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WWE / Cults / Vacation Rentals

This week on We're Still Cool, Right?, your boys dive into heavy hitter topics like Professional Wrestling, Vacation Rentals, and Cults.

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This week on We're Still Cool, Right?, your boys dive into heavy hitter topics like Professional Wrestling, Vacation Rentals, and Cults. Plus, if anyone can help Mike get some damn Olivia Rodrigo tickets, he'd probably give his left testicle.

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Welcome to We're Still Cool, Right? The weekly podcast where the conversation flows smoother than top-shelf whiskey. And cool, well, it never really left. Grab a drink and hang out with Erik, Mike, and Shaun while they dive into nostalgia and attempt to answer the age-old question. We're still cool, right?

What you gonna do brother when Mikey mania runs wild on you fucking love it good job Mikey mania not hook me. Oh, well. Hey He probably doesn't care Another one we are back baby. You know funny. We survived beer fest. We're still here I just thought of that. That's really funny. Yeah, thank you. I thought of it beforehand. I'm like, technically, when they're hearing this, we survived. So if we don't, that's even funnier.

I mean, because we're recording this a few days before Beer Fest. It's going a long way for a joke, buddy. I'm committed. What do you think happened? Oh, God. So many things could be. We could be in jail. I mean, we could have survived, but we're in jail. They don't really do that. change your profile no yeah right just don't drink a 50 pack and dry i get to keep my hat on yeah you guys like my koozie oh fancy yeah you guys don't get one but i got one see uh these were at beer fest so if you were lucky enough to get one it's so weird talking about something that hasn't happened yet i kind of like it oh yeah it's like predicting the future i know comes on the world series no probably not but you know i think you can make some pretty easy predictions about the future.

I did see there was some rain in the forecast. A little bit. It keeps coming and going. It's going to be nice. 75 degrees. It's going to be beautiful. It's going to be so much fun. Perfect. It was so much fun. That's what we mean. With that being said, we got a delicious looking drink here. Hell yeah, we do. With garnish. Absolutely. You want to take us through this one, Erik? Because obviously it wasn't Shaun or I. So you got lucky enough that we had strawberries in the fridge so otherwise there wasn't going to be a garnish that worked it's impressive garnish though so uh today we have a strawberry negroni so it's a kind of a take on a classic cocktail the negroni um we have one ounce of gin one ounce of strawberry vermouth which is the strawberry besides the garnish and then um one ounce of i did like an aperol but you could do campari so But typically a Negroni has Campari.

It's a little more bitter. But with the strawberry, I figured the sweeter side would be better. Yeah. Probably a better way to go. And the vermouth was freezing cold, which you told me, and I learned tonight for the first time ever, vermouth is supposed to be chilled once opened. Yeah. It even says it on the bottle, but I never knew that. And where did we get this stuff to make this today? The cocktail is brought to you by Benz Beverage Depot. Benz. Yeah. Where are they located at? 501 7th Avenue. We were just there. Big Green Chilies. Yeah, right. We were there for a beer fest, dummy. God. I totally forgot.

You were there for like two hours, so you figured it out. Guys, Logan drank a lot that day. Who am I? Sunday was rough. Wait till you see the clips of him and what he did. Fucking body surfing and shit. It was crazy. Did I do that? Yeah. I don't even remember. You blacked out. We threw you in the van and you got home. It was fine. When I was kind of working on my liquor license and management stuff and all that, that vermouth thing is real. about if you ever go to a bar where they don't refrigerator chill their vermouth, that's a big red flag. Yeah. When it got brought up, Shaun's like, I don't think bars do it.

I've never noticed them do it. My daddy used to put it in the fucking cabinet all the time and never was in the refrigerator. I had never heard that. Yeah, now you know. Put your vermouth in the fridge. Yeah. Don't say you don't learn things by listening to us. We're here for you. So vermouth in the fridge, but this drink down the hat. This looks delicious. Cheers, everybody. While they drink, I'll comment and say, like, usually I don't care about garnishes too much, but this makes the whole thing smell like fresh strawberries. It does. It smells fantastic. That's fucking good. That is really good.

Like, it's definitely like. It's got some sweet and some. Bitter. Bitter. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't want to say it's boozy, but you can taste the booze, which I like. More sweet than bitter. Bitter than sweet. And now we're all horny. Okay. Is that Enya? Shut up. Do you know who that is? I know that song. I don't. What is that? Big Head Todd, The Monsters? Fucking amazing. Huh. Bittersweet? No. I know Bittersweet by Fuel. That's a good song. Oh, my God. I know Bittersweet Symphony. The Verve pipe, right? Or the Verve? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, guys. Hey, you know what? Fuck you. You didn't know. You dropped a bomb on me.

But then I found that TikTok popped up the next day. That thing's been in my fucking head for a while. The fucking TikTok popped up the next day of that thing, and I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah, it was a baseball team dancing to it, like an 80s baseball team or something. No, it's one of the teams from the Savannah Bananas. Oh, it was? Oh, I didn't even realize. Smooth. Yeah, dude, that was great. No, this is really good. I highly recommend making one of these. Well, I suggest that you listen to some Big Head Todd the Monsters. The fucking blue CD is amazing. Big Head Todd. I've never even heard of that.

Oh, my God. so they oh so good you've definitely heard that song before yeah i guess maybe if it played but i've i sweet and bitter it does not sound familiar and the name of the band definitely doesn't um i saw them it was probably one of my first concerts actually i think it was my first concert that i saw it was um down it was when they used to do the taste of they did the taste of iowa like here but then they had to change it to the taste of cedar rapids because it's not all of iowa you know what i mean like yeah broke my brain with how deep those lyrics were big head todd all right buddy shout out to you look at the big brain on todd yeah he's yeah he's a big indian dude like seriously he's like six seven or something really he came on stage i'm like holy um but yeah I couldn't help it.

I'd love that we grew on that for our kids. If anyone else out there has never heard that, please email us because I can't be the only one. We're so cool, right? I'm sure a lot of people like that. I'm sure they do, but I just can't believe I've never heard it. Because if he fucking knows it, and he's 25 or whatever, I think it's on a TV show is how I know it. Oh. Let's see if I can figure out which one. I'm going to send you a couple of my favorites from him. All right. all right i'll you know i'll listen but with that being said yeah i mean i just want to jump into it yeah i just want to jump into it because of your comment from the beginning you know i mean which yeah i got from you the my question to the group is wwe still cool and i say that because i watched the fucking hulk the hulk hogan documentary and it was so fucking good it was so good and i didn't grow up like a huge wrestling fan like i dabbled in it a little bit you know um and i've talked about this before on the podcast i worked out at the hotel when they had oh yeah when one of those are going on and i met a bunch of i met like macho man randy savage i met like a lot of those those guys oh yeah and he actually talked like that he's like hey little brother where's the weight room at you know what i mean like he was so fun yeah he's just out of his gourd the um rick flair was the best he was up in the fucking bar the whole time just just he hasn't changed just powering down fucking martinis yeah i think he's 85 and still doing the same thing so um

