#529 - Announcing The Word Of The Year!

Summary

The Basement Yard – Episode #529: Announcing The Word Of The Year!

Release Date: November 17, 2025
Hosts: Joe Santagato & Frank Alvarez (Santagato Studios)
Episode Theme: The playful unveiling and discussion of Dictionary.com’s “Word of the Year” (which isn’t even a word), plus classic banter about memes, personal health quirks, sports, and an alarming number of medieval torture references.

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Episode Overview

In this characteristically chaotic and hilarious episode, Joe and Frank, joined by friend Ant, announce the much-anticipated Dictionary.com Word of the Year for 2025, only to discover it’s… not actually a word! This launches a spirited and absurd exploration of meme culture, the evolving nature of language, and why “67” has taken over the internet. Throughout, the trio reminisce about old memes, swap gross-out stories about tonsil stones, debate the hypothetical battle against hordes of bloodlusted seniors or toddlers, and take a sharp left turn into discussing historical torture methods.

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Key Discussion Points & Memorable Segments

1. Opening Banter and Body Horror (00:15–15:36)

• Minor Health Woes:
  The guys riff on having styes (“I was fucking stied out and it sucked.” – [02:21]) and tonsil stones. Frank admits to almost popping a sty with a needle.

• Tonsil Stones Gross-Out:
  Joe describes picking them out with a toothpick (sometimes even a knife), and the conversation devolves into tonsil “milking” and what those stones actually are.

  • “Look up science.” – [03:44]
  • “Tonsil stones are a combo of food, calcium, detritus, and dead cells.” – [07:43]
  • Detritus as Greek god:
    “It does sound like a Greek God who’s in with Hades: ‘It’s me, Detritus!’” – Frank, [08:09]

• Exploring Other Stones (Kidneys, Gallstones) & Body Milking:
  They marvel at the horror of kidney stones, discuss body parts that “need milking” (dogs’ anal glands and the prostate get mentions), and continue their signature blend of crude, medically incorrect humor.

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2. The Meaning (and Meaninglessness) of Memes (15:36–35:32)

• Announcing the Word of the Year:
  Frank brings out Dictionary.com's past “words of the year” (from “demure” to “pandemic” to the infamous “xenophobia” in 2016).

  • “Do you want me to keep going?” – Frank, [17:22]
  • “I don't even need that word.” (re: “tergiversate”) – [20:37]

• 2025’s Shocking Winner:

  • After much build-up, it's revealed:
    “The Dictionary.com word of the year... 67.” – [22:02]
    • “That’s not a word.” – Joe, immediate reply, [22:12]
    • Discussion around “67” as an internet meme, with attempts to explain its viral spread and total lack of intrinsic meaning.
    • “The hardest thing to explain about 67 to my parents was how it means nothing.” – Ant (quoting online sentiment), [24:36]
    • The hosts attempt to trace the meme’s origin to TikTok/Twitch (rapper Skrilla’s song “Doot Doot”), but acknowledge it might be a meme beyond meaning:
      “There is comedy in zero meaning.” – Joe, [28:39] “It started as a meme within a meme...” – Joe, [25:05]

• Philosophy of Memes:

  • Throwback to rage comics and “old-school” meme culture.
  • Frank: “Memes meant something to me. They stood for an emotion you couldn’t put words to.” ([31:10])
  • Discussion of how modern memes (like just the sound of pipes) can be pure randomness – and why that makes them so funny.

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3. Sports, Hot Dogs, and Drinks That Embarrass You (35:34–45:29)

• Experience at the World Series in Toronto:
  • Joe shares his “dog in me” experience (i.e., eating a hotdog at the game) and recounts ordering a giant, embarrassing frozen drink (“manganada”).
    "A girl who works there ... comes over to us and goes like, 'This, manganada.'" – Joe, [38:45]
  • Discussion of local sports culture: being in a city with one team makes fandom more intense, and New York’s split allegiances dilute that energy.
  • Frank describes his wife getting “horns down’d” for wearing a Longhorns hat:
    “He doubled back … horns down to her. And she was like—because she didn’t know what the fuck.” – [43:10]

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4. Hypothetical: 100 Bloodlusted 3-Year-Olds vs. 95-Year-Olds (49:07–61:54)

• Ant pops in with a question:
  Would you rather fight 100 bloodlusted 95-year-olds, or 100 bloodlusted 3-year-olds?
  • Spirited, pseudo-logical breakdown follows:
    • 95yo pros: slower, easier to out-tire, but might strategize.
      “You could tire out a 95-year-old by just jogging in a circle for five seconds.” – Frank, [51:35]
    • 3yo pros: less powerful, less strategy, could swarm you.
      “A charging 3-year-old zombie is scarier than a 95-year-old.” – Ant, [53:30]
  • Joe: “If you fall on either of them, you’re dead.” ([60:26])
  • The concept of “bloodlusted” becomes a running joke, with debates on who could be more dangerous in real life and in zombie scenarios.

Notable Quotes:

• “If you put me in a corner, bloodlusting, I’m defending myself.” – Joe, [63:38]
• “Let’s make this very clear, we’re pacifists.” – Frank, [63:24]

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5. Medieval Torture: Why Are We Talking About This? (64:04–73:01)

• Rundown of Torture Devices:
  The hosts (with Ant’s encyclopedic knowledge) unravel truly disturbing historical torture techniques.

  • From the “bamboo shoot” (growing through the body), to “stocks,” “the brass bull” (prisoners cooked alive, their screams piped out the nostrils to mimic a bull), to the “pair of anguish,” Vlad the Impaler, and the “Heretic’s fork.”
  • “That is unbelievably nightmarish.” – Frank, regarding the brass bull, [70:40]

• Why this topic?
  They halfheartedly try to justify the tangent as a “history lesson,” with Frank reflecting:
  “You gotta know where you were to know where you’re going.” – Frank, [72:49]

  • Ends on signature Basement Yard absurdity:
    “Hope you enjoyed torture. Toy. Toy. I hope you enjoyed the toy talk.” – Frank & Joe, [73:01]

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Timestamped Memorable Moments & Quotes

• [02:21] Frank: “They took my ID badge picture and I was like, ‘you're stydo.’ I was fucking stied out and it sucked.”
• [07:43] Ant (after googling): "It's bacteria, dead cells, calcium and phosphate and food debris all in one."
• [08:09] Frank: “It sounds like a really, really cool Greek God ... on the River Styx ... ‘It’s me, Detritus.’”
• [22:12] Joe (on ‘67’): “That’s not a word.”
• [24:36] Ant (quoting online): “The hardest thing to explain about 67 to my parents was how it means nothing.”
• [28:39] Joe: “But there’s comedy in zero meaning. In the same way that, like, the pipes thing, like, would make me laugh.”
• [31:10] Frank: “When I was a kid, memes meant something. They stood for an emotion you couldn’t put words to. So what came to the rescue? Picture of a kid in a backwards brown hat and a big puffer jacket.”
• [38:45] Joe (on his drink): “A girl who works there ... comes over to us and goes like, ‘This, manganada.’ And I was like, ‘That’s me.’”
• [43:10] Frank: “He doubled back … horns down to her. And she was like—because she didn’t know what the fuck.”
• [51:35] Frank (95yo strategy): “You could tire out a 95-year-old by just jogging in a circle for five seconds.”
• [53:30] Ant: “Imagine like, these two scenarios in terms of zombies. Like, would you like a charging 3-year-old zombie? I feel like that’s scarier than a charging 95-year-old.”
• [60:26] Joe: “Anywhere, if you fall on either of them, you’re, you’re [done]. You can’t go down.”
• [70:40] Frank (on the bull): “That is unbelievably nightmarish.”
• [72:49] Frank: “You gotta know where you were to know where you’re going.”
• [73:01] Frank (closing): “Hope you enjoyed torture. Toy. Toy. I hope you enjoyed the toy talk.”

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

The episode is an unrestrained, NSFW romp through the internet’s latest viral madness (the “67” meme), coupled with signature Basement Yard gross-out humor, self-deprecating philosophy, and hilariously grim detours. Joe, Frank, and Ant skillfully balance idiotic hypotheticals with offbeat insight into why internet culture is so gloriously meaningless.

Seriously, if you need to explain the word of the year “67” to your parents, good luck—and don’t walk into any boats with honey and milk.

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Note:

• Advertisements (Ross, Prize Picks, Fitbod, Rocket Money, BetterHelp) and Patreon plugs are omitted from this summary per instructions.
• The recap preserves the freewheeling, irreverent tone of the Basement Yard.
• For context on meme culture and the specifics of their Word of the Year discussion, refer to segments [15:36–35:32] and [22:02–24:00] for the “67” bombshell.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

Welcome back to the basement. Welcome back to the basement yard.

[A]

We're here.

[B]

How are you doing?

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Me and you. Schmedy merch.

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Yes.

[B]

Very nice.

[A]

It's a good shirt. It's a quality shirt. And I'm not just saying that because he's my friend. It's like a good, thick shirt.

[B]

It does look thick.

[A]

I do have to sneeze. And also, it's just us today. Nobody else here, because apparently. Ants on the run.

[C]

Mmm. I got something going on with my eye. That's why.

[B]

What's going on with your.

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What's going on with your head?

