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Joe Sandigata
Welcome back to the base. Welcome back to the basement yard.
Frank Alvarez
Hi. Hello, everyone.
Joe Sandigata
You're all buttoned up today.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, it's because I'm wearing an undershirt under here. But it has a logo on it.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, I see.
Frank Alvarez
So I don't want to show the logo.
Joe Sandigata
Okay.
Frank Alvarez
I said it's like someone I don't like.
Joe Sandigata
But, like, now it feels like you have to show.
Frank Alvarez
I know. No, but now. You know what I mean.
Joe Sandigata
Like, you gotta prove that it's not an offensive one.
Frank Alvarez
Well, no, it's not. What could it be? I don't know, like a swastika or something.
Joe Sandigata
I meant.
Frank Alvarez
Whoa. Dude. Hot start. That dropped it off of the hard Eswa tusk. Yeah. Yeah. Well, now you gotta show you. Yeah, it's very clearly not. It's Compton's very. Okay. The furthest thing from one of them. Yeah.
Greg
Now that we know who it was. I don't know if they want it that close.
Frank Alvarez
Nobody wins right now.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Greg
No, no.
Frank Alvarez
We doubly lose. Let's make that abundantly clear. Sorry. We could just take that again from the top. All right. Hey. Welcome back.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, wow, you got a. That's. Now. I'll let you know.
Frank Alvarez
Whatever.
Joe Sandigata
You got some new hardware over there.
Greg
Got some bling.
Joe Sandigata
Look at that.
Greg
Look at this.
Joe Sandigata
Ant ran his first half marathon.
Greg
It's real, by the way.
Frank Alvarez
Is it your first half? There we go. Is it your.
Joe Sandigata
Is it your first half marathon or was it your only half?
Greg
Got it.
Frank Alvarez
Got it. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's a. That's an aggressive question. Off the off rip.
Joe Sandigata
Well, I don't know how he's feeling.
Frank Alvarez
Well, start with that question, then.
Greg
How about that?
Frank Alvarez
Sorry. What did I. Sorry. You're right, you're right, you're right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You guys were accusing me of wearing fucking propaganda on my shirt. Whoa.
Joe Sandigata
We were making sure that no one was coming to that conclusion.
Greg
Now it's propaganda.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. Well, yeah. But anyway.
Greg
Right. Sorry.
Joe Sandigata
Ran the marathon. Half marathon.
Greg
Half marathon.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. The Brooklyn Half Marathon.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
You did it. And you just. Let's get this out the way.
Greg
Yes, sir.
Frank Alvarez
Awesome. Congratulations.
Greg
Oh, thank you.
Frank Alvarez
That is really, really cool. You just decided you wanted to do it and just did it.
Greg
It was. It was something. It was something to do. A lot of people.
Frank Alvarez
A lot of people did you. You just see, like, this is what people say, like, hard working should be. Gen Z, Are you listening? He just decided he wanted to do something and pulled himself up by his bootstraps and did it.
Greg
Yeah, he came out to see me. At least he did. And that's fucking.
Frank Alvarez
Wow. Now I need to be on the attack.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, yeah. Is that how you attack? One more time. Just give him an attack. Very good.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, how should I attack?
Joe Sandigata
Tell me.
Frank Alvarez
Fucking Boxer Joe.
Joe Sandigata
Definitely not like this. That's all I know, I know that's incorrect.
Greg
No, I'm playing. I'm playing. It was nice.
Joe Sandigata
How are your legs feeling?
Greg
They hurt today. The right. My right foot is not working. That's about what it said.
Frank Alvarez
It's just, like, not working.
Joe Sandigata
I'm dragging it.
Frank Alvarez
Why? You're walking.
Greg
I'm dragging it. I'm limping a little bit.
Joe Sandigata
Okay.
Frank Alvarez
What shoes did you wear? Do they do, like, a thing where, like, you can, like, run in, like, silly shoes? Has anyone done, like, a marathon in, like, high heels?
Joe Sandigata
Bro, when I ran the marathon, there was people barefoot.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, well, that's not cool.
Joe Sandigata
Shoes.
Frank Alvarez
That's just no shoes, but you can
Joe Sandigata
wear whatever you want.
