was like really funny. He's like, it was really funny, but I don't think he I think he thought it was funny, but I don't think he thought it was like as funny as maybe we did.

SPEAKER_07 59:13

It's hard to see that out of the context of the humor of that time, and you know, just humor was becoming random, you know. It felt like a masterpiece. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 59:26

It was like it's so I got to I forgot how so cool the credits were at the beginning of like the mustard and the ketchup that were written. I was like, I completely forgot about sorry to cut you off. No, that's okay. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_07 59:44

I recently rewatched like Little Miss Sunshine, and I feel like that was like the same kind of time, and I'm like, damn, this was great. And I remember loving it. I need to watch that again then too, but like the same thing. I'm like, wow, this is like they do some really interesting, like artsy stuff, and it's like, man, that was a time where stuff was. Do you remember when like movies used to come out?

SPEAKER_10 1:00:01

DIY stuff.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:02

Yeah, like when movies used to come out, because I was thinking about this the other day, like, how many times have I watched Napoleon Dynamite? Like it literally, we would watch it like every other day, like that much. And I think now, and I'm like, now I watch a movie and then it's done. Forget about it, it's just done, and then what's new? What's next? And it's like before we didn't have that many options to be like, it was you watched whatever was your repertoire of yeah, yeah, it's so true.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:31

You became like comfy with movies, you know, and then people you know have their comfort watches on streaming nowadays, but like man, I would just I would burn a DVD, like I would just that shit would just be spinning all day because once it would end, I would just hit play once it got back to the venue.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:47

Or if you went like on like during the weekend, like we used to on Fridays, we used to go uh rent movies, uh, and then my parents would leave them till Sunday for us, so the entire weekend. So I had to watch whatever movie I rented as many times as I could weekend before they took it back.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:04

Yes, that's the time, and that's when you absorb, you know, and it's like I I'm gonna remember that shit, you know. Um I was obsessed with the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen movies. Passport to Paris uh was everything to me at one point. Um but like only that one, really. I didn't like the other ones.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:26

I like all of them. The one that I seen, remember I um in New York.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:32

I don't know. The one in New York now.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:34

They're all in New York. I'm like, I don't know. Did they live in New York?

SPEAKER_10 1:01:36

I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:37

When in New York?

SPEAKER_10 1:01:38

I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:39

Um He's thinking of Passport to Paris.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:42

He was just trying to join the conversation and he's like New York.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:45

He's like, Yeah, New York.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:48

There was like a big city, you know, they went to the big city. That's yeah. I don't know what city it was, but it was a big one.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:54

No, there was this movie. Um let me I have to show you now. That I was like, was this a fever dream? Because there was like a piece where they're they're little and it's it's a Halloween movie, and then they go and they go to this like little person's home, and I remember being like, Oh my god, I want to play it. Oh, you showed me that one. I showed you the movie. I I bought it. Right. And then I watched it last time. You bought it while you bought it.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:21

Wait, hold on. What? Oh, and streaming. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:25

He's like, What? I did not buy a VHS. Um I bought Evolution.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:32

No, I rented it Evolution yesterday.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:35

Oh, nice. That's a fun one. Isn't it?

SPEAKER_10 1:02:37

I've been thinking about I've been thinking about it for for the past couple of weeks and I was like, I'm gonna just rent it and watch it. Holy shit. So good.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:48

Maybe you're right. There was the one in uh New York.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:53

They at least had to have one in New York.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:56

Yeah, like all of like these were this ones. Oh my god. This is where my love for them started.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:05

It was this one.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:06

Uh what is it called? Now I'm like, I'm on a mission to just look up um It's right here. Double double toil and trouble. Cute. This one. Watch that one. Cute. I love a Halloween special. When in Rome, when in London, I didn't see it. Is it our lips or C?