[C]

I think after the face paint I got, I'm growing a little stye in my eye.

[B]

Oh, really?

[A]

I hate it.

[B]

Not how you sneeze. Not how anyone sneezes.

[A]

Did that fuck your ears up?

[C]

It hurt.

[A]

Now you got something fucking in your ear. Huh?

[C]

Tuesdays, dude.

[A]

What?

[C]

Nothing.

[B]

Do you have a style?

[A]

Really?

[C]

It's very small, but it's growing. Afraid it's gonna pop up on camera?

[A]

Dude, it is so minuscule, and you're being just intense. I saw your face before.

[B]

I didn't see it.

[A]

Yeah, you're fine, dude.

[B]

Otherwise I would have been like, the fuck is that?

[A]

What's that fucking thing on your. What's the growth on your face? Fuck you, freak. You got a growth that you probably.

[B]

Don'T want to talk about.

[C]

Look at it.

[A]

I had a stye once for, like, two months, and it was like.

[B]

Two months, Dude. Shove your head inside of a colon. How'd you get that?

[A]

That doesn't happen like that. I don't know how. Style. It's a pimple under your eyelid.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

That's all it is. I didn't know it was bad. And to the point where, like, I was, like, in the mirror, like, saw with, like, a needle, ready to, like, try to get it.

[C]

How do you.

[B]

How do you treat a sty?

[C]

You're not supposed to pop it.

[A]

You're not supposed to pop them. But they say that, like, you know, like a hot compress. I've seen people saying, like, put tea bags on it. Honestly, for some reason.

[C]

But I'm not getting my face teabag.

[A]

Wow. You ask in the right Circles. I'm sure people will drag their tea bags across your eyeballs, you know, but.

[B]

You definitely did that. Put a tea bag on it.

[A]

Okay, let's make it very clear. Like an actual tea bag, not balls on. Not what people think of like dragging like nut sacks.

[B]

You were not that.

[A]

Not doing nut sacks on the eyes.

[B]

Two months is crazy, dude. It was bad.

[A]

It was. And I had started a new job at that time, so like, they took like my, like, like my ID badge picture and I was like, you're stydo. I was fucking stied out and it sucked.

[B]

I don't know if I've had a sty. I feel like I have, but I don't remember it.

[A]

They're like, they can be painful, but.

[B]

I think I'm annoying, right?

[A]

It's just more. Yeah, it's just more of an annoyance.

[B]

You know what I get that's very annoying? Tonsil stones.

[A]

Oh, I hate those videos. I've seen people like, do videos where they like pull them out with like, dude, I have to.

[B]

I have to go with a toothpick in the back of my throat and I've got a mad gag reflex. Oh, yeah. So I'm in the bathroom just going.

[A]

You'Re making people happy with this part that I. What you have to like, shove down your throat.

[B]

You're just like, yeah, okay, but I'm taking a toothpick. Are they like stones, a knife before?

[A]

Are they. That's. Come on, brother.

[B]

I swear to God, I've used a knife.

[C]

But how, how would a toothpick get it out?

[B]

Cuz it's like, it's mushy.

[A]

Yeah, it's not a stone. And it smells like. I heard it does. I don't think I've ever had one, but I heard they smell like.

[B]

Well, my.

[A]

Cuz, it's just like a collection of food that's just been rotting back there. Right?

[B]

Well, I actually don't know what it is because it doesn't like, look like food. It's just like a squishy white thing.

[A]

Hell. So I mean, it's got to be food. What the fuck else could it look up?

[B]

What a tonsil stone is?

[C]

No, like what it. What it is.

[B]

Like, what is it?

[A]

Yeah, look up science.

[B]

Yeah, just type in science.

[A]

Science on tonsil stones.

[B]

Right?

[A]

I do hate those. It's like a.

[B]

There's like a pocket in my tonsil and like sometimes they get in there and then like you can feel it kind of rubbing on your tongue and you're like, oh, my God. But you can't get it out unless you, like, pick it out.

[A]

That sucks. But you just got your tonsils removed. That's like, something that people do.

[B]

I was supposed to get my tonsils removed when I was younger because, dude, I don't know how this happened, but when I was younger, my. If you watch my earlier videos that are no longer on the Internet, but if. If those videos, I sound so nasally, and it's because my throat felt like this. Like, it felt like that I was talking like that.

[A]

You're right, you did. But also, there were other things that were happening with your voice. You were like. You were like, yo. Like, don't be a hoe on the Internet. That's my Joe Sanigato in 2013 impression. Like, yo, if you a salute, you could be a salut. Yo, if you're a Walmart, put pants on. Also, girls give hand jobs. I wasn't much better. Let's be honest. If anything, I was worse. I'm just glad at the time there was less.

[B]

I was way more, like corn queens that I am now.

[A]

You were, definitely. And it comes out every now and then.

[B]

No, it does, it does.

[A]

There's that clip of when you said, like, you were like, oh, so, like. Yeah, yeah. I don't know, man. The queens. Well, that wasn't necessarily the queens. And you. That was also the, like, you know, going to school in, like, corona of you. Probably.

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Yeah. I mean, that was so funny.

[A]

So, wait, so, like, your nays. I know, like, the.

[B]

I was. It sounded like my throat, but I used to get really bad sore throats. And, you know when that's happening and you could see, like, my tonsils were so big, but now that that stopped happening to me.

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Do you ever change? Did you. Have you ever had to get them, like, milked?

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It's a great question.

[B]

That's a great question.

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I think that's a really good question.

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Yeah, I think it's a great question.

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Like, when do tonsils get milked?

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Suppressed.

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Wait, what are you.

[B]

I am dealing with two different types of stupidity, one at a time. Hey, do you think that people go to the doctors and they milk your tonsils?

[A]

I mean, they go in and I'm sure they squeeze stuff out of it. Like, they get rid of tonsil stones if they're too big for being stones in your mouth.

[B]

No, if they, like, get too large, they just take them out. They don't milk them.

[C]

And how do they take them out?

[B]

They cut them out.

[A]

I think they're milking people's Tonsils. I mean, I imagine they go in and they have to like, get stuff out of them. And that includes. I've seen videos on fucking. On the Internet of like, people like going in with like that, like that thing that has like a wire that's like a circle on the end of it. And they go in and they press it and then stones just pop out and they're fucking hideous and they're stupid. Fucking weird ass. Fix your throat.

[B]

No, you don't get milked at the doctor, dude. You don't get milked. You just get them taken out.

[A]

Well, because. Okay, so I did.

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I don't do that, but I have.

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There are parts of the body that need milking.

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Yep.

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Neat is crazy.

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No, but like, I know, I know people that have had like from like breastfeeding, they've had block ducks and they need to like, work it out. And like, then, you know, of course. Or like, it reminds me, that's the only one.

[B]

Let's get that out. Nothing else needs to be milked.

[C]

I'm 20% sure that you could milk the prostate.

[B]

Yeah, but it doesn't need to be milk.

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I mean, sometimes it does, I think.

[A]

I mean, you need to milk. You need to milk your dogs on your birthday. It does. You need. You need a milk dog's anal glands.

[B]

That's true. So they call that expressing them.

[A]

Expressing that. Not suppressing, expressing. So, like, I'm sure there are other parts of the body that must be expressed. I sound like a fucking priest. Express.

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Be with you.

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Express.

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Express the milk from your titties. Yeah.

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And also with you.

[C]

Did we want to know what tonsils mean?

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Yeah. What is it?

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It's bacteria, dead cells, calcium and phosphate and food debris all in one.

[A]

So it's a combo of food, calcium, detritus. Is that one of those? What was the other D in there?

[B]

No one said detritus.

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What was the D word?

[C]

Dead cells.

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There it is. I don't know what you heard.

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Detritus.

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I mean, I just. You heard it.

[B]

That sounds like a cool Greek God.

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I will say that detritus is a thing.

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Is it?

[A]

Yeah, it's a thing. I don't remember exactly. Try to spell exactly what detritus is. It does sound like a really, really cool. Like a Greek. A Greek bully or Greek God who's like in cool with like, you know, like he's on the River Styx and he goes to Hades and he's like, it's me. It's detritus. And he talks like that.

[B]

Are you okay, Is something going on?

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It's a waste or debris of any kind. Detritus.

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Ah, that's pretty good. Technically, it is detritus.

[B]

What you said was wrong. Let's get that out of the way just now.

[A]

I mean, technically, it is detritus.

[B]

That was right.

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Yeah. Technically, a tonsils.

[B]

The ghost that you created.

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Oh, the Greek character. Yes. I mean, but if they're going to name it after something waste and like, like bad stuff, would they not name it after the person that. That kind of brings people on the ship, on the river Styx to the underworld, and it's like they're named after him because he's transporting dead stuff.

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Waste. We don't need to do all that.

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But we're going to see Hades. I am detritus. But they'd be Greek, so they'd be like, egg in there.

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Egg in there.

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That's it. That's all I got.

[B]

All right. Well, that was beautiful.

[A]

Never had tonsil stones. Yeah, Never had kidney stones. Knock on fucking wood. I hear those are bad, dude.

[B]

I sometimes, though, when I have tonsil stones. If this happened to me the other day, I was talking and it just flew out of my mouth.

[C]

That's a little gross.

