#548 - Are We There Yet?

Summary

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The Basement Yard #548 – "Are We There Yet?"

Release Date: March 30, 2026
Hosts: Joe Santagato, Frank Alvarez, Ant
Studio: Santagato Studios

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EPISODE THEME OVERVIEW

In this hilarious and meandering episode, Joe, Frank, and Ant dive headfirst into a debate about what it really means to have "been" somewhere—a classic road-trip and travel argument. The conversation spins out into personal travel stories, debates about gas station stops, layovers, seeing landmarks, childhood road trips (and pooping in a bucket), regional food preferences, cultural diversity, and comedic detours into animatronics, playground injuries, and favorite cuisines. This is pure Basement Yard: absurd, genuine, and rapid-fire, with playful antagonism and laugh-out-loud moments from start to finish.

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MAIN DISCUSSION POINTS & TIMESTAMPS

1. What Counts As "Having Been" Somewhere?

[00:26–21:36]

• Ant’s Airport Hat Purchase Contraversy ([00:26–01:12]):
  Ant buys a hat during a layover in St. Louis and wonders if he can count that as "having been" to the city.
• Joe’s Strict Criteria ([01:16–03:10]):
  “You gotta be outside. You gotta, like, go to a place.” – Joe
  Airports and drive-throughs don't count. Joe insists you must touch ground and experience something local.
• Frank and Ant Debate Technicalities ([03:01–04:57]):
  Frank, more lenient, thinks even a gas station or purchasing something counts. Ant pushes back, arguing his airport visit is more than Joe’s gas stop.
• Gatekeeping Going Places ([03:55–06:56]):
  “Why are you the end all be all of places going?” – Frank [02:52]
• Conversational Honesty ([09:10–10:21]):
  Ant jokes he’ll say he’s "been" somewhere or not depending on if he likes the person asking.
• Landmark Sightings vs. City Visits ([13:17–14:53]):
  Driving by monuments vs. “experiencing” a state or city; the group acknowledges it’s levels of engagement.

2. Pooping in a Bucket – Childhood Road Trip Stories

[23:10–28:14]

• Frank’s Legendary Cracker Barrel Detours & Bucket Poop Memories ([23:10–25:30]):
  Frank recounts road trips with his dad, who stopped at every Cracker Barrel—and the less-glamorous details of kids pooping into buckets along the interstate.
• Bucket as Portable Restroom ([24:57–25:51]):
  “Is pooping in a bucket and then throwing it on the side of the road—is that littering?” – Frank [25:13]
• Is it illegal to poop outdoors?
  The group gets into legal gray areas and camp/hiking etiquette.

3. Dreams, Cheese, and Other Absurdities

[32:48–39:20]

• Joe’s Dream Breakup Involving Boursin Cheese ([32:48–34:31]):
  Nicole, Joe’s partner, has a dream where he breaks up with her via messages hidden in the wrappers of Boursin cheese.
  “A cheese breakup is probably a great one.” – Frank [34:17]
• Cheese Flavors Sidetrack ([34:50–35:35]):
  The hosts humorously rank Boursin flavors and banter about rosemary.
• Frank Mimics Joe’s “Valuable Conversation” Standard ([36:05–37:24]):
  “Your ear space is so expensive. You can't be bothered with other people.” – Frank [36:15]

4. Slippery Slides, Animatronic Horrors & Playground Mishaps

[39:59–47:19]

• Willy Wonka’s Kids—Did They Die? ([39:59–41:40])
• Laundry Chute & Playground Slide Injuries ([41:40–43:11])
• Boston’s Viral “Too Fast” Slide & Adult Playgrounds ([43:17–47:11]):
  The now-famous cop-on-the-slide video gets described in detail.
• Swing Set Backflips & Age Regret ([46:05–47:05]):
  Joe reminisces about kid stunts he won’t try again.

5. Animatronic Shows & Freaky Chuck E. Cheese Memories

[47:43–52:00]

• A TikTok Rabbit Hole—Human-eyed Animatronics ([47:43–50:06]):
  Pure horror at animatronic bands at shows, including a Chuck E. Cheese restoration in Mississippi. “If I ever saw this thing in person, I'm shooting it with a real life gun.” – Frank [49:10]
• Joe’s Suggestion: Mushrooms & Animatronics ([51:22–51:34])

6. Medieval Times, Jousting, & Childhood Outings

[52:00–54:26]

• Trip Down Memory Lane ([53:28–54:08]):
  Debating who would be king, knight, or executioner if they went to Medieval Times.
  “I would get a fucking, like, a crown.” – Joe [52:49]
• Medieval ax and shield purchases ([53:42])

7. Cultural Diversity, Racism, and Food in Queens

[58:18–66:46]

• Who is Canada ruled by? ([58:26–59:42])
  Light confusion, ultimately confirming Canada’s ties to the British monarchy are only symbolic.
• Growing Up Around Diversity ([59:40–61:21]):
  “It's so stupid being racist.” – Frank [61:07]
  The hosts discuss their bafflement that people grow up without exposure to other cultures.
• Queens as a Food Utopia ([62:34–63:24]):
  “You want, like… the best version of those countries’ foods outside of those countries? Go to Queens.” – Frank [62:34]
• Discovering Mexican Food & Top Cuisines ([63:45–67:57])
  Shout-outs to Greek, Italian, American, Asian, and the sheer variety found in New York.

8. Cuisine Debates, Chipotle, and More Food Talk

[66:46–77:54]

• Trying Out World Food – Pleasant Surprises ([66:00–66:46]):
  “No one has ever been like, ‘You’ve never had this? Let's go,’ and I’ve said ‘That’s not good.’” – Frank [66:02]
• Cumin & Spice Education ([67:05–67:21]):
  Frank playfully lectures about cumin’s presence in Mexican dishes.
• Food-Related Pranks & Classic “Gotcha” Moments ([68:13–71:00]):
  Frank gets tripped up by a well-executed “dick in your mouth” joke from Joe—resulting in $100 bets being settled.
• More on Chipotle & Realness of the Experience ([76:04–77:54])
  Consensus: catering Chipotle to your house isn’t the same as ordering at the restaurant.

9. Italian, Mediterranean, & the Geography Argument ([77:54–85:21])

• What Counts as Italian vs. Mediterranean? ([79:32–83:10]):
  Is pizza Italian, Mediterranean, or both? Debate ensues about the Mediterranean Sea and which countries border it, with Ant confirming Spain, France, and Italy are all included.
  “Did you miss the first hour of this conversation?” – Frank [84:48]

10. Closing Banter & Random Tangents ([85:21–87:01])

• Joe’s Algerian Acquaintance & World Cup Story ([85:21–86:12])
• Wrapping Up & Social Plugs ([87:01–87:23])

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NOTABLE QUOTES & MOMENTS

• On Travel Gatekeeping:
  “Why are you the end all be all of places going?” – Frank [02:52]
  “Because I'm the one who's making up the thing, right?” – Joe [02:55]
• Defining “Been There”:
  “If you tell someone, like, ‘Oh, I've been to Ohio.’ And they're like, how was it? What are you gonna say?” – Joe [05:06]
• Childhood Road Trips:
  “There was a bag in the— it was... bag.” – Ant [24:32]
  “My dad thought he was running the maple syrup heist of all time.” – Frank [23:30]
• Illegal Pooping:
  “Is pooping in a bucket and then throwing it on the side of the road—is that littering?” – Frank [25:13]
• On Food Diversity:
  “Living in a place where it’s just one cuisine would suck ass.” – Joe [63:19]
• Chipotle “Authenticity”:
  “You haven’t really had Chipotle, and I’ll accept that.” – Frank [77:53]
• Comedy Gotcha:
  “Bachelor of science—criminal justice.”
  “Justice. Dick in your mouth.” – Joe & Frank [68:34–68:40]
• On Diversity & Racism:
  “It is so stupid being racist.” – Frank [61:07]
• Animatronic Horror:
  “If I ever saw this thing in person, I'm shooting it with a real life gun.” – Frank [49:10]

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ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Regional Food Preferences:
  • Group lists favorites: Mediterranean, Italian, Greek, Colombian, Indian, Thai, Mexican, and more ([63:50–66:46])
• Childhood Injuries:
  • Discussion on adult dangers of playground slides and swings ([41:40–47:05])
• Arguments Resolved by Geography:
  • Ant confirms Spain, France, and Italy all border the Mediterranean, correcting the group’s earlier misconceptions ([82:20–84:22])
• Classic Podcast “Gotcha” Prank:
  • “Justice. Dick in your mouth.” prank costs Frank $100 ([68:34–69:11])

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FINAL REMARKS

This episode is emblematic of The Basement Yard’s charm: old friends, intense but good-faith arguments, tons of inside jokes, and a seamless blend of relatable nostalgia and absurdity. Whether it’s debating the rules of travel, childhood oddities, or which cuisine reigns supreme, the show’s tone is irreverent, sharp, and full of personality.

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KEY SEGMENT TIMESTAMPS

• [00:26–21:36] — Travel/“Being There” Debate
• [23:10–28:14] — Road Trips & Bucket Pooping
• [32:48–39:20] — Cheese Dreams & Relationship Banter
• [39:59–47:19] — Slides, Playgrounds, Adult Injuries
• [47:43–52:00] — Animatronics & Chuck E. Cheese Horror
• [52:00–54:26] — Medieval Times & Childhood Memories
• [58:18–66:46] — Diversity, Food, & Queens Primer
• [66:46–77:54] — Favorite Foods, Spices Debate, Chipotle
• [77:54–85:21] — Mediterranean Geography Dispute
• [85:21–87:01] — Final Tangents & Farewells

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Recommended for:
Fans of humor podcasts, lovers of spontaneous debates, anyone who’s ever argued about what counts as "visiting" a place, and listeners curious about New York’s food/lifestyle.

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Transcript

[Joe]

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[Frank]

You.

[Joe]

New Maybelline Serum lipstick. Maybe it's Maybelline. Welcome back to the basement. Welcome back to the basement yard. I'm here with Frank and I'm also here with Ant, who bought that fucking hat in the airport yesterday. I watched him.

[Frank]

Really?

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Frank]

That's what you bought?

[Joe]

He bought that and a sweater.

[Frank]

Of all the things you could buy, you just bought that?

[Ant]

Bought a hat. What do you want me to do?

[Frank]

That just seems like a really, like. Buy anything else?

[Ant]

Like What? We had 30 minutes. It was a layover. I wanted a. I've never been to St. Louis. Got a hat.

[Frank]

No. I was gonna ask. That was gonna be my question. Does that count as having been to St. Louis?

[Joe]

No.

[Frank]

Why?

[Joe]

No way.

[Ant]

Why?

[Joe]

You got to be outside. You gotta, like, go to a place.

[Frank]

He's gatekeeping. Being places I love. Because. Because him, Zach and Greg on tour the last two years would do all, like, who's been to the most places. So, like, they've come up with these rules because it's like, oh, well, I've done layovers in these and they're just like, it doesn't count because I haven't. You could say that you've been there and you've purchased something.

[Joe]

No shot.

[Frank]

I bought something that I fully support it.

[Joe]

An airport is not part of the land.

[Frank]

It's not part of the sky.

[Joe]

No, it's a. That's a. That's a. It doesn't count. It doesn't go outside. And you got to be at a place like. That's not St. Louis. You're in an airport.

[Frank]

So if you drive through.

[Joe]

Drive through. This is crazy.

[Frank]

Why?

[Ant]

Drive through doesn't count.

[Joe]

No.

[Frank]

And if you stop it, hell, because it's different. Drive through is. It counts way more than flying. But I consider flying to be okay, too.

[Joe]

No, if you're gonna say that you went to a place, you have to step on the floor outside.

[Frank]

Yes.

[Joe]

You.