SPEAKER_07 1:03:27

Oh, that's the Australian one. Australia one. Which one were you talking about? Me? Passport to Paris. Oh, you were yours was Passport Paris. Yeah, mine was Passport to Paris. He's thinking of a New York one. They never went to New York, like historically. That's my favorite dream. They went everywhere but New York. Like New York, like literally. Australia, London, Paris.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:52

You're like, New York? Ew.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:54

No, we don't go there. We hate it historically, actually, canonically.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:00

Those are good movies. Good times.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:04

I'm on this weird, like uh it's not weird, but I've been watching a lot of like old movies lately. Yeah. Like in the early two thousand early 2000s, mid-90s. Uh, before the evolution movie, I try I couldn't get through it, but uh I think I'm gonna try to re-watch it with a different uh mind perspective with a different mind. Johnny mnemonic.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:30

Oh, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:31

Uh uh Keanu Reeves.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:33

Oh god, I feel like I've rewatched that recently.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:36

I feel like I was like, I was watching it and I was like, it was pre-matrix because this movie was written in the mid-90s, so it was like 94-95, and I was like, this just seems like a bad version of the Matrix.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:51

Of the Matrix. Right. I think I kind of just a whole plot.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:54

Look it up, Johnny Mnemonic.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:56

Johnny mnemonic.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:57

Is it mnemonic? Mnemonic?

SPEAKER_06 1:04:59

I think it's mnemonic. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:01

I was just going through like uh like 90s sci-fi on IMDB.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:08

So good.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:08

And I was like, oh, this one looks fun.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:10

Cause that, you know, concepts were just really random and it was like I don't know. Like storylines used to just be weird and no, this was weird, dude. You know what I mean? Like it wasn't so serious, it didn't, it wasn't always like yeah, yeah, like a flat top and everything.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:27

I was like, oh, this is cool.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:28

That's wild. I was oh and never gonna be Lundgren. Yeah, Dolph Lundgren is the is the villain. Yeah, okay, I do remember this. Iced tea?

SPEAKER_10 1:05:37

Ice yeah, when I seen iced tea in there, I was like, I'm out. I was like, what what is this? Dog, it's on the Netflix.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:45

Why? Isn't he like on on like CSI?

SPEAKER_10 1:05:48

No, he no, he it's really good. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:52

I was isn't he a good actor?

SPEAKER_10 1:05:53

I mean he's no, no, he he's good, but I I think I was just like looking for I was looking for Forward to watching um Evolution. And I was just like, oh I'll try this one out. And then I was like 45 minutes in, and I was like, I I can't do this. I have I'll watch I'll watch Evolution and then come back when like it's it's like my yearning for something else.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:18

For something, yeah. You're like, I'm ready to see this now.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:21

Now I now I'm ready. I'm ne I'm ready to s to watch it, but it was just like a precursor to to The Matrix.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:29

I get that. That's that's Dune for me. I've always wanted to watch like the David Lynch Dune, but that that one I feel like I need to be in a specific mindset.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:37

Yeah, I haven't I haven't watched that one yet. I watched all his other I love David Lynch. Yeah, so do I.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:43

It's like you have to definitely be in a certain a certain mindset.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:46

But I wore uh last week I wore uh I have a crew neck with his face on it.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:52

Oh love so cool. I loved all this stuff people were putting at like Bob's big boy when he passed. It's like oh that's so cool. My family asked him if it was um Guy Fieri.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:04

Makes sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:06

Or uh who else?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:07

Umbrell. They also asked, was it Amberell? A the hair. What are you gonna do? What's the other the one that was a food critic and passed away? Uh Anthony Bourdain.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:19

Oh my god, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:20

It's all that hair. It's the it's the this.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:22

Jamie Lee Curtis.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:24

I think he kind of looks like Jamie Lee Curtis.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:26

Johnny Gold.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:27

Johnny Gold is who I told you on this.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:29

Oh you know Johnny?

SPEAKER_07 1:07:32

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:33

He's a comic from uh IE. He's an IE legend.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:37

Legend of the Thanks for listening, Johnny. Now you'll once you hear that name, you're gonna be like, oh, and you're gonna be like, oh, I see it. Oh, there it is.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:45

We're just telling you you look, you look very, very good. Yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:48

Your hair is very tall. You look like Emberle.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:51

I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:53

He's heard it all. He's heard it all. No, I don't David Lynch.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:57

So does does because you do you do stand-up, right? Um, so do you have like, I mean, I'm not gonna ask what jokes you do, but I I guess my question is like, do you tie any of this, like your love for um like collecting things and like you know that factor of your life? Is that like tied into some of your stand-up or like all of it?

