Miracle Whip On A Hot Dog? Send Help

A single question—what’s your go-to condiment?—turns into a full-on catch-up that’s equal parts cozy, chaotic, and weirdly revealing. We compare ranch loyalty with mustard purists, confess Miracle Whip-on-hot-dog crimes, and admit to breakfast choices that should probably be illegal. Food opens the door to everything else: newborn sleep shifts, basketball season chaos, and the small household rules that spark big laughs, like when Christmas movies are “allowed” to start.

From there, we dig into the media that’s shaping our season. We debate Hallmark predictability, share comfort rewatches, and talk about how streaming turned choosing into a marathon of scrolling. Nostalgia makes a comeback—VHS tapes, Redbox walls, judging movies and games by cover art—and we admit it still works more often than not. The audiobook tangent hits a nerve: AI narration might be efficient, but it can’t replace a human performance that breathes life into the story.

If you’re hunting for watchlist ideas, we’ve got plenty. We shout out Game Night for sharp comedy, then pivot into war films that stick with you—Unbroken, 12 Strong, Land of Bad, and the moments in Saving Private Ryan you can’t unsee. We admire practical filmmaking too: Top Gun: Maverick’s real cockpit footage, Tom Cruise’s stunt obsession, and the way authentic risk charges the screen. It’s a tour through comfort food, comfort films, and the rituals that make busy seasons feel grounded.

Hit play for laughs, confessions, and a stack of movie recs. If you enjoy hanging out with us each week, follow the show, share this episode with a friend, and leave a quick review—what’s your most controversial condiment take?

Transcript

Condiment Confessions

SPEAKER_03 0:43

Like I'll eat it. Sound like I don't think it's my go-to. What's your go-to condiment? And it does depend on what the food is, but I'd say for the most part, like maybe maybe ranch.

SPEAKER_04 0:58

Ranch is a good one. That's a common one. I like it. Rich, what's your go-to condiment?

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Dude, I'm a condiment guy. So decided. Like, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:10

He's like, I thought you'd never ask.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Sands are. I have been waiting for years for somebody to ask what my favorite condiment is. What do you got? I don't have a favorite. It depends on what I'm eating.

SPEAKER_03 1:20

Yeah, okay. But that's what I said. But what is like, you know, if you kind of had to sum it up and and give an average, like what's what's the average one? What do you use the most?

SPEAKER_01 1:30

Probably gosh, ranch, I would say. Probably. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 1:34

We got two ranches. Wow. Are we going to make it the trifecta?

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Well, and like I like barbecue sauce on a lot of stuff too.

SPEAKER_04 1:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

You know, I used to be like when I was younger, it was ketchup everything. Yeah. But I've now that my palate has matured, you know, the rest of me hasn't, but the palate has. But I like uh I like a little more sophisticated flavor.

SPEAKER_03 1:56

So okay, so a hot dog or just a nice, just a nice frank. What you what you putting on it.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

All right, so you're gonna hate this.

SPEAKER_04 2:02

Oh lord. Oh no, this is scary. What kind of territory are we about to get in?

SPEAKER_01 2:07

I like Miracle Whip on my hot dog.

SPEAKER_03 2:10

Okay. We're on the same page because I do like, I do like, I do like mayonnaise on my hot dog.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

I'm not alone. Whew. I ain't gonna lie, I was stressing over that. Breathing hard, man.

Hot Dog Preferences And Relish Wars

SPEAKER_04 2:21

Worried. Yeah, I do like that. It is a good combo. Mustard. I just I just throw in mustard.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Do y'all like other stuff on your hot dog? Like relish, kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_03 2:45

Yeah, I'm not a relish fan. I'll put barbecue sauce on it.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Yeah, I like I like uh like grilled onions.

SPEAKER_03 2:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Hate sweet relish. I don't like sweet. I don't like sweet pickles.

unknown 2:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:54

Yeah, I do uh mustard always and then relish every now and then.

SPEAKER_01 3:00

Sweet or deal?

SPEAKER_04 3:01

Either. Either. I'd rather I'd rather have sweet on a on a hot dog, but either. I like them both. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

So are we talking about hot dogs? Is that no?

SPEAKER_04 3:10

This is not this is not a hot dog episode. No, this is gonna be catching up. We're gonna be catching up with each other. So I like it. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, everybody? Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Almost Brothers Podcast. On today's episode, we're gonna be just catching up with everybody because as you heard, Tata is back. The real Tata this time, not the baby version.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

So, what is y'all's favorite way to prepare a hot dog?

SPEAKER_04 3:41

Oh my gosh. What the heck? And mute. See, I could do this now. Oh, I'm beating the wrong one. I done put Tyler in a box. My bad. Do nothing. Just grilled. Say that. Oh, that's funny, right there. Yeah, prefer mine.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:01

Yes. Give us give us a give us a shout out. How do you like your hot dogs?

SPEAKER_01 4:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:05

Does anybody just like prefer boiled hot dogs?