[A]

Fuck it. I don't like that. Like, fuck that.

[B]

Oh, yeah, Yeah.

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I saw a video once of someone cutting open a bladder to get rid of kidney stones. And it. I'm not even kidding. Looked like just a hand holding rocks.

[C]

You think about gallstones?

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Wait, no. Blood. A fucking. The ones that you piss out.

[B]

Isn't that in the kidney?

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Wherever they cut it out of. I don't remember. Kidney stone, maybe. I don't remember where they cut out, but look up a picture and he doesn't need to put this out. I want Joey to see this. I'm not a squeamish guy kind of guy either, but. Josh, don't put this in.

[B]

I feel like you're trying to squeam me, though.

[A]

I'm not. I don't want to squeam you at all, babe.

[C]

What's your order, sir?

[A]

I'm presqueam. Look up giant kidney stones in giant. In the body.

[C]

Come on.

[B]

Oh.

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Oh, boy.

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I don't know if it's gonna.

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Oh, boy.

[C]

I don't know if this is what you wanted.

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Oh, dude, this sucks.

[C]

No.

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Oh, and they look evil.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

What is that? Oh, those are the rocks.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[B]

This looks like a brain.

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Look how big they could get.

[A]

No, no, I mean, I've seen bigger than that, dude.

[C]

Half an inch.

[A]

Dude, I've seen bigger. And I don't think that's an inch, brother. I think that's a centimeter.

[B]

Yeah, it might be because it is.

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Because there's 10 ticks.

[B]

A 1 inch.

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A 1 inch stone is not making it through your piss hole, brother.

[B]

Yeah, you're gonna have to get that blasted.

[C]

Not. Not an inch.

[A]

How do they blast them? Do they just, like, punch you in the kidney for like an hour?

[B]

You know that's not what they do.

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I'm asking.

[B]

I think that it's like a.

[A]

Like sound.

[B]

Yeah, like. I don't know. Yeah, it's like a whale.

[A]

Yeah, like, these are whale screaming your back. They do sonar and fucking blow it up. That'd be pretty cool.

[B]

Honestly, that would be awesome. I would, like, go out of my way to get one so I could have a whale scream at me.

[A]

You think that's loud as hell. Imagine if they could hear it from, like, miles away.

[B]

Right? But like, sound travels differently through water. I don't even know if that's true.

[A]

No, I think the laws of nature allow that to be true. But, like, is it.

[B]

Does sound travel further in water? Probably not.

[A]

Oh, that's a great question that we're not gonna look up.

[B]

No, no, no, because think about this. If we're both in a pool and we scream, it's low.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But we are humans. We are not whales. They are. They are. Well, that's not evolutionarily basically conditioned in order to do that.

[B]

I'm saying when. But that's more about hearing. I'm saying sound waves, they travel less in water. They must.

[C]

Sound waves travel faster in water. Up to 4.3 times faster.

[A]

Oh, but further. I mean, I think further. Further. All depends on. Watch it there, buddy. Fool her. I think it all depends on the strength of the. Of the sound. So, like, we probably can't scream even at our highest.

[B]

We can't scream like whales.

[A]

Anything like a whale. Yeah.

[B]

I could try, though.

[C]

It does also travel further.

[B]

No way.

[C]

Because of the density, man.

[A]

That's pretty cool.

[B]

That's cool.

[C]

Did you know penises look bigger underwater?

[A]

Okay, Say what? One more time.

[C]

Penises look bigger underwater. What do you.

[A]

What.

[B]

What website are you on?

[C]

I learned that from Snooki.

[A]

I mean, listen, all due respect to Snooki, I don't know if that is where I would ask for her expertise.

[B]

She is a woman.

[A]

I mean, she also spent a lot of time at the Jersey shore, but you can't see in the ocean.

[B]

They spend a lot of times in hot tubs too. So is it. Maybe it's different in a hot tub.

[A]

I can imagine that the hot tubs they were spending time in had murky water because it was mostly vodka and. Tanner, I, like, watched that show for the first time last year, which has been at us. Yes, sure. What an insane, like, capturing a time and, like, pocket of human existence.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, it is so, bro, do me a favor.

[B]

The world stopped when that came out.

[A]

Bro. Watch that show. And first of all, because we were 17, 18, 19, when that show was at its peak in popularity. So we were the ones that were going out to clubs and, like, that. I wasn't a big clubber, and I don't think you were either, but we went out to clubs.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And, like, not only did we. Like, at least I can speak for myself here. Did I know people that were basically just miniature versions of Paulie, Vinnie and Mike.

[B]

Yeah, everybody.

[A]

But, like, there's just like a. Like, it's hard to explain. Like, that's such a moment in time, and it's just like, holy. Yeah, it's just crazy. Yeah, it's just a crazy thing where it's just like, that was us.

[B]

You've lost me now.

[A]

Why?

[B]

What are you talking about? Actually, I don't. I don't want to know.

[A]

You don't care.

[B]

I feel like you're going down one of those holes where it's like, there might not be a point.

[A]

I'll be honest with you. I feel like what I just. Little of what I say ever has a point. At the start, I find points. That's why I'm trying to say, because.

[B]

I'm like, if we explain this even further, we might not get to a point.

[A]

Yeah, it's like. It's like, you know, I'm like. I'm like. I'm like a rose bush.

[B]

Okay, we're back down another one. Good.

[A]

I'm a beautiful. Like, you see it, and it's like, wow. And then the stalks grow, and then just points pop up. They don't ever plan on where the points are going to be.

[B]

Thorns.

[A]

You mean the thorns? Yeah, they eventually just pop up and you're like, wow, that's a real good one.

[B]

That's a good point of a good thorn.

[A]

Yeah. Okay.

[C]

Perfect.

[B]

Speaking of good points, that's not a good segue. Frank's holding out on us. He was like, oh, we have. What is it? The dictionary word of the year or something?

[A]

Yes. So Dictionary.com. which is a thing. Which is why, like, don't get me started on dictionary.com. i can go on for hours about them.

[B]

Can you?

[A]

They announced their word of the year. So just to give you some examples, we've had some previous word of the year, like selfie and selfie. Riz, I think was on there.

[B]

It's usually like that.

[A]

Hold on, I'm pulling up the dictionary dot com. So, like, oh, 2024. Dictionary.com. word of the year was demure. Very demure, very mindful.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

2023 was hallucinate. What happened? What? What happened there?

[B]

Was that not in the. Oh, it's not. I thought it was like a new word.

[A]

No, no. Like, it's. It's just picking, like, the word of the year.

[B]

Hallucinate.

[C]

Word of the year means, like, they pick a word that's they feel is.

[A]

Like the word of the year. I thought they were the.

[B]

Is hallucinate.

[A]

I don't know for 2023.

[B]

What happened last year?

[A]

That was two years ago. You were hallucinating. 2022. Woman should be the word of the year every year. Why was it woman? I don't know.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I mean, I really don't know.

[B]

I don't remember.

[A]

2021. Allyship. I see a link, Sure. I see a link on how we got from one to the other. 2020 pandemic. Well, a little on the nose.

[B]

Too much.

[A]

2019, existential. This goes back to 2010. Do you want, like, Want me to keep going, say eggs Existential.

[B]

And then. Oh, yeah, let's just go back.

[A]

I want to hear 2018 misinformation. Okay, that's a good one. 2020. Listen, if you're in America, you remember 2016 to 2020. Yeah, you probably remember 2020 very well, too. These words tend to follow a trend here.

[B]

2017.

[A]

2017 was complicit. Okay. 2016 was xenophobia.

[B]

Yo, that being the word in an election year is hilarious, which is crazy.

[A]

2015 was identity.

[B]

Was that when we started doing all that?

[A]

Sexual identity? Maybe? Yeah, that was kind of like the awakening.

[B]

No, I mean, like, the. The pronouns and all that stuff. Like, I feel like.

[A]

I feel like that was later. I feel like that was, like, 2017. Like, people started putting them in emails and stuff.

[B]

2015 was 10 years ago.

[A]

I know. It fucks me up. 2014 exposure sounds about right. That's the peak of, like, YouTube.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

2013, privacy. Funny, that. Privacy and then exposure. Oh, 2017, complicit. I think that was the year of, like, the rise of the MeToo movement.

[B]

Got it. Yeah.

[A]

So that makes sense. 2012, bluster.

[B]

What does that even mean?

[A]

I don't know. I'll. I'll be honest. I also don't know what 2011 means. Turvik. Tergiversate.

[B]

Ter. Giver.

[A]

Say her Giver. Say T E R G I V E R S A T E. I also don't know what bluster means.

[B]

Can we get a ruling on Those?

[A]

And then 2010 was change.

[B]

Was that Obama or. Oh, no, that was hope.

[A]

Hope was. But that was. He was president at that point in time. Okay, but 2025, any idea after you've heard some for previous years? Other publications do like their word of the year. I'm sure we'll get one from like Merriam Webster or Oxford because that's what they need to do now in order to be relevant. But any idea possible possibility on what the 2025 Word of the year is?

[B]

I'm gonna. What is it?

[A]

Is it political? No, damn it.

[B]

That's where immediately or my mind went. I'll say. I don't even remember what happened this year, to be honest. Is it cool?

