#509 - We Made A Country Song

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Basement Yard - Episode #509 "We Made A Country Song"

Introduction In Episode #509 of The Basement Yard, hosts Joe Santagato and Frank Alvarez dive into their unexpected venture into country music. Released on June 30, 2025, this episode chronicles their journey from a spontaneous idea during a Nashville trip to the creation and upcoming release of their debut country single, “Double Dude,” under the persona Big Buck Alvarez.

The Nashville Inspiration The episode kicks off with Joe and Frank reminiscing about their time in Nashville, where the seeds for their country song were planted. Frank shares, “[15:53] Joe’s like, I need boots and I need a hat, like, immediately,” reflecting their spontaneous decision to embrace the country aesthetic. This lighthearted moment sets the stage for their creative process.

Creating “Double Dude” Frank elaborates on the song’s origin, explaining how their love for karaoke led them to experiment with writing a country track. “[20:04] Joey: It felt right, though.” The duo describes their studio session, highlighting the collaboration with talented musicians like Mikey and the incorporation of live instruments to give the song an authentic country feel. They also introduce their alter ego, Big Buck Alvarez, who performs the song during Texas shows, adding a layer of humor and character-driven entertainment.

Song Premiere and Release Details Building excitement, Frank announces the official release date: “[19:33] Joey: Debut single, Which is coming out on the 4th.” They aim to launch “Double Dude” on July 4th, positioning it as the “song of the summer.” A playful snippet of the song is shared during the podcast, giving listeners a taste of what to expect. Frank emphasizes the song’s satirical edge, noting, “[23:05] Frank: It’s meant to be satirical.”

Audience Engagement and Promotion The hosts encourage listeners to participate in the song’s success by pre-saving it on Spotify and sharing their dances on social media. “[22:05] Joey: It’s coming out on midnight the 4th of July,” they announce, ensuring fans are ready for the release. They also tease a music video premiere on Santa Gato Studios, further amplifying the song’s reach.

Sleepwalking Anecdote Transitioning from music, Joe shares a humorous and relatable story about sleepwalking during a recent Airbnb stay. “[53:21] Joey: So, I went to sleep…and I woke up at about like 12:45.” This anecdote not only provides laughs but also showcases the hosts' camaraderie and comfort with each other, adding a personal touch to the episode.

Dreams and AI Discussion Frank introduces a speculative conversation about a machine that can transform dreams into videos, sparking an engaging dialogue on the potential intersection of technology and subconscious experiences. “[48:14] Frank: It’s a machine where you can…tell your dream and it’ll create a movie using AI.” This segment highlights their creative brainstorming and open-mindedness toward futuristic ideas.

Favorite Chicken Wing Flavors In a lighter segment, the hosts debate their top chicken wing flavors, revealing their personal preferences and playful banter. “[68:08] Joey: So, yeah, High fructose corn syrup…,” they discuss flavors like buffalo garlic parm, lemon pepper, and honey barbecue, adding a fun and relatable element to the conversation.

Closing Remarks and Patreon Promotion As the episode draws to a close, Joe and Frank express their gratitude to their Patreon supporters, celebrating reaching over 34,000 paid patrons. “[35:00] Frank: Thank you Guys, so much,” they say, encouraging more listeners to join their Patreon community for exclusive content and early access to episodes. They also tease an upcoming tour, inviting fans to join them live and engage interactively.

Notable Quotes:

• Frank on Creating the Song: “[20:04] Joey: It felt right, though.”
• Announcement of Release Date: “[19:33] Joey: Debut single, which is coming out on the 4th.”
• On the Satirical Nature of the Song: “[23:05] Frank: It’s meant to be satirical.”
• Sleepwalking Story: “[53:21] Joey: So, I went to sleep…and I woke up at about like 12:45.”
• Dream to Video Machine: “[48:14] Frank: It’s a machine where you can…tell your dream and it’ll create a movie using AI.”

Conclusion Episode #509 of The Basement Yard offers a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and creative projects, making it an engaging listen for both longtime fans and newcomers. From their foray into country music to entertaining sleepwalking tales, Joe and Frank maintain their trademark chemistry and wit, ensuring listeners are both entertained and informed. Don’t miss the release of “Double Dude” on July 4th and join their growing community on Patreon for more exclusive content.

Transcript

[Frank]

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[Joey]

Welcome back to the base. Welcome back to the basement yard. Tipped your cap. Thank you so much you little fancy gentleman.

[Frank]

You like that? A tip of the cap? Yeah, you know, don't know where it came from. And also can you tip any cap or does it need to be a specific cap?

[Joey]

Top hats, those should come back. Dude, I with top hats, I like fancy occasions. Not like down the street, bro.

[Frank]

People used to wear them to like go get the mail like back in the day.

[Joey]

And they would wear what?

[Frank]

You know what? You know what? Shut up. You know what? First my know what? First that.

[Joey]

I don't.

[Frank]

I want to wear one of those top hats. Like old timey like Road to Perdition. Top hats in the rain.

[Joey]

I don't know what the middle part.

[Frank]

Of Road to Perdition. You never saw Road to Perdition? You seem Road to Perdition.

[Anthony]

I didn't even know what is that.

[Frank]

A movie or like a Tom Hanks?

[Joey]

No, I've never seen that.

[Frank]

He's like a gangster and he has like a little son.

[Joey]

What year?

[Frank]

2000.

[Joey]

Oh, wow. I thought that this felt like a 19.

[Frank]

2003. 2004. Around that time. Really good. You should watch it.

[Joey]

Never seen it.

[Frank]

Really, really good.

[Joey]

I was gonna say I want to ride one of those big wheel bikes.

[Frank]

The old like ones that like the.

[Joey]

Dumbass die falling off of those things.

[Frank]

Yeah. Cuz you're eight feet in the air.

[Joey]

I know.

[Frank]

Why would you want to ride that stupid thing?

[Joey]

Who's the engineer behind those bikes?

[Frank]

And also like how did you figure out that and not just figure out to make it smaller?

[Joey]

Like why wasn't that but like why?

[Frank]

If I'm in the olden days going down the street and I see someone on one of those giant dumbass bikes.

[Joey]

Yous'Re gonna push them to double hand, you know. But if I saw someone on one of those bikes today, I'd kind of.

[Frank]

Be like yeah, you really. Because when I think it looks cool, but you know what?

[Joey]

It's a little nuts.

[Frank]

It looks cool. But if you saw it in a practical form like in like daily life, like someone was going to their Job in Manhattan.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

You'd be pissed off.

[Joey]

I hate everyone on a bike when I'm in my car, but forget it.

[Frank]

Yes, I agree. But, like, everyone always came across someone in their life that, like, practically used a unicycle.

[Joey]

I see.

[Frank]

It's annoying.

[Joey]

Yeah, this is in clown school. It's the street. Get off. Like, I think it's fine if you're, like, in a park and you're like, oh, I'm unicycling back and forth and whatever. You kind of look dumb doing that. But if you're, like, down the street and you're pedaling, like, down a hill.

[Frank]

Like, it's like, all right, sweetie, on my way to work, let me get on my unicycle and ride to work. Yeah, dude, I'll. I'll bring the gun, you bring the ammo. Let's shoot that person together.

[Anthony]

So some guy. My neighborhood, like, goes on that big bike. I see it sometimes.

[Joey]

Really?

[Anthony]

Yeah. Do you know the name of it? What it's called?

[Frank]

Bike. Bicycle Bicentennial Bike.

[Joey]

What is it?

[Anthony]

It's called Penny Farther. Penny Farthing.

[Frank]

Penny Farthing.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Frank]

The name also sucks.

[Joey]

Yeah, that sounds like something if I. Bro, if someone.

[Frank]

First of all, you live in Brooklyn.

[Joey]

Yep.

[Frank]

Chances are you're gonna see some Brooklyn hipster out here with a hat that has just a foot on it and it says something like stinky with a question mark.

[Joey]

What does that have to do to this conversation?

[Frank]

You Brooklyn weirdos are weirdos.

[Joey]

You don't even. You don't even know what Brooklyn looks like.

[Frank]

I do. I've been Brooklyn.

[Joey]

You've been on the bqe.

[Frank]

I've been. All right, if. If they were just like, yeah, I'm going to get a couple Vietnamese spit IPAs on my penny Farthing, bro. I would be so mad.

[Joey]

You know what's crazy? As you said Vietnamese Spit ipa. I was like, that sounds pretty good.

[Frank]

Would you drink some, like, alcohol if it was no spit?

[Joey]

No disgusting spit. Doesn't matter.

[Frank]

Well, clearly it does to someone in this room.

[Joey]

Why?

[Anthony]

I don't know.

[Joey]

You would let someone spit in your mouth? Sure. That's fire, yo. I would dap you up if we weren't so far away. Don't get up. Sure.

[Frank]

Penny Farthing. Interesting. What's worse, A bike, a unicycle, or a fucking hoverboard? For, like, legitimate.

[Joey]

Like, hoverboards are for, like, 11 year olds. 10 years ago.

[Frank]

Yeah, that, like, just found out that, like, Mr. Beast is.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

A YouTuber. And all they talk about is Five Nights at Freddy's.

[Joey]

I don't know what that is either.

[Frank]

You don't?

[Joey]

There's a lot of.

[Frank]

There's a lot, a lot of stuff now that Miles is. Oh, he's turning as of recording. He's turning 10 tomorrow. I'm like getting in on the cool like kid lingo and stuff, you know what I mean? So like he helps me. So one day I jokingly with him, I said like yo, like who. Who in here? Skibidi or. Or Maxes. And he's just like, no one says that anymore, dude.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

I was like, what do they say? And he goes, you remember when we.

[Joey]

Went to Penn State and you tried to do that and they were like, dude, we're not nine years old. Why are you doing this?

[Frank]

I think Penn State was lying.

[Joey]

That's based on nothing.

[Frank]

I know there's a crowd full of.

[Joey]

People being like, no, we don't know.

[Frank]

Well, because I asked them if things were still skibidi.

[Joey]

Right.

[Frank]

And I think that is a younger generation aunt is. Is going to fall off.

[Joey]

You did do that. I believe it.

[Frank]

And they said like no, we're older than that. But like right. So they, they love Minecraft. So what should I ask him about loves my Herobrine? You know, you got reference. That's a great reference. Yeah.

[Joey]

Herobrine.

[Frank]

Hero. Brian. Yeah.

[Joey]

What's Herobrine?

[Frank]

I can't tell him. Don't tell him. Let him keep himself out of the loop.

[Anthony]

It's just a like a lore in Minecraft.

[Joey]

It's.