Greg
Someone ran a marathon in snow boots. I mean, ski boots that are thighs
Frank Alvarez
must be on thighs.
Joe Sandigata
Thighs.
Greg
The whole.
Joe Sandigata
The whole legs.
Greg
Did you see the guy running the London Marathon with a fridge on his back?
Joe Sandigata
Yes, I did see that.
Frank Alvarez
Wait, why?
Joe Sandigata
It was symbolic of something. Oh, right.
Greg
Oh, I don't know if there was symbols.
Joe Sandigata
I don't know. I think it was symbolic of something. I did see that.
Frank Alvarez
But, like.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, I mean, you're. You're asking for an injury at that point. I mean. I mean. Yeah, all power to you.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, some would argue that doing the marathon in and of itself is asking for an injury.
Joe Sandigata
Kind of. Yeah.
Greg
Yeah. I couldn't walk last night. I was just on the couch. I was just sinking into it. I was fine until mile like 9 and 10, and that's when I felt like my legs were gonna explode.
Frank Alvarez
Ooh, did you take a bath after?
Greg
I did. I took an ice bath, actually.
Frank Alvarez
Ooh, did you throw some Epsom salt in that bitch?
Greg
It was a very crude ice bath. I didn't even know you're supposed to put salt in it.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, Epsom salt. You know what Epsom salt is?
Greg
What is that? The stuff you Put on the street?
Frank Alvarez
No.
Joe Sandigata
Why would you take a bath of stuff that melts snow? Wait, Epsom salt? Mites melts? No, too.
Frank Alvarez
I don't. If it does, I don't know. But I'm not familiar with when you get like, like ice melt. It's not Epsom salt, I don't think.
Joe Sandigata
I mean, you know what? I have no knowledge of salt and I have nowhere to go from here. Right, but you've never heard of, like, when you're taking a bath and you're trying to recover, there's some, like, some salts that you could put in there. So it like, helps.
Greg
No, I just.
Joe Sandigata
I don't know what it does. It just makes me smell like lavender and I like that.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, yeah. We have a eucalyptus one.
Joe Sandigata
I like that too. Eucalyptus is cool, but like, it's so much like. Love it sometimes it's too intense for me. We got a sensitive nostrils.
Frank Alvarez
We one time got like actual eucalyptus. And like they say like, if you just like put it in your shower, it like, it's like there's like health benefits to like all that shit. I can't. I can't keep up with oils and health and plants and shit.
Joe Sandigata
There's a lot going on.
Frank Alvarez
So much fucking going on about it.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
People are just like, oh, oils and crystals and shit like that. Let me just fucking breathe oxygen and
Joe Sandigata
live that and ingest my microplastics that's in everything.
Frank Alvarez
I don't care. Of course there's microplastics. Of course there's forever chemicals.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
What am I going to fucking do
Joe Sandigata
if I have the forever chemicals in me?
Frank Alvarez
Which we do.
Joe Sandigata
We're locked in forever, which, like, it's
Frank Alvarez
not an if we do.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Greg
Does anybody want to raise their hand if they've won some sort of medal for running a marathon of any kind of.
Frank Alvarez
Don't do this, both of you. How about this? How about we raise. Raise our hands for raising three children? Neither you put your hands down.
Joe Sandigata
Well, that's not what we're saying.
Greg
Yeah, no, no, that's.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, that's you just throwing it in my face that I haven't run a marathon or half of one.
Greg
I said type of marathon.
Frank Alvarez
Way to go. You did half of them. An actual. I said type.
Greg
I said type. I said type.
Joe Sandigata
That's crazy.
Greg
I'll tell you what, after running the half, it made me think that while doing double this and running a full marathon feels impossible. So the fact that he did it is incredible. I can't. I would never be able.
Joe Sandigata
It's Mental. I also had not run. I practiced. I trained horribly for the marathon, and I ran two halves before, but never ran further than that.
Frank Alvarez
You hear this guy, Mr. Like, oh, man. I, like, didn't train right before I finished the full fucking marathon. I didn't train enough. So I only could have been better at it.
Joe Sandigata
That is true. I couldn't have been much worse. But you finish.