SPEAKER_07 1:08:19

Yeah, like most of it. Most of it is just about me and you know, how and why I'm crazy, you know, essentially. And I don't know. I I guess when I share certain things, they're funny. Like I just realize I did some weird, cringy stuff in my life. And then when I reflect, it's like, oh, that's a joke just by occurring, you know. Uh yeah, like running a fan page for 30 seconds to Mars. Um, that's cringe. That's pretty cringe in middle school. Um, I make oh, this was middle school. Yeah, dog, that was middle school, but like that's just it. Here it is. Uh, it was called 30 Seconds to Marshmallow.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:03

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:05

And it featured mine and the other co-runners marshmallow creations of the band that we would take photos of and post. So I would just like to say we were ahead of the curve on like cringe culture. I would just say, and like I would advertise it via like MySpace bulletins. And this girl one time messaged me and she's like, shut the fuck up. These are just fucking marshmallows. You were like, so what? Yeah, I was like, bitch.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:41

How about have some joy? How about that? But but what you call like cringe, right? Because we're like kind of going back to me having that like divorce with Hello Kitty, like I wish, I wish I wouldn't have. I wish that I didn't like lose that part of me. And obviously, I mean it's a different time, and and yeah, there's other things that experience, but I feel like just losing that whimsy in your life, and now as a 35-year-old, like refining that and being like, you know what, I like to collect things, I like to buy toys, I like to look at things, I like to hang things on my back. Like, like I wish that I would have never lost that to just wanting to be cool, you know what I mean? Or what I thought was cool, and I mean obviously I can't go back, but I think we're gonna go back.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:31

Like, no, but I think like even that but outside there's a time machine, we're going to go back surprise actually. After this, we're going back. I'm like, uh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:41

We should get a replica of the time machine that uh that the uncle got in uh what's it Napoleon Dynamax in Napoleon Dynamo?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:50

He's like I could have told it doesn't work, I could have told you that.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:57

And he's like, so did the best part like so.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:04

Did the guy give you your money back?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:09

Dude, I didn't realize how freaking awesome Kip was. Like he was he was so gangster, dude.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:14

He was that like LaFonda, like he leaves with her. That's what I'm saying. He's got more game than anybody in the whole movie. Like it's so perfect.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:26

Uncle Rico Rico. That's what it's like.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:28

Uncle Rico, bruh. The whole movie is just this masculine. It's so funny that Uncle Rico is like kind of like the main like villain, if there was one, and White Lotus. You know, it's like that's so funny. That's right to like put it together. It's like that's Uncle Rico.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:47

Whoa.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:48

Right?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:49

That's right.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:51

That was such a good show.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:53

Hey, they haven't brought out another season, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:11:55

Not yet. They're filming. They're cool. Are they? They recasted Helena Bonham Carter, like mid-filming, due to creative differences. I'm on which one was she? I don't know her. I don't know her. Bellatrix was strange. She was in all those Tim Burton's big year British lady.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:11

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:13

Yeah. She's kind of like a transphobe turf. Yeah, she's not a very good person, right? Yeah, so it's not it's not surprising, uh, given like Mike White being like showrunner, because he's very liberal. So I'm not surprised.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:30

Yeah, I really liked um oh yeah, her that lady. Yeah, that was she was married to um Tim Burton. Tim Burton.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:42

Yeah. Burton. Yeah, she's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:46

Oh, she's crazy.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:47

Whoa.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:49

Yeah, big hair British lady.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:50

Yeah. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:52

She was in Sweeney Todd. Yeah. And I love I honestly loved Sweeney Todd.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:56

I really loved uh Harry Potter. Uh so good. The last couple of uh movies of Harry Potter, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:13:01

Yeah, that's that's all of that. Yeah. I think she was really good in Sweeney Todd.

unknown 1:13:07

I fucking loved it.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:08

Her meat pie song.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:10

So cute. So cute eating people. I know. Being a cannibal. Oh, it's adorable. Well, they weren't. They were just making other people. They were just making the whole town cannibals without them knowing. Very true. It's pretty fucking wild. So they're making made a society cannibalistic because I fed them meat pies. But you know, it's a real, it's a real Yeah, they get like a real disease from eating.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:39

Like people get like a real Because there's there's a case that happened in Mexico that really happened, and the lady hated like her neighbors, like these two ladies. And no, while she murdered them, and then to hide the bodies, she like cooked them, she made them into tamales. And then for like a posada or something like some kind of party they had, she was like, Oh, I'm bringing tamales, and she felt everybody in the yeah, it's it's real, like a just throw them away.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:10

Like she's like, Oh, it's a bad batch of tamales, you know, like no one has to eat them. Like, you need the food evidence, like just throw it away.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:18

Mexicans don't want to throw anything out, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_07 1:14:20

They gotta I guess.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:23

Have you ever had Lengua? They they you make a taco or burrito out of anything. Out of anything? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:28

Oh my god. Lady who made tamales. Yeah, that's gonna come up. Uh tamales, uh out of people.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:36

The search history in this episode is just wild.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:40

Soylent green is people 1971?