[Anthony]

It's not that.

[Joey]

Are you mine? You're a Minecrafter. Oh yeah. Like Minecraft crafted.

[Frank]

Do you.

[Joey]

You got it.

[Frank]

You.

[Joey]

You craft, you mine in the crap in the mine.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

You build houses and shit.

[Frank]

Sometimes everyone goes, yo, I'm gonna tell you right now.

[Joey]

Yep.

[Frank]

That game sucks. I know. It's like the greatest like highest selling game of all time or something like that.

[Joey]

Is it?

[Frank]

Yeah, pretty sure. What? It passed.

[Joey]

It's so simple.

[Frank]

It's like that Grand Theft Auto 5, Tetris, Mario Kart 8. Like wow. But bro, it's. You think it's simple, but it's not.

[Joey]

It's mining, bro.

[Frank]

If you want to. All right, so what you get, you literally get put in an ever expanding world.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

What are you gonna do?

[Anthony]

Yeah. What was the first thing you would do?

[Frank]

What's the first thing you're doing?

[Joey]

Me?

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

Turn the game off. I'd be like, oh, too big. So I would like to start with something.

[Frank]

But seriously, all Right. Well, no, no, you don't start with anything.

[Joey]

So I guess you just start digging into the earth.

[Frank]

Yep. And then.

[Joey]

And then trying to find oil. I probably live under.

[Frank]

Well, no, no, no, no. If you're gonna find resources, you need to mine them.

[Joey]

Yeah, yeah.

[Frank]

And in order to mine them, you need a pickaxe.

[Joey]

So I guess I gotta find some rocks.

[Frank]

Sure. But you also need a. Sticks. And then you need to find rocks and you need to make a stick pickaxe and then you can mine and then they break.

[Anthony]

Yep.

[Joey]

Well, then you gotta go get more.

[Anthony]

Yep.

[Joey]

So this is what it. The game is. So like, can you eventually work your way up to being like, oh, I built a car?

[Anthony]

No. Yes. No.

[Frank]

Yeah, on the tracks on the. On the Redstone.

[Anthony]

Honestly, technically you can. Technically you can build.

[Joey]

I'm sitting here with two crafters, aren't.

[Frank]

I'm not. I just see Miles playing it.

[Joey]

He loves. But you see it.

[Frank]

All right. He's told me that, like, it is so like intricate, like Minecraft as a world that like you can build functioning computers in that game.

[Anthony]

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's not simple. You can build a. I'm not saying you could. I'm saying you could build a fully working computer in Minecraft.

[Frank]

I'm just saying.

[Joey]

I'm not kidding.

[Frank]

Why the fuck would you do that?

[Joey]

I don't know, dude. I could throw a fully functional post route in Madden and score a touchdown to.

[Frank]

Right. Honestly, everyone has, you know, it's fair.

[Joey]

Everyone has their own things that they like, I guess. I've never played Minecraft. I've seen like videos of it and stuff, but I used to play Runescape back in the day.

[Frank]

Yeah, you were.

[Joey]

That I love and like that. Yeah, Keith was a big game, but like I used to walk over to trees and I would just like chop them down.

[Frank]

You were very big. I remember you were really big into like simulation games. Like, you liked Runescape. You loved Red Faction, like where you could like Red Faction, Red Faction or Command and Conquer. I still like that game. He loves games where you could delegate. He could be like, all right, guys, go do it.

[Joey]

That game's fun because you could like, you build buildings and you have to like, it's like a strategy.

[Frank]

You like, like Roller Coaster Tycoon and the Sims and City.

[Joey]

I never play. I've never played the Sims games ever.

[Frank]

Okay.

[Joey]

I played a version of Roller Coaster Tycoon on my phone for like four days and I was like, yeah, same.

[Frank]

It was too much.

[Joey]

I was like the hot dog machine cost $10 million.

[Frank]

The.

[Joey]

Is this.

[Frank]

Yeah, yeah. And it's just like, oh, no, there's not a. There's not a bathroom close enough to the Haunted Mansion. Like, just walk another step.

[Joey]

I'm also like, it's right there.

[Frank]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joey]

It's like, oh, the park's dirty now. These people are on the ground.

[Frank]

Yeah. Animals. Yeah. And they're just like, there's not enough trash cans. Trash cans. I get trash can.

[Joey]

You gotta have trash can.

[Frank]

I get the trash can.

[Joey]

I have trash can. People say, be walkable.

[Frank]

It's gotta walk. That's what people say about Disney. Disney. Everywhere you look, there's a trash can within, like, 10ft or something.

[Joey]

Yeah, something like that. Or in every line site or I line is what I meant to say.

[Frank]

There is a trash can site. Light of sign, side of your eye line, line of sight.

[Joey]

I'm saying the correct thing, and you're trying to come up with new ones.

[Frank]

Correct.

[Joey]

But the reason why I deleted that game is because there was an option to, like, you could just build a roller coaster or you could create a custom one. And I created a custom one. The first time someone got on it, they fell off, and it was like, oh, this is completely fucked up. I was like, fuck this game.

[Frank]

I used to. I had a copy of the Sims for the original Xbox, and I would like it because I would like to set up a house, and then I'd, like, take the door away. And then you could hear a robber coming, and they'd break through the window. And then sometimes you took their toilets away. They'd piss themselves. Right.

[Anthony]

Don't look at me.

[Joey]

You know when you just made that joke about me, like, oh, Joe likes games. We're. We're delegating.

[Frank]

You like torturing virtual people when they are soulless? Yes. Right. This is. This is what's scary about playing God.

[Joey]

Yeah. I think it's just being a bad person.

[Frank]

Yeah, I don't think so.

[Joey]

You'd be the guy in the. In the USS Callister. That's, like, mean to the virtual people.

[Frank]

No, no, no, because, like, it's different now. Now I softened.

[Joey]

AI doesn't become sentient because you're gonna.

[Frank]

Be very nice to computers. I'd be very nice. I've been very nice to computers. Okay. I've been very, very nice. I. I've softened up. Like, I can use it like a specific example. Like, when we were younger, there was a game called BioShock that I played. Great game, highly recommended. One of the greatest of all Time and like there are like these things called little sisters in the game. And you can either save them and you get a certain material or you can kill them. Basically kill them, but you get more of the material. But like the moral conundrum is that.

[Joey]

Like, not for young Frank. Well, more material. Thank you. See ya.

[Frank]

When I was younger, I fucking, I took I. All of it. All of it. All of it, all of it. And it like depends. It like changes the outcome of the game. Like you get different power ups. I played that game a couple years ago. I saved all them. I can't do it now. Yeah, I feel bad now.

[Joey]

I played Harry Potter and like in that game where it's like you could choose to learn the death spell and whatever. Fuck.

[Frank]

Every single death spell. Every single one. I learned.

[Joey]

I was too. I was like, I'm not gonna kill people in the castle, but I do want the option.

[Frank]

Well, I would only my way of justifying it is I only use it against like trolls and spiders.

[Joey]

Because it's really good.

[Frank]

Yeah, bro, it's, it's a one hit kill, but it takes a while to reload.

[Joey]

But it's like you can kill kids in the castle if you want. And like that's not good. And I wouldn't do it, but I like the option.

[Frank]

I, I, that was one game. Yeah, I'm with you.

[Joey]

I mean you're ripping their doors off and hoping people get robbed and then also listening to it. That's crazy. ASMR if people getting robbed.

[Frank]

Weird. Well, in Sim City you can. There could be monster attacks.

[Joey]

What's the. Oh, Kaijus.

[Frank]

Yeah, Kaiju's. You could do like one of them. I think in like the Super Nintendo version, it was like Bowser came through the city and like shit up.

[Joey]

That's crazy.

[Frank]

Yeah, it's fun.

[Joey]

It's fun like creating cities. You like creating things?

[Frank]

I do like creating things.

[Joey]

And that was a segue.

[Frank]

Very good.

[Joey]

That's how you segue.

[Frank]

That's the sinister segue, sir. Right there.

[Joey]

Okay, spell segue. Really quick go.

[Frank]

S E G U E. Yeah, baby, it's called, it's like segue.

[Joey]

Segue. Is it a French word?

[Frank]

Gotta be a stupid French word. They love having words that are just like they give up at the end, you know?

[Joey]

You know when things are like, like it's pronounced like Shea, whatever.

[Frank]

Shea Monterey or something.

[Joey]

Yeah, but it's spelled C H E Z. Yeah. It just makes me feel like Chez. Yeah. You know, because Chez just sounds like the dirtiest place in the world, like, come over to Chez Joe's or whatever.

[Frank]

Yeah, I can see that sounding pretty good. I mean, it sounds like Cheese, which if anyone would describe anything as like. If anyone had like, a nickname, it was like, cheese something. It's probably because they're disgusting.

[Joey]

Remember we used to call a girl Cheese?

[Frank]

No.

[Joey]

We used to call a girl Fish. No, I don't know Fish, but we used to call a girl Cheese.

[Frank]

I remember calling a girl Cheese.

[Joey]

Cheese. No, you suppose. Who was she?

[Frank]

I don't remember. I don't remember Girl Cheese. I don't remember Grilled Cheese.

[Joey]

She was really upset. Or you were obsessed with, like, string chi or the. What's the cheese that you could press out of the can?

[Frank]

String cheese? Yeah.

[Joey]

Is it called.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Anthony]

Cheese Whiz.

[Frank]

Like Cheese Whiz, but they call it String Cheese.

[Joey]

But there was a girl who, like, there was something with you and the Cheese. And then we would started calling this girl Cheese.

[Frank]

I don't remember that.

[Joey]

Who's Cheese?

[Frank]

How was Cheese?

[Joey]

Who is Cheese?

[Frank]

Oh, well, maybe she.

[Joey]

Blonde girl.

[Frank]

A blonde girl named Cheese.

[Joey]

Blonde girl named Cheese.

[Frank]

That's the right hair. You need to be called Cheese or it would make more sense. Yeah.

[Joey]

Who was it? Who was Blonde man? Oh, Brittany.

[Frank]

Brittany.

[Joey]

She's older than us. I'm not gonna say her last name. She was older than us. She's Blonde Girl Rooftop. Yes.

[Frank]

Gotcha. Yeah.

[Joey]

Yeah, but you called. We used to call it she.

[Frank]

Goodness gracious.

[Joey]

When we were young. We were probably like 12, and we were calling her Cheese.

[Frank]

It made no sense. Yeah, I. I had no clue.

[Joey]

I'm glad we figured that out. You guys enjoyed that. Anyway, for more pressing matters. Frank. Frank, you. You did something.

