The Horse in the Striped Pajamas | Boy Dad #373 ft. The i5 Commuters

Summary

Son of a Boy Dad - Episode #373 “The Horse in the Striped Pajamas”

Date: February 5, 2026
Guests: The i5 Commuters (Joe & Craig)
Hosts: Barstool Sports’ Sass, Rone (Harry), and Francis

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Episode Overview

This episode of Son of a Boy Dad features the i5 Commuters, the viral Northwest duo known for their comedic road content. Lil Sasquatch (“Sass”) and producer Rone (Harry), alongside Francis, dig into what life is like behind the wigs and disguises—exploring topics of anonymity, the Northwest commute, social media virality, and the ethos of standing up for the unspoken rules of the road. The episode blends genuine banter, gift giving, audience questions, travel tales, and reflections on internet fame.

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Main Themes and Purpose

• Behind the Disguises: The i5 Commuters tell their origin story and discuss why they remain anonymous.
• Commuter Content: They deconstruct their viral content, which enforces the unwritten rules of the road with comedic flair.
• Internet Fame & Virality: Discussion on social media shadow bans, blow-ups, and managing popularity in disguise.
• Masculinity, Friendship & Creativity: The friendships that anchor their work and the ways they’ve made tedious commutes into joyful, creative experiences.
• Community and Interactivity: The i5 Commuters share their experiences dealing with fans, DMs, and even the law enforcement community, who apparently appreciate their public service.
• Gifts & Northwest Culture: Exchange of gifts and insights into life in Seattle/Tacoma and PNW culture.

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Breakdown of Key Discussion Points

1. The i5 Commuters: Origins and Anonymity

• How the duo met:
  • Both worked corporate tech jobs in Seattle and started filming their commutes during COVID for fun (07:27–10:00).
  • Initial concern was keeping their side hustle secret from bosses and coworkers.
• On anonymity:
  • Costumes (wigs, mustaches) started as a job-protection measure and grew into trademark branding (02:45, 21:02).
  • “Craig is still fully entrenched in the corporate world. His coworkers do not know that he's here. They do not know what he does in his free time.” – Joe (03:10)
  • The disconnect between the online persona and real life—going incognito even in beloved local fast food spots (05:11).
• Revealing themselves:
  • Craig discusses the eventual likelihood of a face reveal, but values the “era of mystery” (31:58).
  • “You not knowing who we are is way cooler than who we are, you know?" – Joe (32:05)

2. Building Viral Momentum

• Social Media Woes:
  • Shadowbanned on TikTok for profanity and “dangerous activities,” frustration with lack of support from platforms (01:39–02:40).
• Breaking Out:
  • Their virality spiked when rapper GloRilla reposted their content, massively changing their demographic and reach (06:32).
• Content Explained:
  • Videos capture the pair commiserating about road grievances and “enforcing unwritten rules of the road” with satire (11:36).
  • “You want to scream out of your window. So we just started doing that.” – Joe (13:38)
  • Not just about outrage—there's an affectionate, positive (and safe) edge compensating for road rage (13:45).

3. Rules of the Road, Ethics, and Approach

• Unwritten Rules:
  • Passionate about left lane etiquette, calling out both slow campers and reckless speeders (15:07–17:19).
  • “This is the passing lane, not the fast lane.” – Joe (15:17)
  • Nuanced about confrontation, never escalate with dangerous drivers or risky vehicles for their safety and others' (17:39).
• On trucks, semis, and Tesla drivers:
  • Avoid confrontations with sketchy trucks and face-tattooed drivers.
  • Shocked by Tesla drivers sleeping behind the wheel, “Until the technology is there...one day, that would be fantastic. But I don't think the technology is there.” (19:38)

4. Community & Fame

• Interactions with Fans:
  • Hilarious stories about fans DMing them, sometimes confusing them with old acquaintances or expressing romantic interest despite anonymity (27:03, 27:31).
  • “We get a lot of people trying to bait us into revealing ourselves.” – Joe (27:03)
• Law Enforcement Fandom:
  • State patrol officers are surprisingly big fans, citing the public service aspect of their reminders about “unsecured loads” (89:00).
• Comments & Criticism:
  • The dangers of reading internet comments—hosts and guests swap perspectives on staying mentally healthy amidst online negativity (33:14–34:16).

5. Seattle, PNW, and Commuter Life

• Seattle–Tacoma Route:
  • Explains their daily grind and why they love the region but poke fun at its quirks (10:28–10:44, 64:47–65:25).
• Best PNW cities:
  • Bellevue called out as an underrated, upscale district (64:47).
• Weirdest commutes:
  • Stories of escaped circus zebras and a tongue-in-cheek retelling of The Ring ferry horse scene (66:07–67:45).

6. Gifts and Northwest Connection

• Merch & Coffee Gifts:
  • The Commuters shower the hosts with their merch, local espresso beans from Tacoma’s Bluebeard Coffee, and Washington-grade cannabis (41:08–43:12).
  • Host reactions blend amusement and genuine appreciation.
• Food, Fish, and Salt:
  • For Harry, they bring sea salt seafood blend from the San Juan Islands (59:21–62:18).
  • Side conversations about fly-fishing the Yakima and PNW seafood culture segue into broader discussions.
• Grousing about merch as a revenue stream:
  • “Someone early on told us, like, oh, merch is the way to go. We've lost so much. Nobody buys it.” – Joe (39:42).

7. Work, Quitting, and the “Dream”

• Leaving Corporate Life:
  • Joe quit first (with full spousal support), hoping on viral revenue; Craig was laid off soon after (45:43–47:13).
  • “I might be the poorest person you've ever had on the podcast, but I'm living the dream life right now.” – Joe (45:43)
• Routine Now:
  • Joe spends days at Equinox in Seattle: working out, editing, and posting while Craig works remotely (72:27–72:53).

8. Podcasting and Future Plans

• Doing a Podcast Undercover:
  • Podcast is currently unnamed but lives on their YouTube as “Show on the Road” (95:04).
  • Musing about content (should they record pods in the car?).

9. Notable, Memorable Moments & Quotes

• “You just took the worst part of your day and made it the best part of your day.” – Craig, on turning commutes into content (44:04)
• “It's nice to still be treated like shit, like the rest of us.” – Joe, about enjoying anonymity, (23:50)
• "You not knowing who we are is way cooler than who we are." – Joe, on preserving the mystique (32:05)
• "The horse with the striped pajamas. So that was a Japanese movie…” – Joe, deadpan riff about a zebra loose in the Seattle woods (69:17)
• “Does your wife know you quit?” “Yes. She was so supportive of me. Like, she was. She's fucking incredible.” – Joe (45:50)
• “This is like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but with traffic.” – Francis (paraphrased from tone)
• “We get DMs like, ‘I love your vibe and would love to get to know you guys.’” – Joe (26:53)
• “We try to approach it in a nice way, because guns exist.” – Joe, on why they're polite in confrontational road videos (13:45)

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Notable Segment Timestamps

• Intro/Podcast start: 01:10
• i5 Commuters origins/anonymity explained: 02:45–10:00
• Going viral, TikTok drama: 01:36–02:40, 06:32
• Left lane debate & rules of the road: 15:07–17:39
• Talking about Tesla sleeping at the wheel: 19:17–20:07
• Glorilla post and social media surge: 06:32
• Gift giving & NW coffee/cannabis: 40:41–43:12
• Discussion about Seattle, Bellevue: 64:47–65:25
• Zebra escapes in Washington, ‘The Ring’ horse scene riff: 66:07–67:45
• Law enforcement fans, unsecured loads: 89:00–90:21
• Golf tangent & plans to play with hosts: 82:16–85:11
• Podcast name, future plans: 95:04
• Closing banter and outro: 96:00

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Tone and Language

Throughout, the conversation is marked by casual, self-effacing humor—balances Barstool’s signature edge with earnestness and insight. The guests and hosts are quick-witted, unfiltered when riffing, but respectful when the topic turns to safety, public responsibility, or personal friendship.

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Conclusion for Listeners

This episode gives an in-depth look at the i5 Commuters—unpacking how two friends made their Northwest traffic hell into a hilarious side hustle and unexpected viral hit. The mood is lighthearted but reveals real reflections on social media, personal identity, the absurdity of working life, and why the little things (like a perfectly strapped load or a bag of local coffee) matter.

For more: Follow i5 Commuters on Instagram/TikTok (@i5.commuters), and check out their podcast (currently under the name “Show on the Road Pod”).

Transcript

[Harry]

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[Craig]

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[Sass]

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[Craig]

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[Joe]

I can't fucking believe I'm here right now. This is so fucking awesome.

[Harry]

I'm happy too.

[Francis]

I can't believe you're here either.

[Joe]

I don't want to say too much, but why?

[Harry]

What are you afraid you're going to say?

[Joe]

Well, I just don't want to say something too cool and then it not make it into the.

[Harry]

We cut the coolest shit.

[Joe]

I don't want anything cool.

[Harry]

It's out of the show immediately. Sass, start us off, brother.

[Sass]

Oh, we're ready to go.

[Harry]

I mean, if you are.

[Sass]

Yeah, I'm ready to go. All righty. Welcome back to the Son of a Boy dad podcast. Today it's February 2nd, 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Welcome back. We are live from HQ3. Francis, why don't you introduce our guests?

[Francis]

Thank you, Harry. We have the gentleman behind i5 commuters. You've probably seen their page on Instagram. That's where you do the bulk of your work now.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Yep.

[Francis]

Or is it TikTok as well and stuff, all that?

[Joe]

I think we're Shadow banned on TikTok right now, but we're going to see about changing that here soon.

[Francis]

But what happened?

[Joe]

Just. Just a few too many F bombs. I think we got a lot of like the too dangerous.

[Francis]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

Flags. Or like this is dangerous activities.

[Francis]

I got hit with that for that road video I made. They said mine was too dangerous.

[Joe]

We get it. It's like anytime we have a video that is big enough for them to pay us any. Any sort of money, it gets flagged.

[Francis]

Got it.

[Harry]

Oh, so it's conspiratorial.

[Joe]

Oh, yeah, for sure. And there's like no helpline with TikTok. There's just no person that you can get a hold of at that company to talk to about this. Craig tried baiting his way in through. He Made, like, a fake TikTok shop. Because he was like, oh, if we're making them money some, we could probably get someone online. And we did.

[Francis]

Yep.

[Joe]

And he was like, I actually don't have a TikTok shop. I want to talk to you about the monetization of my page.

[Craig]

You held them off.

[Harry]

You tricked them to get in the room.

[Joe]

Yeah. Yes, exactly.

[Craig]

That was the only way. Yeah. That was the only way to get in. Didn't work.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Craig]

But it was.

[Joe]

Turns out, couldn't help us.

[Ron]

Damn.

[Joe]

Tried. Did our best. That's a good plan.

[Sass]

I mean, it's a great strategy.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Are you guys. Do you wear these disguises because you have real jobs and you want to protect them?

[Ron]

Oh, yeah.

[Craig]

That was the start. That was the start for sure. I think we didn't want our boss to know we were doing this on the side because maybe we'll get into it. But that's kind of how we met. We were both working in the corporate world in Seattle.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Craig]

And we were filming our commutes and obviously doing quite a bit on the side, too. So that was kind of the. The start of us wanting to stay anonymous.

[Joe]

Craig is still fully entrenched in the corporate world. His coworkers do not know that he's here. They do not know what he does in his free time.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Which, like, we're so opposite. Because I can't wait to tell people.

[Harry]

Are you guys related?

[Joe]

No. No, no, no. We get brothers show their teeth.

[Craig]

I know.

[Sass]

It's hard to tell.

[Joe]

It's hard to tell.

[Craig]

I think we're just excited.

[Francis]

I have some. I have some bad news for you.

[Sass]

What if I, like, know one of you guys? I don't even.

[Harry]

Where does High5 run?

[Joe]

That's the other. There's been little to no communication. Pre podcast. Like, I was. I was up until, like, 30 minutes ago. I'm like, this isn't fucking happening. Like, Francis is just pulling us along. This is going to be one huge bit. And he's going to be like, wait, you guys actually flew here and showed up? Idiots.

[Francis]

Boy, I'll tell you, I. When you guys were like, all right, we're booking our flights, that was when I had to run it back by these guys and be like, just. Just so you guys know, they're. They're coming.

[Ron]

We're.

[Francis]

And that probably means we have to have them.

[Harry]

No.

[Joe]

It did feel like you were, like, debating it the whole time. Like, it was like you asked us to come on and then immediately regretted it.

[Francis]

Well, we said yes. No, I think I asked them. I think I asked you as a pitch almost. And then I always want to get their approval before actually extending a formal.

[Harry]

Well, I thought it was i95. I thought you were just gonna drive up. Jesus Christ. That's so dedicated. You guys are the first people, people that have flown out to do this show.

[Craig]

No way.

[Joe]

Shut up.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Yeah, definitely people.

[Harry]

Unless they're in like a four block rating.

[Sass]

No.

[Joe]

Really?

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Craig]

That's crazy.

[Joe]

Like, no swag on our part, but.

[Harry]

I'm saying the opposite. I'm saying that's so swaggy.

[Sass]

Super swag.

[Francis]

We're stoked you're here. But I was gonna say I have some bad news, Craig, which is that if your intention is to remain anonymous, I mean, we have a pretty good listenership. Like I think the odds of you now.

[Harry]

But look at him.

[Sass]

I don't. I wouldn't know him.

[Harry]

You would have no idea who he is.

[Joe]

It's incredible actually that how much this can throw people off. We did a partnership with a local fast food place and it's a fast food joint that I go to all the time. Like I have gone through this drive through window over a hundred times and I see the same people all the time. We show up with these on and the lady freaked out. The same lady who's treated me like shit for the last six months is like, oh my God, you guys gonna come here all the time? I'm like, lady, you just messed up my order last week. We will be back. Yes, certainly. Yeah. People have no idea.

