The History of Halloween ft. Dana Beers | Oct 28, 2025

Summary

Macrodosing: The History of Halloween ft. Dana Beers | October 28, 2025

Overview

In this special Halloween-themed episode of Macrodosing, the crew—Arian Foster, PFT Commenter (Aaron), Big T, Mad Dog, and guest Dana Beers—dive into the history, traditions, and quirks of Halloween. The discussion ranges from favorite candies and costume choices to deep dives on the orgins of the holiday, dog-ownership debates, sporting event woes, and the weirdest corners of internet subculture. The episode is packed with humor, memorable anecdotes, and plenty of good-natured ribbing among friends.

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Major Discussion Points and Insights

1. Halloween Spirit and Traditions

Costumes:

• Lighthearted debate about costumes kicks off the episode.
• Arian shows up in full Spider-Man attire, lamenting that "Pod mates are too cool for costumes" (01:48).
• The group discusses favorite past costumes, Dana’s Bucky's costume, and Arian’s plans to be Sully from "Monsters, Inc." for his daughter’s Boo (123:24).

Halloween History:

• Aaron presents a deep dive into Halloween’s Celtic origins—originally New Year’s Eve in Ireland, France, and England (104:12–105:10).
• Customs involved bonfires, wearing animal heads as costumes to ward off spirits, and sacrificial rituals.
• Bats became a Halloween symbol because bonfires attracted insects, and bats followed (106:01).
• Pumpkin carving (jack-o’-lanterns) began with the Irish carving turnips, inspired by the tale of "Stingy Jack" (111:24).

Trick-or-Treating:

• Originated in three possible ways:
  • Poor people would promise to pray for donor’s dead relatives in exchange for food
  • Ancient Celts left food for spirits, and people dressed as spirits to "claim" the offerings
  • Middle Ages "guising"—doing tricks or performing for treats (117:16–120:08)
• The U.S. tradition was shaped by Irish and Scottish immigrants, ramping up with lighthearted pranks (gate night, flower bombs, derailed streetcars) before cities shifted to today's more controlled, child-centric holiday.

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2. Halloween Candy Rankings and Memorable Moments

Favorite Candies Discussed:

• Almond Joy vs. Mounds confusion leads to a hilarious realization for Dana:
  • Dana: "I hate the almond, dude." (132:15)
  • Aaron: "Dane, I've got great news for you. Go get some Mounds. Treat yourself." (132:20)
  • The classic jingle: “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t” (133:08)
• Big T puts Butterfingers as his #1—sparking debate (“I get Butterfingered out”—Aaron, 131:19).
• Group consensus on Kit Kats, Reese’s Cups, Milky Ways, and Sour Patch Kids as top picks.
• "Candy corn is good. Don’t eat a lot of it, but candy corn is just fine." – Aaron (137:26)

Memorable Exchange:

• The group laughs about discovering candies kids actually like vs. what gets pawned off (strawberry delights, Skittles, Airheads).
• Mad Dog vehemently anti-coconut/nuts in candy, echoing listener sentiments.

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3. Internet Invitational Golf Drama: The Luke Kwan Incident

Recap of Golf Tournament:

• Aaron shares his experience at the Barstool Internet Invitational, paired with YouTube golfer Luke Kwan.
• Luke oversleeps and is late for the tee, leaving Aaron to play alone.
• Kwan’s dismissive attitude—"We’re not going to use any of your shots. You suck." – paraphrased from Aaron (10:48)
• Arian: “You gotta take accountability there, you know what I mean?” (09:01); mirrors frustration felt by the Barstool community.
• Reactions:
  • “Big time players make big time plays and big time situations. That was your opportunity to step up.” – Arian (15:34)
  • “As I sit in a Spider-Man costume… I’m a mature-ish grown man.” – Arian (16:38)

Takeaways:

• Discussion of sportsmanship, confidence, and the Barstool content machine.
• The experience led to a more positive pairing later in the tournament (see: Thursday partner switch).

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4. Dogs: To Own or Not to Own?

Arian’s Dog Dilemma:

• Considering dog ownership, Arian seeks advice on breeds and training, desiring a dog that’s smart, good around kids, and slightly mischievous but trainable (61:27–78:26).
• Extensive discussion on labradors, pit bulls, rottweilers, and how misconceptions about breed aggression are often owner-related.
• "I feel like my kids—I love my kids. I don’t like your kids… That’s how I feel about dogs." —Arian (58:55)
• Training tips: positivity, patience, no physical punishment.

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5. Barstool Office & Yolk Station Talk

Dana’s Yog (Chug) Station:

• Dana describes planning a permanent beer chugging station in the Barstool office, inspired by lemonade stands (81:10).
• Tension with co-workers (memes) over space and noise, but open invitation to all: “It’s just going to be a friendly neighborhood lemonade stand.”
• Chugging rules and logistics debated; time records to be kept.

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6. Miscellaneous Banter

Barber Relationships:

• Hilarious cultural contrast between Arian’s close relationship with his barber and Big T’s preference for transactional haircuts (51:04–55:48).
• "You treat your barber like a prostitute. That’s crazy to me." – Arian

Sports-Specific Tangents:

• College football ticket-buying strategies and uniform talk.
• World Cup draws, possible "rigging" for host country advantage, and Trump's soccer influence (36:26–38:40).

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7. The Weirdest Corner of the Internet – The “Goon Squad” Subculture

Gooning Explained:

• Aaron shares a wild deep-dive article about "gooning," a subculture of extreme porn consumption and masturbation (90:15+).
• “Goon world” includes Discord communities, playlist “wank battles,” and marathon self-pleasure sessions.
• “If you create communities from beating off together… probably got some other desires bubbling. And that’s fine. Just own that shit.” – Arian (93:16)
• General consensus: It’s a sad scene, not one to emulate, but ripe for podcast content and jokes.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• On golf etiquette:
  “You gotta take accountability there, you know what I mean?” —Arian (09:01)

• On friendly banter:
  “If you respect me, it’s respect. If you with me, I with you. If you want to laugh and joke, I’m laughing and joking. You want disrespect, I can do that.” – Arian (16:47)

• The unforgettable Almond Joy moment:
  “Why the am I eating almond joys? … I hate the almond, dude.” – Dana (132:14)
  “You've been throwing out the almond.” – Aaron (132:14)

• On Halloween’s origins:
  “Halloween used to be New Year’s … that’s when you had a bunch of spirits that were hanging out in the real world, so you wanted to celebrate them…” – Aaron (105:03)

• On pet training:
  “You gotta take some part in his training ... no, you don’t beat them.” – Aaron (70:04)
  “I don’t want no doggy baggage!” – Arian (72:13)

• On Halloween pranks:
  "People would, like, push over Porta Potties, steal people's wagons…and put them on roofs. ... in 1933, they called it ‘Black Halloween’—it was basically the purge." – Aaron (125:28–127:10)

• On women and candy:
  "Sometimes the hottest Halloween costumes are when girls get dressed up as something that's not supposed to be hot... But they still look hot." – Aaron (140:30)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Costume & Halloween intro: 01:12–05:37
• Golf drama & barstool tourney: 08:21–24:39
• Dog ownership deep dive: 57:00–78:26
• Yog station / Barstool office banter: 80:28–87:56
• Halloween origin/history lesson: 104:12–112:46
• Favorite candies debate: 130:46–137:32
• Cultural/Internet deep dive (“Goon Squad”): 90:15–99:47
• Wrapping up—costume ideas, family/parenting, Halloween history: 123:24 to end

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Episode Highlights

• Dana’s Realization: Hilarious on-air discovery that Mounds are just Almond Joys without the almonds, providing a running joke through the Halloween candy segment.
• Luke Kwan Story: A blend of sports disappointment and Barstool office politics makes for a compelling case study in team dynamics, ego, and viral content.
• Pet Advice with Heart: The debate on dogs is both earnest and funny, showcasing the cast’s range from practical tips to comedy.
• Barstool as a Microcosm: The Yog Station, office territory squabbles, and legendary pranking traditions echo Barstool’s unique culture.
• Weird Internet: The “gooning” tangent is vintage Macrodosing: educational, hilarious, and just uncomfortable enough.

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Tone and Takeaways

The episode is playful, irreverent, and slightly chaotic—true to Macrodosing tradition—with a blend of genuine curiosity, off-the-wall jokes, and personal bonds. Whether you’re looking for Halloween trivia, a guide to picking a dog, insider Barstool gossip, or a cautionary tale about online subcultures, this episode has it all.

Final Note:
The show closes with Arian’s kids’ Halloween song—“Knock Knock”—which the entire crew agrees is "top three Halloween songs all time." (141:24–144:12)

Happy Halloween from Macrodosing!

Transcript

[Aaron]

Hey, macrodosing listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube Prime. Members can listen ad free on Amazon Music.

[Dana]

I have a dark horse Almond Joyce.

[Big T]

Okay, that is a dark horse.

[Dana]

Was that like a you don't like it noise? Oh, come on.

[Aaron]

Are you anti coconut?

[Mad Dog]

I'm anti coconut. Coconut and I'm anti nuts in my candy.

[Big T]

Agreed.

[Dana]

Well, the almond is the worst part of the Almond Joy.

[Big T]

Then you would for sure. Well, there's Mounds. Why wouldn't you just.

[Dana]

Mounds don't have. It's the same thing.

[Big T]

Mounds just don't have Dana. That's their very famous slogan for the last 50 years.

[Dana]

What do you mean?

[Aaron]

Almond Joy has nuts. Mounds don't.

[Dana]

Mounds are the same thing. Yeah, just without it.

[Aaron]

No, the exact same.

[Dana]

No, I swear to God, that's. I thought there was a difference.

[Aaron]

Exact same.

[Big T]

They've made it their branding for the better part of.

[Dana]

Why the fuck am I eating almond choice?

[Big T]

I don't know.

[Aaron]

You've been throwing out the almond.

[Dana]

I hate the almond, dude.

[Aaron]

Three, two, back now.

[Aryan]

Ready to start? Because I'm ready to start now.

[Aaron]

That's how, that's how it works when you have to bring up the ad reads. That's how it works.

[Aryan]

Aaron, I was going to say something.

[Aaron]

But I'm going to reserve Spider Man. I did not think that Spider man was so sassy.

[Aryan]

Sassy's a little. I don't like that adjective. You know what I'm saying? Snappy.

[Aaron]

I'm sorry.

[Aryan]

Sassy feels a little, you know, you're.

[Aaron]

A little extra, you know, little.

[Aryan]

Six, seven.

[Aaron]

Drama. We're back on macro dosing and today is Thursday and it is October 30th. It is Halloween Eve.

[Aryan]

Yeah. Pod mates are too cool for costumes. That's okay.

[Aaron]

I did not know that there were going to be costumes. I didn't until last night. Was it Mad Dog or McKenzie that asked are we wearing. Are we getting dressed up?

[Big T]

It was Aryan.

[Mad Dog]

It was Arian.

[Aaron]

Oh, it was Aryan. Okay. Yeah, yeah. He's a little sassy and so I, I thought, I don't know. Is this something that we had discussed on the podcast that I, I, I happened to miss on Tuesday?

[Aryan]

No, it's just Halloween, bro. Like, get into the spirit, you know?

[Aaron]

I hear you. I could be a little bit more festive.

[Aryan]

It's the one thing I've looked forward to. I'm an atheist.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Yeah. Shout out All Hallows Eve. And today's episode's brought to you by our great friends at game time. It's college football season. There was college football Tuesday night, college football Thursday night. We got in games Wednesday night too. Oh, yeah, we got football like every day.

[Big T]

What games are tonight? Jacksonville State, MTSU and fiu. Missouri State.

[Aaron]

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[Big T]

Are you talking about Tennessee, Oklahoma.

[Aaron]

We have a de facto playoff game this weekend. Tennessee, Oklahoma. Loser out of the. Out of the cfp.

[Big T]

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[Aaron]

It's going to be an incredible game. And yeah, Dark mode. I. I do like those uniforms.

[Big T]

They're sick.

[Aaron]

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[Big T]

You gotta have Aryan on screen during that ad the whole time.

[Aaron]

You look good, Aaron.

[Aryan]

I know.

[Aaron]

Tell you what, if Aryan was like. If you went to like the Galleria in Houston and just started sprinting around the Galleria wearing that, that video would go so viral. Being like the most athletic Spider man that I'VE ever seen is running be kind of lit.

[Aryan]

Not gonna lie. I was thinking about going to my country club and golfing like this. Yeah. Yeah. But they probably kicked me out because there's. There's a dress coat. Spider Man. Gotta have a collar out of here.

[Mad Dog]

Just wear a collared shirt over it.

[Big T]

Yeah. Just put golf clothes on as Spider Man.

[Aryan]

Every kind of lit.

[Aaron]

Yeah, you gotta. Yeah. Put a belt on.

[Aryan]

I don't think belt is in the dress code. I think it's just collared shirt and golf shorts.

[Aaron]

I thought when I was there, they made me put a belt on.

[Big T]

Without a belt. That's kind of crazy. Anyway.

[Aaron]

Yeah, that was crazy. It was a crazy move. I happen to not have a belt, but. Welcome back. We're here on Macrodosing and it is the evening before Halloween as you're listening to this, and we're gonna be talking a little bit about. About Halloween today. And we got some other stuff to get into. I did happen to miss. I did miss Tuesday's show. I was on the road for that. So I apologize for not being here. Hope you guys had a good time. You guys dive in. Anything crazy on there I should know about?

[Mad Dog]

Not that I recall we had another wedding. Voicemail.

[Aaron]

We might be the wedding podcast.

[Big T]

Jog my memory.

[Mad Dog]

It was the he has potential Game 7 tickets to the World Series and also a wedding on the same day.

[Big T]

Yeah, it was this guy who may have his brother's best friend's wedding on the day of if World Series gets to game seven. And he said he had tickets to game seven of the ALCS and he thinks he would have them again. And everyone was like, dude, you don't, you don't go to that wedding. You don't go to most weddings for that.

[Aaron]

I have, I have an event that I was asked to go to about a month ago, and it's an important event. I should go. They told me it was November 1st, and I immediately pulled out the sports calendar and I was like, well, obviously there's going to be some college football on.

[Big T]

Sure.

[Aaron]

But, you know, you can't, you can't just say no to all events throughout the fall.

[Big T]

Looked at the beginning of the year, like that was actually going to be the best Saturday the whole season. It turns out it's kind of bare.

[Aaron]

Yeah. And then I looked at the MLB calendar and I saw game seven of the World Series is on Saturday night. And I thought to myself, what are the odds of a world series going 7 games anyways? Probably not going to happen. So I Agreed to go to the event. Now I'm starting to, I'm starting to sweat it out now. I'm sweating.

[Big T]

Is this like a family event? A paid event? Like what?

[Aaron]

So the people that it might be a surprise event and some of the people that are involved in the event, there's a possibility that they listen to the show.

[Big T]

Interesting.

[Aaron]

So I don't want to. That's why I'm being so cagey about it, because I'm not, I'm not going to spoil the surprise. I'm not going to be that guy. Imagine getting some sort of big surprise for yourself ruined because you listen to my dumb ass on a podcast.

[Big T]

Sure.

[Aaron]

Hey, feel bad.

[Aryan]

Don't talk about my friend like that.

[Aaron]

Aaron, are you going to keep the mask on?

[Aryan]

No, it's running his course.

[Aaron]

I was hoping that you would give some, like, serious takes about something, like get into, like, a political argument with Big T while, while having that spider Man.

[Aryan]

Let's talk about it real quick before I change my mind.

[Aaron]

We get a lot of stuff that we're going to get into today. Mad Dog just asked me before we started taping if I would be able to talk about Luke Kwan. Yeah. So we could talk about the Internet Invitational. And there's another episode that's coming out today. First, first off, first off, I'm kind.

[Aryan]

Of crushed about this. I'm kind of crushed. I've been following Luke since before he was with. Good, good.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

So, like, I'm like a fan of Luke. Like I with him. You know what I'm saying?

[Aaron]

And it's like, I'm not crushed, like, for real.

[Aryan]

But it's like, come on, dogs. You know what I mean? Like, come on, dogs.

[Aaron]

I, I, it's just, you know what I mean?

[Aryan]

You just got to take accountability there, you know?

[Aaron]

Yeah, it's.

[Aryan]

I wouldn't in mind. Okay. You overslept. That happens. You know, we all human. But then when you got there, you so lackadaisical. You. So like, here's what it is. They start talking to you and it's like, come on, be. It's like, I get it, but it's just not a good look.

[Aaron]

I.

[Aryan]

With Luke, I still with Luke, still following, but it's just, come on, dog, you gotta, you gotta take accountability there. You know what I mean?

[Aaron]

I don't think he realized in the moment how many people he was pissing off.

[Aryan]

He.

[Aaron]

Because there was, there were so many people. And, and because of the nature of the Internet Invitational, you've got people who have their own Massive, like, golf platforms that they've established. You've got, like, half of barstool sports, so you've got, like, the hockey guys with biz and wit. You've got the foreplay guys. You've got part of my take there. And I. I don't think it occurred to Luke. And that's in addition to, like, all the other major, like, golf YouTube groups and video gamers and stuff that. That were represented at the Internet Invitational. He didn't realize how many people he was going to piss off, and I. I feel like if he had to do it again, he probably would have done things differently easily.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

But, yeah, he. The night before, I got introduced to him, and I was like, okay, like, let's get some good vibes going. We're on the same team here. Wanted to meet all the teammates because there were a lot of people that didn't know each other. Like, they were familiar with each other because of running in the same space online. And, you know, you've heard of these guys, but you never actually got to cross paths with a lot of them. And so trying to just meet some of your teammates, introduce yourself, and get the vibes going on on a night before the tournament kicked off, and I. I went up to him and he was just like, yeah, I don't really care about you. We're not going to use any of your shots. You suck. I'm. I'm good. You just have to just hang out there. So I was. I understood, by the way, that I was.

[Aryan]

He said. He said that off rip.