[Frank]

Well, technically, I didn't do something. It was the aura. It was the aura of somebody else. You know, a lot of people know that there are characters on this show that are born out of my incredible genius intellect. A lot of people often, you know, talk about the three time slam poetry of the year winner, Francisco. I am not Francisco, but I can become Francisco. And I want to introduce everyone to a new character, A new man.

[Joey]

Right.

[Frank]

It's just me.

[Joey]

It's me again.

[Frank]

It's me again. Big Buck Alvarez.

[Joey]

Big Buck Alvarez. I'm going to preface this entire thing.

[Frank]

Well, then, we didn't even tell them what we did.

[Joey]

Well, we're going to get to that. But, like, so here's what happened. Last year, we had a show in Nashville, and Frank's like, I need boots and I need a hat, like, immediately. So we got to Broadway, we go right into the first store, and this kid's walking around like, oh, dead. We need a little. I'm like, frank, they have. Someone's gonna shoot you.

[Frank]

I will be on Revolver. I will be honest. I think I was incredibly lucky to have escaped Nashville unscathed.

[Joey]

I thought there was gonna be a six shooter so much. Just like, get that guy.

[Frank]

Yeah. Because I also was doing it in a way that was a little playful amongst us. Right. But loud. Very loud.

[Joey]

So, like, everyone's hearing it. And granted, there's not a whole lot.

[Frank]

Of, like, actual, like, yeah, the guy.

[Joey]

Billions on Broadway.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

Like, blonde bachelorette parties for the most part.

[Frank]

And the guy that was, like, working there, he was like, yeah, I lived in New York for a couple years. Like, he was just. I was like, how to do it?

[Joey]

See, that's what he's doing.

[Frank]

And then he was just like, yeah, man, no problem. I'll help you find what you're looking for. And I was just like, okay. All right.

[Joey]

But then Frank just kept doing it. And then one day, he was like.

[Frank]

Yo, well, hold on. We got to preface this also. Oh, let's preface the preface. Yeah. Preface. Preface. Pre. Preface. We at our Nashville show, a lot of people don't know this. We did karaoke. We were in Nashville, and we were like, yo, this is a fucking party. We love to do karaoke, so let's do it. So we sang a song on stage. I don't know if legally, if we could say what song we did.

[Joey]

It was Wagon Wheel.

[Frank]

It was, what's going to happen? I don't know. You know, Darius Rucker might be in a bad mood today.

[Joey]

He's going to kick the door down and sue us.

[Frank]

He's like, hey, he's coming with the Blowfish.

[Joey]

Oh, wow, I forgot. Yeah, yeah, he's Hootie.

[Frank]

And we enjoyed it so much that I was just like.

[Joey]

Frank's like, how hard can it be to write a country song, basically? Or. Or it wasn't that. It was like, I can write a country song.

[Frank]

Yes.

[Joey]

And I was like, we're gonna see about that. So we jumped into the studio, a studio that we found.

[Frank]

Yep.

[Joey]

And we got instruments, we got this type of shit. And we created a song.

[Frank]

We did Big Buck Alvarez created the song. Big Buck Alvarez. Yeah.

[Joey]

He actually created the song, and we recorded a real song, and Frank performed it in Texas at all of our shows in Texas. So if you came to those Texas shows, you know what song we're talking about.

[Frank]

Song we're talking about it was. We only did it at the Texas shows.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

And it was ridiculous because we didn't tell anyone we were doing this, and we haven't spoken about it since.

[Joey]

Right. So we're like, we're gonna. We have to release this song for real.

[Frank]

The only people that know about that song or heard it were the people that were at those Texas shows. And it kind of fucking hits.

[Joey]

Look at your face right now. Look. Just look at you. The way that you look. You're like. You look like a. Like a sassy cat or something like that. And kind of hits. You're frozen in time.

[Frank]

I just want to make something very clear.

[Joey]

When you do that.

[Frank]

Just want to make something very clear.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

I am beyond elated talking about this. Big Buck Alvarez's debut single.

[Joey]

Debut single, Which. Which is coming out on the 4th.

[Frank]

Of July because we want it to be the song of the summer, folks.

[Joey]

Song of the summer. It is the 4th of July, hot dogs. America, Texas.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

Big Buck Alvarez.

[Frank]

And when we were coming up with the song, by the way, it was birthed out of delusion, and it was raised in the bosom of idiocracy.

[Joey]

That's beautiful.

[Frank]

What you're saying is idiocracy is not a real word, but only further.

[Joey]

It felt right, though.

[Frank]

It was. So when we were talking, we thought, like, all right, how are. What are we gonna do for this? How are we gonna make this? Like, what should it be? And I'm a big fan of the Office, and I was watching the Office at that time, and one of my favorite episodes is Threat Level Midnight, where Michael Scarn does the dance. The Scarn, right? Jump to the left and you shake that hand. Jump to the right, Shake that hand. Meet new friends, tie some yarn. That's how you do the scar.

[Joey]

Right? So you were. You were inspired by this. And listen, the song, I will say it's very good. And I will say. I will say this right. Even if you listen to the song and you're like, what the fuck? I'm fucking guaranteeing you that four days later, you're gonna be like, get this out of my fucking head, because it doesn't go away.

[Frank]

So we found that when we were in Nashville, I was just screaming, doot, doot.

[Joey]

We found a team of scientists and research found that Frankie could not stop saying dude. Dude.

[Frank]

So the song of the summer, Big Buck Alvarez's debut single, is the Double Dude.

[Joey]

And it's coming out on the 4th of July. And I'm gonna play a little Snippet.

[Frank]

A little snippy. A little snippy.

[Joey]

Snip, snap, snow that.

[Frank]

A little. I'll play a little snip slip.

[Joey]

Don't think that was nearly as cool as you thought it was, but I'll play the thing and you could just perform it, Mimet. You don't have to stand up or anything.

[Frank]

Oh, okay. Because I wasn't going to.

[Joey]

Yeah, yeah, okay. I'm just saying. All right, guys, so here it is. The. The world premiere, besides Texas, the world premiere of a snippet.

[Frank]

The worldwide. I mean, technically worldwide snippet. It was the Texas premiere.

[Joey]

Right.

[Frank]

So now we're doing the rest of the world premiere.

[Joey]

Yeah. And it's coming out. It's going to be on Spotify. There's a. There's a music video dropping on Santa Gal Studios on the 4th of July. All the shit coming out on the 4th of July. And if you go into the. The description of this, you will see there's a pre save link so you could pre save it so you could be one of the first people here. It's coming out on midnight. Fourth of July, by the way. So the second that it is July.

[Frank]

4Th, you will have the song and we need to. Guys, listen, this is the first time. I don't. This is the thing. First of all, this is the first time we're doing something like this. And you guys have always been so incredibly kind and supportive. So is tag us and videos you blasting that shit. There's a dance to it.

[Joey]

You're gonna have to make a bunch of.

[Frank]

I know I'm gonna be on it. Don't you worry. I've already. Me and the Social dance. Me and the Social team are on it.

[Joey]

Okay, There's a dance, There's a dance song.

[Frank]

And it's a little difficult to remember, but if you listen.

[Joey]

I can't not remember it.

[Frank]

It's also meant to be a parody. Like, it's meant to be satirical.

[Joey]

I can tell you this right now. If I, God forbid, develop dementia in my later years, I will not forget this. I will not forget this song. And I don't know if that's good or bad.

[Frank]

Well, like, in writing it, and I know we're talking too much about it if you want me to shut up.

[Joey]

In writing it.

[Frank]

In writing it, I was thinking of, like, making it a satire. Like, what is the most country sounding thing I can do?

[Joey]

Yeah. So, ladies and gentlemen, the world premiere of High Sex. The snippet of the Double dude coming on the 4th of July.

[Frank]

We put in. Who's editing this?

[Joey]

Josh, what are we doing?

[Frank]

Could we put in the music? Like, the MTV music video premiere thing? Right here, Right here, right now.

[Joey]

That's. That's what you. That. I'm, like, in the middle of playing the snips.

[Frank]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey]

All right, ready? Here we go.

[Frank]

Here in your hand. Then you take a sip. You go, 1, 2, 1, 2. Take a dip.

[Joey]

That's all we're giving you right now. That's it. That's a snippet. Would you say Slip snipped? Guys, listen, I'm not. I'm not gonna play it again. Not gonna play it again. But you have the snippet. It's coming out on the 4th of July. All right, so be ready for that. Pre save is in this.

[Frank]

We were in that studio crying, laughing, and how.

[Joey]

Just funny.

[Frank]

Like, you go in with an idea.

[Joey]

The engineer was taking it so seriously, which I appreciate.

[Frank]

He's like, oh, dude, this sounds so fucking rad. He's like, oh, what we could do is you could put a fucking hi hat right here, brother.

[Joey]

Yo, that's. That was also, like. What he was doing was, like, incredible, dude.

[Frank]

The kid was a wiz. And all the musicians that helped out. Mikey, by the way, a huge part of this, too. Like, unbelievably talented. Those are live instruments.

[Joey]

Yeah, there are live instruments on there.

[Frank]

So it's so stupid, but that's what makes it fun.

[Joey]

Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be a banger. Like I said, pre save is in the description. July 4ths coming out music video will be on San Diego studios and, you know, Spotify.

[Frank]

It's gonna be a double dip. It's gonna be a double. Dude, Summer.

[Joey]

I'm looking out for this Tic Tacs. Yeah. I'm looking out for your Tick Tock, because there's a dance and Frank. I know that Frank's gonna. You should drop it to a split at one point. You should train.

[Frank]

Come on. Okay, well, then we got. We've got time.

[Joey]

Frank, if I can tell you this right now, if at any point in your life you just randomly dropped into a split in front of me, that would.

[Frank]

I know my life would be better. You brought this up before this. Yeah, you said this before. It seems like a challenge, and maybe I'll do it. Yeah, I got it. I got to get back into a couple things before I go straight into doing a split. I get close, though. I could get close as it is. No, no, no, I'll do it. Look, look, no practice.

[Joey]

I don't know if Frank is aware that no one can see him, but he's doing a split. It's not. That's not bad. You're about like you're a quarter away. No, Frank, you are. You are pretty far away. Ants trying to. You're grab. Frank's grabbing his groin now. So that's over with. That's over with. So Frank's in trouble. An out. That's what I mean. That's the one that you want. Yeah. You're. You're trying to do like a Van Halen split or something. I don't know why I went with that.

[Frank]

Yeah, those are hard too. If I do a straight out split like Jean Claude Van Damme.

[Joey]

Yes. With chairs.