[A]

I don't know how to answer. Is it cool? I mean, that's subjective. Everything is cool to somebody.

[B]

Well, I only have all of the words in the dictionary to pick from right now.

[A]

Like every.

[B]

I mean, do you think it's properly represents the year?

[A]

A part of the year? I don't know if it represents the whole year, but definitely a part of vaccine.

[B]

I don't even know.

[A]

I mean, that would have been. That would have been 21. Oh, great. Now, now, now the show. Now the episodes. Yeah, it's great. Did you ever look up Turg?

[C]

I was honestly trying to remember the word you said without. No, no. So I got to giver state. It's making conflicting or evasive statements. Equivocate.

[B]

That's. You don't need that.

[A]

We don't even need that.

[B]

You don't even need that word.

[A]

I don't even need that.

[B]

That's a crazy word.

[A]

Like we don't need that.

[B]

Absolutely not.

[A]

And bluster. Bluster. I mean, it just sounds like a really cool kid living down the block that has like a lazy eye.

[C]

Bluster.

[A]

Is. It does, though. Oh, that's a good old bluster. Yeah. Hey, guys, want to come over? I have Hot Pockets.

[C]

Talk in a loud, aggressive or indignant way with little effect.

[A]

With a little effect.

[B]

Okay, cool. Yeah.

[A]

All right.

[B]

So this word for this year is going to be. I have no idea. Dude.

[A]

What do you think? Give us some. Give us some what? I think might be the Dictionary.com word of the year.

[C]

I thought this was like inducting a word. So now I don't even know.

[B]

Yeah, I thought so too.

[A]

I mean they do. That does happen. It's not. I mean, I don't know. I imagine that if Dictionary.com is like that's the word of the year, they're going to induct it. But I don't know how this would get inducted into Dictionary.com. like where they would put this in.

[C]

The dictionary would like Brett.

[A]

Well, I would know where they would put that. I mean but brat was last year. Brat was like Brad. Summer was like 2024.

[B]

I don't see just what's.

[A]

I mean, if you live like me, you, you all, you're always brat.

[C]

Well, okay, what's something like Sabrina Carpenter.

[B]

Juno.

[A]

I mean, no, I don't know. I don't even.

[B]

All right, what is it?

[A]

The Dictionary.com word of the year.

[B]

No, it's not.

[A]

67.

[B]

No, it's not.

[A]

Yes, it is. Yes, it absolutely is.

[B]

That's not a word.

[A]

I. That's why I said I don't even know where they would put this.

[B]

It's 6, 7.

[A]

6 7. The mean that has captured the Internet's attention in late 2025 has been named the word of the year by Dictionary.com. over the years, plenty of Internet slang terms have started being used in everyday life. A number of these have been born out of TikTok and Twitch, including Riz Skibidi, Brain rot and Ratioed. We're dying.

[B]

Six, seven, bro.

[A]

Even though they're used in everyday life, not all these terms are going to make it into the dictionary. A few have been though, recognized for their cultural impact and how quickly they've become widespread. Six, seven. Which was born from rapper Skrilla and his song.

[B]

What I just love the way you're like. Sounds like it's like I'm listening to the news report it, you know, and.

[A]

His song doot doot, which whoa, crazy that he stole from us. We have there's another double date has become the latest of those being awarded word of the year.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Those are numbers.

[A]

Most other two digit numbers had no meaningful trend over the period. Implying that there is something special about 67 shows the speed at which a new word can rocket around the world as a rising generation enters the global conversation.

[B]

I hate when like they take something fun and do that.

[C]

Yeah. No two other. No other two numbers was significantly.

[B]

I think I could think of two.

[C]

No other two numbers.

[B]

I could think of 2, 9, 11.

[C]

Oh, those are not what I meant.

[A]

I thought that's where you were going. What numbers did you think?

[C]

69.

[A]

I mean, around since the fucking like, 69, 9, 11.

[B]

What else?

[A]

420, 420, 420. Yeah, but this raised the question, what does six seven actually mean?

[B]

Oh, God, we can't go down this.

[A]

Road like there's no meaning. We as the basement yard Joey, not only are we, we have a responsibility as the sexiest podcast on the planet to, in the year of our Lord 2025, figure out for our fans, for the people at large, what 67 exactly means.

[B]

There is no meaning.

[A]

I mean, there has to be.

[B]

No.

[A]

So it's just. It's just. It's just. Yeah, that. Nothing. There has to be. It has to stem from something. What did Skrilla say?

[C]

The hardest thing to explain about 67 to my parents was how it means nothing. It's like an impossible thing to explain.

[A]

So, like, is it like the idea of, like, if someone asks you, like, oh, like, how do you feel right now on a scale of 1 to 10, you're like, ah, like 6 7.

[B]

Yeah, like you could do it like that.

[A]

I know I could do it like that because those are numbers in a numerical sense.

[B]

Well, that's like, that's. Yeah.

[A]

So is. Is the meaning of 67 that it's just like, fig. Like, I. I don't know, like it's.

[B]

Become a meme within a meme to my understanding.

[A]

Okay, that doesn't mean anything.

[B]

It's what I'm saying though, where it's like, it started as a meme, like, I believe I. From what I know was like this kid, and like, he did it at a game, like a basketball game, and he like, did this thing with his hands and said 6, 7. And then everyone was like, making fun of this kid and then just became like a meme. So they would ask like, other kids, like, you know, or they'd be interviewing athletes and they'd be like, yeah, at half I had like six, seven point. Like, it just became like a meme.

[A]

Okay, but. But.

[B]

And now it's just kind of all memes.

[A]

If we go back to the earliest existence of memes, which a lot of them stemmed from rage comics.

[B]

What?

[A]

You don't remember those rage comics?

[B]

What is that?

[A]

Where, like, where so many of those, like, you know, like, faces came from the, like, you know, stuff like that. They were like, oh, yeah, early 2010s, which. The earliest onset of memes.

[B]

Talk like a human.

[A]

There's something hysterical about, like, someone eventually is going to do, like. Like, teach a sociology class in, like, 2058, 100%, and just be like, so here is where we saw the earliest onset of the memes.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, mis. You know, mislabeled mamas. Didn't Keith use that? Didn't he call him Maimay?

[B]

He called it, like, Mehme. He's like, yeah, I saw this meme. I was like, let me stop you there.

[A]

But, like, all of the memes, they mean something, but they are just like, like, masking. It is like, it means this, but it also means, like, it's just another way of saying it. Like, when you see the meme of, like, give me a popular meme.

[B]

I mean, yo, dude, I'll be honest with you. A lot. A lot of the memes that I like are, like, so meaningless. I went down this rabbit hole one time, and because, you know, once you like, like a video, it's like it's just sent to you all the time. But it was just the sound of pipes, bro. It was just the sound of pipes.

[A]

Like, things hitting pipes.

[B]

Just pipes.

[A]

But, like, pipes have. They have to. They, like, make you sound like if.

[B]

You threw a pipe.

[A]

So. Something hitting a pipe.

[B]

Yeah. Or. Yeah, just like, throwing a pipe. But it was like a bunch of pipes crashing into each other, basically. And it would just be like a regular video, and then all of a sudden you would hear that and then slowly, like, fade into a picture of one pipe. And it killed me. Exactly.

[A]

But that's.

[B]

But that literally was like. It just made me laugh.

[A]

But I think if you think of, like, memes, like, you think of, like, the. Like, the baby that's like, you know. You know what, baby, I'm talking.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Or you think of, like, sad. Brian, you remember that one where it was like, these are, like, throwbacks. Okay.

[C]

More than 10 years.

[A]

Yeah. Like, but I'm using those as an example. Or like, the guy that's, like, typing at the computer, like, you know what I'm talking about?

[B]

Oh, like, this is fine.

[A]

Or like, no, no, no. The, like, the old man with the, like, full beard and he's like, okay, you know. Or the one of Scarlett Johansson from that movie Marriage Story, where she's like. Where it's like, how your email is finding me.

[B]

Like, have you been on a computer in, like, 10 years?

[A]

Or I'm saying memes. They gave a feeling to something that otherwise doesn't have a definition. Like, there is a meaning. It's just.

[C]

It's.

[A]

It's something that we have not been able to put a word to. But there's. So people put an image to it.

[B]

But there's comedy in zero meaning. In the same way that, like, the pipes thing, like, would make me laugh. I would send it to Pete all the time, but just be pipes.

[C]

Or the, like, the Italian brain rot craze.

[B]

I never. I see.

[A]

That I don't think is a meme. That I don't think what you're explaining is not a meme. It's just a stupid thing that someone does. Like a meme. If we could actually seriously look up the definition of a meme, I feel like it is.

[C]

We shouldn't.

[A]

We should. I should.

[B]

We should not.

[A]

I feel like it's what's gonna. What's who? Like, what do you. Because I'm trying to explain that this is not a meme. It's just a thing that someone says. Like, if we're thinking about a meme. A meme is representative of a feeling, a thought, an emotion.

[B]

Why you're trying to, like, put parameters on memes.

[A]

I think I am, because I am of someone of high status. It is.

[B]

It's just like an Internet inside joke, kind of. That's pretty much it.

[C]

An element of a culture or system of behavior pass from one individual to another.

[A]

I don't even know what that means. I think I'm wrong.