[Aaron]

Yep, pretty much. I. I don't know that he said that I suck, but he's just like, yeah, you're. You're not good, but you don't have to worry. I'm. I'm really good. We won't use any of your shots. And I was like, well, I've been. I've been practicing a lot, and I think that we'll probably end up using some of mine. Like, I want to contribute. I want to be. I want to be an asset to the team. But I. I fully understood my place being paired with Luke. My place was going to be give him a read on every putt that we hit and so that he can use that and try to make a shot and then maybe use an approach shot, maybe use one or two drives like it's a scramble, so you never know. He could. He could hit a bad shot. I'm capable of hitting a good shot every now and again. It won't be, like, a constant thing but felt like I could contribute. And he was just, like, adamant about, dude, don't even worry about it. You don't have to be there. So that was a very strange way to start things off. So I get to the course the next day, and I got there early because it's a important tea time. Didn't want to miss it. And I get some breakfast, and before I go out to the range, I'm looking around for Luke because they loaded my golf clubs up into a cart, and that was going to be the cart that Luke and I were going to use on the day. And I didn't see Luke around. So I. I put off going to the driving range because I thought, I don't want to take the cart away from Luke because Luke is going to need that to get to the range and start practicing. It's way more important that he gets warmed up than it is that I get warmed up. So I was like. I was looking around for him. Eventually after a while, I was like, okay, maybe he's at the range. So I drove up to the range. He wasn't at the range. I hit a few shots to get going. Still don't see Luke. But then I assume, you know, he's, what, 33? I don't need to be, like, looking after Luke. He's played probably a thousand times more golf than I have, so he's probably got his routine that he's doing. So then I go down to the chipping area, and I went to the putting green, and still don't see Luke. And I'm asking around if anyone's seen him. No one's seen him. Now, at this point, the first tee. To get to the first tee, you have to, first of all check in with somebody. And then you have to drive through this crazy little rock outcrop cave area and a very cool golf course. But it's, like, built into some. I don't know if they're caves or just, like, rocky cliffs or whatever. So it's kind of a drive to get to the first tee, and it's about 15 minutes, I think, before tee time. And so I'm like, maybe he's down at the first tee. But I. There's only one way to do that, and that's to take the drive down there and check it out. So I drive down there, and he's not there. And then everyone's talking about, like, where is he? Where is this guy? And eventually they sent somebody to his cabin, and he was just asleep the entire time. And they got him up. And I tried to delay it as much as I could on the first tee before we teed off just in hopes that he would, he would finally show up. And then Dave got madder and madder about the situation. People were like getting Dave wound up. He was upset at first and then the more he heard people say, like, this is insane that he's here. It's disrespectful. Dave was like, yeah, you're right. So it started off from being that Luke can't tee off. Then it became Luke can't play on the first hole. Then it was Luke can't play until like he can't join in the middle of a hole. So if I tee off on the second hole, he has to wait till the third one. And then eventually it was no three holes, then it was four holes. And at that point I was just, I was. Because, sorry. I was playing against Frankie and Bubby and in a scramble. Those guys are both really good and I'm not that good. So I, I was from the get go on that one and I, I did not play well on the first like three holes and that was, you know, I was a little bit.

[Aryan]

Shoot. What you. Did you concede a lot or would you shoot?

[Aaron]

I conceded. Yeah. I want to say I probably had a double on the first hole, probably at least a double on the second hole. And then I think on the third I had like a bogey or something like that.

[Aryan]

But be so fire if you part out. That'd be so fire.

[Aaron]

I was just hoping I could at least I could tie on, on a hole or two. That would have been big if I could do that, but I didn't. I was a little bit rattled, not gonna lie, going against those guys. And because it's not just like I'm, I'm playing golf if I'm doing it by myself, if I'm like on a, even a two man team, I usually don't get that nervous even doing it on, on camera. But add in the fact that the whole format on me got flipped up at the last second and now my teammate who was supposed to really carry me wasn't there. And, and also I've got what, 12 other teammates and we're playing for 1.7 million. I was, yeah, I was, I was, I was flustered at that point. So there's.

[Aryan]

To me up thrived in that situation.

[Aaron]

Probably also you're much better.

[Aryan]

Big time, big time players make big time plays and big time situations. That was your opportunity to step up.

[Aaron]

I know I know, but I, I did not, I did not step up. But then once, once Luke got there, I kind of stepped up. So Luke led this whole thing off by being like, dude, we're not going to use any of your shots. Don't show up. And then first he, Luke hits, I don't know, 30ft from the pen on par three. I, I stick a dot just, just behind the pin. Go. And so I was like, oh, okay, that's, that's pretty cool. And then on the next hole, I.

[Aryan]

Put, See, you got, you got to chirp him right there. You got to chirp him right there.

[Aaron]

You got to say, looks like we're.

[Aryan]

Losing some of my shots after all, huh?

[Aaron]

So, yeah, I could have. But I, I, I, I took the approach of being like, he's here. Let's shock the world. Let's beat them five holes in a row now. Let's, let's try to get a point. So I didn't want to, I, I didn't want to have, like, an openly antagonistic relationship with my partner as we were playing golf in that moment.

[Aryan]

He started, he started that.

[Aaron]

He did. He did. Yeah.

[Aryan]

I'm, I'm of the ilk.

[Aaron]

I'm, I'm, I'm mature. Ish.

[Aryan]

As I sit in a Spider man costume.

[Aaron]

I'm a mature, ish grown man.

[Aryan]

I will reciprocate the energy you give me, especially if it's something like that. You know what I'm saying?

[Aaron]

That's fair.

[Aryan]

If you, if you respect me, it's respect. If you with me, I with you. If you want a laughing joke, I'm laughing. A joke. You want to disrespect, I can do that.

[Aaron]

That's fair. That, that is a fair point. I think a lot of other people would have taken that approach. I, I know Whitney would. Whitney was so pissed off at him, I'm saying. But part, part of what goes into that, at least for mate, I'm, I'm not very good at golf. So, like, it's not. Yeah, it's not really in my nature to talk shit to somebody at something that I'm not very good at, you know?

[Aryan]

See, See, I look at it differently. This, this is what you do. You supposed to be the man, and I just beat you on a hole. You. This, this supposed to be your shit.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Tighten up. Late boy.

[Aaron]

Yup, late boy.

[Aryan]

That's what I, I took that approach.

[Aaron]

But so, so, yeah, we were, you know, we, we played two holes after he joined us, used both of my approach shots on Those two holes and we pushed both of them despite Luke not really playing that well when he did show up. So it was, it was tough sledding and then afterwards. So Luke didn't really seem to care that much about like really golf in general. And we had some good conversations in the cartoon and, and, and talked about a lot of stuff. Got to know him a little bit. I don't, I don't hate, hate Luke Kwan. I think he's probably a good guy. That, that up and then was a. About up. Which really, that's really what. Where the problem is. It's like when you, if you screw something up like that got to be humbled a little bit. Got gotta.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Put your hat in your hand. Yeah. But he just kind of doubled down on it and then we, we ended up playing like two or three holes after our match was over just because we're on the course anyways. The holes were open in front of us, so we played a couple holes and, and had a, a decent time. And then. Yeah, Whit kind of laid into him after the fact and he. I, I didn't, I didn't feel. I guess it comes out to like. I didn't feel confident enough in my golf abilities to talk that much to him even after he got there. Because when he was saying stuff like, you're not going to make this putt anyways, which is a thing for your partner to say about you. Don't get me wrong, that's a thing. But also in the back of my head I was like, he's probably right. Like I'm not, I'm not very good. But it, but I, I should not have had that mentality because I think sometimes, sometimes that it's self fulfilling.

[Aryan]

But I think, I think you're just below an average golfer like that. I'm not disrespecting you, but yes, you're pretty good at golf. Bro. Bro. Like, like, don't. I don't. I think you short yourself. You know what I'm saying? Like a, like a. Against Luke Qua. Yeah. You're not very good to him. He used to be pro. He's be on a corn fairy tour. Like that's what he used to do. You know what I'm saying?

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

So it's like for him to be talking like that, that's, that's why I got upset. Not upset. Like, I don't. I'm not gonna lose no sleep over this. But it's like, it's bothersome as a fan of somebody like that. To like I could take if that's the content you put out. But that's not the content he usually puts out. You know, saying like he, he, he, he's a little snappy and snarky at points. But in the instance like this when there's a inferior golfer and like you to you the better one you would look to see like hey man, I got you on some pointers and some tips like you used to do this. Like this is your profession.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

On top of the fact the shit that you mentioned is like at the Internet Invitational if you don't have the fuck if this is what you're doing with your life.

[Aaron]

This is.

[Aryan]

Luke Kwan is a YouTube golfer now. Right. If that's what you doing with your life, you don't see the monumental look that is of every who's who in the YouTube golf space is there. All their fan bases is going to be watching, sponsors are going to be watching. So you don't think at any point you being kind is going to go a long way. Like that shit's. It blows my mind. Like how did you think that was going to go dog? Like, like that's, that's what's crazy. And then you did it to my man's like Eric, you my man's. I joke with you a lot but like you can't with the family. You know what I'm saying?

[Aaron]

So like Luke, Luke Juan like down.

[Aryan]

Two points in my book.

[Big T]

You know Spider man hates Luke Kwan.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Yeah. I love Aryan by the way. That was awesome. You were giving me a pump up speech and rocking Spider man full mask. No. Yeah, it was, it was a, it was a strange thing to be a part of and yeah there's watching it back you, you pick up on some things that you didn't really pick up on in the moment. And I think you're right. You can't do that if you're, if you're the superior golfer. Because as, as somebody myself I, I agree with you. I don't think I'm a bad golfer. I think I'm, I'm slightly below average which is actually pretty good for the amount of golf that I played.

[Aryan]

Absolutely.

[Aaron]

But also going into that I, I had my confidence in my own game was there but it was also paper thin. Like if I, if I things up as not as a not very good golfer, if things start to go wrong with me, if there's any doubt that comes into my brain that's very bad for my game. If I'm feeling good and confident and the vibes are high. Then, yeah, I'm. I'm capable of being, I'd say, average at golf.

[Aryan]

I.

[Aaron]

We could have won for. I think we. What we saw is once he did show up, the way that we played together, we easily could have won that match. And. And that it was just not going to happen the way that. That it all shook out.

[Aryan]

Yeah, like. Like, like when me and you was paired up, Right? Like, I know I'm a little better than you.

[Big T]

You know what I'm saying?

[Aryan]

But, like, never in a thousand years would I be talking to my partner while we playing somebody. I'm gonna talk to them. Yeah, they. You know what I'm saying? But it's like, why would I do that? And especially if I'm Luke Kwan. Luke Kwan. I used to be like, imagine me coming out on a football field and you actually really trying, and I'm shitting on you. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, I'm literally shitting on you. Like, I know you can't make this throw, though. You know what I'm saying? That's crazy to me. I just don't understand the mind. Like, what's the goal? Your goal is to be snappy and edgy in an Internet invitational where you have the opportunity to bolster your platform, and that's what you do. I don't know, man. Spider Man's not happy. I'm gonna be honest.

[Aaron]

I appreciate that. Well, there's more golf to be played, and the next episode comes out Thursday, so I will be paired up with a partner in that. And the vibes could not be any different from what they were.

[Mad Dog]

Oh, you're not with him the whole time?

[Aaron]

No, we switch up. Switch up the partners. Oh, I just hear that.

[Mad Dog]

I didn't like when he said, I don't care about pft.

[Aaron]

Yeah, I. Now, to be fair to him, he was saying, like, I don't care about PFT in the context of I don't care about what he's going to try to contribute in the golf game.

[Mad Dog]

But either, like, either way, either way, it's a rude thing to say. It is especially like, being arrogant. Like, after you're being a nuisance in this situation. I also just like, like Aaron said, like, you don't. With the family. Like, I just don't understand how anyone. If you know Lu Kwon personally or not before this or whatever, like, I just don't understand how anyone can be mean to you. Like, like, you are genuinely, like, just so easy to get along with. And it's like, like you were like, oh, buddy, like maybe you should like. It was just like you are so easy to get along with and you're so even keeled for pretty much any situation. Like, what does this dude like?

[Aaron]

He was also. He was laying on pretty thick at the start and I think that's what reason.

[Mad Dog]

Like, I just don't get that.

[Aaron]

At one point he was. I forget what it was he said to me, but it was like, yeah, man, you don't need to be there. And I just looked at him like, really? Like, like, are. Are you being facetious? Like, are you doing a bit right now? Yeah. So yeah, I'll just say that on Thursday get a new partner and vibes could not be any any more different. Loved who I played with on Thursday. We're friends now. I'll have this guy's back for forever.

[Aryan]

And that's what it could have been. See, that's the bottle, bro. I was with Luke for a long time. Like, I watch his. All his. When his videos drop, you know, I. I pop in. Like, he's good golfing, funny dude. He's always been a good dude from the camera's point of view, you know? Yeah. That's like you never meet your heroes. Well, Lukewar is not my hero. But I'm saying, you know what I'm saying?

[Aaron]

Maybe, maybe we caught him on a bad day. That could be it too Bad weeks.

[Aryan]

I'm willing to give grace. Jesus forgives. Right? Big T. And so who am I to not forgive? You know what I mean? Victory.

[Big T]

Yeah, agreed.

[Aryan]

Yeah. So, you know, it's. He's strike one, though. You know, I'm only human.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Mad Dog]

He has all three.

[Aaron]

I'm on all three strikes. Mad dog's out. Mad dog's out. Kirk Manhan just texted me. He said I would have shot him.

[Mad Dog]

Can you imagine one time, Madeline's on Kirk. I am on Kirk's side of that. I agree.

[Big T]

Kirk.

[Aaron]

Can you imagine? Can you? Because Kirk lobbied pretty hard to be a part of this.

[Mad Dog]

I remember that.

[Aaron]

Can you imagine if Kirk was actually on Luke Kwan's team?

[Mad Dog]

Oh, no, no.

[Big T]

It wouldn't have been able to be put on film.

[Aryan]

Yeah, that have been. That have been fun to watch.

[Aaron]

Stephen Che would have looked like Kirk's best friend.

[Mad Dog]

Right.

[Aaron]

Compared to what Kirk would have said to Luke.

[Mad Dog]

Yeah, like Kirk. I also just like don't know. Yeah, Kirk would have not taken it from start like minute one, like at all.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Mad Dog]

But it's also. I. And again, I'm not The biggest golf content, like, person. But I don't understand. Also, like, the whole point, I think you said this, too, is like, we're a team.

[Aaron]

Like, yeah.

[Mad Dog]

Why are you with me? We are on the same side here. Like, and I don't know, is it like, one person wins a million dollars or, like, three or four? I'm not quite sure how that all pans out, but, like, either way, if you're playing together, the joint, the. Sorry. The point is to not, like, bring other people to.

[Aryan]

Okay, man. It's all right. Maddie. Hey.

[Aaron]

Hey.

[Mad Dog]

I just don't like when my. My.

[Aryan]

You guys are meaning hot glitching machine.

[Mad Dog]

I literally am glitching, but I literally was just like, that makes no sense. And also, yeah, like, I agree with Kirk. You won't hear me say that often, but, yeah, I would have been like, excuse me. I actually probably would have reacted the same way you did, though.

[Aaron]

Well, I felt in the moment like, this is your partner. We still had a chance to win, even though he was out for four holes. So pretty much. I mean, pretty much zero chance. But there was the possibility that if we just both played really well, we could have won that match and gotten a point for the team. So I just. I did not want to get into, like, you, Luke. I didn't want to have that conversation right there. I didn't want to be like, hey, you've been addicting me this whole time now. You showed up late. Also, I'm not that bad as you think that I am, and I can contribute to this team. And also, there's going to be a lot of people out there that are. I saw a lot of people being like, dude, you should have flexed, like, part of my take. And Autumn, and you should just been like, dude, I'm more successful than you'll ever be. Like, all these people saying, like, I got to dive into my credentials to, like, defend myself in a moment. There's no. There's a lot of people that. Yeah, there's. There's a lot of people that are like, why didn't you just do say this to him and that to him? It's like, you think that that's like a big boy move is to be like, Google me. Like, no, that's. That's a small boy move to do that. So I thought, yeah, let's. Let's just try to be a teammate. Let's go out there. Don't. Arian, that was a bad. That's a bad shrug that you just gave me. That's a bad Truck.

[Aryan]

I'm just saying. Listen, listen, listen. I'm. I'm not the. I'm not with the most Michelle Obama. Like when they go low, we go all that. I'm matching the energy you give me. You want to be my best friend? Let's go get ice cream. You want to be my enemy? Hey, I'm with the shits. I got time.

[Big T]

You don't like ice cream?

[Aaron]

It was a metaphor.

[Aryan]

Why you got to on mo edis?

[Big T]

I'm not. It was. Nevermind.

[Mad Dog]

Yeah, Aryan did say last week one of the voicemails asked if, like, what would you wish upon your worst enemy? Like small little things. And he said, yeah, I don't care if they get hit by a bus.

[Big T]

Hit by a bus.

[Aaron]

Give a.

[Aryan]

Couldn't give a fuck. All that.

[Aaron]

Like, I'm with this.

[Aryan]

It's just because, like, I'm a really good person. Y' all know me, dog. I. I get along with everybody, dog. Like, if you don't get along with me, you're an. That's how I feel.

[Aaron]

You're a.

[Aryan]

Because I don't do anything to antagonize like that. I just be joking and laughing and so if you like, if you crossing me, well, what karma gonna get you? And I don't care. That's life, dog. Life happens.

[Mad Dog]

Safe to say I'm not rooting for Luke Kwan to win the million dollars.

[Aaron]

Yep. And the. The beautiful thing about this tournament is even though day one sucked, there's always day two. Well, there's the second half of day one. Oh, but yes, day two. Day two.

[Aryan]

Oh, y'. All. Y. Y' all did 36. Oh, no, it was 18. Oh, y' all did nine and n. Yeah.

[Aaron]

So it was nine and nine. You do nine holes with partner. Also the very funny moment was Grant Horvat not knowing who John Gruden was. Oh, yeah.

[Mad Dog]

Oh, I did see that too.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Which, I mean, that's kind of boy.

[Aryan]

Country club boy, man. Yeah, of course not.

[Aaron]

Yeah. If you grow. If you grow up playing golf and you don't really pay attention to. To other sports, I. I can see that happening. But yeah, watching. Getting to hang out with Jon Gruden that week was also just a ton of fun. He is. He is the best. And there's going to be a moment. Here's a tease. Well, I guess it comes out today, so not really tease. John Gruden gives the best pump up speeches in the world. In the world. So having him on. On my team in that moment, it was. We needed a Pump up speech bad. And we got one from. From Coach Gruden. All right, so I guess that's it for the Internet Invitational drama. It is what it is. It happened, but we move on.

[Mad Dog]

Not to keep making it about you. How was Arrowhead?