[Harry]

It lends credence to, like when I watch Batman, I'm always like, I would fucking know. That's.

[Sass]

Yeah, right.

[Harry]

Kilmer's chin.

[Sass]

Yeah. But I think you got to know like, like, what would your like good friends know?

[Craig]

Totally. Our friends, family, those people know. Exactly, exactly. It was funny. We went out to dinner with one of my buddies last night and Joe was shocked he didn't tell.

[Joe]

It was like one of his good friends. Like we met up with him for.

[Sass]

Dinner in New York.

[Joe]

In New York. And I'm like, I'm like, oh yeah. Like we're super excited to be here. He's like, what are you guys doing? I'm like, you didn't tell him?

[Harry]

That's just me. So has he seen the account? Had he seen the account before?

[Joe]

I don't think so.

[Craig]

I don't think so.

[Joe]

I don't think so. Wow, this is fucking awesome.

[Sass]

Wait, so your guys account, did it blow up rather quickly?

[Joe]

Well, what happened was Glorilla reposted one of our videos and we never really looked back. Yeah, that was it.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Once you jump into that territory, straight for the stars. It was an interesting. Yeah, it was an interesting. Our demographic really shifted overnight, but we never looked back after that. Should that have been a pre.

[Francis]

Comment?

[Harry]

I'm sure her listeners are of a certain ilk, but I think that you should describe who or you should describe what your account does, because there will be some people listening who have. Haven't seen it yet. Like, I've gotten it sent to me by, like, a bunch of my friends, like, for months. But I would love for. How to hear how you describe it for people who just don't know what it is.

[Sass]

And Francis, you should describe the common interest here and protecting the roads.

[Francis]

But I'm gonna let them go first.

[Sass]

Of course.

[Craig]

All right, I'll do my best.

[Joe]

Yeah, give it a shot.

[Craig]

30 second elevator pitch. No, no, we got hours.

[Ron]

All right.

[Craig]

No, we are. We're just two close, close buddies that met at a corporate job in Seattle. Our first sales job. Really? Out of college.

[Francis]

Amazon?

[Craig]

No.

[Joe]

Good guess, though.

[Craig]

We're gonna keep that anonymous, too. But close by.

[Francis]

Microsoft.

[Sass]

Could be Nike or. No, that's Portland.

[Joe]

Portland, yeah. Close, though.

[Francis]

Is it tech? It's tech.

[Harry]

It's tech.

[Joe]

So funny to hear Harry talk about the Northwest. Like, it came up on one of your recent episodes where you were talking about. You were talking very fondly about the Pacific Northwest. And you remember that? I love that about you.

[Sass]

What did I say? Some nasty.

[Joe]

You were just like, isn't it everybody just fucking serial killers running around the woods with hatchets in their hands.

[Harry]

You guys are not dispelling it.

[Joe]

What do you mean? But anyways, Craig, 30 seconds. Here you go.

[Craig]

Yeah, so anyway, once Covid hit my wife and I. And his. His wife.

[Francis]

You're married?

[Joe]

Both of us.

[Francis]

No way.

[Craig]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

Sorry, ladies. I know what you were thinking.

[Sass]

Any idea or do they, like. They found the wig in the car.

[Joe]

Oh, no, we don't tell our wives. Our wives do not know that.

[Craig]

They don't even know we're here.

[Francis]

I also don't believe that either of you are married.

[Joe]

I mean, this is a very. This is a very real 14 karat wedding ring.

[Francis]

This is all part of that. You know, trying to sort of.

[Harry]

Four millimeter, five millimeter.

[Joe]

Yeah, it's actually. There's a quote from my grandfather in there. I'm actually going to my grandfather's celebration of life right after this.

[Francis]

Oh, really?

[Sass]

Hell, yeah.

[Joe]

He was a Beautiful man.

[Ron]

He.

[Joe]

It was. It was crazy. He was like, for part of his.

[Harry]

30 seconds, by the way, you're killing me.

[Joe]

What am I doing bringing up my grandfather?

[Harry]

No, no, go. Go ahead. I want to hear about his life.

[Joe]

No, he just said. I mean, he had, like, bad dementia, like, later in life, and he didn't. He wasn't even able to make it to my wedding. I just got. I just got married a few months ago.

[Francis]

Oh, wow. Congratulations.

[Joe]

Thank you very much.

[Sass]

Congratulations.

[Joe]

And he had this, like, moment of clarity when I was on the phone with him, and he was like, this is a beautiful moment. Stay the course. That's all he said.

[Sass]

Hell, yeah.

[Joe]

And so I got stay the course on the inside of my wedding ring. And hopefully you believe me now.

[Francis]

Little did you know, he was watching sailing on tv.

[Harry]

He was watching cigarette boat races.

[Joe]

My uncle holding the phone to his ear, he's like, oh, that's good. That'll work. That'll work.

[Harry]

His last words to you.

[Joe]

Yeah. Anyways, Craig, what the hell do we do?

[Craig]

Yeah. Anyway. But once Covid hit, we weren't going back into the office. Then once things started to normalize a bit, Joe and I were like, all right, let's carpool together. Save on gas. Have a buddy to talk to while we're in the car. Use the carpool lane, which is key, I'm sure. I don't know if similar here, but it's gonna cut your traffic down by, you know, 15 to 30 minutes each way by having a buddy.

[Francis]

But anyway, are you going from, like, the downtown to, like, Tacoma area?

[Craig]

Okay. You know our area.

[Joe]

You're still on top of it.

[Craig]

You're on top of it, Francis. Yeah. So we're both in Tacoma area, so it'll take anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour. 45 minutes.

[Joe]

I.

[Craig]

5.

[Francis]

No, I've done that drive because I flew. You fly into the airport, and then you have to get down to Tacoma Comedy.

[Joe]

We have a great comedy club. Yeah. We get a lot of good, good acts down there.

[Craig]

Yep.

[Joe]

But really, it's. We were just. We had no idea that it was going to turn into this. Actually, the first couple of videos, like, our faces were in it.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And then, like, because we just were like, oh, this. Our friends will think this is funny, and it'll. That'll be the end of it.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Because we were sending Snapchats to our friends, so we were, like, doing our commutes. We were sending Snapchats to our friends, and they were like, this is so fucking funny. Like, you Just. Just post these on TikTok. Like, do us a favor, just post on TikTok. We're like, okay, as long as you'll keep watching. And we like, within a month, it was just like, insanity. Like, our videos are getting thousand and then we've never been in this world. I know, like, you guys are familiar with this, but, like, people that we don't know commenting on our posts was like, very new to us.

[Harry]

Yeah. Describe the nature of your post for people who still like people like you guys. They drive around in cars and we'll just like kind of be shouting out the window like maniacs. But like, really, like fun, positive things.

[Francis]

Oh.

[Harry]

I think it's like the ethos of.

[Francis]

It is that I would have described it as like, you guys are the enforcers of the unwritten rules of the road.

[Joe]

Can we give you guys like a clip to show. Can we like throw in a clip right here? I could send you guys a clip after. Yeah, here's a clip. Good evening, commuters.

[Sass]

It's 5:22.

[Joe]

We're about to start the commute home.

[Craig]

Here we go.

[Joe]

Oh, wait a second.

[Ron]

Oh, no.

[Joe]

Shit, that's Ned Stevens. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. He's gonna turn left, right into the median.

[Ron]

Hey, Look at that. Look at that. Yep.

[Joe]

The twist in the strap. That's how you know he's a pro.

[Ron]

A little twist in the strap to avoid the flap.

[Joe]

That's a nice load.

[Ron]

Giant steel beam, no prob. Little twisted strap, little tarp. That's a nice load.

[Joe]

Let's play some D here. Let's play some D here. No, let's play some D here.

[Harry]

Wow.

[Ron]

Wow. Wow.

[Joe]

Well, little early. That's the.

[Harry]

Yeah, but I don't know what that clip was.

[Francis]

I think you have us mistaken for the Tonight Show. This is for us, not for you.

[Joe]

This is the first time we've been asked to explain it. But yeah, I mean, so it's all things that probably piss everybody off. I think that's what makes our page so popular, is the relatability of it. So, like, you're driving down the road and you see the guy next to you going 65 miles an hour with his phone in his face, texting, full blown novel. Two hander. And you want to scream out of your window.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Say, put the fucking phone down, you motherfucker. And so we just started doing that.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And. But we. We try to approach it in a nice way because. Because guns exist.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Yeah, of course. Especially in Seattle.

[Joe]

I'll usually start with a roll down the window. And it's a pleasant. Excuse me, sir. I was wondering if you were noticing how you're putting us all in danger right now.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And then if you get a little look and he, like, shoots us a smile, then I'll really go in. But if we. We see. We usually don't talk to trucks. Face tattoos. And then there's a few other car model, make and model that I won't mention, but we just have Subarus. Yep.

[Craig]

Hellcat for sure.

[Joe]

Chrysler 3 hundreds.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Harry]

So you don't like Glowrilla fans?

[Joe]

Whoa, whoa. No, we love Glow. Shout out. Glow. Thank you for putting us in the position we're in today.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Francis]

So what about. Does it bother you? Those. Those to me are like proper danger. You're. You're actually doing the right thing.

[Ron]

Yep.

[Francis]

But I was curious about sort of more of. I'm an enforcer of unwritten rules. And to me, for example, if someone is, I don't know, driving in the Pacific Northwest and camped out in the passing lane, refusing to get out of the way because, quote, maybe they're. They're going fast enough. Anybody who. Nobody should need to go faster than this. And, like, would you accost somebody like that?

[Craig]

100%.

[Sass]

Absolutely.

[Harry]

Let's do an accost play.

[Sass]

That's crazy.

[Harry]

What.

[Sass]

What, what would be the speed that they would be going in the left lane, that you would then roll down the window?

[Joe]

See, this is the common misconception, Harry. The speed does not matter. The speed does not matter. This is the pass. This is not the fast. This is the passing lane. So it would go something like this without. You're going with the flow of traffic.

[Harry]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

And if you could be going 80 in a 60, but if you're upheating the flow of traffic.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Joe]

We're going to have something to say.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Harry]

All right, so picture this.

[Sass]

Picture this, okay? You're going with the flow of traffic. You're going 80 in the fast. Maybe you're pushing 85 in the fast lane.

[Joe]

Feels good. So.

[Sass]

And then you get some big, you know, Ford F150 behind you.

[Harry]

Who.

[Sass]

He wants to go 150 miles per hour.

[Harry]

Would you.

[Sass]

You're so. You're yelling at the guy in front of him, but not that guy. Because me, I'm yelling at that guy.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Joe]

I mean, this is a really nuanced. Great question, Harry. This is. Yeah, this is. This is a tailgater and a left lane camper in the same scenario.

[Sass]

So that's actually. That actually is a great point.

[Joe]

So I'm really stuck between a rock and a hard place here. Yeah.

[Harry]

Of evil here.

[Joe]

It's really. It's a really great question for someone that is just getting to know our path. Age.

[Sass]

Yeah, exactly. So imagine you're driving from Seattle to. I think I was going two hours away from Seattle towards Tacoma. And you know, you're keeping. I'm keeping the flow of traffic the whole drive, you know, no problems. And then once I kind of start getting into a little bit more of the woodsy areas, there's a lot of trucks that really want to push the limit on their truck.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sass]

And like open it up.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Francis]

I mean, you're. And you're saying not today?

[Sass]

Kind of.

[Harry]

Yeah. Can I venture a guess or maybe even a position on this?

[Joe]

Please, please.

[Harry]

I don't think that two wrongs make a right. So just because this guy's screaming up the left lane being an asshole, does that mean you have to be an asshole to this guy? Get out of his way, let him be an asshole, grumble under your breath, maybe flip him a double bird and get back to business as opposed to trying to fight fire with fire?

[Craig]

Yes.

[Joe]

You tell me that a lot. You want to take this one? Yeah, we talk about that.

[Craig]

We talked about that all the time. In those type of situations, it's just move over, let them go around you. It's not worth the battle. And that reminds me, that was another reason why we went anonymous was from a safety factor, of course, is we don't want people coming to our house, chasing us back to their house. So in those situations, you're right. Two wrongs don't make a right. Get over, let them pass, get back on with your day.

[Sass]

I can respect that. I can respect that.

[Harry]

Will you change your ways, though?

[Sass]

Of course. I'm talking to like the, the kings of traffic.

[Joe]

We don't with trucks at all.

[Francis]

Just so you know, pickup trucks are like 18 wheelers.

[Joe]

18 wheelers. We will with those guys for sure. Yeah. A lot of TV watchers in the semi truck.

[Sass]

Oh, yeah, they got a whole room back there.

[Joe]

Yeah, well, they're in the back.

[Harry]

They're in the living room. Or they're. They're watching at the.

[Joe]

They're watching dashboard television, driving a 3,4 ton vehicle at speed. And I see, and I see like a full blown, like episode of White Lotus going on, which requires full attention, of course.

[Harry]

Nonetheless, there's nuances and like little. There's gems in there that you have to pick up.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah. No, it's.

[Harry]

But aren't Those on autopilot, though. I thought that those were like, on. I thought those trucks kind of go on their own.

[Sass]

No, I think they're like airplanes.

[Harry]

So you barely got right, you know, it doesn't matter who's behind the wheel.

[Craig]

Yeah, well, we.

[Joe]

We had a video. Are you gonna say the Tesla guy?

[Craig]

No, go ahead.

[Joe]

We. We caught a guy sleeping in his Tesla once and that was a great video.

[Sass]

While driving.

[Ron]

While.

[Joe]

While driving.