SPEAKER_04 1:14:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:47

Is that it?

SPEAKER_04 1:14:47

Yeah, so it says La Tamalera. Oh my god, there's a couple. There's a couple.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:52

Whoa.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:53

So this one says Maria Trinidad Ramirez, La Tamalera in July 1971, Mexico City, Maria Trinidad Ramirez was arrested and confessed to murdering her abuse. Oh, this was her husband. So then there's another one.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:05

Well, I was gonna say I think Annabelle was probably the other one.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:09

Abusive second husband Pablo Diaz after a violent argument. She dismembered his body and disposed of the of some remains while rumors claimed she used them of she used some of the flesh to make tamales, leading her famous moniker.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:25

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:27

Annabelle Gomez, a woman allegedly from Mexico who was supposed to make tamales out of human flesh, according to Viro. She was caught after Gas Leak revealed human remains. See, and then there's another one in Michoacan.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:39

Yeah, it's happened multiple times. People getting made into tamales.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:43

That's cool. Remember that you remember that uh that book we used to uh read in uh elementary school, Too Many Tamales? No, yeah. You remember that one?

SPEAKER_07 1:15:53

I grew up in Florida, so no.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:55

Oh what was it? Oh yeah, it was elementary.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:58

Yeah, it was elementary. You remember her uh her grandma like during Christmas time or whatever?

SPEAKER_07 1:16:03

No, they know I had Cuban stories uh in Miami as a child. That makes that makes sense.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:10

Well, pretend at the tamales or Torta de Ramones.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:14

Yeah, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:16

So it it's uh yeah, there we go.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:18

This one. No, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:21

I guess her grandma gives her a ring.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:24

No, it's her mom's wedding ring.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:25

It's her mom's wedding ring?

SPEAKER_04 1:16:27

Yeah, and she sees her mom's ring, and like she's always like mesmerized by it. So the mom puts the r she takes the ring off to make the masa, and the little girl grabs the ring to put it on, like, oh, I want to see.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:40

And then when she's making the tamales, it falls off into the masa.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:44

She thinks that it falls into the masa because she was helping make tamales. So then she's like devastated, like, oh my god, I lost my mom's ring, and it's in the tamales. So then her and her cousins are like eating all the tamales. Yeah, and then they realize that the mom had gotten the ring, like it never was in the tamales.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:04

Oh, those kids. Yeah. Alright.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:10

And how along her mother was uh the tamales.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:14

Like, we're gonna have to eat a lot of tamales. That's the fake.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:17

Oh my god, those are people.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:20

Tamales are people. They're all like varying degrees of horrified. Now you have to read it. This is so funny. I'm gonna buy that four dollar copy. Only one. And it was always in like um, like that hard, like that hard plastic, like the big oh yeah, like in the in your like school library kind of thing. Yeah. I read all those American girl books that were in my school library. I was all into the American Girls.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:52

I used to read um, not the American Girl ones, but I used to read uh Fear Street. Oh do you remember the Fear Street ones? I heard of I remember those. I did some goosebumps, and then I remember the librarian being like, Are you sure you want to get this one? And I'm like, Yes. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:09

Where do we seen Goosebumps? Oh, and uh Slither. Have you seen Slither?

SPEAKER_07 1:18:14

Yeah, like the older like 2000s? Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:17

Do you remember the scene I I when all the little uh worms are like going through into the the twins' bedrooms and the twins they're reading uh goosebumps? That's and I'm like ah right there.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:31

Like ah I liked the one about the blob.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:34

That one was cool, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:36

See, these weren't so they were from from Arlstein. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:39

So they were another series of Arlstein, yeah. One time I saw Arlstein at a at a horror convention. What does he look like? Pull up a picture of Arlstein.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:51

Yeah, yeah, just cute little dude. Did he have any controversy? Nope, no? Okay, good. No, he's chill.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:58

His controversy is he has fucking cool ass books.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:01

Yeah, he's cool. What did I do?

