Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - My Son, Uncle | Quick Question Podcast Ep. 247

Episode Date: August 20, 2024

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I think you'll have a great time here So hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel, the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers ask each other questions and give each other answers. I am one half of that podcast, senior writer for last week tonight with John Oliver, author of How to Fight Presidents with Daniel O'Brien and newsletter author Daniel O'Brien joined us always by my co-host Mr. Soren Buoy. Soren say hello. Your book is not called How to Fight Presidents with Daniel O'Brien.

You're not there. It's not. You're not in a tag team situation with these presidents. What a branding miss for me. I kind of think that would have been great too. I think that, yeah, yeah, and I don't actually, I'm trying to decide which side I actually want you on because you could also reveal a lot of details about yourself, about like your strengths and weaknesses, but I don't know if like it's better to be like you're on the side of the presidents and now you gotta fight John Adams and Daniel. Or Daniel's on your team for all of this and he'll help you.

I'd love to redo the book with changing not a single thing about any chapter except just adding an addendum at the end that is just like, But don't forget, there's the wild card of Daniel, no matter what you do with- against Franklin Pierce, there's Daniel in the shadows! And like, I know you might think you have this under control surprise dipshit, he's got a knife this time! Ah! Yes, if you could do it like an elementary school kid where it's like- and this is how you defeat Polk, but not Daniel, because Daniel's too strong. Yeah, because I have- I actually have a- I actually have a shield that blocks lasers now, too. So.

Yep, I got some mythreel armor. You don't know that term, because you're not a Lord of the Rings guy. No, I only read it the one time. I didn't read shit. I only saw it the one time. It was good, but I didn't, not enough of it lodged in my memory at all. My son has a, so I've been really on my son at these camps

to remember the names of the kids that are his friends there. Cause that's just like not a thing that he's gonna do. And this, he came home yesterday and he's like, I made a friend. And I was like, do you know his name? He's like, yes, I know it. And I was like, what is it? And he goes home yesterday and he's like, I made a friend. And I was like, do you know his name? He's like, yes, I know it. And I was like, what is it? And he goes, Rohan.

And I was like, like the writers of Rohan? Like writers of Riddimark? Oh no, writers of Rohan? Nah, fuck me, idiot. And he was like, I don't know what that is. And I was like- Théodrin was a writer of Riddimark, Soren. Come on, Daniel.

Yeah, not Carl Urban. No. He was a writer of Rohan, right? I thought he was a writer of Riddimark. Writers of Rohan. I don't know. None of this nerd stuff is for me. We're not gonna solve it here. No. I don't know. None of this nerd stuff is for me.

We're not going to solve it here. No. Let's move on. But yeah, he's a, he found a friend and I don't know if this is like also culturally a name that belongs to other people that I just don't know and I'm ignorant. Or if these people were just huge Lord of the Rings fans and they're like well we got to use some name it's either this or it's Balrog and I don't know which to do. I'm so well I'm not really nervous about hopefully one day having kids and coming up with names for them.

I'm not very nervous about screwing the naming thing up because I made the very smart decision of falling in love with a dominant personality type who runs our household and makes our decisions. So she's gonna make sure I don't do anything really stupid. But if left to my own devices, the fear of picking a dumb name because of an arbitrary rule that I set for myself was always at the back of my head.

Like when I was graduating high school and you do your senior quotes, I had decided probably in middle school that my senior quote was gonna be something from Ben Folds or Ben Folds Five, because I just decided like, this is my favorite artist and group of all time. And no matter what happens,

I'm gonna put some quote of theirs in my high school senior yearbook. And like, I think Ben Folds is very poetic and lyrical. His songs are one of the things that I like about them, however, are just how casual and informal he is lyrically and how like off the beaten path and like I'm really drawn to him singing story songs and often using lyrics that aren't found in other songs. As a result, there are very few opportunities of just like a pure line of succinct poetry

or cleverness that would work for a senior quote, let alone something that like... Not a soundbite guy. No, and especially not something that like is applicable to me because again, so many of his songs are like story song, point of view songs and not like there's no like what a long strange trip it's been. There's no like universal thing in a lot of his songs and Scrapping Universal, very little of it was personal to me. And I ended up with something that kind of sounded profound