[Harry]

He's completely put on sunglasses.

[Francis]

Because.

[Harry]

Doesn't it have like some kind of eye detection or something like that?

[Sass]

No.

[Francis]

You have to have your hands on the wheel and give it a little a jiggle every once in a while. But you can do that. You can get around that with those. I have a pair of those gloves that seamless bike Bike riders use for. To keep their hands warm. And I locks my hands in and everyone's. The road jiggles for me, you know, Turn back in, we're good.

[Sass]

That shit's so bad.

[Joe]

Oh, this guy, at least he's like being woken up by the buns. But the bumps. This guy is like, fully, fully zoned.

[Harry]

I think that you would be shocked. What percentage of Tesla drivers are asleep for more than half of the time.

[Sass]

Oh, yeah.

[Harry]

If you have an early morning commute, you're out.

[Joe]

Yeah. Until the technology is there for us to safely say this is okay. Because one day that would be fantastic. Oh, if you could sleep on your way to work. I encourage it.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Joe]

But I don't think the technology is there.

[Sass]

No, especially because the Tesla, like, turns on you.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Like you'll be driving and it just decides you're going off the cliff. Like, it. It takes over. Have you ever seen those videos?

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Sass]

It'll get like a fender bender and then it's just. All of a sudden, it's just taken off 200 miles per hour into the.

[Francis]

Wood like a horse.

[Sass]

Yeah, yeah.

[Harry]

The Teslas were posting about it in the AI Reddit.

[Sass]

Oh, I saw that. Yeah.

[Harry]

The.

[Sass]

That group. The AI Group chat.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Craig]

What's it called?

[Harry]

I forget what it's called.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Harry]

You guys see this? There's AI. You guys are in tech. You probably fucking started the shit.

[Joe]

How did you know that? Did we say that?

[Sass]

Do you guys know Sam Altman?

[Harry]

There's a AI.

[Joe]

I am Sam. What?

[Harry]

A what?

[Joe]

A freaking Scooby Doo mask reveal. That would be.

[Sass]

That would be awesome.

[Joe]

It's been Sam Altman the whole time.

[Harry]

He looks like Sam Bankman freed with the hair, honestly. Yeah.

[Craig]

This is new.

[Harry]

This is new.

[Joe]

That's such A terrible doppelganger to get like, oh, you look just like the super ugly crypto.

[Craig]

I took it as a compliment.

[Harry]

I'm talking about his disguise.

[Sass]

Do you guys have a couple wigs that you throw in rotation, or is it same one every time?

[Joe]

No, this is the. I was Garth for Halloween, like, five years ago, and this has been the one I've been rocking since day one.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Craig]

And I had mine. It was like a 70s Halloween costume from a couple years ago. And then that one fell apart because my dog ripped it up. And then this was a new one.

[Joe]

Hell, yeah.

[Craig]

Started putting this one into play a couple weeks ago.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Craig]

What do you guys think?

[Sass]

I love it.

[Craig]

It's tough. The hat barely fits.

[Francis]

I can tell that your mustache is a much bigger challenge than his.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Yeah. Because I think your whole. You're speaking with your upper lip stiff to hold it on his is his. Allows for. But that's heavy on you.

[Craig]

This is a heavy one. He went for the thin one today.

[Harry]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

A little thin guy today.

[Harry]

The heavy ones get wet around the, like, the fake heavy ones get wet on the side.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah. You get a little. I've been having to, like, really?

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Water.

[Craig]

Yeah, Water's tough.

[Joe]

Yeah, water's tough.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Francis]

So you said that you don't care about your identity becoming known, but that you do.

[Joe]

Oh, I can't wait to tell people. Right.

[Francis]

So is there a day where you guys say, we are going to burn the ships, we are going to dive fully headfirst into this? There is now revenue being that we can make to recoup whatever we were making at. Call it Microsoft, and.

[Ron]

And.

[Francis]

And you guys both quit, you know what your jobs and go full. Full into this?

[Craig]

I think there's a chance. Yeah, for sure. For sure.

[Harry]

Why not just keep the disguises anyway?

[Joe]

Yeah, so it's funny.

[Francis]

Keep the disguises. I'm just wondering, like, I don't know. I feel like. I feel like this is an odd. This would be an awesome job to somehow.

[Joe]

No, I quit my job, so I quit my job. Definitely too early. Speaking of revenue, we gonna be rich forever.

[Harry]

You guys have one video.

[Joe]

We had one partnership. We, like, had one company reach out to us, said they were gonna pay us money, and I'm like, that's it. Phone it in. And that was like, one of three partnerships we've gotten. But, yeah, people, for some reason, are very afraid to get into business with people. They have no idea who their true identities are and scream the F word on social media. But I think you're way more like. I would be totally okay being anonymous forever. It's kind of nice now, like, because like I was saying, with the fast food, I can go somewhere in this costume and get the hooting and hollering, the pop pop. But when I want to just, like, chill, which, like, you guys probably can't even do that anymore.

[Sass]

Oh, yeah.

[Harry]

It was impossible to go anywhere. Seriously. Cannot leave my house.

[Joe]

Well, I just. What I'm trying to say is it's nice to still be treated like shit. Like the rest of it.

[Harry]

No, I think that is. And it's. Well, it's like hard marketing. You know what I mean? It's like you have a look that, like, I think people strive to get. Like you could be a Halloween costume, you know, that's. I think, something that people want to get to. It's good branding.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Joe]

I really thought someone was going to be us for Halloween last year didn't though. So.

[Francis]

Looking forward to this year, you guys. So you guys know pretty much everything there is to know about the road, right?

[Craig]

A good amount.

[Joe]

Let's go.

[Harry]

Fair share.

[Francis]

Do you think that it is harder for a gay couple to adopt a highway?

[Ron]

Oh.

[Harry]

They have to do it in.

[Craig]

China, certainly not Russia.

[Joe]

We tried to adopt a highway. Did you swear to God?

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Francis]

What's the process of that?

[Joe]

Like, so hard.

[Craig]

Why the commitment is the hard thing.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Five year commitment.

[Craig]

Five year commitment.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Harry]

And the bag is crazy. It's expensive.

[Joe]

No, it can't be. They. It was a lot of like, are you a real business? Send us your w. This w. That. Which we don't have any of that.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And it was. And you don't. Yeah, he still does. But yeah, it was just like, way too difficult. And they, like, could give a fuck if you buy it or not. Like you would think they're, like, trying to get the funds.

[Sass]

What's the purpose of buy Of. Of adopting a highway?

[Joe]

Your money will help, like, maintain that area in, like, not just the road, but, like litter as well.

[Sass]

Oh.

[Joe]

So, like, I don't know about what it is out here, but, like, highways by us is just the center area of the highway.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Just like trash pit. It's just covered with.

[Francis]

So your. Your money would go towards the stick device that they give to convicts.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Probably all community service to come clean up on the. On the chain gang. Yeah, right.

[Sass]

Yeah, right, right.

[Harry]

The spikes for the chain.

[Francis]

The matching orange poker.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sass]

How much. How much is. How much does it run you for five years? Like you've Been.

[Joe]

I can't remember too much.

[Harry]

Is it like five grand a year?

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Harry]

Was going to be my guess.

[Sass]

That's my guess. Or is it like a hundred grand a year?

[Craig]

No, I don't think 100 grand.

[Sass]

It can't be that expensive.

[Joe]

Gay couples. So I think they upcharged us. Yeah. Happens.

[Harry]

That's so crazy.

[Joe]

A lot of that. They're like. Because they see both wedding rings and they're like, oh, these guys are getting. Which I'll like, look, believe what you want.

[Harry]

I mean, you have an hour and a half commute total between each other. One of you has at least thought about it statistically.

[Joe]

Thought about it statistically.

[Francis]

I love that you guys are so committed to your disguises and yet you keep your wedding rings on while you drive as if you're like, look, we can't have all these beautiful women, inbound women that are so attracted to what we're doing.

[Joe]

I can't imagine what your DMs look like based on what we get. Like, based on what we're getting. And they don't even know what we look like. I can't imagine.

[Harry]

What kind of. Are you saying? Negative or positive?

[Joe]

They're like, hey, like, this. This sounds crazy. This sounds, like, kind of crazy. But, like, I just, like, love your vibe and, like, would love to get to know you guys.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Or like, you guys. Or we get a lot of people, like, trying to bait us into revealing ourselves. So, like, I had. I don't know how she felt she pieced this together, but she's like, you sound like an old friend I have from Pittsburgh. Like, which was where I'm from.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And she's like, like, is. I forget exactly what she said. But I'm, like, asking my friends, I was like, do anybody know this bitch? Like, and they're like, no. So, yeah, we. It's just. We get a lot of.

[Harry]

I think you have that much of a Pittsburgh accent.

[Joe]

My mom does say downtown. Downtown.

[Harry]

Oh, yeah. That's good.

[Joe]

It can come out. It can come out when it needs to.

[Harry]

Yeah. Turn it on. Like Pat McAfee.

[Francis]

My DMs are most. Hey, man, My life has fallen apart, too. I'm at rock bottom as well.

[Joe]

No.

[Francis]

Any chance you could, you know, share specifically the steps you took?

[Joe]

How did you peel yourself out of.

[Francis]

The depths to rise back to the base camp?

[Harry]

Yeah, but I think they have, like, a joy, a joy of life that comes through in their content.

[Francis]

Absolutely the opposite. You're right. I have a brooding.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Is morosity a word yeah.

[Harry]

You're morose as hell.

[Francis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Harry]

Some nasty morosity.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

We get a lot of inspiration from you. I will say that, like with, you know, your, your ability to hang in the pocket.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Whilst big ass truck behind you blocking the shoulder. There's just. People don't understand the level of discomfort that is actually happening in that moment.

[Francis]

Oh, to be able to sit there. Yeah. That was, that was a one of one. Everything that happened was perfect in the exact shortest amount of time that it needed to. And it had a button with him honking his horn and me saying, shut the fuck up. Yeah. But I tried to do it a couple of other times and bailed.

[Joe]

Yeah. Failed.

[Francis]

Well, there were a few times I held and then a couple of times I bailed because, you know, you just decide it's not worth it. Like, oh, yeah. I saw a guy furiously honking. I wouldn't move. And then he started reaching into his center, like, oh, so thing. And it was, go ahead, bail.

[Harry]

Yeah, yeah, Yep. If you're riding the shoulder, you're already pissed off. Like even to get onto the shoulder, regardless of someone blocking you, you're like, this traffic. I got the out of here. You know, like, they're not like, like whistling Dixie, just having a good time.

[Francis]

Right. What I did do was around that time. Do you guys know Meek Mill? Oh, yeah, yeah. He's probably friends with Flo Rilla, Pennsylvania guy.

[Joe]

Pennsylvania guys.

[Francis]

Oh, yeah, right. Meek Mill. He was selling his bulletproof. I think it was a G Wagon Escalade or something. Maybe. Yeah. It was a highly protected car that had been souped up in so many ways. And I DM'd him about it.

[Harry]

He was selling it on like Instagram. He's like, does anyone want this?

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

And how much was he charging?

[Harry]

140.

[Sass]

No, it's not bad.

[Francis]

No standards.

[Sass]

Like 100, right?

[Francis]

It wasn't bad.

[Sass]

Yeah. Only 40 for the bulletproof.

[Francis]

And I said, I messaged him and I said, hi, Mr. Mill. You know, I tend to find myself in compromising situations on the road. Is there, like, is there, is there any flexibility in your price? And he did not get back to me. And I've always wondered where that car went, whether it's sold or not.

[Harry]

It.

[Ron]

I.

[Harry]

It has to have sold.

[Francis]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Harry]

Hey, probably just got. Got rid of it so fast.

[Sass]

Yeah, but who's sold out? That's why I didn't reply. Don't take it personal.

[Francis]

He sold it.

[Craig]

It was sold.

[Harry]

The car was sold out.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Oh, yeah.

[Sass]

Out of stock.

[Harry]

There's no more inventory.

[Sass]

See if I can get one made for you.

[Harry]

It's just a car broker. He has hundreds of them just trying to sell them.

[Joe]

He did.

[Harry]

He sold multiple stuff on his Instagram.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Harry]

That's kind of. That's kind of a weird move.

[Sass]

It's an insane move. That's a while someone who you would expect to be a very rich rapper.

[Harry]

That's what people wanted you to do with your shoe collection.

[Francis]

I know.

[Sass]

Yeah. Start auctioning them off on Instagram.

[Francis]

Yeah. People were not happy about that, but. Okay. So you guys are now doing a podcast.

[Craig]

Yep.

[Francis]

And again, now you're putting yourselves as this on camera. I mean, at some point the game will be up.

[Sass]

I don't know.

[Harry]

Let them last as long as they have.

[Francis]

I'm happy for them too, but. And I'm not trying to reveal it, I'm just saying it feels like you guys are sort of playing with fire a bit.

[Craig]

You're right. I feel like at first, when we were first filming, we didn't even show this. And then next step was right when we started getting our costumes, doing the show. And I think. I think at some point we'll reveal ourselves.

[Joe]

It's just.

[Craig]

I feel like we'll kind of know when it is.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Craig]

You know what I mean? It's not there yet, but I do love it.

[Joe]

I love the. Just the mystery. Because, like, you not knowing who we are is way cooler than who we are, you know? And so, like, I kind of fall back on that. Where they're like, oh, who are the i5 commuters? Oh, just two guys.

[Harry]

Cool.

[Joe]

Like, so I think there's like an era. The era of mystery.

[Harry]

I totally agree. I think that it's not a personal attack on you, but like, who. Whenever you show yourself. Actually, this sounds mean coming out, but there. It'll be like a letdown to some people. You know, probably there will be like some kind of like, letdown.