[Frank]

I don't think can't.

[Joey]

Logan Paul does splits.

[Frank]

He gets split. Logan Paul is a world class athlete.

[Joey]

He splits his balls or whatever. That's crazy.

[Frank]

Yeah. I'd be a little worried about my. My stuff.

[Joey]

Your shit ripping. Yeah. What happens if I jump into a split? Do I rip my muscles off the bone?

[Frank]

I think your muscles need the elasticity in order to get there. You could do it. You'll be in pain.

[Joey]

I don't even know if that's possible. I think they would rip off the bone.

[Frank]

Give it a shot.

[Joey]

I'm not gonna give it a shot. I'm not flexible.

[Frank]

You know. You know who. You know who might be a little flexible.

[Joey]

Are you flexible?

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Can you do a split nap?

[Joey]

Yeah. You snapped. Yeah.

[Frank]

Are you. See?

[Joey]

So do you. Let me ask you a question. Don't fucking lie.

[Anthony]

Dude, I would never lie to you.

[Joey]

You ever get folded into a pretzel?

[Frank]

Why is that your first question?

[Anthony]

No.

[Frank]

Are you okay? You horny today or something, bro?

[Joey]

He said he gets his mouth spitting. You could get folded into a pretzel too. I'm not judging you. I'm just curious.

[Anthony]

The pretzel feels like a lot.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

Can you put your leg over your head?

[Anthony]

I could get close, I think.

[Joey]

Bro, if you put your fucking leg over your head, I would be a stack.

[Frank]

I used to be able to do that, but it was.

[Joey]

What? Say it. College.

[Frank]

Maybe around that time.

[Joey]

But I think I've seen you do that.

[Frank]

Probably. I had a few party tricks. That was one of them.

[Joey]

You'd be at parties being like, hold on.

[Frank]

Watch this guy.

[Joey]

Stop your beer pong game. Let me shot. Everyone stop playing flip cup. Let me put my.

[Frank]

Yeah, Damn.

[Joey]

I'm not flexible at all. And I can't. You know when you're younger and Everyone thought it was so cool to be like, look, I'm double jointed. And they would put their finger like this.

[Frank]

You mean like this?

[Joey]

Yeah. Or that. But their finger would get mean. You know when people, like, have a mean.

[Frank]

Yeah. It's like the veins.

[Joey]

Look, look, I'm double jointed. I'm like, you just look like you're pointing.

[Frank]

I hated the one that people would be like, look at this. And they'd fold their tongue into a doily. And they'd be like, cool. And I'm like, stupid.

[Joey]

Yeah. And it's like, it looks like a. Like a. Like a. I don't even know what that.

[Frank]

It looks like a w. Like they can fold their tongue in itself. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joey]

I'm like, bro, what does this mean?

[Frank]

I. I thought. I always thought that I'm supposed to.

[Joey]

Be attracted to this. Like, this makes you better at making out because you could fold your. Into a wave. Come on.

[Frank]

I don't think people were showing you. In order to show that they were good at making.

[Joey]

People were doing that. It was like that. And also like tying a cherry.

[Frank]

That one is the famous. The starburst and the cherry stem. We. We know those. We've gone through those.

[Joey]

Yeah. You know, but I'm saying that was like another one of those. But I hated the finger. It's like, look, I'm double jointed. I'm like, bro, I. You. This looks stupid to me.

[Frank]

The other one that freaks me. I think Becky could do it, actually, is when they could take their thumb and go all the way back to their forearm or something like that.

[Joey]

Are you double jointed? You got any cool stuff about your body?

[Anthony]

No, nothing cool, bro.

[Frank]

I remember when I was a kid, I was so pissed because there was an episode of Figure It Out. Remember Figure it out with Summer Sanders.

[Joey]

Do I do. I fucking loved Summer Sanders.

[Frank]

Billy the answer head is a God in my household. Wow. And she was on the show and. And her. Her secret talent was that she could fit her body through a coat hanger. And I was like, bro, I remember that episode vividly. And I watched it and I was like. And I did it. I was like, what the. Summer Sanders. Get me on this show with that dumbass fat head next to you, dude.

[Joey]

Just because of how angry you were. That f beginning word felt so insane. I was like, where is he going? How mad is he right now? Like, dude, chill.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Anthony]

I could pick up a baseball at my foot.

[Frank]

Shut the. What are you, a eagle, bro, A baseball is. A.

[Joey]

Baseball is crazy. I could Pick up, like, coins.

[Frank]

I can.

[Joey]

Like a pen.

[Anthony]

I can pick up a baseball, a base.

[Frank]

You pick up that water bottle right there with your foot. Yeah, easily.

[Anthony]

I'd have to take off my.

[Frank]

Not. No. Like, long ways, like grip the cylinder.

[Joey]

If. If that bottle was laid on its side and you picked it up with.

[Frank]

Your foot, what do you have on firing you fucking talons.

[Anthony]

I just can kind of. I don't know.

[Joey]

I don't believe this.

[Anthony]

Well, I would have to take off my sock.

[Joey]

Well, yeah. Ready? All that. How are your feet? 1 to 10?

[Anthony]

Not great right now.

[Frank]

What's right now? When are they better?

[Anthony]

They could probably use a snip.

[Joey]

You got a fungus going on.

[Frank]

No, no, he's saying his toenails.

[Joey]

The bottom of your foot look like it's all fucked up.

[Anthony]

That's probably not great.

[Joey]

Yeah, it's all right.

[Frank]

Their feet. No one needs to see them.

[Joey]

What about you? You got good bottom. Your feet?

[Frank]

Yeah, they're fine. I don't hate them. You know, my toenails get a little craz.

[Joey]

Mine, definitely.

[Frank]

My pinky toenail shouldn't even be on my body. My should not be there.

[Joey]

The pinky toenail is a joke, dude. Mine's like, rectangular.

[Frank]

It's just like mine. Like, I guess, because the way it cuts. And it's the only way I can cut it when I use the clippers because of how it's shaped. It's, like, straight across. Straight across. It's like a fucking mountain. Mine, I'll tell you this.

[Joey]

It's a what?

[Frank]

A mountain? Like, it comes to a point. Oh, my fucking big toenail. Yeah. I'm not kidding. I legitimately think I could slice someone's throat with it.

[Joey]

Yo, that's a thick ass nail.

[Frank]

It's thick and it's sharp.

[Joey]

You know what? I do that. I don't know if you guys have the same strategy as me, but when I cut my big toenail, I clip once and then I just peel.

[Frank]

You're. And you've yet to fucking, like, peel too much?

[Joey]

No.

[Frank]

For you.

[Joey]

I've never.

[Frank]

I clip the sides just to make sure it doesn't, like, get into, like, inkgrown toenail situation. Yeah, and then I go in the middle.

[Anthony]

Do you clip before or after the shower?

[Frank]

After.

[Joey]

I don't line that up.

[Anthony]

Well, after the shower, your nails are a little softer. It's a little easier to snipe.

[Joey]

I mean, I'm not struggling to cut my.

[Frank]

Oh, I.

[Anthony]

You're peeling them off, like.

[Frank]

Yeah, like they're fucking Christmas Tree wrapper.

[Joey]

If I. A Christmas tree wrapper.

[Frank]

What is that?

[Joey]

Yeah, I don't know. My, my fingers, I do like, I'm like Edward Scissorhands with my fingers, but my toes, I'm just like, pat, pat, pat, pat.

[Frank]

Oh, I, I, I've since cut back a lot, but I used to bite my fingernails like Frankie. I, No, I, I, I have. You could see, you could see my fingernails. They are mostly uniform in their shape. Thumbs up my. Thought I said fingernails, bitch.

[Joey]

Okay.

[Frank]

And also, I don't bite this. I pick at it like that.

[Joey]

But you also bite. You're a bite.

[Frank]

There's something else hanging. I'll go like this.

[Joey]

That's biting.

[Frank]

Yeah. Not, not that often, though. Not as bad as it used to be.

[Joey]

Frank, you, I could see a cut on your thumb right here.

[Frank]

Where?

[Joey]

Hand down. Put your hand down right there. I can see it. It's red.

[Frank]

Where?

[Joey]

Right there.

[Frank]

Oh, right there. Yeah. That's not biting. That's just going like that.

[Joey]

You destroy your thumb and sometimes you got to put band aids on them to stop yourself.

[Frank]

Sometimes, sometimes.

[Joey]

Sometimes. Well, we do have some ads that.

[Frank]

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[Joey]

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[Frank]

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[Joey]

I assume that's how you talk most of the time?

[Frank]

Not most of the time, but definitely some of the time. I would say.

[Joey]

I think that's the whole podcast. Like, you start going somewhere and you're like, I'm too far into the sentence. I have to end it.

[Frank]

Well, why waste my own breath, right? Commit to the bit. If I start saying something, I better finish it.

[Joey]

Yeah. So you're doing it now.

[Frank]

Yep.

[Joey]

Like, you're trying to. You're trying to come up with, like a.

[Frank]

Well, I'm not, I'm not a. I'm not an intellectual tease. If I'm allowing people. What does that mean, if I'm allowing people view into my brain?

[Joey]

If you're allowing people to view into your brain.

[Frank]

Yeah, I'm giving them the whole. I'm giving them the whole thing.

[Joey]

What does that mean? Now you're not talking. That's contradicting what you're saying.

[Frank]

You know what I'm talking about.

[Joey]

I have no idea.

[Frank]

I think you do. So.

[Joey]

See, you know what's crazy now? It's you completely shut off.

[Frank]

Like, as you were.

[Joey]

Like, oh, intellectually, like, whatever.

[Frank]

Like, you.

[Joey]

This whole time, after you brought it up, you just started talking and it happened.

[Frank]

I, I. Every now and then I have a lapse in, like, my brain just shut. Just shuts.

[Joey]

I would love to see what's going on.

[Frank]

It shuts off. I'm also very tired.

[Joey]

You're very tired. Hey, don't do that. Okay, you can stop. Nope, don't do it. But it's getting worse. Can we stop at 7? 8?

[Frank]

Okay, good.

[Joey]

I wanted to talk about this thing. Are you drooling?

[Anthony]

I heard some noise in my ear just now. I don't know what that was.

[Joey]

I heard that too, from across the table. But I think he's drooling.

[Frank]

I'm good. I'm good.

[Joey]

Really. Did you drool?

[Frank]

Almost.

[Joey]

You look wet. Your lips look wet. You know those kids growing up in school where their lips were always wet? What was with that?

[Frank]

I hated those kids.

[Joey]

Or they had the red ring around.

[Frank]

This was my least favorite kid.