[B]

I think it's just. It's just like an inside joke. I don't know, dude.

[A]

The pipes, though, that's such a stupid.

[B]

It's so dumb. I literally. I'm just going to type one thing into Instagram and try to see.

[A]

Memes existed before the Internet. Like, do you remember when you and I would just be like. I don't know if this is such a deep cut. I don't even know if you're gonna remember this, but we'd be like, yeah, right. I'm gonna go to this store.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, but listen, this is the pipes. So that's the pipe sound, right? So there'd be a regular video playing. Just a regular, regular video. And then you'd hear that. And then just a picture of, like, not even the background cropped out. Just that.

[A]

Look at this picture. It's just that, like, it's just the stupidest thing. Exactly, exactly.

[B]

That's why it's funny to me.

[A]

Because, like, what the. Who the thought of it, but also, like, come on, you know, like, it'd.

[B]

Be like a scene from Spider Man. Not even a funny scene.

[C]

Just talking.

[B]

All of a sudden, you'd Hear the pipes. And then the pipe would slowly fade in and I'm like, who keeps making these? And it just. It would kill me. It had me in a chokehold for like a summer.

[A]

Dude. So stupid.

[B]

Crashing.

[A]

I remember when we would just be like, all right, like what? Someone would talk to us and we'd be like, all right, cool. Yeah, yeah, you know, just like. Like that. It's just. I get the idea of like, something is so stupid, but I. I guess I always. I viewed memes as something else. Like, it's not. To me, memes meant something more. Okay.

[B]

When I was a kid, memes meant.

[A]

Something, meant something they stood for something they stood for. They stood for an emotion, something that you couldn't put words to. So what came to the rescue? Picture of a kid in a backwards brown hat and a big puffer jacket and he looked like a big douchebag.

[B]

It's crazy. He's talking about the original, like, very long ago memes.

[A]

But there's some good old school memes. Should we look at them? Should we look at old school memes?

[B]

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[B]

Six.

[A]

Six. Okay, six. We should answer. Done. We should. I think we should come up with a bigger meme than 6. 7.

[B]

Please stop.

[A]

I think if we can capture lightning in a bottle here on the basement.

[B]

You're thinking about it too much.

[A]

We can become hot dogs. We can have a bigger meme than six. Seven. I think hot dogs were bigger than six. Seven.

[B]

No, friend, they weren't. I actually did have a hot dog the other day.

[A]

Oh, I had a couple.

[B]

I went to the. The World Series game. Game six. Jay's lost, but Trader is also was able to go shout out to seatgeek. Last year they sent us.

[A]

Yeah. Always with the hookup.

[B]

With the hookup.

[A]

Hook me up, Seed Geek.

[B]

We went to the Yankees last year and they hooked it up. So this year I went and in. In Toronto to go to a game.

[A]

Yep. Just want to say. Just want to say the game we went to last year was the only one the Yankees won.

[B]

It might be us.

[A]

It is us.

[B]

Yeah. You know, they did lose when I went to see the Jays, but is what it is. But yeah. No awesome experience being able to do that. They, like, hooked it up at the last second, too. For. For me to go there.

[A]

Took.

[B]

Took a plane. I was there for like 18 hours.

[A]

So you had a dog in you.

[B]

So I had a dog in me. I was at the game. I was like, you know what? I'm here. They're giving me this cool experience. I'm gonna experience. Experience it the way you should.

[A]

I'm dog down your throat.

[B]

I'm gonna. Okay, you're going crazy with the down the throat thing. I ate it like a Normal person.

[A]

Okay. I mean, it did. There technically was a dog down your throat. It was chewed up. I don't care how the dog got there.

[B]

Fine. But, yeah, I did get a hot dog, but I also. I ordered because we were having beers.

[A]

Oh, all right.

[B]

So I was like, yeah, we're having some beers at the baseball game and whatever. And then I was like, I'm gonna switch it up. You know, I'm gonna guess something nasty, something filthy. Yeah. Or I don't know, something cool. I don't know.

[A]

What do you get?

[B]

So I. Halloween drink. No, it wasn't Halloween, Joe.

[A]

I forgot about that. A year.

[B]

A year ago, there was something on the menu. It was called, like, a manganata or something like that, like, and just perked up. But I was like. I was like, oh, what is this? What is this drink? Like, is it, like. Because there was, like, rum in or something and some other shit. So is this like a margarita? And the guy's like, yeah, kind of.

[A]

It's like a.

[B]

Like a frozen margarita, something like that. I was like, okay, cool. I'll do one of those. Bro, this thing shows up.

[A]

It fucking.

[B]

Bro, it's this big. Yeah, it's like red and yellow overflowing. Giant straw. And a lime, right? Ordered it from a dude. A girl who works there was. Comes over to us and goes like, this, manganada.

[A]

Like, no one orders this. You were so such a fucking pussy to her in that moment, bro.

[B]

She literally was like, manganada. And I was like, that's me. And we were dying, dude. Also, sweetest thing I've ever had in my life. Had two sips, and I was like, I don't know if I can have the rest of this.

[A]

Like, I imagine it was like a mango, strawberry type.

[B]

It was I. Yeah. Like now?

[A]

Or was the red just like grenadine?

[B]

No, because, you know, like, mangoes also have that red net. It was kind of like that.

[A]

Let me be very clear about something. I have never had a mango outside of the skin on the outside that has any amount of red in it.

[B]

Like, near the center, it's like, kind of red a little bit by the pit.

[A]

My brother in arms.

[B]

Wait, am I thinking you have not had a mango?

[A]

You're thinking a peach? Okay, yeah, I am thinking of peach.

[B]

But it looked like that. Like, you know, it looked like peach colors.

[C]

The lime is confusing.

[B]

I mean.

[A]

I mean, you know, I'm sure there was tequila in there. Tequila lime is a pairing of time lime as old as time.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Spaghetti, meatball, Spaghetti Meatball, macaroni, cheese, lime and tuna fish.

[C]

Does Toronto have a Toronto dog? Like, do they, like, put poutine on it or something?

[B]

No, but they would. They were selling poutine and I saw a bunch of people getting, oh, you.

[A]

By the way, I didn't get crazy Putin. I've heard it. Oh, dude. If I say it another, will he appear?

[B]

Did you say Putin?

[A]

Three times.

[B]

He pops up.

[A]

I know, I heard, I heard. I think Mikey was the one that told me that. He was just like, it's not Putin, it's Putin. It's Putin.

[B]

Really?

[A]

We'd have to ask him. I'm pretty sure, because I, I, I.

[B]

Mean, if, if you completely grab that out of thin air, that'd be interesting.

[A]

If I'm gonna be honest with you, if I am misremembering that I'm concerned about my mental well being, same. Because I can remember having a conversation with him and him telling me that. And if this is a, a creation of my delusion, we have a serious problem.

[B]

We have a problem in our hands. But I will say that the game was like, an awesome experience, especially in Toronto. They give, so they give a fuck. Dude. Everyone on the street was wearing a jersey. Like, it was just like a.

[A]

Cool, it must be cool. And I don't know if you, like, have thought about this, but, like, it must be cool to live in a city where there is one MLB team. Yeah. One NFL team, one NHL team, one NBA team.

[B]

Yeah. Like, I mean, because, like, here there's two for everything.

[A]

Yankees, Mets, and then it's Nets, Knicks. And then, you know, like, the only sport major. I, I, I don't know if it's yet considered a major sport by most people, but, like, the only, like, sport that has one team is the Liberty, the wnba. Everyone else has two or three.

[B]

And so. And New York is also one of those cities that a lot of people move to. So you don't get like, the entire, I mean, other than, Honestly, I feel like Knicks fans are like, everyone's a Nick fan. Like, I don't think there's a lot of net fans in New York.

[A]

I think there's more net fans than you realize.

[B]

There's, I mean, I think if percentage wise, like, way more of New Yorkers are Knicks fans than they are.

[A]

Sure. But, well, they've also, like, the Nets were in Jersey 30 years.

[B]

Well, that's why it kind of feels like that. Like, everything else feels sort of like split. But that one feels like, whatever. But the, but, yeah, like being in a City like that where everyone, like, cares about this so much. Everyone's, you know.

[A]

Yeah. That's got to be pretty cool. Like, I don't remember where if, like, I can't really remember, like, us being on tour and, like, any of the, like, cities, like, had their team and they were like, ride or die for that team.

[B]

Well, when we were in Austin, we went to that. To.

[A]

Well, I'm not talking college, because who, like, dude, they give a. Dude, you want to hear something funny?

[B]

I think they care more about the college.

[A]

When we were in Austin, I got Becca a Longhorns hat.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because last year, anytime we went somewhere, I got her a hat from that place, you know? And we were out yesterday at a child's birthday party, and her and I, like, the kids were, like, playing, and we were sitting near the window, and someone walks up to the window, and I think they're gonna point to me, you know? Cause I'm the sexiest podcaster.

[B]

Right? Exactly.

[A]

And looks at Becca. Well, first he walked by and then doubled back, knocks on the window, and goes.

[B]

Horns down.

[A]

Horns down to her. And she was like. Because she didn't know what the fuck. And I was just like, you don't realize what you just did. And she's like, I don't get it. And I was like, they did horns down. I was like, people get, like, shot and in fights for shit.