SPEAKER_01 4:07

That's the way I like mine. You prefer it? Like really? Yeah. Because I don't I don't like burnt hot dogs. And Jennifer loves burnt hot dogs, but that's generally what happens. They get a little crispy on the grill, and I don't care for that. But the real psychopaths are the microwave people. Those people. Oh, that's weird. Who does that? That is weird. Those people should be put away. Yeah, that's weird.

SPEAKER_04 4:28

That's weird. So, so um, do you like brats? Oh, I love brats.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

I love smoked sausage, but not brat.

SPEAKER_04 4:36

I love sauc. I like brat too. Yeah. I like a good sauerkraut? I love sauerkraut. A little sauerkraut on there. Yeah, sauerkraut and mustard, man. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get us back to the code. It's okay, yeah. But I mean, like I said, give us a shout-out. Let us know how you like your hot dogs. If you microwave them, we're praying for you. That's our hand calling 911. Yeah, I'll tell you that.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Uno uno.

Catching Up And Cape Con Recap

SPEAKER_04 4:57

So, what has been going up, man? Let's get let's catch up. Let's catch up. I know we had uh I know we had uh Comic-Con, Cape Con. Cape Con, yeah. Yeah, with Big Bitty Tyler. Yeah, with the baby version. The baby version. So if you haven't listened to that, go back and listen to that. It was a it was a good one. It was a fun time. It was so we'll we'll we'll recap though. If you had to say, I know it's last minute, but five favorite Christmas movies. So start from least to favorite.

SPEAKER_03 5:24

I don't know, I don't know if I haven't, or I don't really, I'm not a huge like holiday, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

Like don't lie, you sit and watch Hallmark and cry all Christmas season. Not Hallmark.

SPEAKER_03 5:36

What did your eye twitch? Yeah. I did I did have an X that would make me watch Hallmark movies all terrible, like from uh the beginning of November to the end of the year.

SPEAKER_01 5:47

If you've seen one, you've seen them all.

SPEAKER_03 5:50

Literally, literally, that's terrible, and that that's the worst part. Well, that that's I feel like that's kind of the beauty of the Hallmark movies, is because you know exactly what's going on.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Yeah, have y'all seen the TikTokers making fun of yes, it's so funny.

SPEAKER_04 6:03

Yeah, sorry, yeah, it's so bad, and it's so on point. That's why it's funny because it's like spot on.

SPEAKER_03 6:07

Because again, it's like you said, you see them one, you've seen them all. It's the same plot. Yeah, it's the same plot. Roll some roles might be a little reversed. Yeah, it's the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your movies.

SPEAKER_03 6:17

No, it's fine. Uh I'm not I'm not gonna do them in particular order because I really don't know. No particular obviously uh the Grinch is I would say honestly, I'd probably say the Grinch is that one. Um which one the cartoon or the the Jim Carrey. Oh, okay. The movie for sure. The original cartoon, yeah, it's alright. The new one, not a fan. Yeah. Um and then honestly, the nightmare before Christmas. That's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

Yeah, I almost got beat up at Cape Con for Tim Burton.

SPEAKER_03 6:49

He was talking crap. Um I say, I'm not a huge like holiday movie, whatever uh person. I'll put Home Alone on there. Okay. Um I don't even know if I can name two. That's why I was like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 7:03

He might be he might struggle to name some. And I'm out. That might be top three, only three. Have you seen Four Christmases? Oh, I forgot about that one. That's a good one. We didn't talk about that. That's the one with Vince Vaughn and and um I haven't seen that one.

SPEAKER_03 7:18

Christmas of the Cranks, seen that one?

SPEAKER_01 7:19

That is a good one, Tim Allen.

SPEAKER_03 7:20

Yeah, uh Fred Claus. Oh, I like Fred Claws. Oh, yeah, that's a Vince Vaughn.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

That's Vince Vaughn. Yeah, I love Vince Vaughn. I like it. Big fan.

SPEAKER_04 7:31

I like it. So, what's been going on in y'all's last man? Tell us about the babies.

SPEAKER_03 7:35

There's not a lot of what's going on.

SPEAKER_04 7:37

Not a little lot. It's you know, the little babies. Now you're got in a in a little bit of a flow and routine, and still I got butt ointment on my hand. Literally, right now. Got baby butt ointment on my hand. Yeah, like is this poop or chocolate? Taste it and see. I'd say what you're getting.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

You could just wash it off. Why would you need to know that bad?

SPEAKER_04 8:02

Because you never know, man.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

So do you need to know? Go buy another Hershey's.

SPEAKER_03 8:07

Could be a Hershey's bar. It's so funny. It's like, I'm I don't even buy Hershey's, but it might be Hershey's.

SPEAKER_04 8:14

I guess there's only one way to know. I'm gonna touch the Hershey's bar in a month. Like I could be, you never know. I guess there's only one way. Oh, you got a 50-50 shot at disaster. So there's that.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

It's a terrible game. Yeah, yeah. Poop roulette.

