This Is Important - Ep 242: Are You Smarter Than A Podcaster?

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

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Everything is loaded with fucking semen now. What are they teaching us? We're out in the ocean, just grabbing tiger sharks. I have to maintain this friendship Let's go Let me just fucking flex. Oh me? I'm just clapping. Oh.

God damn. Oh my. Oh my. And if you're not one of our 1,100 subscribers, you're missing out today. Cause these boys are flopping in the wind. Adam's got his guns out. They're not even flopping dude they're they're kind of taut. Yeah they are you're looking skinny mini bro. Yeah my

tits are taut. My tits have stayed taut though. Wow everybody's looking good. And Blake you haven't taken the plaque out of the box? No not yet not yet um I just really want to make sure we're talking about our YouTube plaques I just want to I I wanted to stay shiny just hanging on your wall Yeah, Moana style. Okay. Got it. Well, I would take a nail. I don't have a nail. Oh, yeah, you just get one Yeah, you for sure can get those a lot of places you take the nail off of that artwork that's been hanging there since the second you moved in and You replace it with our one of our many accolades okay I'm sorry I knew it blazer I knew it well we just did promo

and the reason we're all hyped up wearing these sick and dare I say a lot of people might think they're douchey I think they're sick I think they're totally sick captain's hat yeah the reason we're wearing them is because we just made a huge announcement that the cruise is going to be cruising February 22nd through the 26th of next year, 2026, out of Tampa, all the way down to Cozumel, Mexico. Dude, Mexico, baby. I love that!

It's the base! I'm very, very excited about it. Oh my gosh, I can't wait to get on that open water. And wait, you don't like these hats? You don't like these hats? I thought we were just, I was just remarking about how this is such a young, go hard group, dude group at a bar hat.

Yeah. Yeah, if you see a group of dudes wearing these they're they're taking shots they're trouble yeah they're having a good time having a no I would say they're date raping you think so it's a good possibility I would say eight out of ten times there is one person in the cruise date raping if they're if they're wearing this says okey-dokey and Troy you know what I told her I said I'm the captain now I mean that's exactly right. Then I threw in a dumpster, got in my Wrangler. So I don't know why it was my pitch to wear these hats,

but I just got it out of the car. Because you definitely sent these to our doorstep. And you said, please keep them even beyond the promo, because I'd love to go out. Yeah, I said this one fits your personality, Blake, and then I underlined it. The Amazon guy, he handed me the box knowing, for the joke, he knew what was inside of it,

and he kind of held it while I took it. Yeah, he wouldn't let it go. Like, are you the guy? And then he says quietly, I have a daughter. And you're like, what was that of anything to do with anything? Like, what? I'm just a guy ordering a Captain Hat. I know. I know. I go, I said, God damn!

They're a bummer. I mean, the Captain Hat, they're fine. They're cool. You know, I thought it was fun. We just did an announcement, a video announcement for the crews. That's why we're rocking them. But, and then I was like, we should have a background of like a yacht or of the ocean or maybe dolphins in the background or something I didn't know what the zoom app was capable of theirs worked just fine and we're able to get cool backgrounds he has a pirate

hat me and Blake yeah Blake and and Dursie. And mine just didn't work. The Tet Ghost is still haunting. Yeah, that's really bizarre. It stays haunting. I don't know why. And I'm still having fun. I got a little pirate hat with an eye patch on right now. Yeah, that's really cool. I love that.

I love that we're exploring Zoom. Remember when we had to do a pirate... I mean, had to. We chose to. You had to wear an eye patch for something we were doing. It was like a pirate. We, I mean, had to, we, uh, chose to, you had to wear a eye patch for something we were doing. It was like a sketch. It was a karate. It was a karate sketch, right? Where I was like a dojo master. Yeah. It was a sketch we did way back in the day. And then he would know the lines front

and back before he put the eye patch on. He put the eye patch on and he couldn't never worn the eye patch in like our rehearsals at the house or even beforehand, and then put the eye patch on, and we ran lines just before we were going on, just before. Couldn't, could not cognitively connect. Pretty sure.

Then I would, I would lift it up, say the line, say the line, put it down, lose the line, lift it back up, find the line. I remember that being so weird. I wonder if that has anything also. The human brain. I think it's your brain. I think it's like.

Yeah. A beautiful mind. Yeah, like is that also like why you can't tell time or like is there has to be some. Connective tissue there? Some something. I can tell time. I just can't read it. Well don't backpedal now. I can tell time. I just can't read it. Well, don't backpedal now.

I can tell people what it is. No, no, no, I can tell people what it is. Yeah, okay. I just can't read it if you ask me. Oh, I'm so sorry. It's a different. I'm so sorry. Oh, fucking idiot.

Yeah, maybe. Maybe that's the case. You know, like I can tell you it's 359 right now, but I don't know, man. Definitely weird. Definitely the human brain of mine. The human brain. Do you guys have anything weird

that you know about your brain? Ah. That's just... That's a really good question. I mean, no, no, Blake, you're really dumb. I'll say that about you. Okay, well, play me in jeopardy, bro. Let's go. bro. Let's go

Let's go, bro. I'm ready and Blake. Are you in hell right now? I am if you're if you're one of the hundred and one thousand followers on YouTube, you know, my man is in hell So you're just you're just saying that the thing with my brain is that it doesn't work is that it's yeah It doesn't work. That's what you're saying. Okay. Yeah. I would say that's almost more normal than what's wrong with mine. Yeah. That's not very kind but. No you're smart guys in some aspects and I can tell you don't mean it. This is the most un-sincere sincere you've ever been. Sincere. When it's insincere it's sincere. I would say that we're in the same boat. I was about to add that we're in the same boat. I was about to add that we're in the same boat I don't that doesn't make it better. You can't just shit on me and then say I also suck You're so dumb. Just I don't suck. I fucking rock did but

But so dumb dude, and so are you and so's duris just in a different way Is there something you do know about what Adam is there something you know about that would like shock anyone? Yeah. No. Like the Civil War or some shit? Nah. The Civil War? No.

Uh, Nam. You know about Nam? Nam? Nah. You know about Nam? You don't know about Nam, bro. Absolutely, I don't know about that. You're right. If anyone knew anything about it, that would be more than what I know about it. Mm-hmm. I will say, you know what?