[C]

Like, that.

[A]

Woman didn't, like, didn't Vince Young get into a fight because someone did horns down to him or something like that?

[B]

I mean, I imagine they love Vince Young, too.

[A]

Well, he's like, a big, like, in the Austin area. He's. He's big over there, bro.

[B]

He gave him a natty. They.

[A]

He's.

[B]

God.

[A]

Well, have they won since Texas?

[B]

I don't know. All I know is that game was, like, unbelievable.

[A]

I mean, I remember that game. It was them USC, and it was Vince Young versus Reggie Bush. Crazy 2006, I want to say. But, yeah, dude, he. He doubled back.

[B]

That's so funny.

[A]

To tell my poor wife. 2005, okay. Horns down to tell my poor wife, who knows nothing about. And, like, I'm not saying, like, I know much. Yeah. But, like, I knew that what he was doing was like, you. You. Basically, it was just, like, a crazy interaction.

[B]

That's how much they care.

[A]

Dude.

[B]

It was awesome.

[A]

But have you been to stadiums that, like. Like, you remember, like, their signature food or drink was, like, bananas?

[B]

I. I don't indulge at games like that. I usually just go for, like, the chicken Tenders and fries. I did get a hot dog because I was like, yo, I'm in this and it. It's the World Series. Gotta dog it, you know, Got a manganata in there. I don't know if I'll go back for the manganada.

[A]

I will say, last time we went to a baseball game together. Not the last time we went together, but there was a game we went to, I think last year or the year before. And you in your seat ordered a spicy marg at a Yankee game. And I was like, this just feels wrong. I mean, it just felt weird.

[C]

Like that's like Joe Shake asked for a spicy marg.

[B]

I would.

[A]

No one is hornier for a spicy than this dude over here loves it.

[B]

That's why I ordered that.

[A]

I thought it was a spicy morgue, but it wasn't.

[B]

It was a big tropical drink. And, you know, the girl was rightfully confused. And, you know, it was a. It was a good experience and a good memory and I won't forget it. And thank you again to Seeky because that was really fucking cool that you were, you know, able to get me tickets to the World Series again.

[A]

That is. Yeah. Now you got to go next year when it's no 1 versus no 1 because of the lockout. Inside baseball reference. Literally inside baseball reference. Like, it could not be more actual inside, inside of the baseball. Yeah. So. Well, good for you. I'm glad. I'm glad you had a good time. Yeah, I was getting. My wife was getting yelled at for wearing a longhorns hat.

[B]

Dude, that is so funny. Horns down.

[A]

Literally. He was just like, yeah, good God. Yeah.

[B]

No, that's not.

[A]

It was like violent.

[B]

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[A]

Oh, question. He asked a question. And question.

[B]

Hey.

[A]

And question. He's got a question. Let's see it now, bitch.

[B]

That is a new update.

[A]

That's a new update. We need to write like, a full version of it. So it could be like, there needs a ballad version of it. Just like, question. Got a question that he's gonna.

[B]

You're ruining it. You're still gone.

[C]

You hit it on the back end a little bit there.

[A]

I know. Well, like, see, this is the thing. If you leave me alone.

[B]

I have to reel you in. You'll run around the yard for an hour.

[A]

I will.

[B]

We won't even be able to talk on this.

[C]

Mud into the house.

[A]

I've been described by my wife as a chocolate lab that just runs on hardwood. And I think that they just.

[B]

You run. Not going.

[A]

And I just. I think that's accurate. That's a great experience.

[B]

Damn it.

[C]

I gotcha. So here's the question. Would you rather fight 100 bloodlusted 95 year olds or 100 bloodlusted 3 year olds?

[B]

Let's get this out of the way first. Bloodlusted meaning zombie.

[A]

Are they Dracula?

[B]

They want to suck our blood or they're just. They just want to kill?

[A]

They want to suck our blood so much. Like, through a straw or something.

[C]

They want to kill.

[B]

They want to kill.

[A]

Oh, so the bloodlust is just in like, a sense of like, they need to murder?

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Nice.

[C]

They'll do anything to get you.

[B]

I mean, which one would I rather fight?

[C]

That's the question.

[B]

I'm gonna say three year olds, bro. I'm like an unlimited amount of three year olds. How much space do I have? Do I have the earth? Because they're definitely not getting me.

[C]

So, like, an empty field.

[B]

Empty field crushing them.

[A]

And what do I have at my disposal? Is it anything I can find? Like if I dig up a rock?

[C]

If you can dig up a rock, sure. But from base, it's a fist to cuffs, bro.

[A]

Here's the. This is what's tough.

[B]

I didn't even consider weapons.

[A]

Here's what's tough. A hundred year olds. Seems like it'd be the easier one because like I can tire out a hundred year old so quickly. Or 95 year old. Is that what you said?

[C]

95. I don't know if those five years.

[A]

Tomato, tomato. At that point they're already tired. Yeah, I have to sneeze.

[B]

Okay, which one did you pick? I realize you're trying to sneeze. All right, sorry.

[A]

See, I could tire out a 95 year old, 195 year olds by just jogging in a circle for five seconds. You know how difficult it is to tire out a five year old or something.

[B]

I'm not worried about tiring out the.

[A]

3 year old or 3 year old. Dude, you should be worried about that.

[B]

Really. I bet, I bet a swift kick to the head would. They're bloodlusted. I'm not saying I would do that.

[C]

But I'm saying they are bloodlusted.

[A]

They're blasted. I think I'm gonna go with the 3 year olds because the 95 year olds have lived enough of life to have a sense of like strategy. Like they might be able to say like, yo, if we band together and work a certain way, we can get this done. The three year olds, it's anarchy.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

They don't know what the hell they're doing. They don't even know that they're a part of a community.

[B]

They may just like be stopping and talking to each other at one point.

[A]

And they might be picking dandelions and stuff. Like unless they're given like a rage virus of some sort.

[C]

Yeah, bloodlusted.

[B]

Oh yeah, they are bloodlusted.

[C]

Forget, don't forget about the blood.

[B]

I will say, I think just from a pure weight standpoint, like a 95 year old is going to weigh more than a 3 year old. So like that's true. You know, eventually the 95 year olds, all they have to do is like fall on top of me and like eventually I'm.

[A]

It's a wrap. But also the three year olds, like you're going to like, listen, I can outrun a three year old. Yeah, I do it every other day, if not every day. But you have to move quicker. Like I can just briskly walk in the same direction for 10 minutes and I will out. Like I will get half these 95 year olds. And listen, I'm not saying they're like freak, like still in great shape. Like Rita Moreno, although I don't know if she's 95 yet, and Dick Van Dyke, but like if I just walk and tire them out. Like I don't care how bloodlusted they are, they're gonna be like crawling and then I'm just gonna stomp them out with my giant feet.

[C]

Well, I have a question. Imagine like these two scenarios in terms of zombies. Like, would you like a charging 3 year old zombie? I feel like is scarier than a charging 95 year old.

[B]

You're bugging. No, like old zombie, I'm kind of with you.

[C]

That's not as like, I feel like.

[B]

They could be the same, they could be bigger than me.

[C]

I know, but like a little one coming at you.

[B]

Oh, from a fear standpoint.

[A]

Scary.

[C]

Like they're harder to.

[A]

Also, I have like play like played with my like two. All three of them are basically three years old at one point. So like I have experience playing with three three year olds. Yeah, they can hurt you. Like it's not just like, because they're so small. Like I've been kicked in the fucking balls.

[B]

That's cuz you're, you're like playing nice though. Like if you like, if it was like yo, me or you, but also.

[A]

Like yo, you would be surprised how quick kids are.

[B]

Three year olds are dense.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. You know, like I, my nephew at three years old, you know, I feel like it would be punching like a bowling ball or something like that. I'd probably hurt my hand.

[C]

Looking for the average weight of a three year old. Average weight of a three year old's like 40 pounds, 26 to 38 pounds.

[B]

Okay, 26 pounds, never mind, bring them on.

[A]

No, I, I think, I think you are like also, if I get cornered.

[B]

You'D rather the three year olds.

[C]

Dude, if you get cornered.

[A]

This seems like I'm taking the 95 year olds. RIP their arms out of their socket because they're falling off anyways. I would throw up and I would just fucking. You know, like you might catch one.

[C]

That had some military experience though. It doesn't matter how.

[A]

Yeah, but I don't care.

[B]

Like they can fight.

[A]

No, they're 95. I'm sorry. Like even in the best shape at 95, like they're not beating a 33 year old Frankie.

[B]

Dude, I don't think. Yeah, but a three year old won't even know what to do. I feel like it would run at me and then what? What's it gonna do?

[A]

Scratch and claw?

[C]

Go for your eyes maybe.

[A]

Go for your eyes.

[B]

How they getting to my eyes, bro?

[A]

They're gonna like, they don't even need to like, here's the Thing.

[B]

I wear long sleeves.

[A]

Okay. I'm not saying like, it's not necessarily a zombie thing, but like if a three year old runs at you and just grabs your leg and holds on to it, like then another one and then another one and then another one.

[B]

I can just back up.

[A]

You have more of a chance of them dog piling you than the 95 year olds. Without a doubt.