[Sass]

It's just like, oh, like when that Minecraft dude dream.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Sass]

When he did the face reveal.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

And then he went back. He went back to incognito after.

[Joe]

How does that work?

[Sass]

You just started wearing the mask again.

[Joe]

But everybody's like, yeah.

[Francis]

You get plastic surgery.

[Craig]

Like marshmallow. Yeah.

[Harry]

Which is a plastically. It's a surgery. A cold marshmallow on his head Now Marshmallow went back. He's like, I need to look like this for real.

[Joe]

But like you said, there's. There's nothing really you could say to us that we haven't Seen in our comment section. I feel that people will be like, oh, when is the face reveal coming? And then there's, like, four comments underneath, like, don't do it. We love that you. We don't know who you are.

[Harry]

Yeah, it's nice.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Do you guys read comments?

[Sass]

Never.

[Craig]

Really?

[Joe]

We should probably get into that.

[Sass]

No, I do comments, but I don't read them all. I don't really. I don't really read them. I don't really read them at all anymore, to be honest.

[Harry]

I just read Francis's comments.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Francis]

I'm saying I have stopped.

[Sass]

I read Francis and I text them to him so he can't stop fully.

[Francis]

And it's amazing how quick, how easily I stop. It just got. When it get. When it gets so bad and you're like, all right, I can't. And then I'm out now, and it's blissful. And my assumption, by the way, is that they.

[Harry]

They're really bad. It's really negative.

[Francis]

And with that in mind, I stay away. So you gotta have the options. There's no, there's no.

[Sass]

Like, you got to be like, everyone loved it. There's no need to check whatever it is.

[Francis]

I, I, I'm just. I'm just. They beat me. They won, and now I have full blinders on, and it's peaceful.

[Harry]

Well, the problem is, like, it's probably, like, a really hot girl that's commenting the negative thing. Like, probably, like, the hottest girl you've ever seen who doesn't even really go online that much, but she just, like, popped online, and you might be missing out.

[Francis]

I'm. I told you, I'm taking a break from women.

[Sass]

Oh, yeah, you did say that.

[Joe]

Into men Now.

[Francis]

I. Well, just right now, it's sort of the. The canvas is blank, Just starting from scratch.

[Joe]

Did you watch a Charlie Sheen documentary where you, like. I did it all, except for that. Had to try it. I'm not gay. Just wanted. Just curious.

[Francis]

I didn't get that far. I almost finished it.

[Ron]

It's pretty.

[Harry]

That's what Charlie said.

[Craig]

It's pretty good.

[Francis]

It's a pretty good doc. His life was insane.

[Joe]

Insanity. Yeah.

[Sass]

Was he in as a, As a young boy? The Outsiders? Is he in that?

[Francis]

Well, I know he was in Platoon. He had a great. His, like, breakout moment was on Ferris Bueller's Day off, where he only had one scene.

[Sass]

What scene? I don't even remember.

[Francis]

He's in the principal's office or something.

[Joe]

Nailed it. Yeah.

[Francis]

Talking to Ferris Bueller's sister.

[Joe]

Yep.

[Francis]

And he gives her, like, one line of advice, and he's like, you care way too much about what other people are doing instead of worrying about fixing yourself.

[Sass]

Interesting.

[Francis]

And it was, like, the only thing. Well, it was something that people really remembered from the movie. And he's only on screen for a minute, but it.

[Sass]

He's got rocketed after that.

[Francis]

Yeah. Got him.

[Harry]

And then he. Well, he had, like, a really, like, similarly remember, rememberable line. Memorable line in the Breakfast Club where he was like, my dad molested me. He's like, my dad touched my. Yes.

[Joe]

No, like Martin Sheen.

[Francis]

That's Emilio Estevez.

[Harry]

Oh, same dad.

[Joe]

Same dad. Still the same. Same person.

[Harry]

Dad molested me.

[Francis]

And.

[Harry]

And.

[Francis]

And is it him or is it Judge Reinhold?

[Craig]

Who.

[Harry]

A bunch of their dads molested him.

[Francis]

Okay. It was.

[Sass]

It was the time.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Back then.

[Francis]

Yes. Yes.

[Harry]

Dude, I just watched. Or I just started watching Django Unchained again. And Fat at the front of that movie. His. Weinstein.

[Sass]

Oh, yeah.

[Harry]

I didn't even know that he banged that one out.

[Sass]

It's tough. Good Will Hunter.

[Harry]

His body of work is.

[Sass]

It's incredible.

[Harry]

Better than Michael Jackson.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Sass]

By a lot. By a lot.

[Francis]

I might go on a Weinstein binge.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Harry]

He has no.

[Sass]

I recommend. I just finished one.

[Francis]

I recommend Silver Linings Playbook.

[Harry]

Oh, is that Weinstein?

[Francis]

That's Weinstein.

[Harry]

What was his last one?

[Sass]

You guys know this?

[Joe]

He reached out to us, actually.

[Sass]

Wives.

[Harry]

He had some heat. Was he Goodwill hunting?

[Sass]

Yeah, Goodwill hunting.

[Francis]

Wow.

[Joe]

Well, so good, because I didn't want to forget. I have gifts for you guys. Oh, and producers, too. I got gifts for you guys, too.

[Sass]

That's huge.

[Joe]

Is now a good time?

[Francis]

We do. Every Monday, we do gifts.

[Harry]

Okay.

[Joe]

So I saw this. I was like, so my. All my homies from Pittsburgh, like, love you guys.

[Francis]

Oh.

[Joe]

When I told them there's. There's a living room in Pittsburgh that's just going dummy right now, listening to this. But they, like, helped me learn about you guys a little bit. They love Harry. And then when I called him, Everybody.

[Francis]

Loves Harry, of course.

[Joe]

Like, oh, it's so funny that you call him Harry. And I was like, everybody calls him Harry, but I guess the history of.

[Harry]

Sass, but now that you know him, you can call him hairball like Francis does.

[Francis]

True.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Anything works.

[Joe]

I'm cool with anything, but got some stuff for you guys. A lot of it's just our merch, but I got some sentimental stuff because I've been watching the last few episodes.

[Harry]

Holy shit.

[Joe]

And you guys, like, the first two episodes I watched, like, you gave gifts, but then you, like, didn't after that. So I'm like, is this going to be chill? But I think it's.

[Harry]

Well, he was never requited.

[Francis]

Correct. As soon as Harry quites my gifts, I shall continue. I reopen the street.

[Sass]

I'm just looking for the right. The right thing.

[Francis]

Well, they. So far, my gifts have been unrequited.

[Harry]

Right.

[Joe]

What does that mean?

[Sass]

There hasn't been any gifts given back.

[Harry]

No reciprocation. He scratched the back, and he hasn't gotten his back scratched back.

[Francis]

Have you ever heard of his back?

[Ron]

Love.

[Joe]

I'd have never heard that word before in my life, if I'm being honest.

[Craig]

Yeah, new term for me, too.

[Harry]

Oh, you guys are from Pittsburgh.

[Joe]

But, hey, so we got these beanies. I see you wearing a beanie all the time. So I'm gonna give you one of these also if you guys want one of these. I don't know if you guys want beanies or snapbacks.

[Ron]

Oh.

[Joe]

And then for sure, here's a beanie.

[Francis]

Where do you guys get these made?

[Sass]

Seattle. Nike.

[Craig]

We actually work with a company in Denver that does our hats, air fresheners, bumper stickers. So we don't even see our merch anymore.

[Sass]

Oh, yeah, it's all third party.

[Craig]

Yep.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Yep. And they do a good job.

[Joe]

How about these tops?

[Sass]

Of course.

[Craig]

Yeah. We just got these beanies this week.

[Francis]

What are the.

[Sass]

What do the hats say? Commuter.

[Joe]

Commuter. Yeah.

[Craig]

Yeah, it's our.

[Joe]

Yep, yep, yep, yep.

[Craig]

They fit nice, huh?

[Francis]

Yeah. That's nice.

[Harry]

Oh, yeah.

[Francis]

Holy.

[Harry]

This is sick.

[Joe]

Yeah, not bad.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

We're not just folding it in with our merch. Okay. Barely making a profit on these things.

[Harry]

Oh, I know you're not making any money. Nice.

[Joe]

Someone early on told us, like, oh, merch is the way to go. We've lost so much. It's just like, it's. Nobody buys it. Nobody buys it.

[Francis]

It's so important.

[Harry]

If they were, it would just take up so much of your day to, like, be on top of merch or marketing it.

[Joe]

Yeah, we found out recently the company that does our merch is charging us a monthly fee to house our shit.

[Sass]

How much?

[Joe]

I was like, now that I know that we're definitely not making money.

[Craig]

Well, that's normal.

[Joe]

It's normal. But I didn't know that.

[Francis]

The value behind this gift is plummeting as you speak.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Harry]

As soon as you drive it off the lot.

[Joe]

Well, those aren't even on our website.

[Francis]

Yeah, this is fall, winter, 24.

[Joe]

Yeah. That's our other problem.

[Harry]

Dead stock.

[Francis]

This is.

[Joe]

This just goes to show how. How well oiled of a machine that we're running. We wanted those for Christmas and they're not on our website yet. It's February 2nd.

[Francis]

These are cool.

[Harry]

Yeah, it's a cold time of year.

[Sass]

Box logo.

[Harry]

Yeah, it's a cool.

[Joe]

Okay, here comes the sentimental gifts. So I know that you've been investing heavily in espresso machines.

[Ron]

Coffee.

[Francis]

Mine is being made in or the Seattle headquarters. It's in Seattle. The US headquarters. Your beans for La Marzocco.

[Joe]

Okay.

[Craig]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe]

So this is like my local coffee shop that I go to. Wow. From Tacoma. This is espresso beans. It's Bluebeard. They're not paying me to do this, which they should be.

[Francis]

Wow.

[Joe]

They don't even know that I'm the guy. Actually, I go there like every day.

[Harry]

Small batch, roasted.

[Francis]

Dude, this is awesome.

[Joe]

So that's. Yeah. Small batch. They roast them in house. Harry's gift is in there.

[Sass]

Oh, wow.

[Joe]

Because I didn't know that.

[Harry]

That's cool.

[Joe]

Recreational weed was legal here. So there's some. There's a gift for you inside of the beach. If you are living in a state where it's not recreational yet, this is a very good way to get traffic. Yes.

[Craig]

We had to get it here somehow.

[Joe]

Let the dog sniff it as much as you want.

[Francis]

That's amazing, guys. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. And I can't wait to make a nice latte.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Francis]

That has nugs in it.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Ruin Harry's gift.

[Harry]

Are you gonna give it to Harry?

[Francis]

Do you want me to unwrap it?

[Harry]

No, I'm saying you could probably keep it.

[Francis]

Well, Harry keeps. I give. Yes. Sometimes we'll have gifts presented to the pod and then he'll just take them.

[Harry]

Yeah, that's what I mean. I think you.

[Sass]

When does that happen?

[Harry]

Hang on to that.

[Joe]

We.

[Harry]

The. We would mean more to you now that you're back on your journey. As opposed to Harry, who's flying with ounces of za.

[Joe]

Yeah, Francis, you're back in there. There's an eighth in there. Good stuff, too.

[Harry]

If it's Washington weed. I know. That should have sparkled some.

[Joe]

It's good stuff. Yeah, it's good stuff. I. We. You. We were actually were talking about this on the way over. So he's from California originally. We had a big Washington versus California weed debate. I don't know if you guys have a stance on this.

[Sass]

No, I don't.

[Harry]

I think Washington is. I Don't know. But I'd say that there's like a higher threshold where it's like there's more variance in California. There's probably some weed. But Humboldt county, like, as a whole, was probably a sick, growing, growing city. Like, probably the best growing city in the United States. Right.

[Craig]

Probably one of them for sure.

[Harry]

Or area.

[Craig]

I feel like. I don't know if it was Washington or California that legalized it first, but. But California, I think, has the stronger weed. You go there and you. You get knocked on your butt.

[Joe]

Never.

[Sass]

California.

[Joe]

I would never do that.

[Craig]

What?

[Joe]

I asked if they're you.

[Harry]

If you guys are fried on your drive in.

[Craig]

Oh, no, no, no. Definitely not. No, no. Save that.

[Francis]

You can't work at Microsoft. Hi.

[Harry]

No, they're anonymous.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Harry]

That would make it so much more fun. I mean, the.

[Francis]

What.

[Harry]

The thing I like about your video videos is how much.

[Francis]

Or.

[Harry]

I'm sorry, you're giving out gifts. I'm sorry.

[Joe]

No, it's okay. I don't want to. You get. This is.

[Harry]

I'd rather shower you with praise.

[Joe]

But the. I. I just like.

[Harry]

It reminds me of, like, the funnest, the most fun jobs that I've had. I was, like, working, like, just. Just in, like, shitty jobs, doing physical labor and just, like, having a blast with my really close friends and just, like, around.

[Craig]

Exactly.

[Harry]

And just, like, you could say anything or just, like, get lost in, like, a very specific joke.

[Joe]

Joke.

[Harry]

And I think that's what makes. That's, like, the feel of the videos to me. And that's what makes it really fun. It feels like a familiar feeling.

[Craig]

100. I think we took our worst part of our day and turned it into what we always say is our best part of our day because we're just joking. Like you said, you're with your close buddy. You're talking about who knows what, and then all of a sudden, you're. You're at your destination. And usually it's like the worst. Sitting in traffic, you know, you want to blow your brains out. And I think that's how we also became such good friends. Like, we're just talking about the whole time.

[Joe]

He's so quiet in the office. Like. So I. I was friends with Craig, but, like, I've learned so much about him through his road rage. And he really opens up in there where, like, he. Because he was also like, a manager.