Frank Alvarez
You just. That is. And that, like, in all the conversations we've had about this, because jokes aside, that is to both of you. One of you more legitimately impressed. One of us.
Greg
Double one of us.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Like, what you did was impressive. Yeah.
Greg
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Times two of that. That's very impressive.
Joe Sandigata
Don't you.
Frank Alvarez
It's the mental. It's the entirety of it is the mental aspect for me. I just can't do something that continuous and not get bored and wanting.
Joe Sandigata
What if we bully you?
Frank Alvarez
Bully with your wallet, then we're talking. Bully with your wallet, then we're talking. Then we can at least have a discussion. Well, what.
Joe Sandigata
What if.
Frank Alvarez
Don't you.
Joe Sandigata
Don't you want to just shut us up?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. I mean, I think my pure existence, to some degree, just shuts you guys up.
Joe Sandigata
What does that mean?
Frank Alvarez
I don't know. But I think that, you know, me being an upstanding member of this office, a contributing factor despite what Ant says to this podcast and doing it while also being a model husband and father, I think that that does pretty well for me.
Joe Sandigata
Now, I do have a question about that last sentence. When you said model husband, was there a comma in between those two things? Or is it model husband or model husband and something else?
Frank Alvarez
I mean, you're a model. Technically, you are a model. You're a model. Technically, we are models. We have done modeling.
Joe Sandigata
You're a model.
Frank Alvarez
We are models. Don't just throw it at me.
Joe Sandigata
Well, we're talking about you right now.
Frank Alvarez
Thank you so much.
Joe Sandigata
You're a model.
Frank Alvarez
Say it more.
Joe Sandigata
I tried, and then you stopped me.
Frank Alvarez
All right, do it again then.
Joe Sandigata
You're a model.
Frank Alvarez
Thank you.
Greg
Well, so now he has the model and the medal, so not really one up.
Frank Alvarez
I'd be a metal model.
Joe Sandigata
I can't even keep up. Yeah, that's too much.
Frank Alvarez
No, no, no.
Joe Sandigata
What if we all ran a half marathon together?
Frank Alvarez
I just. I'm not kidding. Here's the. Where I am mentally today. Yeah. Two 5Ks.
Greg
What?
Joe Sandigata
Like, what does that mean?
Frank Alvarez
I could see myself doing 2.5ks. Yeah, I. I don't think I could do. Which is what? A quarter marathon. It's do they do quarter marathons or third marathons?
Joe Sandigata
It's. It's a 5k or a 10k. So it's either 3.1 or 6.2.
Frank Alvarez
I could do a 10 or 6.1.
Joe Sandigata
I don't know.
Frank Alvarez
I could do a 10k.
Greg
A 10k would be a quarter. Ish. A little less than quarter of America. I just.
Frank Alvarez
I. Like I said, I am. I know what's going to happen to my ego now that someone else here has done it.
Joe Sandigata
He's gonna. He's wearing it too, and he's rubbing
Frank Alvarez
it in too, which I don't like.
Greg
It's the day after. Give me a day.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, yeah. It was yesterday.
Joe Sandigata
It was yesterday.
Frank Alvarez
As of recording, as of recording as of today. I just. I. I don't know if that's a question I need answered right now. I did tell you guys, full transparency. Tomorrow. I'm gonna go to the gym and just see what happens when I get on the treadmill. But I'm just.
Joe Sandigata
What if something good happens?
Frank Alvarez
We needed to find what would be good.
Joe Sandigata
I mean, it would be good.
Frank Alvarez
So help me.
Joe Sandigata
So.
Frank Alvarez
I told you, I haven't run. I haven't run in three weeks. Yeah. So what would you guys say? I'll let you set the standard for what you think good is, which I can then adjust my mental capacity after.
Joe Sandigata
Based on what you've said already. You said that you've gotten on the treadmill and you've run for like 25 minutes straight. That is all you need. That is a giant starting point.
Frank Alvarez
The best, like the. The longest I have run was 30 minutes straight.
Joe Sandigata
That's hard to do.
Frank Alvarez
5.5 miles per hour.
Joe Sandigata
I mean, that's hard to do.
Frank Alvarez
So if I do that tomorrow.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
You think that is a good jumping off point?
Joe Sandigata
Of course.