[Joey]

That's who I'm talking about.

[Frank]

They would have wet lips, wet mouth, wet. Dry your mouth up, you fucking loser.

[Joey]

Why is it so wet? And it's not like they were wearing like, chapstick.

[Frank]

They were just wet lips.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

And there's one kid.

[Joey]

I forgot his name, but he had a red wing around his head.

[Frank]

Always. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I will say this, though. Those kids that had the wet mouth were always the ones that sneezed into their hand. It was like, I hate that. I hated that, bro. Sneeze. Like, not a loser, bro.

[Joey]

Also, I don't know if this is just me, but, like, whenever I sneeze and someone goes, do you need a tissue? It's like. But I sneeze one time. Relax. Like, I didn't sneeze. Like, I'm sick. Like, it's, like, wet. Like, sometimes you have a dry ass. Sneeze. Most of my sneezes are dry.

[Frank]

I think you need to realize you're probably the outlier in terms of sneezing. Like, sneezes are not as pleasant as you seem to make them sound.

[Joey]

I'm not saying that they're pleasant, but.

[Frank]

Like, you do, like, a chew, and then you're good. There are people that sneeze, like, shotgun blasts, and they're wet most of the time.

[Joey]

Father. Yeah, bro.

[Frank]

My dad the other day.

[Joey]

What is with fathers? They can't sneeze correctly.

[Frank]

I'm getting there. I'm getting there, and I hate it. I'm slowly becoming.

[Joey]

Oh, you're. You're doing, like. You're like that, though. You have performative sneezes.

[Frank]

I do. I like to make them a little show.

[Joey]

You like to keep your mouth open. Sometimes she likes to go, like. And I'm like, dude.

[Frank]

Yeah. My new thing. You're gonna hate this. My new thing with Becca is if I have to sneeze, I'll, like, sneeze on her.

[Joey]

Yeah. I'm gonna hate it. Yep. I'm gonna hate it. You were right. I do hate it.

[Frank]

Like, we'll be in bed, and I have to sneeze, and I'll, like, where will you sneeze?

[Joey]

In her face?

[Frank]

No, no, no. Never in her face. I'll, like, go, oh, what a good guy. I'll be, like, holding her hand, and I'll put her. Because, like. Like, when we're in bed holding hands, I'll. I'll, like, bring it up to my face sometimes, and I'll, like, kiss it and stuff like that.

[Joey]

And then you just.

[Frank]

And then sometimes I'll bring it here. I'll just go, and I'll sneeze right into it. And she gets. She's like, why? Like, please stop It's a fun little cute thing I do.

[Joey]

Yeah, but only you enjoy it. Yeah, that's the thing. That's the issue.

[Frank]

If she said to me, I think. I'm sure she said no. No. I think a small part of her.

[Joey]

Might like it that you sneeze in.

[Frank]

Her hand, but not like. Like she likes. Like. Because it's just something I do. Like, it's like, the idea of, like, when I'm gone, eventually she'll be like, that was something he did. That was so him. That's just like, I miss Frank.

[Joey]

I hope there's a laundry list of things before she gets to use to sneeze in my hand.

[Frank]

Well, I'm not saying like that, but, like, it'll be triggered when she hears a sneeze.

[Joey]

Is this your way of gaslighting me into thinking that this is a romantic gesture that you sneeze into your wife's hand?

[Frank]

I know.

[Joey]

Well, when I die, I know it's over. That I did.

[Frank]

I know it's not romantic, and I'm very well aware that it is stupid, but it's just, like, I feel like.

[Joey]

You'Ve sneezed in my face.

[Frank]

Well, another party trick I had after I put my legs. Yeah. My fake sneeze.

[Joey]

If that one didn't work, there was a plan B, and it was fake sneezing.

[Frank]

Yeah, the fake sneezing. Because I'm a very good fake sneezer. So.

[Joey]

You are. Hit him with a.

[Anthony]

Away from the mic, please.

[Frank]

All right, well, I got the wind up. Is part of it good? I'm just like.

[Joey]

It'S great.

[Frank]

It's a really good fake.

[Joey]

Really good fake sneeze.

[Frank]

Really? So, like, that was what I'd be like. I'd pretend I couldn't stop sneezing.

[Joey]

Right.

[Frank]

And, like, sometimes, like, I was gonna sneeze in a person's face, and then.

[Joey]

At that point, there's no need for a plan, because there is no way that you haven't captivated the audience with plan B. If it ain't the leg, it's the sneeze. That's amazing.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

Whoa.

[Frank]

Dude, my hair is getting that long.

[Joey]

The way you put the hat on.

[Frank]

Huh? My hair is getting long.

[Joey]

Are you growing it out?

[Frank]

I'll cut it soon. It's getting annoying.

[Joey]

Really?

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

I like it.

[Frank]

Thank you. I appreciate you liking it, but it becomes a lot. It's just another thing to do.

[Joey]

Have hair.

[Frank]

Like, have to, like, take care of hair.

[Joey]

How do you take care of your hair?

[Frank]

Well, like, in terms of, like, I have to wear a hat or a headband because if you see what it's like when there's not those things on it, it's crazy.

[Joey]

Can't you just. I mean, I've seen you. What do you mean when I've seen you?

[Frank]

Like, if I shower and I let my hair dry.

[Joey]

Oh, well, you have to put stuff in it.

[Frank]

I don't always want to do that.

[Joey]

Oh, I see what you're saying.

[Frank]

You know, so you got to wear a hat. Exactly what I said.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Anthony]

Do you have a night routine? Like. Like the oil and a face mask? Do you have that?

[Joey]

Not all the time. I mean, I have face stuff that I put on. Like, I'm wearing. I'm wearing, like, a serum.

[Frank]

Good for you.

[Joey]

Because I don't want to. I mean, you know me.

[Frank]

No good. I'm serious. That's not like a. That's not like a good for you. That's like a good. Good for you that.

[Joey]

I only started doing this, like, two years ago. Three years ago.

[Frank]

Joey, we need to. We need to realize we're aging.

[Joey]

Oh, I realize, and I know you do. I don't mean that to be offensive. I mean it. That Frank thinks about.

[Frank]

We're all gonna die one day. Oh, I. I wasn't.

[Joey]

Time marches on and it freaks me out.

[Frank]

I'm thinking physically, like.

[Joey]

No, I know. Like, we're aging. I know we're old, dude.

[Frank]

Yeah, but I didn't like the way that. I think you're backtracking. You should be like, Frankie means it, like, in a metaphysical standpoint.

[Joey]

I think that's 100% the reason why, like, you talk about how that's the scariest thing on Earth.

[Frank]

Death.

[Joey]

Well, no, just the fact that, like, you know, time, it just keeps going.

[Frank]

Yeah. It's crazy.

[Joey]

Freaks me out. And I'm like, I know it's crazy.

[Frank]

But maybe I'm closer to an intellect because I struggle and try to understand the concept of time. This seemingly invisible force that you can't see, and it is so powerful. So me trying to go through that and understand it just makes me closer to godliness, I guess. I don't know.

[Joey]

It's called just being self aware.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

I don't know why you want this godly Godliness is kind of crazy. I wanted to talk about this thing, though, that, like, you had brought up before the show, where it's like, there's a machine or something. Does it exist or it doesn't exist, where it turns your dreams into videos.

[Frank]

Yeah. So it's it's this machine where you can.

[Joey]

It's real or it's like they're building one.

[Frank]

That's a great question. I think it's in development, but the idea is that, like, it sits next to your bed and it has a little screen on the front and you can talk to it or into it or with a microphone or whatever.

[Joey]

All of those are the same thing.

[Frank]

No, you could, like, if it.

[Joey]

You could talk into it, add it into a microphone.

[Frank]

Reason I thought I was different because I was holding it like this. And the idea is that, like, you'll tell it your dream and it'll create a movie. Create it using AI.

[Joey]

When you. When you say that. I said that. So weird.

[Frank]

Would you say that when you say that?

[Joey]

Originally I thought it was like something you put on your head and then all of your dreams get made into videos. I wish.

[Frank]

That exist. No way. I have seen Batman Forever way too many times to trust something like that.

[Joey]

Oh, the Riddler.

[Frank]

Yeah. Remember he puts like the suction cup thing on the people's head and he like, steers, steals their intellect or something like that.

[Joey]

Whatever. I mean, whatever.

[Frank]

Then fucking Jeff Bezos will own your brain waves. You're cool with that?

[Joey]

Can I still have mine?

[Frank]

He'll have them.

[Joey]

He basically has them now.

[Frank]

Does he?

[Joey]

Does I mean all the data points.

[Anthony]

Like, if celebrity sold their dreams like that, like you could.

[Joey]

What do I give a fuck?

[Anthony]

I'm saying I think a lot of people buying them.

[Frank]

Oh, my God. That's the next. That's the next.

[Joey]

Like, if you sell your dreams, you are a soulless pig. If you.

[Frank]

You can't.

[Joey]

You have to sound crazy.

[Frank]

That's crazy. That's the next billion dollar industry and you're just shitting on it the whole way.

[Joey]

I am. I said that's sickening.

[Frank]

Hey, I'm in. I'm in from the ground up. All right. He's.

[Joey]

What do you want? You're going to sell your dreams?

[Frank]

I'm not saying I'll sell my dreams.

[Joey]

But that's what I'm saying.

[Frank]

There are people that are pay for it.

[Joey]

What does that mean? You should sell it, maybe. Nope. Just because people will buy it doesn't mean that you should sell it.

[Frank]

Well, people are buying and selling bath water. So, like, that's. Bro, you're going to tell me if there was a dream company and what would it be called?

[Joey]

DreamWorks.

[Frank]

That's already an animation company.

[Joey]

Welcome to the joke, Frank. Welcome to the joke.

[Anthony]

There's a great name for it, though.

[Frank]

It Is. Or Dream View. Head View.

[Joey]

That feels like a different kind of website.

[Anthony]

That's the one you type in by accident. You're like, oh, God, yeah.

[Frank]

Okay. Either way. Yeah. Oh, gotcha. Mind View. Mind, Mind Film.

[Joey]

Whatever you're doing, I feel like, is not important to what we're trying to get to.

[Frank]

And it would. Like, there are people that it's gonna like, oh, Sydney Sweeney. She just sold her bath water, right? She's selling her dreams, bro. People are going to be all over it. All over it.

[Joey]

I'm sure they would, but I don't.

[Frank]

And you could put it. You could do different pricing, different tiers. Like, this one is about nature. This one is about relationships. This one is about food. You kidding me? Copyrighted, by the way.