[Sass]

Oh, my.

[Harry]

So, like, we're getting closer and closer.

[Francis]

It's unbelievable how many breadcrumbs he drops and how Craig just quietly is tightening.

[Harry]

Up his foot just goes like this every single time.

[Joe]

I.

[Harry]

Up a little bit before manager from California.

[Joe]

Okay, my bad. I'll just stop. But no, Craig, I mean, he's so funny, and I'm just so glad that I got to know, like, this side of you. And, like, we're. We're best friends now. Like, we genuinely. Best friends. And like you were saying, it's like, just after the shittiest workday, just being able to, like, talk shit on. On everybody at your office with somebody that you trust, then you start filming.

[Harry]

Like, a truck that's strapped down perfectly. You gotta stop talking shit because you don't wanna have it in the background of the.

[Joe]

When I'm driving, he has to shut me up, which is probably. You guys have gotten the gist of this, where he's like, shut the fuck up. I gotta film something. Cause I'm just. I'm just rattling the whole time.

[Francis]

But hold on a second. You quit your job, so now you're just riding to his job with him?

[Joe]

I might be the poorest person you've ever had on the podcast, but I'm living the dream life right now. Like, I. My life really couldn't get.

[Harry]

Does your wife know you quit?

[Joe]

Yes.

[Ron]

Yes.

[Harry]

You're just telling her you're going in?

[Joe]

She was so supportive of me. Like, she was. She's fucking incredible. And, like.

[Francis]

Give it a year.

[Joe]

Well, she was, like, super supportive of it. And she's like, no. Like, this is hilarious. If you just keep doing this, some, you know, good avenues will open.

[Harry]

Right.

[Joe]

And if I didn't have that, I probably wouldn't have done it. Which I probably shouldn't have done it, but. Yeah. And I just. It was kind of funny because, too, I. I quit. I put in my two weeks and then, like.

[Harry]

Say it.

[Joe]

You. Okay?

[Craig]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Joe]

Okay. So we were working at the same company, and the company was doing terribly.

[Francis]

Oh, that's not Microsoft.

[Joe]

Not Microsoft.

[Sass]

Definitely not.

[Joe]

I see. I just need to stop. You're just giving all the breadcrumbs. And so I literally went to my boss, who was like, a cool, cool guy, and I just said, hey, like, man to man, like, is there layoffs coming? Because I'm gonna quit, and if. If there's layoff, I'm not going to another job, but if there's layoffs coming, I'd rather be fired for, like, unemployment and stuff.

[Craig]

Exactly.

[Joe]

And severance.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And he was like, no, no, we're good. Everything's fine. And I don't think he genuinely knew, but, like, A week later, Craig got fired.

[Harry]

What?

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Scumbag scumbags.

[Francis]

And you didn't.

[Joe]

Didn't. I literally quit like one week early.

[Harry]

Oh, so you would have got.

[Joe]

I would have got canned. Yeah, for sure.

[Sass]

Oh, no.

[Joe]

Yeah, for sure.

[Harry]

Why not quiet quit. Why even quit? They want you to quiet quit. You know what I mean? It's like they're putting it out in the fucking AI forums.

[Joe]

I just can't. I can't, like, I can't purposely do bad at anything. I have a really hard time, like, doing bad on purpose, if that makes sense.

[Harry]

It does.

[Francis]

Damn.

[Sass]

I can do bad, bro.

[Joe]

You can't tank.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Tanking is an all time art form. It's like one of my favorite things.

[Harry]

Zero problems about this place.

[Francis]

So many different things.

[Harry]

So, yeah, fire me.

[Francis]

Quad field. Club member. Guest tennis, mixed doubles. We lost our first match, which meant we knew we were out of the tournament, but we would have had to come back the next day to play this consolation bullshit match for third or fourth place place if we'd lost to this couple, who, I kid you not, was 82 and 81 years old and we had to lose to them. And I'm. When I tell you, man, I made it look good.

[Harry]

What were you doing? You were hitting into the net or smoking it long or just whiffing or hitting a lady or pick your poison.

[Francis]

I was. I was at the net hitting volleys where the. The you just hold your racket super loose.

[Harry]

Oh, it just.

[Francis]

Oh, yeah, it just dies at your feet. Yeah, stuff like that.

[Harry]

Yeah, that's hilarious.

[Sass]

Trying to think if I've ever, like, fully tanked something.

[Francis]

Tanking is fun.

[Harry]

Trying to think jobs where you don't care if you get fired.

[Sass]

I kind of tanked from my pizza job.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Sass]

I showed up so late and they were like, do you even want this job? And I was like, I don't give a. Yeah. It was the day. It was the day Mac Miller died. I was torn up. Oh, I was devastated.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Sass]

And it was pouring out and I had to pull over on the way.

[Harry]

Because Mac Miller died.

[Sass]

Because Mac Miller died.

[Harry]

Yeah. It's pouring inside, too.

[Sass]

It was pouring. It was.

[Ron]

Yeah. Bad day.

[Francis]

Dumbo guy, too.

[Harry]

Mac no. Lives across the street from.

[Francis]

Did he live in. Yeah, he might have.

[Harry]

I think he did.

[Francis]

Dude, I've always wondered what building he was in, but NBA teams tank, you.

[Sass]

Know, it's not like NFL teams tank.

[Francis]

NFL team.

[Sass]

The Raiders tanked this year.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sass]

And so did the Giants.

[Harry]

I think the Raiders were trying, bro.

[Sass]

You think I thought that last eight sat Max Crosby twice.

[Francis]

Tanking. Yeah.

[Harry]

Guys, can we take a second and talk about Columbia sportswear?

[Francis]

I'm a big Columbia guy and so is Harry, to be honest with you.

[Sass]

I love it.

[Harry]

Come on.

[Francis]

I got him a bunch of stuff.

[Harry]

He did the outdoors boys, for real. There is. This is the beer that everyone will be talking about on game day.

[Francis]

That's right. They have come out with a beer that is made with literal bear shit.

[Harry]

How crazy is that?

[Francis]

Now it's made with it.

[Harry]

Bear scat.

[Francis]

It's not in the beer. It's just made. It's part of the process. Don't worry, there's not actual bear shit in it, but it is part of how it is made, and it is.

[Harry]

Going to be the wildest taste test of the year. And Loki is the best conversation starter whenever you're at your little watch party, your big watch party, it's the Breakside beer, which was made in collaboration with Columbia. Columbia is about bracing the wild side of life. Okay? We know this, and that's why it's even. It's even associated with that when we're talking about trying the world's shittiest beer. Okay? If you know what I mean. So, beer, by the way.

[Francis]

Excuse me, Ron, really quick. The beer is called Nature Calls, and it is made in collaboration. Breakside Brewing out of Oregon is the brewery that made it in collaboration with Columbia.

[Harry]

Got it.

[Francis]

But check out Nature Calls.

[Harry]

Would you try it?

[Francis]

I've had it. It's fantastic.

[Harry]

That's so insane.

[Francis]

It's absolutely delicious.

[Harry]

I need to try it.

[Francis]

It's so good.

[Sass]

Sounds great.

[Francis]

It's so good.

[Harry]

It's kind of like. It's kind of like a dare taste test type of deal. If you dare to bear. You know what I mean?

[Francis]

There you go.

[Harry]

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[Sass]

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[Francis]

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[Harry]

Well, I can't believe you guys flew out the week before. The Seahawks are in the Super Bowl.

[Joe]

Yeah, we're pumped.

[Craig]

We're fired up.

[Sass]

How's that return flight looking? That must have been a pricey return.

[Harry]

I mean, well, no one's going to Seattle. They're going to the city.

[Sass]

You don't think there's some people that are trying to, you know, get out of those pricey San Fran prices, divert to Seattle, fly to Seattle, drive to San Fran? Not a bad idea.

[Joe]

No, the flights are actually very cheap. I don't think anybody wants to come to New York right now.

[Francis]

Yeah, that's true. And when, when Harry goes to Vancouver, he flies to Seattle.

[Joe]

Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.

[Francis]

And how common is that?

[Joe]

Very.

[Craig]

I think it's pretty common.

[Francis]

Okay.

[Craig]

It's only a couple hour drive.

[Harry]

You're saying drive to in San Fran from Seattle. So that means you're driving through Oregon from Seattle.

[Joe]

Like, yeah, the.

[Sass]

Are you talking three hour drive, four hours tops.

[Craig]

No, no, no.

[Joe]

How long is that?

[Harry]

That's like driving across countries.

[Craig]

I think that's more of like a 12 hour drive. I just did it over Christmas break.

[Sass]

No, that's news to me.

[Harry]

Oregon's like Delaware. You think you could just like jump over? Oregon's a monster.

[Sass]

I'm literally thinking of driving to dc.

[Harry]

Yeah, that's not it.

[Joe]

So I've, I've lived on both coasts and it's so interesting to realize, like, how much each coast has no clue what's going on.

[Sass]

Oh, yeah, of course.

[Joe]

I had somebody when I first moved to Seattle, I had somebody ask me, so are you from Pittsburgh or Pennsylvania?

[Sass]

Damn that person.

[Joe]

I don't know how to answer that question.

[Harry]

Yeah, somebody from Australia booked me a flight from instead of from Philadelphia to Australia. From Pittsburgh to Australia, I was like this. How am I gonna.

[Joe]

Because what? What? That's like a five and a half hour drive. It's. Yeah. It's not even close.

[Sass]

It's far enough that there's two different sports teams in the state.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sass]

Or NFL teams.

[Harry]

Exactly.

[Joe]

I try to explain that to people. Like, we don't even really like. There's no rivalry really, between Philly and Pittsburgh.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Joe]

It's just so far away.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Harry]

Only at Penn State. There is Penn State. It's like culture wars. It's like Israel and Palestine.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Did you get that?

[Sass]

Which one's which?

[Harry]

Yeah, Philly's. Palestine for sure.

[Sass]

Not a chance. And I think we all know that. Phillies 100.

[Francis]

Israel. Oh, no. Oh, that's me. I was thinking it and I'm glad you said it.

[Harry]

The muscle population in Philadelphia. I guess the main line is just like Tel Aviv.

[Joe]

Now.

[Harry]

You got the other one. The dangle is kind of nice.

[Joe]

We'll be right back right after this.

[Sass]

There we go.

[Harry]

Technical difficulties.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Anyways, here's your gift.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Harry]

It's so bigoted.

[Joe]

Do you want me to tell you what it. I didn't know they were going to wrap it like that.

[Harry]

Tell. Tell the listeners what it is.

[Sass]

Looks like you got like a Rolex in there.

[Francis]

Not for nothing, Bane turned Pittsburgh into Gaza.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Literally.

[Joe]

Yeah, very true.

[Francis]

Literally where they filmed it.

[Harry]

I.

[Joe]

Very true.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

How funny would it be if they got you a bag of coffee and it was actually a Rolex in there. I'm kind of splurged on roan.

[Joe]

Not a roll. Just as good, though.

[Harry]

Well wrapped.

[Craig]

Very.

[Joe]

Did a bang up job on that thing.

[Sass]

Oh, it's a nice sativ. It looks.

[Harry]

It's a sea salt seafood blend. This is so.

[Joe]

I don't know if you made the connection. You're like talking about all the knives that you've got. Maybe talking about getting into cooking.

[Harry]

Dude. And I'm so into seafood. I don't know if you know that.

[Joe]

I didn't know that.

[Harry]

I went to a seafood place last night. Burrow Brine.

[Sass]

Oh, yeah, of course.

[Harry]

Incredible.

[Sass]

Love it.

[Francis]

I don't know it.

[Harry]

It'. Williamsburg.

[Francis]

Okay.

[Sass]

Great spot.

[Harry]

Incredible sassos. Sass. It used to be an omakase spot back in September, but they switch it over to kind of a more modern thing.

[Sass]

Omakase is overwhelming.

[Harry]

And it's.

[Craig]

It is.

[Sass]

They bring around the 14th round of sushi and you're like, I'm going to throw up.

[Francis]

So you're you get full from that.

[Sass]

Dude, I've had. I've done it once by like, they. It gets more intense as you go on, which it should be the opposite. You should start with like. Like this one's kind of disgusting, but I'll eat it because it's new.

[Ron]

Right.

[Sass]

You shouldn't be ending on that.

[Francis]

Who made.

[Joe]

Where did you.

[Francis]

Who, who made yours? Fear Factor.

[Sass]

That's what it felt like.

[Francis]

Yeah, Mine was, Mine was like there were some weird things. I've had it a bunch, but. Weird things in here and there. But it's. I didn't think it was building and.

[Sass]

It'S like, oh, this was like. It was like. We start off with like California rolls, and then by the end they're like, this is a stingray.

[Harry]

A stinger.

[Sass]

And you're like, I am. I had 15 California rolls. I don't know if I have the appetite for stingray right now.

[Harry]

Yeah, exactly.

[Francis]

Well, fair enough.

[Sass]

But it is good.

[Francis]

I, I've. I will say that omakase is the least filling dinner I, I've ever had.

[Sass]

Really? Yeah, I got. I, Maybe I got peer pressured or something because by the end I was. It was. I was like the fullest I've ever been.

[Francis]

Well, they didn't have California rolls at the one I went to.

[Harry]

I've never heard of California rolls at Oma.

[Sass]

You haven't been to good old Makase.

[Harry]

You got a pinch of the sea salt.

[Francis]

I think the problem is, is that's all we've been to.

[Harry]

This is so. That's such a nice gift. It's such. That's really flavorful.

[Joe]

Yeah, it's. So there's islands off the coast of Washington called the San Juan Islands and.

[Harry]

Oh, I thought this was Puerto Rican.

[Joe]

No, this is a different San Juan. Different San Juan? Yeah, very different San Juan. It's like, it's, it's this. I mean, how would you describe the San Juans? They're just like.