SPEAKER_10 1:19:05

I don't look like him.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:06

I know this is the I hope that's not him.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:10

Surprise! Like, whoa, all that came from this little girl.

unknown 1:19:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:16

My my Oh, okay, yeah, I've seen a picture. Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:19

I passed him at a convention. He smiled at me. And I was like, oh. Recently, too, he did a book signing. He read um, I think either he came out with a new book or he brought back a book or something. Oh. And uh in Santa Barbara? Good. I think I've seen it. He deserves it.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:37

I wonder if there's like a biography. Oh, I'll I would like to read a biography on Arl Stein. I just finished uh On Writing about um Stephen King.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:47

Oh yeah, I've heard of that. That's so good.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:49

It's so good. It's really good. I wonder if they have something on Arlstein.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:52

There you go. It's right there.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:54

It came from Ohio. Ohio.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:57

My life as a writer by R. Alstein. Oh. Oh, that's so cute. Buy it so I can read it. But this looks like a kid's book. It does look like a kid's book. So that's probably what it is. It's probably like uh remember these that were all the big heads, and they were like holy shit!

SPEAKER_07 1:20:11

I was just talking to somebody about those big head books yesterday. And someone was telling me about those, but I couldn't remember the who is. And I someone was telling me that I think the scariest one was like Eleanor Roosevelt. I don't know. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:28

Yeah. They they have like a shit ton of these.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:31

Yeah, that's what they were saying. And I'm like, why don't I remember these?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:37

Good times.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:38

Good times. I love I like the more recent adaptations too. They did um a couple of series on Hulu um from Goosebumps, which were Do you remember?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:48

Are you afraid of the dark? Yeah, those are awesome. They were actually pretty scary.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:54

Yeah, and So Weird. Do you guys remember So Weird? Those are the days when they made like kids Twilight Zone.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:02

You know, basically that's what they were, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:21:05

Yeah, it's like I I miss I miss that.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:07

I miss huge Twilight Zone. Like I've probably seen every single one. Have you seen Twin Peaks?

SPEAKER_10 1:21:13

No, I think you like Twin Peaks. Yeah. Yeah. It has like a sci-fi thrill horror type vibe to it.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:21

My mom is is a really big um like she's she loves Twilight Zone. Like she can recite the entire intro and everything, like everything. So she used to, I mean, not make us, but you know, that's what was on TV. And then like um on uh Thanksgiving, they do like they would do like the marathon. Like before it was like on, you know, streaming. So then that's what we would do like on Thanksgiving. As soon as we would wake up, it was like we would put it on and then we'd put it on in the background while we were cooking.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:52

Oh, I love that. That's so cool. Yeah, I love a Thanksgiving tradition. I like I think it's so cute how everybody has like their thing that they put on in the background while they cook. Yeah, it's like that's so cute. Like, I think it's a really cute thing that people do. I just re-watch the the parade all day. Like I watched watching play it and then like watch it as it airs, and then I just let the dog show play, and then I just let the parade play again.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:20

I also am a big fan of um the hot dog eating contest on the 4th of July.

unknown 1:22:26

Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:27

Sometimes I think I would be good at a contest in general.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:31

I um am delusional and I think that I can like same. I'm just like, yeah, I could do that. I'm like, I've watched this for like 20 years straight. I know I know the trick. I know the trick.

SPEAKER_10 1:22:43

I could do it. I've been watching it. I've been I could do it. Yeah, I could do it.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:46

Mine is less, I haven't I have never I've not watched it. I just know I can eat, you know. I've just eaten a lot in one sitting.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:54

I think that's one of my bucket lists things that I haven't actually written on a bucket list, but mental bucket list would be to watch it live. Oh, be there and watch it. Yeah, because last year they did it kind of weird. They uh Netflix did it.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:10

Yeah, it was streamed live. I remember we watched it.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:13

Yeah, and then they did like other sub ones.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:16

I mean, it was cool, but it wasn't like it was like really, really produced. Like it was like, whoa. It wasn't no, it wasn't like you're all American.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:24

We're outside all American dudes spewing hot dog and bread everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:30