[Frank]

You gotta go to a place. So we drove. We drove from Chicago to home.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Frank]

And we drove through Ohio. We drove through. So, like, let's use Ohio as an example. I step out and I use the bathroom at a rest stop in Ohio. I've been to Ohio.

[Joe]

I'm not saying I don't count that I personally wouldn't because this is.

[Ant]

But that met all your criteria.

[Frank]

This is exactly.

[Ant]

He got out. He touched the ground. He went to a place.

[Frank]

See what I mean about gatekeeping places?

[Joe]

But gas stations aren't part of the place.

[Frank]

Yes, they are. No.

[Joe]

If you went to like a coffee shop that was like this guy.

[Frank]

Why do you do this?

[Ant]

It's true.

[Frank]

No, it's not.

[Ant]

First of all, who.

[Frank]

Why are you the end all be all of places going?

[Joe]

Because I'm the one who's making up the thing, right?

[Ant]

No.

[Frank]

It's a well known. You don't have to go by my rules.

[Joe]

These are my rules.

[Frank]

Not only will I not go by your rules, I will do my best to tell you that your rules are stupid.

[Joe]

I don't count when I've done that. I've driven through West Virginia. I don't tell people I've been to West Virginia.

[Frank]

But you've been through West Virginia.

[Joe]

I've driven through it. I don't know what it's like at all.

[Frank]

Did you. Did you. Did you do this? Did you. Did you have these when you drove through?

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Or did you go through like this?

[Joe]

No, I just don't think. I think you need to experience the culture in a place.

[Frank]

The culture? Yeah.

[Joe]

And that requires you going to a place.

[Frank]

Tell me about the culture you experienced when you went to Las Vegas.

[Joe]

The culture of Las Vegas. Absolutely. That's an easy one.

[Frank]

He's trying to gatekeep places and going places.

[Joe]

What's the difference of driving through? And I flew to California, so all the states below me count.

[Frank]

No, because you're not on the ground.

[Joe]

So you have some criteria here. You have to be on the ground.

[Frank]

Yeah, but like, okay, sure. Yeah, sure. Got him. Sure. My criteria though, allows for ant to say that he has been to St. Louis.

[Ant]

I hate to be this guy, but I think my staying in the airport in St. Louis counts more than your gas station.

[Frank]

That's ridiculous. I was just supporting you. Now I am recanting it. You are a fake human being.

[Joe]

I think that's insane because you haven't even. You don't even know what it looks like. All you know what the airport looks like.

[Ant]

There's glass.

[Frank]

The driving through is way more of an experience than the landing in an airport and getting up and flying out of it.

[Ant]

I experienced St. Louis skies. You haven't.

[Frank]

Yes, I have. Because I looked around and I did this.

[Joe]

You can see this guy from a car.

[Ant]

I looked around, I saw the ground. There's glass in airports?

[Joe]

Nah. You guys are insane.

[Ant]

If anything.

[Frank]

If anything. If anything, mine makes more sense than his.

[Joe]

Sure.

[Ant]

What?

[Joe]

But, yeah, I mean, but if you

[Ant]

were in it, mine makes more sense than his.

[Joe]

No.

[Ant]

Damn it. I thought it was just the last person who said it.

[Frank]

Maybe I was with you. And now you made. You forced me into a corner where I needed to recant it.

[Ant]

I was just trying to see how loyal you were to your statement about me. Guess you weren't.

[Frank]

But, like, once you came for mine, I'm going to. Yeah, I'm going to recant.

[Joe]

Don't you think that if you tell someone, like, oh, I've been to Ohio. And they're like, how was it? What are you gonna say? Or if they like, where'd you go? Or, like, do you have any recommendations?

[Frank]

Like, oh, I just drove through.

[Joe]

You don't think they'd be like, oh,

[Frank]

well, I think it also. It goes with the presentation of the information that you're giving. Like, I wouldn't say, like, yeah, if I was an answer case, I wouldn't be like, oh, yeah, I've been to St. Louis. Because then they're gonna be like, oh, there's more to this. You could just say, like, I connected in St. Louis to. Technically, you've been there.

[Joe]

So you could just say, I drove through St. Louis. I didn't go to St. Louis.

[Frank]

I mean, we went to St. Louis.

[Joe]

I know that. I'm saying, give an example.

[Frank]

No, but, like, you could say, yeah, you could say, like, oh, I drove through St. Louis. From what I saw, it was really cool. But, like, you can't give, like, specific recommendations. Even the places you have been to, you can't give specific recommendations.

[Joe]

I can tell people with the places that I went.

[Frank]

Yeah, but I'm saying, like, you've been to Columbus, Ohio. Can you recommend anything over there?

[Joe]

No.

[Frank]

So the criteria of being able to say you went somewhere has nothing to do with being able to recommend something from that place, but, like, you were there.

[Joe]

I think that is part of it. I mean, it's one of the. One of. It's not the end all be all, but it is a part of it to be like, I've been to a place. I went to these.

[Frank]

Maybe if you're measuring the depth of the experience. But, like, you've been to Kansas City. You've been to Kansas. Are you counting those?

[Joe]

Have I been to Kansas?

[Frank]

Airbnb that we stayed at for Kansas City was in Kansas.

[Joe]

It was in Kansas.

[Frank]

Yeah, it was on the. It was on the other side of the border?

[Joe]

I mean, yeah, I guess. I mean, yeah, I stayed at an Airbnb there. I think staying overnight in a state counts.

[Frank]

All these criteria he has. I. I feel like all these criteria he has, I feel like I'm.

[Joe]

I like you. You are trying to get away with more than me. Like, you're just trying to be like, I drove through, so it counts. And I'm saying, like, no, you got to, like, stay there, be there.

[Frank]

But I also said I drove through and I got out and walked around the gas station or the gas station or something. But, like, I stopped and I walked

[Joe]

around the rest stop.

[Frank]

You said something before where you were like, you stop and you buy something there. Like, yeah, I did something. I bought something in those areas. But I also drove through rural Ohio. So, like, I've been there. I've seen it better than someone that,

[Joe]

oh, I don't know, you gotta. You gotta go. You gotta actually go. You gotta go.

[Frank]

So the only. So the only times that you could say you've went to places, if you go and you actually experience it.

[Joe]

Yeah, you gotta, like. You gotta, like, plant yourself.

[Ant]

So if he drove straight through St. Louis. Yeah, but I stopped at the airport and was there and bought something.

[Joe]

Who's more than the airport is like, not.

[Frank]

I am more there. I am physically more there.

[Ant]

But you drove straight through it. I landed my.

[Joe]

He was able to see more than you.

[Frank]

I was able to see more than you. And my window was. By definition, my presence has been around more than yours has.

[Joe]

You're staring at runways.

[Frank]

Yeah. What are you seeing? I was on your side.

[Ant]

Over, over. While we were landing. I saw a bunch.

[Joe]

I saw the whole.

[Frank]

So you've been to the whole fucking Atlantic then? Like, when?

[Joe]

Before I went to France. I connected in France, and I would never tell someone, I've been to France.

[Frank]

But you had been.

[Joe]

No, but, but, but. You're talking about, like, a technicality. I'm talking about.

[Frank]

It's not a technicality.

[Joe]

It is.

[Frank]

It is the reality.

[Joe]

No one is asking, have you connected in France? If someone's having the conversation with you and being like, have you been to France? You'd be like, well, technically I have. They'd be like, what's the point of even saying you've connected there because you haven't been to France.

[Frank]

Because that's what happened. It's factual.

[Joe]

But no one is going to ask that.

[Frank]

I would say. If they would say you've been to France, you'd be like, you know, I connected there, but I never got to see it. Technically I've been there, but.

[Joe]

But what are you getting out of saying? That is my point. This is why I don't.

[Frank]

It is a factual sin. You cannot count it. That's fine. But factually I was there, so factually

[Joe]

I was, but no.

[Frank]

Yeah, and I was with you, but then you decided to fucking attack my argument. So now I take your argument behind the shed and I shoot in the back.

[Joe]

So if someone in conversation asks you guys.

[Ant]

Me?

[Joe]

Yeah, let's just say you guys are. Had the same experience there, right, at St. Louis. All right.

[Frank]

Are we acting this out?

[Joe]

No, I'm just saying, like if someone were to ask you, have you been to St. Louis? You would just say, yeah, do I like the person?

[Frank]

See, why would that hold any.

[Ant]

Because then I'll say, yeah, probably, if you like them. No, if I don't.

[Joe]

If you don't like them, you'll say yes?

[Ant]

Yeah, I'll say, yeah.

[Joe]

What do you get out of that?

[Ant]

They think I went to St. Louis,

[Joe]

but they're going to have a follow up question.

[Ant]

I won't answer it.

[Frank]

Possible I got two of them now. No, look, ask me if I've been to. I guess I Have we been to Ohio.

[Joe]

Yeah, we have. We did.

[Frank]

Where did we do?

[Joe]

Columbus. Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Ant]

Insert random state. Okay, go.

[Frank]

A state I've never been to.

[Ant]

Yeah, exactly, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Okay.

[Frank]

Idaho.

[Ant]

Okay.

[Frank]

Okay.

[Joe]

But you drove through there.

[Frank]

Okay, okay, ask me a question.

[Joe]

Have you been to Idaho?

[Frank]

I drove through and what I saw was beautiful.

[Joe]

Yeah, that's not a yes or no, but this is my point. Like that's an appropriate response to the question. Have you been? I'm asking if you've been like, I've been there.

[Frank]

Yeah, I have been there.

[Joe]

But that's the part I'm not arguing is not this conversational thing. My question is like if someone's asking you if you've been to Idaho, what do you think they're asking?

[Frank]

I don't know. You know, they're not asking you if you've texted. I cannot assume. I know where the conversation is going, Frank.

[Joe]

You can assume that. They're not saying, did you drive through? They're asking about an experience in Idaho.

[Frank]

No, an experience in Idaho, which none

[Joe]

exist, by the way. It could be any city.

[Frank]

It could be just sitting there and plucking potatoes. You Idahoans.

[Joe]

I don't know.

[Frank]

Hoes. Yeah, Idaho.

[Joe]

Do you think they call themselves hoes? I'm from Idaho. I'm Hoes. We're. We're hoes. We're just a bunch of hoes in Idaho.

[Frank]

I'm just saying, have any, have there been any, like, well known rappers that have come out of Idaho?

[Joe]

I have no idea.

[Frank]

Because the, the branding opportunities are there.

[Joe]

I'm going to Idaho.

[Frank]

I've. I've been.

[Joe]

You drove through it.

[Frank]

No, I do think that the driving through it, although it is not like stopping and eating at a cafe, you Brooklyn geek. It's like still an experience. And like, you could say you drove through it, you've been to it. So these people that do cross country trips that drive through Louisiana but never get out of their car, they can never say they went and they can never count it on the cross country trip that they did.

[Joe]

I would personally not say that. I would say that. I.

[Frank]

Why do you limit the amount of enjoyment you can have? Why do you need to put strict guidelines? You take these little fucking handcuffs of society and you put them on the wrists of your life. Why don't you just allow yourself to live for 30 seconds? It doesn't need to be all. You need to get out and go to a cafe and get a fucking oat milk latte, you, your coffee drinks, and Brooklyn while I'm at it. How about that?

[Ant]

I'm counting those. I don't know, I felt targeted. I'm just counting it.

[Joe]

I don't know what, what would elicit that sort of response, especially when I'm saying that. I just wouldn't count it. I wouldn't tell someone who asked me, have you been here? And I connected in the airport and been like, yeah, I've been there. Because then they're gonna go, oh, cool, where'd you stay? It'd be like, oh, I just connected. And they're gonna go, what?

[Frank]

Well, I am recanting my support of his argument because he decided I was his enemy when I was your guys for driving through. That's crazy.

[Joe]

It's not.

[Frank]

That is crazy.