[Craig]

There's just like four or five water islands kind of actually up near Vancouver, but just like directly east. A little islands up there. Yeah. Off Seattle.

[Francis]

That's got some heat.

[Joe]

Some of the salt.

[Harry]

Have you had it?

[Francis]

It's got some kick.

[Harry]

Have you had that salt?

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah. No, they're like. This is like a pretty well known brand.

[Francis]

That's like third trimester in your belly kick. Yeah.

[Harry]

Can you take a pinch of that? Pack a lip of that.

[Francis]

Holy cow. Be careful. It's got some heat.

[Joe]

You want to pass that over.

[Harry]

Okay. Let them get some of this salt. I don't want these boys not to have a pinch of this salt.

[Joe]

Get a pinch.

[Harry]

Make sure it gets all the way around, though.

[Craig]

That's unique.

[Joe]

Get a pinch, fellas.

[Harry]

Make sure it comes back to me.

[Francis]

I've never really sampled salt before either.

[Harry]

It's more than just salt.

[Joe]

More than just a seafood blend.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Harry]

It's a full on seafood blend. I feel like you could blacken something with that. Absolute heat.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Harry]

I've never blackened fish before, though.

[Joe]

Yeah. Like salmon filets or something like that.

[Ron]

That.

[Harry]

I know there's some good fish out by you guys group.

[Sass]

Really good.

[Francis]

Black and grouper.

[Sass]

You guys fly fish at all?

[Craig]

Nah.

[Sass]

You guys had some good fly fishing?

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Seattle.

[Francis]

Great.

[Sass]

Some of the best I've ever seen.

[Craig]

You've been out there and done that?

[Sass]

Yeah, I had shows there. I was doing shows in Seattle and Portland last year, and I went out a couple days early and went to. I forget what the river. It was like the Yakima.

[Craig]

Yeah. Yep.

[Sass]

Yeah, that play. That river is sick.

[Harry]

Yeah. Get that salt.

[Sass]

Got a big old rainbow.

[Craig]

That's awesome.

[Joe]

I wish I could get into fishing. I'm reading Old man in the Sea by earning Ernest Hemingway and it costs.

[Sass]

Like $30 to get into it.

[Joe]

Really?

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sass]

You get a fishing rod at like Dick's Sporting goods for like 15 bucks.

[Joe]

He's like, never had family that fish.

[Sass]

Growing up, but like, gotta get into it.

[Joe]

I know. It seems just awesome.

[Sass]

Yeah. Especially where you guys live. You guys could fish for anything.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sass]

It's insane.

[Joe]

You brought me halibut recently.

[Craig]

Yeah, I went fishing off Oregon maybe six months ago.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Craig]

You know, with like a guided type thing. We went like two miles off the water and. Or out off the land. It's awesome, man.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Sass]

You guys, were you just catching monsters?

[Craig]

It was like, you think we could each catch like two or three halibut? And then we caught some lingcod. Lingcod. And then.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Just went back into town. They cut it up for, you know, you put the styrofoam and gave him a couple pieces.

[Sass]

So that's like Francis's dream.

[Francis]

It is. Yeah. I went.

[Ron]

I.

[Francis]

We caught. I. I caught some big stripers out in Montauk. And what you do is you bring them in and then you bring them to the Chinese food restaurant in town and they take the whole fish and they create these big steaming platters of General Tsow's striped bass.

[Sass]

Sounds incredible.

[Francis]

And it is.

[Joe]

Is it like breaded?

[Francis]

Unbelievable. Yeah, it's just chunks of like you know, fried striped bass in General's house. It's so good.

[Sass]

Didn't. When we did that video where we caught the cobia, wasn't there something where we could have brought, like, if we were, we were. We weren't in the season where we could keep it, but if we were, we could have, like, pulled up to a place that would have prepared it for us.

[Francis]

Probably that place where we. Where we pulled up.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And that bar.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Would they have taken them there?

[Sass]

It was. They said something about it.

[Francis]

Yeah, they did, yeah.

[Harry]

What are the best cities in the PNW as guys who hit. Hit all of i5. Like, what are. What are some of the, like, hottest ones? Obviously we know the heavy hitters, but any, like, underrated heat out there, Anything that's, like, flying under the radar?

[Craig]

I think right across the bridge from Seattle, like, a little bit. What? That's due east. There's a town called Bellevue, if you.

[Harry]

Guys heard of it.

[Craig]

But it's like, that's where Frank.

[Harry]

The tanks from.

[Craig]

Yeah, I'd say it's like the nicer Seattle, cleaner, less homelessness, great shops and bars, and it's like 20, 30 minutes. Got to have a lot of. You got to be pretty. Pretty wealthy to break into the Bellevue market. But I would say I'd be spending my time there if I could. Living on the lake, beautiful skyline. I think that's kind of the under the radar PNW town. You gotta come visit if you guys do it.

[Sass]

Dude, get out there.

[Francis]

Dude. There. There's. There's an island. I don't know if it's an island, but there's a. Something you take a ferry to that has, like, really nice houses on it.

[Joe]

Bainbridge.

[Francis]

Is that what it is?

[Joe]

Yeah, so. And that's like. Could be the San Juans too. You ever see, like, people taking seaplanes or, like, see any of that action out there?

[Francis]

No. I mean, I haven't really been. The only time I ever did it, I was going out on that. We were going out to the island. I can't remember the name of it.

[Joe]

And was it a short ferry ride?

[Francis]

It was a car ferry.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Okay.

[Francis]

And there was this guy, I'll never forget, he had a horse trailer. And the horse started freaking out and kicked the door down and then ran out and jumped off the boat.

[Ron]

Boat.

[Francis]

And then got carved up in the propellers.

[Joe]

No.

[Ron]

You'Re.

[Joe]

You're joking.

[Francis]

I'm thinking of the Ring. I'm thinking of the movie the Ring.

[Harry]

I was gonna say, I was like.

[Joe]

I Feel like this would have made the news.

[Francis]

It was the Ring. That was not my life.

[Harry]

And there was a lot of blood.

[Francis]

That was the Ring.

[Joe]

Oh, my God.

[Francis]

Remake of the first Ring.

[Joe]

That was the first scary movie I ever watched.

[Harry]

Did you re. Watch it recently?

[Francis]

I just watched it.

[Sass]

You just watched it?

[Francis]

I just watched the Ring one for the first time. I'd already seen two and three. Ring one is brilliant.

[Sass]

Is that when you're saying the Ring one? Are you talking about the.

[Francis]

The American one? I should have watched the Japanese one. Oh, and have you seen. Have you seen these? I think I. I hadn't even known that it was a remake of a Japanese one. And of course, you know.

[Harry]

Have you guys seen the Japanese Ring?

[Joe]

No, haven't.

[Craig]

Haven't. But put it on the list.

[Joe]

I didn't know that. I didn't know that it was a remake.

[Francis]

No, no.

[Joe]

They did the Grudge first, too, right? I think the Japanese did the Grudge first.

[Francis]

Well, that would make sense because she's over there.

[Ron]

Hair.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Right.

[Harry]

Long haired.

[Francis]

Yeah. And they just said, what if we put a white in the same exact movie.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Sass]

They do that with a ton of money like most movies. You can look up and it's like Korea or Japan had made that movie.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

30 years prior.

[Francis]

Least with the Ring, they had the decency to put it in Seattle.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Joe]

The Ring is so scary.

[Sass]

Yeah, it is.

[Joe]

Because the whole thing is like, if you watch this, you're taking dead and you're watching it.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Joe]

So they're like. They get you with that.

[Harry]

Like a little Inception.

[Ron]

Death.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Craig]

So, no, you're good. I was going to say Francis. That story reminds us. We had a incident like a year ago on.

[Harry]

It reminds us.

[Francis]

Thank you.

[Craig]

Reminds me we had a crazy story.

[Sass]

That's.

[Joe]

Our chemistry is just off the charts.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Craig]

You're thinking the same thing.

[Harry]

Right.

[Joe]

We've been. We've been telepathically chanting, channeling messages to each other this whole episode.

[Craig]

There's a highway right off of i5. Like a year ago, a zebra got loose out of the back of the carriage. Reminded me when you were talking about that story. And the zebra was lost for like three or four days.

[Sass]

That's crazy. How could it possibly be lost?

[Craig]

Gets lost in the woods. So you can imagine everybody in the neighboring towns are looking for this zebra.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Finally found it. But I think it was like a traveling circus going from one place to the next. When you're talking about that horse story, I go, I know one with a zebra. Yeah, it was wild, man. It was in our news. It was pretty crazy.

[Sass]

You think they would find that rather immediately?

[Francis]

I think it was a. It was a forest of birch trees.

[Joe]

Well, yeah, like you mentioned Harry, it's.

[Sass]

Very easy to spot a zebra.

[Joe]

You lose yourself in the woods out there.

[Sass]

Yeah, that is true.

[Joe]

You know, it's thick woods. If you want to disappear, it's probably the best place in the United States.

[Sass]

100 is.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

100.

[Harry]

What is the like evolutionary advantage of the zebra having stripes?

[Francis]

There's a. There is. Yeah. It's camouflage.

[Harry]

To what? To what area?

[Sass]

An old school prisoner.

[Harry]

That's how they escaped.

[Joe]

The horse with the striped pajamas. So that was a Japanese movie. You guys seen that?

[Harry]

Yeah, they remade it.

[Sass]

Japanese original.

[Joe]

The Japanese original was actually a horse with stripes.

[Harry]

Do you think it's like a cardinal where it's like the more beautiful your stripes are, the more like horny it made them.

[Sass]

100 gotta be right.

[Harry]

Beautiful. Good ass stripes.

[Joe]

Yeah. I think everything eventually comes back to being horny to. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Harry]

Which brings us back to your guys. Dms. You got people trying to fuck you off voice.

[Joe]

It's crazy. It's crazy. There's a lot of desperate women out there. Unfortunately.

[Harry]

Maybe, maybe not though. Maybe they're just like hot and just like they've never done this before and they just liked it. You know?

[Joe]

Know.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Harry]

It's true love.

[Joe]

Perhaps. But I mean, so like the only parts of our bodies that we put in our videos is our hands. And people just abuse me. Like they're like, oh, those are the softest man hands I've ever seen. I'm like, I put one body part in the video and they find a way.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Sass]

They're gonna take what they can get.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Oh yeah.

[Harry]

You have nice fingernails though. Pretty shiny fingernails.

[Joe]

Thank you.

[Harry]

Do you feel you take more care of them because that's your only representation to the world. It's kind of your best foot that you're putting forward.

[Sass]

Those are million dollar hands.

[Joe]

It certainly gets me to cut my fingernails on time. But more than anything. More than that. Not really.

[Francis]

Do you guys ever think who. Who does the drive? Is it always alternating the driver?

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Yeah. And then do you ever think about wearing driving gloves?

[Sass]

Oh, some. Fingerless.

[Francis]

Yeah. I've been thinking about. I'm starting to think about thinking about getting a pair. I'm starting to think about it should have given.

[Sass]

What.

[Francis]

Just to take my driving more seriously.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Kind of like straps you in. Gets you in the. You know, you get. You wear the armor you're gonna drive.

[Sass]

I think if you get a driving gloves, though, you got to get at least, like, an insane steering wheel. Something.

[Francis]

Yeah. Then for what I'll do on the steering wheel is I'll get those beads.

[Sass]

No, no, no. That needed kind of cheetah print.

[Francis]

Well, I haven't figured out what print I want yet, but I just want people to, when they get in my car, be like, did you.

[Ron]

You.

[Francis]

Did you used to drive a cab in New York? Because this is the most ethnic setup I've ever seen.

[Harry]

I haven't thought about the beaded wheel.

[Francis]

The beaded wheel.

[Sass]

Oh, they.

[Craig]

He's right.

[Harry]

They get.

[Sass]

Every Uber driver's got the beaded wheel.

[Harry]

Is it nice on your hands?

[Sass]

It must be.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Maybe it's like, for carpal tunnel sweat. Yeah, maybe.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Releases some sort of toxin.

[Francis]

If you make a hard right turn. It sounds like rainfall.

[Harry]

Yeah, it's like one of those sticks.

[Joe]

Exactly.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Harry]

You guys switch cars? You guys are always the same car.

[Craig]

We switch cars. So, like, I live 10 minutes from him.

[Harry]

So I'll come and he lives how far from you?

[Craig]

I was like, geez. But I'll come over to his house in the morning, and then if I'm driving that day, I'll pick him up or vice versa. I'll leave my car and then jump in with him. So we're, you know, going back and forth each time.

[Francis]

I still didn't get the answer I was curious about. You are just driving with him to work and you don't. And then what do you do?

[Joe]

I never got done telling you guys about how sick my life is, so I joined. With the little money that we have earned, I joined the Equinox in Seattle.

[Francis]

Cool.

[Joe]

And they've got, like, a nice little CO working space there. And so what we literally do is we drive in, and if he's filming that day, he just airdrops me all the videos, and then I'll go work out. And then I sit down in the CO working space and I edit the video and I post the video. And by the time he's done working, I'm usually just wrapping up.

[Ron]

Up.

[Francis]

Wow.

[Harry]

Workday.

[Joe]

Yeah. I mean, we. I mean, there's probably, like, people always say, like, oh, we want to do a ride along with you. And I'm like, the 55 minutes that you don't see is boring. Like, it's like we are just commuting, of course. Like, they're like, oh, I'll pay, whatever. And I was like, I don't Want to charge you, it is. You're just going to be in a car with two dudes and then there's going to be five minutes of action.

[Francis]

Are you on the hunt the whole time? Are you looking out the window the whole time? Time.