but if you haven't seen the documentary i just watch it i haven't anybody i've talked to this watch it has loved it you know and then the guy had his fucking hell of a life you know just to when he talks about like building that character right because that's what it is it's showman for that wrestling you know like it really is and just how he kind of you know kind of tried to figure his way out of what he was going to do and then when all of a sudden the hulk or the hulkster you know like when he really took on that one hulk hogan because he had like three other names before that didn't really hit you know and then and then when he had that and then it blew up and then he just became hulk hogan yeah and he just talks about how just how much that it's it's like a different character you know like he's that that's not who necessarily is in real life well then there was like there was an era where he was bad like he turned heel i kind of remember that like so i was massive into wrestling when i was really young like i had the ring and i played with the wrestlers and the whole thing i literally remember finding out because i was so young and stupid like when i found out it was fake like they're like they weren't really trying their hardest yeah it like broke me i stopped watching it like that it did it for me like because i really thought it was real yeah now i understand it and i understand why people like it i can't follow it anymore like i just can't but like we have friends who do and it's fun sometimes because they'll have like the the royal rumble they'll go over and they'll draw names and like bet on it yeah it's entertaining yeah so during covid um um like remote producer benjo chris like those guys in their neighborhood

there's no sports on so those guys started watching old royal rumbles and they had no fucking idea who was good you know they didn't watch it when they were younger yeah so they would all bet on somebody and watch like you know like 1995 royal rumbles you know they'd all pick who they just bet on who they thought was going to win and shit like that. I want to do that. I know. I talked to him. He's like, dude, it was some of the most fun we had. We'd have it on the garage TV and everybody throw in some money and you pick your person. You have no idea. Didn't they all dress up as wrestlers one year? Was it them I'm thinking of? I don't know. I thought they did.

I was like, I wonder if it was around. Anyway, yeah. I mean, it could have been one of those things, but yeah, I like taking flashback to COVID when there was no sports or anything like that and how much you missed it to what you search for wrestling. Dude, what if for a bonus episode we watch one right here, like go into it blind. Pick one? Pick one, like just commentary it. That'd be fun as shit. That's an idea for sure. Yeah. That's a true, that would be. Do that on live. That would be fun. That would be kind of fucking fun. Because I've watched a ton of them growing up, but I don't remember who won.

I was like, Hulk Hogan, everyone, I don't know anyone that didn't like him. He was, you had to at least like him. He was just the hero. You know what I mean? He always was, but he was always. the all-american hero yeah but he was just a massive man too i didn't he's six eight is he really yeah he was like six i had no idea he was that bad he's like six eight fucking yeah 300 and some pounds just i mean he jacked i remember watching the show like i don't know they had a reality show yeah what's called that dude worked out every day i mean it didn't matter like even in this old age with arthritis bad hips like you've never missed this horrible back like i mean you got to watch it because i'd be i don't want to say anything more because you guys haven't seen it with this stuff but like yeah i mean he still works out yeah like in the video he's still he's limited what he can do but he's fucking working out in his gym guaranteeing the afterlife he's still pumping yeah right just fucking pumping away so um yeah i can't say it enough you gotta fucking watch it it was so it was so even like ashley watched it with me yeah and she used to watch it when she was younger like her her stepbrothers and stuff would watch it you know i mean so she kind of like some of the names are coming up she's like oh yeah i remember that i'm like you remember like i'm like really i'm like all right but it is fun hearing some of the names you're like oh i actually remember that's the cool names though and like just these cool characters and and it's fake and it's corny but it's entertaining but they really do that hurts them yeah i mean

mean that stuff that they're doing is no joke you know i mean like when they're bleeding they're really bleeding when they're jumping off those ropes you know i mean when they're doing that stuff that it's it's legit those ladder matches where they fall from like 25 feet it's like that there's no way that can't hurt well you know what i mean yeah and it's that part is real like the stunt is real i understand that the the wrestling isn't but they kind of talk about it in a way that it's not like it's choreographed. Like, you're going to do this, then I'm going to do that. Right? So you are kind of working together a little bit, feeling out, you know, what to do or what moves you're going to, you know, and kind of knowing those different things.

But so it's, it is, you know, they're not, they're clearly not really punching somebody. You know what I mean? When they do the slap or whatever that thing. But it still hurts. Like, cause you, to sell it, it has to be really close. Like when they do those slaps across the chest, they have, it has to make a noise. those have to make yeah those punches but there's a lot of examples of where they they didn't pull it all the way right or a guy moved he got too close and all of a sudden there was a guy who was wrestling uh brock lesnar once and he said like i just messed up and i actually hit him and he goes i saw it in his eyes i was like oh fuck yeah and then next time brock got a hold of me he fucking won he goes he almost knocked me out like so one of the storylines um when i was working at the hotel was rick flair they had he had this mini rick flair the guy that kind of looked he looked like rick flair is a smaller guy no no i'm not a midget but i guess according to it compared to him you know he's just a normal dude um and so he was like wrestling or whatever and i don't remember the whole storyline but macho man did his thing where he jumped off the rope and he always came down with an elbow and he fucking broke his lung oh shit it broke his rib and we saw him coming like where I was working at the hotel it was kind of like a background to it and he was like couldn't breathe like they were trying to help him and they ended up having to get him to like an ambulance to get to the hospital there's a reason all those guys are hooked on painkillers and you're wrestling like 300 and something days a year yeah like every day

there's an event like every night you know what I mean these guys just go from one to the next that they're doing and now they don't all wrestle all of them but like when you're first starting and trying to get a following. You're going to go to everyone trying to get something. Yeah, like the rocket stuff, they get to do one a year and make like $10 million. That's where you want to get to. Yeah, but you got to get to that level for it. But you got to start, these guys are banging around until they get to that point. But this storyline, so I ended up taking him to the airport the next day after he got out of the hospital, and Macho Man called him on the cell phone, and you could hear him, hey, little buddy, you okay?

