Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - QQ ep 7 - Quick Question with Soren and Daniel

Episode Date: July 9, 2019

Hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel. This is the show where two professional comedy writers and amateur best friends get together once a week to answer life's most medium questions. Like, hey, what's going on with CBS's hit show, The Medium? CBS's hit show, The Medium. Soren, your thoughts? What is going on with The Medium? Are they bringing it back?

Nah, it's still canceled. All right, well, let's go talk to you. She's still dead. The show ended with her being dead, so it's like not a big deal. But anyway, my name is Daniel O'Brien and I am joined as always and forever by Soren Bui, my best friend from Los Angeles, California. That's the other voice that you hear. How's it going, Soren? Hey, things are going pretty good here. And also you'll hear occasionally from our CFO, Bacon. No, you know what I want to hear about right now?

Shoot them. I want to know how Bacon is doing. I want Bacon to talk for a little while. Yeah, I'm doing pretty good. I just started recording last week, actually, our spinoff podcast. Oh? It's What's Biting in Brooklyn, a deep-sea fishing podcast about... A codcast.

A codcast. Dan, you wouldn't know anything about it. No, yeah. That's not sanctioned. That's why I'm asking, because I'm so ignorant. So why don't you tell me, what is biting in Brooklyn right now, Bacon? New York is an island.

So it's got saltwater fish, typically. Sure. So there's a lot of swordfish and marlin. Wow, swordfish. Just jumping in your boat. A lot of big-nosed fish is traditionally. But that's off the coast of the eastern seaboard of New York. This is going great.

No, that's great, yeah. There's quite a bit of vermilion red snapper. Here's the thing, because because we've had listeners who have commented about like ah it's soren and daniel and some other guy and i've uh since i've known bacon have thought uh this is a guy who's like prime spot for internet boyfriend like he is a handsome guy he's's a sweet guy. He's talented. He plays music and he sings and he makes jam. He's one of the best guys I've ever met in my entire life. And I just think more people should know him and know about him. And I would like to give him space to

talk about himself. Thanks, Dan. That's really nice of you to say that. I really am genuinely touched by that. Well, I can tell you one of the big things that I just did is I just became a homeowner one week ago. Really? I did.

You bought a house. I did. I bought a house in Los Angeles. Big deal I have a house. Oh, my gosh. Soren was actually my homeowner guru. um, Soren was actually my homeowner guru. He was, I had a moment of, uh, of, uh, uncertainty about where we were living. And Soren, uh, sat afterwards with me for, for a bit and, uh, really kind of talked me through the process and we're moving to similar neighborhoods, pretty close by

to each other. Uh, and he really like walked me through, he gave me like a real bolt of confidence. So I'm really like, like, I don't, I, I'm, I'm so foreign to the house buying process. Do you like, what are the, it's true. It's truly awful that you, that, that go into it. Like, is it, is it separate from, I like this house, what other things go into your deciding process? It's like neighborhood. And if you can walk around, Soren brought up a good point. He obviously has a son, so he talked about schools, but I didn't know that like schools affect also your, even if you're not, even if you don't have children, schools affect your property value too. Um, even if you're not, uh, even if you don't have children, schools affect your property value too.

Um, but I think that the biggest thing is that like, you don't, uh, it's very, it's a very foreign process and you're not, I feel like a lot of other things like with like your, your personal finance and taking out credit cards and stuff like that. They don't really teach you anything about it in school. And so you don't, the only way that you can really learn about it is, uh, by asking your friends that have done it before um and so that was good but it's a very scary process it's uh it's very like getting older process and you feel old it's terrifying especially in la or i'm sure in new york too but it's if you're gonna buy

a house here you go and you see it once and guaranteed by the time that you know they can they're accepting bids they're gonna have nine or nine or ten. So you get to see it once, and you're like, wait, put a bid in, put a bid in. And then you don't know anything about the house yet. Yeah, and everyone... So one of the crazy things

that I had to verify with Soren, actually, just because I couldn't believe it, was that basically everybody is working in their own best interest, except for... And you're funding all of it. So it's all of your, and you're funding all of it. So it's all of your money that you've given all of it. It's all the money you have. And you're funding everyone's transaction on this,

but they've set it up in such a way that everybody's incentivized to just close the deal. They're not incentivized to like take care of you or do good stuff for you, which is a wild way to set it up. It doesn't seem like the right way. they're not incentivized to like take care of you or do good stuff for you. Um, which is a wild way to set it up. It doesn't seem like the right way. I think that's,

I think that's why there's so many problems sometimes with it. Uh, but I want to, I want to celebrate bacon some other ways. Um, are you still doing, uh, uh,

boys and girls club? You're still doing that. Um, I, my, uh, big brother, my? My little brother moved away, actually.