[C]

If I threw my shoe as hard as I possibly can at a 95.

[B]

Year old, I mean, what do you think?

[C]

Any of these.

[A]

Hold on.

[B]

The three year old's going down.

[A]

Watch this, watch this. You want to see how I'm getting away from 95 year old? Thank you.

[B]

Yeah, I mean a 90, 95 year olds can probably like.

[C]

Yeah, they're bloodlusted.

[A]

The average. We can't go off of like. They're bloodlusted.

[B]

Yeah, they're lusting, they're lust, they're lusting for blood.

[A]

We have to go off of the average 95 year old. We can't go off of like 95 year olds that are like running marathons and shit like that.

[B]

I mean, bro, the average 95 year old in Europe is probably like not that bad.

[A]

We didn't specify where they are.

[B]

We're saying average of the Earth.

[C]

The average 95 year old is about 166 pounds.

[B]

That's heavy, dude. That's a heavy purse.

[C]

Heavy, big, man.

[A]

That's like super lightweight.

[B]

Yeah, I know, but it's, it's, it's less than 25. That's like a Pomeranian.

[A]

Did you catch like £5?

[B]

I would, I would. I'm not taking the Pomeranians. I would take both of these over the Pomeranians. I'm dead.

[A]

Because they're fast.

[B]

They're very fast. They're very fast.

[A]

They're faster than both.

[B]

You make a good point that the children could. Can a three year old run?

[A]

Like, run?

[B]

Yeah, dude, but can they. They'd fall still. No, they could.

[A]

I mean, like, it depends on the.

[B]

Like, they wouldn't be able to run down a street without falling.

[A]

I mean, yeah, they can. Maeve does it all the time. Every now and then she trips, but like for the most part she runs and like runs.

[C]

Also.

[B]

Children get tired quickly. Yeah, bro. Running, running though. Running. Like, I know they get tired like, oh.

[A]

Children have way more energy than a 95 year old, dude. Bloodlusted blood.

[B]

It's so much blood lusting for it and they love it.

[C]

I don't know if this is a hot take. I think you might be toast. Either way. I don't know if you can do it.

[A]

I don't know either because even like.

[C]

Doing enough damage 100 times, you're going to get tired without getting dogpiled or something.

[A]

It's like you are the gorilla. But I have a better chance of catching my breath with the 95 year olds because I think I said 3 year olds originally, but I'm reverting now. I think I might go 95 year olds because think about it, if it takes just walking in a quick like 3 mph in a direction in order to catch your breath, that's way easier. Like with kids, dude, kids will not let up. I'm telling you. I play fight with and play wrestle kids all the time.

[C]

Yeah, 95 year olds can strategize though. What if they all lock arms and.

[A]

Like, that's what I'm saying, come at you. That's a problem. That's something. That's a problem. That's something. You're right. That is.

[B]

The strategy is big. Can I.

[A]

Could I, like how much money again? Or is it just. It's just your life for money. Yeah. Okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What if I, like, will cut off like three of my fingers in order to give all the 95 year olds dementia?

[B]

What does that even mean? What does that mean?

[C]

Wouldn't that be worse?

[A]

Just like it just like, I get it, like a bit of a, like an advantage.

[B]

Oh, you're saying trade.

[A]

Yeah, like I'll trade three fingers. They all have dementia.

[B]

I don't think that helps you at all.

[C]

I don't think that's.

[A]

I think it definitely helps.

[B]

I don't think it does.

[A]

Yeah, because like in the middle of trying to fight me, they'd just like break out into singing Somewhere over the Rainbow.

[C]

That would be a great song. That would be terrifying.

[B]

That would be terrifying.

[A]

That is a really good.

[B]

I would think that it's over.

[C]

Yeah, I think something's happening. Something's wrong.

[A]

If they just stop, they're just like somewhere over the.

[B]

I would probably just walk towards them. I'm like, well, it's over now.

[A]

I don't want to be high. And then they snap back into it.

[B]

Yeah. Bloodlusted blood loss.

[A]

I forgot about the blood loss.

[B]

Yeah, you can't forget about that.

[C]

I think it's a toughie.

[B]

That is a toughie. I don't know if there's a right answer.

[A]

I definitely.

[B]

I'm with you in that 95 year olds probably move slower so you can kind of like back up and catch your breath a Little more.

[A]

But they, they will have the ability to strategize because they have 95 years of experience, bro.

[B]

Think about this though, like if they surround you, it's kind of like you're toast.

[A]

If they surround me, I just drone betta style, lower the shoulder and run as hard as I can in one direction.

[B]

But wouldn't you rather run into three year olds?

[A]

Yeah, that's a good point. I could probably clear a couple of them.

[C]

I feel like they dive at your legs and you go down. If you fall, it's over.

[B]

No, I'm jumping over.

[A]

Yeah, anywhere. If you fall on either of them, you're, you're, you're.

[B]

Yeah, you can't go down.

[A]

You can't go down.

[C]

You can't go down because of what?

[A]

A couple things. Mainly the bloodlust.

[B]

Well, the bloodlusting is huge. I think if, but like think about this. Two 95 year olds fall on your back, you ain't getting up. You need like six babies on your back. And that's only how much. Like, like not even £200. I could get up.

[A]

I mean, speak for yourself. I, I could get up with 260 pound 95 year olds on my back.

[C]

Is, is there an argument to them being harder to hit because smaller target.

[A]

Harder to hit with your fists? Sure. Because you have to strike down which takes way more energy.

[B]

Uppercuts fellas, uppercuts.

[A]

But even that's way harder. And there it goes. Funny bone. Was it hysterical? Hysterical. I feel like it's harder like uppercutting a three year old because you have to like, you have to like scoop it.

[C]

Yeah. It's all kicks for three year olds.

[A]

I think it's all kicks take way more energy because your legs are heavier.

[B]

Technically, am I bloodlusted? Because they're coming at me.

[C]

I mean that's your choice.

[B]

I would be bloodlusted.

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

Well, I don't think you can have. I mean, I guess technically if one side is bloodlusted, the other side would be in defense. Defense.

[B]

I would be defensively bloodlusted.

[A]

You'd be defensive lusted.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

What if you had a bat?

[B]

Oh my God, dude.

[A]

Oh, a vampire bat. I don't know why that was so funny to this day.

[B]

Because you didn't say it correctly.

[A]

I said it very correctly. Vampire bat.

[B]

I'm not, I'm not doing this fake pronouncing word escape with you.

[A]

What?

[C]

Bet.

[B]

The blood lusted is crazy though.

[A]

The bloodlust is a good point. Now how many if it was a million dollars per person. How many do you think you can get through? And they came one at a time. Like Royal Rumble style. Like, they came two minutes after the next. There was a. It was like, like hell in a second. Hell no. Like Royal Rumble style. I had the match right.

[B]

I was thinking like, elimination chamber. Sure.

[A]

I mean, yeah, but like, that's only six. Royal rumble gets up to 30.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No weapons.

[A]

No weapons.

[B]

Damn. Eventually you get tired.

[A]

Sure. But like, if it's one on one and you're tired, do you have a better chance?

[B]

I mean, we're over here arguing this. The number has to be all of them, though. If you send me a one on one with a three year old, I'd be out there all day kicking field goals.

[A]

Yeah, dude, I'd be floored. You'd be surprised.

[B]

One child can't like.

[A]

Yeah, I'm not saying one. And also, they're not human children. They're vampire children. These are bloodlusted vampire bloodlusted children. Because we would never. Let's make this very clear. We're passivists. We don't want to harm anybody. Oh, who would we do that to?

[B]

But bloodlusted. You put me in a corner. You're bloodlusting. I'm defending myself.

[A]

What's that animal? There's an animal that if you put. If you put them in a corner, they like kill you to get out of it. I think that's any animal, now that I think about it.

[B]

Like a honey badger.

[A]

No, but there's like, there's one animal that's like, fuck, is it a mink that like, if you put them in a corner and like, it's like mud around them, they'll die before they go through the mud or something like that.

[B]

Oh, that is a weird one.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

I know. Rats will eat through you.

[A]

Yeah. That was like a Japanese torture thing.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, yeah. It was just like they put a can on you and they weigh it down with a rat inside.

[B]

Or they light the can on fire and the cat. The cat. The rat digs through your. That's got to be the worst way to go.

[A]

I mean the, the bamboo sounds way also bad. What's the bamboo where they like lay you? Because bamboo is one of the fastest growing things. Things on the planet. And they'll like lay you over a bed of like young bamboo shoots and like, they'll lay you there and like tied up. And basically the bamboo shoots will grow through your body.

[B]

I have never heard that.

[A]

Yeah, that's a bad one.

[B]

You've heard that?

[C]

I've gone through many a rabbit hole of like, medieval torture. Like the worst ways to go.

[A]

I mean, they just use that big cranking one where they pull your arms and legs. That sounds bad.

[B]

That one's bad.

[A]

That sounds.

[B]

Got any good ones?

[C]

There was one where they would put you in a boat. Like you. They put you in a boat and then another boat on top of you. Like upside.

[B]

A boat?

[C]

Yeah, boats. Like little row boats. And they would like, shove honey and milk down your throat until you're like, expanded and then cover you in honey. And then like, bugs and snakes and rats would come in and eat you.