I like you admitting that you're dumb. I'm willing to admit I'm dumb. I'm much more a fan of people who can admit they're dumb than cannot admit they're dumb. I don't like people who think they're fucking smart and they're obviously not. I feel like Blake's talking about smart people though. Well, you're dumb too though, right?

Aren't you? Who's the smartest person you know, personally? Well, they're not in though, right? Aren't you? Who's the smartest person you know? Personally. Well, they're not in our friend group for sure. Like... Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uh and what is smart like knowing things or being like very capable people? Exactly. Okay. What is smart? I think I'm very emotionally intelligent. I'm very in touch. I can very in tune. I mean, that's what dumb people say

Yeah, that's what no that's what bitch. Yeah. Yeah, you know I mean like if you don't know Anything you're like, but I know emotions cuz you're crying every I do know emotions cuz I'm crying cuz I don't understand things That's worth a lot you just wait cuz when the shit hits the because when the shit hits the fan you're gonna need people like me. I'm emotionally intelligent because I cry a lot because I don't understand things and it really frightens and scares me. Freaking Sia. That is not what emotional intelligence means. It doesn't mean sensitivity and crying. Sensitive.

Well, this is what you know about. What's it mean, you genius? And horoscopes I bet sensitivity and crying. Sensitive. Well, this is what you know about. What's it mean, you genius? And horoscopes, I bet, also, and crystals. It has some things to do with crystals, yes. Crystal burger as well. Hot sauce? Yeah, go ahead. Hell yeah.

You know, it's just being able to identify when people are going through shit, being kind to them, and really not just like laying in on them when they're very vulnerable and need a friend I don't understand what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah, I'm breaking your guys brains bitch made dude. Yes Yes, let's package it in the bitch. Wait, so you're telling me you can understand when people are like going through something Yeah, okay. I'll take your word for it. Yeah, sure doubt it. Huh? Oh, yeah the bitch Your word for it. Yeah sure doubt it, huh? Oh, yeah the bitch

Well, okay, so you don't have anybody in your life who's smart you don't have a subject that you think you excel in that You're really smart about maybe we are just really dumb people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely It's established. We've logged hours to prove this Come on the cruise. Be dumb with us. Yeah, that's, we're fun. I'll say that. That's a great idea. Jeopardy vs. people or whatever. We should do that. Game show night where we do trivia vs. the norms. Okay. And by norms, I mean people out there whose emotions I can't read.

Are you smarter than a podcaster? Okay. I like this. Okay, that's pretty good. Well, absolutely Yeah, we should do a jeopardy a jeopardy night. That'd be fun I do think people now like tee off on us saying how dumb and stupid we are We should definitely challenge them to a battle of wits and intelligence on the ship who tees off on I don't see anyone teeing off on us. Oh my DMs are just people. I was gonna say man. That's that's tough Yeah, I think people give us shit, but like, I don't really get that we're dumb. Well, I think Blake also reads the internet a little too. You're like digging... I probably am a little too tuned in to the comment section on the Instagram.

Yeah, you're digging in the crates a little bit. You never just hit delete all and go... Like, I see like the beginning of one that's like my cousin has and it's like half of can like cans and I'm like and I go no. Can energy that went bad. Yeah. I can't look and by the way everyone who sends me messages about dying

friends or birthday parties that they want me to like send a video for. OK. Again specific. OK. Hey it's a great idea. I'm just not that guy pal Yeah, Doris is not that guy. I've done a few but uh, you know who sends me messages every year And I wonder if he does it and and he just the reason I'm remembering this and I might have said on the podcast Okay, he sent me a message the other day because the righteous gemstones is airing the the

And he just hit me up about how he liked the episode the other day And I've only met him like once or maybe twice Joe Biden tell us it's Joe judge justice Sonya Sotomayor Sure no he does no It was Rick Flair, dude, what okay? It was Ric Flair, dude. What? Okay. Yeah. Nice.

Popo Sal! Kinda tight, huh? You have Ric Flair in your DMs? He's a Gemstones fan. No, I have his texts. We text each other, dude. You have Ric Flair's phone number? Yeah, man.

Oh my God. And the two people that hit me up every year for my birthday without fail, Ric Flair and Weird Al. What the fuck? Wow. What? Yeah. That is one of the most

extreme flexes to me specifically. Like those are I feel like I also hit you up whatever. Yeah you guys do and I say every year sometimes you guys miss a year every once in a while it might be a day later

I think I have missed one. Yeah Durs is more spot on I. I'll give him that I would say yeah, I do believe you you nail it Well, he has to like woman is fun. I have to maintain this friendship If you if you don't wish him happy birthday, then it's it's fun. That is over. Yeah. Yeah, it's over I know I know holding on by a thread You know when I did the thing at the AEW the other week, I was thinking like, I thought it was very fun, and like, it was awesome, for sure.

Yeah. And then I got off stage, and people were like, that had to have been a bucket list thing for you. Sure. Of course. And it wasn't. Mm-hmm. Oh my god!

It wasn't. It didn't even, it's still, even now, I'm like, yeah, it was a cool thing. Like, not bucket list, I wouldn't put it wasn't. It wasn't. It didn't even, it's still, even now I'm like, yeah, it's a cool thing. Like, not bucket list. I wouldn't put it up there. Even close to the top ten things that I'd want to do before I die. Thinking, Blake and Kyle, that is their

bucket list. To go in the ring, 20,000 screaming fans, choke slam someone. You know, I wish there was probably more to it, but. You know what they say. One, one man's bucket list is another man's sure fine. I'll do that list.

Is a fucking. Fine for promotion. I'll do it list. Yeah. But what, what do you think? Cause I was like, well, that's probably yours, right? A bucket list thing for you. Are you saying I'm going so, or I'm going in with Kyle into the ring and choke slamming?

I mean, I don't know. I don't- yeah, well, I'm just saying you were- Cause that would be- like, cause if it was like me and Kyle going in, like we have like spray paint, we choke slam a guy, we spray paint NWO on his back, that would be like- that would be like I could die after that. That would be incredible. Okay. Yeah, I see I wouldn't want to die after that. Okay. Right. I would just go, I'm gonna keep living. That's a cool thing I did, but I'm gonna keep living. There's like a lot of stuff that, yeah.