Which was a little bit of a bummer, but I think he moved away to a pretty cool place. It's a farm upstate. I just want to celebrate Bacon as a tremendous person. I really appreciate that, Dan. And love.

One of the bummers about outside of the part of him moving away that was sad was that one of the things that we would do is we would go see matinee movies a lot. And it was always movies that no one wanted to go with me to see them. They were more like children's movies. And I didn't really feel comfortable going to them alone but I was still interested in like the content of the movie and I could also go during work hours sometimes and nobody will ever tell you not to go to take your boys and girls club little brother to a movie in the middle of the day nobody at work ever complains about that what is a movie in the middle of the day. Nobody at work ever complains about that. What is a movie that recently that you would have gone with him that you

haven't been able to, that you miss? I think the, I'm talking about like the, they're like the despicable me's of the world. It's mostly like, really? Yeah.

It's like most of that cartoon content that, that like you, you want to check out. I remember I saw with him one of the Transformer movies that was like absolutely terrible. But but I like genuinely enjoy

all those things. They're like big nostalgia trips for me. I like call my brother afterwards and talk to him about them. So that's stuff that's like generally probably pretty trash or made for children that I still enjoy. I don't I feel weird going to that movie alone and nobody will go with me. Dan, move back to Los Angeles. That's the weird thing is that I truly would not go to those movies with you

because I prefer to go to movies alone. My standard thing is I would love to go to movies alone and I go to movies alone all the time. I went to a couple of movies with Soren. I feel like Soren doesn't even go to movies. I don't know that anymore. It's like not a part of his personality. Yeah, Dan and I went to a few movies.

We saw the first Paranormal Activity together. Yeah. In the middle of the day, and we were both a little tipsy. Yeah. In fact, most movies we we were both a little tipsy. Yeah. It was a very nice experience. Are you guys... That movie was so scary. I had a hard time watching that movie.

Yeah, it was terrifying. But we had a good time. We also went and saw Glee Club. No, what the fuck? No, we saw Pitch Perfect. Pitch Perfect. We went and saw that Glee Club movie.

The good one with the young girl who looks like a mouse. Yeah, and we went and saw White House Down together. We did? Yeah. Are you sure? Yeah, man. We went to Pink Taco first, and then we went to White House Down. And Mundy.

Mundy came with us. Okay, okay. Yeah. All right. That sounds more realistic. I generally don't want to see movies with people, because I want to see movies when i want to see movies and you can't like plan a thing around that it's just like i've decided it's three o'clock in the afternoon and i want to see a movie

and so i do it that sounds like heaven you just at any given moment you decide i want to see a movie you'll just go and see what the most recent thing playing is? Yeah, yeah. I went to go see Rocketman at like 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was so good because I was alone, and I was doing what I wanted to do. Now, do you do the dine-in theater experience? No, I don't want to eat. I don't want to eat when I'm watching a movie.

uh no i don't want to eat i don't want to eat when i'm when i'm watching movie i'm i i'm i really really want to just like be consumed by the giant screen that is just like shooting images and sounds at me yeah you got a lot of emotions to digest instead yeah yeah yeah um anyway this show is called quick question Question into the formula onto the meat ladies and gentlemen and you guys are our audience you are as always Questly Quick

is that a scam? yes I think if you would have gone with Strawberry Questly quick, it would have... Nope. Too late. Okay. We're going to talk about a lot of stuff. We're going to ask each other questions and surprise each other with a couple of questions.

But before that, I want to get into a review from someone named Alex Waterfield, who gave us five stars and said, quick question with Soren Dangel, has saved my marriage. Should not have, right? Wait, he doesn't elaborate? That's just the end of it? No, that's it. Wow.

Well, I mean, I guess..., like, dig into your memory banks. How could we have saved anyone's marriage? Very little relationship advice that's useful on this show, especially for somebody that's married. Man, I don't know what we could have possibly done. This isn't we're not offering any sort of therapy. No, nothing that we've ever done has been useful. Well, all right. That's nice of him to at least say.