but probably wasn't really. It was from a song called- Do you remember what it was? I know exactly what it was. It was One Down and 3.6 Tomorrow and I'm Outta Here. It's from a song that he wrote that is about writing songs for his record contract and like the song needs to be a certain length of time to appease his record label

and he's just sort of doing it so he can leave. I didn't connect with any of the songwriting aspect of it, I just thought like, he says tomorrow and I'm out of here and that, that's sort of what I'm doing. I'm leaving high school and going somewhere else. One down in 3.6. I don't know. Maybe one plus 3.6 is 4.6. That, an argument could be made that high school is 4.6 years. I don't know. This was like I was just trying to Stretch this tenuous connection to be something about me and about my high school time ultimately It's not and even more ultimately. It's such an obscure

Ben Fold song that no one will know or catch it or care I don't even care about it all these years later. This is a very long way of saying, left to my own devices with a kid, there's a very real chance that I would have to name it and be like, well it's gotta be something from Spider-Man. It can't be Peter though. Uncle Ben. It can be Parker. It could be Uncle. Uncle's a good name. Name my son Uncle. This is my daughter Goblin. I was really hoping that you were going to say that the Ben Folds lyrics that you had

were going to be like, off the coast and I'm headed nowhere. She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly. Because you're like, I'm going somewhere, but I don't really know where I know I'm going to. You know, if I could roll myself back in the brain of 17 year old Daniel as I'm coming up with quotes, I'm sure I had the genuine thought like it can't be brick. Everyone's going to choose brick. Everyone, everyone graduating high school in 2004 is gonna choose brick. I gotta go weird with it.

I gotta do something else. I also had a senior page and going back and looking at it, it's very fun because a senior page says almost nothing about you. That's weird. They had books in that strange yurt you went to school in. Yeah, so we did books. We didn't just carve it out into the cave walls in which we were going to school. But on mine I have some anime characters that I thought I was really good at drawing.

Guys I had seen other places- That you drew! And I was like, I could draw that. And so I would draw them I'm pretty confident that they are Dragon Ball Z characters, but I to this day couldn't even tell you I just liked the way they looked and I knew that I could draw it too. And I was like, yeah Okay, there's well these guys are going on each side. These are my bookends right here There's something about

Dragon Ball Z Hairstyles that make people think they can draw and they can for a little bit like the hairstyle silhouette that Goku and Vegeta cut is like, oh, these are some pretty like like very drastic and dramatic straight lines that I can easily do and as soon as it's you're drawing Mickey Mouse essentially as soon as you draw The silhouette of this hairline people are like Goku. I got it. I know who that is and When you get that recognition it fools you into thinking you're a good artist And when you just look at the drawing, I mean there's like not a lot of shadowing and stuff happening on those faces

Yeah, the faces are fairly simple and the hair really is just like a longer Lisa Simpson hair. It's like, oh, yeah, I can. That's easy. That's just point, point, point, point, point. Done. And then the body, like, just like I liked the positions that they would stand in, their arms are kind of behind them and their backs are arched. And I was like, fucking, I can draw the shit out of that. And did. And then I also- That really solid necks. Yeah. I know that on there, I probably have a quote, I'm... Who knows?

It's probably Blue's Traveler or something like that. And then I know that I thanked my family, thanked my brother and said that he was a good role model and realized years later, and no one had corrected me, that it's spelled R-O-L-L in what I wrote, it's role model, like a dinner role model. And I had no idea. I was fucking 17 and just dumb. That is tremendous.

I wonder what I quoted. I'm sure. You were really sincere thanking your parents and stuff, like you were going to fucking war or something. Yeah, which was humiliating also because the page across from mine, someone had just written, down with capitalism and drawn a skateboard.

Yeah. Didn't even put their name. That is such, that is such a real message. Yeah. Is so, and like prescient. I love that they drew, That is such a real message. Yeah. And like prescient. I love that they drew it because they had a message that they wanted to get out.