Being in the center of the ring after Chokeswine, like you should have thrown a freaking socket, dude. You should have been like... But that's not AEW, man. It's not AEW. I know, but you could still throw a socket and the fans will go wild, dude. Yeah. I was just putting my sunglasses on like I was told told to do I was told like put on some sunglasses

Oh, they told they told you to do that. Yeah, they're like, hey if if and when he this guy wins your sunglasses But put on some sunglasses. Yeah, and I'm like, okay Yeah, I guess did you pitch like yo, could I do a stone cold? Could somebody throw me two beers? I chug the beers. Maybe I stunner somebody. Yeah. There wasn't a lot of pitching. Uh, I didn't even know I was going to do it. I think we talked about this last time.

I didn't know I was going to do it. I walk in there. We're like, how physical are you willing to get? And I'm like, what's it? What's that? Right. And they're like, maybe you choke slam someone. I'm like, maybe.

And they're like, yeah, at the end of the match, uh, I'll come and grab you and you climb in the ring and you choke slam this guy. And I'm like, yeah, at the end of the match, I'll come and grab you and you climb in the ring and you choke slam this guy. And I'm like, okay. And then he sold it so well, dude. I wasn't doing shit. I'm like, these wrestlers are sick. It was a very cool, I'm downplaying it. Like it meant nothing.

It was very cool experience. But it wasn't like, I didn't feel like now I can die afterwards. Well, after you described it, I was like, not anxiety, but I was just going through my mind about going to something like that and pretending like I wanted to be there. Fuck it. I was like, how would I do this? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, you less so than me.

I feel dirty. Yeah, you less so than me. I yeah, I feel yeah guys I mean you obviously I was I was a wrestle head for a large portion portion of my life like I Was that what they call fans of wrestling a wrestle head? No, I just said that I'm just asking cuz you said go ahead I just said that but I was super I was a NWO I I was totally that what they call those Yeah, I was I was degeneration X. I was all these things man I was so into it. I fucking loved that shit in freaking high school So that that's a bucket listing Adam if it's not a bucket listing for you. What would be a bucket list thing? What do you got? I don't know. I think

What do you what do you guys think would be a bucket listing for me? Because I thought immediately upon getting off of this, the stage or the ring, I was like that it's, I wish this were Blake. I was like, that was the first thought you had. I wish I felt something, but your emotional intelligence. Wait, your first thought, that is so kind. You got out of the ring and you thought, no, the first thought is Tony. Tony was like, Oh my God, my heart is racing.

That was incredible. And my heart wasn't beating at all. Maybe... I was dead. Heart stopped. You're Paul Bearer, dude. I was like, oh yeah, mine too. It wasn't.

I was just totally fine. I was like, it wasn't racing. I was like, yeah, I feel like... We get it, bro. You've been on big stages. All right, I get it. Well, I don't even know if it was the stage, or maybe it was the stage for it.

Maybe. Here's the first thing my mind goes to, what your bucket list is, is like, it's like a poker tournament. You're fucking playing like a big hand to win it all or something. Is that? I mean, I don't play poker. You don something is that I mean I don't play poker you don't even play poker really play poker do you even know him no one you don't call him on his birthday you don't know yeah I don't really play

poker I that feels like high stakes fucking you know really pushing in the money what it what is it called Wow Wow. Pushing in the money. I'm a dude. Jeopardy question. What is pushing in the money? You know, pushing in the money. So you're not going to host the casino night on the cruise, I take it. I take it that'll be me. Calling all bettors.

We are pushing in all the money. Let's go. You mean like going all in? Is that what you're talking about? That's what I meant. Yeah. That's what I meant. By the way, never ever get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to get a chance to

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That's what I meant. By the way, never ever played cards in my life. Pushing in the money, baby. You've never played cards? Not really. I can only play this one game called, we've talked about this, I feel like. I played Norwegian poker with my grandma.

Oh. Which was like- Very weird, yeah. It's not even poker. This is the way. Oh, that's right. When we tried to play blackjack in I think Atlantic City We really had to coach you up a little bit. Well that I know how to play blackjack is not called

Oh, then who are we who are we coat was it Blake that didn't know I know how to play 21 Well, it's called blackjack You played a 21 is it Todd it was somebody okay? It was someone someone in our group didn't know but okay I played 21. Yeah, Todd was it you Todd? Look me a lady. Todd says wasn't me a true degenerate gambler Maybe it was just a rando Maybe Yeah, I feel yeah mine would probably be Something where I might die. Yeah wrestling. I know I'm not gonna die. It has to be.

It has to be. Your bucket list is to literally maybe be kicking the bucket. Almost, but not. Like squirrel suiting. Like squirrel suit. Like if I dove off a cliff in a squirrel suit. But you don't want to do, you don't wanna like train up for squirrel suiting.

Yeah, I don't, I'm not gonna do that. But if you could do something similar to that, that's a bucket list thing for you. Yeah, well, it was like scuba diving with sharks, like shark diving, I think was a bucket list thing for me, because I thought that was fucking incredible. You know what's so weird? I would never ever like look for that, but when the opportunity presents itself, I go, yeah, all right, cameras are rolling. Sure. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. But I would never ever do that on my own. If my friends were like, we're all going to go shark diving. I don't know if I would do it. I mean, maybe I would, if it was going to be like a cool trip or whatever. But like it just, unless it's like a work thing,

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I mean I I get I get places but there are places I would like to go I'm going to Co on the yacht. Same. Same. Adam, you get places? I'm going to Cozumel, baby. Hey, Tampa. Well, yeah, because we're doing this cruise together, but like you mean for work. I'm kind of that way too. I don't take many, like I don't go on a lot of vacations. Oh, you got to travel.

You got to travel. I, yeah, traveling is kind of like to me is like kind of a stressful thing. It's kind of a jam up. It kind of is off-putting. Really? I don't like packing. Can I tell you something? What? Can I tell you something?

Don't pack. Shop when you get there. Okay. Very shagadelic. It's easy. Go somewhere awesome. Eat good food. I mean, I love that.

Everywhere has like Yelp or whatever, like kind of where you can find a restaurant. And also Blake, you have money, dude. I mean, take some of the money that we're earning off this podcast from our 10,000 fucking ads that we have. Hello, baby. Load boost. And put that to, yeah, take some of the load boost cash and put it to a trip. Take some of that load boost.