But I appreciate that review. Thank you very much. Yeah. We're going to get into it right now, and we're going to ask each other some questions. I have a, hey, Soren, quick question. Go ahead. Did you ever have a nickname?

Yeah. Really? Yeah. Because you have a name that is objectively cool. Soren is immediately an interesting name. So in school, I never did. In school, yeah, because Soren's a fun name to say too people wouldn't give me a nickname you're also very good at nicknames you give a lot of people nicknames

uh i never got one which is no yeah it's soren feels right my dad and my brother though my dad used when i was a baby uh called couldn't imagine me ever as an old man and so he would call me old timer just for the the ironic chuckle it would give him and then your dad calls you old timer yeah and then that became just timer and then it became he would just elaborate on it when we get on the phone or he'd come home from work he'd go tip tap to timer and then my love that my brother also started calling me timer. And for a long time, I was just timer. Did your brother have a nickname?

He did in school, but not at home. Well, air, his name is Eric, but no, other than that, they wouldn't call him any,

they, he would just be either Eric, but it's in high school. His name was booty. Booty. I mean, either eric but it's in high school his name was booty booty i'm i mean i don't want to speculate on why his name was that i hope it's because people were baffled by the fact that we pronounced our last name buoy and then it was a obvious evolution okay did you have a nickname uh not really i i drew big dragon yeah no i i uh my my dad gave me a lot of nicknames and my mom did too like growing up my mom called me uh rue r-o-o oh

like from winnie the pooh yeah yeah i uh we don't know why. Oh, so not from Winnie the Pooh. It's not from Winnie the Pooh. It was just like, my mom was like, this is Rue, Dan DeRue kind of thing. Okay. And my dad called me Point Boy for a while because I had spiked up hair. That's a very dad thing to do. Yeah. And separate from that, I tried to get one of the things that that is consistent with me was trying to get insufferable nicknames to stick like freshman year of high school was like call me the

Daniel now oh no wait no you didn't yeah did. And I didn't believe it seriously. I thought the idea that the idea that someone wanted to force a nickname was very funny to me. And so I played that character, I guess. I don't know. I'm a fucking cartoon character of a human being. I will say I was like, I'm I'm don't know. I'm a fucking cartoon character of a human being. So it was like, I'm the Daniel now. And then after that, I was like, I'm Daniel 2000. And then at some point, I was Big Dragon.

These were all things that I was like, isn't it funny that a person would want this nickname ascribed to themselves? Yes. would want this nickname ascribed to themselves yes and i that's that's that's been my life for 15 years yeah big dragon was a big part of a cracked where you would yeah i would have packages sent to yourself that would say if you like look if you can line up a bunch of people and one of them should be called Big Dragon, in any lineup in the world, it will never be me. But the idea that I thought I should be called Big Dragon was very funny to me. It is a good bit. Yeah, it's a solid bit. Dan, I came on to crack a long time i came on to crack i think mid big dragon and i didn't know that it was a facetious nickname no

i thought because you would come to work uh you mentioned this before but you come to work like you'd bike bicycle to work or run to work sometimes and you'd come like kind of sweaty in a cutoffs and i thought it was like you were i thought i honestly thought it was like a like a kind of intimidating like uh like because you like worked out and came into the office like that growing into the nickname i'm just learning this now that that wasn't a genuine nickname in fact i remember when you started doing it at our office which was we would play volleyball sometimes. Yes.

All demand media would go to the beach and play volleyball after work. That's what it's like working in California. You would, we would have to, because no one was good at this game yet, the ball would come onto one side of the court and so everyone would run into each other. You'd say your name and that meant like, I've got it. And every single time you would say big dragon and it was a good bit, it would get a good laugh from everybody. And then it bled into the office where you had one of the early iPads. And whenever you would talk to Siri, she would call you big dragon.