Greg
You're essentially crushing 5Ks already. You're, like, right there. Yeah, that's what. That.
Joe Sandigata
It's only 3.1 miles.
Frank Alvarez
I just. I want to make it very clear. I can't commit to anything running running wise.
Joe Sandigata
But it's five.
Frank Alvarez
I can't commit to anything running wise until I start seeing, like a.
Greg
Well, what does that really matter? What results? Training. Who cares?
Joe Sandigata
And it's also six months away.
Frank Alvarez
I. I am just. I'm saying, like, I need to. Like, you guys are going to bully me into doing it.
Joe Sandigata
I'll sign you up.
Frank Alvarez
I know what you're doing. You're going to bully me into running. I need you. I need to bully you into. Into making it fiscally more well, how enchanting for me.
Joe Sandigata
Enchanting.
Frank Alvarez
Enchanting. Okay, Prince Charming, start a gofundme. I think.
Joe Sandigata
Fund me.
Frank Alvarez
I think we could do this. A GoFundMe that get to $200,000 and then Frank will run a 5K.
Joe Sandigata
200K for a 5K?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
How about this? Good for you. 50. What?
Frank Alvarez
Every K. What? What happened? What would you do?
Joe Sandigata
Or how would you feel if. Because you signed up for October, right?
Greg
I didn't sign up for anything yet. Just in case we did do something. Does that make sense?
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, but we would do that.
Greg
Oh. So, yeah, sure.
Joe Sandigata
What if we both ran and then you didn't run it and you were just kind of left out.
Greg
Now we got two medals.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, are we metal chasing now?
Joe Sandigata
Because then we're not metal.
Frank Alvarez
The reality is then I would do it and with you two. And then you'd have two medals. You'd have two medals and I'd be at one.
Joe Sandigata
But then you. But, but, but you could beat him. You could beat us both.
Frank Alvarez
Let me be very clear. If I'm running something with hand, I'm beating him.
Joe Sandigata
Well, that's what I mean.
Greg
That would have that you're not beating me.
Frank Alvarez
So like. Are you kidding me? Well, now he knows what he's doing.
Greg
It's a competition now. It's like I was running to finish,
Frank Alvarez
but now you train hard to beat me. Right? Now if we did a 5k. Oh, 5k. I am dusting you. Whoa. I'm letting you know that's my ego. See, you did it. Are you guys happy now? Here we go.
Greg
I don't think there's medals.
Frank Alvarez
Now you're getting a real American athlete out of me.
Joe Sandigata
There are medals in 5Ks. I've gotten one before.
Greg
There's medals and 5Ks you're getting.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, you. So you have multiple medals.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. Yeah.
Greg
God, I'll never catch up to him.
Frank Alvarez
You don't need to out.
Joe Sandigata
It's about just doing it. When you cross the finish line, you're going to feel so good about it.
Frank Alvarez
It's about the medals, baby. Why do something?
Joe Sandigata
It is about the metals.
Frank Alvarez
If there is not a tangible thing to be given to you to say, good job doing it.
Joe Sandigata
Well, that's. That's my only rule when it comes to races. If there's not a medal, I'm not doing it.
Frank Alvarez
The only reason that's how important the metal. The only reason that I did Radio City and MSG is cuz they gave us a cool little ticket.
Joe Sandigata
Didn't know that we were going to get that, but that was.
Frank Alvarez
I don't know about you. I knew I was getting that.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, really?
Frank Alvarez
No, I didn't know. Oh, yeah. No. You're going to pull out a real American athlete out of me now? That's what you want? You want to Americanize me? Like some old timey football player or something.
Joe Sandigata
Born here. Whole life are American.
Frank Alvarez
But, like, you, like, I just, I
Joe Sandigata
mean, guys, I think it's clear that you. I mean, you've. I mean, we just figured out. We did some math back there.
Frank Alvarez
We did math.
Joe Sandigata
You've run close to 50 miles already
Frank Alvarez
this year and I've taken a couple weeks off.
Joe Sandigata
And have you enjoyed that?
Frank Alvarez
No.
Joe Sandigata
But you enjoy being able to say that I've. I've traveled that far on foot.
Frank Alvarez
I like looking at numbers and saying like, that's. That's a number. You know what?
