Ep. 111: Summerween

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He's just run the gauntlet of stuff tonight, and we're all... taking it in and enjoying it so sorry sorry you can't be with us and you know hey would have been awesome you know but I don't know if we're now wants us to live stream you know his concert onto you know youtube for y'all so hey we we potentially got a time traveling copyright strike coming at some point or copyright claim yeah we're gonna watch something here in just a little bit that has to do with time traveling and And I wish we could also talk to y'all about, you know, uh, the day after Gadsden collector con, but, uh, we're, we're now, so we don't even know yet how that's going to go. It's going to go great. I mean, it's going to go fantastic. Cause the last episode we had Wolf and, uh, and Derek from, uh, from Gadsden collector con with us. And that was a, that was a fun time with those guys had a great time. Um, But as of yesterday, as you're watching this, we got to spend some time with them. Yeah. 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So, uh, as of this recording is, you know, you know how social media moves, it may be old news by the time that it comes around to July. Um, Coldplay has been making waves couple of days. One of my least favorite bands has turned into one of my most favorite memes. Yeah. What was that I told you? It was like something I saw posted that says my algorithm thinks I like Coldplay right now. Yeah, mine is so messed up and I hate it more than anything because I know once this meme fest is over with Coldplay, I'm going to go right back to hating them. Chicken Master's going to be suggesting Coldplay from now on out. I'm going to have to go through and start. Hide this post. Hide this post. So yeah, Brock and I are not cold play fans now. Yellow is one of the worst songs on the face of this earth. And that's all because when I was in radio, I had to play it over and over and over. Well, that was like the big, that was one of the, that was the, their big song. That was, it had a grip. What year was that? That was like nine. No, it wasn't. It was, it was the early two thousands. Okay. I'm trying to remember. Cause I was in, when we were playing at the radio station, I was at No, it's probably about two thousand two thousand one. Maybe might be ninety nine. You might be right. See, we'll do some Google five. I mean, according to June twenty six two thousand. Yep. Ah, I got the year right. Yeah. Not very memorable for me, honestly. I had to go and actually like what what songs did Coldplay do? Oh, yeah. I don't know. I forgot about them. Yeah. Don't listen to any of them. Don't do that to yourself. It'll be fine if you never listen to them. It really will be. So the billionaire CEO decided to meet up with his side chick to a concert. The head of HR manager. Of all people to have a side piece with. the head of hr ethics wise I mean you know I heard that reportedly he resigned or something but ethics wise that woman's not getting a job ever again there's nobody can trust her as hr ever again yeah at least not in human resources yeah no not at all she this chick is toast yeah she's she's she's not gonna get yeah honestly I mean if they had just played it cool exactly and not reacted the way they did um their their the dissolution of their their marriages would have been a private matter because odds are someone would have said something about it local and then the wife would wife or the husband would have known about it but the way they reacted is what made it juicy yeah you know because you're like oh man deer in headlights I saw those eyes You know, you're at a concert. It's not being broadcast live. You know, I mean, it's somebody filmed it. Sure. But you could have played it off and nobody would have been none the wiser. Yeah. First of all, don't be doing that in the first place. Second of all, play it off if you're going to. Yeah. I mean, the big lesson here is just don't do that in the first place. Exactly. Number one rule. Don't cheat on your spouse. Yeah. Yeah. And you, I mean, the world we live in today, I mean, your, your stupid stuff goes viral quick. Yeah. That guy's gonna, the guy's wife's going to be trolling around the, uh, the, the world on his yacht. I'm assuming if he's a billionaire, you know? Yeah. Yeah. He's, he's, he's getting that, uh, that fortune slashed in at least half at least. I don't blame her. Like I said, I would take him to the cleaners. And then when he posted on LinkedIn talking about how he would appreciate some privacy while he deals with the private matters, it's like, bro, you're not going to get anything. Maybe you've been a little bit more private yourself. You wouldn't have this to deal with. No kidding. The guy, when he ducked, he just looked sick. He looked yellow all over. Oh, I see what you did there. Yeah. Come on, Kevin. I know you like that one. Yeah, that's the look of a guy who knows that he is about to have a much lighter wallet. Yeah. And a lot of issues with the family and the kids and all the stuff coming up just that from his stupid action so so yeah the the the moral of the story is don't cheat folks yeah if you're gonna do it Just break it off. Still don't cheat. But if anything, at least, you know, the good side of it is it has created some funny content for the world. Oh, my gosh. The recreations of the moment have been hilarious. The AI things that have been coming out with this. I'm trying to find. I mean, I saw somebody that does somebody in one of my groups that does those Halloween displays like year round. Yes. Skeletons out. They had the two skeletons in front of one in front of the other. And it was a picture just like them. And I was like, you know what? If I did skeletons all year long, I would totally be doing that. A hundred percent. But you know, the, the Philly fanatic, the Phillies mascot. Yes. Oh, that was great. They did that one in real time. Now, if you're a wrestling fan, this is one that I found that I couldn't help, but I got to show this, but Vince Russo and Jim Cornette. I'm not going to elaborate on their history, but you can just go look up the history between Vince Russo and Jim Cornette. Yeah. And so that was a... That was one that got me cackling. Oh yeah. Can't, can't repeat what Jim calls them. Yeah. Oh yeah. I get, those have been good. I've seen some of them like even thing like where it's Hank Hill holding charcoal and like there's been some great ones. I haven't seen that one. Yeah. Bill Murray holding Slimer. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, they've done a whole lot of, of really great, uh, memes off of that. That's awesome. Well, like I said, this, this may be a dead fad by the time this episode airs and we're, we're looking kind of dated, but we'll see. Social media just moves so quickly these days. Yep. Think of the old folks at Hardy sitting down talking about stuff. They usually talk about stuff two weeks after it happened. So it's going to be the same thing. It'll be fine. Yeah. Yeah. Um, They got me thinking today of just different things like different encounters with bands. The recent Green Day was recently doing a show and invited this guy up on stage to play guitar. And Billy Joe Armstrong is... Hands him the guitar and I think he thought they were going to play Good Riddance and the kid breaks out into Wonderwall. He breaks out into Wonderwall and Billy turns around to start singing and then he realizes what's going on and gets the guitar from the kid and security takes him off stage. Well, the thing about it is there was a popular mashup where they combined those two songs. Well, no, it wasn't that song. It wasn't Good Riddance. I think it was Wonderwall. Well, no, it was Wonderwall Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Oh. He should have just leaned into it and said, that would have been hilarious. I have a joke. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Coldplay hasn't made a single in years. Last night, they made two. Oh, that just kind of ran across that one. That was good. I'm sorry I had to interrupt. That was, I'm sorry. That was a good one. That is a good one. The other band thing that I remember was Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters invited this, like, what, ten-year-old kid up on stage to play, and the kid broke out into inner Sandman. And the Foo Fighters just went with it and sang it with the kid. Well, apparently there's also been now there's the the phrase cold played definition, the act of being unintentionally exposed while cheating, especially in public, usually during major events to be seen at the wrong place with the wrong person at the wrong time. Bro thought he was safe in a crowd of eighty thousand. He got cold played hard. Okay. Hopefully that one will survive. I like that. Yeah. The single greatest, let's be honest, the single positive contribution that Coldplay's made is giving us an actual word based on their name. Like a verb. Mom, how did we get so rich? Your dad hugged an HR lady at a Coldplay concert and I got fifty percent from the divorce. Heck yeah. Coldplayed. Coldplayed. Almost as good as Munson. Oh, my gosh. Oh, Lord. Well, I really Munsoned that one. For those who don't know, go watch Kingpin. Bill Murray and Woody Harrelson. Roy E. Munson. What are you doing, Mr. Munson? I'm flossing. Flossing? I thought your name was Munson. It is Munson. What I'm doing is flossing. Again, mismatch everybody. I can't even talk now. I can't even describe this episode. It's a potpourri. Potpourri. Okay. Munson means to get messed over. That's right. That's the polite way of saying it. Well, since we're continuing mismatching, I know y'all guys probably haven't heard it. Kevin, did you check out the new Nine Inch Nails song for Tron Aries? Yes. Oh my gosh. Dude, I'm still on the fence as to how they're doing this, but especially Jared Leto can go either way being the lead, but at the very least, we're going to get an epic, epic Nine Inch Nails soundtrack from this. Yes. If that song is anything of an indicator, my gosh. It sounds like my early nineties. Yes. Trench dropping them bangers again. Banger after banger. After banger. Speaking of which. We, Brock and myself and Bo and Oliver attended Monday Night Raw in Birmingham, July the fourteenth. And it was an amazing show. Birmingham, I mean, we have a lot of... We've gotten a lot of love from the internet wrestling community over our, our pops, our reactions, how loud we got. Oh, really? I didn't. Yeah. Oh, we got praised big time. Cause Jess and I always watch and listen to wrestling reviews. Yeah. We, after every. there's a guy named JD from New York, JD from NY two Oh six. If you have sensitive ears, don't listen to him. Um, but he does, uh, uh, I guess it's entertaining. Um, yeah. Review. Uh, he yells a lot, but that's part of his charm. Um, but, uh, he's, he's really good at picking, picking apart stupid stuff in wrestling. And so that's why we like him. And, um, He was like, my gosh, the pop that, that Birmingham, Alabama had when Roman Reigns came back out. Yeah. He's like, yeah. And we, we rewatched the clip after we got back of that. Yeah. Birmingham was insanely loud. Yeah. We did good. We did really good. Yeah. We had a good hot crowd that night. Birmingham. Uh, I am so proud of my city and our turnout and what, how, uh, how we showed ourselves to Netflix. We did really good. And the show was fantastic. Um, you know, there'd always been dropping hints about Roman, you know, of course it's, it's about to be SummerSlam. So, you know, We know Roman's schedule, um, but still, you know, they've been kind of dropping little subtle hints about, you know, references and everything. And, um, and he showed up in our city. Um, so happy about that. I mean, I, you know, I would say it was as loud as when the rock showed up at summer at, uh, SmackDown last year. It was, it was magical. And it's so good to be in that building and feel that, that pop and feel the crowd and, you know, the aura of it all. It was just the energy. Yeah. The energy was, the energy was off the charts all night. It was good. Yeah. It was really good. You know, and I hope WWE keeps bringing special