[Joe]

If someone asked me, forget about the

[Frank]

technicality of the fact that you are physically within the borders of that state. Yeah. You are getting an experience driving through that state while you are physically there. So let me ask you another question. If I drive by Mount Rushmore, did I visit Mount Rushmore?

[Joe]

You can't drive by it.

[Ant]

He got you. Got him.

[Frank]

If it was a drive. A babble, you know what I mean? Like, if it was something you could drive. What's. What's a. What's something you could drive by, like a, like a monument or The Empire State Building.

[Joe]

Sure.

[Ant]

Yeah.

[Joe]

But those are visual things. Like, that's so different. I've seen it. I've seen it.

[Frank]

But have you been to the Empire State Building?

[Joe]

If I flew over the Grand Canyon and saw it from a plane.

[Frank]

I'm not saying flying. I'm not saying.

[Joe]

But I'm saying, like, I wouldn't say I saw. Like, I went to the.

[Frank]

I never said. I'm not asking, have you seen it?

[Joe]

Okay.

[Frank]

I'm asking if you drive by, pretend you're not from New York. You've never been to the Empire State Building. Yeah, you drive by the Empire State Building. Have you been there?

[Ant]

That's a good question.

[Frank]

I don't know. That's my whole argument.

[Joe]

No, no, My.

[Frank]

My.

[Joe]

No, no. That's totally different.

[Frank]

First of all, because.

[Joe]

Because you're making it seem like you could just see an entire state. Like, this is why I'm saying, like, the culture you didn't experience. Whatever.

[Frank]

I'm not saying I saw the entire state.

[Joe]

But you're saying, like, you're telling me you saw it.

[Frank]

I've been there, and I've seen parts of it. I'm not gonna see. Like, I've seen every square inch of Idaho.

[Joe]

But, like, things that are monuments are, like, visual things. It's not a city of people and places and whatever.

[Frank]

Like, that's what a city is.

[Joe]

A monument is a single thing that can be like, yeah, I saw Big Ben. I don't have to go and, like, touch the clock. Like, I saw it. It's a. It's a monument.

[Ant]

Yeah.

[Frank]

But in theory, if Big Ben. Which we know is in London.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Frank]

If you go to see Big Ben, you have also been to London. Because of where.

[Joe]

You're arguing that point. I'm arguing. You trying to make the.

[Frank]

That's what I'm arguing.

[Joe]

No, you're arguing that, like, that's the. The same that if you've seen. If you drove by the. The Empire State Building, then you've seen the Empire State Building. Yes, you've seen it. But you like.

[Frank]

But I'm saying, like, if you have

[Joe]

been to the Empire State Building, but it's not the same as a. A whole city.

[Frank]

I'm not saying the whole city counts. You're saying that you need to see, like, multiple places in a city to count having been there.

[Joe]

I'm saying there's a difference between driving through a state and being in a state and experiencing the state.

[Ant]

If. So where you live in Jersey and you come here. If you've never Been in Manhattan. But you drove through every day like that. But you've never been there. It's always driving through. Have you. Has he been to Manhattan?

[Joe]

Yes.

[Frank]

Yes. No.

[Joe]

No.

[Frank]

I'm going to bash my head against this desk. Yes, I have.

[Joe]

Driving through places is not being in them. Like, I just. I.

[Frank]

Do you think this lighting rig will support me?

[Joe]

I mean. I mean, I don't know. Like, that's. To me, that's wild to assume that, like. And you were on his side with the connecting. Like you guys. Thinking that counts as being a place is wild.

[Frank]

I am. We are on another part of this. He could kiss my ass. Well, you're.

[Joe]

You're saying no to that now.

[Frank]

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[Joe]

Because you're mad at him. But you were agreeing with that.

[Frank]

And guess what? My anger goes far.

[Joe]

Okay. But you. Do you agree with the idea that if you've connected in a place that you've been there.

[Frank]

Now, I'm going to say no just to spite Ant.

[Joe]

But do you believe that?

[Frank]

I don't know what I believe.

[Ant]

Let's say I wasn't here. I. I can't hear you now. Now do you believe it?

[Frank]

Do I like him?

[Ant]

That's what I asked.

[Frank]

I know.

[Ant]

So you don't think if he's never been to Manhattan, even though driving through as many times he comes. Never been there.

[Joe]

No.

[Ant]

Wow.

[Joe]

I mean, I personally would never say, like, yeah, I'm going to Manhattan. I'm like. I drive through it all the time. I've never been.

[Frank]

I'm gonna get him. I'm gonna get him so good.

[Ant]

All right, let me write it down.

[Frank]

So then that logic also applies to if you go to, like, the safari. What.

[Joe]

What is the safari?

[Frank]

The, like the safari in Africa.

[Joe]

What? There's not one.

[Frank]

One of them.

[Joe]

If I. If I don't.

[Frank]

Because they do, like, car a safari tour. Because. Yes, because they do car trips, and you could drive through and be like, there's animals all about. So in that, Frank, with. No, with that. With your own logic used against you.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Frank]

You'll never go to the safari.

[Joe]

Wrong. That's not the same.

[Frank]

How? How.

[Joe]

Because if I'm. If you're doing a safari tour. Right.

[Frank]

You're in the car. You're not leaving the car.

[Joe]

Of course.

[Frank]

Yep. So if I'm in the car and the animals that I'm looking at just happen to be buildings in the middle of midtown Manhattan.

[Joe]

But that's.

[Frank]

That doesn't count.

[Joe]

But that's what. But that's what a safari is.

[Frank]

So now we got to get into the fucking nitty gritty of what this. What this is. So the people. The people that do bus tours in Manhattan can say they've never been to Manhattan.

[Joe]

How'd you get on the bus? Like, what are you talking about?

[Frank]

What's. Because that's what it is. The bus tours. They get on a bus in Jersey City and they drive into Manhattan.

[Joe]

You're. But you're. What you're doing is. You're searching for, like, this very, like, niche thing, and they're not even the same. If someone's doing a bus tour in Manhattan, that means they're in New York. You're acting like the.

[Frank]

Yo. And please, Frank, hold on. How'd they get on the bus?

[Joe]

They were in Manhattan.

[Frank]

No, no, I said they got on in Jersey City.

[Joe]

They got on a tour bus of Manhattan in Jersey City.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Okay.

[Frank]

Or Queens or Brooklyn or Staten Island.

[Joe]

Yeah. I think never.

[Ant]

Never.

[Frank]

The.

[Joe]

Also I think that tours are different because that the whole point of a tour is to immerse yourself in the culture and learn about the city.

[Frank]

So that's not the same as driving.

[Joe]

Driving.

[Frank]

So if I'm driving with my family in the car in midtown Manhattan, yes. It doesn't count as having visited.

[Joe]

But if. But that's not what I'm like. I mean, this is like a very.

[Frank]

Like. But, you know, I get into a tour bus where someone's speaking on a microphone, then it counts.

[Joe]

I think those things are different. Yes.

[Frank]

Factually, they are different. The point that I'm trying to make, though, is that, in essence, they're the exact same thing.

[Joe]

No, because the example that you're giving is very different than that.

[Frank]

No, it is not.

[Joe]

Yes, it is.

[Frank]

No, it is not.

[Joe]

Frank.

[Frank]

If I decide, kids, you guys have never seen Manhattan, let's drive through to go see it. They're gonna go, you know what, dad? It doesn't count, though, because you're not a certified fucking person with a microphone.

[Joe]

No, I. I think that, like, when. In the context of someone asking you if the. If you've been to a place, they're asking about your experience in that place, it's different. If you're like, let's go see Manhattan or let's go see something. Like that is a visual thing that you're going to do. Like, we're gonna go see Times Square or whatever.

[Frank]

Or whatever.

[Joe]

Like, I'm not saying it doesn't count like that, but you acting like driving through a state because you're on your way to a different destination and then telling people that you've been to that state is way different.

[Frank]

It is not. It is exactly the same.

[Joe]

It's. I mean. All right.

[Frank]

I mean, because the experience of driving through it, you think looking around, being in the state, it's not the same. It.

[Joe]

It is as being a person who, like. Who's, like, staying overnight.

[Frank]

Experiences can be different, but also they are. Okay, but I'm saying they could be different experiences, but they all satisfy the same goal, which is having been there. So whether you're. That's not staying. So let me ask you this, then. Let me ask you this. He connects in St. Louis.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Frank]

They can't. It's back to you.

[Ant]

It's back to me. Okay.

[Frank]

They cancel his flight, and they put him up in a hotel for the night.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Does that satisfy your rules, sir?

[Joe]

That he's been to St. Louis? If he, like, yeah, I mean, I guess. I mean, like, if. If you. If. If I were to say that to him, if he were to tell me, like, I've been to St. Louis, and I'm like, oh, where'd you go? And he's like, well, my flight was canceled, and they just, like, put me up at a hotel, but I didn't, like, really get to go anywhere. Like, oh, okay. Like, if you want to count that. And, like, be like, I've been to St. Louis and I've experienced St. Louis. Like, okay. But, like, I'm. You know, to me, it's like, well, you have nothing to really offer me about St. Louis. So, like, why even say you've been there? Like, what are you getting out of saying you.

[Frank]

He only cares if you have something to offer him to his esteemed life. No.

[Joe]

To what?

[Frank]

Present to me your information to better my life.

[Joe]

Now you're.

[Frank]

And move it in the right direction.

[Joe]

No.

[Frank]

What do you have to offer Ant.

[Joe]

That's not what I'm saying if I'm asking a question about your experience in St. Louis and you're like, I just. I just was put up at a hotel. I'd be like, oh, okay. Like, I'm like, but what do you get out of saying that you've been there? Like, you so badly want to say that you've been there and you're trying to find all the loopholes as to why you've been there. Why?

[Frank]

And no one is trying.

[Joe]

Yes, you are.

[Frank]

Like, show off that I've been.

[Joe]

I'm saying I only tell people if I've been to places, if I've liked, been there and went to places or whatever. You're like, why do you need all that? Like, that's obviously that you've been there. You're the one looking for loopholes. I'm not.

[Frank]

I'm not looking for a loophole.

[Joe]

You're saying, I drove through. It counts.

[Frank]

If anything, you're the one that's putting the. The guardrails on. The experience of defining when you have or have not been there.

[Ant]

Well, there were many for me. There were many times where from New York, I would drive down to Florida to go to Disney.

[Joe]

Yeah. And you've been talking all those states.

[Frank]

Are you saying.

[Ant]

Are you saying I've been to all those.

[Joe]

That's what he's saying. And I disagree with that. Like, because. Because I wouldn't be able to have a conversation or speak to what those places are like, even if I drove through. You're not driving through the entire state. So I thought I drove through a part of it and be like, well, I drove through. No one's going to be like, oh, okay, like. Like you can't tell anyone anything about a city.

[Frank]

What if your Colombian construction working father makes you stop at every Cracker barrel in every state on the way down to Florida?

[Joe]

Then you sure know a lot about that franchise.

[Frank]

Yes, I do.

[Ant]

That's something to offer.

[Frank]

It is awful. Oh, something to offer.

[Joe]

I can't tell you anything about the states, but I can tell you is where to stop. And I can tell you that they let you take as many as the maple syrups. What would he steal?

[Frank]

Yeah, those places are they. My. My dad thought he was running the maple syrup heist of all time.

[Joe]

Were you sleeping in bed? Like a bed or something? Or you were sitting in a chair like a car?

[Frank]

My dad, like, took out the back seats in his truck and, like, put down blankets and stuff. So we would just like sleep and hang out back there for the day. It Took to travel and I'm not even kidding, it added 10 hours to our day because we stopped at seven or eight cracker barrels. There is no part of that that is even the smallest bit of an exaggeration.

[Joe]

How long does it take to get there if you just ripped it?

[Frank]

It's like 20 hours.

[Ant]

Where. Where are you going?

[Frank]

Florida.

[Ant]

Oh. Yeah.