Joe Sandigata
No, I don't know at all what that means. I like looking at numbers and being like, correct.
Frank Alvarez
But it's just cool. Like, you texted us yesterday, like, I just ran my hundredth mile.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
And like, looking back and putting a number to something like that is cool to me.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
So that's why I did that. And I was just like, wow, I've ran 50 miles so far this year.
Joe Sandigata
You would be surprised how much of what you're describing is the reason behind me running. I just like to know that I've traveled that far.
Frank Alvarez
I don't care about traveling that far. I don't think of it like, wow, I could dry. I could have. I ran enough to go from here to, you know, Great Neck.
Joe Sandigata
No, no, no, I'm not thinking about that. I'm thinking about like, wow, cool. 100 miles. Like, that's wild.
Frank Alvarez
That.
Joe Sandigata
That is a crazy number.
Frank Alvarez
I don't know.
Joe Sandigata
You don't think that you would finish a half marathon and be like, holy, I actually did it.
Frank Alvarez
I'm sure I would. I know myself. When I dive in, I'm in. You know what I mean? Like, smoky. When I. I'm letting you know, I'm like, jokes aside, a what in a 5k, I'm fucking dusting.
Greg
I'm talking. I'm at half marathons. I'm past 5k.
Frank Alvarez
Whoa. That's crazy, but also true.
Joe Sandigata
But we should do a 5K.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, I don't know. I'm not committing to anything yet. I just need to make that abundantly clear because I'm a little baby boy too.
Joe Sandigata
What does that mean?
Frank Alvarez
This is me.
Joe Sandigata
What does that mean?
Frank Alvarez
You just. You want to bully me into being a version of a.
Greg
This is virgin.
Frank Alvarez
This is.
Joe Sandigata
You're gonna bully me into being a virgin?
Frank Alvarez
You want to bully me into being some, like, athletic version of myself, and I don't like it. What did I have for lunch today?
Joe Sandigata
I don't know.
Frank Alvarez
A chicken parm sandwich. That's what you get with Frankie.
Greg
It looked real good.
Frank Alvarez
It actually was, like, seriously good.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, like.
Frank Alvarez
Like, I was kind of impressed.
Joe Sandigata
Wow.
Frank Alvarez
I just didn't expect that.
Greg
Side note.
Frank Alvarez
You want me to be, like, a. Like, an athletic version of myself when, like, I'm BLT's megazords and fucking Miller Light.
Joe Sandigata
I'm not asking you to.
Frank Alvarez
You want me to be Peyton Manning fucking Doug Woff or some shit like that.
Joe Sandigata
Doug Woff.
Frank Alvarez
Why cough on these nuts when you could swallow them? Got him.
Greg
Oh, no.
Frank Alvarez
Got him, Got him.
Joe Sandigata
Why cough on these nuts when you can swallow them? That is insane.
Frank Alvarez
I never heard that one. It was really good. Just give me. Just give me. No. Yeah, you got him. Come on, come on, come on.
Joe Sandigata
What is he giving you?
Greg
You already hit him with it.
Joe Sandigata
You want to hit?
Frank Alvarez
I got to do a proper one.
Greg
All right, hit him with a.
Frank Alvarez
Got him. Got him. Got me.
Joe Sandigata
Why cough on these nuts when you
Frank Alvarez
can swallow and I didn't stumble through it. Yeah, you got waited. I sat back. I. I sat fastball, and I swung away.
Joe Sandigata
Well, there is consequences to things like that.
Greg
Yeah, that's.
Joe Sandigata
And it's me filling out your information.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, I mean, they.
Joe Sandigata
You're gonna get something in the mail
Frank Alvarez
at your house now, be a bib
Joe Sandigata
with a number on it.
Greg
And now you're gonna be the guy that signed up and didn't do it. Crazy.
Frank Alvarez
No, listen, I know what you're doing. This is what he did when we were playing Mario Kart. Yeah, just like. It's not that I'm good. You're just bad. You know what I mean?
Joe Sandigata
He plays games.
Frank Alvarez
He's playing mind games with me. He'll probably.
Greg
I mean.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
What. What will happen if.
Joe Sandigata
If he commits to doing a 5k and he smokes you? He probably could.