Maybe or maybe they were like, let's just cop out on this because sincerity is tough when you're 17. Yeah. But also still, still could not help themselves. And they're like, well, I can draw skateboards real good. Yeah. People should know that down with capitalism unless would you guys buy my drawings you guys like my I don't draw people on them not yet a kid who was two years older than me Mike I won't use his full name because I don't

want to out him on the podcast I guess guess, but his senior quote that I liked at the time and that I still think about today as a really good and bizarrely mature and clever senior quote was, this was nothing like Saved by the Bell. And at the time I was like, that's pretty funny. And as I've gotten older, I'm like, that's such a crazy advanced thought for a 17 year old to have when they're looking back at their high school life and just acknowledging this was nothing like Saved by the Bell. That's like, in retrospect, very obvious, but at the time when everyone else is like,

maybe I'll, maybe I'll pretend I'm a different person. And I'll quote Walt Whitman here in my, in my senior where I'm going to be immortalized and this is a person like very casually very down to earth which is like this isn't what I thought it was going to be the show was wrong all right bye I'm done now. Right to be to to be not use somebody else's words first of all is an outstanding choice by a 17 year old. And one that I don't think anyone will, like everybody gets tripped up on that. Everybody's going to, yeah, the transcendentalists, they're like, okay, I'm fucking for them. For this time, I'm a really big Emerson fan. So here we go.

There's got to be something in these books. I'm confident that I use something from, God, I know that I probably can't move or something like that. I'm just such a, such a baby. It's a shame the rest of life isn't divided in as neat chapters as high school is, where at the end of a certain chapter, you can have something like a yearbook that sort of collects all of the things that happened in this either four-year span or this job and then you can put a little quote that that represents where you're at or represents what that experience was that to you but no you don't have any of that any

of that shit because it doesn't because nobody cares and like you don't really have it in high school either because no you're you're like, here was the chess club, here was the drum club or whatever you happen to have, but you're not getting the actual seminal or formative experiences in that yearbook that everybody had that year. You can't be like, here's that party where John slept with Lisa or like, here's that bonfire we had on the Sewell's ranch. Like you can't do that stuff, which would be, I'm gonna advocate for it now. Teachers just like, be cool about this.

Let the kids have, and put, first of all, start by putting some cool people in the yearbook crew. But like have those actual, those real parties the kids went to and like everyone was there. Have those in the yearbook. Let them be. Totally. All of us, we were all at 100%. Dan was there.

Dan was there. He's promising he was there. Yeah. And Soran's right. It's the reason there are no pictures of that party that we were all at in the yearbook, or indeed anywhere, is because of just lame ass teachers blocking those photographs. Yeah. Those dumb teachers, the squares,

they won't let me put all the pictures up all over school like I want to. That big party at the mill. We definitely took part. We got nutty. You weren't at the mill. I know you weren't. You seem like, that seemed like an authentic moment of you lost in your memories of parties

in high school. Yeah, it was. Well, there were, I was just thinking about the feeling, the sensation of being at a party in high school. And I will say that I don't think it's ever been accurately captured in a movie. And it's the like, she, like the real uneasiness of just being at a party. People get to the party and they're like, we made it, like we're here. There's always the threat during that party that this is going to end with

police or parents fucking you up, like getting like ruining the rest of your year. And that's, and it's like, you're, you're always on edge. You're like a rabbit at these things because there's always some danger that's present. And nobody treats it like that in a movie. Everybody's just like, we made it to the party, it's done. Now look, the kid who plays Dungeons and Dragons and tutors me in math is fucking singing karaoke! That's not happening.

There's two things I want to say. One of them is I carry that fear with me well into adulthood of just like being at a party with alcohol at 25 years old and being like, man, I hope the cops or my mom doesn't show up. This is going to be really bad. This is going to go on my permanent record. That was the other thought I have is that the- Go ahead. The party experience that I had in in high school fell under a couple of categories. There was like the

the cast parties after the school shows, which is like, I'm not telling any tales out of school here, a famously horny endeavor of high school and theater and co-ed sleepovers. Those parties and a party that, a type of party that I don't know, I feel like is probably more common than we all talk about because it doesn't make for good movie fodder, but there was like a New Year's Eve, probably my junior or senior year of high school, where my buddy Joe and I were driving around and party hopping to different parties and the one that we went to with alcohol that I didn't drink because I was very cool and I didn't drink till I was 21, we get this party and there's like all these high school

kids drinking at our friend Lori's house and the thing about these parties that make them uncinematic and not fun for high school movies is the parents are there and like monitoring and supplying the alcohol and we show up and they're like, hello, welcome to our party. I'm Lori's mom. If you're gonna have a sip of alcohol, you're giving me your keys right now.