[Frank]

My uncle. My uncle lived in Jacksonville, but we also drove down to South Beach.

[Ant]

Wait, you did this too many times. Wow.

[Joe]

Is this like a New York thing?

[Ant]

I don't know. I think it's just so you have a car and you can drive around and you save on flights and tickets for like young kids and everything. Whoa. But pooped in a car.

[Frank]

Excuse me. Now, that was not information we requested

[Ant]

or want when we were kids. Like, they just had a bucket in the car. I don't know why we did that.

[Joe]

Wait, there was a bag in the.

[Ant]

It was. Bag.

[Joe]

What would you do with the poop?

[Ant]

They could just throw it out the window. No, like, throw it out the next rest stop. I guess we couldn't make it. I don't.

[Joe]

So there was. There was a good chance they. And I'm assuming it's 95. So there's not like rest stops every five miles?

[Ant]

No.

[Joe]

So you'd go 10 miles or some or 15 miles with a bag of shit in the car?

[Ant]

I don't. I'll be honest, I don't remember every detail. I was young. But I do distinctly remember pooping in a. In a bucket.

[Joe]

I pooped in a bucket.

[Frank]

I have a poop in a bucket. I don't think so.

[Ant]

We could. We could.

[Joe]

You don't have to.

[Ant]

We could change that.

[Joe]

You don't have to poop in a bucket.

[Frank]

I don't think. Yeah, I don't think I have 46,000 patrons. I will.

[Joe]

No.

[Frank]

Get him a bucket.

[Joe]

They could poop in the bucket and then throw sawdust on it.

[Frank]

Is. Is. Is pooping in a bucket and then throwing it on the side of the road? Is that littering?

[Joe]

Yeah, dude. I mean, I also think that's like very illegal because of the poop. It's like a toxic waste or like it's dangerous.

[Frank]

I don't think it's toxic waste, dude. I think it's fertilizer.

[Joe]

No, no, no. I. I mean if you get human. If like humans use their. As a weapon, it's like illegal, correct?

[Frank]

I am not saying that this is going to be used in any way that is going to be harmful toward another human, but if there's shit around

[Joe]

in society and you put it there and a cop sees you do that, like, that's illegal.

[Frank]

If I go driving down 95 and we're passing through North Carolina, if I stop, side of the road, walk into the woods, dig a hole and dump a human shit in that hole. Dig a hole and then cover it up?

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Is that illegal?

[Joe]

Cover it up? I mean, no, it's very like.

[Frank]

I mean, yeah, it's strange. I'm not getting away from that.

[Joe]

Dig it and cover it up. That is illegal. Yeah. Is that your question?

[Frank]

Why?

[Joe]

Because you can't have people outside.

[Frank]

I understand why. In, like, too close to a home or like, too close to a city or in a city or in, like, a neighborhood.

[Joe]

I think it's just one of those.

[Frank]

But if a. If a human shit's in the woods, is it illegal?

[Joe]

I actually don't know if it's illegal because I think that, like, that's assumed on, like, hiking trips. Like, people will have to shit.

[Ant]

The answer is, essentially, it depends. Like, is the area you're doing it in legal for it to happen or not? How do you get rid of it? It's. It's all just. It depends.

[Joe]

Yeah, I don't think you could throw it out your fucking window.

[Ant]

Can't do that.

[Frank]

I mean. Yes, correct.

[Joe]

You guys did that?

[Ant]

Probably not out the wind, not out the window, but at a rest in the next rest stop. Just throw it in the garbage or something?

[Joe]

Yeah. I mean, that's where it's supposed to go.

[Ant]

That's probably what we did. Yeah.

[Joe]

That's gross.

[Ant]

Sorry. We also had a little TV in there. We played Crash Bandicoot.

[Joe]

You know what's crazy? When I stayed in a van for six days, did nobody in the van, like, there was a. Like a small thing to in. And we didn't have to use it. It was like, for emergencies. Never happened.

[Ant]

Van.

[Frank]

Well, why would you have to use that when you're in the middle of the wilderness? Get out of the car.

[Joe]

Yeah, I didn't do that either. I don't think.

[Ant]

What'd you do?

[Joe]

There was like. We stayed on people's property and they had, like, a little tent or something, or they had, like, an outhouse or like, on trails, like at the trailhead, there would be one. At the end there would be one. But not during the hike, but in between. And also, you're driving on the road, obviously, so, like, if you hit a rest stop or something. But I was surprised it never happened. I thought I was gonna have to shit In a car. Didn't want to do that.

[Frank]

Yeah, I could imagine. That would not be fun.

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[Joe]

Keep it running. Keep it.

[Frank]

Sorry.

[Ant]

I don't know.

[Joe]

Dude, I got to tell you about this, too. This morning, Nicole wakes up, and she's like, you weren't really nice to me in my dream last night. Right? One of those. I'm assuming we've all been there.

[Frank]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

And I'm like, okay. And she was like, you told me that you didn't want to be with me anymore. And I'm like, okay, how did I. What I say? And she's like, well, we were texting, and I forget what the text message was, but it was something that, like, you know, whatever. And she said that she was in a car and she was texting me, but she wasn't using a phone. It was, you know, Bourson cheese. Do you know what that is? Type in Borson. B O U R S I N. You've definitely seen it on charcuterie boards.

[Frank]

I mean, I've seen a lot of things on charcuterie boards, so. Oh, yeah.

[Joe]

So you see this cheese? Oh, yeah, I've seen this cheese. So you see how, like, you see the wrapping? Click on that?

[Frank]

Comes in like a muffin tin.

[Joe]

Yeah, it comes up. It comes like that. Nope. The one you were hovered over when I said that. You bastard. Okay, so you see, she said it was a. It was Borson cheese, which I'm all

[Frank]

about, by the way.

[Joe]

It's good. And then it would unwrap and have my text message, and then it would rewrap, and I was like, so this is a magic Borson cheese.

[Frank]

I'll be honest with you. If Becca were to present information to me that she didn't want to be with me, it would probably be the most digestible in cheese.

[Joe]

A cheese breakup is probably a great one.

[Frank]

I would love.

[Joe]

I. Let me.

[Frank]

No, no, no.

[Joe]

You would love.

[Frank]

I don't. I don't want to ever be broken up with By Becca. But I would be a little more appreciative of the information if it came via cheese.

[Joe]

Yeah. If that would be by a magic Borson cheese, I'd be like, yeah, it's a good cheese.

[Frank]

That was a good cheese.

[Joe]

I like that because you got on.

[Frank]

What's the other flavors you got in there? I see that little. What the box is right there. So what do we got? Zoom in on that little bitch.

[Joe]

He wants to. He wants to make himself hungry here.

[Frank]

All right.

[Joe]

Caramelized onion and herbs.

[Frank]

Basil and chive. Yeah.

[Joe]

Shallot and chive. Throw that up. Cracked fig and balsamic.

[Frank]

Make me a woman.

[Joe]

Make a woman out of me.

[Frank]

Yeah, make him a woman. Shallot and chive. I don't mind that.

[Joe]

Rosemary and black garlic.

[Frank]

Yeah, Rosemary. Black garlic might be a problem. I. You want to know what's.

[Joe]

First of all, I love Rosemary. What's that? I also kind of like the name. I feel like that's a. That's a cool older woman, like a Rosemary.

[Frank]

Rosemary is an herb, and I know. And it grows pretty. Like, you grow it on, like, in, like, your kitchen. Like, you don't. It doesn't need, like, a ton of, like.

[Joe]

I know what Rosemary is. I'm asking if you like it. What are you explaining to me?

[Frank]

Like, you like Rosemary? He goes, you can grow it.

[Joe]

It's very easy, bro. I know what Rosemary is.

[Frank]

See, I was yelling at me. Do you think I deserve this?

[Joe]

First of all, you were very disrespectful in the earlier conversation.

[Frank]

Well, Joey, what does Rose. What is knowing Rosemary do to me? What does that do for me? No more about Rosemary or it does nothing.

[Joe]

That's another thing that you took out of context. I was not saying I don't really know what you're doing anymore.

[Frank]

I'm. You like what People trying to talk to me, but they don't offer me anything. That's you.

[Joe]

No. If I have a question and you're answering it but you don't have any answers, then why am I asking you the question?

[Frank]

I'm sorry. Your ear space is so fucking. So expensive. Right?

[Joe]

Literally. Not what I'm saying.

[Frank]

Your ear space is so expensive.

[Joe]

This is your.

[Frank]

You can't be bothered with other people. You're deflecting. They have information that's not worthy of my time.

[Joe]

I can see that you're upset that you're wrong here.

[Frank]

I can tell that you have information. Bet it must be worthy of my time and attention.

[Ant]

I'm not. This is. It's not funny.

[Joe]

It's very confusing.

[Frank]

You're laughing, too. Come on.

[Ant]

And.

[Joe]

Oh, keep going.

[Frank]

And give me some information. You bet. It must be worth my attention.

[Joe]

Why are you saying that? That sentence doesn't even make sense.

[Frank]

And if it shall not be worth my attention, You're in trouble.

[Ant]

I don't think you like that.

[Joe]

Obviously not. Obviously. That's not what I said.

[Frank]

Obviously it's not.

[Joe]

You want to do the voice again?

[Ant]

The voice made it a little better.

[Joe]

Are you crying?

[Ant]

I was crying, yeah.

[Joe]

What were you just talking about?

[Frank]

Oh, you were talking about the dream

[Joe]

that I was trying to talk about Rosemary.

[Frank]

Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. And the information I had was not worth the incredible amount of intellectual time you have on your hands.

[Joe]

I said, do you like rosemary? And you're like, you can grow it. Like, I don't know what Rosemary is. Like you're telling me what it is for the first time.

[Frank]

You ever grown Rosemary?

[Joe]

No.

[Frank]

Exactly. So I'm giving you information you might

[Joe]

not have had before by saying, you can grow it. You think?

[Frank]

What did you think? Where'd you think I Presenting you with confidence to maybe fucking go home and do something with your life instead of building this media empire. I'm counting and employing all your friends and giving our lives meaning and purpose.

[Joe]

Don't try to save it now, Frank. You're in the garden. You got the Goghouse, the dog house, Becca.

[Frank]

But Becca has had dreams like that, too. We're like, she'll wake up. We'll wake up. And she'll go, you were a real piece of work last night. Like, what happened? And she's like, you went to a party, and you sent me a text message saying, I'm partying and I don't ever want to see you again. I was like, yeah, that sounds like me.

[Joe]

I don't ever want to see you again. Look, I think Nicole told me one time that she had a dream that I. I called her disgusting. And I'm like, that is such an insane word. Yeah, like, you're disgusting. You disgusting. What are you thinking about? Also the last dream. I'm, like, thinking, like. You know, they say, like, your dreams are kind of like a mixture of your last thoughts for a bit. I don't know how true that is, but, like, how do you get to, like. I get how you get to the breakup thing, I guess. But the Borsa cheese.

[Ant]

Just hungry.

[Frank]

I like what. I'll be honest with you. I wouldn't be upset if cheese was in any of my dreams in any capacity.

[Joe]

Would you be Into. You seen Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?

[Frank]

Have I.

[Joe]

That's a great film. I'm calling it a film.

[Frank]

It is a film. Yeah, it's a. It's a well made film.

[Joe]

I haven't seen the second one, but the first one I'm like, this would be fire.

[Frank]

Well, also like

[Joe]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That one's a place existed where the whole thing was food. I would like that.

[Frank]

Yeah. Charlie, Chocolate Factory. I'm not as on board with. Because it's a little like a giant candy factory. Yeah. But like, I don't want to sit in this fucking chair and then turn around and eat it.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Ant]

Did they. Did the factory kill the kids?

[Frank]

They didn't kill.

[Joe]

Great question.

[Frank]

Pretty damn close, though. That Augustus Gloop.

[Joe]

That kid's dead. Like, I mean, he went out doing what he loved.