But I also, I don't think I'm like, maybe I'm in the minority, but like- You're not, you're what? Not liking to go on vacations is not like a totally foreign thing. Like the thought of like planning a trip to Japan, as much as I would love to do that, it's just like there's just so much stuff where I'd rather just stay home. Dude, just go. Just go in two weeks. That's just a house cat.

That's a house cat mentality. That's my wife has the same go. Just go in two weeks. That's just a house cat. That's a house cat mentality. That's my wife has the same thing. Just go. And by the way, I'm a house cat too, but like, I gotta get out there. I gotta see shit. I will eventually. No, that's junkyard dog mentality right there. Oh, is that right? Yeah, dude.

Isn't that also the same thing? They're also chained to a yard. It's a bagel. Yeah, but they're always trying to get out. Oh, they are. That's true. The house cat doesn't want to leave. The house cat don't want to leave a junkyard dog always sneaks out Yeah, the junkyard dog is always like fucking soon as I get off this chain. Let me off the leash. He's circling back to wrestling here great legend legend legend

Just go to Japan. I will I will get there. I'm gonna go I it's a bucket list I will not I don't think you're I don't think you will I will go before I die guarantee it guarantee Unless unless I fucking peace out hell of random. You know cheers in Japanese Yeah, kum pie the best the best cheers of all the cheers dude. Absolutely. Yeah Makes me hungry. I'm gonna come. That's a celebratory right there. And that's me making babies. That's load boost money. Come by.

Everybody's coming. I like that. Everybody's. Everybody's coming. I like that. To Japan. Come by. My bucket list, I don't know what my bucket list would be.

I feel like my bucket list would be things that like I can't just make happen. You know what I mean? Like we were going through our like our tattoo names of comedy people. If I could be in a writer's room and sit and break a story with a Ben Stiller or somebody like that, you know what I mean? And just have that experience and make something, that'd be fucking sick.

But he won't return my calls. I bet you could have, when when Severin's season three is staffing up, you could throw your name in. I'd be like, yo, what if they weren't Severed? No. Well, we have friends that are in that writer's room. I think that's a possibility that you could get in there if you really wanted that. I mean, I've even, I've sat, I can't remember what it was for.

Was it Zoolien or two or something? Where I did sit in a room with Ben and Justin Theroux and kind of bullshit about ideas for the script, but perfect. But you did it. But they didn't make it. No, but it was like, I don't know, it was like a short session or something. I can't remember exactly why I was there.

Do you think they wrapped it up and pretended to be leaving and then went back in? Hey everybody, hold back real quick. Um, we're going to call it. We're going to call it. Um, everybody, everybody except for Ders hold back real quick, real quick. I was just still eating my lunch from like a round table and then they were like, do you care if we have a meeting?

And I go, I got some ideas. No, but I don't know, like doing, have doing something created with somebody. Yes. You, you, you mentioned this even when we were talking about like, yo, if we could, if we had a billion dollars or whatever, Adam would like shoot down planes with missile launchers and you were like, I just want to like create something or whatever. So I, I, your just want to like create something or whatever. So like your bucket list and your billion dollar list is a similar thing. You could build a city like Sim City.

You could, you know, be the mastermind of this beautiful city and create this wonderful utopia. And I could destroy it with my rocket launchers. Right. That would be a cool yin and yang for me and you. Yeah, right. I love it. Bucket list.

Let's start filling out our bucket list because we are getting old and we do need to really like complete it for you. So the wrestling thing would do it for you, Blaze? That's a thing that's on your bucket list? Yeah. I think that would be really cool. And also like he wants to travel, but it's too much of a jam. To me that seems so like surface like, yeah, come here and like do this thing and like see ya. Like, I of a jam. Japan. To me that seems so surface,

yeah come here and do this thing, see ya. I don't know. It's a long list. No, a bucket list to me is something you have to do before you die. I don't have to do that. That would be a fucking awesome moment in my life to be on the pro wrestling stage.

That would be very cool. But I won't feel incomplete if I'm lying in my death bed and I did not. I also feel like I don't have to do anything. I just think it would be cool to do. Like I didn't have to go shark diving. That wasn't like, I have to go shark diving. It was just one. It was just the pandemic and we were like, perfect.

Why you done it once before with Efron in Hawaii for Mike and Dave's wedding dates. And we were just like, let's fucking do it. And then when I did it, I was like, holy shit, that was insane and incredible. And then we did the- It wasn't as fun with us. You had some unfinished business.

Now, what was it like diving with him? Cause I imagine like you were a little, you lost a bunch of weight for that, but I was gonna say next to him. You got a lot more meat on your bones Sharks are going for you. They're not necessarily going for mr. Efron. Yeah your body time They're like he's one of us. He's one of us your body type is way more of a harbor seal, right? He's got shark skin. Yeah. Yeah this little he has two little fish next to his dick just swimming around beluga We're gonna eat up god What do they call these gills?

gills Yes Yeah, I'm so dumb. No, you're good, dude Yeah, no, I was I was for sure scared because it wasn't a small tiger shark like we saw a couple small tiger sharks when we did the Can't get into a tiger shark layer thing it was 13 feet it was the size of a fucking van that came out of nowhere it was fucking enormous right and then Zack swims up to it and grabs its fin

yeah yeah he's like that and where everybody was like that shit was fucking insane and then he does it two more times wow do you have like a death wish does he have like a death wish personality where he's just like I don't know I don't know that's crazy cuz that's that's disastrous. I would never ever yeah, it seemed like a wild I mean, it's a you know there's a obviously was a wild shark It was we we weren't in fucking SeaWorld. We were out in the ocean. Just grabbing Tiger Shark. So that was crazy. It's a weird question, Blake. It's a weird question. When I say Death Wish, I don't mean like he's suicidal or anything.

I'm just saying like, is the guy like, just, it seems like... I think he's a risk taker. Yeah, I think he's a risk taker. Yeah. He's like, I dare you to kill me, God! Yeah, I think I would like, you know, I want to go on a safari. Like, I might shoot this thing in Africa later this year. That would be dope. And if I do actually shoot that movie, I want to try to extend and go on like a sick safari

and like see some lions and tigers. Oh my. It's awesome. That would be incredible. I love that idea. It's the shit. And you're also just in a van looking at animals. I'm living in a nightmare. It's this shit and you're also just in a van looking at animals.