That was like how they greeted everyone who entered the house except me, because they see me and they're like, if you're gonna have a step up, oh, Daniel, yeah, you're fine. Go ahead. We know who you are. Your reputation had echoed all the way to the parents. That's rough. In fact, we can take the night off. You'll watch the kids, right? You'll be responsible. But we were just like it was among like this particular sect of you know, enrichment and like AP kids like the gifted and talented students in the high school, the good kids who are still going to drink. They have the kind of parents who are like, yeah, you can, you'll drink Mike's hard in front of me. And like, we will be in communication with the other parents of gifted and talented students to let them know

what is going on in this situation where it's like a controlled bubble of like fake youthful old bubble of like fake youthful rebellion just because like alcohol was involved, but it was still like very carefully monitored. And I started this by saying that I imagine this is more common than people talk about, but you seemed pretty surprised by the whole, the concept of it. Yeah, I'm like really racking my brain to think of the times when parents were actually there. And the only time I can think of was, we had a, I had a friend and her dad owned, I won't even say it cause I don't want to out it,

but like there's that type of beer that's like, it's in most bars and stuff now. And she, they owned it and they had a ranch. And so there was always like a heavy supply of this beer and when her parents were there they were also very very drunk and there was no there was no one there who was like keeping the reins on the situation but everywhere else we went it was we went there because there were no parents and and the majority of the time it was not

indoors we would even winter like you would go to some ranch or somebody in your school would have like fields for whatever reason, because their parents are potato farmers. And you have a bonfire there. And it's that way you're out of the way of police. Like police aren't gonna come in and do anything. And you-

Yeah, they see a fire and they're like, everything's normal over there. Well, it's private property. They're not allowed in. I mean, they'll sit outside. We would have parties where police just sat on the road, camped out on the road and waited for people to leave and just pulled over every single person that left.

And also small town, right? So they have nothing better to do. They're pumped. When they see kids or they get wind that kids are having a party, the police were so fucking amped in our town because it was something to do. And they were ready to bust some kids. But yeah, we didn't really have those like sanctioned ones where parents were like,

and I'm going to create a situation where you're all allowed to drink, but I'm going to be the bartender and I I'm gonna tell you when you've had too much. Right. And there were certainly unsanctioned parties around as well, and kids would get drunk in the woods and in various fields. I don't know that bonfires were big in my town. Such a big part of my childhood. And I would say arguably more dangerous than it would have been in New Jersey, because at least New Jersey gets some rain. It's like we were risking burning down the forest every time we did it. These dry hay fields being like, a fire! That's what this needs. Yeah.

Should we get into the show? Oh god, the show. Oh, we're supposed to be doing the show right now. I know, yeah. Where, oh, I lost my clock that tells me how long we've been talking. Oh, it's uh, 21 minutes. Look what I did. Is it a chance it's an hour? Put a pin through this pencil's eraser, it was really satisfying. That's pretty tight. An eraser, huh? Should we move on?

Someone's planning on making mistakes. Couldn't be me. Yeah, so we're running out of quick- couple of quick questions for you. Ooh, a couple? Yeah. They're wedding-related questions. Yes. I find myself in a place right now where the wedding creeps ever closer and we've done so much stuff getting ready for it and there's still a bunch more to do

but a lot of it is stuff that we can't do right now. It's a lot of like, yeah, wait for the guest list to be confirmed and locked so we can start hitting everything that gets, all of the new mini games that get unlocked when you reach that special achievement. We are not there yet. We're in this place in between final preparations and locking things down early.

And it's, so far in my experience, it's a true experience of planning a wedding, but it's familiar to other large projects as well, where you are in a mode for so much of it, where it's like planning, planning, planning. Every day you wake up and there's something you can do for the wedding, for the project that you're working on. And then you reach a point where there's

not anything you can do and I guess I want to know and it's like it's a very uneasy feeling where it's like but I've trained myself to to have a wedding related thing on my to-do list and now I don't have it so I feel like I'm falling behind even though intellectually I know I'm not and I'm curious if this was also your experience and if so if you found like Stuff to do there's plenty of things online where they're like Well, if you find yourself with nothing to do you could always work on your vows and I'm like I've been working on my vows since fucking 2023 you idiots. This is Who are you talking to?

Who is waiting till two months before the wedding to start tinkering with their vows? So what did you... did you have this and what did you do? How did you fill your time? I'll say this is like a thing I feel regularly when we got a house or when we were getting married or we were about to have children that I carved out that certain amount of time right each day where you're like, and this is where I dedicate to this thing. And it's not, it wasn't like a conscious decision.