[Frank]

What about fucking didn't? Violet, you're turning violet. Violet.

[Ant]

Didn't she explode?

[Joe]

Yeah, she. Well, she had to juice her.

[Frank]

They had a juicer before she exploded.

[Joe]

You assume they juiced her. Well, and also that doesn't sound like it's very, you know, doesn't sound good friendly. Like, it's like. That sounds like it would hurt.

[Frank]

Yeah, I mean, I. Of the ones in that movie that I can remember, the one that is probably closest to death is Augustus Gloop. And let's be honest, whatever happened to

[Joe]

the girl who was like mean and Mike tv.

[Frank]

Mike TV got turned into a little. Into like a little TV thing, right?

[Joe]

Yeah, it got trapped in a tv.

[Frank]

Got trapped in a tv. Yeah.

[Joe]

But what the hell? What happened to the girl?

[Ant]

What would.

[Frank]

The girl. The one that was like, I want mommy and daddy to get it for me now.

[Joe]

A golden goose egg or something.

[Frank]

Oh, she like. Oh, she's taken away by like the. She pulls the thing and she. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes.

[Joe]

Oh, so she was. She's in the vents.

[Frank]

I mean, but she probably fell into a cool slide. That's fair. If anything, she's having the time of her life.

[Joe]

One time, my cousin, like, we were all at my cousin's house, like a bunch of my extended family. And this one of my cousins, she tried to go down their laundry chute because they had a laundry shoot from like their second floor to their. First of all, not far, like it's like right near the stairway. I don't know what. Just walked down the stairs, but she tried to go down and she got stuck. Yeah. And it was like this whole thing.

[Frank]

Well, duh. Yeah, it's a whole Thing.

[Joe]

She was also a little older, so I feel like she was at that age where it was like she was, like, stealing drinks or something. So I was like, oh. So we think that, like, she just got a little drunk. I'm gonna slide down this thing. And then she got stuck because it's, like. It, like, bends.

[Frank]

Yeah, well, apparently it's a thing that, like, they, like adults that try to go down, like, slides at, like, playgrounds and stuff like that, like, it could be really dangerous because they could break their legs because, like, the twirly slides. Yeah, you know those. So, like, you don't realize, like, it's made for a child because, like, their legs are. Are short enough that, like, they can

[Joe]

just kind of go. So you weigh so much that it's, like, whipping you.

[Frank]

Dude, I've gone down and, like, your foot catches it, and it'll, like. It'll pull your foot back and, like, there, there. I've heard, take it with a grain of salt, that there have been instances of people going down those things and, like, their legs breaking because they get caught.

[Joe]

You imagine I went down a slide maybe, like, three years ago, and it hurt my ass so much.

[Frank]

There was a slide. We took the girls to, like, one of those, like, indoor playgrounds, and Maeve went down, and I'm not kidding, it was so fast that at the end, she, like, slid on the floor, like, an extra, like, six feet.

[Joe]

Jesus.

[Frank]

So then I went into, like. Because they were like, please, come on,

[Ant]

come on, come on.

[Frank]

So, like, I went up and I went and sat with him and went down it. Yo, I was flying down that thing. I was worried that there was gonna be, like, kids, like, trying to run in front, because I would you. I would have took a kid. Kid out at the ankles. Yeah, that would have been bad.

[Joe]

Would have flipped them over.

[Ant]

Did you see the family? I think a family complained about a slide being too fast, so a cop went down it.

[Frank]

Did you see? Yes, I saw. This is a famous video that a lot of people have seen. You've never seen that. Dude, dude, he's flying.

[Ant]

Look at this.

[Frank]

He comes out upside down. Dude.

[Ant]

You hear him shake?

[Frank]

You've never seen that video? What? That video went mega viral a couple years ago. You hear him rattling at the dead body coming down.

[Ant]

All right, last one,

[Frank]

I think. Yo, where is that? It's in Boston. No. Yeah, it's in Boston. Dude, we have to go to. I saw that. There are other videos of.

[Joe]

Would you go down that.

[Frank]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

I gotta, like, wear videos on my ass.

[Frank]

Look it up. People like the viral Boston slide. There have been videos of people, like, going down and greasing it, yo.

[Joe]

I mean, they're asking for it.

[Frank]

I'm telling you. Pull those videos up, they go down.

[Joe]

Oh, my God.

[Frank]

And, like, they fly down this son of a.

[Joe]

That's awesome, dude. The one, man, I love that.

[Ant]

The one of the cop is really.

[Frank]

The one of the cop was the one that went mega viral.

[Ant]

It's taking a lot of the juice.

[Joe]

They'll come in out of the slide upside down, face down.

[Frank]

What?

[Joe]

That's incredible.

[Frank]

They're flying down, right?

[Ant]

No, I can't. I can't find it. It's only the cup. But I found another one of the cop. Wait, hold on. I just want to show this. This one is just. It says. It says, local Boston cop gets sucked. Sucked into slide.

[Frank]

Yo, that looks even crazier.

[Joe]

Oh, my God.

[Frank]

No, I mean, come on.

[Joe]

Yo, that doesn't even look like it would be that. That wild when you're, like, staring.

[Frank]

Look up. I'm telling you, dude, you have to find it. People greasing that Boston Slide.

[Ant]

All right, I'll try.

[Frank]

I. Hear me out. What if we just start making adult playgrounds again?

[Joe]

They're called gyms.

[Frank]

No, no, but gyms are, like, you're going for health purposes. Like, adult playgrounds, where you can go down a bigger slides, and, like, there's, like, adult swings. Dude, what?

[Joe]

Aren't swings just adult swings?

[Frank]

No, a lot of swing sets are made for kids. So, like, they're like. Like someone with long legs, like me, can't swing back and forth that well because my. I clip my feet on the ground.

[Joe]

Pick your feet up.

[Frank]

Hey, man, on the way back, my feet are so low, I clipped the ground.

[Joe]

That feels like a. You know, you got to do. You got to swing this swing over the thing one time, make it shorter.

[Frank]

Oh, that's actually. That's not a bad idea. I completely forgot about that. But I don't want to be that guy.

[Joe]

Have you been on a swing recently and been like. Have you ever done, like, the backflip off of, like, the dismount?

[Frank]

Do you not remember the times the jumping off of the swings that we used to do?

[Joe]

But you've done the backflip.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joe]

So have you tried to do that as an adult? No, I. I tried to do that. This was probably, like, five years ago.

[Frank]

Oh, my God, dude.

[Joe]

My life flashed before my eyes.

[Frank]

I wouldn't do it. Like, I remember. I have pictures of when we were teenagers jumping off and like, I remember from that height, falling and rolling my ankle. And if I did that now, it's not rolling, it's over. Pulverized.

[Joe]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Frank]

Verized.

[Joe]

I. I did it because I remember being young and doing it so effortlessly. Like it was the easiest thing in the world for me to do.

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And then when I did it, I, like, came around and I was like, what have I done? And then as I was like, I landed mad weird and, like, landed on my ass, I was like, I'm never doing that again.

[Frank]

You're a brave person for having done that five years.

[Joe]

I honestly didn't think that it was going to be hard. I thought it was going to be easy, but I guess I just hadn't done it in a while.

[Frank]

I mean, life. One of the things that people don't tell you about getting older is that, like, your body just can't do what it used to do.

[Joe]

Not if you don't do it.

[Frank]

I mean, it was a. What are you looking up there, buddy?

[Ant]

Oh,

[Joe]

is that like an ad? Yeah, there's a bunch of big titted women.

[Ant]

This is the basement yard. This is the basement yard thing. It's not mine.

[Joe]

The basement yard.

[Frank]

What?

[Ant]

Google.

[Joe]

You're the only one who uses that computer.

[Ant]

I thought about that.

[Joe]

You're right.

[Frank]

Did you find any of those?

[Ant]

Nothing was better than that cop. Nothing. Nothing was.

[Frank]

That's it. That's a good one, though, dude.

[Joe]

Speaking of videos, though, can you pull the video of the animatronics? This is such a freak show thing that is going on. Okay, so the context, to my understanding, this girl likes animatronics.

[Ant]

I believe she builds animatronics. Or she likes this one. And the premise is she brought her animatronic to a show of animatronics.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Ant]

And this is such a freaky thing.

[Joe]

I saw on Tick Tock and I was like, dude, please to see his favorite band.

[Frank]

Who's his favorite band? Like Kiss. Oh, it's other animatronics.

[Joe]

What are you doing?

[Ant]

I don't like that one.

[Frank]

What's wrong? That one.

[Ant]

That big one with the guitar. I don't like it.

[Frank]

Why?

[Ant]

I don't know. It looks like it's gonna come at me.

[Frank]

It's not. I played too much five nights. Get the fuck out of here. This old bag.

[Ant]

Wait.

[Joe]

Oh, no. I don't really don't. With birds. With eyes. With humans. Human eyes.

[Frank]

Is this like the country bears?

[Ant]

I don't know.

[Joe]

I don't like that these guys are moving around, so. Oh, no. They killed them.

[Ant]

Oh, anything with legs.

[Frank]

I don't mind animatronic. You've played too much. Five nights at Freddy's Aunt. That's what it is.

[Joe]

I don't. I don't like it.

[Ant]

Oh.

[Frank]

Oh, that's Chucky.

[Joe]

That is Chucky.

[Frank]

That is Chucky.

[Joe]

Okay, that feels like culture appropriation.

[Frank]

I mean, definitely the Italian and with the accordion.

[Joe]

First of all, I'm decapitating this thing.

[Frank]

If I ever saw this thing in person, I'm shooting it with a real life gun.

[Joe]

For real?

[Ant]

Yeah, it's just. It's just.

[Frank]

Wait, why does she have an animatronic?

[Joe]

And why does she bring it?

[Frank]

Also, is.

[Joe]

Is she a. I don't like the piano player at all. I don't like his mouth.

[Frank]

It's that one. All right. Why can't you watch it without.

[Ant]

I don't know.

[Frank]

That.

[Ant]

Look at that. Look how tall he is.

[Frank]

Do me a favor. That's a big play from the beginning. And watch the video. Video without blocking your eyes.

[Ant]

I could.

[Frank]

Stop what you're doing.

[Joe]

Why are you acting like what you're doing?

[Frank]

Yeah,

[Ant]

I don't like it.

[Joe]

I don't really like it either.

[Ant]

Dude, look at.

[Joe]

Look at that.

[Ant]

It's just too tall.

[Joe]

It's a big. It's a big horse.

[Frank]

I just. I have so many, like, operational questions here.

[Joe]

Also, how did. How can this place possibly be in business?

[Frank]

Also, why in God's name Does she have a 9.900-year-old man with a cigar? Animatronic.

[Ant]

Yeah, that.

[Joe]

That makes no sense to me.

[Frank]

And how is she moving this thing?

[Joe]

I don't know, but it's terrifying.

[Frank]

I imagine it's heavy. Is she a bodybuilder?

[Ant]

I don't know. Imagine someone bringing you to this, like, oh, hey, you want to see something? And then it just starts playing. All of it.

[Joe]

If it was close, we should go.

[Frank]

I. It's a sandy hook. Oh, where do you see that? The bottom. It says Smithy's. Smitty's Sugar Service.

[Ant]

Super service.

[Frank]

Super service.

[Ant]

Oh, I don't know.

[Frank]

I mean, if that's Sandy hook in Jersey, that's not that far. Connecticut's. It'd be a drive. But I don't want to go.

[Joe]

I don't like this. I don't like animatronics, but I also don't like anything that's like a. A doll with human eyes.

[Ant]

I just like Sandy Hook. Mrs. Mississippi.

[Frank]

Oh, okay.

[Joe]

This is in Mississippi?

[Ant]

Yeah.

[Frank]

It's something that's. That's a. That's a Mississippi animatronic if I've ever seen one.