[Aaron]

Arrowhead's beautiful. Beautiful stadium. It's very nice. People there were great. The first half was incredible. Yeah, first half, I think we actually, the commanders, put out the blueprint for how to stop the Chiefs, but it was just the first half. If you can just do that first half against the Chief, the Chiefs, and have that be your entire game plan, that would be. That would be how you stop Patrick Mahomes.

[Big T]

I don't remember the last time I've ever seen two teams in the same game have an interception on a ball that should have been a very easy reception. Yeah, that just bounces off the guy's.

[Aaron]

Chest right off the bat, too.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

First quarter, both teams moving the ball pretty well, but not. Not getting any points out of it. But yeah, Kansas City is a. It's a very, very nice place. Again, I was there for, I don't know, less than 20 hours, but I checked off all the major boxes. I got chicken wings, went to a casino, went to a football game, tailgated, went to the airport. That's the way to do it. That's the way to do it. Also, shout out peanuts. Wings in Kansas City. Delicious wings. Huge. They're the double jointed wings. So every wing is worth two.

[Big T]

Nice.

[Aaron]

But yeah, really, really cool place.

[Big T]

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[Aaron]

All right, let's dive into today, and then we're going to talk about some Halloween stuff. Big T, I'm going through your. Your sheet that you sent over here. The. The Sky Stadium in Saudi Arabia. Is this. Is this actually going to happen?

[Big T]

No, they. Whatever happened to the line. They just keep saying they're going to build all this stuff and they just say it and people are like, oh, that's sick. And then it never happens.

[Aaron]

They have a really good, like, graphic design team.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

They can put out sweet blueprints of stuff, get people excited. I would never in a million years go to the sky stadium.

[Big T]

No chance.

[Aaron]

0% chance I go to the Sky Stadium.

[Big T]

How do you even. I mean, let's say that holds what, 50, 60,000 people? How do they get up there? You're just taking elevate. You're waiting an hour for an elevator.

[Aaron]

Yeah. You have to wait to get to the building, then you have to wait in line for the elevator.

[Big T]

Right.

[Aaron]

Maybe that the elevator, like, also scans your tickets so you don't have to, like, wait in line at the ticket counter.

[Big T]

I don't know. It seems like a horrific idea.

[Aaron]

You probably have to take the correct elevator because different elevators go up to different parts of the stadium.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Yeah. That would suck. That would suck. I'd also be very scared while I was up there. But a big part of watching sports on TV is having sick blimp shots. And I feel like the blimp shots of this stadium would Be pretty fucking.

[Big T]

Cool would be cool.

[Aaron]

So, yeah. This is also a good reminder for anyone who had forgotten that Saudi Arabia has the 2034 World Cup.

[Big T]

Is that going to be in the winter?

[Aaron]

I think it has to be. Yeah. If it's in the summertime there, it's way too hot. That's why they did it in November in Qatar. I think in the summertime it was going to be like 110, 120 degrees.

[Big T]

Where's 2030?

[Aaron]

2030.

[Big T]

Oh, it's in all Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.

[Aryan]

Okay.

[Big T]

It's in eight countries, so that's just like Atlantic.

[Aryan]

I'm not a good.

[Aaron]

Linguist, but that.

[Aryan]

Was pretty good pronunciation right there.

[Big T]

Uruguay and Paraguay. Montevideo. Yeah.

[Aryan]

Okay.

[Big T]

I don't. Is Asuncion the capital of Paraguay?

[Aaron]

I think so. Montevideo is the capital of the other one, Uruguay, but I never remember which one's which.

[Big T]

The home of Santiago Vescovi.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Big T]

Former Tennessee volunteer basketball player.

[Aaron]

There we go. Yeah, there we go. Yeah. The. The World cup draw is coming up in December, too, for the one in the United States, and this has the potential to be a good night. This might be the best part of the World cup for the United States.

[Big T]

Finding out who we got.

[Aaron]

Finding out who we got, because I think we're gonna get hooked up.

[Big T]

Remember, I remember the draw when we found out we were playing England on July 4th.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

That was sick.

[Aaron]

Yeah. I think that this is going to be a. This is going to be the. The best day of the tournament for us Men's national team fans.

[Big T]

Well, that's not good. That means we're not going to do well.

[Aaron]

He has the potential to be, like, an incredibly rigged draw. Like the most rigged draw that.

[Big T]

I won't rig it for us.

[Aaron]

Oh, I think they will. I think that they will. Big T. The host country always gets a very sweet spot. They. They usually get. I mean, they obviously get put into the best pool of team, so you don't have to play the top ranked teams in the world, but they usually get, like, the bottom of pool B. The bottom of pool C. Just watch.

[Big T]

It'll be Mexico.

[Aaron]

No, I think it. I think it's going to be us, and here's why. You know who's going to be representing the United States at the draw?

[Big T]

Is it Big Don't.

[Aaron]

Big Don.

[Big T]

I love that. Well, he loves the FIFA guy. What's his name? Giovanni.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

What's his name?

[Aaron]

I forget the guy's last name, but yeah. Trump has been, like, very active in soccer. Soccer in the last what year or so? Yeah, he's been showing up everywhere, handing out trophies, keeping some trophies for himself. Baron is a massive soccer fan, and I think that's what got Trump really into like, okay, this is something I can, I can, I can try to relate to my boy.

[Aryan]

On.

[Aaron]

But he. If anybody can rig this World cup drawing, it is President Donald Trump, and it. I think it might even be at the White House.

[Big T]

Are you serious?

[Aaron]

I think that's. Look that up real quick because I know he's going to be the representative. And yeah, this. We have the potential to play in a pool with maybe three of the worst soccer countries at the World Cup.

[Big T]

Well, now. And they're letting everybody in, so it'd truly be.

[Aaron]

It could be bad. It could be a bad, bad pool, which would be great for us.

[Big T]

Friday, Dec. 5, at the John F. Kennedy center in D.C. okay.

[Aaron]

At the Kennedy Center. So, yeah, that's like at what, a half mile away from the White House. This is on. On our home turf.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

So I'm, I'm excited about that. Also, Big T, have you paid any attention to the ongoing construction efforts at the White House?

[Big T]

Yeah, we talked about it a little bit on Tuesday.

[Aaron]

The ballroom. I'm not opposed to having a nice ballroom.

[Big T]

I didn't know that we just have White House events in tents.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Got state dinners.

[Big T]

Seems like something that could be useful.

[Aaron]

Yeah, I think having a nice ballroom would be a good addition. We should have an event center.

[Big T]

Sure.

[Aaron]

I agree with that. Now, I don't know if you guys talked about this or not. I was looking at the construction. I was like, okay, when's this thing going to be open? The target completion date is, like, within six months of him leaving office.

[Big T]

Pre or post?

[Aaron]

I think it might be pre right now.

[Big T]

I mean, yeah, it takes a while to build.

[Aaron]

If you put a 250 million dollar addition onto your home.

[Big T]

I already know where you're going with this.

[Aaron]

I'm just, I'm curious.

[Aryan]

Would.

[Aaron]

Would you want to use that $250 million addition?

[Big T]

Stop. Listen.

[Dana]

He.

[Big T]

He offered Obama to pay for one.

[Aaron]

What do you mean?

[Big T]

He offered? David Axelrod. Trump was gonna pay to build the ballroom at the White House when Obama was in office. And Obama said no.

[Aaron]

So this might be a project that he's.

[Big T]

I think he's wanted this for a long time. I don't know why he didn't do it the first time, but just had.

[Aaron]

In mind that was just a thought that occurred to me as a homeowner.

[Big T]

Sure.

[Aaron]

Myself. Well, he's not the owner, if I'm putting it. But if I'm putting a 250 million dollar addition onto my house.

[Big T]

It's the people's house.

[Aaron]

Because he's not gonna. He's not gonna resell it. He's not gonna make any money off the.

[Big T]

I don't believe that's allowed. No.

[Aaron]

That he's helping to fund. I would want to get some mileage out of it.

[Big T]

Yes.

[Aaron]

Personally, I did also see that Steve Bannon interview. Did you guys talk about that at all?

[Big T]

No.

[Aaron]

Steve Bannon had an interview where he was just like, yeah, he's. He's gonna be president again. Just get. Get ready for it. It's happening. Oh, that.

[Big T]

It is.

[Dana]

It is.

[Aaron]

Big T. Listen, listen.

[Aryan]

And guys, we just got to get used to the idea, like, cut the games. Like, he's gonna be president again.

[Aaron]

It is.

[Big T]

It is quite literally said yesterday he will not.

[Aaron]

I. I'm talking about Bannon. I'm talking about Bannon.

[Big T]

Who gives a. What Steve Bannon says?

[Aaron]

Well, a lot of people do.

[Aryan]

Why?

[Aaron]

Ben is. He's a very, very powerful guy.

[Big T]

He's more powerful than Trump.

[Aaron]

No.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aaron]

He's not decided.

[Big T]

Seems like the guy's word to take on.

[Aaron]

That would be the guy's word to take on it.

[Big T]

So you were correct. You were correct in that he has, like, floated it as a joke, which he should not do.

[Mad Dog]

He also sells Trump 20, 28 hats at the White House.

[Big T]

That's what I just said.

[Mad Dog]

But, like, it's more than a joke.

[Big T]

Like, I mean, well, he's very clearly said he can't and won't run again. So.

[Aryan]

When did he say that?

[Aaron]

Yesterday. He said he sent a link.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

He said, I have my highest poll numbers that I've ever had. And, you know, based on what I read, I guess I'm not allowed to run. So. So we'll see what happens.

[Mad Dog]

He said, if you read it, it's pretty clear I'm not allowed to run. It's too bad.

[Aaron]

Yeah. But we have. We have a lot of great people. So he does seem to be downplaying it a little bit now, which is a different tone than he struck earlier when he was talking about how there's methods that he can look into. I don't think. I don't think that he really knows what's.

[Dana]

He.

[Aaron]

He just kind of goes. The man just. The man just goes. But, yeah, Bannon saying that, that was. I mean, that was. It was pretty blatant what Bannon was saying. And you're right. That's not Trump saying it, but it's Ban, who is a very powerful guy. And he seemed to have thought this through quite a bit in terms of the legal strategies. Like, I don't know if Donald Trump is going to go along with whatever the legal strategy, but Steve Bannon has spent a lot of time developing his plans that he would like to see put into place. And it should. You should pay attention to it, because Bannon is a very powerful guy.

[Big T]

I didn't watch the full thing, but I believe what he was saying is that the Constitution is very clear. You can't be elected a third time. But hypothetically, in a crazy scenario, there is a way where someone could become president for a third time if you. Without being elected.

[Aaron]

That's not what he was.

[Mad Dog]

I don't think he said hypothetical.

[Aaron]

No. What he was saying was the will of the people.

[Big T]

Well, it is hypothetical.

[Aaron]

It hasn't happened, though. He was saying the will of the people will be that Donald Trump needs to be president again, and he will be president again. And here's the steps that we're going to take. You can look at different interpretations of was the 22nd amendment. You can. You can look at all sorts like he's. Bannon has a plan in place. I don't know if the plan is going to get enacted from what Trump said, it sounds like it won't be, but, yeah, it was not. It was not Steve Bannon speaking hypothetically at all. It was Steve Bannon being like, it's going to happen with this president and here's how we're going to make it happen. And we've thought about it.

[Mad Dog]

He also said there is a plan. No, no, hypothetical. And he also said something about how it's like divine intervention that Trump is president. Like, it's God's will, not mine.

[Aaron]

Divine.

[Aryan]

That will be done.

[Mad Dog]

Divine providence.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Anytime somebody says divine providence when they're talking about politics, it's like, cut it out, dude.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Mad Dog]

But he said, we are working on ways.

[Big T]

Anyone here that wants to make a friendly wager, I will give you 10,000 to one odds that Trump is elected president again, if. If anyone truly believes that's going to happen.

[Aaron]

So one thing that I saw is that he'll run as vice president, and then you can't. But you can't.

[Big T]

You can't. You could theoretically be speaker of the House.

[Aaron]

Yes.

[Big T]

And then you would need the president and vice president to abdicate their roles.

[Aryan]

Yep.

[Aaron]

So, again, that is the crazy thing, is that speaker of the House, you don't even. You don't have to be in Congress. It could. It could be anybody.

[Big T]

Yeah. Supreme Court justices, too.

[Aaron]

Yeah. No. No real qualifications necessary.

[Big T]

10,000 to 1. Anybody that wants to take me up.

[Mad Dog]

On that, there shouldn't be a discussion. But it won't happen. But nobody should be saying it.

[Aaron]

So for the. For the record. For the record, I am against any president running. Running for president. Yeah. Yeah.

[Big T]

Just.

[Aaron]

Yeah. I'm against any president.

[Mad Dog]

Jail for all presidents.

[Aaron]

Any president running for office for a third time. I know FDR did it. That was a long time ago. That was also before the Constitution was changed, amended. I'm against any president doing it. Big T. Are you.

[Aryan]

Would.

[Aaron]

Would you vote against Donald Trump if he hypothetically were on the ballot?

[Big T]

He can't be. It's a dumb question.

[Aaron]

It's not possible hypothetically.

[Big T]

It's a difficult hypothetical to assess because it's not possible.

[Aaron]

Okay. If Obama was on the ballot in 2028, I will vote against him being president. I will not vote for Obama being president.

[Big T]

I probably just wouldn't vote. But, yeah, it's not possible. So.

[Aaron]

Okay, so I'm going to vote against Obama.

[Big T]

Good.

[Aaron]

In 2028. Are you going to vote against Donald Trump in 2028?

[Big T]

You can't do that.

[Aaron]

What do you mean?

[Big T]

It's not possible?

[Aaron]

But I just said I would vote against Obama.

[Big T]

You said you would do something that's not possible. I like to deal in reality.

[Aaron]

Hypothetically.

[Big T]

Sure.

[Aaron]

Hypothetically. I'm voting against Obama in 2028. Arian, are you gonna vote against Obama?

[Aryan]

No, I'm voting him in.

[Aaron]

In 2028.

[Mad Dog]

He's gonna write him in.

[Aryan]

I'm all right. I'm gonna write in Kanye and Obama.

[Aaron]

Kanye, Obama. Elsewhere in the news, we've got Justin Herbert just running up the score.

[Big T]

He's my favorite person. He wears one hat. He dates Madison Beer. He's the man. He.

[Aryan]

Madison Beer.

[Mad Dog]

Pop star familiar with her work. Beautiful.

[Big T]

Wait, pop star? Is she a singer?

[Mad Dog]

Yeah.

[Big T]

This is the first I've heard of this. She just.

[Aryan]

Beer. Oh, beer. Like the.

[Mad Dog]

Like the drink she just sang at the Victoria Secret Fashion show.

[Big T]

I missed that.

[Mad Dog]

H. Surprising.

[Big T]

But yeah. He. They were sitting with quarterback.

[Aryan]

I see you, Justin.

[Big T]

They were sitting with Justin Bieber at the World Series last night, and Bieber and his wife and Madison Beer were all talking. He was just locked into the game. He's the man.

[Aaron]

He is very cool guy.

[Big T]

They tried to make him put on a World Series hat. He wouldn't do it. He wears one callaway Hat. That's it.

[Aryan]

Is he a paid by Callaway?

[Big T]

He might be. I don't know. He. He has one hat and he wears it everywhere he goes.

[Aryan]

Gotta, gotta be paid, gotta be paid. Yeah.

[Aaron]

This World Series has been so awesome.

[Big T]

It's been good.

[Aaron]

And also the logo. Shout out to Major League Baseball.

[Big T]

Yes.

[Aaron]

The World Series logo is incredible. It's classic. Feels like that's a. That's a logo you could wear for decades off.

[Big T]

Used to be great ones every year. And then the last 10, it's all been trash.

[Aryan]

Yeah, a brewer's hat.

[Aaron]

This is a really good one though. But Ohtani has been incredible. The 18 inning game was absolutely unreal on Monday night.

[Big T]

Did you stay up?

[Aryan]

What's the score?

[Aaron]

I did. It's two to two. Two games to two.

[Aryan]

Love that. That's a good series.

[Aaron]

Yep. Great. As Magic Johnson actually just tweeted out. With the series being 2 2, game 5 is very important. Whichever team wins takes control of the series.

[Big T]

It's ruined now because he's got a guy. He's. That's. It's no longer he's playing. Yeah.

[Aryan]

No question is guy. No question.

[Aaron]

So, yeah, two games to two. The 18 in game I did, I watched after the game was over, tuned in on my phone, got into an Uber and went to a casino after the game. And when we got in, it was, I believe the ninth inning. And then we sat down at a blackjack table that had a good view of a bunch of TVs and we said, okay, we'll just stay here and play until the game's over. And then we did not know that that was going to be like two and a half hours later at the blackjack table. Long time. Long time.

[Big T]

So you did see the end.

[Aaron]

I did, yeah.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aaron]

Stayed up.

[Big T]

I went to sleep in like the 15th.

[Aaron]

Do you regret that?

[Big T]

No.

[Aaron]

How do you feel about Freddy?

[Big T]

I'll be very sad if he goes into the hall of Fame as a Dodger.

[Aaron]

I think if they win the Series, he probably will.

[Big T]

I don't know.

[Aryan]

Did he get close MVP in the World Series last year?

[Big T]

Yes. I mean, so right now he has one ring in each city. He played in Atlanta for 12, he'll play in LA for six.

[Aryan]

Did he, did he, did he win the. The MVP of the Series?

[Big T]

He did not win World Series mvp. He did win an MVP regular season award in Atlanta.

[Aaron]

I think.

[Aryan]

I think the World Series MVP is probably a little more prestigious.

[Aaron]

It's. It's interesting question with Freddie Freeman because, yeah, for the long he Was in Atlanta Brave. Like, he's a mainstay. Atlanta Brave. But then the moments that he's had after he.

[Big T]

So you can. You can. You can choose to have nothing on.

[Aryan]

Your hat, but even split 19 or 2001, you know, Atlanta. Atlanta and LA.

[Big T]

Yeah. Even that, I think would suck.

[Aryan]

LA font and the A in Atlanta font with that hat would be fire, actually.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Yeah. Like, half the hat blue. Half the hat darker blue.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

And then you get the white L and then you get the script A.

[Aryan]

That would be kind of cold.

[Big T]

You should. You should. I wonder if there's a way you can do that.

[Aaron]

I mean, Arian's been cranking out merch. Merch ideas using initials. The wedding. The wedding stuff.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I do.

[Big T]

I've had several people reach out about that.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Surprisingly, a larger industry than you would have guessed.