Holiday Movies: Love, Hate, And Hallmark

SPEAKER_04 8:29

Poop roulette. That's funny right there. That's a game right there. Yeah. Hershey roulette. You don't know which one. You never know. Yeah. So what's been going on in y'all's lives, man? Craziness with Crazy Weekend.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Dude. Yeah, I'm so crazy. It's crazy. And it's not over yet. We got a bonfire tonight. You do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Thanks.

SPEAKER_04 8:52

You do. Yeah. You're right. How about do it? Do it.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

We missed the do-it.

SPEAKER_04 8:59

I know, right? I was gonna make a button, but now we got it live and in person. Yeah, yeah. We've been trying to settle in to to now is kind of our busy, our busy season, not only um Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, but basketball season starts up. So now it's practice every day, games every day. You know, even even Sissy, she's got cheerleading practice, and then we got basketball practice, and we have games all together, but it starts getting busy. This is our busy, busy time.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

So Tristan, he's playing ball, you know, go pioneers. But he got hurt at a practice, I think. Anyway, he got it shouldered in the mouth, and he like cut his cut his gum. It looked better today. Yeah, it's a lot better, but he got infected. So we had to go to the doctor, and but he's been I guess he's been eating with his tongue to to like avoid the area. Oh so now his tongue's raw. Oh, yeah. He's just his mouth. Isn't it blended up? All messed up and drinking it. Yeah, pure ate everything.

SPEAKER_03 10:03

I don't know, but no good. He's struggling. There's a so while we're in the hospital, we were watching the latest season of Love is Blind. On purpose? Yeah. Yeah. Like people are calling to for it to get canceled because that was the worst season. No one got married. Anyways, um, there's a guy on there that would blend his chicken up with Splenda and drink it. Or not not Splenda, uh crystallite. What? Yeah, like cooked chicken? Yeah, baked chicken. Or broiled chicken, whichever.

SPEAKER_04 10:31

Dude's just eating a chicken. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:13

But in those little ninja blender thing. What? Put crystallite in it, a little crystallite pack, blends it up, drinks it.

SPEAKER_04 11:21

That's weird.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

No.

SPEAKER_04 11:23

Y'all, y'all, do y'all have any weird eating habits like that? Like something anything like kind of off the wall.

SPEAKER_01 11:28

One of my favorite breakfast. Breakfast food. Watch it not be a breakfast food at all. Hey, hey, you just wait for the pasta. I hate lasagna for breakfast. My favorite breakfast is loaded French fries.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

Told you. What'd I say?

SPEAKER_01 11:45

I'll get up at seven, eight o'clock in the morning, and fry me some fries, and I'll throw cheese, ranch, bacon bits, fire sauce. It's good. It's good, it's a good way to start the day.

SPEAKER_04 11:57

I feel like I would be sick to my stomach. That's so I could feel I could the taste.

SPEAKER_01 12:05

Oh. In unrelated news, I had my first colonoscopy. Had nothing to do with it. Boom, yeah, the doctor said, oh, he had fries.

SPEAKER_04 12:16

Yeah. Sheesh, man.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

Yeah. I probably shouldn't eat. I don't eat like that anymore. Uh a lot.

SPEAKER_03 12:26

I don't eat like that anymore. Oh, maybe a little bit. He literally called me last week eating that exact thing.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:35

Yeah. I forgot.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

Oh, busted. Oh. Never mind. It was good though.

SPEAKER_03 12:41

Yeah. Yeah. That's the first time in two days.

SPEAKER_01 12:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:47

I am two days free of that.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Pop tarts and butter. I know you make fun of me.

SPEAKER_04 12:51

They put but butter on their Pop Tarts.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:55

I can I can kind of see that a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 12:58

I've never had it, but it doesn't sound terrible.

SPEAKER_03 13:01

It's good.

SPEAKER_04 13:02

But I mean, do you need to add they're bad enough for you? Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

I don't eat those anymore for sure. I looked at the calories on those and I'm like, I feel fat reading the box. So I got them out of there. You read it and you're like, oh jeez.

SPEAKER_03 13:16

And you're just you're full.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

It's like I can't remember exactly. It's like 280 calories per pastry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:22

It's crazy. I believe it. I do. I do. If I have burgers and fries, I eat on all the fries I'm kind of gonna eat. Like every now and then I'll go back and forth, but usually I eat all the fries before I even start on my burger.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

You're so weird.

SPEAKER_04 13:35

Yeah.

Babies, Routines, And Poop Roulette

SPEAKER_03 13:37

I'll do I do that with uh if I get McDonald's. Yeah. Because like it's not all on like one plate or something. So I'll start, I'll grab the fries first and eat those.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Yeah, I don't. I I'll take a couple bites of burger, eat some fries, and I'll kind of go back and forth.