[Ant]

So it seems like what they do is they restore 1980s animatronics. So that was Chuck E. Cheese.

[Frank]

Ah.

[Ant]

And they play. I don't know.

[Joe]

I don't want to play a band, I guess.

[Ant]

So I would.

[Frank]

I'd go to see this.

[Ant]

Fully operational.

[Joe]

We should do mushrooms and go to this.

[Ant]

I would.

[Frank]

Studios video. No, I'm okay.

[Joe]

We took mushrooms and we went to an animatronic show.

[Ant]

50,000 patrons.

[Joe]

How about this? Actually, no, that's a horrible idea.

[Ant]

Oh, I love. I love those.

[Frank]

Do they sing the song, like, from five nights at Freddy's or it's like, it's nice to meet you. The metronic family. I know you know what that is.

[Ant]

Don't even like that stuff.

[Frank]

What's that?

[Ant]

I don't know.

[Joe]

Something on the Internet. I was going to say just get mad drunk and go to Medieval Times

[Frank]

that we've talked about openly and sounds like a good idea.

[Ant]

Why was that a bad idea?

[Joe]

Because it's like a children thing.

[Ant]

Is it?

[Frank]

Yeah. Who cares about them? Why don't. Again, we're the basement yard now we can, like, be like, yo, listen, we want to come, like, include us in a show. Let us joust.

[Joe]

Oh, I definitely don't want to joust. Are you insane?

[Frank]

Brother, if you had the opportunity to joust with a chicken, like, a turkey leg in your hand and a bowl of grog in the other, you're not doing it.

[Ant]

I mean, jousting seems a little dangerous.

[Frank]

Give me a blunt sword.

[Joe]

I'll fight you, Bro, you're getting poked in the chest while sitting on top of a horse.

[Frank]

Okay. Put me on the ground, and you and I, with blunt metal swords, fight.

[Ant]

I hope a knight gives me a rose.

[Joe]

Oh, no shot. You're not a child. A children's thing.

[Frank]

No, I think that you have a chance.

[Ant]

Thank you.

[Joe]

I would like to go. And I would be full in. I would get a get up. I would get a fucking, like, a crown.

[Frank]

Oh, please get me some chain mail.

[Joe]

Oh, that's a good idea.

[Ant]

King, knight, and executioner. I feel like that sounds right.

[Frank]

You want to be the executioner and I'm the knight because I'm brave and I am doing actual the, like, going out and getting after it while the king just sits there and as people try his food so he doesn't get poisoned.

[Joe]

Sure. I'll take it. Sure.

[Ant]

Whatever you. Whatever you need. Sure.

[Joe]

Yeah. And you're the pick.

[Ant]

Number three, My lord, I'll do it.

[Frank]

Oh, that was thelonious. Pick number three. My lord.

[Joe]

I would love to go to Medieval Times. I just want to eat my hands and, like, peas.

[Ant]

I've never been.

[Frank]

We went. It was like. It was like the big fifth grade trip that our. Our school did.

[Joe]

Yeah, that's the last time I went.

[Frank]

Yeah, me too.

[Joe]

I bought a battle ax and a shield.

[Frank]

Actually, I bought. I bought two battle axes, and I was like, gimli.

[Joe]

I. When I was in Toronto, I was driving around, and I.

[Frank]

So you weren't there?

[Joe]

And I saw a giant Medieval Times.

[Frank]

It was huge in Toronto. Yeah, they even have the Medieval Times back then. It was just like, French people decapitating each other.

[Joe]

That's what I thought. Like, I thought, like, why is this here? But they have a giant Medieval Times.

[Frank]

Oh, the Medieval Times. Well, they weren't having turkey leg. We were having wine and goose.

[Joe]

Aren't they, like, ruled by the British? Canada?

[Frank]

Yeah, I thought it was the French.

[Joe]

I mean, there are French people.

[Ant]

Feels like something you should know, probably.

[Joe]

I'm pretty sure it's.

[Frank]

If anyone's gonna know that here, it's definitely not me.

[Ant]

I could. I think I could do it.

[Joe]

No, no. I'm doing the ads anyway, but I'm pretty sure they're. They're.

[Frank]

You look up that information, you do the ads. All right. I'll dictate how this is all going.

[Ant]

I'm looking up is Canada.

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[Frank]

All right, beautiful. All right, what were we saying right before we cut to long story short?

[Ant]

Canada is not under British rule.

[Joe]

Think they were founded by, like, under. Since 1982, but, like, not under rule.

[Ant]

Well, they're independent.

[Frank]

Yo, Mikey's watching this, and he's just.

[Ant]

They do share the same monarch, but that's it. That's more of a symbolic head of state thing.

[Joe]

Yes, yes, that's what I meant. The monarch. Yes. Which I don't. Once we start getting into monarchies and those types of things, like, that's a little tough. So I don't really know what that means. Yeah, I knew they weren't ruled by the British, but, like, they were. Like, there was something with the British. It wasn't the French is my point.

[Frank]

But I thought the French were the ones that, like, founded it

[Joe]

above my pay grade. I know there's.

[Frank]

I mean, that's why. Isn't that why, like, French is, like, the most spoken language in Canada?

[Joe]

I don't know.

[Frank]

We also don't know much about Canada.

[Joe]

I think Toronto also, you know, they say Queens is, like, super diverse. Yeah. Toronto's, like, one of the most diverse countries, if not the. I think it's city. Most city cities, I mean, is like, the most diverse city in the world. Isn't that insane? Yeah.

[Frank]

I mean, Queens is up there. It's like every language in the world is spoken somewhere in Queens.

[Joe]

That's so cool.

[Frank]

Which is pretty crazy.

[Joe]

And then it's even crazy to think about. I mean, this is like, here we go.

[Frank]

Now we're getting here. Let's go.

[Ant]

Yep, let's do it.

[Joe]

No, because I feel like when I was younger, right. Because of how we grew up, it was like, how can people be, like, racist? You know what I mean? Yeah. And then, like. But, like, I get how people can, like, hate people. I don't get being racist, though. Like, like, I mean, obviously now I'm older. That's not what I mean. But when I was younger, I was, like, thinking about how strange it must have been to grow up in a place where there wasn't, like, other people, like, other ethnicities and, like, cultures.

[Frank]

Like, gotcha.

[Joe]

That is like.

[Frank]

Yeah. Like.

[Joe]

And you could just be like. I don't know, like, that's. I'm, like, dumbfounded.

[Frank]

I agree. I. I mean, I think that, you know, these are people that have grown up in a. An isolated world to them. So, like, the idea of somebody else existing and having a similar lifestyle to them, like, they don't, like.

[Joe]

Yeah. I just.

[Frank]

Are we gonna sit here and parse through the. Trying to understand racists.

[Joe]

No, that's not my.

[Frank]

I know. I know that's not your intent, but, like, why do we have to explain? Like, not that you're asking me to explain, but, like, that's just. It's a weird thing to have to like. It is so stupid being racist.

[Joe]

That's not where I was, like, leading the conversation.

[Frank]

There you go, folks. I just. That's the political discourse you're getting here. Racist is so what. It's so stupid.

[Joe]

No, but I thought it was. What I was getting at was like, we're just so used to being around a bunch of, like, these and other people.

[Frank]

Correct.

[Joe]

And then there's people who, like, don't. That's not their experience. And I never understood that everywhere. It wasn't like where we lived.

[Frank]

I. Yes. And then I. And then I. I really don't understand the people that have grown up and those people. And those people are like, I don't like them. And.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah. You're like, do what?

[Frank]

What?

[Joe]

We all grew up in the same, literally, school system. And yes.

[Frank]

You shared a class with someone named Pablo, someone named Azeem. Azeem. Someone named Marcus, someone named Joseph. Like, you should be able to, like, understand.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Frank]

These things can coexist. Yeah, it is. It is. It is baffling. Queens is really, like, outside of the diverse. Like, I guess this goes hand in hand with the diverse people. But, like, the food, like, yo, I'm not even around. Like, people say, like, oh, go to New York for the food. When you go to Manhattan, like, you'll find spots here and there, bro. You want, like. And I can't speak about the other boroughs because I've not lived in them and spent as enough as much time. But, like, you can go to Queens and get the best version of those countries foods outside of those countries. You know, does that make sense?

[Joe]

I would loop in the rest of the five boroughs in that I agree with what part?

[Ant]

Like, what he.

[Joe]

Racism is bad.

[Ant]

That especially I'm saying loop in the other boroughs, but also that outside of the country yet for sure the best food of that country.

[Frank]

Like, I've let's. As an example, Colombian food. Obviously my father's side of the family is Colombian. Go to Jackson Heights. It's basically little Colombia. I've had Colombian food outside of Queens, and it. It pales in comparison. And I know people could say, like, oh, it's just like, that's the first you had. So you think that's the standard Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I'm just talking from a quality standpoint, like, the quality of the food that you're having, it's just better living

[Joe]

in a place where it's like, just one cuisine would suck ass.

[Frank]

Dude, you want to know something crazy that my mom taught me, taught me, told me, and I. And it, like, it didn't, like, at first register because it didn't make sense, but now thinking back on it, it's like, what My mom said that her first time having Mexican food was when she went out to Oregon in the 80s because she said that Mexican food really wasn't a thing in New York.

[Joe]

Really?

[Frank]

Could you imagine?

[Joe]

That's my favorite food, I think.

[Frank]

Really?

[Joe]

I think Mexican is. Yeah.

[Frank]

Okay. I would say. Oh, man. I mean, if we're gonna categorize, like, food by, like, nation, it's really tough. I mean, I love, like, traditional American food, like, steaks and hot dogs and barbecue. But, like, boy, oh, boy, the minute I see, like, Greek food is on the menu.

[Ant]

Whoa.

[Joe]

What do you. What's, like, great. Like,

[Frank]

sure, gyros, as we say them appropriately, but then, like, like the way that, like, the Greeks prepare their fish pastitsio. You know, the desserts, which I know people say it's not technically a Greek thing. Baklava is good. Very sticky. Oh, I love it. That syrup on it.

[Joe]

I like anything that's, like, flaky as

[Frank]

flaky and just moist.

[Joe]

Like, layered is good.

[Frank]

Dude, that's why that one.

[Joe]

Yo.

[Frank]

You've never been to Stamatis.

[Joe]

Oh, my God, I haven't.

[Frank]

They. Well, I don't know if they still do this because we live in a different world than we did 10 years ago, but, like, for. They would give complimentary dessert. It was called galacta buro, and it's like the flaky filo dough on top, and inside, it's like a custardy cakey.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Frank]

With like, that, like, honey vanilla syrup drizzle on it. And I'm telling you, open it up.

[Joe]

I'm coming in.

[Frank]

That's right.

[Joe]

Yeah, that is right. What's your favorite food?

[Ant]

It's a tie between traditional American and Italian, for sure. I actually don't like Mexican food that much, believe it or not.

[Frank]

Oh, I also love Asian food.

[Ant]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Joe]

Like, Like.

[Frank]

I mean, what?

[Joe]

I don't like Chinese food.

[Ant]

I don't like Thai.

[Frank]

I love Chinese food. I love Thai. I love.

[Joe]

Well, I ate a lot of Thai food. My ubereats. The top was Thai.

[Ant]

Really? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Joe]

Because I only really used it, that app for the Thai food, because it's only available on there, so it's kind of cheating, but.

[Frank]

Yeah, whatever. Yeah. You know, I don't think I've had, like, I've. I don't think I've been introduced to food and not enjoyed it.

[Ant]

What?

[Joe]

I don't know that this happened to me either.

[Frank]

Like, no one has ever been like, you've never had this. Let's go have some. And been like, that's not good. Oh, like, of course I've had food in my life that like, oh, someone's like, Filipino food. Yes.

[Joe]

And you're like, oh, I don't like this.