Sorry about that. because he totally just his size landed on him. It was interesting. Sure, it's not real, but that shit still happens. You think about it. You watch the fake clothesline or whatever. You still have to throw yourself down in that. Even though you bounce, it's hard. You're not falling on a mattress. You know what I mean? It's a metal thing. That's why it makes that noise. It's a metal it has springs in it but it yeah it's like a I was obsessed with the ultimate warrior like that was my guy like I was obsessed with him but then there was all these rumors or conspiracies that like they were on like their ninth ultimate warrior because they kept dying of steroids like that was the big rumor when I was a kid I was like holy shit like they do really good at making him look the same it was one guy the whole time it was he died but like he was like a good looking dude in real life so you gotta watch it cause there's a storyline about him too yeah so there's a little something about him in this so it's four it's one of the four part ones yeah so it we almost binge it in one night and just finally the last one i was like actually like we gotta go to bed i like all right yeah i know one of those type deal but it was totally cool so with that being said i don know is it still cool like is it on as much anymore and i know like it's on netflix now right it didn't like switch like some big platform like that or didn't didn't do something like that so um i know people that we're friends with who still

watch it well still you know i don't know that means they follow all of it but like they make sure they watch the pay-per-views and like the big events and stuff like that and i'm i think their ratings are just as good as they've ever been like vince mcmahon ended up being a total piece of shit kind of like a hugh hefner yeah but like the creative genius side of him what he built was insane yeah you know what i mean like he knew what he was doing yeah which is kind of crazy like well it's his dad that started it too that's what it was interesting but this goes through that in the documentary too so yeah yeah i so i personally don't find it cool like i don't you know i don't enjoy it like i used to when i was a kid um jack when he was younger kind of got into it for a little bit so that like pulled me back in a little bit yep um i can appreciate it for you know people that do like it that's kind of the way i look at it but i don't i don't know that it's as cool as it was back when it's heyday if you were in the whole kogan days you know what i mean like that's i always go back to that even if you look at some of the new ones outside of like john cena and some of the more modern ones but like most of the modern ones i'm like these guys are dog shit compared to well or i i will say like i never really followed it like i would here and there but i knew who these some of these guys were yeah outside of john cena right now i don't even know who i don't really know anybody yeah there's i'd probably struggle to say 10 names and the only reason i could do some of them is because like like a couple of them went to mma for a bit and tried it didn't work out well or some of them are still like like um the undertaker is it's on like the third under

you know there is there's an undertaker there is an undertaker yeah shit there's been more well i think i guess i maybe maybe i'm speaking i don't know for sure i will i will agree i thought nostalgically i will always love it because i loved it that much when i was like eight nine years old right but even now i do think it's still cool for the people who love it just because it's still huge i mean do you think there's like is it huge in like high school and stuff like that i'm guessing not that really quickly this is interesting jumps well i don't know if like i with cooper and his age you would think that this would be right where they'd be kind of getting into that part of it and he hasn't yet so i don't i don't know you know like you're butting up against an interesting uh question around the premise of your show of the we're still cool right podcast right which you just said i it's still cool for the people that love it well no shit of course it is well but i'm saying it's still big so you have to kind of figure out like what what are you trying to answer is it is it cool for the people that think it's cool yeah it's cool is it still cool is it popular is it i associate the cool a lot with more popular like is it as popular as it was because if no one's doing it then it's clearly not cool yeah because i mean you're right if you're into it then that's cool but like for yourself like I might be into something.

It's still popular enough and big enough that I still think it's cool. Again, not to me. Nostalgically, Little Mikey's like, fuck yeah, dude. Then he found out it was fake and he went, fuck no, dude. I think of it as kind of like hockey. I don't watch hockey on TV, but I'll go to a Rough Riders game. I'll watch Hockey Totally Good live. That's a good analogy. I took Cooper to when they come around here, and it's a fucking fun event even if i have no clue who the guys are yeah yeah i mean that it's fun to see live it's entertaining that way um yeah that's a good point i'm gonna say entertain but i don't think cool i feel like hockey is cooler than wrestling yep i just mean that whatever that means i don't know i don't know i just mean that i don't watch like nhl even if i look but i would go to any game and i think it's awesome when you i think it's a great experience in person sure yeah if somebody said hey let's go to this nhl game yeah yeah sure yeah but i mean i really like like if i would rather watch that oh perfect thing i'd rather watch hockey in person and i'd rather watch football on tv yeah just because of the viewer you know i mean just the experience yeah that's true so yeah i i hate watching hockey on tv i just i can't follow the yeah it's just a lot of others but i love going anytime someone's like you're in the craft writers yeah fuck yeah let's go that's just a small thing but i love going it's so fun yeah so that's me have you gone to i walked out for a little bit i apologize i know you do a lot of in-person wrestling you've seen a lot of wrestling i went to a few as a kid i haven't been to one since

so i've taken cooper twice um by the way a little on the side so no not a lot the chicks are so hot now and so many more of them wrestle like we were growing up it was like yeah macho man had like miss elizabeth i think was her name and then there was like a couple there was china rest in peace which was just like a giant hulk of a woman but some dudes are into that uh but now it's just like there's like a million of them and they're hot and they wrestle the whole time and there's constant wardrobe malfunction so i bet kids love wrestling now you know what i mean well i don't know that's that's my vote my vote's cool in person but i don't think it's cool anymore i would say that it's gone down a little bit so i mean it's it's got enough of a following and you know people are still going to it and there's new ones popping up like there's AEW now and there's like alternatives to AEW.

Dude, there was one instance where this was many years ago but Vince McMahon ran maybe you guys have heard this, there was some big event he ran to get in the ring to like interject in the ring but when he jumped to launch himself into the ring and slide under the rings he tore both of his I think it was his Achilles or something and so like he lays in the ring and still tries to sell it but he couldn't walk. They had to fucking stretch him out and he was in a wheelchair for a long time. I don't remember that. Yeah, dude. I've watched the clip and I'm like, it just looks like an old man jumping and that's the kind of shit where I'm like, I can't do that anymore.

I feel like I can. I can't. But you totally relate with that now. He totally tried to sell it. He didn't stretch at all. And it just popped. I saw a TikTok the other day of a guy and he's like, the wife's like, what are you about to do? He's like, I'm going to go jump over this fence because you think I can't jump over this fucking fence. And she's like, because you can't jump over that fence. You're 50 years old and ain't going to work. And he's like, are you kidding me? It's like three feet tall or whatever. Well, he starts running and I'm like, bro, you never got out of first gear. So he just jumps and it's like terrible.

Shoes go flying. I'm like, probably broke his ankle. And he's like, God damn it. And I was like, terrible idea. But again, looking at the fence, I was like, I could easily jump that fence. We got to stop trying to do that shit, man. Like we're too old now. Accept it, man. We're too old. so cool or not cool i'm gonna go no no i got outvoted nostalgically it's not but it will if it's such a relief to hear that no it's not for me so uh yeah but i god i loved it so much it was great yeah well you're gonna love this documentary then so i know i have to check it out like he was the first one ever hulk hogan uh i remember how epic it was like such a big deal when he lifted up Andre the Giant.