[Aryan]

Hey, my barber, shout out to. Shout out to Rotimi. He's an avid listener to pop. He was. Cut my hair this morning. He goes, man, I wish I could go to Big T's wedding.

[Big T]

I'll tell him he's invited. I don't care.

[Aaron]

I love that. What's his name? Rotimi. Rotimi.

[Aryan]

Rotimi.

[Aaron]

Rotemi. Yeah. Rotimi. Would you invite him, Big T?

[Big T]

Sure.

[Aaron]

All right. Rotimi. He good people.

[Aryan]

He's like one of those. He's a rare human being. Great character, great quality human being. Just one of those people that, like, anytime anybody meets him, it's like. You don't meet people like that. It's good dude, man. Good dude.

[Aaron]

Until. Until very recently, I'd say until about a year ago, I never, in my entire life, I never had a relationship with my barber.

[Aryan]

See, that is insane to me, dog. That is insane to me. Like, y' all just pop up in a chair. Like, whatever happens, happens. Is I actually.

[Big T]

You want to know some area, and if you think that's crazy, I've been insane. I've been going to the same place for a little while now, and I've gotten the same guy like three or four times. And now I've switched and gone to a different place because I don't like having the same guy too many times.

[Aaron]

You don't like that?

[Big T]

I don't.

[Aaron]

You don't like the small talk?

[Big T]

I don't like that he remembers me. Yeah. I like it to just be a. An in n out operation.

[Aaron]

It's a transaction.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

It's a business trip.

[Big T]

Correct.

[Aryan]

Yeah. I mean, you like, yo, barber like a prostitute. That's crazy. That's crazy to me. Like. I don't know.

[Aaron]

I guess y'.

[Big T]

All.

[Aryan]

Y' all don't be getting, like, fresh lineups and stuff, so that. That's.

[Big T]

I mean, it makes two on the sides and back. Scissor the top. Been the same since I was 10 years old. It will be the same until the day I die.

[Aryan]

I don't know, man.

[Big T]

You.

[Aryan]

You develop this relationship with your barber where it's like. And then. And then you start to know his people. His people. People. Know your people. Like, I've had. I've been in Houston since 2009. I've had two barbers.

[Big T]

That's wild.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Why the switch?

[Aryan]

That's. I don't want to air that. I don't want to air that out. But we. We had a difference of opinion on it, on something that went down, and we went our ways. I wish him well, and it's good, dude. Good dude. You know, I had no. No qualms my way, but it was a difference of opinion, and I. I took my services out.

[Dana]

Wow.

[Big T]

So you have a breakup.

[Aaron]

You have no. You have no qualms with the guy?

[Aryan]

No qualms. No. No Luke qualms with a guy? Yeah. But. Yeah, when you. When you get in, especially in the same city, like, if I have to move. Right. Right. If I'm out. Out of city. That's sad, dog. Like, that's like a man. I came one time, and this was my old barber. One time I had, like, a photo shoot, like, somewhere. I was in Baltimore. I think it's for under arm, Under Armour photo shoot. And I couldn't fly him out. And I under armor was like, yo, we got a dude. And I was like, let me see his. You know, Let me see his page first. So I'm going through his cuts. I'm like, all right, he'll do. And so I get cut up, and he's. He lined me up. It was nice. Like, he did his thing. I was like, yo, he did me, right? So I'm in the chair with my. My regular barber, and I'm like, yo. Yeah. He's like, so you. You got cut out there? I was like, yeah, man. You know, he could tell, right? I was like, yeah. He's like, so, like, you're like, did he use a razor or did he.

[Big T]

You cheated on him.

[Aryan]

Yeah. That's what it's like. The conversation was like. They like, okay, Ball fade. Yeah, yeah, he did the ball.

[Aaron]

It's cool.

[Aryan]

It's cool.

[Aaron]

He did all the same stuff. I Do. Was he good? Did you. Did you tell him about me?

[Aryan]

It was funny, man, but yeah. No, I don't know how y' all do that. That's just wild to be, though.

[Aaron]

Big T is right. You don't pay. You don't pay a barber. In his mind, you don't pay a barber to cut your hair. You pay Barbara to leave.

[Big T]

To leave. Yeah. This last one I got, the guy was like. He remembered too much and was talking about stuff, and I was just like, I gotta go somewhere else, man.

[Aaron]

I always had that. So.

[Aryan]

So this is.

[Big T]

This is a great guy. Very friendly, like, also. I just. It's. That's not what I'm there for.

[Aryan]

So. So when you be getting cut and it's. You plop your. You plop up on the chair and you just like, hey, some other sides. Scissor me up. Whatever. You're. What do. You all don't talk? Y' all don't say anything?

[Big T]

Ideally correct.

[Aryan]

Yeah, it's just 30, 40 minutes of silence.

[Big T]

Oh, I'm. I'm done in 10.

[Aryan]

10 minute haircuts, big T. Usually now and then.

[Big T]

That's the other thing about this place. They'll cut your hair, and then they go in with the. The straight razor on your neck. And I'm. I don't need all. Just let me leave, please. I. Hey, yo, I don't need all this.

[Aryan]

Yo, you should go to a black barber. We should finish filming.

[Big T]

I would do that.

[Aryan]

Let's. Let's do that. Let's do that.

[Dana]

Let's.

[Aryan]

You should let my man. Let my man's hit you up.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aryan]

Yeah. All right. All right, bro. Timmy or Timmy gonna get you right? And we gonna.

[Dana]

We gonna get you.

[Aryan]

We gonna get you with. Get you. We gonna get you right.

[Big T]

You know what I want to do? And. And maybe this is because your beard, dog.

[Aryan]

Like, look, look, look at this. Look at this. See the beard fade into the. It's clean.

[Big T]

Yeah, I. I want to go. This is a couple months out, but I want to go to the World Baseball Classic, which part of it is in Houston. So maybe we figure out a way to. To go do that, and then I'll come get.

[Aaron]

He would be.

[Aryan]

He would be honored. He fucks with you.

[Big T]

I appreciate that.

[Aryan]

Yeah, he loves you. All my black friends like you big, too.

[Big T]

I tend to have that effect.

[Mad Dog]

Well, do you consider. You don't consider yourself a ginger? Well, I'm not, but gingers, people say.

[Big T]

Wait, is that. Is that a thing?

[Aryan]

Yeah, that was circling online a while ago. The Gingers were black. I don't know how that came up. What their logic.

[Big T]

I mean, I guess I'm half the beard, but the. The hair is not. The hair's going gray.

[Aryan]

If anything, half ginger would be a quarter black.

[Big T]

I suppose so.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

That shit's funny, man. Pft.

[Aaron]

Yep.

[Aryan]

I think I really am a lot of people. You. You know how I was kicking the idea about getting a dog?

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

When I settle on a lady friend, we. I think I'll pull this trigger. And I'm looking. I just took a dog quiz and I ain't doing that. Like what. What kind of dog breed you want? It was. What was that? They paired me up with a. I don't even know what that is called. Elite. Elite. Is this. Where'd it go? I don't know. It's a little piece of dog. Hate it.

[Aaron]

La su apsu or whatever.

[Aryan]

Yeah. That's the joke.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

No, thank you.

[Aaron]

I'm not a. I'm not really a small dog guy myself. Nah.

[Aryan]

I'm not a. I'm not a Louis Vuitton bag dog guy. I'm not a dog guy at all. But I think I'll pull this trigger, man. And. And shout out to the. To the Macrodosians, man. I've been getting a lot of suggestions, not a lot of judgment and I appreciate that.

[Aaron]

You know, everyone can grow.

[Big T]

Why would people judge you? I feel like people would want you to get a dog because it's that.

[Aryan]

Internet dog you see. Be like, it's a beautiful day outside and people on you.

[Big T]

That's true. But I feel like people who listen to this show have heard you on dogs so much that any openness you would have to getting one, I feel like would. Would spark joy in people.

[Aryan]

That's. That's the. That is what I've been receiving is a bunch of joy.

[Big T]

That's what.

[Aryan]

Doesn't mean I'mma like your dog, though. Don't get this twisted. I still don't. With dogs. I just. I'm going to get a dog. Possibly. It's a good. Like.

[Big T]

You hear the contradiction.

[Aaron]

The who?

[Big T]

The contradiction.

[Aryan]

What's his contradiction?

[Big T]

I don't. With dogs, but I'm going to get a dog.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Okay. As long as you hear it.

[Aaron]

I don't. He doesn't like other people's dog.

[Big T]

He likes your dogs and that's fine. I feel largely the same way.

[Aryan]

I feel like my kids. I love my kids. I don't like your kids. Your kids are horrible. That's how I feel. That's Kids are. Kids are. I mean, sometimes my kids are, you know, me, but that's. They didn't choose to be here. I like kids. Or dogs.

[Aaron]

So let's do our own dog quiz.

[Aryan]

Let's do it. Lock it in.

[Aaron]

All right. How much time would you be able to spend exercising this dog?

[Aryan]

Oh, it could come out on a.

[Big T]

Course with me, right?

[Aaron]

Some dogs. Well, I think that depends on. It depends on your. It depends on your course. It depends on your rules.

[Aryan]

It's a private country club. We could do that. But this is off top. He got to be trainable. Off. Off top.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Big T]

Good chaps.

[Aaron]

So, smart dog.

[Aryan]

Smart dog. Trainable.

[Aaron]

Yep.

[Aryan]

No, that's only two.

[Aaron]

The exercise one is a big one.

[Aryan]

I. I can't. I can exercise them. If. If I have a dog, I will exercise.

[Aaron]

Like, would you. Would you.

[Aryan]

I jog a mile every now and then. Like, every. Like. Like three times a week. I'll juggle mile around the. Around the block.

[Aaron]

Okay. All right, so, like, moderate exercise.

[Aryan]

That's moderate. One mile is my God damn.

[Aaron]

I mean, there's some dogs that need to run every day, and if they don't, they go crazy.

[Aryan]

Well, count me out.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Aryan]

Running every day isn't. Unless you just put him on a treadmill.

[Mad Dog]

You can. Yeah, dogs do that.

[Aaron]

I mean, not necessarily. It doesn't have to be running, but, like, time spent engaging in exercises. Like, for some breeds, if you get a dog and you don't let it exercise all the time, it will go insane, and it will be a bad dog. It'll be a dog that you will not enjoy. The dog will act out in different ways.

[Aryan]

Dog do you have.

[Aaron]

He is a mix of a Saint Bernard, a Great Pyrenees, and an Anatolian shepherd.

[Aryan]

What the is. There's so many things. Okay. Saint Bernard.

[Aaron]

It's a Beethoven dog.

[Aryan]

Saint Bernard. Okay. That's the old school movie. Okay, Saint Bernard. What's the other one?

[Aaron]

Great Pyrenees. Great big, white, fluffy dogs.

[Aryan]

Okay.

[Aaron]

And then the one that he looks like the most is an Anatolian shepherd.

[Aryan]

And Anatolian shepherd mix.

[Aaron]

Okay, so he needs, like, a decent amount of exercise, but not. Not a lot.

[Big T]

Well, he looks that up. Did you see this. This Tibetan mastiff in China that someone bought for a million dollars?

[Aaron]

Yeah. So they are. They're crazy about Tibetan mastiffs over there. The. The puppies sometimes go for, like, $500,000.

[Big T]

Like, what is this thing?

[Aaron]

It's a. I think it's meant to be a guard dog and a livestock guard dog and to, like, roam out in the mountains. And it's the most intimidating looking dog that you'll ever see.

[Big T]

I hate it.

[Aaron]

They look like lions. They're, like, fluffy. Some of them have these giant manes that they got. They're just huge. But they're beautiful dogs. Are they.

[Aryan]

Are they aggressively? Are they this big? Holy.

[Aaron]

They can be.

[Aryan]

They're aggressive.

[Aaron]

They can be. But if you train them, they can be. They can be nice family dogs, too. That's a dog that would need to spend most of its time outdoors.

[Aryan]

He looks a little. I don't like him. He looks sad.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Some of the mastiffs have, like, the sad eyes, the sad faces.

[Aryan]

Yeah, he's. He's out.

[Aaron]

Aaron, for you, like, moderate activity, good around kids. Trainable.

[Aryan]

Need a trainable guy. What about rottweilers?

[Aaron]

They're good dogs. They gotta have, like a. A stern owner. Like, you gotta. You gotta let the dog know off the bat what the rules are. You gotta enforce the rules for them.

[Aryan]

Are they good around kids or. No?

[Aaron]

For the most part, yeah. If you. If you train them well, for the.

[Aryan]

Most part, you're gonna shoot an adult.

[Big T]

Is that not the classic aggressive dog?

[Aaron]

No. I would say for you, Arian, I mean, lab would be a very good choice. Lab golden. Yeah. Goldendoodle won't shed. Pitbull would be a good dog too.

[Aryan]

Labrador. Labs look like a nice little.

[Mad Dog]

I love my lab. My lab is amazing.

[Aaron]

Labs are like the friendliest, most happy, go lucky dogs ever.

[Mad Dog]

My lab is perfect and chunky and chill.

[Aaron]

They're super smart. Super chill for the most part. When they're puppies, they'll have some of that energy. Be a little frenetic, but yeah. A lab or pit bull. You seem like a lab or pit bull guy, Arian.

[Big T]

I could.

[Aryan]

I mean, pit bull. I look like a pit bull guy.

[Mad Dog]

Airing a lab is a good time, and they just come up and they just love you.

[Aaron]

Pit bulls are really good family dogs. They're very trainable. They're super smart. They require, you know, some exercise, but they don't need to be out there sprinting to exhaustion, like, all the time.

[Aryan]

Don't these attack people?

[Aaron]

They have. A lot of people get pit bulls for bad reasons. A lot of people get pit bulls.

[Aryan]

Because is this, like, bad, bad owner, bad dog thing?

[Aaron]

Yeah, they get pit bulls because they look cool, they look intimidating. They don't train their pit bulls, and if they do train them, sometimes they train them to be, like, aggressive. And when they snap, like, they have. They have the capability, like, physically, they're Strong as. And their jaws are really strong. And if they snap, then, yeah, they can. They can do some damage. But 99.999% of pit bulls are awesome dogs. But Lab, actually, I think Lab would be the. The best choice for, like, a family dog for you.

[Aryan]

I mean, I don't want. No. I don't want no punter. You know what I mean?

[Aaron]

I want.

[Aryan]

I want somebody who. If. If something does pop off, like breaking the house or something, I want him to be able to hold his own. I don't want somebody to come see me. I think somebody's in the back.

[Aaron]

No, they'll bark.

[Mad Dog]

I also think you have to kind of train a dog for that.

[Aaron]

Sometimes Blake just has. Blake gets into, like, radar mode where it's, like, in his DNA to. To protect. So if I'll, like, even get up and start to walk away, he starts looking around the house, like, listening for stuff that might be going on in different rooms. Like, listening at all times to see if, like, all the doorways are secure. Like, if there's anyone out in the front yard, he's. It's in his DNA to be, like, aware of his surroundings at all times.

[Mad Dog]

See, my lab is scanning. My lab is not. Will let you in the door and give you a treat.

[Aaron]

Yeah. But some dogs will bark. Some dogs. And if people know that you have a dog. That's what I've heard, at least from. From what I've read online, is that a lot of, like, former burglars, people have been convicted of, like, robbing houses and shit. They say that the number one thing that they look for is, like, if there's a dog, that is the biggest deterrent. Because if there's. If there's a dog, the dog will bark. It'll make noise, and they don't want to have to deal with that.

[Aryan]

I kind of like. I like. I like this pitbull idea. I've never even considered pit bulls. I was like.

[Aaron]

I was like, they.

[Aryan]

You know what I mean? I used to run from pit bulls and rottweilers.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

So I just thought they was assholes. But, I mean, probably didn't have the time to, like, you know, bad people, bad dogs.

[Aaron]

Yep. No, we. I. I just actually, I tweeted this out last night, but one of my most vivid memories of living in San Marcos, Texas, or in Austin, Texas, was for the job that I had when I was the. I say selling used dogs, but I was an adoption counselor at this, like, nonprofit. I would set up shop in San Marcos at the Walmart. And I'd bring a bunch of dogs out with me, and then people would come by, see the dogs, and they'd be like, oh, do I want this dog? Do I want that dog? Oh, there's a cute puppy. Here's $20. Oh, yeah, I'll adopt this one. But the, the clientele that would stop by in San Marcos, they were there for like all the worst reasons when it came to the dogs. Like, a guy came up to me one time, he goes, you guys got any pits? I was like, no, no, we don't. Why? Do you like pit bulls? He's like, no, I just, you know, want one. And I was like, okay, sir, no dogs for you today. Very clear what you're up to right now. You want, you want to adopt one of these puppies and then have it kill other dogs? So that's what we look for on the screening process. And you will not be going home with a dog today. But yeah, Pitbull's good dogs. I'm sure there's lots of people that own pit bulls that listen to this podcast.

[Aryan]

Okay, but hold on. I googled, what's the, statistically the most aggressive dog breeds? And the. The number one and number two are pit bulls and rottweilers. Like, what are you trying to do to me?

[Aaron]

Well, you saw, you brought up rottweilers, but pit bulls. Yes, statistically, but there's a lot that goes into that too.

[Mad Dog]

It's definitely like a stereotype.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Mad Dog]

Of pit bulls.

[Aaron]

So, yes, a lot of pit bulls by the numbers have bitten, have attacked. But also with that same stat, it's that pit bulls are oftentimes adopted by people who are looking for a dog that will be aggressive.

[Aryan]

Okay, so there's a little bit more behind the numbers.

[Aaron]

Yeah, I don't think, I don't think that there's anything about pit bulls as a breed that make them more likely to attack. And now I'm sure that I'll get people being like, sending data and stuff. And I know that pit bulls have been banned in like, certain countries, but I'm not gonna. I'm not here to be a part of the anti Pitbull propaganda.

[Aryan]

In America, dogs of these breeds are typically referred to as pit bulls. They have gained somewhat undeserved reputation. That is true that pit bulls are tenacious, determined dogs, and these qualities led to their use as fighting dogs. Pit bulls who have been brought up to fight are typically dog aggressive and wary of strangers. Pit bulls who have not been trained as fighters, however, tend to Be loving, affectionate family pets who are not naturally aggressive. Many pitbulls who are rescued from dog fighting rings are rehabilitated to become good, loving, trustworthy family pets. But not all can forget their early training.

[Aaron]

Yeah, so.

[Aryan]

So get a, get a pit bull puppy.