Yep. It's very silly. It's very embarrassing. I still stand by it. I had a nickname for you for a little while but i didn't really feel great about it because it was really emasculating and was it a little teacup it sure was yep do you want to talk about that yeah i'm trying to remember how it came up i think there was an after hours episode where we were the animations for it we were deciding on what the

animations would be and we talked about a bunch of people sitting by a fire toasting marshmallows and then they became english automatically and we're like well how do we distinguish that they're english well they're all roasting teacups over the fire except dan's teacup is smaller for whatever reason and i couldn't remember why and then uh from there i started calling you a little teacup in response to big dragon yeah you you wanted to make sure that uh big dragon didn't stick i was just undoing the adhesion every single time you tried to get that little teacup did go for a while it did work um you're you are i will say this about you you're outstanding at figuring out what somebody's nickname should be and getting it to stick among a big group of people.

Yeah, it's such a bummer that I've never figured out a nickname for you, though. I think it's because Soren is such a good name. There's nothing better than Soren, honestly. This would be a good episode for my parents to start listening to this podcast. Like, I can't call you something cooler than soren soren is a very cool name it's a unique and cool name yeah but nicknames don't always have to be cool they can be lateral moves or they can be downgrades and i think people they even if it is a downgrade it's not always it's not always mean it's sometimes it's like it's joking and it's it's not evil spirit.

Anyway, I don't know. Well, maybe we can hash one out. I don't I like my name, too. I agree. Right. Do you want a nickname or do you? No, I don't feel left out that I never got one from you. Do we?

How does how does Bacon feel about his name? Yeah. Yeah. Bacon, tell us. It was I think it was because we work together and I was trying to build a career and you guys just kept yelling Bacon all the time in like professional meetings. At you, yeah. Yeah, at me. And it started to stick. Dan is very good at it. And it started to stick around the office. And then I was in this like formal uh company-wide meeting where you guys weren't there it was just like the part of the business ads and then someone called me bacon in

the meeting and i was like well this isn't going great for me long term it was i don't think it was us that started it it was a ups man i think yeah there was a ups guy uh set said uh he had like heard someone they were delivering something for my birthday and they had called me by my Twitter name, which is Dan very like eloquently says at the end of every episode. And they said bacon. And then the UPS guy got like very excited about it. And then Soren heard him calling me bacon. heard him calling me Bacon and then Soren went and told Dan and then you guys never

called me my name again ever in any professional capacity. And then other people started calling me Bacon. What do you Bacon? What do you prefer, by the way? I'm not going to change how I call you, but like, what do you actually prefer? Do you like Michael? Do you prefer Michael or Mike?

Well, with you guys, honestly, I've leaned into Bacon. No, but like, what've leaned into Mike. Uh, I've leaned in. Well, with you guys, honestly, I've leaned into bacon. Cause I know, but like, what do you want? Generally Michael, but, um, that's never going to happen. Yeah. It's a hard pass. Bacon wants us to call Michael. Yeah. That's not true. That's such a stupid thing to do. Um, what else? What else? Uh, I have a quick question. Do you have any questions for me? Yeah. I have a quick question for you. Yeah any questions for me? Yeah, I have a quick question for you. Yeah. You've had, I would say, a pretty successful career. You're right out of college,

you started writing for a hit comedy website, and you became basically the voice of that site and helped shape it. And then from there, you moved on to a really popular and award-winning television show. You must get this question a lot where people are like how what was the process how did you do it at any step they're like well how did you make that transition and i'm wondering are you every time that question comes up are you embarrassed a little that you don't deserve it. Yep. 100%. All the time. I think that that's...

I think... This is outside of that imposter syndrome. I think everybody who has had any motocross success should be embarrassed that they got there because everybody got there with luck.

I don't know that there's anybody out there who's got a job and, I mean, they've, they fought tooth and nail the entire time. Everyone was against them the entire time. They finally got it all by their own merits. And now they're there. There was always that little lightning strike of luck that helped along the way. And you feel embarrassed that that exists and that you were the, you were the benefactor of that luck it's tough i feel like i i've worked hard my entire life but i've also been surrounded by people

who've worked hard their entire lives and i've been luckier than they have been every opportunity that i've had has been luck related if if if i wanted to if i wanted to build a narrative that was purely designed around a person who worked hard and did the best i could do that but i don't actually believe that's true. I think I've, I've, I've benefited every step of my career from, uh, someone else helping me out. Yeah. I think I feel the same way. I certainly with cracked people would be like, how did you, how did you get into cracked? Or like, how do I get into cracked? And cracked and i will tell them oh you start writing for the workshop once you start proving that you can write from the workshop without uh taking a lot of edits and you can pitch a lot of good ideas then you become a columnist and then once you're a columnist you can become an editor and so on and