I'm living in a nightmare. It's this weird duality where you're like, whoa, it's a fucking lion and we're on their turf. It's not the zoo. But at the same time, I'm eating Doritos in this van. That's cool. And then we just drive away. You know what I mean?

So that's cool. So you're allowed to bring sandwiches. Cause that was my follow-up question. Yeah. Can you bring sandwiches and Doritos and that kind of Like. So that's cool. So you're allowed to bring sandwiches. Because that was my follow up question. Yeah. Can you bring sandwiches and Doritos and that kind of thing. Now it's my bucket list. All right. Now I can move right up to the top. Now it's my bucket list.

Move right up to the top. What are the Dorito flavors in Africa? Are there some different ones? Like some good ones? That's so racist. No it is not, dude. I've been to Europe. I'm just fucking around They got some wild ass chip flavors overseas. Rino meat you know they got rhino meat. Even in Canada They got weird ass chip flavors. Yeah like ketchup and maple syrup and shit No all dressed shout out to all dressed fucking wonder. Now he likes Canada

Okay, and also ketchup and ketchup, but not maple syrup. That's not chip flavor Yeah, I bet they do. I guarantee there's a maple syrup chip up in Canada, without a doubt. I mean, maybe as a goof. Producers, feel free to put that in the chat. Thank you. They won't. They're busy. Without a doubt.

And it's sort of like Kit Kats in Japan. Right, they got a lot of flavor. Where they have like wasabi flavored Kit Kats. Yeah, I think it's matcha. Probably maple syrup. Probably maple syrup flavored. I think I brought a bunch home for my kids and they were like, no thanks from Japan.

Your kids are wild, dude. They said no. That's wild. They are wild. It's a whole new gen, man. I mean, I don't know about your kids, but like. I mean, I loved eating weird shit when I was a kid. I guess that weird I got shamrock shakes the other night because we're at shamrock shake season.

It's a family tradition. I mean, come on, baby. Happy St. Paddy's. Look at the Irish to you. It's a look at the Irish. My oldest kid was like, no, I'm like, what? It's a milkshake. He's like, I don't want a milkshake from McDonald's.

I was like, see you. Wow. Whathake. He's like, I don't want a milkshake from McDonald's. And I was like, pretty sure, see ya. Wow. Okay. What the hell? Well, that's no fun. Wow. I mean, he likes Shake Shack. I mean, I guess he's, I think he just knows McDonald's is-

Some of these kids might be a little spoiled with their ice cream. Yeah. Well, I was just gonna say, we've talked about this before. You don't have to go to McDonald's anymore. There's so many other fast food options that are just better now that he's like,

I'm not stepping in that shit. But is it a fast food thing or is he got like, does he have the Los Angeles tongue for ice cream? You know, like. Don't talk about my son's tongue. No, I just. He's always talking about kids' tongues, dude. Yeah, it's just whenever I talk about him,

I'm like, how's the tongue? And I'm like, I don't know. Where's those maple syrup chips that I know that they're currently looking for producers? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you, Todd. No, I'm about him, I'm like, how's the tongue? Where's those maple syrup chips that I know that they're currently looking for producers? Thank you, Todd. I'm just saying there's a lot of highfalutin ice cream shops out of here, and sometimes these kids, they don't realize that there was a... No, because he's basic, dude. I got a bunch of Jenny's ice cream the other day that has wild ass flavors. Super good. And he goes, you didn't get any vanilla?

Oh, shit. No, honky. Oh is good. And he goes, you didn't get any vanilla? And I was like, no honky. Oh my God. Whoop-a-back! Yeah, what a cracker. But he for sure is. And then I was like, and he goes, I don't want any of that. I'm like, what? Fucking almond brittle or like cookies and cream

or what not? Cookies and cream, baby, that's my dream. Cookies and cream is a, that's a gangster. That's my bucket list. Well, Kettle makes a maple bacon flavored potato chips. Okay. It's flying off the shelves. But that doesn't seem like it's just a Canadian flavor.

That seems like some American shit to me. You said it so confidently. I win. Okay. I bet that's probably gotta be somewhere in America. Yeah, probably something else. Maple bacon potato chips? Oh, there's a maple mousse Lays potato chip. Okay, that something else. Maple bacon potato chips? Oh, there's a maple mousse, Lays potato chips.

Okay, that's Canadian. So if that's not from Canada, I don't know what is! Well, send some our way, Canada. No, the trade wars are on, we can't get their chips no more. Fuck, dude. Oh shit, it'd be like 250 bucks. I'm so heated about that, dude. I'm heated. Dude.

Yeah, I forgot. You're really into politics. No. I'm so heated about that dude. I'm heated. Yeah, I forgot you you're really into Politics no, I'm really I like so will you just tell me about how how it's all going No, I just I bet I bet it is you used to own a t-shirt company I don't know if you still are involved in your t-shirt company, but Does that affect your t-shirt company turtle? No, I don't I don't have a t-shirt company anymore. Okay. No, it doesn't. Yessir.

Okay, but is that affecting the t-shirt company business? I have no clue. Probably, right? Were your t-shirts made in the U.S. of A? Uh-oh, here we go. Sensitive question. They were printed in the United States of America. Yeah, that's not what I asked. No, no t-shirt blanks are, unless you do American apparel,

but at the time... No t-shirt blanks? And now what are t-shirt blanks? Like, if you look at the tag of some of your t-shirts, you'll know that there's like All Style or Gildan or American Apparel. There's like, or Hanes or Fruit of a Loom. There's like certain places that create the base of your t-shirt.

The t-shirt. Yes, and those are usually not made in America. American Apparel was, but then the guy who owned that company turned out to be kind of a scuzzard. He went a little cuckoo. Isn't it crazy? Well, isn't it crazy? Like this is, it is gonna make...

America great again? Here he goes! It is insane. Is this a long walk? It's gonna suck a lot. We can't have this conversation with these hats on. I'm sorry. Of course we can. I don't know.

Mike Rowe broke it down and I listen to everything Mike Rowe says. Oh, okay. And he was saying that essentially it's gonna suck for a while. Like a generation or like six months? No, no. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. 24 months.