[Aaron]

Yep.

[Aryan]

And so. So. But I still want him trained though, right? So what's the best training for a dog? Is it like beating them? No, how you train a dog. I mean, I'm not gonna train him. I'm pay somebody else.

[Aaron]

You got, you gotta take some part in his training.

[Aryan]

Well, yeah, I'm gonna be a part of it, but like I'm not gonna. But I don't know what you do. You beat him? I guess.

[Aaron]

I guess.

[Aryan]

Oh yeah, I'll take part of it. How you do it, what do you do?

[Aaron]

So yeah, you would hire somebody to help you train your dog and then they're going to give you a bunch of exercises and commands that they're going to teach you to teach the dog. And then you have to reinforce those by doing those all the time with the dog, especially as a puppy.

[Aryan]

Okay.

[Aaron]

So like sit, stay, heal, yo. Yeah. And also like you're gonna, you're gonna have to learn how to potty train them.

[Aryan]

Oh, see that's.

[Big T]

Man, sounds like you don't want a dog that bad.

[Aryan]

I do, but it's like all pissing and all over my house and a couch and a carpet and.

[Aaron]

Come on. Yeah, that's the thing about puppies is they, they got to learn somehow.

[Aryan]

Then you beat them, right?

[Aaron]

And no, you don't beat them. We, we got to stop with beating. We gotta stop, we gotta, we gotta remove.

[Aryan]

Okay, so dog shits on the carpet. How do I let him know that's not what you supposed to do? You gotta rub his nose in and hit him.

[Big T]

Right?

[Aaron]

That's what I thought do. No, that's. Well, me personally, that's not what I would do. I don't think that, that, that would be recommended. But you. The, the best thing that you can do when you're potty training is just to take the dog outside all the time, take it out. So you limit the number of opportunities it has to poop in the house, to pee in the house. So you take it out constantly and every time it pees or poops outside, you go up to it and you like celebrate and you give them treats and hugs and scratches and you make it a big deal when he poops outside. And then. Yeah, they're going to be mistakes. He's going to Pee in the house. He's going to poop in the house. And when he does you, you say no in, like, a firm voice, and then you immediately take him outside and eventually they learn. But yeah, if you beat him, that it will lead to bad behavior from that dog in the future.

[Aryan]

Okay, all right, I won't beat him.

[Aaron]

I like that.

[Aryan]

Or I just. I just heard that's how you. That's how I hurt.

[Aaron]

Or you could. You could adopt a dog that's older, one that already is party potty trained.

[Aryan]

I don't. No, no, I don't want. No, I don't want. No, I don't want no baggage. I don't want no doggy baggage.

[Aaron]

It could be like a year old, two years old.

[Aryan]

No, you got problems already. I don't want those problems. Don't bring your in my house, Literally.

[Aaron]

But also, I mean, you got kids. The kids will be part of the potty training.

[Aryan]

That some of them are still bite of training. Yeah.

[Aaron]

But I mean, some of the older ones, they'll, like, take the dog out. That's the thing is, like, you do have to take it out all the time when it's a puppy because if you don't, it's just going to pee and poop everywhere and it's not going to learn. It's going to take a long time to teach it how to. Where to go. But some dogs, they pick up on it really fast. You'd be surprised.

[Aryan]

Give me a time for. How fast can I get a dog to potty train?

[Aaron]

Like, a hundred percent. Like, zero peas or poops in the house ever.

[Aryan]

Zero peas and poops. I mean, pools and peeps with.

[Aaron]

With Blake, I want to say, took Blake about like four months. Five months.

[Aryan]

That's less than I thought it was.

[Aaron]

Going to be before. I'm trying to remember what the last. The last time he pooped in the house, I want to say was like, yeah, he was probably six months old. Seven, five. Somewhere in there. I forget. But they get. They pick it up pretty quickly. Like, after a solid week of doing the potty training stuff, they're going to not have nearly as many accidents.

[Aryan]

Okay.

[Big T]

I think even quicker than that.

[Aaron]

Yeah. But every now and again. Like, I remember Blake one time just, like, peed next to the couch when he was like, seven months old. I was like, what. What's this about?

[Aryan]

What are we doing here, my guy.

[Aaron]

Yeah, but, yeah, you'll get a couple stray peas. Hopefully the poops will stop after. Yeah, it might have been more like four months. Old for the poop. Yeah.

[Aryan]

Potty. Training a puppy typically takes four to six months, but it can vary, with some puppies taking up to a year. Dude.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

How. How fast do I start training the puppy once I get it? Cuz I'm really considering this right now.

[Aaron]

Like, right away. They have. They have puppy courses. H. I feel like a lab would be a good choice for you.

[Aryan]

Well, you sold me on the pit, and now you want to give me a.

[Aaron]

No, I said. I said pit or lab. Labs are great dogs.

[Aryan]

Labrador. Labrador. And you have a lab, Maddie.

[Mad Dog]

Yes, he's perfect.

[Aryan]

Yes, he's perfect.

[Aaron]

I had a lab growing up too, and, yeah, they're. They're like the friendliest dog ever.

[Mad Dog]

Yeah, my. My dog is. Oh, you can come in. Dana. Just got here. Sorry.

[Aaron]

You want a dog to be your. Your best friend?

[Mad Dog]

They are, like, literally. He is the best. He hugs me every time I come home. He, like, nestles up against me. He's so chill. He's eight, so he's a little bit mature. So he does. He's not, like, crazy, but he's so great and chunky. I love him.

[Aaron]

Speaking of labs, we have, like, the human equivalent of a lab coming in. Come on in, Dana.

[Mad Dog]

But yeah, I highly suggest a lab.

[Aryan]

See, this one looks like.

[Mad Dog]

And there's different color labs. There's black, there's chocolate, there's yellow, there's white. I have a red lab, so he's a ginger.

[Aryan]

So the. So the labs look like the reason why I don't like dogs. They look like. Here's. This is why. Hear me out. When I look at a lab, I'm looking at pictures. It looks just like. He'll do whatever I say. Yes, sir. No, sir. You know, he just don't got no.

[Big T]

You want back talk, but that's what you want.

[Aryan]

I want. I want to know you got a little something to you. He looks soft. Like this looks soft. He just looks like whatever you say, you know, I'm gonna do with a pit. It's like, hey, this is a. This is a relationship. You treat me good, I treat you good.

[Mad Dog]

Yeah, I guess.

[Aaron]

You want an antagonistic relationship with your dog.

[Aryan]

That's not antagonistic. That's mutual respect. I think that is. I will scratch my. You scratch my back, I give you treats.

[Mad Dog]

I will say, my dog, my parents paid a lot of money for because they. My father was like, I'll make him into a hunting dog. So that didn't go that way at all. So you can train a lab to be Very much disciplined. But you have to. I mean. And the same with the Pitbull. You would have to highly train them.

[Aaron]

We're trying to figure out what kind of dog Aaron should get because he's recently made the switch to becoming a. A dog guy. In theory. And also this. Dana, Beer.

[Aryan]

Not a dog.

[Dana]

What's up, Aron?

[Aryan]

What up, dog?

[Dana]

I vote for weenie. A weenie dog? No, those are my favorite, but I heard they bark a lot.

[Aryan]

I ain't getting no.

[Big T]

He wouldn't. He wouldn't like a small dog.

[Dana]

You want to do a medium dog?

[Aryan]

I want a dog that, like, if somebody comes in, like, they going to leave. Okay.

[Dana]

My mom has a kukaranja. You look with that up. That's a good one. It's not that big, but it's like the best dog ever.

[Aaron]

How do you spell that?

[Dana]

It's like K, O, O, I K. And then the rest is something Dutch.

[Aaron]

Kukaranja.

[Dana]

Did that come up with anything?

[Aryan]

Yeah. Oh, that's Lassie. Ain't that Lassie?

[Dana]

Kinda. They're not like, they're not gonna protect you, but they're sick.

[Aaron]

Oh, yeah, That's a cool dog.

[Dana]

That's my recommendation.

[Aaron]

That looks. This dog looks like it. It likes to hunt.

[Dana]

Dude, the best dogs ever.

[Aaron]

It would be a bad day to be a.

[Dana]

But they won't beat anybody up. So I guess that didn't help you at all.

[Aaron]

I'm trying to still figure out exactly what Aryan wants because we talked about this for the last like 20 minutes and. And I'm more confused, I think, than when we started. So you want. You want a dog that will be.

[Aryan]

A homie to homie.

[Aaron]

You want a dog that will be good with your kids.

[Aryan]

Great with the kids.

[Aaron]

You want a dog that will exercise occasionally with you.

[Aryan]

Like, it's not mandatory, but it'd be cool if I could. I could bring him on a course and he's. He's obedient.

[Aaron]

And you want a smart dog.

[Aryan]

Relatively, I guess. Yeah.

[Aaron]

One that will follow your instructions. Unless it's like, hey, you're being an. I'm my own man, so I'm gonna disobey you.

[Aryan]

No, no, I don't ever want him to disobey. I just want him to look like he would. You know what I mean?

[Aaron]

Okay. All right. Yeah.

[Dana]

Does. Did anybody say German shepherd? That sounds like a German shepherd.

[Aaron]

German shepherds are. Yeah, I think that. I think that would be too big. Yeah. Or too. Need too much.

[Aryan]

Oh, no, this dog. I got bit by this Dog when I was little. This guy.

[Dana]

But they're extremely loyal.

[Aryan]

Yeah, well, him.

[Aaron]

So what about a corgi? You would love a cor. You would look awesome with a corgi. C O R G I.

[Aryan]

Corgi get the out.

[Aaron]

Corgis are hilarious.

[Aryan]

That is a rat.

[Aaron]

No, I love corgis. They're cool as.

[Aryan]

We'll figure it out, man. I'll figure it out. I'm in between a lab and a pitbull right now.

[Aaron]

Okay. I think. I think lab, you can get like a slightly mischievous lab that I think you guys would have a good time together.

[Aryan]

Mischievous lab.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Yeah.

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[Aaron]

E. All right, so we got Dana here because we're going to talk about Halloween. Dan, how's the yolk station going, by the way? Is it set up?

[Dana]

Yeah, it's pretty much set up. We just got to figure out the keg we got. We got a little keg situation going on. Might have to switch it out. The original beers. I think it was too small, so we need a bigger one. But everything's set up. Friday, grand opening.

[Aaron]

Let's go.

[Dana]

You want to stop by?

[Big T]

Is it exclusively beer at the yog station or is there any.

[Dana]

If you're not a beer guy, you can pull up with a cup.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Dana]

Of whatever. Juice.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Dana]

Water.

[Aaron]

And just hang out n a beer.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Oh, well, that's the. I. I don't understand that whole deal.

[Aaron]

Yeah. I don't either. I don't get that. Can you explain to me the. The, like, vision behind the Yug station? Who's going to be stopping by the. What are the activities that you're going to do, the content that you're going to put out?

[Dana]

I don't really have a vision. I kind of just said I want this yog station, and whatever happens, happens.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Dana]

My id. My ideal thing would be if you guys have PMT guests. Mostly has guests. Yak has guests. Whoever it is, if they're doing the barstool car wash and they're just doing everything and they want to stop by the Yug station. Stop by the Yug station. We'll put you on the board.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Dana]

You'll test your time out.

[Aaron]

And so it's going to be chugging one beer.

[Dana]

Yeah. Unless you want to do more.

[Aaron]

I'll do more for time.

[Dana]

Yes.

[Aaron]

Okay.

[Dana]

That part I got to figure out because. I don't know. I would like to. I would like them to know their time, like, immediately.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

But that's tough. Can you have two timers? Can you trust your timer? I don't know how you do put it down. When you put it down, is that the time when you're done? Like, how do you test when you're done done?

[Aaron]

Is it one timer for you, one timer for the person?

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

That's why you need two timers.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Okay. Now it's going to be just strictly for time, not for quantity.

[Dana]

No, no. Quantity doesn't matter.

[Aaron]

Okay. You can get, I guess, two stopwatches.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

But you want it to show up, like in lights.

[Dana]

I guess my time doesn't really matter. Just the first one. I guess I'll keep trying to do the. The best time I can do, but it's tough to tell when you're actually done with the beer, you know?

[Aaron]

Yeah, I think you do. You do like one yug at the grand opening, and that's your time.

[Dana]

Okay.

[Aaron]

And then maybe once a year you can try to beat that time.

[Dana]

Yeah, yeah.

[Aaron]

Or once every. Yeah.

[Dana]

That's a lot of pressure, though, on the first one.

[Aaron]

It is, but that's the same pressure that the guests are going to be going through. True. So that's really when you get your. Your truest time.

[Dana]

Yeah, no, it's. It's open to anybody who wants to get their name on the board as many times as they want in the office. Guests, whoever stop on by. It's just going to be like a. A friendly neighborhood lemonade stand.

[Aaron]

I love that.

[Dana]

You know, I just thought of that. That was sick.

[Aaron]

It's good.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Are you feeling any. Any resentment from the neighborhood that you're moving into with the Yug station?

[Dana]

Well, Memes has been giving me guff.

[Aaron]

So that's what he'll do. He's probably her number one guff guy. The. The Yug station is set up in the back corner of the office. It's next to the PMT studio, which means it's also next to a lot of the PMT producers desks.

[Dana]

Yes.

[Aaron]

So Memes, ironically, he. He works, like, the farthest away from the Yug station of any of the PMT producers, but it is. You're going to be neighbors with the PMT guys. And so what does Memes been saying?

[Dana]

He's. He's been giving me passive aggressive guff where, like, the first time I was setting it up or like I was talking about setting up, he's like, dude, you got to run it by Hank. I was like, I did run it by Hank, but he was very passive aggressive with me. I was like, memes, trust me, I've been here a while. So I was going to put a Yug station here and not think about it.

[Aaron]

So Memes was saying it with the attitude of, like, he didn't believe that you had already cleared it.

[Dana]

I don't think Memes wants it there.

[Aryan]

Why?

[Dana]

I don't know.

[Aaron]

They are getting territorial a little bit.

[Dana]

I know.

[Aaron]

I was trying to figure out the why, too.

[Dana]

It's okay. I get it. It can be. It can be a distraction, but it's not like I'm going to be sitting there, like, getting drunk all day.

[Aryan]

When.

[Aaron]

You said it did sound pretty cool sometimes.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

I mean, they had a. They had a Russian tortoise in a giant crate living there for a year.

[Dana]

Yeah, this is. This is like.

[Aaron]

This is a station that you're going upgrade and there's not going to be anybody there. 99%.

[Dana]

Exactly. That's what I said. But Max wants me. Max is saying I should. I should sit there, which.

[Aaron]

I don't know.

[Dana]

I love all those guys. I don't want to be a distraction. They hard. They work very hard.

[Aaron]

I don't know.

[Dana]

We'll see how it goes in the first couple weeks.

[Aaron]

Yeah, I'll keep an eye on Memes.

[Dana]

Memes is.

[Big T]

I.

[Dana]

He's given me aggression. Passive. A passive aggression.

[Aaron]

I don't. I don't understand that. He doesn't like change.

[Aryan]

Maybe, maybe.

[Aaron]

Maybe he had big plans for that corner.

[Dana]

Possibly.

[Aaron]

Who knows? All right. Well, I'm. I'm pumped to see how the yog pumped up Dana. Also, before we start talking about Halloween, how things go with your kick in.

[Dana]

Cincinnati, it is frustrating because it wasn't funny, and it also wasn't good. And it wasn't bad. It was just.

[Aaron]

Oh, it was bad.

[Dana]

Super anticlimactic.

[Aaron]

It was bad.

[Dana]

It was. Yeah. But it wasn't like, the first one was horrifically bad that it was funny. This one just wasn't even funny, you.

[Aaron]

Know, it was just kind of a. It was just a grounder.

[Dana]

It was like a little. A little guy. A little off the ground.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Landed in the end zone.

[Aaron]

We talked about. About training you for that. We didn't get a chance to sit down face to face and do any. No physical work.

[Dana]

I only had a week, and I was. I had a very busy week, and I was traveling a lot, so it was tough. But if I had even a month, I would dedicate my life to making that kick. So maybe next year, in the next year or so, we get together and prepare for next homecoming.

[Aaron]

Yeah. And you've never kicked a football before?

[Dana]

Not before that. Those the first time? No.

[Aaron]

What was your strategy in this one?

[Dana]

This one? So when I did practice, the one night I practiced, I was doing just straight toe balls and just taking, like. There would be, like, warm up, like, as if a kicker was doing warm ups. They would take one step back and then toe ball it. I don't know if kickers actually do that, but.

[Aaron]

Yeah, I saw. I saw your setup. That's one thing that we could have worked on, and we'll do that for next year. Your setup and your prep. Going into it, you looked like a man that has watched a lot of kickers kick footballs in the past but had never thought about the steps that they're taking. You just know. Okay, I got to take, like, some steps back.

[Dana]

Yes.

[Aaron]

And then some steps.

[Dana]

I know it's three and two, but when you get. When I got up there, everything that I told myself, I just forgot.

[Aaron]

Yeah. I think you went two and one.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

But you. You also started your two steps, like a step behind the ball.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

And then you were kind of caught. No, man. The point of doing the steps is so that the steps on your approach.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Every time are exactly the same.

[Dana]

Right.

[Aaron]

And I noticed that your plant foot was pretty far away from the ball.

[Dana]

It's a bad feeling when everyone is let down.

[Aaron]

There's nothing about your kick that I didn't think was correctable.

[Dana]

Okay. That's Good to know. I really want to make it next year and I really want to make it this year. But I didn't. I didn't have enough time to practice.

[Aaron]

I think. I think next year we're all in.

[Big T]

All right.

[Aaron]

Yes, we're all in.

[Dana]

Yes.

[Aaron]

I'll get you good from 35 next.

[Dana]

Thank you.

[Aaron]

It's a 30 yard kick.

[Dana]

30?

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

That's nothing. When I got up there, I was like, oh, this is a lot shorter than I thought.

[Aaron]

Yeah. You know, we got that. Yeah. 30 yards is not far. Yeah, you. You are a strong boy.

[Dana]

Let's go. That's. I called my grandpa. He used to kick and he was like, all you got to do, like focus hard on your follow through and actually kicking hard. And when I got up there, I didn't kick hard at all.

[Aaron]

See my. I don't want to tell grandpa. I don't want to. I don't want me to interfere with your training. You're strong enough where. I mean, you shouldn't be like kicking soft.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Don't get me wrong. But you shouldn't have to focus on like really kicking the. Out of the ball.