No one had ever lifted him before. They talk about that too. There's an Andre the Giant documentary and it's fucking awesome. It came out like 10 years ago. It makes me want to watch that now. I like seeing some of those things. God, what, he used to drink a case of beer just to get started? Like two or three cases of beer today. They said his record was like 196 beers or something like that. Have you ever seen the picture where he's holding a beer can? It looks like a thimble. It's his whole fucking hand. Yeah. It's like me holding a shot glass. It's terrifying. but they said he was like the most gentle person ever but then like his voice was so fucking scary because it was like the deepest music so and then they said he was famous for he loved farting because he was such a big guy he just like it was the worst smell ever but he thought it was like he was a giant child so he just loved it so he like couldn't wait to like get some of the reverence in there and he'd like stand in front of the door and fart and they couldn't get out and he's like and I'm like see no matter how old you are like farts are always a little funny so yeah i'm like picturing him like trapping somebody in an elevator just like what are you gonna do you're fucked you know what i mean that dude was a massive how do you know how tall he was seven foot something yeah i think he died of just he was too big like his heart just couldn't do it just gargantuan man yeah and he was french the elevator thing me reminded me of a time we we would go to this building as uh for the youth group stuff the dmily stuff and there was two floors but to get into the building you had to go in an elevator and go otherwise there were stairs on the back side of the building so we

would go in and i would be the first one in go up to the second floor and right before you got out drop ass and then send it back down to the next group open it up and just kind of live and they're probably just going like who the fuck is up there you know what i mean Because that doesn't manifest out of nowhere.

I've been eating Brussels all day for this moment. Ever since that happened, everybody would rush to be the first one. I'm going in the first group. Dude, fuck that. I'm taking the stairs. I'm walking around the building at that point. That's so good. That's funny. Yeah, I'm excited to watch. I will say quick, just to piggyback off that, because you told us about a documentary. And I can't remember the name, so if you can, it was the cult one. Yeah. Fuck, I can't think of it right now. it might be in my notes no it's not I deleted it because I watched it but damn that was on Netflix and you said before the thing we're watching it and I'm just like how fucking stupid are you to not realize you're in a cult now granted some of these like kids and girls they like were indoctrinated into it so they never had a shot they dress like Mormon or like Amish people shit I can tell you what it is I watched it too yeah yeah it was good but this guy's a total piece of shit and they're just like the second one right it was there was a first one yeah yeah and then he like that one's on netflix too it's called um wait what uh yeah stay sweet and pray pray and obey or was this called let us pray yeah i can't remember yeah eric's on it but like we but we said before the podcast like you you had a good point like i tell tell the viewers at home because there's one way to clearly know that you're you're I'm not sure if you're in a cult or not.

If one guy is fucking all the women, you're in a cult. You're in a cult. That's just the way it is. And you're not mad about it. You're like, praise be. Yeah, and he's telling you that that's what God wants is one person gets to fuck everybody. It's a cult. I promise you, it's a cult. I just promise you. And the guy, and he's such a not good looking personality. No, he just looks like a total douche. So the one we're talking about that is the newer one is called Trust Me, the False Prophet. Yes. yes highly recommend watching there's another one keep sweet pray and obey and that's about the original guy and i want the one ahead of him okay first yeah it's been out for i watched it like two years ago okay fuck i gotta watch that one now i hate watching this shit because it depresses the fuck out of me but at the same time you're just like like there's a lady on there where i think she has five daughters and she basically just gave them to him and i'm like i want to slap the shit out of you. You're old enough to know better.

What the fuck is wrong with you? But there are people that are just that easily manipulated. To me, it's kind of a sad story. There's people that are just lost and looking for something so much. You know what I mean? That they'll let everyone fuck their wife. Yeah. And their daughters. And everybody. And I get to fuck everybody. That's the rule. God told me I get to have sex with everybody, but none of you guys should. you know like just pray at night like my god is the best guy yeah so if you're ever wondering you're ever wondering if you've been debating in your head you're like i'm not sure just saying when you're banging like 40 people like and every night you're just getting you know all all the stuff you're just like i i'd pray a lot too like you're like thank you i'm so fortunate yay so yeah anyway anyway moving on documentaries there we go cults Cool or not cool?

Depends if you're leading it. But if you're not, it's a no. Yeah. There was the one that was the actual sex cult, right? Like the Axiom or something like that. The cult was an actual... Axiom is not a sex cult. It was like an Axiom. Whatever. I don't know if I'm a clue what it is. But it was... There was one that... There's definitely a local business called axiom for the record not a sex cult no that's totally no no this was like some chicks are going to deal for it nx ivy yeah i don't know how they pronounce it yeah uh um yeah there's like some hollywood people like hollywood chicks in it like oh shit i'll talk about this in the other one because i need to get some info from care but we listen yeah we listen to a podcast on a guy who started like a sex club and it's fucking crazy. It's like seven parts of a podcast. Is it that?

Oh yeah, I told you. No, this is a different. We list that too. Yeah, that was great. People are crazy, man. People are crazy. I love it. And they're in on some crazy stuff. Yeah. Bitches be crazy. And bitches can be guys too, so don't take that offensively. I'm just saying. All you bitches that are crazy. What? Do you want this? You don't like it? No, I'm just not going to drink it. I do like it. I have the tiniest of it. I won't let it go to waste. No, don't. Me neither. Okay, I got the next one. Yeah. Bring it all on in. Hey, if everyone's watching at home, look, Logan's here. He has a camera on it.

Drop your pants and show everybody. Anytime someone wants to bring me another drink, it's a winner. Right. So my still cool. Your strawberry is super strong. Right? The smell is super strong. It's crazy. It smells awesome. Sorry, I think it does.

Fresh as could be. Sorry, you're so cool. That was uncomfortable for me. You broke eye contact immediately. I'm not as gay as I am. Go ahead, Erik. Sorry, Erik.

Vacation rentals. So like Airbnb, VRBO. Is it cool? Still cool? The reason I ask this, I have recently been trying to book some trips. yeah aaron's got a trip she's going on i've got one you can't fucking find any of them they're like all really expensive or not available well the biggest issue wait really yeah the biggest issue is that they are no one's making money off of them anymore it had the hot spot where like you a ton of people got into short-term rentals yeah and now they just don't make them yeah but don't they still have those so like what well a lot of people have then sold and got out of it you know I mean, they just like, cause some, I mean, think about it.

If you're like in the rental game, right. Where you are, have like a, a long-term rental, like you, you find a cheaper one, you fix it up a little bit and you rent it for a year or whatever at a time. Well, if you're doing like a, like a Airbnb or short-term, you know, you need a nice, you need something that attracts people. Well, to get that, you have to buy good shit, expensive stuff. and then right now the rates on those things are so fucking high if you're buying that that what you're you know you know no one's just rolling around with a million dollars in cash to buy these houses like you might be if you are in a long-term rental where you might buy something with cash fix it up and then do something with it it's just crazy so that's why i haven't looked at one in a while but like i when we did like a couple years ago and before when we were going and doing a lot of things, I felt like that's what we always did and they were easy to find.