SPEAKER_04 13:50

Yeah. Can you eat fries just raw with no no ketchup or anything? Yeah. No. I normally do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:56

No. I'll I don't like to, but I'd I'll uh I'll do ranch. Like I said, like with fries. With ranch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

Never well, I have it on my local.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

I'll do it if I've got ranch. Yeah. Now like like say I thought to like order ranch, like a little ranch packet with it. I'll do it. If I don't, and like say I have ranch in the refrigerator, I'm not gonna go get the ranch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

I have never been to Michael Simmons' house ever, and they had a full bottle of a condiment. Not one single time. Every time it's like you're squirting out the last bit of little ketchup for your fries. Every single time.

SPEAKER_04 14:32

I don't know why you're trying to call me out over the airwaves.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

Well, technically it's Jamie because she does your grocery shopping. Right, man. Every single time. To the point that we got pizza here a while back, and I almost brought my own bottle of ranch because I knew, and it was the same way. We were squirting the bottle trying to get ranch out for the pizza. Sorry. Yes, I ate ranch on my pizza.

SPEAKER_04 14:55

Dang, I feel attacked right now. Do you ever dip your fries in milkshake?

SPEAKER_01 15:01

No.

SPEAKER_03 15:02

I used to dip my fries in pink lemonade.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

That's nasty. That's a good way to ruin some pink lemonade. What?

SPEAKER_03 15:15

I didn't.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

Why?

SPEAKER_03 15:17

I don't know. I don't know why. Well, I think I think it was someone said something like that, and I was like, well, let me try my pink lemonade. And it wasn't bad.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

Jennifer eats vanilla ice cream, ripple potato chips, and red Kool-Aid altogether makes it up.

unknown 15:38

Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

No, I won't try it. What? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:42

What is going on around here? Vanilla ice cream. Wait, how are we on this conversation right now? I don't know. We're just catching up. This thing catching up.

SPEAKER_04 15:52

Catch up. This is the catch-up episode. I'm leaving.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

Deuces.

SPEAKER_04 15:58

That's that I just now realized that that matched. So there's that.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

That was that was that was terrible.

SPEAKER_04 16:04

I don't know. Just I'm I just want to know what's going on in y'all's lives, man. Whether it's weird, what was it? Ruffles and what noise was that? It was ruffrull.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

Ruffle? I'm sorry that our listeners had that in their ears. Sorry for about three seconds. That's what your stomach sounds like after loaded fries. Ruffle and more. That's how it sounds all day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Vanilla ice cream, ruffles chips, and red Kool-Aid.

SPEAKER_04 16:33

That's weird. Yeah, that's weird. It is. That's real weird. Yep. Yep. Yeah, I don't like that at all.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

Yeah, I don't like it either.

SPEAKER_04 16:40

That's not good. That's not good. What else y'all got going on? Because I I got that makes my legs feel weird. I don't like it. I don't like it. Not at all. Y'all see the new trailer to the new Mario came out? New Mario movie? Yeah, I did. I had Mario looks pretty crazy. Mario Galaxy. Yeah, Galaxy. It's gonna be crazy. I haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

Predator Badlands is playing in the game. It is.

SPEAKER_04 17:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:02

I haven't uh seen any reviews yet.

SPEAKER_04 17:03

It's doing decent in theaters, but reviews aren't great, but it seems to be doing good in theaters. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

Well, I can't. I used to judge a movie by DVD Reynolds.

SPEAKER_04 17:16

Yeah. See how many copies are there, how many copies are gone.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

No, you can't do that anymore.

SPEAKER_04 17:22

I see mad. You remember we had to do that when I mean when I say we, I mean me and Richard because you've had Netflix your whole life.

Weird Eating Habits We Admit To

SPEAKER_03 17:29

Um it blew my mind when I uh learned that Netflix was an app. I remember I was a fresh, either eighth grade or freshman in high school. Yeah. Because I remember, I do remember when Netflix was uh you like ordered and it came in the mail. Yeah, DVD. And then someone showed me that. I was like, so you're telling me you can watch a movie on your phone. Yeah. It blew my mind. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

Did I ever tell you somebody approached me years ago with the idea for Redbox?

SPEAKER_04 18:05

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:06

Like he was like And you just let that slip through the palm of your hands, and you know what you get for that? And here we are on a podcast.

SPEAKER_01 18:15

I'm not muted. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 18:16

Well, even though Redbox is no no longer investment.

SPEAKER_01 18:19

I would currently be bankrupt for that. Yeah, yeah. But I didn't know good for a while. Yeah, somebody did. I can't remember who it was or when.

SPEAKER_04 18:26

Well, because even that, you know, because before it was it was a a movie place where you can go and look at the the disc cover and see if you like it, if you think it's good or not. So kind of the same thing on Redbox. You look at the cover art and at least go, okay, do I think I want to watch this? Now you kind of go in blind, and sometimes it gets daunting just scrolling. Like there's so much to choose from. What do I watch? Yeah. Because there is there's a lot of junk.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

Jennifer makes fun of me. So usually we'll sit down to eat and we'll figure out what to watch. Yeah. Well, if there's nothing specific that we're wanting to watch, then it's my food will get cold just scrolling through all the apps to find what we want to watch.

SPEAKER_04 19:04

Yeah, because I don't I don't like watching on a new movie, I don't like watching the preview because it sometimes the preview gives too much away.