[Dana]

Right.

[Aaron]

You're strong enough to the point where 30 yards, if you just kick like in a comfortable Right. Normal pattern, it'll go. It should go 30 yards and you should. No problem with that if you hit it right.

[Dana]

All right, well, maybe we'll get you and my grandpa to both train me.

[Aaron]

What a duo. What a duo. He probably knows way more than I.

[Aryan]

Do, by the way.

[Big T]

Grandpa bears.

[Aaron]

All I know is that I have been trained by Morton Anderson and so I can just kind of like copy some of the stuff that he told me. Yeah. And pass that along.

[Dana]

That's fair.

[Aryan]

But.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Let's talk about Halloween. Halloween coming up. Arian's dressed. You changed outfits? Arian jumped on this on the show today dressed up as Spider Man. Full outfit.

[Dana]

Bucky's.

[Aaron]

Bucky's. That's a great outfit.

[Dana]

Great bathrooms.

[Big T]

May need to get one of those.

[Aryan]

Oh, I got a tail too, as a tail.

[Aaron]

Is it on there right now?

[Aryan]

It's on the head. Let me show you.

[Big T]

Would be incomplete without it.

[Aaron]

Tail reveal. That's. That's Aaron kind of has an ass.

[Aryan]

Dump.

[Dana]

Dick.

[Aryan]

No. What you talking about?

[Dana]

I do too. I get it.

[Aryan]

Dick, though. My dick.

[Aaron]

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[Aaron]

We might have to save this for next week. There was an article. Are you guys familiar with Harper's, the literary magazine that's online? Don't get me wrong, I'm not. I'm not a Harper's guy. I. I've just heard the name before, but I heard it last week and there was an article that came out called the Goon Squad, Loneliness, Porn's Next Frontier and the Dream of Endless Masturbation. And it was a very long article about gooning.

[Aryan]

What is gooning?

[Aaron]

Not like mook gooning. I'd only heard the phrase. I was not really familiar with the culture around gooning.

[Big T]

That's what the kids say now.

[Dana]

That's what you're making it, right?

[Big T]

Yeah. I think it's because you can't cuss or say anything bad on TikTok.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

So they've come up with all these words, foreign unaliving people and they call porn corn. Yeah.

[Aaron]

So yeah, I think all that's true.

[Aryan]

But there's a good is beaten off.

[Aaron]

Yeah, but, but there's like a gooning subculture. Like dudes that have built their entire lives around just cranking off all the time in their goon caves that they have set up for themselves. And they've got like these multi screen. It's like the movie Minority Report where you've got all those like screens in front of you and you're looking around for pre CR dudes that have built up their like computer rooms to just have like massive amounts of porn on there. And they like hang out online in Discord together and like gas each other up being like, dude, what's your goon set up? Like right now they're making curated goon lists for each other that they're sending. Like, bro is helping bros. Yeah, like, hey, I know, I know your taste. So I made you this, this like highlight reel of my favorite things to goon to. I think you'll really like it. They have competitions. They say that you can enter a phase of like, like runner's high, but for gooning, like goon nirvana. Anyways, this person wrote like I'm going to guess 10,000 words on this subculture out there. It's. You know what, it's too long. We'll get into it at. Because I want you guys to do the reading for this. So I'll send this out to the list.

[Aryan]

Read about other dudes beating a shit.

[Aaron]

It's really just about, like, a bunch of very lonely guys out there that have made this their life.

[Big T]

Sounds like a bad deal.

[Aaron]

It's probably. Sounds like a bad probably. Yeah. They call it goon world.

[Aryan]

Talking to your boys a step from that. That's. That's gay. It's gay, right? Isn't that gay?

[Aaron]

They're only jacking off to. Well, I. Some probably are, yeah. But they insist that they're like, just heterosexual guys. They just like chicks, but their boys are helping them. Yeah.

[Aryan]

I mean, more proud to you. But like, I. Hey, I. I'm. I'm a. I'm a liberal guy. But like, if you, if you, if you. If you create communities from beating off and you, like, it's a thing y' all do together. Probably got some other desires bubbling and that's fine. Just own that shit.

[Aaron]

Well, they call themselves pornosexuals, so they're not. They don't identify as being, like, straight necessarily or gay. They just love porn. That's what they're sexually attracted to is porn and not humans. So they have wank battles with each other, too.

[Aryan]

All right, now that link battles, but.

[Aaron]

No, listen, no wank battles. But the wank battles, it's not battles, but it's not like I'm gonna jack off for time and then I'm gonna put. It's not like the yug at the tug station. We shot a tug station.

[Dana]

That is. That is a typo. I've been running into a lot of the tug stations.

[Aaron]

There should be a tug station. How quickly can you bust. But no, wank battles aren't like, cranking off for time or distance or. Or whatever. Distance would be very funny. Like, like shot putt shot dust. Get a little tape measure out there. Wow. No, wank battles are just about. Like, how. How good of a playlist can you put together? So you put together, like, your 10 best things that you like to jack off to, and then you put your. Your 10 best against their 10 best, and then people rate who has the best playlist for it.

[Aryan]

Wow. Hey, man, do they have, like a, you know, Spotify link?

[Aaron]

Oh, listen to you.

[Aryan]

I'm not.

[Aaron]

I'm not.

[Aryan]

I'm not all into it. So, like, it's not.

[Aaron]

It's not.

[Aryan]

I'm not gonna. I don't love it enough to curate, but when I get some free time, I would love to have a professional's opinion on what I should be looking at. Yeah, I'm okay with that. They do the Lord's work.

[Aaron]

Yeah, no, you're. Curating is a good word for it. They curate playlists and. Yeah. Have a professional handle it. It might be a different experience.

[Aryan]

Yeah, it's like when I, when I send people my, my music playlist, like music is what I do. Like, it's. I'm obsessed with that shit. Right? So it's like when I send people my place, like, yo, this is different. Like your shit kind of hits. Like, it's. You get it? Yeah, I know. It's what I do. So if that's what they do, they.

[Dana]

Take pride in it.

[Aryan]

It takes a lot of, you know, it takes a lot of typing out of my. That, that might be. I'm okay with this actually.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Might save you some time.

[Dana]

I'm cool with wank battles.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Yeah. It's a miss. It's a misleading name.

[Dana]

Yeah. It sounds like you're. You're going against your buddy to see who can bust faster.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Just out of the circle. Like just.

[Dana]

I wouldn't be against that either.

[Aryan]

Okay.

[Aaron]

Just for science. So they, yeah, they, they say that if you get into that, you can get into the zone when you're jacking off and you can be there for like eight hours non stop.

[Aryan]

That's a problem.

[Aaron]

They call that the goon state. When you enter the. When you enter the goon state, they say it's like being high while high. Intense bliss, pure happiness and love. It's beautiful, it's sublime. It's like I'm in anti gravity or covered in liquid tingles all over me. Brain fuzzy skin tingling all over.

[Dana]

No fears, just from crushing porn.

[Aaron]

Just if you have. If you're in the most comfortable lounge with the most high definition, high definition screens around you, watching the best, most expertly curated porn, you can enter the goon state.

[Dana]

That doesn't appeal to me.

[Aaron]

So the author of this, I think got into it because of the. The guna side and the Goon. Do you remember that?

[Aryan]

I don't want to read this. It sounds really interesting to me. Yeah, look, it's like because, because porn is bad. Like I think porn has a net negative on society. I do. But maybe they've entered the shoehorn phase where they do so much of it that it's actually good.

[Aaron]

I would, I would disagree with that. I think they do so much that it's worse. It's really, really, like probably.

[Aryan]

Did you hear what he just described?

[Aaron]

Oh, you think that yeah. If they've actually unlocked something. If. If there is a good state.

[Aryan]

Never felt that shit before. That sounds enticing, but this is, this.

[Big T]

Is like these guys life, like they sit in a room that's, that's and talk on discord.

[Aryan]

So as long as it's consensual and they ain't doing no nefarious activity, I don't see nothing wrong. Because that's self love. Right? They just loving themselves to a maximum.

[Big T]

I'm not saying it's a crime. I'm just saying it's seems like a terrible life to live.

[Aaron]

It's probably terrible for your mental state.

[Aryan]

I've been in love to the point where I felt like I was having an outer body experience and my body was tingling every time I saw this person. And it was like, oh my God, I love you. They feel that with themselves.

[Aaron]

I.

[Big T]

That. That's a very generous interpretation.

[Aaron]

I think they feel that.

[Aryan]

Read that to me again. One more time.

[Aaron]

The setup that they have where.

[Aryan]

Read it back to me. Read me the words. Brother Eric.

[Big T]

Aryan's like a guy whose parents made him smoke a cigarette to show him how bad it is. And he's like, I love that.

[Aaron]

Yeah. You know, right now Aryan's like, hit it. Okay. It's like being high. While high. Intense bliss. Pure happiness and love. It's so beautiful, sublime. Like being washed away. Like I'm in anti gravity or covered in liquid, which he might be. Tingles all over me Brain fuzzy skin tingling all over.

[Aryan]

That's love.

[Big T]

Arian, I think you're failing to realize the. These guys like don't have friends. They probably don't have jobs.

[Aryan]

Here you go judging them, Big D. I'm not.

[Big T]

I'm just saying you're, you're making. You seem to think that their lives sound awesome.

[Aryan]

No, no, I didn't say his live sounds awesome. I don't know nothing about their lives.

[Big T]

That's what you were talking about.

[Aryan]

No, no, I'm talking purely about this experience. This experience. Okay. I've experienced before, but just with another person. I'm willing to hear them out is what I'm saying.

[Aaron]

I'm willing to hear them out.

[Big T]

Couldn't you.

[Aryan]

They've had so much porn to where it might be good. I don't know. I'm not saying I definitively know. I'm saying that sounds really good.

[Aaron]

Points.

[Aryan]

That sounds amazing.

[Aaron]

It sounds like you're goon. Cur. Goon curious.

[Aryan]

I'm going curious. I'm. I'm not. I got to do I'm not. I'm going to be off for eight hours, though. That is crazy. Right? But.

[Big T]

But you don't have that much to do.

[Aryan]

I will never have eight hours for you to do that.

[Big T]

You gave up golf. You'd have eight hours.

[Aryan]

No big D. I would never have eight hours to do that.

[Big T]

I understand most people wouldn't, but.

[Aryan]

Yes, but if that sat. I've felt that before when he's describing. I felt. It's just with a woman. I felt it.

[Dana]

Right.

[Aryan]

And it wasn't even sexual. It was just like she entered the room in slow motion and her hair was flowing like a waterfall. That's what I felt.

[Aaron]

Read it.

[Aryan]

But he. My man's having that one himself.

[Aaron]

Read the article. It's called the Goon Squad in Harper's Magazine.

[Aryan]

I'm gonna read this.

[Aaron]

So intrigued. Yeah, it's interesting, but it's also kind of sad.

[Dana]

That doesn't sound like a very fulfilling life.

[Aaron]

I would. I would agree with that. I think part of being a. Like a serious gooner is you accept the fact that your life is unfulfilled. So let's just get.

[Dana]

Let's just get goony.

[Aaron]

Might as well jack off while I'm here. I'd rather.

[Dana]

But it sounds like they're not really jacking off. They're waiting a long time to jack off.

[Aaron]

No, no, they're jacking off constantly.

[Dana]

Oh, I thought they were waiting for like a bot. Like a big bust.

[Aaron]

No, no, that might be a subculture. They might do like, fast.

[Dana]

Like an edging.

[Aaron]

Yeah, they might. Yeah.

[Dana]

I think they're edging for eight hours.

[Aaron]

I think that. No, that is a part of it. But as they're edging, I think they're also cranking it.

[Dana]

Oh, shit.

[Aaron]

Just.

[Dana]

No, that sounds horrible.

[Aaron]

Just. Yeah, read the article.

[Big T]

How did you get here from Halloween?

[Aaron]

Because I had it on my list of things. I made a list. I added this to the list when I saw this article last Friday. And I was like, this would be interesting to talk about, but what kind.

[Big T]

Of stuff is normally on this. This website on Harper's. Harper's magazine.

[Aaron]

That's what's. That's what made it stand out to me is Harper's is usually like a very. I don't know, you could say pretentious.

[Big T]

I'm from reading their. Their homepage. I get that. Why doesn't anyone trust the media? Where do you want me to start?

[Aaron]

Yep, the.

[Big T]

There's the Goon Squad. I'm sorry. The Good Pervert. Is something on here?

[Aaron]

The good pervert.

[Big T]

The. The deck is a friend's life. A brutal death.

[Aaron]

Don't know what that's about, but yeah, it's like very. It's like super lofty literature. Yeah. And then there's that deep dive into the gooniverse. Yeah. Halloween. Let's talk about Halloween. Spooky. Halloween is what the. Saturday.

[Big T]

Friday.

[Aaron]

Friday, brother.

[Big T]

Best day for Halloween to be.

[Aaron]

Agreed.

[Dana]

Agreed.

[Big T]

You could talk me into Thursday. Thursday's fun as a child because then you get to go into school the next day. You talk about all the Halloween stuff. Nobody's really caring about what's. What goes on. And you don't miss high school football.

[Aaron]

Yep. You're hungover from candy.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Everyone's got the sugar rush. Dana, are you getting dressed up this year?

[Dana]

I think so. Yes, I am. I'm being Belichick and my wife is being Hudson.

[Aaron]

I love that. That's it. That's a great couple's classic.

[Dana]

But it's weird because I'm wearing patriot stuff, so it doesn't really make sense, but whatever. It's the thought that matters.

[Aaron]

They were together.

[Dana]

Were they?

[Aaron]

They were. Yeah. And she. She was like spotted in. In his seats.

[Big T]

Okay.

[Aaron]

Stands.

[Dana]

I don't remember that.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

How does one dress up as Jordan?

[Dana]

I've actually haven't really asked. I'm just letting her do her thing.

[Mad Dog]

I've seen a couple of those already, those costumes.

[Big T]

Well, I've seen the ones where. Because they dressed up as like a fisherman and a mermaid. Yeah. So I've seen that.

[Dana]

I think she's had some flashy outfits.

[Mad Dog]

She wears a lot of crazy Carolina blue looks.

[Aaron]

You could be like Miss Maine too. She competes in. In.

[Mad Dog]

That's a good one.

[Aaron]

Beauty contest.

[Dana]

I. I just never. This is our first, like, couples costume we've ever done. I've never really done anything like that, but I'm. I'm. I'm excited. Just got to have the cut off. The cut off sweatshirt with the holes in it.

[Aryan]

Yep.

[Aaron]

That'll actually. You'll be very comfortable.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

That's going to be a good Halloween costume for you.

[Dana]

I'll be Bill.

[Aaron]

Halloween in college was the best. It was the best holiday by far.

[Dana]

So much fun.

[Aaron]

Do you know where Halloween came from?

[Dana]

I'm gonna guess Europe.

[Aaron]

Yep. Nailed it. Nailed. Came from Ireland, Northern France and England.

[Dana]

That's literally Europe.

[Aaron]

That's literally Europe.

[Big T]

You had a 1 in 7 chance. The way you answered that one.

[Aaron]

Big T. Don't poo poo.

[Big T]

I'm not.

[Dana]

I'm just saying but that's like, I could have said a country in Europe, and instead I said Europe. And it was multiple countries.

[Aaron]

Yeah, so that's right.

[Dana]

I think I'm more right than I nailed it.

[Aaron]

If the answer was like England and Dana had just said Europe, I'd be wrong. I'd be like, no. But it was. Yeah, it was Europe. It was Ireland and Northern France. It started because it was their New Year's. So Halloween used to be New Year's and they had their New Year that started on November 1st. So Halloween was New Year's Eve. They did it then because that was like the end of the harvest season, the end of the fall, and winter was starting. So they saw. They thought that if you. The night before New Year's, the boundary of the worlds of the living and dead intersected. They combined. So on that day, that's when you had a bunch of spirits that were hanging out in the real world and so you wanted to celebrate them. And they would build these big ass bonfires and they would burn the old dead crops. They would burn like dead animals. They would make sacrifices to all their gods. And at those celebrations, they would get dressed up in costumes, usually put on like some animal heads, like walk around dressed as a cow, dressed as a bear. And then they would try to tell fortunes for each other's. And then the bats. So you know why bats are a big thing on Halloween?

[Dana]

I don't, I don't.

[Aaron]

They are a Halloween animal because they would do these bonfires and then a bunch of flies and would come around. And then with all the flies being around, bats would come.

[Dana]

You'd them up?

[Aaron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was like a buffet for bats.

[Dana]

Hell yeah.

[Aaron]

And then that was like, okay, this is what we do on Halloween. We put up like paper cutouts of bats everywhere and people are just like, yeah, no, I get it. Like, I had actually never thought about that. Like, why. Why bats are thought of as being scary. Obviously vampires. I think that has a big part to do with it.

[Dana]

I had a big bat dream the other night.

[Aaron]

What was it?

[Dana]

I don't. Just bats everywhere. I did. Nothing really stuck out. It's just I had bats in my house.

[Big T]

You're a big dream guy.

[Dana]

Like once a week I'll remember a good amount of my dream.

[Big T]

Yeah, I'd say that's a huge dream guy. Yeah.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Bats. I don't know what that means in a dream. It doesn't.

[Dana]

I know. Scary.

[Aaron]

It doesn't sound good.

[Dana]

It was just like a bat was hanging in like, right there in my apartment. I just kept looking at it being like, why are you here?

[Aaron]

Why are you here?

[Aryan]

Bat.

[Dana]

No way.

[Aaron]

Did the bat notice you?

[Dana]

No, I was just chilling. I think it was sleeping because doesn't it sleep during the day?

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Yeah. So it's probably sleeping.

[Aaron]

And you didn't wake it up?

[Dana]

No, I was just like, chill, dude.

[Aaron]

Were you avoiding it?

[Dana]

I was staring at it.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Like what?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Trying to figure out dreams are. Dreams are stupid.

[Aaron]

Yeah. You should. You should not touch a bat, by the way. It's just if you find one on the ground.

[Big T]

Rabies city, right?

[Aaron]

Yeah. If you find. If you find a bat that is not actively, like, trying to get away from you.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

That's probably a sick bat. Oh. And if it bites you, you have, like, a day. You get the shots.

[Dana]

Me out.

[Aaron]

100 fatality freaks me the out.

[Aryan]

But you can get bit by some with rabies and get the shot, but you just have to get it fast.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Okay.