So you saying it not like that anymore I mean I not saying it across the board but like the last two trips that i looked at it just wasn even feasible really like it was cheaper to get two hotel rooms yeah yeah i mean it also depends on like a it's area specific b it's like what are you doing right because like we've went to concerts before where it's like well we were all obviously going to the same concert it had five bedrooms so it's like oh well we're going to do that but yeah it's different if there's only one three single people or whatever and it's a smaller house also i'm a sucker for those vrbo's or whatever where it's like oh there's a full bar downstairs and there's a pool table and there's yes you're like all right i'm in there's a hot tub you're like okay well and that's hot tub yeah it's like hot tub right but to me that yes i think they're way cool because once you've traveled that way it's a thousand times better especially when you're with with like a bigger group of people because you want to hang out after the event you know i mean like like you guys just went right you stayed in a hotel and you're sitting down in the hotel lobby area yeah but like when you have your own house you can all hang out yeah go to bed when you want to but you're like in the kitchen you know whatever and we did the hotel because it was a five minute walk to the the theater we were at which makes sense but it's st paul there's not a lot of it's just that thought of like hanging out it's so much easier to do in a vrbo house and i personally i'd love to do i would love to do that if it's just ashley and i going then a lot

of times just go to a hotel because it's just checking and do that stuff and to find it make it affordable but like for a big group i mean to me yes it's still cool is it is affordable for individuals to have houses to do that stuff anymore i think that's why it's harder to find you know i mean and i think that's kind of the question i was trying to ask yeah i think it's still cool i really enjoy doing it yeah i prefer that yeah i just think maybe it's not cool to to run one anymore because it's a lot of work it's just well and it's just the cost isn't there anymore you just don't make the i would say like turn like you did before because then you have to have them cleaned every few days you know i mean that is different than yeah it just adds added expense i will say if i'm ever going somewhere and it's more than like me and my person and another couple like more than two couples i'm always going to look at a vrbo or airbnb first yeah that just seems like like we went to florida once for a whole week and had kind of like a beach house it was like this giant cabin on stilts but it was like right on the ocean you just walked across the street and you were in the ocean and it was sick it was amazing and for that it's great because it's not really like prime living spot like year-round but it has everything you need you don't have to clean it every week because people are booking it a week at a time so it's like you just gotta show up at the end so some just make so much more sense than others like there's ones here in town that makes sense for business people coming in for a day or two and i know like you have we have a mutual friend who

has a a big one and but there's people in town for long contracts and he loves it when he gets the long-term rentals it's like a real rental you just want a reliable person that pays on time and stays there it's like you're good to go so well it's just less cost when you're not flipping it all the time you know i mean because you're bringing a clean cleaning crew and then you know like doing all the stuff as opposed to once they're in you meet you do it and he can go like you know i don't know what he does as far as that goes but i can imagine when you do those longer terms you can give a little bit of a break you can oh sure yeah like hey you keep it clean i'll you know take this off sure whatever but i maybe maybe that's the part i'm missing is that a lot of them are moving to wanting more extended stay type stuff sure because some of them do have like a three-day minimum or something like that or like when we're doing our bike trip it's one you know we're there for one night and we're moving out yeah yeah that seems like that's easier in a hotel yeah also when you're on a bike trip and you're just like yeah we're crashing and having a bunch of drinks and passing out and then hitting the road early fucking put me on an air mattress in a hotel i don't give a shit you know what i mean like i just need to sleep for a night and call it good we're getting old we like to sleep in beds i get it but then after you ride that long all day like i gotta have something like to a little more comfortable than just like yeah it's called shitty couch i know but i gotta get up and ride again you know yeah my bag hurts anyway yeah do some whiskey about it okay got it yeah what you got logan there's also yeah i was looking

at some things and finding some more context um one of the things i feel like you're all acknowledging but without really saying is that a lot of the airbnbs are moving up in price and they're leaning on more of a higher end experience to justify that yeah so you're going to stay for a long period of time you're going to get this bigger gorgeous house it's going to have this cool stuff you know what it's like really an experience to stay there yeah and the value option for airbnbs is kind of going away because the the local regulations are a big change as well there's a lot of operating fees that are going up and so often so many people are staying at airbnbs have gotten a bad rap because they're these value options and they're not as good you know and so there's neighbors get pissed too they don't want the they don't want to be living in one that has you know where you're you got people coming in and out all the time and i know There's a lot of places like the Ozarks.

They'll have areas that they just don't even allow. Yeah, like some places you can't even. Yeah, a girl I worked with, shout out Cassie. They had a place in the Ozarks and they liked Airbnb in it, but they bought a new one and they weren't allowed to do it anymore. And bad guest behavior has become really popular on TikTok. A lot of those go viral and all that. That's a big problem as well. It's just like everything. Shitty people ruin it for everybody. It's just dumb. Because if I'm staying at someone's... Like the place I'm going to be an asshole is my own home. If I met anyone else, I'm going to be on my best behavior.

We were in Chicago for a Cubs game once. If I'm going to be an asshole, it's going to be my own home. Or the podcast. You know what I mean? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. But we were there and they had like a sound thing. And it was like, if it went over a certain amount, it would like tell the host, like you were being too crazy. And I was like, okay, that seems egregious. But it's like, clearly they've had people, I'm guessing. You can't piss off all the neighbors, man. I'm watching it like, God, will it go yellow? And I was like, do I test it? I don't want to, but I want to make sure no one's breaking it.

What if you're having a real good cuddle session? I was going to say. That's right, motherfucker! What if you're trying really hard? One ticket to pound town! I'm going to try! I'm going to try! Shut that fucking red light up!

put some duct tape over that thing. Yeah. I don't know. I like, I get it, but I also think it's stupid. Like I wasn't happy about it, but I'm like, maybe they had a bad experience. It is what it is. Just keep it down. Be respectful. Motherfuckers. So I will say, yes, I think you said it well for the value part of it. It's not great. Yeah. But I still think you can find value in big groups, having it for a week at a time. Then, then to me, I see way more value than a hotel. Cause you can, go to the grocery store yeah just to where you don't have to eat out every meal even if it's just breakfast stuff that's one of the most expensive it is like things so when we go and we're like especially with other families or whatever you're going and it's like every time you walk into a restaurant it's 150 bucks whether it's breakfast lunch or you know whatever it is that when you get one of those you know vrbo's or whatever you can you can eliminate you might only go out for one meal that day as opposed to whatever or you can really you don't even have to if you want to do it that way like yeah but well and staying at that place is part of your experience yeah right but that's where you're talking about the level up then you get a place with a pool or a pool table or a bar like because then part of the experience is then we're hanging out in this sweet house right that has whatever and it's like yeah you save let's go to the store and get some beer and drinks that way as opposed to going to the bar you know kids can do their thing when do Whose hotel room are we all climbing into for the night to drink beers on the floor?