things like that to Birmingham because, I mean, you know, we've got Andrews, you know, the medical people that treat all the wrestlers here in Birmingham, you know, that clinic. They're always doing rehab. They're always doing surgery. I mean, Birmingham's the go-to place for it. I went and watched the episode back several times. Corey Graves commented several times about the energy from the crowd, the noise in Birmingham. I was so glad to hear that every time I heard that. That's us. It's really good. You think about how they're doing international shows now. They usually stick to the bigger cities. Birmingham is a big city, but you know what I mean. One of the major, major cities. We're not a Dallas or a Chicago or even a Charlotte or a Tampa or anything like that. But still, we love the WWE when it comes to Birmingham. And I just hope that they keep taking notice of that. Just keep coming back. We will be there. And we will bring that energy. Yeah, and we got CM Punk. And we got CM Punk. We got Punk. We got some great pictures of him. I would show the clip of Gunther. Gunther was talking about, I feel really good tonight. You saw Brock stand up. There's a clip. I stood up going through for the non-wrestling people gunther is a bad guy he's a heel um so but I love him he's so good on the mic he's from austria and he's got a great personality and can deliver lines very well So he said, you know, I'm feeling pretty good tonight. And when he did that, of course, I love going through, I stood up and clapped and I think I was the only one and you see me clearly over his shoulder. So go back and watch that episode of raw that old guy at the stands up clapping for him. That's me. Yeah. And speaking of him, I saw where you liked it on Jess. Apparently he either him or someone shared a video. He like he stood it like somebody's little house or somewhere like for the like, I don't know. It looked like it was I'm assuming if it was when the Birmingham area just judging by it had to be like somewhere like Shelby County or something like that. He said middle, he said middle of Alabama. So Birmingham central. Yeah. Um, yeah, I think that was on a Sunday. I think it was right after, uh, you know, right after Saturday night when they were in Atlanta. Um, cause he was making the comment about gyms not being open. Uh, they wanted to him and, uh, him and Kaiser wanted to work out and they couldn't get a gym that was open on Sunday. So the video started with them. outside of a gym and Kaiser's cursing at the gym for not being open. And then it cuts to there. They're at somebody's house. It turns out what he said on his, his, uh, reel was, um, that it was his driver's house. They just invited them over to, have dinner and everything. He's like, ah, Birmingham. Very good. Very nice people here. You know? Yeah, that's right. That's right. And I was so happy. My, my second time to see CM Punk and he won again. So I have not, I have not been in, I've not seen a match in person where he has lost yet. So I said, it was just, it was just a fantastic show. And, and, um, so I just wish I could, I have to go back and watch it. I do because I want to, I just know how awesome it was and how awesome it was to be part of that. Yeah. I got to sit down and watch it. I haven't had time to sit down and watch it since we've been there. So, I mean, yeah, same here. I've seen two or three clips, but I haven't seen the whole show back. Well, y'all, we showed up, we showed up quite a bit of, uh, uh, We showed up pretty often. Y'all, please forgive me. It's been a long day. Yeah, we're all. I feel like I'm stumbling, bumbling over myself more today than I am. I'm the only one here with a definite amount of energy today. Well, of course. Yeah. What a mental day. So just forgive me. Help me out here. I'm doing my best. I think, Bo, you work today? Yes, I am coming off of spending the last thirty nine out of the last seventy two hours at work. So just clean the house and everything today. I came back from a work trip down at Dolphin Island, got back and immediately started working on work stuff. I'm going to let Kevin decide if he wants to talk about his day. Yeah, I proposed to my girlfriend today. Yeah, I mean, and Kevin got engaged today. Yeah, I got engaged today. And I just cleaned the house. So my energy is pretty high today. Yeah. I mean, granted, anybody who's ever proposed, speaking of guys here, I guess gals as well, if you're in our modern society, right? Right. Anybody who has proposed knows that if you want to do it, you want to do it big or appropriate, and it'll stress you out so bad if it doesn't go right. This went really well. Yeah. Thankfully, yes, I am engaged now. My energy level, I will power this podcast tonight. You guys suckle of my energy. We're plugging into you, yes. You get powers with the ring box. I'm glad you guys had a fun time at the Raw show. It was awesome. It was a lot of fun. A lot of fun. And, uh, like I said, just a lot of energy, a lot of aura, um, in that building that night. So. Yeah, it was nice and cool. Cause it was, we're not gonna lie. It was hot before we went in. It was a little warm. Yeah. Where did they have it at? Like, is it arena? That is a really nice arena. They do a good job with the vomit control in there. I think when they remodeled the arena, I swear it feels like the chairs feel smaller. Or they made it for more people to fit in there. I don't know. Probably... What is it? Greenflation. They got greenflation in there. Well, when we went to SmackDown last year, the tickets were reasonable. TKO has since taken over. And tickets this year were about double the price for the exact same seats. Mm-hmm. Yep. And so, yeah. Yeah. So Jess, uh, Jess picks her chair, sits down and there's not even any armrests on it. It's just, it's the bare metal. She doesn't get a cup holder or anything, you know, and it's just, it's just metal. I mean, it's just. Yeah. Brock and I were missing cup holders. Yeah. Yeah. And my seat kind of, my seat felt a little loose. So I don't know if I helped matters much by, you know, the excitement of my jumping up and