Greg
I'm feeling, like, a More endurance.
Frank Alvarez
What happens, though?
Greg
What is it? I don't know. Well, when is the 5K? Like, it's all important.
Frank Alvarez
Well, it doesn't.
Joe Sandigata
There's 5Ks all the time.
Greg
If it's tomorrow. Yeah. You probably go.
Frank Alvarez
No, no, I do think. And I'm not, because I'm also just not a runner. It's like teaching a fish how to climb a tree.
Joe Sandigata
Neither am I though I forced my way into this, but you, you have
Frank Alvarez
forced your way into becoming a runner, and now you are one.
Joe Sandigata
But you saying I'm not a runner is like this admission of like, I just can't do it. Like, you can.
Frank Alvarez
No, but like, there's a level of like, natural ability you need to have to kind of make the insertion into that lifestyle easier.
Joe Sandigata
Insertion?
Frank Alvarez
Like. Like. Like, for instance, are you a gymnast? No. Could you be a gymnast? Sure. Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
That's everything.
Frank Alvarez
But it would be a more enjoyable experience if you had more natural ability to. That would be better suited for being a gymnast.
Joe Sandigata
How am I going to get natural ability to get on the pommel horse?
Frank Alvarez
That's what I'm saying, though. People have that. Whether it be flexibility or speed or dexterity or.
Joe Sandigata
I mean, you're in for a half an hour straight. Dude. That's. That's not nothing.
Frank Alvarez
I will tell you, every second of that was miserable. I know. Every single second.
Joe Sandigata
It's terrible. I hate it. But I love finishing it.
Frank Alvarez
You. All you care about is finishing. I care about the road toward finishing.
Joe Sandigata
I feel like you're trying to equate this to.
Frank Alvarez
I just. I don't know, I. Maybe we'll talk. We'll talk candidly amongst ourselves.
Joe Sandigata
I mean, committing to like a 5k in June is not crazy.
Frank Alvarez
I think if I were to wake up tomorrow, I could do a 5K.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, you absolutely could. It's not like you can't finish a 5K.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, I could walk it, but I'm saying, like, I could do it non stop running. Yeah, but I just don't want to. Like, that's my thing. Guys, the noise is coming out of me. What would you rather do? Close your eyes real quick. Both of you, close your eyes. I'm serious. Close your eyes. I'm not going to do anything. Joking.
Greg
I'm going to fall for this, too. All right, fine.
Joe Sandigata
No, I'm coughing on nuts already. So where am I going to go from here?
Frank Alvarez
It's not a joke.
Joe Sandigata
Yep.
Frank Alvarez
Saturday morning, June 23rd, okay? You wake up, you have a hot dog, or you go run a fucking marathon. What would you rather do? Oh, by the way, why did I close my eyes? What was the point of that?
Greg
I'd rather have a hot dog.
Frank Alvarez
It's 85 degrees and sunny out.
Joe Sandigata
But I'm not saying run a summer marathon.
Frank Alvarez
That's hard. You said June.
Joe Sandigata
I said a 5K.
Frank Alvarez
Okay, a 5K. Think about this.
Joe Sandigata
You run a 5K in the morning in the summer, right? And you're all sweaty and whatever. Then you have a crisp fucking light beer and a hot dog after.
Frank Alvarez
That's honestly probably the closest thing that'll get me to do it.
Joe Sandigata
I'm saying that nothing feels better than that. I just.
Frank Alvarez
I just. I just hate it. What do you guys not get?
Joe Sandigata
I mean, so do I. You don't have to do it.
Frank Alvarez
Obviously, I know, but
Joe Sandigata
you do.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, I. I figure. I know that too.
Joe Sandigata
No, no, no, no.
Frank Alvarez
I also fig. I just got a. Got him on you a pretty good. Got him too, so, like, I'm riding high right now, so. You are. If there's a chance to convince me, it's right now, girl.
Joe Sandigata
Winter is so last season.
Frank Alvarez
And now spring's got you looking at
Joe Sandigata
pictures of tank tops with hungry eyes. Your algorithm is feeding you cutoffs.
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Joe Sandigata
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Frank Alvarez
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Joe Sandigata
Done.