[Anthony]

You don't think there'll be someone that's like, okay, watch. Watch this movie first and then go to sleep, and I want the dream after that or something.

[Joey]

You know what I mean?

[Frank]

Oh, you guys are sick.

[Joey]

They're definitely your eyes. You have a sick look.

[Anthony]

I'm not buying it.

[Joey]

You know what I mean?

[Frank]

I just want to be clear. I had nothing to do with that point that you said you're getting in the ground up. Yeah, you literally just said, well, not when it became voyeurism, you sick sex freak.

[Joey]

I mean, I don't think anyone. I don't think anyone would sell their dreams. You guys haven't watched Inception? Guys, come on.

[Frank]

Well, they go into dreams. They don't sell them.

[Joey]

I Right, they go into them. Because no one, like, I think subconscious.

[Frank]

It's the next. It's the next sellable thing.

[Joey]

It isn't.

[Frank]

We are next. I would say it's.

[Joey]

There's a billion things in between this and that, that and that and that. And what's next?

[Frank]

What are they?

[Anthony]

He's got you here.

[Joey]

I don't know. It could be anything. You think the next thing that we're going to sell is dream?

[Frank]

I think it's if. If this item becomes popular and refined and does well, it's gonna be like a subscription base where you could be like. It's like, only fans, but for buying dreams. It could be like, oh, Joe, Santa gotto had a dream last night. Let's see what it is. And it's a minute clip of, like, so I'm going. And then, like, someone sees my dog and kicks my dog, and I turn into a robot. And I like, it's. It's gonna happen.

[Joey]

1. I. No one would want to pay for my dreams. All they would have to do is see 1.

[Frank]

The humbleness on this man.

[Joey]

The humility, first of all, ability. It's not about that. I'm saying you would watch one, you'd be like, what the fuck was that? Sometimes I have dreams and I'm just on my couch.

[Frank]

That's the other thing is like, people will say, like, if you have a banana before you sleep, you have like vivid dreams.

[Joey]

If I believe any of that, when I'm really hydrated and go to sleep, then I have good dreams.

[Frank]

Holy shit. We didn't talk about our recent trip.

[Joey]

Oh, my God, dude. Speaking of having like a fucking vivid.

[Frank]

Dream, you didn't hear about this?

[Joey]

Yo, I didn't even tell you this. Yeah, yeah. So me and Frankie had to go. We were on a trip. We're not gonna say what it was yet, but we were on a trip and we were staying in an Airbnb and there was a slight time difference and we had went to dinner, we.

[Frank]

Got home, we had some wine at dinner.

[Joey]

Yeah, but no one was like, drunk.

[Frank]

No, absolutely not.

[Joey]

So, like, I went to sleep. And then when you hear Lululemon, you probably think of align yoga pants. Weightlessly soft, like you're wearing next to nothing. That's why you see them in class, at the grocery store and in the park. But did you know about skirts with built in liner shorts so you can still jump for the Frisbee and tanks and bodysuits with the line's iconic stretch, you won't want to take it off. And with endless style options, you don't have to shop in store or [e-mail] I'll tell it. And then you could pick it up from when it's your experience. But I remember waking up. So we went to bed around 10:30 or 10:45 in that time zone. And I woke up at about probably like 1245.

[Frank]

It was. No, it was 12. I remember looking over and I saw 1239.

[Anthony]

Oh, you guys were in the same bed?

[Joey]

No, no, we weren't in the same bed. You'll hear, but we were in separate rooms. So then I remember waking up and like, to my defense, there was a ton of doors. This area, there's like a door to the living room that opens up. Then there's two doors here. Bedroom, bedroom. So I went through and then eventually I ended up in Frank's room. And what happened?

[Frank]

So I take when I go on these Airbnb for those that don't know. Yeah, I am very conscious of security because in my head, I've seen way too many horror movies where, like, this is just the next horror movie waiting to happen.

[Joey]

And you've played the Sims and you've.

[Frank]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. So I put a. A rolly desk chair in front of the door to my room because there was nothing else that I could put there.

[Joey]

Right.

[Frank]

And I thought I locked it, by the way. Just want to make that clear. So I'm woken up to the sound of the wheels on the floor. Now, mind you, I'm laying like this on my side. And he's coming around the corner. Joey's coming around the corner this way. So by the time I hear it, I jump up and I'm fucking on my side in the most compromising position. And I see Joey.

[Joey]

What do my eyes look like?

[Frank]

And I'm like, yo, what's up? You good? And he was.

[Joey]

I remember you saying the first thing you said was, is everything okay?

[Frank]

Yeah. Like, is everything all right? And he was flabbergasted that I. Like, he had the tone of just like, yeah. He's like, yeah, I'm good. And I'm like, I'm good as you.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Like, you fucking. Why are you laying like that? And I'm like, what's up? And he's like, no, I want you to use the bathroom. I figured I'd come out here, say what's up to you and Pete.

[Joey]

We're the only ones in the house.

[Frank]

There was nobody else. Pete's my cousin who wasn't there with us. What? Like, I don't even think we spoke about Pete at dinner. Like, it was not like he came.

[Joey]

Up, never came up.

[Frank]

And I'm like, what? And you're like, yeah, what's up? And I'm like, dude, I think you're sleepwalking. And you're like, that's when I think it fucking hit you.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Like, huh? Yeah.

[Joey]

Eventually, I'm standing there and I start to realize, oh, I'm crazy. You know, Like. And then I'm, like, coming too slowly because I think I was, like, slowly waking up, but I was moving. And then I remember standing there and I was trying to explain myself, but I was still confused. And I'm looking at Frankie looking at me like I'm the dumbest person in the world. And I'm like, I. Yeah. And I just, like, walked away. Dude. When I got back to my bed, I was laughing my ass.

[Frank]

Yo. And then again, remember, slight time difference. I get a text at 5:30 in the morning from him.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

I'm so sorry. I feel Insane. I was like, yo, it's fine. Don't worry about it.

[Joey]

I feel like an insane person when that happens. You're like, yo, what the hell's going on, yo?

[Frank]

We laughed about it that whole morning because, like, just the incredulous. Like, yeah, yeah, I'm good. What the do you mean barge into his room?

[Joey]

And I'm like, yeah, what the are you talking?

[Frank]

What about. You know, like, what about this situation makes you think anything is not okay?

[Joey]

This is completely normal.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

What is wrong with you?

[Frank]

And I think the funny, like. Like, the funniest part is, like, I'm so aware of, like, when we're away on these trips of, like, thinking of, like, an intruder breaking in when, like, yeah, you could have done me in right there. Like, you could have killed me. 100, you know, the call's coming from inside of the house type of thing. You know what I'm saying, dude?

[Joey]

God, that was so funny. I got back to my bed and I started texting Frank, and I was like, I'm just not going to do this right now because I'd rather talk to him in person. But I literally was like, yo, I feel like a crazy person. But it was making me laugh because I was like, I don't even know because I don't even think I went to the bathroom, to be honest with you. I don't think I went to the bathroom beforehand. I think I just got up and.

[Frank]

Went right to your room, which. Was there a bathroom in your room?

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Oh, so you just decided to take a trip?

[Joey]

So, yeah. Yeah, but, like, I remember also.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

Dude, in my mind, fucking.

[Frank]

What's wrong with you?

[Joey]

So in my mind, like, right afterwards, in my mind, I was like, oh, like I was sleepwalking, like, whatever. But what I thought I was doing was showing you where the bathroom was. So that was my story until I woke up. And then I talked to him, and he goes, you. You said you came into my room to say hi to me and Pete.

[Frank]

I was like, I don't remember that at all. Well, no, you said you thought you were in the living room because you said, I came out here to say hi to you and Pete. Oh, so you thought I was in the living room sleeping? I guess.

[Joey]

I don't know, dude.

[Frank]

By the way, so funny, he was coming to show me where the bathroom was. Guess where it was in my room. Yeah, we both had a bathroom in our room.

[Joey]

Yeah. I just, like, don't remember the horror.

[Anthony]

Like, velociraptor sound of the.

[Frank]

Of the Wheel well, bro, I heard it and I'm like, yeah. Like, my first thought is just like, oh, shit, someone is actually like, I am actually prepared right now because like when we go away on trips. Yeah, when we go away on trips, I don't sleep well when I'm away from home. I don't. Just because I'm hyper aware of the fact that like I'm just not in my own environment.

[Joey]

Strangers house.

[Frank]

Like I'm. Bro, I'm in. Am in a stranger's house. Like there's doors that are locked. I don't know what the fuck is behind those doors. Like, I don't know who can just walk in at any time. You know, it's just a weird concept. The fact that like, as I heard it, I jumped up like, oh shit, it's go time. And then it's just fucking your noodle head around the corner just like numb.

[Joey]

And yo, I'm lucky you didn't fucking attack me.

[Frank]

Well, that's the other funny part is that if there was someone that actually broke it, I was in such a compromising position.

[Joey]

Well, also, you said you couldn't. Like there was. It looked like the lights were on. Bro, can I be honest with you? Also, like, now what I'm picturing this. It looks like you were laying on your back and that your feet were like touching the ground like in front of the bed. Like when I'm picturing walking into scene, that's what I'm picturing.

[Frank]

So there was a light bulb in the room that I couldn't find. Figure out how to turn off. Yeah, but it was one of those where it's like the light bulb, like the bottom like two thirds of it is like painted. It's like a chrome paint. So like the light only comes out the top of it. So it's very dim. It's. It's like, it's. It simulates like what I imagine, like dusk. You know what I imagine? Like I haven't seen a fucking sunset in my life. But like, I couldn't figure out. So like, it was still dark enough that I was able to sleep. But like there was a. There was light.

[Joey]

Well, thank God, because what if I came in and you couldn't see?

[Frank]

Yeah, it would have been a problem.

[Joey]

It would have been like. And I would have. I don't even know as a person who's in a dream state. Yeah, I don't even know how I would have reacted to that, bro.

[Frank]

It was.

[Joey]

We would have been fist fighting each other and I'd Be like, that's good. Say, are you a Pete, you idiot.

[Frank]

Pete, help me out here. Peter.

[Joey]

You gonna step in and say something? Help me out.

[Frank]

This guy's called Crazy Pete. Grab his neck. I got his legs. I'm just like, what the. Is going.

[Joey]

I start wrestling, like, a chair.

[Frank]

This guy. Have you ever sleep walked? Slept walk. Sleep walked?

[Joey]

I have before. It's only happened, like, three times in.

[Frank]

My life, but, like, I'm glad I was on the receiving end of one of them.