Like I was taking two and a half hours. And once that was done, I'd be like, the rest goes to tomorrow. It was just like, I know that throughout the day, this is what's gonna be top of mind. This is the thing I'm gonna take care of. When you don't have that for even like two or three days in a row, it's so fast how you slip back into your old life and just like,

fuck the wedding. And then when stuff comes up that you need to take care of again, you're like, I don't have time for this. I can't think about this right now. I stopped thinking about this. That was done. And so you're right. You do have to find something to fill that void,

otherwise you will start using up that time, that real estate in your day for something else. And I could already see it being used poorly because we had my brother and sister-in-law and their kids over and my nephew was like, can we play Mario Wonder because I have that, he doesn't have it. So I was like, yeah, yeah. And I charged my Switch, and then once I had the Switch charged and playing a game for the first time in a while, I was like, ah, yes. My old friend, I remember you.

You have lots of games on you. Huh. Why did I, why did I stop? Ah, that's right, other responsibilities. Well, let me just... I don't have those at the moment. What if I just played right now? And then tomorrow you feel owed.

Like you feel owed that game. And you're like, I played yesterday. The morning is when we play Switch. What happened? Yeah. So yeah, you've got to fill it with something wedding related Here's the bad news. I don't have any advice for what it could be because I felt that I felt that same pole I felt like I I'm done thinking about this for right now and I started to like lose that

momentum and and that momentum and then it became a fight between me and my wife because she was doing way more the wedding planning stuff after that point and I was just like, yeah, yeah, that sounds good. Like, I don't have a lot of thoughts about the centerpieces. She's like, well, we have to have thoughts about the centerpieces. And I'm like, oh, okay, I just can't, I can't do it. Let's buy some moss. Here's another crucial part of this narrative that I think acknowledging it takes me out of the running for fiance of the year

is I bet if I asked fiance for tasks, I bet there is stuff to do, Soren. I bet there's lots to do. You cannot possibly ask. I can ask and also I bet there is stuff to do, Soren. I bet there's lots to do. You cannot possibly ask. I can ask, and also I bet the answers aren't going to be the fun kind of things that I have enjoyed tackling and having opinions on. I bet it's going to be the other stuff. Yeah, no, I think it's like looking at. I don't even want to mention it to you. Looking at fonts on different signs.

It's going to be that kind of thing. Let me help. Let me help. Let me help. No, I'll pick something for you. I'll pick something great. But it's it's very it's this question ties into my other quick question for you. I don't think we're getting an answer for it, but it's been so...

Separating the wedding as a celebration of love and our family and friendships and everything like that, it's been so fun to have a project to work on together. And the same way that like you get a little bit of like melancholy after a play is done, after closing night of a play. And it's like, but the thing that we have our cast party and then the thing that I, that was my life for this many months is done now. And there's that little mile and call there

and like the same thing after probably lots of athletic achievements, but certainly from my own experience, like finishing a big race when I was done with the LA Marathon. And it was like, this was the thing that took up my time. This was the thing that I like, my Saturday was towards the end there, just running. That was like, it was prepping for running, running a long distance, recovering

from running. That was what 50% of my weekends have been for the last month and a half or so. And now what do I do? I don't think there's, it's a surprise that I adopted my dog Jackson like three weeks after I finished the LA Marathon. It's just like another thing I could put my energy on. And so I'm curious, like, there will obviously be be like very real things for the two of us to work on together in our share future. But I'm also thinking like, immediately after the wedding, did you have that like, were you just happy it was over or was it like now what's another thing we can tackle together? What's the next project that we can co-chair?

Or was it immediately like, because you didn't buy your house immediately after your wedding, right? No, we... We didn't buy it... Well, hold on. When did we... No, we didn't buy it for a little while. We bought it like a year later. We were on our honeymoon a year later.

Oh, by the way, that's how we did it. And I recommend it highly. I do it your own way, because I think at this point you're already in, but you have the wedding and the wedding is such like a big deal that it's hard to at the same time tackle a honeymoon and like plan all of that.