Frank Alvarez
Hoping it looks anything like the picture
Joe Sandigata
when you tear open that envelope. It's time for a little in person spring treat. It's time for a trip to Ross. Work your magic. Is there. Is there a need for convincing when I just have all your info already? You know, like, I could just sign you up and then if you lose to him in the race, who's to say?
Frank Alvarez
I mean, I will flat out say that if Frank's gonna come out, I'm letting you know right now, one of
Joe Sandigata
you guys is gonna end up in the tent.
Frank Alvarez
I will. I will pass out and fucking need an oxygen tank before I lose a race to you. That's.
Greg
I think you would win the 5k.
Joe Sandigata
I don't need that. I think you have time and you just ran out.
Frank Alvarez
You also have. This is like, you know, you just. You just fucking won mvp. This is like, next. If I beat you, that's like you coming out the next year and hitting 200.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, it's true.
Frank Alvarez
So if anyone here has something to prove, it's you. Oh, yeah. All the pressure. All the pressure's on you now.
Greg
Oh, I promise.
Joe Sandigata
So there is pressure. So it is happening.
Frank Alvarez
I didn't see that.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah,
Greg
don't worry. I think you'll win it.
Joe Sandigata
See the hesitation? What is he saying here?
Frank Alvarez
I could run it in work shoes, like dress shoes, and I could beat you.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, work shoes?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. I don't work. I don't get dressed.
Joe Sandigata
What's dress shoes?
Frank Alvarez
Like fucking. Like.
Joe Sandigata
Like loafers.
Frank Alvarez
Like loafers? Yeah.
Greg
I would just. I think I would just take it more serious than you would. And you would win now, I mean.
Frank Alvarez
No, I don't get that. What do you mean you'd take it more serious than me? If I train harder, absolutely.
Greg
But I think you'd win.
Joe Sandigata
I don't know. I think that. I think. I do believe that if Frank committed and being like, okay, we're going to do it, that he would train harder than you.
Frank Alvarez
Let me make something abundantly clear. If I commit to anything, I'm confident I could do it Well. I live life by a very strict set of guidelines that if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it well.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, we got that New Year's episode.
Frank Alvarez
I'm just saying, like, you guys think it's a joke. It is not. I don't think I remember someone in college. I got into an argument with someone in college. Because hindsight, looking back on it, it was probably tone deaf that I said it, but I don't give a. Oh. They said like, here we go. Oh, man. Everyone that takes organic chemistry fails. And I was like, oh, I. I probably wouldn't. And they're like, well, it's hard. I was like, yeah, I get that. But, like, I just. I'm confident in my skills. Right. Same situation here.
Joe Sandigata
How was that tone deaf?
Frank Alvarez
Because it got to a point where I was just like, I'm not saying you're dumb. I'm just saying I'm smarter. You know,
Joe Sandigata
I'm not you. I'm better say to you, did you take the class?
Frank Alvarez
No. Yeah, but you know what I'm saying? Like, it's.
Joe Sandigata
It's judging on how much you trained. I think that he will train harder than you.
Greg
Yeah, but it's like. Sure.
Frank Alvarez
There's also a whole other part of this that I'm not even referencing.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
I'm worried about my tummy.
Joe Sandigata
What about it?
Frank Alvarez
You know how.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, there's. It's lined with.
Frank Alvarez
If I stop, I'm not starting.
Joe Sandigata
You're fine. It's a half an hour. It's 40 minutes of your life, June.
Greg
What were you late? June?
Joe Sandigata
We're not gonna have to look at
Frank Alvarez
the schedule, first of all.
Greg
All right, I'm in.
Frank Alvarez
I never committed.
Joe Sandigata
It's a 5K.
Greg
So now you're forfeiting. I win automatically.
Frank Alvarez
First of all, I hold the fucking power here, bitch. Okay? You can mark that in your little fucking notebook. You have no more paper left. Cause you're unprepared, just like you were for your half Marathon that you did finish
Greg
actually have the backside of all the sheets. It's like double this whole thing.
Frank Alvarez
I would just need to be a really sick metal.
Joe Sandigata
Honestly, that is very important, and it's in it. And I. I try to know what
Frank Alvarez
the medal is going to look like
Joe Sandigata
before I get there.