[Frank]

Like, one of my. One of my earliest memories of, like, trying foods from different places because as, like, a young teenager, I was, like, not really into trying that shit, but, like, we knew someone whose father had a Moroccan cafe food blew me away.

[Joe]

Yo, Moroccan food's good.

[Ant]

Well, I do believe that unless there's a crazy dietary restriction, but people, you could find something you like at every restaurant, even if you don't like the food. Like, I don't traditionally like Mexican food, but if I go to a Mexican restaurant, I could very much eat there because, like, there's something I'll like.

[Joe]

What do you not like about Mexican food?

[Ant]

I don't know. But, like, I mean, I guess it's just, like, the traditional flavoring, because I like the fajitas. I like certain tacos because, like, when it tastes more plain, I guess. I mean, I'm not trying to ex.

[Joe]

Like, you like plain?

[Ant]

Yeah, I was gonna say I'm not trying to like, be.

[Frank]

You're white? Yeah.

[Joe]

You said American Italian, brother.

[Ant]

Well, absolutely. But I think. I don't know how to explain whatever,

[Frank]

like, the flavor profile is that is used traditionally in Mexican food is not your favorite. So, like, probably like cumin, you know, Like, a lot of their foods use cumin a lot. So, like, I could see that because that is. That is a pretty, like, you know, cumin when you taste human.

[Joe]

When I was younger, I thought that was pronounced common.

[Frank]

Of course it is.

[Ant]

I'm.

[Joe]

I'm not spelled common.

[Ant]

Come on. I'm not sure. It's not still.

[Joe]

Yeah, I think that, like, maybe we, like. I don't see a Q. I see cup.

[Frank]

They also use stuffing a lot. And it's not, like, if you don't like it, it's not. You're not going to like it. I don't know how else to say that. It's so. It's so, like, intensely Flavored.

[Joe]

I mean, at this point, like you're. You're trying to disrespect me.

[Ant]

It's got to get better than that stuffing. It's got to get better.

[Joe]

This guy. I almost had him. No, no, you didn't.

[Frank]

I almost.

[Joe]

You also use gurglies.

[Frank]

I almost. Almost. Almost really quickly.

[Joe]

It's Frank. It's Frank. The. The doctor. The scientist with your degree in.

[Frank]

I apologize. Is my contribution to the show not enough for you?

[Ant]

World traveler.

[Joe]

World traveler. Been everywhere.

[Frank]

I'm not a world traveler. I very openly say that and am okay with that.

[Joe]

Your Bachelor of Science in criminal whatever. Yeah.

[Frank]

Yep. Got me with some factual information that proves my point.

[Joe]

What actually was it?

[Frank]

Bachelor of science. Criminal justice.

[Joe]

Justice. Dick in your mouth.

[Frank]

Oh. Oh, no. Oh, no.

[Ant]

Oh, no. You gotta hit him with a. Got him. Please get to the mic. Get to the mic. Hurry up.

[Frank]

Oh, my God. Got him. Oh, my God.

[Ant]

Also, you owe him a hundred bucks. Do you remember that?

[Frank]

For all those we know.

[Ant]

We bet if we ever got somebody.

[Frank]

Oh, my God.

[Ant]

Did you just ate that and you have to give him 100 bucks. That's crazy.

[Joe]

Jesus.

[Frank]

Oh, my God. It's crazy. That's what it feels like.

[Ant]

Yeah.

[Frank]

I feel right dirty.

[Joe]

I know.

[Frank]

I feel filthy.

[Joe]

You feel so dirty. Why don't you go home and jump in your bed?

[Frank]

I will. Was my contribution not enough for you, sir? This better be good enough for my attention.

[Joe]

That is a deflection from the point.

[Frank]

He's pointing. Look at the points.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah, whatever.

[Ant]

It's all right. You just got 100 bucks.

[Joe]

I'm chilling.

[Frank]

I mean. Minus three. He just pointed at me thrice.

[Ant]

I think it was twice. I think it was twice. I'll give him twice.

[Joe]

This is ridiculous.

[Frank]

I think it's not ridiculous.

[Ant]

Oh, my God. You tried to get. And then he set a different trap and then you got got.

[Frank]

You know, I mean, honestly, the game of life sometimes is surprising. And I'm. I. I respect you all the more for it.

[Joe]

The game of life is sometimes surprising.

[Frank]

I respect you all the more for.

[Joe]

For it.

[Frank]

Good for you.

[Joe]

Thank you.

[Frank]

There's nothing I can do. I can't even try to come back with one.

[Joe]

Now I'm too, like.

[Frank]

That was. That was so good.

[Joe]

I'm analyzing every word you say.

[Frank]

No, no, no. I. I'm. I'm done.

[Ant]

No, you can tell when he's doing it because it's a weird different light that comes from his eyes. I don't know how he does it.

[Joe]

I honestly don't Understand how you are so, like, in tune. Always on it.

[Frank]

Did you know that his job is to be in tune?

[Ant]

Yeah. I got to listen very intently.

[Joe]

No.

[Ant]

Did I know you were doing it? No. That was good. That got me. Well, look, it was very targeted. When it's targeted, it's different.

[Frank]

Frankie's is like, wait, can you repeat one more time? What? It. What? It was just this dick in your mouth. That's good.

[Joe]

Yeah, but for a second, what I thought he was doing was I was like, here goes Frank just saying something,

[Frank]

that scene to show that he knows,

[Joe]

like, a niche, like spice or something. But, like, so that was, like, originally that what I was thinking. And then I was like, oh. And then.

[Frank]

Well, I looked like I looked over at Ann and aunt already knew because he went. And I was like, if you had not done that, he may. Might have. Might have given in and been, like, stuffing maybe, I don't know, balls in your mouth. That's what it would have been.

[Ant]

Got it.

[Frank]

Yeah, it's something.

[Joe]

These balls in your mouth is hysterical.

[Ant]

It's really something with your eyes. They light differently.

[Frank]

Thank you.

[Ant]

When. When you're.

[Joe]

When you're excited, it might be like, where he's like. Like, Keith, when he's doing something like that is always like.

[Frank]

Like, it's just this.

[Joe]

It's just a little corner one side of the mouth.

[Frank]

Like, I'm gonna get you again, because I've already gotten you twice. If anything, it's two to one.

[Ant]

Yeah, but he got you after we

[Frank]

said, we're gonna do money, Yukon and suck on these.

[Joe]

Yeah, the suck on.

[Ant]

All right.

[Frank]

The suck on that one got me,

[Joe]

too, because I was like, this is probably a nostalgic drink or something.

[Ant]

Joe did get you after we established money, so that's fine.

[Frank]

He can. But he's already. I'm already. So good.

[Joe]

So good.

[Frank]

So good. New spring arrivals are at Nordstrom rack stores now. Get ready to save big with up to 60% off rag and bone, Marc

[Joe]

Jacobs, free people and more.

[Ant]

How did I not know Rack has Adidas? Cause there's always something new.

[Frank]

Join the Nordic Club to unlock exclusive discounts. Shop new arrivals first and foremost.

[Joe]

More. Plus, buy online and pick up at

[Frank]

your favorite rack store for free.

[Joe]

Great brands, great prices. That's why you rack up.

[Frank]

He's already owed me, so if anything, we're, like, even now.

[Joe]

Was I down that much?

[Ant]

No, but, you know, we're getting there.

[Joe]

Well, what were you talking about?

[Ant]

Actually, I don't know.

[Frank]

That.

[Ant]

Was that really derailed?

[Frank]

I was you had asked me to reference my. My. My bachelor's degree.

[Ant]

Oh. Is what food we like as well. Oh, yeah, I have. I have it in my notes.

[Frank]

I do hate Mexicans.

[Joe]

That's what you said.

[Ant]

You said.

[Frank]

I mean, that is an interesting one because that's such a, like, I feel like that's such a, like, well integrated part of our world now.

[Joe]

Tacos and burritos.

[Frank]

Yeah. Like, it's not like, it's like, you know, oh, I don't like Indian food. Like, okay, like, Indian food is very popular, but like, you could go your life without having it. I feel like tacos and burritos is everywhere. On every menu at every place you go to.

[Joe]

Indian food.

[Frank]

Unbelievable. Holy moly, dude.

[Joe]

Very good.

[Frank]

The first time I dipped garlic naan in that butter chicken sauce.

[Joe]

Yo. I still don't understand how naan is possible. Like, the way that they make it where they just stick it on the side and it doesn't fall.

[Frank]

Yeah. Isn't that cool?

[Joe]

Even when it's cooked, though?

[Ant]

Like how.

[Joe]

I don't know.

[Frank]

It's really cool though. It's. You ever seen it like a.

[Ant]

In the stone. Like the stone thing?

[Frank]

Yeah, I think, I think. I actually think it's called. Yeah. No, no, don't do them. They just paid us.

[Joe]

Damn it.

[Ant]

Okay.

[Frank]

I think it's called a tindoori oven, but I love the, like, seeing the video. Them just fucking bang. Yeah. Smacking it up there and it just stays.

[Joe]

I'm like, what? This is crazy, dude.

[Frank]

I had a chili one, like a spicy naan.

[Joe]

I've only had garlic.

[Frank]

Have you ever had. Because you said you like Thai. Have you ever had Tom Yum soup?

[Joe]

No.

[Frank]

Too much. What's in it? I don't know, but whatever it is, it's no out of this world, dude.

[Joe]

I get like, pet tie.

[Frank]

It's like a spicy Thai soup.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Next time you order Thai Tom Yum

[Joe]

soup, I'll see if they have it.

[Ant]

It's just when you put lime on stuff and it's like a taco, it's just weird.

[Joe]

I'm good on the lime. Like, I don't eat it, but, like, there's so much more going on except lime.

[Ant]

I agree, I agree. Like, we had.

[Joe]

I also said it the other day. I think that the breakfast burrito is like the best breakfast item that exists. And I like, it's got everything.

[Frank]

Are we including, like, any breakfast food? Any pancakes, waffles, French toast?

[Joe]

I think those things are all good. But I do. I think that, like, all things considered, the breakfast burrito, so versatile.

[Frank]

I'm not going to argue that it's good. I could see the argument, and I will support it and appreciate it.

[Joe]

I like when food is just jammed in and you can hold it all in one hand and just eat it and not like, I gotta go digging for it.

[Frank]

I'm like, I'm fine. Yeah.

[Ant]

I like more when it's chopped up, though, and then built than stacked and built to where, like, the bacon is sometimes on this side and the egg is only over here.

[Joe]

Wait, what?

[Frank]

I agree with that.

[Ant]

Do you know what I mean?

[Frank]

I like when they mix it all up and then put it in the burrito. Because then it's like you're getting a little bit of everything in the same bite.

[Ant]

Yeah. It's weird that I have to, like, to get everything, you know?

[Frank]

I mean, I hear what you're saying. What you're doing is not a real thing.

[Ant]

You're trying to bite the whole thing.

[Frank]

Kind of like when I go to, like, the times I've been to Chipot, like, I'll, like, get all the chicken and rice at the top, and then the bottom is just lettuce and avocado.

[Ant]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Which I don't hate, but, like, not there for that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

[Joe]

Let's make this thing a little crazy.

[Frank]

Oh, God, I was such a gutter slut for chipotle in, like, 2010, 2011, you could not have convinced me that was not the greatest food on the planet.

[Joe]

You know, the first time I had chipotle, I was probably like, 26, 7.

[Frank]

That's old, brother.

[Joe]

I know.

[Frank]

I refused.

[Joe]

I was like, on my Frankie. Shit. Do you remember when I visit you at college and we went and I was like, I'm not eating this.

[Frank]

Yeah. Because you said you wouldn't make it back in time without crapping your pants,

[Joe]

which is like, not like, I don't know why Chipotle has that reputation.

[Frank]

I've never heard that reputation for Chipotle. I know.

[Joe]

Really?