[Joe]

It's like if you do it, if you're like looking for it too much, it's like you'll force it. Exactly. So, like, what we say. What do we say all the time, Craig?

[Craig]

Well, I say let the defense. Let the defense come to you.

[Harry]

We say.

[Joe]

We don't say that. We say take what the defense gives you. But you almost had something close to that. I didn't think you're gonna put me on this. And we say. We say let it come to. To you and take what the defense gives you. But that was kind of a nice little hybrid.

[Harry]

Action.

[Sass]

Yeah, Yeah, I liked it. The defense.

[Joe]

But no, it's like, it's probably the same thing like with you guys on the podcast. It's like if you over plan. Yeah, yeah. And like overthink about what you're gonna say or what you're gonna do, it just doesn't. It's not ever as funny as just like getting in the car and letting what happens happens.

[Craig]

The funny thing is, is my job's remote. Remote. I'm not. We're not driving to go into an office. So we're just getting out there. To get out there. So we just. So I just work in the lobby next to Equinox. Just getting on WI Fi.

[Harry]

And then what do you do on Equinox?

[Joe]

I mean, if you got.

[Craig]

We don't have the funds yet.

[Joe]

If you got. If you got half a million followers.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Doing something.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Would you let being fired stop you from doing that?

[Sass]

So neither of you guys work in an office.

[Joe]

No, but we did five. We did for six and a half years together.

[Sass]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Francis]

And that was. And you were filming that whole time. How old is your page?

[Joe]

It's only. We've only been posting. I think we started in like March of 24, so.

[Craig]

Of 20, I think we're about two, three years. Two and a half.

[Joe]

Three years coming up on like two and a half years. Probably.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Did you guys get like a bulk of your followers in the last year?

[Joe]

Year, yeah. It's been insane. I mean, it. We go through these waves and like, I have no idea what happens. It's just like one day I'll wake up and we had 20,000 followers. 20,000 more followers than we did the day before. And it's just like, I have no idea why that happens. And it'll be like a video that we posted, like, three months ago. Yeah, that's just like, taking the off and. Yeah. And so over the last 30 days, we've gotten like 92 or 93,000 new followers.

[Sass]

That's crazy.

[Joe]

I think they heard we were coming on the heat from Son of a boy, dad.

[Sass]

Totally expect another hundred.

[Francis]

I'd expect to lose some followers.

[Joe]

We've gone through phases of that too.

[Francis]

Oh, really?

[Craig]

Yes.

[Francis]

That might be just bot removal or when the. They do those, like, cleanses all the time.

[Sass]

I'm constantly just. Just out with the old, in with the new.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Have you ever been able to, like, trace it to, like, a very aggressive tweet? My friends actually sent me one of your tweets that you took down. He has the screenshot of it.

[Sass]

What was it?

[Joe]

It was a lot of tweets, dude. It was so funny. I was dying. It was a picture of Livy Dunn and Justin Jefferson. And you quote, tweeted it and you were like, I know, bro.

[Harry]

Hatter scream.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Joe]

He's like, I know, bro. Hatter's screaming.

[Sass]

That was a banger. I was crying when I tweeted that. So funny, dude.

[Joe]

It was so funny. And then he was like, I'm telling you, my friends are like. Like, it wasn't huge fans. Well, he said that you were like.

[Harry]

You have to get the first reference. That is true.

[Sass]

Yeah, exactly.

[Harry]

It was like a quote tweet. Under what?

[Sass]

It was a comment. Like, it was like some. It was like, it's like a hot.

[Harry]

Couple posting each other.

[Sass]

Yeah, yeah. And then, like, the dude replied. And then some other dude replied to that dude and was like, I know. You had her screaming, like, about, like.

[Harry]

No, no, it was. He said it to the girl. He was like, oh, I bet that. Oh, I good. And he's like. And he's like, oh, I know. He had you.

[Joe]

So was like, yeah, this is one of his better tweets. But he took some heat, so he had to take it down.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sass]

I've deleted. I delete tweets. I deleted two tweets last night.

[Harry]

Why?

[Craig]

Try to.

[Sass]

Try to get some good Epstein jokes off and they weren't hidden. Yeah, felt bad, honestly.

[Joe]

You want to run it back here?

[Sass]

What were they.

[Harry]

Just tell us.

[Sass]

Well, I was. I was with Jerry and all them and I had a good. We were watching the Grammys, and I was like, it's crazy that they're all going to a kid party after this. Got a big laugh. Got a big laugh in the house. And it just didn't translate over to online. So she had game. Jerry was like, you got to tweet that. And then I was like, no, no. And then I walked upstairs and I was like, maybe I should tweet that. And then I tweeted it and I deleted it a minute later.

[Harry]

Had no motion.

[Sass]

No. Zero motion.

[Harry]

Really.

[Sass]

It was while the Grammys were going on, which is like peak motion.

[Harry]

Yeah, you could say trash.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Harry]

You can put some garbage online then still get a little bit. Damn. It's a shame, but you try, you know.

[Francis]

Got it.

[Harry]

Got it up there.

[Sass]

It's all good.

[Harry]

I swung any other heaters that your. Your bros like, of Harry's.

[Joe]

That's all. I think that's all they sent me. They were sending. They sent me like, they sent me some of your podcasts to watch, I think. I don't think they miss an episode. These are like my three best friends, all guys that were in my wedding. And they sent me the episode that you guys did after the Trump shooting where you guys were like on zoom. And he goes, this is the best post assassination coverage that you're gonna get.

[Sass]

That was one that we had to re record.

[Harry]

Oh, yeah, right. Yeah.

[Joe]

You guys started. You're like, we just canned an episode.

[Sass]

And yeah, we did an episode where we made It. Made a joke about Trump being shot.

[Harry]

Right. Right before.

[Sass]

And then like the day before it was coming out, he got shot. And we were like, oh, wow. I think that's what happened.

[Joe]

Your guys's coverage was incredible, though. It was really good stuff.

[Sass]

Solid.

[Joe]

Really good stuff. Gentlemen, you should see it.

[Sass]

I don't think he did. I don't think he got shot.

[Harry]

Trump.

[Sass]

Yeah. Fake.

[Harry]

Yeah. I mean, a lot of people are saying a lot of shootings are fake these days.

[Joe]

A lot of.

[Sass]

There's a lot of fake going on in this country.

[Harry]

A lot of fake shootings.

[Francis]

He was keeping a small razor in his spandex, something like that, to cut that ear.

[Harry]

He did the Shawn Michaels.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Harry]

He was freaking out. And we can make that joke because he didn't die.

[Sass]

Exactly.

[Harry]

He died. You know what I mean?

[Craig]

True.

[Harry]

So, you guys, it's all fair game. Spinning him on his finger like a basketball is disgusting. Can you guys. You guys have to keep it pretty PG in your. In your shit. You're dropping F bombs. But it's like PG13, I guess.

[Joe]

I wouldn't say that. Pretty R, I mean, R, I think.

[Craig]

PG 13, little R. I mean, we're not making, like, racist jokes. You're right. No nudity. We do no politics. We stay away from politics.

[Joe]

But no chance it was real that he got shot. No politics. But back to the Trump thing.

[Harry]

Oh, my God, no.

[Joe]

Yeah. I mean, like, in the. In the case that we do get exposed. I think we're trying to save face a little bit, but.

[Harry]

Well, I don't know how you could even put politics in what you're doing. Really.

[Joe]

Right. Yeah.

[Craig]

It's like, that's true.

[Joe]

Not necessarily our lane.

[Harry]

I guess people always find a way. Way.

[Sass]

Oh, yeah.

[Harry]

I was watching the Grammys last night. Yeah.

[Sass]

Out fresh off a kid.

[Harry]

Well, he was the guy that got the drugs to sedate the kids.

[Sass]

Yeah, exactly.

[Harry]

So, you know crazy.

[Sass]

He was all over the files. He was performing at the Grammys an hour later.

[Joe]

Yeah. Damn. Push it.

[Harry]

No, no, you're exactly right. Him and Jay Z. Jay Z, too.

[Sass]

But Jay Z was at the GR of the country. Left the country.

[Harry]

Yeah. He's like, they can't extradite me.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Ron]

Wow.

[Harry]

Hong Kong will not extradite one of their own. He was. He was out of there fast.

[Joe]

Oh, my God.

[Harry]

He bailed hard. Yeah. I couldn't believe it. There's so many. The craziest part was Bill Gates. Bill Gates was. He got a STD and was. And he was mashing antibiotics in his wife's applesauce, boss. Like he was trying to feed a kid pills.

[Francis]

Yeah. Your listening face is preposterous.

[Harry]

I was like, what did I just hear?

[Joe]

I think we missed the latest batch of the Epstein files.

[Harry]

I don't know what you guys talking about.

[Francis]

I haven't spoken because I. I'm a few pages behind as well.

[Sass]

You guys got to get up to date.

[Joe]

Bad.

[Harry]

It's everyone, you know.

[Ron]

Bad.

[Harry]

It's like, everyone you've ever heard of.

[Ron]

Dude.

[Sass]

Like, they're saying Zoran Mandani, his mom is in it.

[Harry]

Yep.

[Sass]

Like, everyone's figures.

[Harry]

I saw everyone.

[Sass]

It's crazy.

[Craig]

Russell Wilson. Yep. Gino Smith.

[Harry]

Jamie Fox was at the Grammys.

[Joe]

They got Russell. Gino.

[Ron]

Yep. Wow. Dude.

[Craig]

I guess trying to buy.

[Sass]

Russell Wilson. Trying to buy Epstein's plane.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sass]

What the is that?

[Harry]

Whoa.

[Sass]

Freak.

[Francis]

Well, he probably heard that it had bulletproof windows and was jacked up and safe for landing in newer work.

[Harry]

Yeah, it's nasty. Yeah. Crazy times. You guys got to read that on the flight back. What'd you guys watch on the flight out?

[Joe]

Any.

[Harry]

Anything good?

[Craig]

I just watched the Farmers Insurance Open. I watched the golf all the way here. Five hours straight.

[Harry]

Yep.

[Joe]

Glad you got YouTube TV, Craig. Absolute stick. Like.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Very, very good golfer.

[Francis]

Cool.

[Craig]

Yep.

[Joe]

Very, very good golfer.

[Francis]

Nice. Yeah.

[Sass]

Back.

[Joe]

I won't say what country club. Back to back. Masters champion at his country club. Really ran it back.

[Harry]

Are you all right?

[Joe]

His country club does, like, a Masters. It's like their biggest tournament every year, and he's won it back to back years.

[Harry]

Can you.

[Sass]

That's pretty crazy.

[Joe]

I can play. I'm really good when I'm with him.

[Harry]

Set up the two on two, but with them in the full outfits.

[Francis]

There you go.

[Harry]

Let's do it.

[Joe]

We would do that. Like, he would. He would really impress you. I'm very. I'm such a better player when I'm with him because, like, he'll be like, use this club. Swing it this way.

[Harry]

He doesn't even have to tell you. He just thinks it. You just absorb it.

[Joe]

Exactly.

[Sass]

I have to ask Francis every time. I'm like, what club?

[Ron]

I've.

[Francis]

I literally, I would say 98% of the time, it's six iron.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Doesn't matter where we are. Yeah. That's his. It's favor. It's his favorite club.

[Sass]

Six iron. Hit a light six iron here.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Hit a heavy six iron.

[Joe]

I've gotten so six. I've gotten so reliant on him that when I golf without him, I'm just terrible. And I think I've golf with you enough where you're like, oh, we're just like 125 yards out. And I'm like, yeah. Gonna need more than.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Francis]

What's your. What's your index?

[Craig]

I'm a plus one.

[Francis]

Oh, my God.

[Craig]

I played in college.

[Francis]

You did?

[Craig]

I played my whole idea, bro.

[Harry]

We know exactly who you are.

[Craig]

I chose golf. I chose golf from, like, an early age, so it's always been my sport.

[Francis]

Cool.

[Sass]

Yeah. You go in high school?

[Craig]

Played in high school.

[Francis]

Hell yeah.

[Craig]

Played.

[Francis]

Picked it up in college, I guess.

[Sass]

I was a.

[Francis]

Just started a D1.

[Joe]

We've been Sam Altman and Scotty Sheffler the whole time.

[Sass]

I played in high school, too, so I tipped the cap.

[Francis]

There you go.

[Craig]

There you go.

[Joe]

You look good on the couple computers. I watched your guys's round with the foreplay guys.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Joe]

You look good out there. You're doing it nice.

[Sass]

Thank you.

[Harry]

That's why you guys got to run it back.

[Joe]

What do you mean?

[Harry]

Like, I'm saying, they. They play again against you guys. We'd love it.

[Craig]

We'd love it.

[Harry]

Go out to Seattle, maybe We'll come out that way.

[Sass]

Seattle's probably got something.

[Harry]

Seattle Fish week, dude.

[Joe]

If you guys come out, we'll.

[Craig]

We'll set it. Yeah, we'll find a spot for sure.

[Harry]

Fish Tacoma fish.

[Sass]

That would be insane.

[Francis]

I wonder if your club would let you play in that attire.

[Joe]

We've done.

[Craig]

We've done.

[Joe]

We've done it.

[Craig]

We've done a video out there and they loved it.

[Joe]

We didn't tell. We didn't tell them we were doing it.

[Francis]

Cool.

[Joe]

Cuz I don't think they. We didn't. We weren't sure that they knew.

[Ron]

What.

[Joe]

They didn't.

[Craig]

They didn't.

[Joe]

They didn't know that he was the guy.

[Francis]

They had no idea. Right.

[Joe]

And so we did like a round and we were just like around filming. And then like the club pro reached out to you, right?

[Craig]

Yeah, totally. And this isn't like a nice, nice country club, so I don't want to get you too excited when you guys come out, but we're not going to.