And so you have a wedding and then a year later to celebrate, your first anniversary is your honeymoon. And that's where you like go off. We're delaying the honeymoon for those reasons for sure. Where it's, we were just talking about this with someone, it might have been you on this podcast, but just the idea that like, I, knowing myself, I know that I like a very active vacation. I like adventures and things to do and excursions and that kind of thing.

Like that's my preference. I know that if I were to plan a honeymoon immediately after the wedding right now, that it would be not that, it would be spa and relaxing and just, and like some kind of all-inclusive thing where I don't need to think about anything. And I think, well, that would be certainly pampering and relaxing, but I know in my bones that that's like a forced decision.

That if I have more time, there's a much better chance that we will plan something that we both actually want more than what we need immediately after a wedding. Also two days, even after two days of that, where you're like, and then we're just gonna like relax. We're not gonna think about anything. We're gonna sit by the pool. We're maybe gonna get back massages.

Two days of that. And then after that, you're like, I am, I'm going crazy. We're not going to think about anything. We're going to sit by the pool. We're maybe going to get back massages. Two days of that. And then after that, you're like, I am, I'm going crazy. Do they have hikes on this island? Yeah. I got to do something. So to answer your question, I still think about this. So you know, my wedding was in a small mining town in which the population of the wedding

outpaced the population of the town, where there were like, there were more people at the wedding than lived in the town. And this is a small little community, very, very cool, but you basically get to take the whole thing over. And that was really fun.

Then the wedding happened, then the wedding was over and Colleen and I stayed another night there. So everyone else left. And the next night, I was, remember standing outside, maybe I'd gone to my car to get something, but I'm standing outside in the dark and it's so quiet. And I'm like, I'm just like, this profound sadness that it was over hit me where I was like, and no one was there.

Like we were alone and, and everyone I knew, everyone I knew and loved had been there. And now they just were all like, and now we go back to our lives. Like we stopped focusing on you for a moment. I was like, I don't want that. I want you all back here looking at like pay attention to us. And that was really, really hard to have it be over because like the LA Marathon, you have something that you're preparing for and you're a little nervous about it you there's a lot of work that goes in up front and then you're not even thinking about the end date or like finals like finals at school like you're not thinking about what happens after it and then all of a sudden it's over and you're like oh shit

I didn't plan for this part like I didn't plan for there to not be this thing happening anymore I only got to that point and now there's nothing. And in some cases, that's very relieving. And that's like, that's cathartic and beautiful, like finals. Like after finals, you go crazy because you're like, I have, I didn't even think I'd make it to here. But with a wedding, it's really rough because that's like such a great fun time. And it goes by so fast. And then all of a sudden it's, it's completely over. Like like it's like shut off the next day people leave in the morning the next day and you're alone and you're just like wait they leave and they get on planes some of them they leave they flee the state that's right

yeah I'm going to be I did book a plane ticket for Colleen and I for the afternoon so that we had time to recover if we decided to go ham at the wedding. Yeah, that's nice. So we'll be around a little bit. I think you should like book a full extra day because I am so excited about the wedding, but I believe everyone when they tell me that it's going to go by so fast. So I'm thinking that we'll have our wedding on our wedding day and then like the next day I'll be like, okay, now we'll do it again. But someone else gets married, like keep everything

the same, just different bride and groom. So now this time I get to watch and be part of it and not have to talk or give any speeches. And now I want to like really, really take it in and really see what a wedding in this space is like. Yeah. I don't know when this tradition started taking place, but people have now started doing like a bagel breakfast or whatever the day after the wedding, where everyone just like gets together and has their decompression, where they're just like, let's like get all that, let's go through all the hits. Like, what were the fun things?

And like, this is my favorite thing. I peed the bed after I got home. It's crazy. And everyone like, it's just like the credits rolling on this thing, but people can't leave yet. Like they just don't want to go yet. And then when everyone starts trickling away, like, oh man, it's so sad. So I'm just preparing you emotionally right now, but like, be ready for that and have

something to do the next day. Have something that you would think would be fun for like planned or coming up after that. Yeah, maybe we'll pack a puzzle. No, that's not... That's not... What I'm saying. That sounds worse.