[Dana]

But apparently I looked it up recently. There's. I think it's like four deaths a year to rabies in America. But apparently if you don't, you go like, crazy.

[Aaron]

It might be the top number one worst death.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

That you can have is if you die of rabies.

[Dana]

Scares me.

[Aaron]

It makes you. Yeah, it makes you insane.

[Dana]

What if you don't know, though? Like, what if you. What if your dog bites you and you don't know that your dog has rabies at the time?

[Aaron]

Yeah. Then. Then you're.

[Dana]

Yeah. Well, that scares the out of.

[Aaron]

That's why you got it, Aaron.

[Big T]

That's another thing.

[Aaron]

As prospective dog owner, you got to get them their shots.

[Aryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Big T]

I'm.

[Aryan]

I'm a believer in vaccines.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Because if you don't. If your dog doesn't have a rabies shot and your dog bites somebody else, then they will come and they will kill your dog because they have. The only way that they can inspect to see if it has rabies is they have to, like, take its brain apart. Yep. So get your dog's rabies shots. Bats are. Yeah, bats are. Are trippy animals.

[Aryan]

So I was sitting in my backyard one night, just chilling, just drinking, having a nice little night, and all of a sudden, a bat fell out. The Skylant just stayed there. I could not get up fast enough. Scared the out of me.

[Aaron]

Yeah, they're crazy, crazy animals. You remember when Manu Ginobly, like, captured that bat at a Spurs game?

[Big T]

Yeah. Smacked it.

[Aaron]

Yeah. There was a bat that was just flying around. Was the at and T center, and he just smacked it out of the air. He had to get rabies shots.

[Big T]

That's crazy.

[Aaron]

Yeah. So don't touch them. Don't touch those bats. You know, the bobbing for apples thing, do people still do that? Minty Mincy does? Yeah. That started because at that time of year, it was like the Romans took over the Celtics. The Celtics or whatever you want to call them. And the Romans took all the Celtic traditions for Halloween. But they also, at that time of year, thought that Pomona was the goddess of fruit and trees. And Pomona would die every year at that time, and her symbol was the apple. And so then they started bobbing for apples. They're like, hey, we got. We have a fun thing that we do this time of year. Let's take all your bat, and let's take your bonfires and your costumes, and let's all bob for apples, too, because that's Pomona. So we're blending the two. The two cultures here. And then the black and the orange of Halloween, I always thought it had to do with pumpkins. And it was just like, orange is a Halloween color because of pumpkins, but the black was the death of summer. And they would use a lot of black around Halloween. And then the orange was for just the autumn harvest season. And so they combined those and made those, like, the colors of Halloween. And then the first Halloween parade in the US Was in Minnesota. It was in Anoka, Minnesota. It's known as the Halloween capital of the world.

[Dana]

Mm.

[Aaron]

I would like to go.

[Dana]

Hell, yeah.

[Aaron]

I would like to check that out. So they have, like, the biggest Halloween festival every year. They have three parades for Halloween. That's a lot. Conway, South Carolina, has tried to steal the title, and they called itself the city of Halloween. But that's. It's really Anoka, Minnesota. We should. That would be a fun road trip to take.

[Mad Dog]

We also still haven't been to Duluth, Minnesota.

[Aaron]

That's a good point. Duth and Anoka. Maybe we'll do that. That ship is sailed next Halloween. Do you guys know where Halloween or where the pumpkins came from?

[Big T]

Nope.

[Aaron]

They weren't originally pumpkins that you would carve at Halloween. It was turnips at first because that's what the Irish had. So they would. They would carve a bunch of turnips up. There was a man named Stingy Jack.

[Aryan]

Hell, yeah.

[Aaron]

And he's like a folklore guy. Stingy Jack. He. He used to always prank the devil. So Stingy Jack would play tricks on the devil all the time. And every time he would trap him, he would let him out. Once the devil promised him he would never go to hell. But when then Jack died and he learned that he wasn't really going to get into heaven, but he also wasn't allowed to go to hell because the devil had promised him. So he had to wander around the earth as a ghost for the rest of eternity. And the devil gave Jack a burning lump of coal and a turnip to light his way. And then everyone would carve Jack's face into turnips to frighten away evil spirits on Halloween. So that face that you see, that is Stingy Jack inside of a pumpkin?

[Big T]

Hell yeah.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Also no pumpkins. Way easier to carve. So they switch up to pumpkins. Because once the Irish got to the United States and they saw pumpkins, they're like, this is. Yeah, this is way better for our weird lanterns that we do every year than a turnip is.

[Big T]

I never got into that big. Best thing that's ever happened to pumpkins. You don't really. You don't hear about them otherwise.

[Aaron]

Pumpkin pie.

[Dana]

Pumpkin pie is good, but pumpkin stinks.

[Big T]

But I think all of those are derivatives of them being like a fall thing.

[Aaron]

You think so you don't think that we'd be making pumpkin pie if it wasn't for.

[Big T]

I think if it wasn't for Halloween, you wouldn't really hear about pumpkins.

[Aaron]

Yeah, Pump. I, I love pumpkin spice. No, but no pumpkin spice. You would.

[Mad Dog]

That's like a fall thing.

[Aaron]

That's.

[Big T]

I think this is downstream of, of Halloween.

[Dana]

You see those big ass pumpkins though?

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Those things are unbelievable.

[Aaron]

Dude. I read that like we might start growing pumpkins on Mars.

[Dana]

Why?

[Aaron]

And that we could grow like a 50,000pound pumpkin on Mars in the environment there.

[Dana]

Just because Pump.

[Aaron]

Because pumpkins here on Earth have gotten out of control.

[Dana]

Yeah, dude, those competitions. I would like to be in one.

[Aaron]

Of those someday just to see, see.

[Dana]

How I stack up with the boys.

[Aaron]

I, I don't know. It's got to be about the seeds, right?

[Dana]

Yeah, I think the. I've, I've seen videos on them. It's very, it's a. What's the fucking word thing? It's complicated. There's a lot goes into it.

[Aaron]

Agriculture.

[Dana]

I don't know. I give up.

[Aaron]

It takes a lot of effort in intensive process.

[Dana]

Intensive might be a good convoluted.

[Big T]

Is that the word?

[Dana]

No, forget it. This happens to me once a day. I have a word and it goes away. It'll be back Let me think about it.

[Big T]

Keep talking.

[Aaron]

I think. I think that pumpkins are like goldfish. Like, they grow to the size of the environment that they're in.

[Big T]

I don't like when a goldfish is too big. It's freaky.

[Aaron]

I agree. I agree.

[Aryan]

I've never seen a big gold.

[Big T]

Oh, Google it, dude. It's. It's terrifying.

[Aryan]

Big goldfish being Googled right now.

[Dana]

Intricate.

[Aaron]

Intricate. There we go.

[Aryan]

Holy shit. Yeah, they get this big. The fuck? Can you eat them?

[Aaron]

I don't think you'd want to eat a goldfish.

[Dana]

Did you ever do that?

[Aaron]

What? Eat a goldfish?

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Don't people do that in college? Swallow one and then puke it out or whatever?

[Aaron]

Yeah, I never. Did you?

[Big T]

No.

[Dana]

No.

[Aaron]

Would you ever boof a goldfish?

[Dana]

No, that's too far for me. I don't like living creatures in me.

[Aaron]

Yeah, that's. That's a good way to go through life. They should be dead. Anything inside?

[Dana]

Good thing I'm not a woman, you know?

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Not that there's anything wrong with being a woman.

[Aaron]

No, no, no, no. I know what you're saying. Just because of your personal preference to not having another live person inside of me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mad Dog]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Dana]

What do you think I meant?

[Aaron]

Oh, I don't know.

[Mad Dog]

I was confused.

[Dana]

Yeah. Because pregnant. What'd you think I meant?

[Aaron]

Yeah, pregnancy.

[Dana]

Pregnancy Or.

[Aaron]

Or sex.

[Dana]

It's more thinking about.

[Big T]

I was.

[Aaron]

I was thinking about sex.

[Dana]

No.

[Aaron]

You kind of go back to back on that one. Like. Yeah, it's a twofer.

[Big T]

More. More.

[Dana]

I was thinking about having a living thing in me, and then I thought, oh, that's what women have all the time.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Mad Dog]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

It is pretty crazy.

[Mad Dog]

Well, not all.

[Dana]

Well, yeah, a lot of the time. Yeah.

[Aaron]

Yeah. They grow them.

[Dana]

I know, dude. Don't get me started. Like, it's nuts.

[Aaron]

Like pumpkins. They. It's an intricate process.

[Dana]

It's just a little sperm and then. Boom. Me. This is me. How, dude?

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

It's crazy.

[Aaron]

It. It is. It actually is nuts.

[Dana]

So many sperm, too.

[Mad Dog]

Imagine being us. And we have to, like, actually do that.

[Dana]

I know. I. I have a lot of respect for women.

[Aaron]

Thank you. Have you ever thought about this, Dana? Like, what happens to the. The millions of sperm?

[Dana]

I think about it constantly.

[Aaron]

That don't get there.

[Dana]

Yes. None of it makes sense.

[Aaron]

Like, they. They just die.

[Dana]

I. I've been having to talk in therapy lately about how nothing makes sense.

[Aaron]

Yeah. What.

[Dana]

What. How did nothing makes sense? Man, do you think there's so many.

[Aaron]

Sperms do you think the sperm, like, they. They can think and that, like, they just die?

[Aryan]

I don't know.

[Aaron]

And that we don't. We never get to tell their stories.

[Dana]

I don't want to go down there.

[Aaron]

And imagine what a battle that has to be to get to the end. Like, you beat. You beat a million other people in a race.

[Dana]

It makes no sense.

[Aaron]

Makes zero sense.

[Dana]

Shout out to all the pregnant people, though.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Mad Dog]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Thank you for what you do.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

So trick or treating. Trick or treating. There's three different ways that people think trick or treating started. One was that the Celtics used to leave stuff out, like food to take care of all the, like, undead people that were traveling Earth on the day of the new year. And so they just, like, leave out for them. Be like, here you go. Just take one, please, spirit. And then they sort of dress as the weird spirits that were traveling around Earth in exchange. They. They would do it to, like. Because people would put, like, let's say, a big pot of stew out on their porch, and they're like, yeah, this is for all the dead spirits that are going around. Then some people that didn't have that much to eat, they'll be like, people are putting out all this food for these dead spirits. What if I just dressed up as a dead spirit so I could go eat all this free food? And then if someone came up to me, be like, hey, why are you eating that? Hey, they put it out for me. I'm just a spirit that's here. The second theory was that there was a. A thing called guising that they would do in the Middle Ages, and poor people would go to visit the rich people, and they would get these, like, treats and pastries, and they would get those in exchange for a promise to pray for the people that live there. So it's like, hey, I'm poor, but if you hook me up with a donut, I will say a prayer for your dead grandmother. And people were like, that is a fair, fair trade.

[Aryan]

Thank you.

[Aaron]

We will take you up on that offer. And then that eventually evolved into people going door to door trying to get beer. They'd be like, hey, if you give me this beer, I'll pray for your. Your dead husband. What.

[Dana]

What time period is this?

[Aaron]

Middle Ages?

[Big T]

What?

[Aryan]

I don't know.

[Aaron]

Was that, like, the 1000s?

[Dana]

Oh, my God. Drinking beer back then?

[Aaron]

Yeah, they're crushing beers.

[Big T]

Mead.

[Aaron]

Yeah. But, yeah, those humans.

[Aryan]

There's alcohol.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

You just show up and be like, yeah, if you give me this beer, I'll. I'll sit pretty much doing nothing.

[Dana]

Like pray.

[Aaron]

I'll just pray. And that was a fair trade for them.

[Dana]

I feel like that was probably a big deal back then though. Like giving out prayers.

[Aaron]

Yeah, it was. You know it was.

[Aryan]

And then not so much nowadays, huh?

[Dana]

A lot of T's and peace.

[Aaron]

Yeah. I would say, like, don't give me thoughts and pick one. Pick a thought or a prayer. Don't give me both. And then that evolved into people going door to door being like, hey, I'll recite a poem for you. Hey, I'll sing you a song. I'll tell you a joke. That would. That would be the trick.

[Dana]

I'd take a joke.

[Big T]

I like that. I think there should be some sort of merit based element.

[Dana]

I don't need a song or a poem though. Maybe a song, but I don't need a fucking poem.

[Big T]

If you're Superman, give me a little flex your cape or something, you know, just do something.

[Dana]

I'll take a joke. Yeah, joke would be good.

[Aaron]

Joke would be great. But there would be a lot of bad jokes too, right?

[Dana]

If it's a bad joke, you don't get a beer.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Or a true. Whatever.

[Aaron]

Yeah, I drink the beer.

[Big T]

You handing out beers this year, that's.

[Dana]

Not a bad video idea to the parents.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Yo, just set up a station.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Oh, well, yeah, I could have just. Nah. No, then everyone would know where I live.

[Aaron]

Yogurt treat.

[Dana]

Yogurt treat.

[Aaron]

That'd be a good one. So then people. People started to evolve that past the jokes and then instead of handing out beer, they just switched up to like fruit or nuts, by the way. Fruit. For a long time that was candy.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Before we invented candy, it was just like if you had an apple.

[Dana]

Isn't it all sugar?

[Aaron]

Yeah, yeah. If you had an apple that was like.

[Aryan]

No, it's not like. Yeah, it's not processed. It's like not the same sugar.

[Aaron]

But people used to go nuts for like plums.

[Dana]

Oh, dude, that's on my list of stuff I have to try.

[Aaron]

You haven't tried a plum yet? No, I think you'll like plums.

[Dana]

I heard plums. Bang.

[Aaron]

Can I put you on that?

[Aryan]

Had a plug.

[Dana]

I. Dude, I'm telling you, you should see my list so far, the first four things.

[Aryan]

I need to hear this list because.

[Dana]

The first four videos. I'm doing videos of things I've never tried. The first one was. What was it? It was potato salad, baked beans. I did yesterday. Arby's and cottage cheese. Those are the first four. And My list is incredibly. Like, I just was never cultured growing up.

[Big T]

Did you like cottage cheese?

[Dana]

Loved it.

[Big T]

Really?

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Pretty good. Yeah, pretty good. I didn't like cottage cheese with peaches.

[Dana]

Yeah. I got so many comments of, like, what to do with cottage cheese.

[Aryan]

Yeah. Pepper and peaches and cottage. I thought she was insane when I was growing up, and then I tried. I was like this actually kind of.

[Dana]

Yeah, plum is.

[Big T]

Plum is on my list.

[Aaron]

Can I put you on something, though? Yeah. Have you ever had a nectarine?

[Dana]

Yes, I have.

[Aaron]

Okay. That's my favorite.

[Dana]

We were a nectarine family growing up.

[Aaron]

Nectarines.

[Dana]

Wait, is that different than a clementine?

[Aaron]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You think about. You're thinking about tangerine.

[Dana]

I'm thinking of tangerines.

[Aryan]

Okay.

[Dana]

No, I haven't had a nectarine.

[Aaron]

Dana, Dana, trust me.

[Big T]

Nectarines on this one. All right.

[Dana]

I'll write that down.

[Aaron]

Dude, nectarines. I think it's the best fruit in the entire world.

[Dana]

Really?

[Aaron]

Yeah. It's like a combination of a plum and an apple.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Apples.

[Dana]

Let's get this list a little healthier, dude.

[Aaron]

The fruits on there, I'm pumped for you to try nectarine for the first time.

[Dana]

Are they just readily available wherever?

[Aaron]

Yeah, yeah, they're everywhere.

[Aryan]

Perfect.

[Aaron]

I'm probably a summer. More of a summertime thing, but you could probably find one now if you look for one.

[Big T]

Hell, yeah. I thought it was more of a peach derivative.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Yeah, I guess you could say. Yeah. A mix between a peach, plum, and an apple.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

They're so good.

[Big T]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

Have you had a mango?

[Dana]

I think. Yeah, I've had sliced mango. I haven't had, like, you know, I haven't chomped into one, though.

[Aryan]

I think that's the best way to have it. You slice it up. The.

[Aaron]

The.

[Aryan]

The seeds inside of mangoes are huge. It takes up the majority of the mango.

[Big T]

So nectarina is your number one fruit?

[Aaron]

I think so, yeah.

[Aryan]

Wow.

[Big T]

Wow.

[Aaron]

I mean, they're delicious.

[Aryan]

All right.

[Aaron]

They're really good. More Halloween stuff real quick. When immigrants came over from Scotland and Ireland, they brought their Halloween to the United States. So that was like the 1800s. And they would go door, too, with their kids, and they would just pull pranks on everybody. Is she dressed up? We got. We got Halloween.

[Aryan]

Go, go, go, go, go.

[Aaron]

Let's see what we got.

[Aryan]

So. So for Halloween. This ain't my costume. I. I'm going to be Sully from Monster Z.

[Mad Dog]

No, stop it. She's not Boo. Don't tell me she's Boo.

[Dana]

Let's Go.

[Aryan]

It's adorable.

[Mad Dog]

Oh, my God, that's so cute.

[Aaron]

Happy Halloween.

[Aryan]

Oh, Daddy, can you say Happy Halloween? Y. Hey, hey. Say Happy Halloween.

[Aaron]

No. Oh, see?

[Aryan]

Kids are.

[Mad Dog]

So cute.

[Aaron]

That's adorable.

[Aryan]

Yeah, it's super dope. I'm gonna be Sully. She gonna be boo.

[Big T]

Oh, you know what we got to put in at the end?

[Aryan]

It's that time of year.

[Aaron]

Baby Aaron wrote a Halloween song, and it. It's a banger.

[Dana]

Really?

[Aaron]

It's a banger. It's.

[Aryan]

I would say it's top three Halloween. So all time.

[Big T]

That's dope.

[Aryan]

And I say that very humbly.

[Big T]

How many others are there?

[Aryan]

Number one is Thriller.

[Big T]

I. I would. I would consider that a Halloween song.

[Aryan]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aryan]

You're just not gonna beat that. Then you get into, like, the old ones. The. What's the. What's the. I forget the names of them.

[Mad Dog]

Monster Mash is that one.

[Aryan]

We did our best monster match. Yeah. But this one's called Knock Knock. You gotta. You gotta. You gotta peep it. So I have my kid. So my kid. I have a list. I have an album full of kids songs that my kids do because I got a studio upstairs and music is a pastime. And so I made. They wanted to make a Halloween song. And so anytime my kids are like, can we do a song? It's. I gotta do the whole. I gotta do the beat and I got to do the lyrics. I gotta coordinate the whole thing. But this one was fun to do, man, and it came out really good. And there's a video. It's a little slapper.