so on and like okay so is that what you did and i'm like no no no no no i don't want to tell you my story because it's not the right way and it was that I worked in the same office as everyone at Cracked that I had small opportunities along the way and took advantage of those and opportunities that nobody else has and then slowly got the job that way. So even though I could take advantage of those opportunities, they were still opportunities that were exclusive to me. And it's the same with where I work now. I mean, I get my, I got my job through nepotism. Basically I have, uh, friends. Right. Like, like speak on how did you get hired at American dad? Yeah. So by that, and then I'll talk about my thing. Yeah. It makes my heart race a little to have somebody ask me that question because I'm, it's, I'm, it makes me feel like I don't deserve any of this. I don't deserve it. I don't deserve it. I got so lucky. And there's so many good writers out there

who aren't getting jobs. And I am. And it was, uh, I have a friend who I went to college with. We then did a lot of sketch comedy after college together. He, uh, rose to the ranks of American dad. And when they were looking for a writer, he suggested me, he, he told me they're looking, he said, have everything ready, have it, um, your submission packet ready, have a pilot ready and did. And I submitted all of that. They liked it. And then I got hired, but off of his recommendation, they would not have even looked at mine.

Probably if I didn't have his recommendation i wasn't represented uh i hadn't done any television i had no television credits under my belt and got hired but i would say the reason that he suggests you is because you had a lifetime under your belt of being a talented person and a good person to work with right yeah i mean he suggested me because he thought i would be good at the job that yeah which is the work that you put in for like fucking 15 years or whatever yeah i still think i mean and i honestly i think what i'm presenting is not not it's not something that's bad. I think it's good for everybody to feel a little embarrassed about how lucky they were to get where they are, because the people who don't have convinced themselves that it was all through hard work and that other people who don't have that job don't deserve it. Because they didn't work as hard, which is almost never the case, particularly in the arts.

Yeah. How did you get, you tell your, how did you get to last week tonight? Cause you were actually, you came in cold. Yeah. I'm,

I'm, uh, very lucky and like tripped my way into this. Is that the, uh, for anyone who is listening who is a writer who doesn't know too much about the industry there there there are lists there are lists for like the daily show and the colbert report not the colbert report but uh colbert's late show and

cordon show and tonight show and all of the shows all of the late night shows there are lists where when they need a writer they will send out an email to this list and there's a packet attached to it it was like do this packet to try to get on this show and the packets involve a lot of different things like if you're applying for the tonight show it's like the packet involves ten monologue jokes and some sketches and some new ideas for things that could exist on the tonight show and for the daily show the packet is write the first act of this show and write an idea for what could be a conversation piece type thing on this show it's frequently a lot more work than

you would ever do in a week on the show a tremendous amount of work to do. And some writers are on the list. Whenever they need writers, they send these emails out to writers. I've been on that list. I've applied and failed at Daily Show and The Opposition and Colbert and many other shows. Grace Parra Show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Soren, you don't need to add more. You can just say many other.

You do. I mean... And I got the option to submit for last week's night, but I didn't, I wasn't even on the list for that. Someone else was on the list for that. And they submitted me for it.

They said, I'm not going to try for the show, but you should look into Daniel. And. So you didn't just submit Colt. Somebody, they actually, somebody spoke on your behalf and said

you should look at him yeah ben joseph who like honestly uh i think we could both say ben joseph should be running comedy at this point yeah ben joseph is like the smartest best comedy writer i've ever met in my entire life uh who is like criminally not the best person in comedy right now. It's absurd. Yeah, this is a guy who wrote an episode of The Simpsons. He wrote on a show called Me, Myself, and I that wasn't on for very long on broadcast television. He was on Wander Over Yonder.

Yeah, he's an incredible writer and the best eye for talent that I've ever found in my entire life. Like, uh, fucking what year is it? Soren, what year is it? 2019.

Hmm. Interesting. Uh, 11 years ago, Ben Joseph reached out to Jack and said, you should pay attention to this comedy troupe, Britannic, Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher,

two of the best comedy minds that we've come across in our entire lives. Yeah. These are two guys who are on SNL and they also did a movie with Joss Whedon and have done a number of other things. Yeah. So Ben is great. and they also did a movie with joss whedon and have done a number of other things yeah so ben is great ben is the one who uh suggested that i submit to this show and well he's got that eye for talent you talk so highly of yeah yeah but like if he didn't exist i would not be on the radar for last week tonight yeah i would And I would not have this job.