Hopefully, I don't know how long he didn't say. I would not think a generation. Or maybe we'll, maybe we're entering the Great Depression around deuce. Wee-oo! But then everything is gonna be built in America again, and we won't won't be reliant on China and yada yada Hmm, which does make sense, but uh, you know, it's really gonna fucking suck and I liked my cheap shit from overseas Oh, yeah, I'm pissed now, but then again, I don't own an American factory So I love the idea of just being sandwiched between Canada and Mexico who start to just dig China.

China's like, yeah, we'll hook you up. We're your friends now and then we're just fucking in a shit sandwich. Hi. And then we can't go to Casamel anymore. Can we get those chips? Do you have any chips? Where's your maple chips, baby? But we just want the maple chips.

The maple kind? Yeah. I'm pissed. I'm freaking pissed now. Our crews can't fucking land. Yeah, what the fuck? They said, no, sir, go back. We go to Tampa, where we leave in the year 2026, February 22nd through 26th.

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Perfect. Cabo San Lucas. Beautiful. Great. And if I had a map of Mexico wouldn't know where to point mmm that's at the bottom of Baja California that's tippy wippy yes love Baja tippy whip Baja blast baby let's have Baja blast machines on the cruise ship I would love that there's now alcoholic Baja blast oh my god right didn't I send

you guys a picture from the liquor store? Yes. Unreal. Wow. He's the best. Wow, they really figured it out. They have those Taco Bell Cantinas which are like bars and Taco Bells. It's so cool. One down the street from my house.

You're so lucky dude. Yeah, never go. I don't think that's anywhere near Hollywood. Do you guys like this stuff? The like, the like brandification of just everything? Like, I don't think so. Do you know what I'm saying or no? Blake, you do.

If anyone likes it, it's you. You love it. I took a fucking video the other day of the ice cream aisle. And there's, they had rice crispy treats ice cream next to honey smacks ice cream next to fruit loops ice cream next to Eggo buttery maple ice cream next to Pops ice cream next to Honey Smacks ice cream next to Fruit Loops ice cream next to Eggo buttery maple Mm-hmm ice cream next to pops ice cream next to Apple Jack's ice cream next to Frosted Flakes ice cream So Blake I've never heard of a thing Blake likes more than the brandification of that I am a sucker for that shit Yeah, I will say that we all are cuz your knee-jerk reaction is like Oh, I love pops gotta have my pops right but now it's like ice cream or like dental floss or like that's not good Oatmeal that's now just like that's a candy. It's just yes. Love it. RFK. Where are you pal? That's stuff

I'm learning to not fall for that stuff as much because it never pays off as much as you'd hope. Emotionally a gotcha? Yeah, I'll buy the Taco Bell chips and then you're like, it's not really. But what I do like is if you go into the sauce aisle. No. Yes, we live in such an awesome time. You're talking like the Chick-fil-A sauce

and the Panda Express sauce. The Chick-fil-A sauce and like the Panda Cress sauce? The Chick-fil-A sauce, the Subway dressings, the orange chicken sauce, the Buffalo Wild Wing sauce. In the crib? Dude! I haven't been down the sauce aisle in a minute. I didn't know this was a thing that's real. Oh, dude! I will say I haven't had an energy drink in... YEARS!

MONTHS! Okay. MONTHS! And it's been years. Oh, dude. I will say I haven't had an energy drink in... Years! Months! And... Months! And, uh, it's been years! And I saw on the back of a truck... Wait, you haven't had an energy drink in years now? Uh, over a year. Okay.

Oh, wow! That's crazy. Nope, I take it back, I've had one. Okay. I have had one. I had a sugar-free Red Bull four months ago. Yeah, you're like, GOLD MAN!

The Ghost energy drinks. Sure. Okay, okay. They have a Sour Patch Kid energy drink. Yeah. Ghost is a workout supplement, correct? Yes. Pre-workout.

Pre-workout. Yeah. Pre-workout and then they also do protein powders and shit like that. And they make a canned energy energy drink Yes, and it looks Incredible my mouth was watering. I'm driving behind this truck and it was like a you know 18 Wheeler and I was like wouldn't mind complying with that with my with a few buddies Buddies of mine

We're not compiling with that with a few buddies of mine. Wind it up! Okay. Yes, points! Alright, so I gave it the brandification. It got me, dude. I was like, Sour Patch Kids. But dude, it's so crazy, dude. It's like toothpaste flavors.

It's unavoidable. Like, what the f- But like, don't you feel- Like a sucker? No. Like a chump? Don't you feel like they think we're dumber than we are? No, we are dumb.

Yeah. I know. I know. I'm just dumb enough. We're getting dumber. We're getting dumber. We're getting dumber. The cereal aisle is wild right now, dude.

Because the ice cream is all cereal, and then the cereal is all ice cream. It's all ice cream. What's the deal? Yeah, that's a sign-filled bit for sure. What's the deal? The cereal is's a sign-fold bit for sure. The cereal's all ice cream, the ice cream's all cereal. I know, I still am a sucker for it.

Because when I see Reese's Peanut Butter Cup fucking cereal, I gotta go. I gotta get on. I know, and I think I told you guys that I went to a fucking Applebee's and I was like, oh shit, Pop Rocks in a truly temple. Like let's go. And then I was like, they got me. This is fucking gross. But the sugar game, what it's like their last Hail Mary. Oh yeah.

They're like, we got to offload all this stuff and put it into everything before RFK puts the fucking hammer down. I fucking hate it here, bro. I'm going to fucking Canada bro. Do we think RFK is actually going to do shit? Because Trump eats like a fucking garbage can. That was just like to get his votes right? I know.

That was the whole thing when he had to eat fried chicken with Trump. I can't remember who was talking to him about it. But he was like. He's like haha gotcha bitch. Twist his arm. I'm so fucking hungry. I just find it disturbing man. I just find it fucking wild. But he was like he's like haha gotcha twist his arm I just find it disturbing man. I just find it fucking wild because it's like I feel targeted Is what are you are I know but like everyone acts like it's fucking normal But you like that shit more than anyone I thought I do but now when I feel targeted it used to be cute

It used to be like oh, I see Adam. I'm is what I was saying. I used to love it, too But now it's like it's a little too much. I'm feeling like a mark too much. Thank you Like I used to be like huh well just don't get it then just don't get it. I'm starting to it's but dude It's becoming unavoidable. You know I don't get it. I think it's cool, but I don't get it You know you know the cereal that I I couldn't fuck with that I saw and I thought of you go, well, have you seen these ones where it's like, where it's like cinnamon to a crunch loaded, loaded? Yeah.