You know what it sounded like? You know that one show, uh, the one with the big ball that it's like an obstacle called Wipeout? Wipeout, and you know the announcers on Wipeout? Like, don't get me wrong, like I like Wipeout, right? And I like the announcers and stuff like that, but that's wipe out. Well, they try to take that type into the hot dog eating contest. And I don't know, it wasn't bad, like it didn't not not work, but I think for someone that's like a like a really big like fan, uh it threw me off. Vibe shift.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:00

I don't think 100% major vibe shift. Like, this is not what I eat my hot dogs to.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:05

Yeah, way too produced.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:08

I need some dirt and grit while I shove.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:14

I need some babies crying in the background.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:16

Well, I shove these down my gullet, you know. Yeah, and and I like even on TikTok now, I watch like professional like it's impressive. And I I watch them. Like, have you ever seen uh the girl? Her name is Raina. No, she's uh she's Asian. She eats a fucking teeth, like I don't know, like 110 pounds, probably. And she does all the like restaurants, you know, when they have like, oh, you know, eat here, and if it's you eat it in 20 minutes, like the heart attack grill those kind of things. She just like annihilates. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:53

And I'm like, I always wanted to do one of those. One of those, like eat our big burger and get your picture on the wall. Like Fat Burger has something like that. Do they? Yeah. Ooh, I didn't know that. Remember the heart attack place, too? That's what I was saying. The heart attack grill or whatever. There's one in Vegas. I I wanted to do it, but I didn't do it.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:12

I think if you weighed like over like 250. You eat free for free.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:17

Yeah, that's wild. I was like, damn.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:19

I want to do one of those, actually. Yeah, we should.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:22

We'll just all go on an eating challenge. Yeah. Trip on.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:26

I don't think I could do it now.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:27

No.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:30

Field trip.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:31

I gotta try to do it now.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:34

You can try.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:35

I just want a free shirt. I just want a free shirt. And and just uh just to say that, you know, I I tried.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:42

I want my petrol. No, I want to do what they do. Like like Matt Stoney is one of the competitors, like the long or competitors that have competed with the hot dog. And he literally does like exercises at home where he uh I mean Oh, he's like yeah, they they have to like stretch their stomach, they have to work the muscles in their stomach, in their throat. Like he literally he says he's like hours, nobody I'm god no one can see me but you guys, but he's like what he goes like that or like yeah, there you go. Oh, wait, wait, let me put the camera on you. Go, there you go. She's going like this, and then like you know, just like all these like other exercises, he's like, Yeah, it's like muscles that you have to work in order to not fucking choke.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:32

I was gonna say your body could easily betray you. And it's like third hawk talk down, like stop it, but not these guys. Yeah, that's that's honestly really cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:43

And then they dunk like the bread and water, it's gross, and then it's like yeah, and that's almost like I don't know, isn't the water cheating?

SPEAKER_07 1:26:52

You know? Yeah, a little bit.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:54

I think so. That shouldn't be like a water. It should just be good old hot dogs and bugs.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:00

Yeah, yeah. Like it's not a hot dog unless you're choking on the bread half the time.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:05

You know, I think we just have to have more hot dog eating contests and and um America will be more sealed.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:11

We need more independent hot dog eating contests. Hot dog eating contests. That's what this world needs.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:17

Dude, could you imagine if that just became like a thing that people did a lot? Yeah, like intramural or the presidency.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:23

Remember you were talking about earlier, like death match?

SPEAKER_07 1:27:26

Yeah, like hot dog eating contests. What is more American than that? Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:30

100%. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:33

I'll set it up.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:34

Set it up, Amber.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:36

Oh my god. I'll do it. Hey, we should do like a like a like a comedian uh eating contest. Me and Jimmy would do that.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:45

Me and Jimmy Velarde were talking about doing a uh taco eating contest. Oh that was so he he likes cause there was a point in time when I was just going ham on taco spots everywhere. Nice trying street tacos. Yeah. And he brought it up. He was like and I was just like he thought of the idea and I was just thinking of like, okay, how that's just my brain works, how we would do it. Would we go to a taco stand?