[Joey]

I've done this thing where, like, you know when you're. It's not about, like. You know when you're, like, kind of asleep, but you're having a conversation. Like, maybe you're on the phone.

[Frank]

Yeah. Like, you're here, and it's like, you're.

[Joey]

Out, but then you're back in. And you keep. Like, you don't want to. You don't want to, like, leave the conversation or something. So it's. That's the only times that stuff like that has happened to me where I've been like, I'll say something, and then I'm like, wait, that doesn't make any sense.

[Frank]

Yeah, so.

[Joey]

Because I'm in and out of sleep. So I. I guess that's what happened.

[Frank]

I remember those days where you'll be, like, in a conversation about the weather, and you'll just be like, but it doesn't matter because of cupcakes. And you're like, what the.

[Joey]

Yeah. What are you saying?

[Frank]

What is what?

[Joey]

You know, when I was younger, my brother told me that, like, my brother Thomas walked into the room, and he said that I sat up out of bed, and I looked at him, and I was like, I already recorded that. And he was like, okay, and just shut the door. So, like, weird. Yeah.

[Frank]

Such a weird thing that happens. I don't.

[Joey]

Scary.

[Frank]

I know there have been times where, like, I'm, like, supposed to wake up, and, like, whatever version of me is conscious at that time is just, like a different human. We're like, actually this morning, oddly enough, because I got to sleep super late last night. My alarm went off, and Becca was just like, stay in and sleep. And I remember being like, no, I need to wake up. I need to get stuff done. And then I rolled back over and went to sleep. It's so weird. It is.

[Joey]

You don't understand. I need this.

[Frank]

Basically, yeah, bro. There are. There's been instances where Miles will walk into our room. And I know how you are. If there was a. If there was a middle of the night child at the end of your bed.

[Joey]

If I was sleeping over your house and like Miles walked into my room, was like, yeah, I don't, I don't know what's going on. I'd be like, dude, get away. Like a pillow up.

[Frank]

He's been at like the edge of our bed and like, we'll be like, what's up? And let's be like, well, what? Well, and he like mumbles and we're like, miles, you're asleep. And he's like, what? Like again, like, what is it about sleepwalkers that like, what you're doing in being like, sane is like so crazy?

[Joey]

Yeah. Like, why are you even suggesting something?

[Frank]

You're sleepwalking.

[Joey]

Huh?

[Frank]

What? Insane, Hysterical. Oh my God. I can't believe we forgot to tell that story.

[Joey]

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[Frank]

So back to the thing about the AI like making the, the images of your dreams. Would you do that? Because you often. I would. But like, you, like, will you wake up and write your dreams down?

[Joey]

Yeah, sometimes I have really funny dreams. But the ones that are like, the ones that make me laugh are the ones I wake up and I start writing notes. I went through a phase where I was writing down my dreams all the time because they were just psychotic. And it would make me laugh when I would read them in the morning. And then sometimes I'd be like that in that in and out state. And I would write stuff and then I'd wake up and read it and I'd be like, this makes no sense.

[Frank]

Some of the ones that you've told me, it was like someone was like chewing on a wiener, like a chicken wing or something like that.

[Joey]

I was chewing on my own penis. I had a dream where I was chewing on my own penis and it was like, like I had my penis in my hands and I was, I would bite and I.

[Frank]

God, I love chicken wings. Separate this out loud.

[Joey]

Is so funny. But I was, I was biting into it and would flake off like a chicken wing would I imagine. And I was like, I know, I woke up. Like, what the hell am I doing?

[Frank]

That makes sense. Quick. Top five favorite chicken wing flavors, slash sauces.

[Joey]

Buffalo garlic parm.

[Frank]

Hell yeah.

[Joey]

Lemon pepper.

[Frank]

I'm not a lemon pepper guy. Too dusty. Too dusty.

[Joey]

I like a dust.

[Frank]

I'm cool with a honey barbecue. I don't hate honey barbecue.

[Joey]

Honey barbecue.

[Frank]

Like a sticky honey barbecue that's just like.

[Joey]

Like, I will say I crush barbecue sauce. I literally had to buy a sugar free barbecue sauce because I just realized how much I'm eating.

[Frank]

High fructose corn syrup, man. That gets you, dude.

[Joey]

It was like 2 tablespoons. Was like 70, 80 calories. I was like, okay, this is insane. Then I got a sugar free one that I have now. 2 tablespoons, 10.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

So I wrap my lips around the opening and I turn my head up and I let it go all the way in. You understand? That was insane. And I apologize. I just did a trump point. I apologize.

[Frank]

I apologize. That was so not gay of me.

[Joey]

Big sorry.

[Frank]

That's the straightest. You wish I was gay. You so wish. I don't wish. I wouldn't be very good. But if I was gay, I would be very gay. I'd be the gayest. Who's RuPaul?

[Joey]

All men would come. I sort of all that to say barbecue wings, but I'm not crazy about barbecue wings.

[Frank]

I like barbecue. Honey barbecue.

[Joey]

Boring. Honey barbecue. I'm cool with.

[Frank]

That's what I'm saying.

[Joey]

Barbecue is just like.

[Frank]

So we got. We got garlic parm. Honestly, a good garlic parm, but I'm not talking a dry rub garlic parm.

[Joey]

I want, like, I want a little.

[Frank]

I want this thing to just be an explosion of flavor in my face.

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Frank]

I will say it sounds like I'm being, like, insensitive by saying, but, like, any, like, Asian, like, teriyaki.

[Joey]

You're bugging.

[Frank]

They're good. Oh, I was gonna say, like, it feels like I'm like, being mean by, like, what wings you want? Oh, let me get the Asian zing. Like, that feels like there's. That's not. Like we're gonna like, 20 years look back on that. Be like. That was kind of not. That was weird.

[Joey]

What do you mean, like the name of this?

[Frank]

Yeah, like, remember we had one that was like, nuclear. Like, remember around, like, oh, it was a Hawaiian fire. And it was like when all those fires were happening in Maui, there was like a chicken wing flavor that was like Hawaiian fire when the did.

[Joey]

I didn't have that.

[Frank]

I'm not saying we had it, but it was like a thing that, like, oh, I just did a tick tock and it was like, what's a. What's another flavor?

[Anthony]

Sweet chili.

[Joey]

Sweet chili. That is fire.

[Frank]

Never had it all Asian Mango habanero is.

[Anthony]

That's where I was going.

[Joey]

So good habanero. That might be too hot.

[Frank]

I'm in for it. Yep, I'm in for it. I'm not a big dry rub guy. I like. I like a dry rub like a Cajun cage. I like Cajun like, seasoning. I don't know about on wings, though. I need my wings to be wet.

[Joey]

Yeah, this one. I'm on Buffalo Wild wings website right now. Thai curry sauce.

[Frank]

I haven't had it. I mean, sounds great.

[Joey]

It does sound good.

[Frank]

I love. I love curry.

[Joey]

Oh, there is an Asian zing sauce.

[Frank]

That's what I'm saying. You think I don't know the buffalo wild wing?

[Joey]

Well, you were saying, like, I don't know, it's something like Asian zing, and you made it seem like it was like you made it up.

[Anthony]

Best flavor, too, there. Pretty much.

[Frank]

Is it regular buffalo spicy garlic?

[Joey]

Anything that has garlic in the name, I'm down.

[Frank]

Yeah, 100.

[Joey]

Yeah, anything that's like, oh, like a. Or an aioli, bro. I'm a for an aioli. I love that aioli. Love that. Honey barbecue. Parmesan garlic. Now we're talking crazy. Teriyaki, always good.

[Frank]

Yeah, teriyaki is good.

[Joey]

Mild sauce. Grow up, grow up.

[Frank]

But, like, I get it.

[Joey]

Sweet barbecue. Isn't barbecue just sweet already?

[Frank]

Like, it's like honey barbecue.

[Joey]

Chipotle. Chipotle mayo is fire you love.

[Frank]

Isn't that like one of your favorite com. Like, chipotle mayo condiments. Yeah, chipotle mayo.

[Joey]

It's unbelievable. Salt and vinegar.

[Frank]

I've never had a salt and vinegar wing. Feels like your mouth is going to be raw.

[Anthony]

It's awful.

[Frank]

Like, you got gang banged by, like, pinheads. Wow.

[Joey]

I feel like that was so crazy to say. What were we talking about?

[Frank]

The wings, the AI. Oh. So will you do the dream thing? What's the price point that you were like, all right, that's too much. If it was 300 bucks.

[Joey]

Of course I was doing that for three. If it's 500 bucks, anything under a thousand, I would say yes.

[Frank]

If it's a thousand, yes.

[Joey]

Wait, what?

[Frank]

What?

[Joey]

What is it, though? Is it the talk to it and the actual one?

[Frank]

So you talk to it. You tell your dream. It'll just be like, my friends room, Pete, Joey, Frankie there. And it'll animate it and put it on the screen.

[Joey]

I probably wouldn't pay too much for that. I think anything under a thousand, I would pay for that. Just to see how it is. But Like, I would pay more if they just. If it did it automatically, because a lot of times I don't remember the dream enough to be able to explore.

[Frank]

So you want to, like, put something on or in your head? Crazy. I guess that's crazy to me. Like, these people that are like, I.

[Joey]

Don'T want to put anything. I'm not saying put, like, drill into my head.

[Frank]

Well, like, there's shit that came out recently that, like, I think it was meta is like, doing, like, the neuralink thing. Like Tesla, not Tesla, but Elon is doing where it's like, they. You can, like, operate a smartphone with just your brain. Crazy. This is some black mirror. Literally. Black mirror.

[Joey]

I'm good, bro.

[Anthony]

I get the version too.

[Frank]

You say that all the time. Because the first version always has bugs and glitches and big bang boom.

[Anthony]

People get the first one. I'll just get the updated one. It's fair.

[Joey]

I'm just.

[Frank]

What if it came with a lifetime supply of twisted teas?

[Anthony]

No, it's my brain.

[Joey]

Are you still on the twisted T train?

[Anthony]

No. Twisty lights came out. Those are nice.

[Frank]

What if it came with a lifetime twisted tv, brother?

[Joey]

No, but I do like a twisted tea light, bro.

[Frank]

I need to send it to you. I. Have you ever seen those tick tocks that are just, like, this incredible? Pull it from my grandmother's fridge, and it's like an old, like, sauce jar or like, your mustard bottle or something like that.

[Joey]

It's like, expired and gross.