It's just a bunch of comp. I thought that's a comp pie. They have multiple load. I'm complying with a few buddies. And I, and I thought about you guys immediately when I saw this, I thought about all my close dude friends and the pop-tart flavors now loaded are out of Control they're just different cream pie

flavors kumppi Did you try and do a kumppi joke and fuck up yeah like this is wild dude. Loaded. Why everything is loaded with fucking semen now What are they teaching? And if you go to like the kids shit all the like yogurts All those are flavored from some load it was like Paw Patrol shit Who cocky yo play freaking view cake look at the tricks loaded actually looks like a fire-ass like hip-hop album That looks like a coochie. Yeah, I feel like I just said that. No, but it does, who had the albums

that had like the diamond font? That was No Limit for sure. No Limit Soulja. Like I told ya. Where's that? Where's the rap snacks of cereal? How have they not done rap snacks of cereal? Oh dude, look at these though.

Look at this, look at General Mills tried to get into it with Hershey's and Pillsbury. Pillows. This is what I'm saying. Pillows. See why they filling everything with white goo bro. Not mad at it. Dude this is RFK. Dude you gotta eat your pill. RFK is gonna take it down. Dude and also Pillsbury cinnamon roll? That seems like a lot, dude. Dude, that is, that's bad, right? That's bad for you. Well, obviously. Yeah, all cereal's bad for you.

All breakfast cereal is terrible for you. Yeah, that's how we started our day as young bucks. Yeah, I still will smash some cereal. I still, I eat protein cereal, which probably is even worse for you, but I'll have this protein cereal. Because why? Just because they, you, but I'll have this protein cereal. Just because they, like, now I'm just eating a ton of whey protein.

Soy or some shit. Yeah, like, what, you look at the list of ingredients, it's like a mile long, and I'm like, Gimme, gimme. You can't pronounce anything in there. Your boobs are huge. I wish they were huger, dude. Yeah, you can get them back. What's wild to me is that I used to dig going into the fucking cereal aisle and being like,

I'm about to get something naughty. And now I'm like, this is gross. This is too naughty. Yeah, you're too old. It's a porn hub. I know, but like. That mustache went white and you lost your cool, dude. I wish it would just all go white as opposed to just like cobwebs here and there.

Dude, I feel like you are six months to one year away from it being all white. Because this, a year ago, wasn't this white. Even close to. Well, it wasn't this bushy, was it? Oh, no. You know what? I got scared the other day and it changed. Oh, God. What scared you, bud? He's not going to make his bucket list. Your face. Say it.

Oh wow. Fucking burn, bro. Got you. Epic slam. That wasn't very nice. Burn! It wasn't that. Killer. I'm not telling you. It was scary.

Hey, I want nothing more than for us all to be Just Bermend boys. I want to do Just Bermend. Just combing it in. Oh, so bad. Yeah, you just comb in a little sauce, and your stash just jumps off the page. Is it the Ohio State football coach who's got the dark beard that you're like,

it's just too dark. It's not, there's no way your beard is that dark. Yeah, there has to be some. Your beard is dark. Amount that you can, no, I mean, it does, like. There has to be some way that you can. What are you saying? Goodbye. that you can age yourself down a little

bit, but not to where you're like trying to act like you're a 26 year old guy again. Right. Yeah. How do you guys feel about men of a certain age who- Two pays? Oh. Huh? I thought you were going to say two pays.

Who are on TRT, which Blake should be on. Yes. No, men of a certain age who dye their hair, like well into their 60s. And they can pull it off, and there's definitely some who cannot pull it off at all, where you're like, you're 80 and your hair

is like jet black. It's just off, right? But the dudes who pull it off, go for it. I don't think anyone can really fuck Blake. Blake. What is, oh my God, boys. If you're watching YouTube. Yeah, you're in for a treat.

He just gave himself a little Fu Manchu, a little goatee. You look old as fuck. I look like I play in Black Sabbath, brother. No. What's cool is you have a mustache, and that mustache is somehow thinner and wispier than your mustache.

A mustache under your mustache. You don't look like you play in Black Sabbath. You look like someone who plays it for their kids on the way to school. And you're going to love this. I look like Tommy Iommi. These are called bands. They're a thing that used to school. And you're gonna love this. These are called bands. They're a thing that used to exist.

No, you look like someone who plays it for their kids, but their kids are grown and out of the house and doesn't talk to them. Welcome home, brother. He says brother a lot. Let me play you something. And you're like, they're like, I gotta play you something.

Dad, quit calling me. I told you, you're out of my life. Just let it go to voicemail. Just let me play you something. Dad, quit calling me. I told you you're out of my life. Just let it go to voicemail. Just let me play you something, brother. I got to play you something, brother. You got to hear this, brother. Dad, you're not my brother. Uh, I'm your daughter.

Come on, brother. Uh, dude. Wow, dude. Yeah, no, I think, I think the only way I would dye my hair like that would be Dye it white like if it's going kind of kind of gray or kind of white Just go just say fuck it and go full-on uncle baby Billy and just get a shot ahead of White hair that being said if I go bald

Full-on hair plugs without even batting an eye. I think a terrible toupee is one of the coolest fucking looks. When like you could tell that somebody just laid like a dead animal on their head. Any take backs or? And they go out the fucking house like that. Yeah, but you like that ironic look. Yeah, sure. I don't know if they exist really anymore. Oh no, I've... When you see see him when you see him. You're like There's a guy at the breakfast spot I go to a lot that has a crazy gnarly to pay

Yeah, dude, you see like the line that goes across. Mm-hmm. It's a lost art. I Truly if you guys wait, I think we might have talked about this But if you went bald, would you guys go... Would you get hair plugs? I would. I would, for sure. Hair plugs?