SPEAKER_01 19:11

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

So you kind of look at the cover art on there and it's like this looks good. And then you watch it, it's like this was a bad choice.

unknown 19:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

That's what happened with Le Miz.

SPEAKER_03 19:25

So anyway, yeah. Yeah. Rightfully so. You know, like I agree.

SPEAKER_04 19:31

Just give me my mic now. He's such a hater, man.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

For a reason. It was a terrible movie. But anyway, I agree.

SPEAKER_04 19:45

The hate I have for you right now. We used to do the same with video games. You know, I look at the cover, look at the back. And you could you discover a lot of good stuff just by looking at it and going, okay, this looks all right.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

That's how Jennifer picks out books, and I had her pick me out a book on like an audiobook on my Audible app one time doing that. I was like, there's no way she's gonna pick a good book, and I'll be doggone if she didn't pick a good book. Yeah, it's a good one. Just on the cover art.

SPEAKER_04 20:11

Jamie used to do that with uh Sometimes you can judge a book by That's funny.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

My thing is, my thing is, you know, because it's oh you can't judge a if it's a good book, it should have a good cover. Right.

SPEAKER_04 20:25

Well, why put a cover on it then? Why the why why not have them all just blank?

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Oh I think it's a metaphor.

SPEAKER_04 20:32

Yes, yes, it is, but same, you know.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

I'm just saying if if I if I wrote We know that, Richard. I'm saying if I wrote a good book, I'm not gonna put some silly cover on it. It's gonna look good. Right. Yeah. I'm I'm gonna dress it up. Yeah. Dad gum. Like, hey. Write that down, Richard. Like it's it's nice to be beautiful on the inside, but it's also nice to be beautiful, also on the outside. Right. That's my wife right there. So, what do you think of that?

SPEAKER_01 21:02

That's a suck-up moment right there. Brownie points. Yep. Yeah, hey, write that down. There is a new trend on Audible, not a trend, but it's they're they're using it more and more as AI readers.

SPEAKER_04 21:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

Hate them. Hate them, hate them, hate them. Yeah. To the point that I will not read a book if it's read by an AI.

SPEAKER_04 21:22

Well, because it's you could tell it's you know, it's the inflections aren't right. Very. Yes. He went outside and saw that the and it they try to make it sound human, so it sounds enough human, but it's like that's why I don't read because that's that's what it sounds like in my Welcome to the Almost Brothers podcast. I am Tyler.

SPEAKER_03 21:45

I wish you'd stop that. Thank you for thank you for listening.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

I got that uh that book from Comic Con. Yeah. Cape Con.

SPEAKER_04 21:56

Did you start it?

SPEAKER_01 21:57

I started it, I got a chapter in, and I it I it took me a minute to really get into it because this dude likes commas. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

I'm talking about the Oxford comma?

SPEAKER_01 22:10

What?

SPEAKER_03 22:11

The Oxford comma.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

He likes commas. I'm just gonna talk to Mike. I can't mute you, I'm just gonna ignore you. What's up? But there was one page is like just commas as far as the eye could see. It was just it was a lot. But once I got past that, it's a take your glasses off.

SPEAKER_03 22:28

That's not a lot.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

Nothing's a lot if I take my glasses off. I don't see nothing. I thought I was good.

SPEAKER_03 22:33

Wow. Anyways, just wow.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

You know what happens when you catch up with Tyler?

SPEAKER_04 22:39

Catch up.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Catch up. I was gonna say you ain't caught nothing up. We've been talking about food and books.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

Oh, hot dogs.

SPEAKER_03 22:45

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 22:49

There goes I think I'll have that for some.

SPEAKER_04 22:52

Oh, that is oh my gosh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

A boiled hot dog and America Whip.

Streaming Overload And Judging By Cover Art

SPEAKER_04 22:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Hop tart and butter for desserts.

SPEAKER_04 23:04

I don't I don't want to I don't want to do this anymore.

SPEAKER_03 23:09

Let's delete this episode and try again.

SPEAKER_04 23:11

So what what what's what's up with y'all? What's on the what's up? What y'all listening to? Watching. You already talked about your book and hot dogs. I got babies. Babies.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

I I have kids.

SPEAKER_04 23:27

Kids. It's old news.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

Yes, it is. And I'm over it. No.

SPEAKER_04 23:33

I've got uh what uh what I watched this week. What are we watching this week? We haven't started our Christmas movie. So Jamie wants to start shut. So Jamie wants to start Christmas movies, but it's still too early.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

Says who?

SPEAKER_04 23:48

Says me.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

Who made you the authority on when somebody can watch a movie? In my house? In this house, we will serve.

SPEAKER_03 23:56

That's for me in my home. We will watch Christmas movies after Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_04 24:00

And and I would normally, but she makes me wait, like if if it's September 30th, and I'm like, hey, let's start watching some Halloween movies. She says, Nay, no. No, no. Because it is too early. Therefore.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

So really you don't decide when you watch your movies.