Alright. A quiet... A quiet puzzle at home? Mhm. No, I don't think that's the thing. We'll put on... We'll put on old seasons of Dexter and do a puzzle. That's not fun? Oh my god, that sounds so sad. To rewatch Dexter. I think I just associate Dexter with having a lot of like a rewatch of a show like Dexter

that's like seven or eight seasons at this point. I just associate that with like having a lot of time on my hands when I look back in my life and realize the amount of times that I've like rewatched Sopranos or Game of Thrones and just like just how essential COVID was to making those things happen. That now I associate that with just like the time vacuum of wedding planning being over. Where it's just like, I guess I could write another book. What did I used to do? What are the things that I used to do? Dexter?

Yeah. I get out that switch, man. That switch will heat up a lot of time. Dexter's a tough one. Because Dexter, you also have to watch with the eyes of the time. It feels a little more zeitgeisty, where you've got to... You can't just watch it passively. I think that would be a really hard experience to do now in 2024. I think you've got to really be like, okay, this was the first time people were really interested in the idea of a hero also being the bad guy.

And like really like training yourself to be like, they're breaking new ground. That's why it's like this. They were breaking new ground. They didn't know what they were doing. Yeah. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a guy who like did his own research to decide who should die? Because he didn't trust the system. to decide who should die. Because he didn't trust the system.

Didn't trust the system. But and he treated a splatter of blood like it was art. And yeah, already I'm out already. That's a thing that doesn't appeal to me because I'm like, oh, it sounds like there's yeah, a lot of blood in the show. I guess you're not excited about the prequel series of Dexter coming out. Oh, Hacky Sack? Okay. What does Friday Prince Junior say? Never drop the ball? Never drop the sack?

No. That can't be right. Never let it drop? Never let it drop. Yeah, I think that's right. You gotta do it in the cadence so there was a can't remember. Sure. What was that?

That was Can't Hardly Wait? What was that? No, he was not in Can't Hardly Wait. That was in She's All That. She's All That. Oh, yeah. Okay, yes, yes, yes, yes. That was, and the particular, like, the way that my crack.com internet brain has fried is that is a movie I have not seen.

But it was important to work at Cracked to know that scene in particular and what it was from and who was saying it and the context of it and what was going on. And it's just the same way that I answer any of the trivia questions that I answer. And someone's like, how do you know that? And I'm like, I do not know. It was at some point, for 10 years of my life, all we did was look at strange bits of trivia and pop culture facts and commit them to memory and verify them and vet them, and now they're just in there, and that's why I know... ...beat for beat, this scene in a movie I've never watched before. Because I can't turn off! Yeah, I do that to this day. People will be like, hey, have you seen this movie?

And I have to say no, but what that means is, for all intents and purposes, yes, I probably can quote it better than you. I know enough of the scenes that I have the general plot all built out, and I know enough of the stuff that happens at each individual moment. Yeah, I know the road trip, I know where they go at each stage. I could have said, yes, I have seen it, but I also don't want to lie to you. Because everyone smells I'm wrong.

Everyone smells something comes up and I'm like, oh shit. I guess I didn't know that movie, and as I was watching it... For the first time? For the first time. I had a hard time deciding whether I'd already seen this movie because I knew what to expect, I knew it was coming at every single turn, I knew exactly what was going to happen to the point where I was like, did I watch this fucking movie already?

And I hadn't, but I just, because it's so part of the pop culture, I knew it. I knew everything that was going to happen. There were no surprises whatsoever in that movie. No. Even having Miles Teller with the sunglasses and mustache and hairstyle of His the original goose original goose doing the piano playing scene just like oh, yeah

It's good that they're they're making it a top gun for if if you hadn't seen top gun This is like this is this will be really nice for those people Yeah, the Tom Cruise and Miles Teller. Oh, no, not even them, but what's his name? Glenn Powell and Miles Teller shaking hands at the end after they get out of their planes. I was like, fucking, I think I saw this. My favorite thing in Top Gun Maverick, a movie that fucking rules,

my favorite thing in it is when they get saved at the end of the movie by Glenn Powell's character. He just comes out of nowhere. He's not even part of the team. He didn't make the cut for the team. They, I thought, sent him home. And then he just flies into enemy territory, big smile on his face, saving everyone's ass at the end of the movie. And I was watching it with my parents at their house, and I think we just joked in real time of seeing that of his character being like, here you go, fly boys. I didn't learn a lesson in this movie. Just like, fully a character.