Or like the new school ones, like the Piv and Jamie Foxx joints? Yeah, those hair plugs, yeah. Yeah, I guess I just don't even know what's what. Although I know somebody who took Rogaine or whatever. Dick fell off. And they were fully a bald person person and now it's back. Do they say lustreous? Yeah, they say lustreous.

Luscious. Luscious? Well, both are words. Are they? Luscious. Luscious? Luscious. Luscious.

Lucius. Their hair's luscious now. You mentioned baby Billy. So I would try that first thing before I would get like plugs, take it from the back to the front. Yeah, I think you would have to do Rogaine first, because if not... If I bald just on the top and had like a skullet, I'd be hyped on that. I think that's the coolest hairdo ever is when you just...

Even when it's just the horseshoe around the head, that's a lost hairstyle and I think it's... You're talking about Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan, yeah it's you're talking about Hulk Hogan Hulk Hogan. Yeah. So you're just talking to Hulk Hogan. Yes. But I'm saying even if you're, if you're a guy that's a lost haircut, I don't think anyone to have that except for him.

No, no, I'm saying like, you know, like say you don't have long hair. You're still like a short hair guy, but you still have the like horseshoe. The Costanza. Yes. That's the coolest hairstyle in the world. No, everyone is ashamed to rock that. Like LeBron should have that. That shit is fucking cool, dude.

Yeah, the John Amos style, if LeBron had that, it would be sick. So tight. It is weird that some people can get hair plugs and it looks great. Like Joel McHale, he has hair plugs. He talks about it, I'm not outing him. But his hair looks great. You couldn't tell. You can't tell. But LeBron, the guy has to get hair plugs every other weekend it seems.

And then it looks bad every time. Like halfway through the year, he loses his hair again. I don't even know. I haven't been paying attention. Why doesn't it look good? He's never admitted to it, but what I will say, it like just starts to get- It starts to fall out. Yeah. Like halfway through the season.

And I guess- He's an athlete, of course. I mean, why of course? But LeBron is buff enough and sick enough. I feel like Joel McHale probably works out like a motherfucker. Yeah, he does. I know, but LeBron sweats nonstop. I don't think it has anything to do with sweating

I don't they don't I don't know. They tell you to know Adam Adam. Let's let's let's hear Come on. Yeah, so he's sweating so hard the hair just okay. It's out It's science. It's like we gotta go. We're gonna drown. That's besides the point Here's the deal is I think that LeBron actually has a I think he has a responsibility. Here's the deal. I think he has a responsibility because he's such a fucking legend, mate. Legend.

He's such a fucking athletic god, specimen, arguably the goat. True, true. He isn't. He could grow that hairstyle, the horseshoe, and make it socially acceptable and really cool. Who is, who's the last person to rocket that you, that is this person, that is this figure you're talking about?

Do you remember speaking, I think Zeus. Bruce Willis? I think, no, Bruce never really grew it out. Did you just say Zeus? Yes. Like from Greek times or whatever? No, from No Holds Barred starring Hulk Hogan. It's the bad, remember the bad guy Zeus

I think he had it and it was really cool. So that's the guy that's the last person to pull it off It's been a while. No, there's probably some people who were like I'm thinking I can't summon the names But they're like dudes in like funk bands that would like let their shit grow. That was really fucking cool Like I want to say like there was a dude in cameo. No, he had like a flat. Wow. So all these deep cut bands that stop. Let's just stop for a second. Like Van Gundys, the Van Gundys rocket.

But that's the thing. You have to still be, you can't be like a little like, I want you to be like a buff dude. I think they're both over six feet, but they're just next to tall people, so you're like, heating on them. They're kind of like turdy dudes, though. They're kind of nerdy guys. I don't know that. That's how you think about like, CP3 and then you stand next to him and you go, he's bigger

than me, what the fuck. I'm talking a guy con with some swag. Those guys don't have a lot of like, swag-oos. Bruce Willis? Was he the last one to do this? I don't think he ever grew out the sides like that. What do you, isn't that what he looks like in Die Hard? No, that's like a buzz cut.

He's like got a shape head. That's not like- Can somebody pull up a picture of Bruce Willis in Die Hard? No, he's talking about the long hair. He's talking about- No, it's not long. It just has to be- No, he's just talking about the horseshoe.

Yeah, Bruce Willis doesn't have that. It's like one, it's like one even- He's got a little bit on the top. He's got like a tuft, which my dad had when we were... before he admitted that his hair was bald. And that's dope too. And I'm down for that too. I love anybody clinging to their normal hair pattern as it begins to fade, it's even sicker. I think balding is fucking cool as fuck.

Yeah, I could agree. That being I would we are you setting something? I get it. Yeah, I'd get hair plugs So quickly. Yeah, I think it rocks. It's awesome that being said as fast as possible that being said Absolutely, I would I would Turn off that mustache, bro It's like that you could turn off and on a mustache I wish I could dude I'm so I just checked again as if as if it suddenly would start working and be able to be part of the cool thing where I could have mustaches

like you guys can just add a mustache but it's science hey let's do take backs and shit I gotta go okay all right apologies any epic slams I wish I get epic slam somebody in the in a wrestling ring. That's on my bucket list That's a pretty good yes points. Thank you. And god damn! Will somebody slide in Blake's DMs and tell him the last boss? Oh Jesse Ventura? He's a yeah, he's an animal dude. I love it.

He's got it. He's also a wrestler. Can't be a pro wrestler. Yeah, seems like they're all pro wrestlers. So, hiding Blake CMs with a person who's got the hair pattern cannot be... I bet there's a really metal bro who has, Rick Rubin is pretty sick, but that's long.

I also want it not to be long. I want it to be short. I want it to be a short horseshoe. By the way, now that I'm thinking thinking it's all just like earthquake had it. Like it's all wrestlers. Maurice White had it. Yeah. It's a lot of wrestlers.

Why is it all wrestlers? Because it's an insane look. No, there's also, you probably had a teacher who had the had it. Okay, any other take backs or dead ring? No, I had a friend whose dad had it. Mr. King. Mr. King had it. Okay, any other take backs or dead rings? No, I had a friend whose dad had it. Mr. King had it. There you go.

Yeah. Player. Who else? Mr. Phyllis-Born had it. Any take backs? It was a good look. It was a little bit of an ownership thing where it's like, I'm just gonna own it.

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