[A]

That doesn't even make sense.

[B]

Wait, I'm very confused about you put a boat.

[A]

Feed me until I was stuffed, and then they would just put me in a boat.

[B]

What was the point of the boats?

[C]

I think it's just like a dark place that, like, bugs like to go. And they would just eat you.

[A]

Let me be very clear. I'm not dying from bugs on a boat.

[C]

Oh, man. You might be dying from bugs on a boat.

[A]

He will. I mean, I don't know. I mean, someone will because they'll jump off. I will. I saw the ones that I've seen that are terrible are like. They tie people to, like, posts and it's like high tide rolls in.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And like, it like, just goes above their mouth at high tide.

[C]

Vlad. I think Vlad the Impaler would put you, like, sit you on a stake and, like, the stake was like, really, really wide, but your body would just slowly go down it anyway.

[A]

From your butt.

[C]

Yeah, from your butt. And then you would just, like your innards would just. Right up top. Sometimes. Sometimes it would. The duller they would make them with the is the longer that you would have to. It would take you to go down on it. So you technically want a pointy stick.

[A]

That's a bad one. That's a really bad one.

[B]

You're telling me if I put my butt.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

On a dull steak.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That my butt would just accept it.

[C]

Eventually it would.

[B]

And then it would split my fucking body in half.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

My body doesn't know to stop.

[A]

I mean, it can. Fighting gravity. Gravity always wins.

[C]

I think they would, like, tie weights to your ankles. Oh, so you would.

[B]

People are sick.

[A]

There's other ones that are crazy. I mean, the one that I heard of, I don't think this is like, for like, death, but it is a form of torture. That always got my skin crawling was when they would put Bamboo shoots under the fingernails and they would hammer them in.

[B]

You love bamboo.

[C]

You do.

[A]

Like, I don't like it. I mean, I don't mind it.

[B]

I think watching pandas eat bamboo is very cute. That's as far as I go.

[A]

Yeah. There's some crazy, like torture stuff.

[B]

The drop on the head, you know.

[A]

That I, I could understand why that drives someone crazy, but like, I tend to probably believe that I am stronger than that.

[B]

You aren't. I bet it would be less than 7 minutes of dropping on your head.

[A]

I mean, we're not gonna do it. We're not gonna be those YouTubers. We're not gonna be those YouTubers. It's like, all right. We tried out seven medieval testing torture techniques.

[B]

You know, I, I, I water boat. I waterboarded myself once on purpose. Yeah. You ever do it?

[A]

I think I have.

[B]

Yo, it's, it's tough.

[A]

How I did it in the shower.

[B]

Like a rag over your face.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Dump water on it. Yeah. You cannot breathe. Like, you can't take, you can't suck in anything.

[A]

Look up other crazy to torture techniques. Let's be that. Why are we. Let's be torture. Let's be them. Let's be those podcasts. You know what I don't get this thing, the stocks. That's just a public shaming. It's like just, you know, it's just like, look at this dumbass with his bare red ass out in the middle of fucking town square.

[B]

Red ass?

[A]

Yeah. Cuz they would like hit them with some.

[B]

They would spank them.

[A]

I think they would. Right?

[C]

I think that, yeah, it's just like.

[B]

You were probably on a different website.

[A]

No, I'm serious. I think it was like they would like put them in the stocks and they would have to like, like hit them and their legs would give out.

[C]

Do you see what the pirates would do?

[B]

Walk the plank.

[C]

Walk the plank. But then they would also like tie you and pull you underneath the boat all the way to the other side of the boat. But underneath the boat is like barnacles.

[A]

Oh, that's it.

[C]

It would like, your body would be scraped along the bottom side.

[A]

Miserable.

[C]

So you're drowning and being scraped.

[B]

That's, that's.

[A]

Wait, how would they do that though? How would they get the rope the other side?

[B]

I like that question.

[A]

How would they? Because I know they had a way of doing it, but in my head it's old, so it's stupid.

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

Rope.

[A]

Yeah. But like, what are they gonna be like? Like someone swim under and grab this rope for me so we could torture this guy.

[C]

If you throw the rope in front of the boat and the boat goes over it, don't you have it on both sides now?

[A]

That's a big rope, though. And they had big ships.

[C]

You definitely need rope that big.

[A]

I don't know. I don't know. That's a crazy one. What other ones you got? And I know you're a sick freak and you love this shit, you horny little fuck.

[C]

You want me to look them up?

[B]

Walking the plank is.

[A]

I mean, that's just more like.

[B]

I mean, that's much better than any of the ones that we've talked about.

[A]

I'll be honest with you. Walking the plank. You know how I feel about the ocean. But there's a small part of me that's like, I could survive.

[B]

I mean, I just got to float and hope for the best, which the best is probably not coming. Especially back then.

[A]

Oh, the one that I saw that was crazy was like, they put people in, like, a metal horse, and they light a fire underneath it.

[B]

A metal horse.

[C]

Screaming bull.

[A]

Yeah, the bull. Bull.

[B]

Screaming bull.

[A]

The Pair of Anguish.

[C]

Oh, I know this one. The pair of Anguish.

[B]

What's the pair of Anguish?

[C]

So they would put this in mouths of people that sometimes butts, but mostly mouths of people that were, like, speaking wrong or, like, behind your back. And they would just slowly open it, like a vice. Like this.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And it would just like, essentially stop you from being able to talk and also be painful. Okay.

[B]

Oh, you would just break your jaw.

[C]

Yeah. Like, slowly expand your jaw like the soft.

[A]

That's not cool. But, like, there's no barnacles.

[B]

I mean, that's fucking horrible.

[A]

Is that the bull one?

[C]

This is your screaming bull?

[A]

Yeah. That one's crazy. That is, like. That is unbelievably nightmarish.

[C]

The guy who created it for, like, the emperor or whatever, they tossed them in there and did it to him. Not cool.

[A]

You heard of that one, right?

[B]

No.

[A]

So they build a metal brass, big.

[C]

Brass bull, and they would put someone in it, and then they would light a fire underneath, and it would cook them.

[B]

And.

[C]

And their screams would come out of, like, little tiny holes in the bull's nose, and it sounded like a bull screaming, fuck that.

[B]

Humans are disgusting.

[A]

That one is fucked up. I don't like it. You heard it here first. Rat torture.

[B]

Not into that at all.

[C]

That's the thing we talked about.

[B]

No, the tongue.

[C]

Care.

[A]

They used to do that back in, like, ancient Egypt. Right. They'd Be like, you stole. Give me your tongue.

[B]

Thumb screw. I have a feeling I'm gonna hate that.

[C]

They would just tie your thumbs together like this. Screw it in. It's just, like, uncomfortable. Sometimes they would put it behind their back like that.

[A]

Yeah, that sucks.

[B]

But, bro, how do you know all this?

[C]

A lot of rabbit holes.

[A]

He's a freak.

[C]

The iron maidens actually wasn't real. You know that, like, they never really.

[B]

I don't know what it is to begin with.

[A]

The thing from. The thing from Matilda.

[B]

Oh, the. The chokey.

[A]

The chokey, yeah.

[B]

Oh, it'd be like spikes.

[C]

They never really use that. I think was more for fear. Intimidation.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

I mean, why not? That's a cool looking fucking thing.

[C]

The Heretic forks a good one so that what they would do is they would tie.

[A]

I love talking about this. Like, oh, God, this is such a cool move.

[C]

So they would tie like a. Kind of like a pitchfork. Like a little pitchfork underneath here.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So you can't. Like, you always had to look up, I think was like a prayer thing or like a religious thing. And every time you'd, like, your neck got tired and try to look down, it would pierce you.

[A]

Not good. I saw that, like, there's like, allegedly some military training that does that. Where they, like, put pins in their collars.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And like, to like, keep the person's posture, they have to be like that. And if they go forward, it'll poke them.

[C]

I could be making it up, but I think it's big in the Japanese military. Like, perfect posture and stuff like that.

[B]

I love how you're not sure, but you're willing to say that.

[A]

I'm not sure who it is, but I'm pretty sure it's the. Because pretty sure it's the Japanese.

[C]

I'm about 72% sure.

[A]

72.

[B]

It's not bad.

[C]

Sorry for the history lesson. My bad. Yeah. I got excited.

[B]

I mean. Yeah.

[A]

You strike me as a history guy.

[C]

You got to know where you were to know where you're going.

[A]

Oh, God.

[B]

That'S crazy.

[A]

Well, there you have it, folks.

[B]

Hope you enjoyed torture. Toy.

[A]

Toy. Toy. I hope you enjoyed the toy.

[B]

Talk.

[A]

Good time at the basement yard. You shouldn't laugh about it. Torture or being able to formulate a sentence.

[B]

You just did it. Anyway, thank you guys so much for watching all the way through. We appreciate it so much. Frank. Where can they find you?

[A]

Frank Alvarez. The Frank Out. Don't even. It doesn't matter.

[B]

You don't want to say.

[A]

It doesn't even matter.

[B]

Nothing matters.

[A]

Nothing even matters anymore.

[B]

Yeah, where can they find you?

[A]

Fuck you can find me.

[C]

On.

[B]

Thank you so much for watching this week's episode of the Basin Yard. We'll see you guys next time.