[Francis]

Come all the way there for that.

[Craig]

No, no, no. We find a better course. We'd find a better course.

[Francis]

For sure.

[Joe]

We would come back out here to golf with you guys.

[Harry]

Yeah, for sure.

[Francis]

For sure.

[Craig]

Yeah, we would love that.

[Joe]

If you guys ever have shows out there, we should do like a. We could pick you up from the airport.

[Francis]

That's fun.

[Sass]

That's a good idea.

[Joe]

Back on the shoulder.

[Francis]

Yeah, Sort of like a carpool karaoke meets Cash Cab.

[Joe]

Okay. I have this idea for a show. Can I pitch it to you guys? And just like. Because I feel like you do a lot of shows, you're around a lot of ideas. Can you tell me if this is a good idea or not?

[Francis]

Sure. Yeah.

[Joe]

So it's like carpool karaoke meets MTV Cribs. We find like, celebrities. How do celebrities get from point A to point B? How does Travis Kelce get from the airport to where he's going? How does Meek Mill in his bulletproof G wagon get from one area of Philadelphia to another area of Philadelphia?

[Harry]

That's so nice. A little ride with me?

[Joe]

Yeah. Yeah, Maybe play some tunes, yell at some pedestrians that are walking too slow.

[Harry]

Do you think they do that? Do you think Meek Mills doing that? It's one of the greatest joys of my life, being able to fuck with pedestrians in a car. But do you think that other people. What percentage of the population is hollering out the window?

[Joe]

I could see Meek not being a huge fan of our content, now that.

[Harry]

You mention it, what percent do you really Think of people like, actually with other people on the road. I think it's less than 5.

[Joe]

We've had a lot of like celebrities follow us really. So, like, I think we could convince some of our people that follow us to do it, knowing that they already, like, enjoy.

[Harry]

Oh, I think they, they could. I'm asking what percent of the population? I want to know your thoughts on this too. Like how many people in the car are with people on the road? I guess you don't really do that. You like yell out your window at people?

[Francis]

No, I don't really do that.

[Harry]

You're not like, hey, dog, nice human or anything like that?

[Francis]

Oh, that's funny.

[Harry]

Yeah, we used to hit that.

[Francis]

I haven't heard that.

[Harry]

Yeah, try that one. That's a great one.

[Francis]

Who's walking whom?

[Harry]

That's funny. Or you do the beep and you wave, but like you look the other way. So the person looks at you like you're going slow past somebody. You beep and they like look at you, but you're waving the other direction.

[Joe]

The whole car is.

[Francis]

This is the show.

[Joe]

You know, a really good quiver.

[Francis]

He's got a deep quiver. Yeah.

[Harry]

Can we.

[Joe]

We should do the. We could do the first one with you.

[Harry]

It'll be my dream. Swerve somebody as they're in the crosswalk and they like fall over and then you get like a. A light felony. A couple years later they find out.

[Joe]

So you have seen our content before today?

[Harry]

Yeah, of course.

[Joe]

That's just. That's crazy. People actually watch it and like it. It's so hard for me to believe.

[Harry]

My buddy Mike would send it to me all the time.

[Joe]

Shout out, Mike.

[Craig]

Shout out, Mike.

[Sass]

Shout out, Mike.

[Harry]

Legend. An absolute legend in the game. He just loved to fuck around. And your respect for good loads on trucks, people love that shit.

[Craig]

They love it.

[Joe]

Because you think about how much time that really does take to really secure a nice load on a flatbed.

[Sass]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe]

It just. It doesn't happen overnight.

[Harry]

Precision to the. Though, like you just have. It's like making your bed right. Like how the Japanese will make a perfect bed in like four seconds. There's probably just a way you couldn't stack it and a rack it and just get it right.

[Joe]

Japanese always do it first.

[Craig]

And the amount of ones we see that people just half ass it with just flaps going all over the place. It's pissing rain and their woods getting. We're like, what do you. Who let you leave the lot with a load like that? What are you doing?

[Harry]

My sister was driving this weekend tent and a sheet of ice came flying off somebody else's roof and smoked her windshield. Shattered her windshield. Bad road etiquette. No. I would love to get a ruling on this one from the fellas.

[Joe]

Oh, yeah, absolutely. I think it's illegal to leave your driveway or parking spot without dusting your car off. I'm pretty sure.

[Harry]

And that's probably the windshield for sure. But the roof too. I mean, it wasn't dusting. It was like this much. It crashed.

[Joe]

I'm pretty sure. Like you have to get the snow off your car.

[Harry]

Like it's really.

[Joe]

I. I think.

[Sass]

No, I think that is true.

[Joe]

True what?

[Sass]

I think that is right.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Yeah. I'm not 100 sure, but like another very surprising fan base of our page State Patrol.

[Francis]

Oh, yeah.

[Sass]

They're probably writing down license plate numbers.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah. And we interviewed a state trooper and he was saying like a big percentage of highway deaths are due to unsecured loads. So he's like, what you guys are doing. I know you're like being funny, but like, it's actually. Actually probably saving lives.

[Sass]

Hell yeah.

[Joe]

You hear that?

[Harry]

Final Destination.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Yep.

[Harry]

The log and Final Destination.

[Joe]

We have so many of them because.

[Francis]

There'S so much timber moving around that part of the country.

[Joe]

Big timber industry.

[Francis]

So much timber going around.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And is that coming from. I mean, Oregon is obviously the real timber capital of America.

[Harry]

Yeah.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Francis]

And they're. Where are they going? They're coming up through Seattle area.

[Joe]

We got plenty of timber up.

[Craig]

A lot of timber coming both ways.

[Francis]

So is it going south?

[Sass]

It's going everywhere.

[Joe]

I actually learned about this recently. They used to like cut trees down and they would just throw the logs in the river.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And let them like go downstream. And then whoever needed it, like picked it up on the way down. But yeah. So it's like. I think it just goes everywhere. It goes all over the country. The trees out by us.

[Francis]

Wow.

[Harry]

Yeah. That's spooky as hell. The unsecured load.

[Joe]

Very spooky.

[Harry]

That's nasty.

[Joe]

Very spooky. You see some real bang up jobs out there.

[Harry]

Yeah. But yeah, good load management is fucking ideal is key.

[Sass]

A lot of oversized.

[Craig]

Lot of oversized.

[Joe]

See the oversized thing though? Like, I think we're giving out the oversized a little too much.

[Francis]

It's like him with meetings.

[Sass]

A lot of meetings. I got a meeting after this. Gartzie does our second episode.

[Francis]

That's true.

[Harry]

With us. Have you guys thought about doing the podcast pod you? I haven't seen the Pod yet you do it in the car?

[Joe]

No, do it in my garage.

[Harry]

What about doing it in the car?

[Joe]

It's just too hard to like they.

[Francis]

Have to do it in their garage because every business in. Yeah, that starts garage.

[Craig]

We did do one last night in my hotel room.

[Joe]

That is true.

[Craig]

You should see how small my hotel room it is. Hilarious.

[Francis]

What are you staying at Nailoft or something?

[Craig]

No, I don't think.

[Francis]

Is that rocks?

[Craig]

Is that an nice one? No, we couldn't afford that. This is like the Citizen. Citizen M. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know that one.

[Sass]

Of course.

[Craig]

So anyway, you know what?

[Sass]

The room's the smallest place I've ever been.

[Craig]

The bed goes from one side of the wall to the wall.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Craig]

So we both sat on my bed doing the podcast.

[Joe]

We're like Drake and Bobby, like in.

[Harry]

The bed together as like the colors change of the room.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sass]

What the is going on I I with that, to be honest.

[Ron]

Honest.

[Sass]

I like the iPad's not bad.

[Harry]

A long bus ride in Vietnam or something like that. You're just like kind of wedged in there.

[Sass]

I, I hated it when they first booked me there because we were traveling for work and they were both staying at the Four Seasons. I was at the Citizen M. It happens. It happens. But no, no, I'm over.

[Francis]

We were not at the same hotel, but we were both a good hotel.

[Harry]

It was the three little. It was the three bears.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Harry]

I had the porch that was just right.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Harry]

Too hot. Yours was too cold.

[Sass]

And I was in the Citizen M. And I, I was pissed at first, but once I got the iPad in my hands, I was, I was satisfied.

[Craig]

How about the toilet meeting the shower?

[Sass]

I did not like that at all. That's crazy.

[Harry]

Wild.

[Sass]

It's insane.

[Joe]

Yeah, I kind of like it. You could kill two birds with one stone.

[Sass]

You could just shit in the shower.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Francis]

You could just.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Joe]

You could be fully lathered up and.

[Sass]

There'S like, there's no, there's no like divider between the shower and the, the floor either.

[Francis]

Right.

[Sass]

Spilling out.

[Francis]

Very Japanese. Very Japanese. They're big on all of this.

[Harry]

Dude, I saw a Japanese. Japanese. Japan sells jerk off rooms on like a one hour thing.

[Sass]

Oh yeah.

[Harry]

It's like places where only dudes can go and you just go and be crank and crank. Yeah, there's just like, if you want to get out of your house to.

[Sass]

Crank, it's not a bad idea.

[Craig]

Yeah, not bad.

[Harry]

They're bigger than the apartments, but it's like. Yeah, it's like, I guess it's nice. I don't know, but just like cranking in the. I don't know, in like the communal space.

[Craig]

Yeah, yeah.

[Harry]

Where other men have quite literally.

[Ron]

Go ahead.

[Francis]

Come before you.

[Harry]

Yeah, yeah.

[Francis]

Standing in the footsteps of men who have literally come before me.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Harry]

That's insane.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Harry]

It's kind of nasty.

[Francis]

Yeah. I. I got to get to Japan. I think I'm ready to go. I think I'm just gonna go. Just to shop. So I'm gonna go for like four days.

[Harry]

Go stop over in.

[Francis]

I will.

[Harry]

In Washington, please.

[Joe]

Your parents are just.

[Craig]

Yes. Are you a guitar player?

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Craig]

So I guess my parents were just there. So if you're into Fender, they've got the only Fender storefront in the world.

[Francis]

So if you really.

[Craig]

Yeah, and it's really cool, like three stories, like beautiful art cool. You know, super, super like high end guitars. So if you're into that. I definitely stop through.

[Francis]

I'm embarrassed. Is Fender made in Japan?

[Craig]

I guess they use like a Japanese wood over there, but it's the only, like, storefront in the world.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Obviously you can get it.

[Harry]

Yeah, but you want. You want something that sounds Japanese, bro.

[Francis]

Yeah. You want something that has a little Ishi Nakazaki.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Francis]

Taika Takahaki.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Harry]

Something like that. You need some syllables. You really do.

[Francis]

Yeah.

[Ron]

Yeah.

[Harry]

Go shop. Bring a guitar back.

[Francis]

Yeah, sure will.

[Harry]

Sure. Well, that'll be so ridiculous.

[Francis]

Pack. Wrap it in denim.

[Craig]

Yep.

[Francis]

Have it all wrapped up. I got so much stuff to buy, man. The yen, so weak.

[Harry]

Is it? The dollar's getting weak though, isn't it?

[Francis]

I don't know.

[Harry]

Isn't it, boys?

[Sass]

It's like 50 cents right now.

[Harry]

Dollars at 50 cents to what? A dollar to yesterday's dog dollar.

[Sass]

It's not good.

[Harry]

Chopped in half.

[Ron]

Bad.

[Harry]

Just like that.

[Francis]

It just got cut in half.

[Harry]

Yep. Yeah, he's right, dude. For once, he's exactly right.

[Francis]

All right, well, you guys are awesome. Check out i5 Commuters.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Francis]

That's the page, right?

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Joe]

I5 dot commuters on just about everything. Yeah.

[Francis]

Hell yeah. Very cool.

[Sass]

Is the podcast same name?

[Joe]

Yeah, we don't really have a name for it yet. It's just like on our YouTube page.

[Sass]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Just kind of going by the seat of our pants right now.

[Sass]

Nothing wrong with that.

[Joe]

Cool.

[Harry]

What about just commuters?

[Joe]

Just call the show Commuters, I guess.

[Harry]

I don't know.

[Joe]

Unless it's taken, I guess.

[Craig]

Our handle for our pod is at show on the road.

[Joe]

Pod.

[Harry]

Okay. That's nice.

[Sass]

So that's a name That's a name right there.

[Francis]

That's a great, great name.

[Sass]

That's the name of the show, right?

[Joe]

We didn't talk about this.

[Ron]

The.

[Francis]

I prefer I show.

[Harry]

It helps. The SEO.

[Joe]

Roan had a really good idea.

[Harry]

Cool.

[Craig]

Hell, yeah.

[Harry]

Thank you, guys.

[Joe]

Thank you for having me.

[Harry]

This is so fun.

[Francis]

Thanks for the presence.

[Craig]

Yes.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Appreciate it.

[Francis]

Can't say this, but on his behalf, he's very grateful for the weed.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Ron]

Good.

[Joe]

Yeah. Yes. You're welcome. It's good stuff.

[Harry]

My ears are ringing from the salt, too. It's nice.

[Joe]

Does that usually happen to you?

[Harry]

No. Okay.

[Ron]

Stroke.

[Harry]

That's gonna be a stroke. All right. Cool.

[Joe]

All right.

[Francis]

Awesome.

[Joe]

Thank you, guys. Thanks, guys.

[Ron]

Great.

[Francis]

Awesome. We're good.

[Harry]

Sweet.

[Ron]

Close was over still, still underground so I looked older to you Came around I was I was only falling one way I was only falling one way. This side now I come alive I was only falling one way I was only falling one way I was only falling one way I was only oh, you falling away B to your eyes did you realize no one can take me alive I was only falling one way. Sam.