Yeah. I think that that's – It's purely luck of some other guy who was like, hey, look into this person. And I think about people who don't believe in that. I think the quintessential example of that would be somebody like Donald Trump or somebody who thinks that they earned everything that they got along the way and are kind of disgusted by anyone who isn't on their level or has no time for anyone on their level because if you're not on their level, it means you either aren't as talented or you didn't try as hard,

which is so baffling because it's always – no one has – whenever people are trying to break into the industry, it's like it's such a frustrating thing because any of the stories you get from people have no tangible advice. It's always, Oh, I, you know, I just had kind of some things ready and then I got very lucky. And yeah, it's, are you, are you, uh, upset about it? No, but I do get embarrassed every single time I have to answer that question. I did it cracked as well. Really? Yeah.

Yeah. I feel like you're so like undeniably talented. So it's. Uh, that's very kind of you. I still there. I mean, Ben Joseph is somebody that's a great example of somebody who's very talented and I'm not sure if he's currently working. No, he's fine. Uh, anyway. and I'm not sure if he's currently working. No, he's fine.

Anyway, that's something that's been on my mind lately. Yeah, so do you... I mean, I feel like everyone who is in our industry and is successful feels like a fraud. That's like a general thing that we all feel but do you you you feel like like an extra fraud no i think that this is separate i agree with you that everybody thinks and at any minute you could wake up one day and whatever talent you previously had or your sense of of comedy or your sense of poetry or writing, that it's gone. Because there's really no good metric for any of it.

But this is something completely different, I think, that runs across every type of occupational success. I guess probably love, too, where you have what other people kind of want, and they're like, how did you get that? And you have to explain oh I didn't deserve this. I guess I did some things right. I took advantage of opportunities but I just got it.

It's crazy that you describe it that way because I mean I describe it that way but I hate myself and I'm a piece of shit. You're a competent person. I think it's everybody. It's insane that you think that you don't deserve a thing.

That's very nice of you to say, I think. No, it's not. Well, do you have any questions for me, Dan? I don't think I do at this point i i should i bacon do i uh you told me at the beginning you want to talk about garbage trucks yeah i think you should have a garbage truck question oh yeah oh no no i i wanted to open the floor for soren to talk about garbage trucks because you had an amazing garbage truck moment. Yeah, I'll tell my garbage truck story. So my son is obsessed with garbage trucks. He's going to be four in September. Four? Four, yeah. And all kids, I know they like big trucks,

they like garbage trucks. There's just like something undeniable about them. Those big greasy noises that they make all the time. And how they're just like willingness to dive headfirst into the most disgusting trash. And he loves garbage trucks. He'll sit there on the couch and watch a YouTube channel that's just garbage trucks picking up trash. It's got no audio. There's no musical track behind it or anything like that. It's just still footage of garbage trucks picking up garbage,

and he'll sit there with a little trash can and mimic them, raising it up over his own head and pouring trash into the top of his head, basically. Really? Yeah, and then putting it back down in sync with the garbage trucks on the on the tv so he loves them a lot and there's one in particular that he loves which is republic garbage trucks because they're all over la they're these blue ones and they're front-loading dumpsters which means they have those like that forklift in the front that picks

up dumpsters and and pours it in the back of the gross truck blow hole or whatever you call the opening at the top of the truck. And, uh, he wanted a toy Republic, uh, garbage truck, this blue one he was really into.

And I saw in the, the right panel during these YouTube videos that there's the toy. There's like a guy doing the unboxing of one of those. And I was like, yes, no problem. This is where dad can win. I'll get him one of these. And I thought, yeah, I'll get him one of these for his birthday. And so we were already talking about how he was going to get one for his birthday, but he had to be wait and be patient. And then as I started to look it up,

I realized that it's, these things do not exist. I think that they made some models. There's a company called, uh, first gear that i think maybe made some models at one point custom design versions of this truck that are beautiful and cool but they there are maybe like 14 out there and if you wanted to go on ebay you could find something close but it's not exactly right they're like they're not blue they're gray and they don't have the front loader and they're about 300 and i was like 300 yeah 300 on ebay that's a price of three good candles and i thought i'm i can't get i can't i spend that much on this toy and uh also it's not even the right fucking thing he might just be pissed because for that age, they don't understand when you don't get the right thing.