SPEAKER_04 24:19

No, I just when she wants to watch Christmas movies too early, I say no. We're waiting on December. Good job.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

That's how we do things. I watch Hancock. That's him pigness battles. I watched Hancock the other day. That's a great Christmas movie. Yeah, I've been telling everybody, good job. Like that. Good job.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

It's a stinking movie. Did you say it's a stinky movie? Stinking movie. I think it's stinky. It's pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

That was pre-Will Smith breakdown. Yes, it was. Yes, it was.

SPEAKER_04 24:48

Yeah. That's a good one, though.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Yeah, it's not bad.

SPEAKER_04 24:51

It's all right. What's a what's a have to watch at the end of the year? Movie. Are there any New Year's movies? No, I mean before the year's out, you have to watch it. Don't have like a yearly movie that you watch that you have to watch every year.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

I'm asking the wrong person. Tyler doesn't care less about a screen unless it's a TikTok. That's how long his ascension span is programmed to last. Listen, listen. Listen.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Listen. He's got a point.

SPEAKER_04 25:22

Unless it's the worst show ever, The Office.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

Yeah, he tried to get me to watch that. I didn't mean that, man. I didn't mean that.

SPEAKER_03 25:30

I just wanted to never see your niece and nephew ever again.

SPEAKER_04 25:34

Oh man. Oh no. Just know that I love y'all. Yeah. For me, every year I have to watch The Lord of the Rings. Beginning to End. Why? All three of them?

SPEAKER_03 25:53

Yeah, there's more than three, but. Is there more than three? Yes. They call it a trilogy. Well, there's the Hobbit.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

It's it's just it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

I watched the Maze Runner trilogy for the first time ever the other day. Well, it took a couple days.

SPEAKER_04 26:09

That's right. You said yeah. You were telling me that. Really good series. That's a good series, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 26:14

We watched uh a movie the other night. I don't know if you've ever seen it. I thought it would be a movie that you would like. It's called Game Night. Yes, it's funny. Jason Bacon. Yes. It's such a good movie. But they're like all the couples get together. Yeah. It was a good one.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

What's that on? Netflix?

SPEAKER_03 26:29

Yes. So it's basically who's the girl in it. Is it Anne Hathaway? No, it's uh Rachel McAdams. Rachel McAdams, yeah. So yeah. So basically it's you know, these what these three or four is three couples, yeah, and then one of the the Jason Bateman's character, his brother, and they do uh game night one night, and then the brother, he's like a rich whatever, does stuff. He's like, next week, game night at my house. Well, he's he instead of a normal, you know, board game, game night, it's a murder mystery thing. Yeah, and it basically it it uh well don't tell the whole thing. Yeah, it well I'm just saying, it it gets unhinged. It gets crazy.

SPEAKER_04 27:09

I have not seen that. Is it the first time I've seen it? Yeah, okay, yeah, it's a good one. Yeah, yeah, it's probably 2012, 13, somewhere around that. Really funny. 2019, I think it was.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

Is it typical Jason Bateman language in this movie? Yes, a little bit.

Audiobooks And The AI Narrator Debate

SPEAKER_03 27:24

It's not horrible it's spaces out a little bit. Yeah, but it's not it's not it's not every 30 seconds. Yeah. I love Jason Bateman since being on Night Shift, I've been watching uh quite a few movies. Night Shift. Yeah. Night Shift. Yeah. Well I'll I'll stay up all night. What else have you been watching? So uh never thought I'd miss that throat clear. Shut up. Never thought I'd miss that. I watched uh the other night I was I was wanting to watch some like some war military movies. There was one called Unbroken. And it's about I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it. It's really good. It's about this, it was during the um oh what war was it? It was around Pearl Harbor. World War II, I think. And excuse me. This Olympic runner gets drafted into the army and uh he's in a plane and their plane goes down, he gets uh taken prisoner by the Japanese. And it's it's pretty it's pretty wild. Yeah. That's that's a really good one. And then I like I like a good war movie. Yeah, Land of Bad is a great one. And it's uh it's got Liam Liam Hemsworth in it. Yeah. And then who's it who's this one guy? He's from um This is Us. I think he's like the main guy. Yeah, it's like Milo something, maybe. Yeah, I don't know. You probably know if if you see him. But he's in there, it's so it's so good. It's this little this scout sniper platoon, they're out trying to do this mission and gets uh it goes wonky. Yeah, it's it's really good. And then uh what was another one? 12 Strong. I've seen that one.

SPEAKER_04 29:12

Yeah, that is a great one. That's a good one with uh who's he? Chris Hemsworth. Chris Hemsworth, yeah. The Hemsworth brothers doing it big. They are, man. Doing it, doing it big. I liked um the remake of um Was it Red Dawn? Red Dawn. Yeah, yeah. That was a good one. That's I like that one a lot.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

I didn't care for the original, but the remake was good.

SPEAKER_04 29:32

Yeah, I like the remake to that. And I like uh man, what was it? It was uh not Saving Private Ryan. It was right around that time, though. Um Behind Enemy Lines.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Oh, yeah, Owen Wilson.