down and, you know, getting into the live show. But I could kind of feel my seat, you know, kind of wiggling a little bit there. Yeah. Unrelated, I know that we're just kind of talking, but with everything that went on today, I forgot. Yesterday, we went – you guys remember last year when I went to Summerween? Yeah. Warrior. They had it again this year. I went yesterday. I didn't really say much about it, but it was very fun. They had a lot more outside vendors this year, oddly, than they did inside. The inside wasn't as full. I think some vendors might have pulled out, but it was – It was interesting to see so many outside vendors considering how insanely hot it was on Saturday. It was really good. They had a lot of really nice vendors. One of the best things about that trip was there was a vendor there that does custom cookies and cupcakes. You guys have probably been to a family reunion or something where they do the worm dirt where they do all the layers of cookies and stuff and they put gummy worms in it. Well, she had it up there and then she had these little, these little containers with shovels. So you could dig it out, eat the stuff that could be a whole bunch of them. So the biggest thing with me, you guys know me personally, I love doing, you know, Halloween, you know, parties and stuff. So it's like, I got this lady's card. So it's like, we may actually have some catered, cool sundries and things like that from someone who actually knows what they're doing. Nice. It seems like, and I just guess I'm just taking, maybe taking more notice of it this year for something, but summer ween has really become a big thing this year. It's like people putting out, you know, like, I mean, Walmart, I mean, they, they advertise all this stuff that they're putting out right now for summer ween. And, Let's be honest. They're using it as an excuse to get it out of the way so they can start putting Christmas stuff out. Well, and that, and I've noticed the marketing on it's changing, which I, I mean, me, I kind of don't agree with as much, but you guys know what, with my. With my Halloween display, it's kid-friendly. I don't do like super scary stuff. So I try to keep my stuff kid-friendly because I don't want to scare people. It's just not my thing. But with the people that do, Summerween is generally not for you because Summerween generally – let's put it this way. If you go to like TJ Maxx or Marshalls, almost all the Summerween stuff is by Martha Stewart. Mm-hmm. like Martha Stewart, Brandon stuff, so much glitter, you know, craft herpes everywhere, all over my Halloween stuff, which I hate, but you know, it's getting more people into it. And if you go to at home, for example, and you, uh, my, well, I don't know. Michael's Michael's go to Michael's. If you're a got like a teenage goth girl, you can literally go there and fill out your entire bedroom. They have everything you need for it. I've seen advertisers for what they're putting out. Like I said, Walmart, they had like pineapples that had like jack-o'-lantern faces carved into them. And so it's... Je suis un nanana. Je suis un nanana. It's scary. Un nanana. That's a whole... I mean, Summerween is... Yeah, you're right. It's getting absolutely huge. They're... this actual festival is actually, it's getting bigger. They, they had, uh, you know, they had a lot more, um, uh, food vendors there and just the vendors are always super friendly. So, um, just look them up on Facebook. If you guys are ever interested in, in supporting like the local summer ween scene, I guess you could say, um, they have, um, they have this event every year. It's generally around this time and, um, it's up in warrior, Alabama. Uh, they have it at a, um, a library annex, uh, Right off of sixty five, like you get off of sixty five and you're almost within like a minute you're turning and going into this place. So it's it's very, very close. Small. I mean, you'll probably be there for forty five minutes. Let's put it this way. Last year, I dropped a cool one hundred fifty bucks on a big stuffed Kraken. I didn't do it this year. The vendor was back again with one exactly the same, but with different colors. I already got my stuff. Yeah. My girlfriend now fiance. She. Yeah. At the time she wasn't, but you know, now fiance, she, she spent, she spent more money there than I did. She spent more money buying things than I did. And she was like, I don't know about this whole summer wing thing. I don't, you know, I mean, we're going, this is kind of your thing. And then she, she leaves and she spent more money than me. It tells you anything about how cool the place is. It's like you go up there and you don't expect it. And you get hit by like tons and tons of awesome booths and stuff. So. definitely something to do, but yeah, that was, that was super fun. That's always super fun. And this was their, this year was their third year doing it. I didn't go to the first year because I didn't know about it, but the second year was obviously last year. And then, you know, so they're, they're continuing and they've even expanded it now that where they're doing one right before Christmas as well. It's like December thirteenth, I think. So, I'm okay with that, getting spooky time. I think they call it spooksgiving or something. I don't know. Something spook with a Christmas word. Prefix. Yeah. The last couple of days I've been in Mobile, in Dolphin Island, I saw some independent boutique stores that had big summerween signs in their windows too. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know how it's own little holiday really. Well, I noticed too, it seems like, and I saw kind of more, you know, memes, I guess you could say out there, like as soon as, you know, fourth of July is over with, you know, transition right into Halloween, much like, you know, once, you know, how you have the videos of people, like they have their house decorated for Halloween. And then as soon as Halloween's over with, they make like a little video that shows them going from, Halloween right to Christmas. So, and I've noticed, you know, a lot of, you know, the retailers and stuff, they've already got their, you know, their Halloween decorations, they're putting it out. And it's just, I, I love, I want to go and buy Halloween stuff, but it's a hundred degrees outside. Yeah. It's hard for me to feel Halloween when it's a hundred degrees outside right now. And as much as I love the cute stuff I see, and it's like, you're really, you're killing me because I don't, I don't have the means to go out and buy this right now. And then plus, if I buy it, it's just like, I want to be able to decorate and you know what it's just it's weird it's kind of weird you know it's just it is but it's because of the nerds like me that are like already planning our holidays like six months in advance they do this for nerds like us because I mean I've already gone to at home I'm gonna have like they released this year a uh it was a ghost leading a um uh ghost dog um like like walking it I've already got that because that was my number one thing I wanted this year. They do that for us. By the way, they've been doing that for years. Home Depot has been doing that for years, but now it's becoming, as you said, it's becoming an official thing that the retailers are figuring out. We make money from these nerds right now. Let's see if we can rope in more nerds and make it more of a holiday thing, which is where you get the Martha Stewart coming in and throw glitter all in my stuff. Yeah. Glitter needs to stay out of Halloween. So does Martha Stewart. Well, I agree with you on that, too. Send her back to prison. As far as decorating. You made me think you got on that. I don't know why it made me think. When you said summerween scene, all of a sudden my brain went into music mode, and now I need Seals and Crawls Summer Breeze, but I need a summerween scene. Yeah. Oh, that's good. Yeah, yeah. Well, we've already got a couple of items for Halloween. We did get two of the new Haunted Mansion tombstones from Lowe's about a month ago. I was wondering if you guys were going to get those. Oh, heck yeah. Yeah, if Lowe's comes out with those new tombstones every year, we're going to get them. I want the whole cemetery. They've also got the dog and the cat, but they're sold out. before I could get my hands on them. So hopefully they'll become available again. I'm on a stakeout. I keep watching. We've been saying for the last two or three years, the wife wants one of the Home Depot skeletons. So hopefully this year might be the year I finally get one. They're pretty available now. They're not that difficult to get. Last year, we had them up almost all the way. They had them in the store almost all the way to Halloween. Well, like I said, I was procrastinating about it, and I went to one store, and they had one left. I called them, but when I got there, somebody already had their name on it, and they were like, well, they're supposed to be here by this time. If they're not here by this time, then you can have it. Well, they showed up two minutes before the deadline, so I was like, ah. So I'm going to stake out this year. I will give you a pro tip here. When you get it, because I know your wife, when you get it, and you guys get it set up, go to, and this is a shameless plug, CustomSantaHats.com. Oh, we're going to, he's going to be up all year. Santa hats for all the large skeletons. All of them. Yeah. Where my, where my kids live, my ex-wife lives. There's a house down at the end of their street that has two of those giant skeletons that they leave up all year. And every time we go down to visit, they're in different outfits. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I mean, you can get the most out of it. I mean, at the very least, my neighbors don't have to deal with that yet. It's getting there. Look, guys, I've already done two Timu orders with inflatables that you can't get here. I've already done a Michaels order at home. Yeah, my display is going to be up probably by about thirty, thirty five percent this year. It's going to be even bigger. So, yeah. Yeah, I told the fiancé, you know, if we wind up moving in the future, that one of my requirements is I need to have a decent-sized front yard because this is only going to get worse. It's a sickness. It's a great sickness. But, you know, it's just something that I like to do. If only we had the, we just don't have a good way to decorate where we live. No. And I wouldn't want to, I wouldn't want to put anything out, leave anything outside in our neighborhood anyway. I'm not saying we've had trouble, but I just, you know, have a hard time. I bet other people leave decorations up outside without any issues. You haven't had trouble. Only your mailbox has had trouble. Yeah, that's because people can't obey stop signs. I mean, I could easily, you know, fall into that too, Kevin, and getting caught up in decorating. I guess, I mean, I only get to really, as far as going all out, I mean, I always get compliments and everything for what I do for the office for the holidays. So I'm just like, you know. I just don't have the, I don't have the proper space for decorating where we're currently at. That's just my issue. But one day, maybe that'll, maybe that will change one day. You can decorate Vicarious through me. It'll be fine. I'm pretty much am. Yeah. Until that time. And believe me, well, we'll be adding many, many more decorations this year. It'll be nice. Along with the usual stuff. It'll be more. Yeah. So. Yes, it's going to be good. But I love, yeah, Summerween. Summerween's kind of gotten out of control a little bit. And I don't know. I'm kind of on the fence as to whether it's bad yet, but it's just retailers trying to make up a new holiday. Oh, yeah. It really is. Well, like I said, our age group, especially anyone in our forties, especially in our forties, I mean, Halloween kind of got its big boom in our childhood. So I understand why it is so... Our age group loves it so much because like, I mean, you think about it, you know, eighties probably has some of the best horror movies, you know, so much. And then like, you know, I mean, Halloween was a thing before that, but I feel