It's just a different experience. Mine. It's always mine. I fucking hate it in mine because then everyone leaves and you're like, God, this place, I can't sleep. Fuck you. It's a little delayed, sorry. I can never do mine. It typically would be my room, but Aaron goes to bed early. Yeah, it ain't happening. It's like, remember us all after Teddy Swim's drenched sitting in the hallway of the hotel just like drinking beers because we were just defeated. I remember smiling for a picture and being like that. I don't mean that smile. I was so mad. Teddy Swims was like the number one on my list. I knew. Yeah, I'm going to go down a hole. Get me out. Yeah, sorry.

I won't get on the soapbox. For another time. I'm so mad. I think we've told the story before. We have. But not in this studio, so we'll tell it again one day. Did you feel like you lost control? Can you buzz yourself? I felt it. That was great. You know, he has a song called The Door. You should show yourself.

But I'm bumping. So I have a chaps my ass because thank you. I like it. I know we haven't had one in a while. And if your lovely wife was on, we'd have the same one because I fucking tickets and concerts are like the dumbest thing in the world now granted i understand there's no perfect way to do this right and i will set the scene eventually but i'm gonna bitch first like remember back in the day when we like just went to hy-vee and like stood in line and like got a ticket master ticket and you just fuck it i'll camp out whatever i have to do right but now so my daughter really wants to see olivia rodrigo that's her like number one that she wants to see and i'll be honest i fucking love olivia rodrigo we rock out to it in the car all the time so i'm like i'll do it yeah you would play some big head Todd she covers bittersweet you're so 70 Jesus fuck so but so anyway Olivia announces a tour she hasn't been on tour in a couple years and so by the way this sucks too and it's not her obviously it's their people right it's Europe and here so it's like she's here she's there it's all east coast all west coast the only midwest I believe is Chicago and Nashville like those are the only semi, right?

So anyway, it was like Thursday or Tuesday they had pre- What is it called? Pre-sale. Pre-sale. But you had to have an American Express card. Why don't fucking have an American Express? You're asking? No one asked why I was asking. So I'm messaging all my friends like, hey, do you have an American Express? I have the money right now. I'll hand you the money. But it's just like, I don't have a fucking American Express. That's a weird fucking question. Well, don't leave home without it. Yeah. Don't support them. Fuck them. So God bless our friend Jeremiah. He does have one. And so he's like, yeah, I'll let you guys use my card.

So I went over with Aaron because she wanted tickets for her and Audrey. Right. And so I went over there on Tuesday and we set up our laptops. We're all logged into Ticketmaster, like the whole thing. And it's like, okay, we might not get tickets, but we're part of the presale. We have a good shot at least. Right. Join the wait. 1130. Right. And it hits. It's like, want to join the waiting room? Boom. End of the waiting room. Okay. By the way, Aaron was having troubles getting logged in And got in the waiting room 20 minutes after me But I was like, I think we're safe because it just spits you out In a random order The waiting room is just for waiting It's not how soon you got in there So it hits noon, spits us into a position Aaron, 9,000 I'm like, you're fucked Me, 38,000 Shut the fuck up And I'm like, what the fuck How the fuck do this many people have An American Express when we can't even find, like, we can find one friend that has one.

Well, and here's the thing is you didn't need an American Express to join the waiting room and get put in the queue, but you would have failed at checkout because you had to pay with American Express. So I was like, well, you know what? A lot of these people are just being stupid. I bet it's going to drop way down. And Aaron, it was like, you know, 5,000, 4,000. And then before you know, it was like, boom, you're in the room. And she's like, oh, shit. And you'd click on something and it was like empty. You click on something, empty. You'd refresh. Nothing. Refresh. there's something you click on it empty like there's no point it's over and so it did it to me after like an hour and there's just nothing there and i'm like there's got to be a better way to do this it's it's like one of the most miserable experiences like the fucking buy that you know that you want to go see so bad that it's like that you know and it's you know i hate to shut something down because it's popular you know i mean like there's that many people in there because they want to see it right but then she's clearly popular enough that that many yeah well but then the big thing that's in there that you don't know is the fucking brokers that are in there that are buying all these things up there's there's literally companies there's people just sitting there yeah they'll just do it and it's like and then they buy a ticket for 100 and they sell it for 700 yeah and it's so just it's just the problem is the people that pay those fucking prices keep them in business it's like but you're never gonna everyone everyone to agree to just stop well and also because you can't get the tickets like you might pay more on those things but like sometimes it's like at least i know i can go get the fucking tickets right i have to spend a morning hoping to get in there hoping to go through this thing

totally not get into it you know i mean that's like yeah i paid more but the tickets were right fucking there you know i mean like i'm not saying it's a great practice it's just how it's how that's been able to survive right we you know i mean i will say like i mean i'm not gonna say we're the only country in the world but they've fixed it they've fixed it in europe yeah the shit doesn't happen there. So Europe, for example, their pre-sale, because I almost... If you just pre-bog... You're going to Europe? Bitch, I might. Yeah. I mean, like, honestly, if it... God, you're such a good dad. Shut up. No, I'm not doing that. How good you are. Get out of the plane. She doesn't know how much... She has no idea how pissed off I was at there, how bad I wanted those tickets, but she was upset. I was way more upset than she was.

Way more. I'm pissed off on principle. Exactly. Exactly. Like, if that doesn't say my age, but but like in europe it was you didn't need an amex if you pre-bought her album you were in the pre-sale now granted a lot of people probably missed out too over there but like that's all you needed to do it there here it's like no you have to have the baller card because that like that's what we do it's it's just fucking because like amex paid them for whatever to have that spot you know i mean like it's and then the well amex and ticketmaster have an agreement so if you have an amex you get pre-sale tickets to a lot of concerts.

It's a whole thing. But there's multiple pre-sales. So there's the artist pre-sale as well. So if you're part of their fan club, they'll email you one. The venue has a pre-sale. So there's like pre-sales for all these different stakeholders. So if you don't have any of those, good luck getting tickets. You're fucked. So by the way, tomorrow I'm going to be pissed off too because tomorrow is the actual sale. Which there won't be any fucking tickets. Well, I was $38,000 last time. I'm guessing I'm like going for under $50,000 this time. We'll see what happens. You know what I mean? But can you imagine being the person where it pops you out and you're like, one.

You're like, you know you're good. But it's a total lot of it. Yeah. Whatever. I don't know. It's going to take, I don't know, some sort of government intervention to fix this. Didn't Ticketmaster just get sued? I'll say they just got sued, right? Because of the joint forces or whatever. And like it was. Oh, they're. So they're a monopoly, right? That's what it became. Like this whole thing with it. It's the resellers. They need to do something about. like fucking seat geek and all that shit. They were selling tickets before the pre-sleeping happened. They're going like, we know our scalpers are going to lance them.

If you want to buy these right now for $1,100, you can. And it's like, dude, that's crazy. The Ticketmaster is also really bad, though, because they're putting on these exorbitant fees that price people out of tickets. I think that's what they got sued over, and they're stopping that. Well, I don't know if they're stopping it. Or they're lowering it. I don't know. It's still going to suck. They're going to take their millions of dollars and just pay the settlement. That's true too And then keep it going And then we just keep doing it God it fucking makes me mad though And again I didn expect tickets I really didn I was like dude this is like we rolling the dice right But to pop out at the preset at like 38K, I'm like, what the fuck am I doing here right now?