[Frank]

I know that like. Like, Mexican food has the reputation for, like, it can kind of go through you, but I've never heard it specifically about Chipotle.

[Joe]

Oh, I've heard that about Chipotle. But, like, Chipotle is just like, you know, yo, they're spicy chickens. Kind of spicy.

[Frank]

I. I can't speak to the overall quality of Chipotle. I don't want to offend them as a company, but the first 10 times I had Chipotle in my life were near euphoric.

[Joe]

Was it just hammered?

[Frank]

No, they were all sober.

[Joe]

Okay.

[Frank]

I don't think I've ever had a drunk Chipotle that might fucking kill me.

[Joe]

Bowl.

[Frank]

No, I've never gotten anything other than a burrito, and I never will.

[Ant]

Okay, Was. It was before the shrinkflation thing, which.

[Frank]

Is that even real with Chipotle.

[Joe]

I've never eaten Chipotle in the store. My brother, like, usually caters it when we, like, go over for stuff, and you just make your own.

[Frank]

Oh, so you.

[Joe]

I've never eaten Chipotle and a Chipotle.

[Frank]

Have you ever gotten Chipotle prepared by. By a Chipotle?

[Joe]

No, I've only done my own.

[Frank]

So you haven't really.

[Joe]

You haven't really had Chipotle, and I'll accept that.

[Frank]

Yeah, I'll accept that.

[Joe]

That's a circle.

[Frank]

That's a circle, baby. Full callback.

[Joe]

But I'm in agreement. I. If you guys were like, you haven't had it unless someone at the place makes it for you, I'd be like, yeah, fair.

[Frank]

Unless you walk up and you need to have every bit of information ready the minute they ask.

[Ant]

To be clear, your. Your point has been more right than entire time.

[Joe]

Also to watch them just go like this, and it's like, there's no way that's gonna fit. That's gonna fit. Oh.

[Frank]

What the hell was that?

[Ant]

I was just making conversation.

[Frank]

His point has always been more. More right on what.

[Ant]

We know.

[Joe]

We know. Have you guys seen. I don't know if you guys are on the same algorithm as me, but there's a place that does, like, these giant Caesar salad wraps, and they put on a ridiculous amount on this wrap, and you're like, you have no fucking way. But they get it close, and it's, like, this thick.

[Frank]

No, but you know who's given Chipotle a run for their money? You ever had Dos Toros in Manhattan?

[Joe]

No. They're good. They're good, dude. Actually, I think I have had it once, but I don't remember at all, dude.

[Frank]

Really, really good.

[Joe]

It's like, what?

[Frank]

It's basically the same thing as Chipotle, but just different enough to legally be different name. Yeah.

[Joe]

You're in. Doghouse.

[Ant]

Looks like take it both ways here.

[Joe]

All right. What does that mean?

[Frank]

I don't know.

[Ant]

That's probably too much.

[Joe]

Yeah, it was.

[Frank]

It happens. But, yeah, I would say. Oh, man. Italians up there, Greeks up there, Italians.

[Joe]

Not that high for me. I feel like it's all kind of the same. Like, it's like, good, obviously, but, like, pastas and, like, chicken parms.

[Frank]

I've seen a lot of. I've seen a lot of discourse online with people just saying, like, Italian food is more than pastas. And it's like. Yeah, we know that. But, like, it is. But, like, you know, that's your. That's your. That's your Aaron Judge.

[Joe]

I would say that tomato sauce is the flavor.

[Ant]

What do you put pizza under? Do we get that?

[Frank]

Sure. That's a really good question.

[Ant]

All right, so, I mean, you're starting to get.

[Joe]

Yeah, no, that's a. Yeah, you get.

[Frank]

I saw something once that. It was like, the Chinese invented pizza

[Joe]

or something like that.

[Ant]

They invented literally everything. Probably literally everything. Noodles, everything.

[Frank]

They're one of the oldest, like.

[Ant]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Still running civilizations.

[Ant]

Yeah, probably.

[Joe]

Yeah. I mean. Yeah, you got pizza, you got pasta, you got Mike Trout and Ohtani. The rest of the team sucks.

[Frank]

Well, they're no longer on the same team.

[Joe]

No, I know. I'm saying, like, they're the angels of whatever year.

[Frank]

I mean. No, I've never had, like, a bad Italian dish. Like.

[Joe]

Well, not that it sucks. It's like. It's just all this. It really feels like.

[Frank]

Yeah, the heavy hitters. The heavy hitters are the pasta. That makes sense. But then the way that they. The way they do fish. Good Bronze. Bronze.

[Joe]

Mediterranean food, too, which might be.

[Frank]

Is like, I guess technically Italian is. It borders the Mediterranean.

[Joe]

Right.

[Frank]

Southern.

[Joe]

I think Italian is its own thing. A Mediterranean food is like, a different thing.

[Frank]

I mean, I think of Greek food. I think of, like, a Greek salad. Yeah. Like, fish. Isn't like, Spain also bordering the Mediterranean? What?

[Ant]

No.

[Frank]

Okay.

[Joe]

It's not even.

[Ant]

It's far. It's pretty far.

[Frank]

Sorry, I'm wrong.

[Joe]

Sorry I'm wrong. I've wronged.

[Frank]

What country's border? The Mediterranean. Can you look that up for me, please?

[Ant]

I could.

[Joe]

It's a good one.

[Ant]

Also, you're leaving our desserts. Tiramisu, canoli.

[Joe]

Yeah, I'm not a huge cannoli guy. Although the one that you brought in was fantasmic.

[Frank]

That was.

[Joe]

What was it?

[Frank]

It was like, I actually want you to get some more from them, but I'll pay. Yeah. This time because I want to bring some home to Beck and the kids. Because when she saw that episode, she was like, holy. Oh, oh, oh.

[Joe]

Go to the map. What is that?

[Ant]

Mediterranean seems pretty big here.

[Joe]

All right,

[Frank]

let's run through that again. Watch this. Doesn't Spain border the Mediterranean?

[Joe]

No,

[Frank]

it's out there. Both of You.

[Ant]

I was.

[Frank]

I didn't.

[Ant]

Yeah.

[Joe]

God, me.

[Ant]

There's a lot of. So Mediterranean is everything Pretty much.

[Frank]

I mean, you're also using. You're also using Gemini. I would cross reference with another.

[Joe]

It is.

[Ant]

I'm talking about the maps.

[Frank]

More reputable.

[Ant]

The Mediterranean goes all the way through here. Well, okay. See, this is more what I thought,

[Frank]

like, that the Caspian.

[Joe]

I honestly thought the Mediterranean was just like, surrounding Italy, Sicily, and, like, up where, like, Montenegro and Albania is.

[Ant]

No, that's what it's saying is the whole thing here.

[Joe]

I had no idea the Mediterranean was that big. I apologize.

[Frank]

God, I want to jump across this table and strangle you both until your eyes pop out of your sockets.

[Joe]

I had no idea the Mediterranean went all that way.

[Ant]

You know what? I'm not giving it. I would say it's because.

[Frank]

You know what?

[Ant]

I would say it cuts off, like, right there.

[Frank]

Yeah, but it doesn't.

[Joe]

It doesn't. Yeah, it does.

[Ant]

No, it really doesn't. That's. So if I like Mediterranean food. You like all of the food.

[Frank]

I. I think bordering the Mediterranean.

[Joe]

I. I think that, like, Mediterranean food is. I think it excludes, like, Spain, France, and Italy, because those are, like, their own cuisines. What is considered Mediterranean food?

[Frank]

It's a lot of fish.

[Joe]

Yeah, it's like fish and, like, lemon salads and shit. Yeah.

[Frank]

I would say yes. All of Spain is not like the. The eastern, like, coast of Spain, you could say, is Mediterranean fair. Because a lot of countries used to have, like, different specializations, their foods depending on where they were. Like, northern Italy's food is different from the southern part of Italy and stuff like that.

[Ant]

Also, like, Greece and Italy, it's. The Mediterranean surrounds pretty much all of it. Spain, you know, Spain's huge. You get this whole other side.

[Frank]

Yeah, that's. Did I not say human words there?

[Ant]

I'm just having some fun.

[Joe]

No, I mean. No, he's right. I mean, I had no idea that it bordered it.

[Ant]

Counting France seems even more crazy, actually.

[Joe]

I mean, that's a good part of southern France. Yeah, it's a good part of France, buddy.

[Ant]

It is. All right. Congrats, Frankie. You got another one.

[Frank]

I've been right for, like, 10 episodes in a row now, and it's fucking crazy the amount.

[Joe]

Did you miss the first hour of this conversation?

[Frank]

We were in a disagreement, but who sat here and planted the flag in your ass of being right?

[Joe]

I don't even know how to answer that.

[Frank]

Exactly.

[Ant]

Yeah, but also the 15 minutes ago happened.

[Joe]

And what was that?

[Ant]

Justice. That's. What it was.

[Frank]

Oh, that was good. That doesn't make me wrong. That just makes me a victim.

[Joe]

All right, well, I think we can end there. Right there on the Mediterranean Sea. For those who don't know, border Spain and Algeria, apparently.

[Frank]

I'd love to go to Algeria. I've heard good things about Algeria.

[Joe]

Yeah, I've never been to Algeria. I've never. Oh, I knew one Algerian person. You know who I'm talking about. She was a girl.

[Frank]

Narrows it down to several girls.

[Joe]

She. Took her boobs out at a bar.

[Ant]

Oh, I should narrow it.

[Frank]

Oddly enough, it doesn't.

[Joe]

No, it was. This was like, during. Like a World cup. And they were playing We'll Talk.

[Frank]

We'll Talk.

[Joe]

Belgium.

[Frank]

I was just who they were playing. Doesn't make sense.

[Joe]

No, I just, like, remember.

[Frank]

Well, you'll tell me later. All right, I don't know who.

[Joe]

I have no other information. I don't even know her name.

[Frank]

Oh, so then how the hell would I know?

[Joe]

I just knew she was Algeria. Algeria. It was the only Algerian person I've ever.

[Frank]

So you know her heritage, you don't know her name, but you have seen her tits?

[Joe]

None of that was on me.

[Frank]

I'm not saying the information was presented. I'm not saying that you're held responsible here, but, like, I would imagine that you would at least know that. Any more identifiable factors of that person.

[Joe]

I. I actually don't. I mean, she wasn't like our friend. Like, she came around a couple times. I think one of her friends was, like, hooking up with her, and we were at a bar, and she was like, if the US Wins, I'll show everyone in the bar my boobs, like, yelled at. So everyone's super hype. And then the US Lost, and then she did it anyway.

[Ant]

That's a hero.

[Frank]

Is that the word we're using for that?

[Ant]

That's the nicest. I'll be

[Joe]

the FDNY and nypd.

[Ant]

Yeah. Yeah, that girl.

[Joe]

Yeah, Superman.

[Ant]

Yeah, that girl.

[Joe]

All right, well, that's all we have, folks. Frank, where can they find you?

[Frank]

You know where to find me. After this, I'm going to be upset with Ant because he completely threw me under the bus and said he thought your argument was better than mine, and I'm gonna be pissed about it for an hour. There you go.

[Joe]

And where can they find you?

[Ant]

Find me at Ant prison.

[Frank]

No, don't. Don't know.

[Ant]

On Instagram. And that's how I got that one.

[Joe]

What?

[Ant]

I don't know.

[Joe]

Why did you say that?

[Ant]

Because I agreed with you.

[Joe]

That's how I got that one.

[Ant]

You said it.

[Joe]

Very anime. You guys can go follow me at Joe Senegal. Go follow the show at the base, my yard, on TikTok and Instagram. And that is all. See you guys next time. Welcome back to the baby. Spring just slid into your DMs.

[Frank]

Grab that boho. Look for that rooftop dinner, those sandals that can keep up with you. And hang some string lights to give your patio a glow up. Spring's calling, Ross.

[Joe]

Work your magic.