Oh, still an asshole. No arc whatsoever. I started pretty high on the cockiness scale, and then I got booted out of flight camp, and you'd think I would have learned something but nope, still a prick saving the day and I'm right for not learning a lesson. What should the lesson have been for me? I think maybe that he comes back to help? I don't really, you know, I'm not even going to try to get inside the head of Top Gun but I did have a question for about it that maybe you can answer

for me. I hope this isn't too niche for the podcast. Jennifer Connelly in it. I got the sense that there's another Top Gun that I didn't see where like in between the old one and this one where he knows this woman and knows her daughter? Yeah. Were they in the first one? Nope, they're not in the first one. I think it's truly just they didn't... Who was his love interest in the first Top Gun? Charlie.

Her name. It's not Jennifer Grey. Top Gun... Whomever it is, whomever his love interest is. Kelly McGillis. Kelly McGillis. Kelly McGillis. I think they just decided like we can't bring her back because even though time has passed for Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise, it's woman time has passed for her and that's different

for movies so we're not allowed to show her anymore So we need to have Tom Cruise with a different adult woman That he has some kind of history with but not the one from before and they just swapped in like for all intents and purposes Jennifer Connelly is doing the Kelly McGillis Thing but the movie he's just decided like no we just think Jennifer Connelly is... I'm not even gonna fill in the blanks of what I think the studio thinks Jennifer Connelly is with relation to Kelly McGillis. Kelly McGillis.

Oh man, that's... More cinematic. But then, but like, I understand why you would do that in a film where you'd be like, we need a new love interest. I'm not gonna say, I understand why you would do that in a film where you'd be like, we need a new love interest. I'm not gonna say that I understand why they did it with her or like Kelly McGillis, but like, I understand that you're like,

I wanted, we should just have a new love interest in this movie. Let's like, let's do as little backstory as possible. This backstory is so complicated and hairy. There's like a lot of him having left and coming back and like, she's a little angry at him. Also, she used to date somebody that he used to know. She, they have a daughter.

The daughter is somebody who Tom Cruise previously has some sort of relationship with, but we're not gonna really address that much other than maybe they don't totally get along. And I'm like, where are we coming from? Where is Top Gun 2 where I should have seen all of this stuff? Where is this? There's no reason for the daughter to be there. Yeah, you're asking the kinds of questions that we never used to ask in movies.

And that's the part of time that Tom Cruise would like us all to get back to when it when movies were just like just a bunch of hot people saying cool lines one after the other and explosions happening. That's that's that's what movies used to be and He wants us to get back there ever. It was ruined by Pedantic assholes on the internet asking questions about How things work or why characters have certain motivations. And I know. I was surprised that there was no Meg Ryan.

That Miles Teller didn't have a scene with Meg Ryan. Was Meg Ryan? So here's what's funny. I've never seen Top Gun. Was Meg Ryan in the original Top Gun? That's Goose's wife. Huh. She's like an integral part of it. She's probably in it more than Kelly McGillis. Really? Yeah, she's huge in it. Meg Ryan is a guy from ER's wife is Goose's wife. Wow. Yeah, they're great. Like they're chemistry rules the movie. And then she's devastated when he's dead

and Tom Cruise's supposed to time with her. I'm, yeah, she's a big part of that movie. Huh. I'm looking at pictures of Kelly McGillis now. I feel like they could have done it. I feel like she could have been in this goddamn movie. Easy. I'm sorry, man.

Maybe she just doesn't act anymore. I don't know. Why did you, uh, why did you watch Top Gun Maverick last night? I've been wanting to see it for so long. That's fair. Um, I had a chance- go ahead. I watched Ghostbusters Frozen Empire a couple days ago for no reason. Had you seen it before? No. Yeah, I have not seen it yet.

It's bad. Is it really bad? Oh, it's a bummer. Yeah. I also didn't see the other one, the first Paul Rudd one. So I gotta go back. I still have a lot of catching up to do. I had been wanting to see Top Gun for a very long time

and it just wasn't available to me in a non-rentable format until now. Like I just, I kept looking. I mean, that was the one of the one movies where you had talked about it and you're like, it's just a really fun movie. And I was like, that's what I want. I want fun movies. And so I'd been looking for it and I was always like, you could rent it, you could rent it.

And then I just saw that it was on Prime and I was like, pulled the trigger. Oh yeah. I spent the whole, I felt great yesterday. I sat around all day, no job, watching a movie and felt great. That's awesome, man. I'm really happy for you. Thank you.

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