[Frank]

Yeah, but it's just like, the. What the logo is. I have an old, like, 2010 Miller Light in my fridge. This is just. Looks so cool. And it's. It's the one that. It's the blue can with, like, it's just like, Miller Light and gold on the side. Pull it up. Look at it. The old Bro beer, like, logos now. Like, I. I can't wait until we get out of this whole, like, minimalistic design era and we go back to being a little louder because, like, they're just not doing it anymore.

[Joey]

I mean, I think that's a pretty crazy statement to make. I feel like, if anything, at least with, like, IPAs, like, dial.

[Frank]

Hell yeah. Look at that. Son of a bitch. That's what I got. The gold can one. Yeah, baby.

[Joey]

That's what. That's what's getting you excited.

[Frank]

Tell me that doesn't look sick.

[Joey]

It is cool. It kind of looks like an iced tea, though, A little bit.

[Frank]

I'll take.

[Joey]

You're not gonna drink that ever, right? You're not Gonna drink?

[Frank]

No, no, no, I can't.

[Joey]

That's going right into storage.

[Frank]

I would get. It's been in my fridge.

[Joey]

Wait, hold on. You just moved into a new house. What did you do with that?

[Frank]

I took it from the fridge at my old house and I put it in the fridge at my new house. It's still like, it is going to be kept forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. You'll be back like before. I will fight the fight and win.

[Joey]

The war for your love or your praise.

[Frank]

Great.

[Joey]

It's great.

[Frank]

So unbelievable.

[Joey]

But yeah, you know, the thing is, like, I don't know, feel like if I. If I. The thing that I'm talking about existed, and then I watched a nightmare that I had that I would be like, why the hell was I afraid of? That makes no sense.

[Frank]

Yeah, but it's different because when you're. When. When it's your nightmare, you're in it, you're experiencing it. Like, it's the same with, like, playing video games. There are people that can watch movies and be like, this isn't terrifying, but like, you play a video game, like you're in control and it's like, you're doing it. It's scary. I would pay money. Anthony, you ever play Outlast?

[Anthony]

I did.

[Frank]

I would pay money to see you play Outlast.

[Anthony]

Oh, that'd be a great video.

[Frank]

That would be an incredible video.

[Joey]

Is that one of those scary video games?

[Frank]

The video. The game. Basically, it's a video game. It's like an eight hour story and you're stuck in an abandoned asylum and you need to get out.

[Joey]

I'm good, dude.

[Anthony]

He won't make it far. He could play the demo. That'd be long enough.

[Joey]

You. You just.

[Anthony]

You won't.

[Joey]

I'll do the asylum now.

[Frank]

You.

[Joey]

Were you one of those kids grumps, like, you're insane asylum. Let's go fucking stay in it overnight.

[Anthony]

Absolutely not, bro.

[Frank]

People did that on Long island all the time.

[Joey]

I know. Everyone talked about, like, yo, I stayed in a sandy asylum. There wasn't like it was gonna get.

[Frank]

Them fucking laid, bro.

[Joey]

There was a. Yeah, like, oh, you know.

[Frank]

Oh, you. You stayed in an insane asylum. Ladies, this guy right here also.

[Joey]

Aren't those hospitals? I don't know what that is.

[Frank]

Well, they're abandoned. I know, but like, like, abandoned ones.

[Joey]

Are you aware of a building that there's just quote unquote, insane people in? I'm not like, what, flew over the cuckoos?

[Frank]

I think. I think mental health facilities still Exist.

[Joey]

I know, but, like, are they, like, called insane asylum?

[Frank]

No, because the term insane asylum is. I think it's, like, kind of not cool to say that anymore. That's what I mean, you know?

[Joey]

Well, like, I don't. Like, I think when you're younger and you think. I think of an insane asylum, I think of, like.

[Frank]

For whatever reason, they got shot. Well, they got shut down because they were, like, inhumane. Because they, like. They'd be like, oh, you know, a guy in the fucking 30s would be like, my wife is menstruating, but she's crazy. Let's throw in the asylum. And they fucking lobotomize this poor woman. And she comes out drooling.

[Joey]

Yeah. Before they knew what, like, schizophrenia was, they were like, oh, my God, this guy's a monster.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

Put him on in a jacket where he can't move.

[Frank]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She. She has the blues once a week, so I sent her for a quick brain surgery. Blues, you know, like, she's got the blues. And then you'd go into those places, and they were just like, shackles in the wall and like that. Those are the places that were shut down.

[Joey]

Yeah. That's terrifying. I would never do any of that. I remember there was a story where it was like, my phone is ringing, and it's in my ass. Sorry. That was crazy.

[Frank]

He didn't hate it.

[Anthony]

That was the eighth time it rang. He let it go for a while.

[Frank]

Oh, it rang five times.

[Joey]

Sorry, I just came. There was a story that I would hear when I was younger was like, there was a baby that died over here. Or there was something about, like, an insane asylum. It's like, you would drive and there was like a. There was children who died, blah, blah, blah. And then I forget who, but someone was like, what you do is you put baby powder on your back windshield.

[Frank]

They had all that.

[Joey]

You see handprints on.

[Anthony]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joey]

Drive by, and I'm like, yeah, listen. 1. I don't believe that too. If it happened to me, forget about it.

[Frank]

Yeah, there's all those where it's just like. You're driving down this, like, very haunted road. And, like. Because, like, the owner of this house was killed as they were drowned to death. So in order to pass, you need to spray water out your car in order to not get the ghost. It's like, shut the fuck up.

[Joey]

I'm just gonna go to bed.

[Frank]

Just like.

[Joey]

I'm not gonna go there.

[Frank]

I love. Bro. I love all those, like. I'm so glad we are in the, like, the age that we are where, like, social media and the Internet is basically just taking these, like, ridiculous things from back then, and people just like, guys, I was so stupid. Like, back in the day when, like, these urban legends would be like, you know, oh, man, that's old man Rick. And he killed his whole family with a shovel. So if you see him shoveling, he's planning his next murder, and it's just like. Or it's a fucking poor old man that needs go help him shovel.

[Joey]

Like, home alone. We're like, yeah, that guy's killed people. He salts the sidewalks with the fucking bones of other children. Is like, it's a guy taking care of the neighborhood.

[Frank]

Yeah. He's literally so he doesn't get sued by all these incredibly litigious people in Chicago suburbs.

[Joey]

Not to mention he is estranged from his family. Let's feel bad for this man.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joey]

Making up stories.

[Frank]

He was also old as fuck, though.

[Joey]

He wasn't that old. He was. He was young enough to beat the shit out of two robbers with a shovel.

[Frank]

Beat the shit. He. They had their backs hurt, and he hit one when they had his back turn, the other one turn, and he hit him for a. Home Alone has been on in my house the last three days. The kids are obsessed with. With it right now.

[Joey]

He knocked them off their feet, Frank.

[Anthony]

And one of them. One of them is Joe Pesci.

[Joey]

What does that mean?

[Frank]

You could beat up 1990 Joe Pesci? Yeah. You today could beat up 1990 Joe Pesci.

[Anthony]

I think so.

[Frank]

That guy would beat the brakes off.

[Joey]

And it's kind of hulkish. How tall are you?

[Anthony]

I'm 5 11.

[Frank]

At least he's honest.

[Joey]

Yeah. Well, I mean, because. Yeah.

[Anthony]

Can't get away with six foot.

[Joey]

He is hulkish. He's hulkish.

[Frank]

He strikes me as someone that would be, like, pretty bench. I hate that, like, someone's strength is relegated to, like, what they could bench.

[Joey]

Curious.

[Anthony]

Sounds like someone who doesn't have a high bench.

[Frank]

I've always benched pretty well. It's just. It's just such a. Like, a funny thing to be. Like, how strong are you? How much can you bench? I'm more impressed by squats.

[Anthony]

Really?

[Joey]

Yeah.

[Anthony]

That's fair. Squats a little easier, though, then benching.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Anthony]

Your numbers could usually be higher on the squat.

[Frank]

Well, just because your leg muscles are larger than your fucking chest and your pecs.

[Joey]

Mm. What? So what is your bench?

[Anthony]

I think I could get, like. I can't do 225 yet. I get, like, 220. I'm like right there.

[Joey]

Yeah. 220. You can get 220. Bro.

[Anthony]

That £5 is.

[Frank]

He's right.

[Anthony]

It feels like a mountain.

[Frank]

It is, it is.

[Joey]

Feels like a mountain.

[Frank]

Yeah. You strike me as someone that's like crazy strong.

[Anthony]

Well, I'm still talking about Joe Pesci. I'm not saying I could beat up.

[Frank]

I feel like Daniel Stern. Like crazy for that would have beaten the shit out of you.

[Joey]

Who's Daniel Stern?

[Frank]

The guy that plays Marv.

[Joey]

Oh, Harry.

[Frank]

Harry.

[Anthony]

That's why I said Joe Pesci.

[Joey]

Yeah, I don't.

[Anthony]

I'm not gonna. That guy has weird eyes, you know, crazy eyes.

[Joey]

Yeah, he's got some stuff going on.

[Frank]

Yeah. Maybe you could.

[Joey]

He's got stringy hair.

[Frank]

Such a good movie, dude. So fucking good.

[Joey]

Classic.

[Frank]

Legit. One of the greatest holiday movies of all time.

[Joey]

What was something that you said recently that I was like, that is so. Oh. Oh, it was the trilogy.

[Frank]

I will go to bad for Jackass Forever.

[Anthony]

Oh, God.

[Joey]

Jackass is the greatest trilogy of all.

[Frank]

I didn't say the greatest. Now you're putting words in my mouth. I said it is consistently one of the best. Yeah. Because what it tries to do, it does exceptionally well. You open the door, here comes the flood of stupidity. Hmm. I'm done.

[Joey]

Wasn't much of a flood then. Anyway, that is all for this week's episode. Frank, where can they find you?

[Frank]

Well, you can find me at Big Buck Alvarez, all over the music places and you download the Double dude, which is available on July 4th at 12am Baby. Make this a song of the summer. Show us that you're listening to it with your friends, enjoying a nice cold beverage, alcoholic, non alcoholic, however you choose to engage and partake. All right, ladies and gentlemen, Big Buck Alvarez is here for a whole family summer for you. So keep your eye out. That debut single, the Double dude, is available any day.

[Joey]

Well up to the bottom there. Also you were like, keep your eye out. He's talking to the one eyed fans out there. Which we probably have a few. Just numbers wise. It's possible.

[Frank]

It's possible.

[Joey]

We don't know.

[Frank]

Absolutely.

[Joey]

Shout out to you guys.

[Frank]

We love you.

[Joey]

Yeah, we do. But yeah, that is all for this week.

[Frank]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, everywhere. Everywhere. Go.

[Joey]

See you guys next time.