like the eighties was like when like our, like our generation, like Halloween was like, Hey, kids like this stuff, you know? And I think it stuck with us. So that's, that's why I think, you know, Well, it's, it's good memories. It's, it's just a good memory to carry, to look back on. And, you know, I think so too. I feel the same way. We were still allowed to walk and do trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. You know, you don't buy ourselves by ourselves. That's the key. I mean, thankfully, you know, the neighborhood that I live in, I'm fortunate enough that, you know, they still do do that. The majority of the people around here do do that. Otherwise I wouldn't be getting the, you know, the amount of people through that I do, but they, they, instead of, you know, the kids, you know, putting on the crappy plastic face mask and walking for three miles to get a bag full of candy, they just pull, they, they towed them around on, uh, with, uh, golf carts, pulling trailers and then they hop off the trailer. Like it's a parade. But they do that over in your neighborhood. Yeah, they've done it some. I mean, it's been a couple of years, but I took Zach. I always had tried to take the chance, you know, take the opportunity to take Zach over there to where your neighborhood is. Yeah, it's not too bad. Like I said, it's, you know, of course, a lot of that's just modern day. You know, a lot of folks do the trunk retreats, which I understand completely on that. But yeah, there's still that we still have some trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you know, this last year, it was one of the things that I did in our neighborhood was I kind of organized a Google map that because we had some neighbors that were kind of, I don't know, I wouldn't say complaining, but just kind of commenting that it seems like there's a certain part of the neighborhood that always gets a ton of attention. Yeah. And yeah. And they're on the outskirts of our neighborhood and they don't get a lot of attention. I said, okay, well, let's see if we can change that. Let's show people that you could go out and do this stuff. And then I set up signs around the neighborhood with QR code that you could scan it. It would take you directly to this page that I hosted. It had a Google map. Yeah, look at you, Kim. And it worked because these people said they saw a huge boost in people coming by and getting candy. So I'm going to continue doing that this year. You are like the Halloween ambassador to your neighborhood. I mean, really, you are. I'll have to see if I can share that map to the front porch page to show you guys. We had a lot of people. And, of course, me being the guy that did it, everyone else's icons were like candy, like little pumpkins with candy. And mine was Stay Puft because I was like the anchor in the middle. Speaking of Stay Puft, did you guys see that HalloweenCostumes.com released a fifty-foot version of that Stay Puft? He's going to be life-size. He just keeps getting bigger. Let me tell you guys something. From someone who owns the fifteen-foot version... Fifty foot is insane, especially when you look at it really closely and realize it has the same number of tie downs as my fifteen foot version that I can never get to stay up without putting extra tie downs. There's no way there's no way those tie downs would hold a fifty foot. They just use the same design, just scaled it bigger. The same design. And I zoomed in and they're using the same ties, which, by the way, I've had to repair my my state book every year and re uh re-sew the ties on it because they come loose there's no way as soon as you get as soon as we get one of our alabama storms which I mean anytime He's going to Oz. He becomes Oxford. We thought the trampoline was the state bird of Alabama. No, it'll be state. I mean, I mean, you've seen, I've put pictures of me standing in front of this thing and it, you know, I stand like, you know, up to his, the bottom of his leg, almost to his crotch. Right. This is like, I can't even, man. And that's still a third of the size of the real Stay Puft. Yeah, you're right. They're likely going to continue to scale this thing up. I don't see how there's any way that Halloween costumes actually blew this up and had it stand up for more than three hours. with the tie downs it has on because they've got videos of someone blowing it up in front of like a uh a barn or something and the thing is standing up there and I'm like you can look at it in the video and it's waving back and forth no there's no way there's no way we have the no we got we got a we have a uh an eight foot and a thirteen foot oh I thought we had we don't have a thirty no Okay. We've had, we've got a couple of different ones. They're kind of spread out. So I'm just, I'm just trying to remember. The eight foot one is with our friend Shane. Yeah. He does a lot of the table displays for the Alabama Ghostbusters. And so we have let him borrow that. But the thirteen foot. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. The other one's thirteen. Thirteen to fourteen foot. Okay. Okay. I just, I mean, those are even, you know. isn't there is there a thirty foot one am I just dreaming that uh there was I know there was a larger one well there's like an eight foot I think there I think I think mine's fifteen I don't think it's third I think it's fifteen I could be wrong that's thirteen yeah yeah I think it's fifteen because there's there are different versions of it yeah yeah there's a fifteen there's a twenty five and then there's a fifty Okay. Twenty five. Okay. Twenty five foot. I kept away from twenty five foot because even it's too big, it would go way above my house and all the wind shear would go over the house. And it's no way there's no way I can keep that thing up. This is going to be a Macy's Thanksgiving day balloon. Seriously. That's approaching balloon level. I mean, that's a fifty. I mean, just from somebody who puts this thing up every year, just how rotund he is. He's a chunky boy. He's really big. He used to be on my diet. I mean, as soon as you blew a fifty foot one up, it would be as big around as a part of my house. I don't even know where I would put it. I can't fathom this. I can't fathom the size of this thing. No. I mean, it would literally, fifty feet would peak up above trees in my neighborhood. I mean, that just gives me a Halloween high there to think that I could do that. But, I mean, there's no way I would come home and it would be in the road. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, and not just that. I mean, great. I'm sorry. I'm on a tangent here, guys. But the sound of the fan. I mean, the fifteen foot version, the fan on it. I could be working in here because this is my normal working office as well. Yeah. And he is like where that window is. He's right outside that window. I can hear that fan running all day because he's always on during Halloween. I can only imagine the insane fan that a fifty foot version would have. I don't even know man it would probably sound like one of those big like big drum fans like you know they have like warehouses yeah I bet or or no in halloween costumes they probably said let's just put another fan on there the same yeah Oh, man. I just want to see somebody. You know someone's going to buy it. It's thirteen hundred dollars. We'll stay tuned to our local Ghostbusters fan groups on Facebook. I'm sure someone will be having it there in no time. I won't. You can't. I won't. Brock says just let him know what you see. If you see one, share it with me because I'm not dealing with the Ghostbusters community anymore. I got you. I feel you. And there we go. Ghostbusters fans has ruined the Ghostbusters community for me for way too many years. I've given up. Yeah. I've given up. I did see that this year, Halloween costumes.com has, and I don't know if they had last year, but they have a, a Ghostbusters light up terror dog wall Baker wall breaker decoration this year. Yeah. Oh, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, I thought about it last year, but they're too scary. It's too scary for kids. I mean, dogs are freaking scary in the movie. It can be too scary. Yeah. Yeah. And then I think last year, the, um, what was it? The, um, um, Ecto, you get the inflatable. Yeah. Yeah. It's even more expensive this year. They, they greenflation it as well this year. So I was like, Hey, well, I'm not going to get that now. So, To team who I go, baby. Like I said, my eventual one-day big decoration I want to do for Halloween, and it's just simple. I got to put them up, put some four-by-four posts, but I would love to have an either And I could paint them on plywood, but either a welcome to Raccoon City or welcome to Silent Hill sign for Halloween to put in my yard. I've always thought about doing that. Yeah. One of the really cool things that I've seen people do that I'm thinking about doing this year, I've got one blank wall on the side of my house. That's just normally I don't have much of anything. I've tried some stuff last year. I'm thinking this year you can actually take in like some sheets of like plywood and you can cut out like figures and Kind of like, you know, people who do some of those Ninja bread figures, you know, like when they, they cut them out of plywood, cut them out of plywood. And then you take, and you put led lights on the back of them around the perimeter and then light it up and then set it against the house, just away from it a little bit so that it glows. And then you can have like a silhouette of something. So you could actually do the silhouette of, of words. If you wanted to like the side of your house, if you wanted to do that. Hmm. Good idea. I mean, I'm kind of thinking of doing that with, you know, just some friendly like ghosts and things this year, but we'll see how far we can go with it. Yeah. Put Casper out there. He's friendly. Awesome. I do look forward to the day that we, we really go, you know, straight to the wall. I'm I can't wait to see what you guys do. It's going to be crazy. We'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we'll be, we're inching closer to being unshackled. Nice. Um, my son graduates when, so, Oh, one in college, one in private school. That's great. That's fun. Yeah. It's good stuff. Yeah. So, uh, we're getting close to the hour. We like to keep it at, and Kevin has given us a video. I posted it on Bama Geek front porch. Yep. I haven't seen it. Jess has not seen it. I think the two gentlemen have. So I hope, uh, since this is not live, if there's anything untoward in it, then we will, um, We will hopefully, A, not get a copyright claim, and B, I hope I don't have to edit anything out of this. So what's the name of this video, Brock? Back to the Future Unhinged. Unhinged. Unhinged. And so if it's too loud at the beginning, because it was rather loud on my headphones, if it's too loud, then I'll turn the volume down. You guys just let me know. It's about eight minutes long. That'll time us out perfectly. Well, hopefully. If not, we can say our goodbyes and you can edit it back in. We can talk about it. I'm sure y'all will have some things to say about this. Especially stainless steel top three or four. Can we classify this as fair use? I don't know. We'll take our chances here. Okay. All right. Just before Warren, if you don't see the video, then we got some sort of strike and I had to go back and edit it out. So we can add the link to the video if you want in the description. We will put the link in the description no matter what. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Back to the future unhinged. Maybe. That's the good old boy. Marty, that could have been catastrophic! You know what would happen if the flux capacitor gets damaged! Great shot! Marty, forget our mission! We need to go back before we get stuck in the wrong time period! Hang on! He looks more like John Malkovich than Christopher Lloyd. Yeah. What's going on where are we I'll tell you in fifteen seconds Come on, Doc. Are you going to tell me what's going on? Okay, here's the deal. Part of the malfunction is that we are in the same location in space, but in different locations on Earth. Due to the Earth's rotation at different times. And I believe we have lost the ability to choose the date. And there is a chance we just caused a very historic disaster. Maybe. Wait, what? Doc, wait up. So he went to his school to get a blackboard so he could explain it. Then he leaves it in the white room. It's malfunctioning again. Oh, come on! Hang on! Why is he on the moon? Is that an iceberg? Yep. Marty, what did we hit? Titanic? I think that big piece of ice floating away. Okay. How are we going to leave now? I got it. What in the world are you doing? Poor DeLorean. Yeah. Oh, man. This is the only way we can hit eighty-eight miles an hour. Ready? It's like Fire Marshal Bill. Let me show you something. What is this? Hang on, Marty. We're coming in hot. Oh. And that's what killed the dinosaurs? That's what killed Doc and Marty. You'd think. Oh, this is heavy. It's ox all action. I think DeLorean owners will attest to they're not this durable. Maybe not close on Tuesday. I think I saw another one back on the other side. You mean we have to go back over? Yep. Why can't we just take the overpass? I think I'm coming down with something gnarly after traveling through all these different time periods. Oh, it's twenty twenty. I saw the date on it. Yeah. Twenty twenty. Oh, no. What? I can't believe this. Triple layer duct tape. Oh, my God. I didn't even know this existed. What'd you cover? You're gonna cause a pandemic or something. It wasn't Wu Han, it was Doc Brown. Yeah, right. You're telling me that all along duct tape was the solution? Well, yeah. Yes. Isn't it always? Let's go home. This is great. Doc, you did it. We're back to the present. Marty, it is important you know. that we can never do that again. Wait, Dagnabbit, I left my sunglasses back in one of those time periods. I wheeled and fly. Let's see what they can do. No thanks. Well, we do have to hit . I know, but it's just not the responsible thing to do. What are you, chicken? Floor it. You said chicken. buddy hold your breath what happened the tape fell off oh this is heavy look there's a nice spacecraft over there probably with some friendly fellas who can help us out and give us some oxygen don't worry Wow. Good job, Landon. Landon Fernald. There you go. That was very entertaining. And there's your credit. I hope you don't strike us. Yeah. I think anybody that owns a DeLorean now should just like go slap it and go top three or forest. You need to contact Oliver and Terry Holler. Yeah, you need to show them that. Oh, my God. Does this work? Please tell us it does. Well, very good. That was highly entertaining to end the episode. Yes. Well, uh, anything else you guys want to chit chat about as we're probably still enjoying word out. Yeah. So maybe, maybe like, so the next time we reconvene, so I guess that would be three weeks from now. We'll we'll talk to Superman finally. Yeah. You know, I know it'll be a few weeks. We'll talk Superman or whatever's happening by then. Well, fantastic four will be happening by then. So I'm looking forward to that one too. Yeah. We promised Kevin we wouldn't discuss Superman because he hasn't seen it yet. But you're in for a treat, my friend. You're in for a treat. It's redemptive. How many post-credit scenes? Two. One mid-credit, one after. Yeah. Okay. Cool. All right. I'll make sure. I'll wait for that. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's good. Yeah. All right. Yeah, we'll be looking. I'm kind of really hoping and granted, I know we've all kind of, well, for the most part, we've all been kind of bummed as the direction that MCU has been going. So I'm kind of hoping that, you know, Fantastic Four gets us back a little bit, especially if you see Thunderbolts and you've seen the ending credits of Thunderbolts and you realize what's coming and we get like a little bit of a taste of like, there. How that ties into Fantastic Four. I'm hoping that's going to be really awesome. Thunderbolts. Thunderbolts gives me hope. That was a really good movie. Is that on Disney Plus yet? It should be by now. I hope so. It's very good. The thing about it is in Thunderbolts, no spoilers whatsoever, but Bill Pullman's son is yeah plays the character in there you know and of course you know we get uh kurt russell's son back in there so it's like you know I'm watching this uh with my you know I'll say uh we're watching it and um I'm just having trouble with it it's still new yeah it's still new um I was watching it with her and um she's like I don't I don't hear kurt russell this voice and I'm like he literally sounds just like kurt russell like How do you not hear this But apparently it's just me I don't know Well the trailer we saw before For Fantastic Four before Superman Looked really good It was a really good trailer Actually doing Galactus right He looks exactly like he does in the comics Which I think is going to be awesome Yeah So kind of get it, it made me, you know, it just kind of made me want to see, I mean, not that I wasn't going to watch fantastic for, but it, it peaked my interest got more peaked after, especially after that last trailer. So I was like, okay, this is, I think this is going to be good. I think this is where this is the kind of Marvel movie I want to, you know, I look forward to seeing again. So. Did you see where Kevin Feige said that we were going to, they confirmed they were going to recast X-Men and I'm like, well, duh. After Secret Wars happened, they're going to reboot X-Men. I think that's the plan. They said Secret Wars is going to realign and fix some timelines and make things a little more palatable for us. But how do they keep up with stuff again to kind of put us back on a path? So I don't know. Maybe we're going to stay in Six Sixteen. You know, Universal Six Sixteen. I don't know, but I guess we'll see. Yeah. Hopefully so. Hopefully so. Yeah. Well, You guys want to call it a night? I'm feeling fatigued, you know, I apologize. I feel like I've kind of struggled a little bit with this episode and fumbled and bumbled a little bit. So, Hey, thanks for hanging in there with me. 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