SPEAKER_04 29:43

I like that one a lot. I like seeing some of these actors that step outside of what they're usually known for and into more serious roles. So I like stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

Jim Carrey's number 23. Oh my god. That is so good.

SPEAKER_03 29:58

It's been a long time since I saw that, but that was it's very much not the Grinch. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

Robin Williams at 8mm. Is it eight millimeter?

SPEAKER_04 30:05

I like I don't know. I don't know, I can't remember. Yeah, it doesn't matter. I like an hour photo. I like Robin Williams and um Goodwill Hunting. Yes. I think it's great.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Very good, very good.

SPEAKER_04 30:18

Yeah, that's so good, man.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

That's a fantastic, terrible language, fantastic movie.

SPEAKER_04 30:24

Like it, and it it makes you wonder how many kids are like that, like just hurting, but just putting on this front, and it's man, that was a good movie.

SPEAKER_01 30:33

I watched, I was scarred by Saving Private Ryan. Scarred? Scarred. Yeah, there's this one scene.

SPEAKER_03 30:39

Be prepared. Sorry. Scar.

What We’re Watching: Comedies And Thrillers

SPEAKER_01 30:43

There's this one scene. I'm ignoring him again. Newted. Uh you can't do that. I know. I wish I had the button. There was this one scene where the guy is on one of the guys on top of another guy, and he's stabbing him, but he's like fighting him and like begging him not to stab him, and he stabs him slowly and kills him. It's like I was shook.

SPEAKER_03 31:04

Yeah, land land of bad is very graphic, like that. Yeah, it is, and it I feel like that's what makes it very real, cuz but also you know, maybe unrealistic, but it's it's it's uh it's kind of a hard watch.

SPEAKER_04 31:18

Yeah, there's one I almost walked out of theaters watching. I didn't re I didn't know. What it was. It was another couple that we went with. It was Thank You for Your Service. Have you seen that one?

SPEAKER_03 31:27

That that's got a it's not Kevin Bacon. It's um kind of looks like him. I know I I I watched it. No, no, no, no, no. Thank you. Miles Teller. Yep. I was thinking of another another one. Yeah, and it's like that. It's it was hard to watch. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 31:41

Hard to watch because it I just thought about my dad the whole time. That is. And it just followed like it was like four different guys that had gotten out of the military and like the things that they're struggling with. It was rough to watch. I bet it's rough to watch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:53

That was that was a tough one. There's uh there's another one that I was thinking of when you said that, but it was something else. It was um I can't remember the dude's name. But basically he was this this officer, this Marine Corps officer taking this uh enlisted Marine who passed away, killed in action, taking him home to be buried and all that. And that was that was a good one.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

I've I've seen clips of that one. I don't know what the name of it is. I can't remember either.

SPEAKER_03 32:25

I can't remember. I'm sure it's still on Netflix.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

There's a TV show with uh John Krasinski, it's a military reacher.

SPEAKER_03 32:33

Or not Reacher, Jack Ryan.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Yes, that was hard, that was pretty intense.

SPEAKER_03 32:37

I I couldn't get into it. I watched a few episodes, and I was and it's I guess it's just hard for me to see John Krasinski as anything else other than Jim Halpert. You know, you done typecasting.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

I did. Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_03 32:49

I did. Um was uh I watched uh both Top Guns a couple times.

SPEAKER_04 32:56

Oh, so good. Yeah, that's my summer movie I've gotta watch, is is Top Gun. The new one I thought was great. It was I I kind of almost like Maverick a little more. That's how I am.

SPEAKER_03 33:08

Yeah, well, and just just because I I think the thing that makes it different for me is in Top Gun Maverick, it starts with the mission. Yeah, we know what the issue is, we know what the what the mission is, and now we have our our uh class of Top Gun uh pilots and whatever. Whereas the first one's like, all right, hey, here's Top Gun. And then it was like, Oh, hey, now here's a mission. Right.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

Well the the dogfight scenes were better in the original Top Gun.

SPEAKER_04 33:40

Oh, I d I completely disagree. I think well, yeah, and the only the only reason why I I disagree is because in the new one, all the all the the video was actual video of them in the in the planes. But I liked I like the uh yeah, but like the act the actual if you look at it outside of that, then yeah, I agree with you. Yeah, it's actually better fighting because they don't do a lot of fighting in the second one. No, but I like how they all did their own yeah training and all that with the actual pilots. And that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 34:11

When Tom Cruise did the run, when nope, you know, when he wasn't authorized to do it at the end.