SPEAKER_04 1:28:12

Would we just buy the the all the the meat, have somebody cook and just But it would be it would be a cool concept because you can have okay, you have the table of of comedians, right? And then you have your MC or whoever's like narrating the competition. They're roasting, they're doing jokes at the same time, like you know, like they're just mceying this thing and making it fun. I think it's cool.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:38

The mind buzz eating contest.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:40

Dude, I would do that.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:43

Or something else.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:44

I'll put it together because it's I would do that. It sounds fun. Yeah, I would do it. Absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:52

Tiffany's in.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:53

Being like made to eat, like that's perfect. I do that anyway, you know? Yeah, you can't.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:01

You have to sign a waiver that if you if you choke, it's not on Mind Buzz.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:07

You have to sign a waiver. We have to have a waiver.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:10

If you die, contract. We are not liable. Yeah, we're not liable for your death. Mind Buzz is not liable for any choking related deaths or incidences. That's funny.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:24

I want to do it. You better set it up, Amber.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:26

I'm gonna set it up. I'm serious. I would do it. Like I am 100% down. I mean nobody's doing it. Maybe we should do it for the summer.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:31

Like a summer. It's a summer thing.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:34

We should do tacos and hot dogs or just tacos or just hot dogs?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:37

Oh, that's a lot of different food to mix. Just one or the other.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:40

Yeah? One or the other. What do you think? Hot dogs or tacos.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:44

Hot dogs, because that's more traditional. But tacos would be cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:48

Do it like a like a wet, like a wet, hot summer vibe. Yeah, yeah. Like a nice like an 80s, 90s type of right, right.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:56

Like a 70s, 80s.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:58

Campy.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:00

Like camp style. That was bonfires. That was what was like kind of in my head. Yeah. Kegs. We'll have a keg party. Yes! Dude, we're doing this. Yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:11

I've also always talked about like drunk Olympics. Oh, yeah. But I don't drink anymore, so I can only referee. That's right.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:20

Or you'll be on the uh you you'll be uh broadcasting. You'll you'll be the the announcer, and that'd be cool.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:27

Oh, I've never done something like that, but like that's definitely a dream. Like to get to like get drunk and have to do tasks. I I would love to do that. That sounds delightful.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:38

Oh, like drunk like adult tasks. No?

SPEAKER_07 1:30:43

I mostly meant the Olympics. I was just making tasks in general. You were like, yeah, managerial tasks?

SPEAKER_10 1:30:51

Like do folds.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:52

Administrative tasks.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:54

Do uh take these shots and then like you have to fold the laundry.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:58

We're just having people do all our chores. Yeah, yeah. Get drunk and then balance your checkbook.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:06

Then you gotta wash my car after you.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:08

Like, hey, my house needs mopping. You ever know that's a fun game? This is such a fun game we're playing.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:19

Oh, that's good. Oh man. Uh, we gotta cut it short because we're gonna get locked out of upstairs. But Tiffany, I had a such a great time with you on the podcast. Thanks for coming out. Thank you for watching. Uh, tell us where we can find you and if you have anything coming up.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:35

Oh my gosh, find me on Instagram, Tiffany.comedy. I am there and all my other stuff is there. And go follow me and say hi. Bye.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:49

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SPEAKER_04 1:32:53

We can even stream it.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:54

Yes! Of course. We have to film everything.

SPEAKER_07 1:32:59

And it's for charity. No, I'm just gonna. We're like, alright, we're doing too many adjectives now.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:04

Yeah, the charity is. Save the children. The charity is we gotta pay rent for the studio. Right.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:09

This is our make a wish.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:10

Yeah. I'm maybe we can find something in the city of Paramount that we can donate to.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:16

Yeah, that'd be fun.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:18

Right? Let's get with the city. Uh the mayor, the councilwoman wants to do it.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:22

And if we don't, it'll still be fun. Great. Get the mayor of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt, involved. Oh no. He would eat the biggest amount of dicks the whole time.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:33

He'll win the hot dog eating contest. Yeah. And not sign my waiver. Oh no, wait, he has to sign the waiver.

SPEAKER_06 1:33:42

I don't know. Oh, he has to sign it.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:43

I was like, wait a minute. Sign it.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:46

Sign it. We won't be liable for you.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:48

The sign button.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:55

I thought I did something by like, don't sign the waiver. Like, oh no way, you have to sign the waiver.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:00

Oh, we have to sign it. He has to sign it.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:03

No, wait. No, wait. We don't want to be blamed.