[Big T]

Hell, yeah.

[Aaron]

It is a great song. With Trick or Treating, they. The Scots and the Irish took it really far when they got to the United States. And they're like, this is our tradition, but we're just going to go. We're going to go hard on it. And so they would just start playing pranks on all their neighbors. They would, like, push over Porta Potties. They would steal people's wagons from the front yard and put them on top of their houses to the point where it became known as gate night. Because people just wake up in the morning and all their. All their gates and wagons would be taken off the hinges and put on top of the roofs. And when Pranksters. Pranksters. And there was this one promised Protestant minister in Ohio, Steubenville. And so he was. He was a guy that was like, anti booze. He told everybody in his congregation, don't drink. It's from the devil. And one Halloween, he woke up and his front porch was just covered in pyramids of beer kegs and beer signs.

[Dana]

I love that.

[Aaron]

Which is awesome. And then in 1933, things got out of hand. In the United States, they call it Black Halloween now because there were just riots everywhere on Halloween. So, like, people just would shatter, like, glass windows at buildings. They would just go out into the street and, like, trip pedestrians on Halloween. Like, that's. That's our trick. I'm just going to trip this guy in the middle of the mess in the middle of the street. And people would run through the streets. They had bags of flower, and they would just flower people.

[Dana]

Okay. I get into flowering.

[Aaron]

Yeah, it was just, like, not innocent.

[Dana]

Flowering, but maybe with their boys, it.

[Aaron]

Was random ass flowering downtown.

[Dana]

That's a little messed up.

[Aaron]

Like the Knockout Gang, but. Except it would just hit him with a bag of flour.

[Dana]

Okay.

[Aaron]

And they would like, they would with streetcar tracks in the city and cause them to derail and then just run into people and run into, like, wagons and shit that were, like, just absolute mayhem. Like, it was just. It was. It was the purge.

[Dana]

It sounds like the Nelk Boys.

[Aaron]

Yeah, yeah, they're doing. They're doing prank videos, but just for themselves, for an audience of one. And then derailing.

[Dana]

Yeah, that's a little far.

[Aaron]

So in Tucson, there were these. This group of boys that stretched out a tripwire across a sidewalk downtown, and they would just, like, trip everybody. Again, not recording it or anything. It's just like, we're going to trip everybody that walks down for the memories. But they tripped the wrong guy. And in 1907, in a Halloween prank, this guy tripped over the wire, pulled out his gun, and killed one of them. And honestly, kind of fair. Yeah, yeah, it's fair. Listen, if you're eye for an eye, if you're gonna play in the prank world, you better be ready for the. There are a lot of people that you do not want to prank out there. And that same year, there was a lady in Indiana that got scared to death because her daughter answered a knock on the door, and then she screamed because a bunch of boys threw a pumpkin into her face as a Halloween prank. And then she just had a heart attack and died from it. So they had to start, like, rebranding Halloween. Let's do. Let's do the innocent pranks. Maybe toilet paper somebody's tree or something. Did you guys ever do that? No. Toilet papering?

[Dana]

No, I can't say I did.

[Big T]

Is that what you call it?

[Aaron]

You're teeping? TPing rolling is what I always heard rolling. Yeah, rolling's another one. Like they roll the oaks at Tumor's Corner.

[Big T]

I've heard tp, but toilet papering.

[Aaron]

I wanted to say the full words the first time, and then we can abbreviate to TPing.

[Big T]

Yeah, that's fair. That's a good journalistic practice.

[Aaron]

I did it one time. All right? I. I got a bunch of toilet paper from my house, and then my parents are like, where are you going? I was like, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go TPing. And they're like, no, you can't do that to our neighbors if you're going to TP somebody just tpr our front tree. So then I went out to the front, and then I threw the toilet paper over the tree. And then it probably took about, like, six months to get all the toilet paper off, because once it. It rained, like, later on that night, and then just stuck everywhere. It was the worst prank that Your own house. I TPed my own tree, and then I had to take all the toilet paper off. That was. That was stupid.

[Dana]

That's awesome.

[Aaron]

That was stupid on my part. So, yeah, that's. That's just some historical hits behind Halloween. But I do Halloween as a college student is. Is the best time. Yeah, man, that's. I think that's when Halloween is the best.

[Dana]

So much fun.

[Aaron]

New York kind of sucks for Halloween, though, because the apartments. Too small. Too small and. Yeah, well, just in general. Yeah, too small. But I was saying, like, for kids.

[Dana]

Oh, I thought you meant for, like, parties.

[Aaron]

Yeah, for parties. Yes, I agree with that. But, like, for kids. I know. I never really had any kids from my building that came out on Halloween that would, like, knock door to door in the apartments. You would think that it'd be a great way to get, like, a shitload of candy.

[Big T]

Not in my building, but I lived on a pretty residential street where there were, like, brownstones and stuff and kids would be going up.

[Aaron]

So. Yeah, if it was, like, townhouses. Yeah, Things like that. Yeah. But I would think that, like, an apartment building, you just. You hit an apartment, and you spend, like, 30 minutes, and you have a full sack.

[Big T]

Yeah. The Halloween parade in New York sucked. I could never get home on Halloween. Hated it.

[Aaron]

What are you guys, top candies?

[Big T]

All right, I have my list. I'm gonna shock you guys here with my number one Butterfingers.

[Aaron]

It's number one.

[Big T]

I was. I was looking at Butterfinger, and I was considering. I have five here. It was just off, but you can only.

[Dana]

They're so sticky. That's a bad. The bad side.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Maybe it's just me, but I. I can't have more than one Butterfinger.

[Dana]

I can go to town on those suckers.

[Aaron]

Like one. You give me one fun size Butterfinger. I enjoy it, but I'm all Butterfinger.

[Big T]

One fun size?

[Aaron]

Yeah. I get Butterfingered out.

[Dana]

No.

[Big T]

Come on.

[Dana]

Bfd.

[Aaron]

I just can't. Something about the. It's like, too crunchy.

[Big T]

I can eat three full size anything or fun size anything.

[Dana]

I have a dark horse Almond Joys.

[Big T]

Okay, that is a dark horse.

[Dana]

Was that like a you don't like it noise? Oh, come on.

[Aaron]

Are you anti coconut?

[Mad Dog]

I'm anti coconut.

[Dana]

Coconut.

[Mad Dog]

And I'm anti nuts in my candy.

[Big T]

Agreed.

[Dana]

Well, the almond is the worst part of the Almond Joy.

[Big T]

Then you would for sure. Well, there's Mounds. Why wouldn't you just.

[Dana]

Mounds don't have. It's the same thing.

[Mad Dog]

Mounds just don't have almonds.

[Big T]

Dana. That's their very famous slogan for the last 50 years.

[Dana]

What do you mean?

[Aaron]

Almond Joy has nuts. Mounds don't.

[Dana]

Mounds are the same thing?

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Dana]

Just without it.

[Aaron]

No, the exact.

[Dana]

No, I swear to God. That's. I thought there was a difference.

[Aaron]

Exact same.

[Big T]

They've made it their branding for the better part.

[Dana]

Why the am I eating almond choice? I don't know.

[Aaron]

You've been throwing out the almond.

[Dana]

I hate the almond, dude.

[Aaron]

Dane, I've got great news for you.

[Aryan]

Incredible.

[Aaron]

Go get some Mounds. Treat yourself. Have some Mounds.

[Big T]

Wow.

[Dana]

I'm such a coconut guy. Oh, my God.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

I'm gonna bring you a Mounds tomorrow, dude.

[Dana]

That I swear to God, like, people are gonna think I'm lying. I had no idea.

[Aaron]

Coconut cake. You like coconut cake?

[Dana]

Yes.

[Aaron]

Coconut cake is delicious too. But yeah.

[Dana]

Pina coladas.

[Aaron]

It's gonna change how you look at Halloween now.

[Dana]

Almond Joy.

[Aaron]

You were even like, Almond Joy was your number two.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Despite the fact that you hate.

[Big T]

You don't even like it.

[Dana]

I want the nut out. I just get the nut out every time.

[Aaron]

So it just mounts because come number one.

[Dana]

Yes. I didn't know. But I have gotten away from. I'm just like. Again, I'm forgetting the word neglected now. Mounds. Because I thought they tasted different and I just never really tried them. I've never heard this song my life.

[Aaron]

You've never heard somebody say, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't?

[Big T]

No.

[Aaron]

Now you have.

[Dana]

I'm a sheltered human.

[Aaron]

Now you have.

[Dana]

Wow.

[Big T]

That's from the 70s.

[Dana]

Okay. And then my third one is Kit Kats.

[Big T]

KitKat's in the running for my one.

[Aaron]

Number one for me with a bullet. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Classic. Number two. This is where it gets tough because I want to say Reese's Pieces. It. I'm gonna say Reese's Pieces. Number two.

[Big T]

Not nearly as good as the regular.

[Aaron]

Number three, Eminem's. Number four, Milky Way.

[Big T]

It's just all chocolate.

[Dana]

Milky Way, man.

[Aaron]

Yeah. And number five, Sour patch. Now what I love about Milky Way, it doesn't get why Snickers get all the shine. Because Milky Way better. I think Milky Way is better than Snickers.

[Dana]

I do too. I'm with you.

[Aryan]

No nuts.

[Aaron]

It's the no nut. I think no nut November.

[Dana]

I think people might be turned off to the bottom is the bottom layer. What is it?

[Mad Dog]

It's like of the Milky Way.

[Aaron]

Oh, the nougat.

[Dana]

The nougat.

[Aaron]

I love nougat.

[Big T]

I do too.

[Dana]

But I think people are turned off to that part of the bar.

[Aaron]

So Snickers I think has nougat too.

[Dana]

I will never.

[Aaron]

Maybe. Maybe less nougat.

[Dana]

And I think it's a lot less nougat.

[Aaron]

Yeah. All the space is taken up by the nuts would be nougat.

[Dana]

And caramel.

[Aaron]

And caramel. Yeah. Three Musketeers is also my honorable mention because I love nougat.

[Big T]

Not for me. I've got KitKat one. I have a. This was in the running for my one. I just couldn't. Couldn't do it. I have sour skittles too. Oh, you don't hear about the sour skittle as much.

[Aaron]

They're very good.

[Big T]

People give all the love to the regular. When I see sour skittles, I get them.

[Dana]

They can your mouth up though.

[Big T]

Yeah. You. You only two or three at a time. If you put too many of those, you're in for a rough night.

[Aaron]

You ever have the. The atomic warheads? Yeah, those things will you up too.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Reese's three, Bucky's, Shout Out, Aryan's Costumes, Strawberry Sour Power belts or four. I mentioned those recently and. And I was struggling to come up with the five and I just googled like or I chat GPT show me the top 50 candies in America. And it brought up one that every time I have I'm like, why is this not a bigger deal? And that's the. The airhead. Just the regular straight up Airheads.

[Aaron]

Airheads are good.

[Big T]

It made me want some.

[Aaron]

They're very. They're very chewy.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Very sticky. But yeah. Airhead. It's a good treat. You remember the mystery flavor?

[Big T]

Of course, the white.

[Aaron]

White cherry. I think that's what it ended up being.

[Big T]

I thought it changed. Oh, I think it was always white cherry. I believe now we need to do an investigation because I'm pretty sure you could get different ones.

[Aaron]

Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I always thought that it was just white cherry.

[Dana]

I don't hate just like a standard Hershey bar, you know like that's up there for me.

[Aaron]

Run the football.

[Dana]

Run the fucking ball. I'm astounded by this Almond joy news.

[Big T]

Sour or regular? Sensing a trend.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Reese pieces is solid.

[Big T]

I have an honorable mention I'd like to add to my list. The individually wrapped strawberry things that no one has ever bought and I don't know if they still exist but would just show up in your grandparents house.

[Aaron]

Oh yeah, yeah. They had the like little bit of. Of like jam on the inside.

[Big T]

Yes.

[Aaron]

Yeah, those are good.

[Big T]

Yeah. I like if I knew if someone knows where to buy those, please send it my way, I would buy them.

[Aaron]

I also like. I enjoy candy corn. I know it's a controversial take.

[Big T]

I'm with you.

[Aaron]

Candy corn is good. Don't. Don't eat a lot of it. But it's. Candy corn is just fine by the way.

[Aryan]

Called strawberry delights.

[Big T]

Big thing are then they're. They're still in circulation, still popping. I might buy a bag of those. The white mystery airheads flavor is always changing as it is made by combining leftover flavors from their production line. They're not fully cleaned out between batches.

[Aaron]

Wow. Did not know that.

[Big T]

So it's the scraps I got to show some.

[Dana]

Love the Skittles.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Skittles is solid. Very solid. And I don't think Skittles like the standard. That candy has not changed in what like normal Skittles? Probably 100 years. Standard Skittles.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

And yeah, it's good.

[Big T]

Now that's the other thing I hear. All the Skittles are the same flavor.

[Aaron]

That.

[Dana]

That can't be true.

[Aaron]

There's no chance.

[Big T]

I think that's what they say.

[Aaron]

There's no chance. Zero chance. I would feel lied to.

[Big T]

I mean they do just create like an amalgamation like in your mouth.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

Google's telling me they're not the same flavor but I've seen a lot of people.

[Dana]

You guys ever have Advil that tastes like candy? Yeah, yeah, it's good.

[Aaron]

It is really good. It's dangerous.

[Mad Dog]

It's the one that looks like M and M's.

[Aaron]

Yeah, the brown. The brown Advil.

[Dana]

Yeah. They just. They just have a coat of sugar.

[Aaron]

Every day I wake up, I'm like, I think I got another headache.

[Big T]

We're talking about, like, the burgundy.

[Dana]

Yeah. I got sugar.

[Big T]

Those taste like candy.

[Aaron]

They do.

[Mad Dog]

They taste like an M. The coating of an M M. Yeah, they put.

[Aaron]

They put some sort of sweetener on the outside. It's so good.

[Big T]

Wait, like, actually.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Yeah.

[Big T]

I've never experienced this.

[Aaron]

Yeah. You got to try this. Advil.

[Dana]

Just pop a couple.

[Big T]

Interesting.

[Aaron]

Nothing. Yeah, you can have Advil, right? You can have Advil. If you're not. I would have a lot of it. But there's no harm if you were to just go out to the medicine cabinet that we have here and be like, ah, take a couple Advil. I could use a couple.

[Big T]

Sure. Yeah. I've just never noticed that.

[Aaron]

Give it a shot. Change your life. All right. That was Halloween talk. Anything else you want to get into about Halloween, Dana?

[Big T]

Not really.

[Dana]

I mean, I've never loved it ever since growing up. You know, I loved it as a kid. I would have my pillowcase of candies and just crush them. But I've just never really gotten into dressing up, so credit to everybody that does and is creative with it. I love the people that do go all out and are, like, committed to the bit, but if I had a choice, I wouldn't dress up.

[Aaron]

You know, you just want to. You got to pay to play, though. It's like, I have to dress up if I want to see everybody else dressed up. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think about me and Big Cat? Got into a quick debate about this on part of my take yesterday. Sometimes the hottest Halloween costumes are when girls get dressed up as something that's not supposed to be hot.

[Dana]

Ridiculous.

[Aaron]

But they still look hot.

[Dana]

Yes.

[Aaron]

Wearing the, like, not hot costume. Yeah.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

And then you're like, God damn.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

This is just hot.

[Dana]

And they're funny.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dana]

I agree with you.

[Aaron]

Something sneaky.

[Dana]

I'm on your side there.

[Aaron]

Yeah, on my side.

[Dana]

I'm with you.

[Aaron]

All right, Good take.

[Aryan]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

And then Hank was like, what you mean like, when chicks get dressed up as you? And I was like, kind of hot.

[Big T]

Well, easy.

[Mad Dog]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

Hold on. Whoa. Yeah. Mad Dog dressed up as me for.

[Mad Dog]

Halloween back in college, and Mackenzie dressed up as Big Cat.

[Aaron]

Yeah, that's right.

[Mad Dog]

Separately. Separately. Before we knew each other.

[Dana]

It's awesome.

[Aaron]

Yeah. Pretty crazy, but. Yeah, That's. That's Halloween.

[Big T]

Sweet.

[Aaron]

Spooky. Play. Play the song. Play the. On the way out, put it in. Yeah. All right. Love you guys.

[Baby Aaron]

Knock knock, who got the candle for the kids? Knock knock knock who got the counter for the kids? Knock knock, who got the counter for the kids? Knock knock, knock knock Trick or treating while come into Halloween don't be scared when you start to hear screams Give me candy we don't want no problems Give it to me or you're gonna see a monster, monster, monster Put some.

[Mad Dog]

Candy on your doorstep, doorstep I'm surprised there isn't more yet More yet.

[Baby Aaron]

Where is all the Reese's? I'm about to tear this piece of pieces yeah, where is all your Kit Kat, huh? Open up your baggie, let me get.

[Mad Dog]

That I want everything I like Open up and take a little bite Mobbing all night Walking down the streets through.

[Baby Aaron]

The mist I think Imma treat you with some tricks say it like this Here's a little tip Give me out of candy Stop acting like a witch Knock knock, who got the candy for the kids? Knock knock, who got the the candy for the kids? Knock knock, who got the candy for the kids? Knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock Knock knock who got the candy for the kids? Knock knock, who got the candy for the kids? Knock knock, who got the candy for the kids? I'mma have to show the trick or treaties what it is Goblins and ghouls and the werewolves Zombies from the graveyard coming here soon Skeletons dancing with the ghosts in the streets where the mummies and the vampires feast Blood dripping from.

[Mad Dog]

The candy bag Bees coming out my mouth like I'm candy man Hocus pocus.

[Baby Aaron]

Are you in a superstition Vroom, vroom on a vroom they be different Witches and wiccans and devilish disguises Coming from the smoke while arises I get real.

[Mad Dog]

Happy when this Halloween night I'm a.

[Baby Aaron]

Pump the town full of fright Right. We don't want no candy corn we don't want no licorice we don't want no candy corn we don't need no licorice Knock knock, who got the candy for the kids? Knock knock, who got the candy for the kids? Knock knock, who got the candy for the kids? Knock knock, Knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock, who got the candy for the kids? Knock knock, who got the candy for the kids? Knock knock, who got the candy for the kids? I'mma have to show the trick or treat is what it is.

[Aryan]

Sam.