SPEAKER_04 34:16

Yeah, yeah. I love that. So good. It's good. I want to go watch that as well. Well, it's like Miles Taylor in that in the new one. There's a part where they drop really quickly, he's like, oh crap. Like it was a real reaction to them actually doing that. It was pretty cool. So the pilot, they told the pilot to do something crazy that he didn't know was coming, you know. So it's pretty cool to to watch all that and just the making. You watch the making of it and all the stuff that they put into it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

It was funny when uh that movie was coming out. You remember uh James Corden did the late night show he uh he flew in one of those jets with Tom Cruise and stuff. It was just the funniest thing to watch. And he was he was like, he was he was telling us like, and if you know something goes wrong, here's the ejection handle. He's he's like, Am I gonna need that? Or he was like, or he he says something like in just case uh uh two engines uh go out, you know, pull the injection. He's like, Well, how many are there? Two.

SPEAKER_04 35:15

He's like, Oh, okay. Wait a second. What it's crazy how much Tom Cruise does his own stuff, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

Insists on it, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:23

Like when he's contract, like in Mission Impossible, where he was strapped to the side of the plane. Dude, that's crazy, man.

SPEAKER_01 35:30

The free climbing scene.

SPEAKER_04 35:32

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:34

That made my curve. Yeah, off of the thing, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

Yeah, it was didn't they say that was like a one-take thing?

SPEAKER_04 35:40

I don't know. I can't remember if if it was one take or more, but I I remember seeing the video of him actually doing it. It's like, bro.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

He's an impressive dude for such a software.

SPEAKER_03 35:51

I don't know the validity of it and how true it is. But James Cameron, when they were shooting the Titanic, when there's a scene where all the water starts to flood in. Yeah, he's he said you know it was I read it was like they like actually flooded the set to get real reactions, yeah, real responses from the actors.

SPEAKER_04 36:15

And sometimes, isn't it crazy to think like, how do they film this?

War Movies That Hit Hard

SPEAKER_03 36:18

Like, this is crazy. And and because I I start thinking, you know, I could have been an actor, and then I see stuff like that. I'm like, no, I will not be there. I will not give you better give me a floaty. Yeah, yeah. You just CGI me in the scene.

SPEAKER_01 36:34

That's the second time in one weekend Titanic has come up. Yeah, it's a good movie. Yeah, we're talking about that on VHS.

SPEAKER_03 36:40

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_01 36:41

Two of them.

SPEAKER_03 36:43

What's what's VHS? That's depressing. I grew up on VHS.

SPEAKER_01 36:48

He's kidding. He saw that in a museum. I heard about that. That was from the 1900s, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_03 36:54

I used to have my my grandma used to uh record Naruto on VHS. Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_04 36:59

My grandpa used to have he had a whole thing in like a notebook. So he'll be like, hey, grandpa, do you have you know whatever on and he'll go through this thing, it's got an alphabetical order. Yep, tape 78. My my grandpa uh would bootleg like when he learned how to bootleg DVDs.

SPEAKER_03 37:18

It was over. It like hundreds. I'm talking like I'm talking like like that shelf over there, yeah. But multiple stacks of just DVDs.

SPEAKER_04 37:28

Were they the ones where you see people standing up in theaters and walking across the or were they like like decent ones? They were I've seen a couple like that where you can see the person, like where somebody's filming in theaters and they somebody stands up and walks across. It's like, oh no.

SPEAKER_03 37:46

They would like rent the DVDs and then he would just burn it off. Just burn it off. Yeah. And I'm like, this man, this outlaw, passed away a few years ago. I was about to say, I know uh he put his business in the streets. I can't it now, it's obviously can't hold up any court of law.

SPEAKER_04 38:02

I'm calling the thieves. Man, crazy. What else y'all got on your heart, on your mind?

SPEAKER_01 38:09

I very rarely have anything on my mind.

SPEAKER_04 38:11

Babies. The babies are good to have you back, man.

SPEAKER_01 38:13

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_04 38:15

Love ya.

SPEAKER_01 38:17

Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_03 38:19

You know what's funny? Last night, uh so Liv's mom uh stayed over last night to help the the babies, because we were coming here this morning, and normally I've been taking the the night shift, you know, staying awake all night with them while Liv slept. Um and so we're like, well, we gotta figure something out because I'm not staying up all night and then coming here and being awake all day. Yeah. Our mom offered to uh stay with the twins and we got to go up. We went upstairs and slept in bed together. And I was like, I said, uh, we're gonna get in bed. I said, man, it's like it's been how like like how long? It's been a long time since we actually slept in bed together, like like since when? Yeah. And I was like asking, like, since like when was the last time? And I don't know what was going through Liv's mind when she looks at me and just goes, No, it hasn't.

SPEAKER_05 39:11

I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_03 39:13

This and that was literally the last night. We're still talking about today. I was like pregnancy brain still. I was like, what do you what do you mean? She goes, No, it hasn't. I said Liv, I was asking a question.

SPEAKER_01 39:26

Did she uh did she build a wall between y'all? Short circuit. You're not doing this to me again.

SPEAKER_03 39:34

No, doctors said they can't do that for that stupid doctors. That's so funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:42

Rules from the C section. Well man, I sure love y'all. I love you. You know what else I love?

SPEAKER_01 39:47

Hot dogs of Mariga Whip.

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No.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

I just I don't know why. That's a loss for words. I don't know why I continue to do this to myself.