Like, you know? So. Fuck that. Fuck that. I'm going to stick to going to Codfish Hollow and 40 bucks for a show. I told Aaron. I walk up and just tell him my name and they hand me the ticket. Yeah. We were waiting, like Aaron and I were just getting pissed off right after it all happened. I'm like, why can't my kids get into indie people? Just be like, hey, Dad, so-and-so is a codfish. I'm like, we're there. We're fucking, let's go. You know what I mean? This is why. Real quick, Logan saw The Weeknd. That's his number one. This is Layla. So I'm like, let's try to make this happen. She's got time.

She's young. She does. You got a long way to go. So I will make a recommendation That you just start really liking A local cover band Amen And you can fucking hear really good music Without fighting The god damn ticket people You can probably even ask me to play a favorite song Doing it We'd be happy to share a couple with you Listen to the podcast We've got a few of them on That do great stuff with it There's the pork And the trophy tornadoes Also known as the pork tornadoes So there you go There's the hack to get around it But I'm with you man It just fucking sucks It's such a shitty experience for that It just bums you the fuck out And it's like look I get there's a million kids Who were upset that day I'm sure Because they didn't get tickets You can't make everyone happy I'm not saying you can But there has to be a better system than this I literally think it would be better if you just put your name in a hat.

Literally. The lottery system. It's the lottery plane you put it in. Like beer glass. I will buy it if I win, and that's it. By the way, we got- That's how it is for the master's tickets. You want to go to the master's, put your name in there, they call you back, they're like, here's the two days you can pick from. Here's the price, you want it or not? And you're like, yes or no. You know what I mean? So Savannah Bananas, we're taking the kids on the 4th of July to Kinnick Stadium for it. And that's how they do it. It's like you, we've been, we were on a list for months and then they were like, okay, around this date, you're going to get an email.

And I did. And I was like, I was on the pre, like I was on the wait list. Yeah. But they were like, here's your hour tomorrow to log in and check if enough people dropped out that you get tickets. I was like, okay. And enough people did where I was able to purchase tickets or whatever. I mean, Kara did. Cause she got it too, but it's like, that's the way to do it. You have this window you got drawn. If you don't like you have this long and if you don't claim them, we're going to move the next person on yeah it is possible savannah bananas were had no money like you're telling me like these major artists can't figure that out well first i don't think it's the artists i don't either by the way yeah it's their team and it's all the people it's just the ticket masters they have the biggest grasp so you're gonna you're gonna do it but with savannah bananas i wish everybody would just do what they do because literally they sit down and they're all customer and experience first and then they don't care you know i mean i love them that's how that guy has like listen to him talk and just i just root for him because of that thing and you know he's telling the truth like he went against the grain he goes no how are we going to we bought that he goes we need to make some money how are we gonna do it he goes we have to go a hundred percent for the fans how do we do this and he built this whole thing with that yeah and they he said the other day uh they've offered him so much money to buy the organization.

He goes, I wouldn't sell it for a billion dollars. He goes, it's mine. I have too much fun with it. And then when they went to, God, they recently went to a huge stadium. Was it Yankee Stadium? I can't remember, but so big. He goes, we didn't focus on the fans at all who were behind home plate, like any of those people. We focus on everyone who it's like they're too far to see. So I was in the crowd with them. We were sending people all around because he's like, they have the worst tickets. that people with the good tickets, they're fine. They see everything great. Let's make the experience best for people with the worst thing.

You'll find out. It's just a shit show. It is a lot of action. Yeah. I mean, it's constant. There's fucking noise and shit moving all the time. For a minute there, I was like, I got to take a fucking break. I am like, I'm getting anxiety. Can you stop the music for like two seconds? It's like, I gotta catch my breath. They're filming TikToks and shit in center field. They are. It's just like, this guy's doing a backflip. This one's doing this. This guy's on stilts. They laugh at this guy out there. This one, you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And they change their fucking song every 90 seconds. Yeah.

So there's a new song. They play 90 seconds of it. Another one. Like, through the whole fucking thing. Like, it is. Like, you are like, I'm like, ah, fucking hand up. Sensory overload. It seriously is. So like I was looking at the field for when it's at Kinnick and it's like, I mean, it goes all the way out. So it's like, obviously no one's hitting a homer over like fucking. Well, one of them is really short, right? One is short, yeah. Right. So, but you could pay like 20 bucks extra for good tickets as far as like, you know, third baseline type thing. And we paid for this. So I'm hoping it's not.

But also then I was like, well, God, where's the quickest exit out of Kinnick? Because like, it's going to suck getting out of there. Wow. Just don't be in a hurt. i mean honestly oh they put on a great show through the whole thing i'm saying even when they're done there's people they're all signing autographs and doing stuff like that that people stick around for a long time and i will say i just didn't know that before going into it so now that i say that just be prepared for like that kind of a level of constant going on that you'll end up having a blast i was just like this is like from opening thing i'm like Are we taking a break?

Can we get a fucking TV timeout or something? I don't think those exist. It's like, come on. But it's kind of crazy. It's 4th of July at night. So I'm like, there's going to be fireworks and the whole line. It's going to be awesome. Are you guys going the 4th then? Because they're doing it the 3rd and the 4th? Yeah, but we're doing the 4th. Yeah, if they have an option, maybe see if they're running the train. That's a good idea. I don't know if they will do it for that. My grandpa used to conduct that. Oh, really? He was a conductor on the train. Yeah. There was a news article on him like 20 years longer than that.

Your grandpa was a train conductor? Yeah. He worked on the railroad his whole life. After he was out of the service. Yeah. Yeah. But I think that'd be the, like, one of the coolest fucking things ever. I know. I've tried getting on as one, but it's like, it's kind of obviously a dying job. Like, it still exists, but it's not as, there's not as many positions as there used to be. Yeah. Like, my favorite picture in my whole life is, like, him and his conductor outfit. and I'm in the whole Oshkosh bagosh overalls that are striped, and I'm standing on the train track and he's holding my hand. It's awesome.

Yeah. I know. Fuck. Shout out to grandpas. Shout out to grandpas. Amen. Yeah. For sure. So that's all I got. It chaps my ass. Fuck Ticketmaster. Fuck SeatGeek. Name all of them. I don't care. I hate all of them. Anyone who resells tickets or scalps tickets. It's something fucking fun that becomes a shit show. Shit show. Bullshit. Hey, but anyone who's listening, if you get Olivia Arrigo tickets, hit me up. I'd love to buy them. For a small percentage over what they cost you. Because I'm not one of those crazy assholes who are going to pay $700 a ticket not doing that. Daddy's still got a budget here going on here.