He doesn't know what $300 is. So I would just get mad at him for being mad about his toy. So I don't want to start that cycle. And so in my frustration, just happened to write on Twitter, man, this truck doesn't exist. I put up a picture of it and I was like, I honestly, it's a shame that first gear ever even made these because they've made my life hell because I can't find it. In doing so, a bunch of very well-meaning people reached out and they're like, what about this one? And I'm like, no, it's not. That's not the right one.

You see, it's not blue. Or they're like, what about this one? I'm like, well, that's about the size of a Matchbox car. Also, it cost $300. And I just wanted to get the right thing for him. And I was realizing that wasn't going to happen. And so I'm trying to temper his expectations too. Like, I'm like, you're not getting the, you're not getting the truck. What about this other one? Isn't this one cool? This nice big plastic one. And he was dogmatic. He was like, no, it's the blue Republic one. And, uh,

in that, in that time, Republic services, which is the trash company, the, the sanitation company tweeted back at me. They found it. Uh, I didn't tag them or anything, but I guess they drove for their name and they found that. And the social media person said, let me see what I can do. And I was like, that's the nicest thing I've ever seen a company do on here. They're never going to find one, but that's very sweet of them to think that they might. Because they've got no affiliation. Right, because the toy obviously exists or it doesn't. Right. And they've got no necessarily affiliation with the company that's First Gear. Because it's like, I don't know how it works. It's these die-cast models.

It's clearly not toys for kids. They are all functioning. They have all the articulation and everything. But what they're making is basically something to sit on a shelf. And then the next day, they reached out again. They said, I may or may not have the first gear front-loading blue Republic trash truck on my desk. And I was like, you gotta be kidding me. So I texted with them and everything. And I was like, okay, yeah. I mean, send it to me, please let me pay you for this. And she's, she said, no, no, no, it's okay. It's

on us. I had to go into my CEO's office and get it. So the CEO of Republic had this on his exactly how it's supposed to be presented on a bookshelf or whatever. She went in and took it and then mailed it to me. And so now I have the blue front loading Republic trash truck with a little dumpster for free from the Twitter person at Republic. And it's the CEO's truck. That's incredible. Yeah, it was wonderful. And he's going to have no idea

how much trouble I went to to get this thing for years. But he'll still be psyched when he opens it and realizes it's the exact thing that he wanted. And I love that feeling of giving him the exact thing he wants. That's truly incredible. incredible yeah so that was another thing another word another area where i got very very lucky where i have enough of a following on twitter that they found it that then it happened and they gave me what i wanted and i just keep getting what i want sure i mean you're you're trying to tie this into the show but it doesn't matter it's fine

it's the end of the show now uh bacon just does bacon have anything to fucking say no we don't do uh ads but that was a really good um ad for republic i don't think they'll sponsor us because i don't know if there's a really direct-to-consumer need for trash services nationally. But we're still a branding guy. Okay, that's great. I need to track down all the social media accounts. While I'm doing that, Soren, you said you had a rap that was like in the style of Gangster's Paradise that you wanted to do about Colorado. And you wanted space to do that.

So I'm going to give you space to do that while I track down the social accounts. Fuck you. All right. Yeah, I do. I've been waiting to perform this for a pretty long time now. Thank you for giving me the space to do that and giving me a safe place in which to do that. Okay, here we go. We hit the mountains right around November

You were three then and too young to remember How we huddled round the fire and our blankets made of skin That we traded for some whiskey with a one-eyed Indian He warned us against trying for the past but your foolhardy pops was trying to get there fast we were making good time and everything was all right until a storm started hitting and we stopped for the night one night turned into 18 weeks your sister got sick and we ran out of meat it's funny what a family will do to survive we rationed out your sister just to stay alive

uh thanks thanks everyone for listening the sister live no man oh no no we ate her you started humming what i thought was the wrong tune in the beginning I was like he doesn't know what gangster's paradise is no I just don't know how to hum I don't know they do that little hum in the song yeah they do guys thank you so much

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That's fine. People have heard them all before. That's good. We don't know how to close the show. That's fine. People have heard them all before. That's good. We don't know how to do the Patreon shit. It's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go find us on Patreon and Google. Patreon at Google.

I think we probably say goodbye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.