I like to make dreams come true. Have you seen the cost of gas right now? You think Dad can afford this shit? Can we talk about it? I saw one of the funniest TikToks today where it was a guy like filling up his gas tank and he's just taking the handle and just rubbing it around the circle. And then he starts playing genuine. He goes, I figure I'd play some fucking sex music if I'm going to get fucked. Before he fucks me.

That's so fucking good. I want to make that TikTok so bad now. It was so good. It was so good. yeah so i i have a new driver in the house and uh i was showing her how to fill up the gas tank and she goes where are you like don't so like i'm showing her how to do it and before we even get started she's like so how much is it going to be like 18 like oh bless her sweet little heart no her car is like 50 to fill it up yeah say i filled mine the other day it was 70 and then also remember full tank means I get 210 miles I get 12 miles to the gallon so it's brutal we cruised down the Ozarks back the other day every time I pulled up to the gas station I felt like it just got punched right in the dick every fucking it would have been like hey hold on and then how did a few need to fill the boat at least that's fun that wasn't as bad like the prices weren't as high as i thought like i think that gas is just so high that there it's it's higher but it wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be oh good normally gas in the lake is at least a dollar over everything sometimes a little bit more yeah and this was under a dollar over the oh shit so it wasn't i'm sure they're trying to kind of keep it well yeah i mean it still wasn't great busy down there it still wasn't fucking great because i put put fucking 30 gallons in there so it was like it's a lot easier for them to charge it more than

a dollar over regular price yeah when it's three normal yes but when it's five people are going to be like you're not charging me seven well it's just what happens people just stop boating yeah you know i mean it's not gonna be that part of it but yeah so my biggest expense this summer is gonna be fucking gas on both ends yeah it is it's time to buy four-cylinder everything well A lot of times people come down and I'm like, I got the gas. No, I'm going to do this anyways. You don't need it. This time people are like, want me chipping? Hold on. Now Shaun's going to be sitting around a collection plate like we're in church.

Well, boys, I'm not going up to the pump. What are you boys? As soon as we get on the boat before anybody sits down, it's like, hey, let's fill that little glove box over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shaun, where are the seats? Well, we'll get those out as soon as we get the old fuel plate full here. Just Shaun on the boat like. really quickly one last thing because this ties together with the last conversation too yeah there's been this um like theme of high profile artists canceling their tours yeah it's like blue dot or blue dot fever i saw an article about it but i didn't read it yeah yeah so blue dot fever they're talking about the unsold seats on ticket master they show up as little blue dots and you'll just see theaters full of them so um these big high profile artists are canceling their tours like post malone canceled tour um uh megan trainer canceled her tune so like all these people and they'll blame it on personal reasons but it's mostly because their shows just aren't selling and really it's mostly because like ticket prices keep getting higher you're so unbelievably like it's yeah it's so expensive and people just aren't putting that much discretionary money into concerts right now fire your fucking team who's in charge of handling that because it's like there is a better way where you could sell out every show easily and make a ton of fucking money. The economy though is just so, yeah, I mean the prices are so high but the economy is like people are hurting.

Well I mean when you to go to a fucking concert for two people you're like that's half the price of a vacation. Like I mean when you start looking at it you're like this is a little ridiculous. Like come on like this better be the greatest fucking concert I've ever been to. It really tells you something when we were sitting there doing the math on would it be cheaper to fly to Europe and go to a show versus buying a ticket here? Yeah. Like buying four tickets here. Could you buy plane tickets to Europe and get a better? Plus a $100 ticket. Like it's close. It's close enough that you're actually thinking about it.

That's a bad situation. That's a bad sign. Dude, the economy is so bad. I couldn't afford Bushlight. I had to drink this because Clint gave me a four pack. Shut up, Clint. Thanks, buddy. He's like upgrading. By the way, this is delicious. So if you haven't had pseudo-alien, it's delicious. I haven't even seen that one before. If you haven't had a summer shanty. Oh! That's a throwback to our old-school listeners when Shaun realized he can't say shanty. That was actually the first time we had Mike on, wasn't it? No, it was Clint. Oh, Clint! Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's what he was saying. I love a good shanty shanty.

He finally stopped it. So he's like, are you saying shanty? Yeah. We heard it the whole time, but I was just letting it go. But you kept saying it over and over. And we should watch that back in back. Clint was like, I can't take this from her. Are you fucking? I don't think he did. Didn't he text us later? I don't think he actually said it. No, he said it. Did he say it? I thought he did. No, I think it got right. Maybe it did. Well, whatever. Yeah, that'll be fun to go back to because I was like, shit, we didn't have a camera on me on that episode because we had to put one on. Like, we had to limit the number of cameras.

This was before upload, guys. We didn't know what we were doing. We upgraded to upload. Still don't really know what we're doing. I can't believe he didn't do that for that. And you can't now. It's too late. You literally set him up for it. I literally can do whatever I need. What is his rule? Don't fuck with the producer. Right. But I remember just dying. Fuck me. At least it was a mini one. I was dying laughing when Clint called you. Shanty? You said shanty? Is that not it? Yeah. that's my all right yeah ready for a dad joke um all right hopefully i haven't already told you this one oh i'm now i'm excited my wife asked me to stop impersonating a flamingo i had to put my foot down i knew it something with the foot god damn it i was thinking something pink i was going i was thinking foot but i didn't i'm bad you know what i like i can already tell in my head i wouldn't have got there like i was just not thinking that way no throw me a softball on the next one because we're about to do another one it's like off he's christ oh hey hey hey another one of the books hey hey um even though this is coming out after beer well and we had a blast we will yeah i can tell you we already had a blast but we will have a further breakdown on a later episode about how really good it was well and we're about to get into patreon yeah and yeah

patreon episode is a banger if you're if you're not subscribed uh this one we're gonna talk about slang terms for genitalia i had a couple of interesting videos pop up on my feed lately and it made me think of this so uh i love a good clam and it's not shanty just speaking of upgrading to upload i feel like when you guys came over we started doing the patreon episodes those are are getting really good yeah i feel like we've been killing it with the patreon episodes lately i have i've heard i've gotten a lot of positive feedback and i will say now especially we have a lot out there so there's hours and hours of bonus episodes that are way off the rail so for everyone that has subscribed already thank you it literally means the the most to us or if any of you guys went out there once i'm like there's nothing out here go check it out again yeah if you if you like signed up to be nice to follow us go check it out because there's a lot There's a lot out there.

Yeah, and if you go look, there's at least a couple episodes that have free previews so you can watch. Yeah. 30 seconds or whatever. Yeah. To see if we're lying. We get a little more off the rails because our kids don't listen there. You've got to pay to play, baby. Pay to play. They're saving money for their gas tanks. Yeah. That being said, let's throw this one down. Yeah. Thank you guys all for listening. We appreciate you. Love you. Cheers. See ya. Bye.

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