Greg
How about the loser gives the winner their medal?
Joe Sandigata
One of these?
Greg
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, like, I. Yeah, yeah.
Joe Sandigata
You stand above him on a. Like a bench, and then he has to. You bend down.
Frank Alvarez
Well, no, I'm supposed, like, the winner's supposed to be on the bench.
Joe Sandigata
That's what I said.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, I thought you meant like that.
Joe Sandigata
No, and he's, like, on the ground, and he's got to, like, put it
Frank Alvarez
on you or you have to kiss my feet.
Joe Sandigata
Okay, now we're getting into crazy fetish.
Frank Alvarez
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Why not if you're so confident?
Joe Sandigata
I mean, we're talking about fetish stuff after the race.
Frank Alvarez
I'm not saying sexually kiss my feet after the race.
Joe Sandigata
Barefoot.
Greg
After the race, Barefoot.
Joe Sandigata
Do I have to watch? I don't want to be there.
Greg
You absolutely have to watch.
Joe Sandigata
I don't want to see it.
Greg
Joe.
Joe Sandigata
That's a punishment joke. Joe, watch it.
Greg
Okay. All right.
Frank Alvarez
The joke. I. I also think that there's the. The joke that he's. He would dust both of us.
Greg
Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. I'm smoking, you guys.
Greg
Unless, you know, I'm in really good
Joe Sandigata
shape right now, too, running wise.
Greg
Unless a cramp happens, you never know.
Frank Alvarez
No, that is true. I would 5k.
Joe Sandigata
I will let my legs break it.
Frank Alvarez
I've seen. I've seen enough videos of, like, people running, and then that song pops up. The Heinz. Yeah. I would stop and, like, put your arm over me.
Joe Sandigata
You know what I mean?
Frank Alvarez
I wouldn't. I wouldn't be able to pick you up. I'm going back pissing on your face. I'm running more.
Joe Sandigata
Damn, it's crazy.
Greg
It's gonna be one of those moments where Frankie's at the finish line and he sees me coming, but he sees Joe stumble. He's like, I gotta go back.
Joe Sandigata
I can't.
Frank Alvarez
Here's the only way I would do it if we all wore shirts with Mario Kart build outs on it, like our character, our cart and everything. So I could say, I finally beat you in real Mario Kart. Wow.
Greg
What we would have to do is pick each other's shirts, probably right? That's funny.
Joe Sandigata
Okay, let me. Let me now start putting what I need in order for this to make this happen. And that's just the Freedom to wear whatever I want. Okay.
Frank Alvarez
I think that makes it less interesting if you get to do whatever you want.
Joe Sandigata
You want me to dress up like Bowser?
Frank Alvarez
I mean, you said Bowser. Honestly though, that's pretty cool.
Greg
That's funny.
Frank Alvarez
I'm not dressing up like Bowser. Why?
Joe Sandigata
I don't know.
Frank Alvarez
Do they have like Nintendo 5Ks?
Greg
They have everything.
Joe Sandigata
What could that possibly mean?
Frank Alvarez
I don't know. Like, you're like. The metal you get is like the power up mushroom.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, honestly.
Frank Alvarez
Honestly, they could.
Joe Sandigata
I don't know.
Greg
People had that on signs throughout the whole race. It was very nice.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, like power up.
Greg
Yeah, I hit them all.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, we know you did.
Joe Sandigata
Dude, whenever I see a dog.
Frank Alvarez
Would you drink for your pre race prep? Yoo hoo.
Greg
No idle electrolytes. Mile 10 though. Danny and JT hit me with a Surfside crucial.
Frank Alvarez
What flavor?
Greg
I see crucial. Surfside Crucial.
Frank Alvarez
Surfside. It was really crucial.
Joe Sandigata
Okay, so there is one on June 21st. No, there's also June 16th, if that makes you feel better.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, also no.
Joe Sandigata
Right.
Greg
June 21st. Okay.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, that's. First of all, that's the day after my son's birthday, which you both have been invited to.
Joe Sandigata
To get up early.
Frank Alvarez
So I'll be there the day before. I will be eating all of the hot dogs and every beer.
Joe Sandigata
How about this?
Frank Alvarez
There's the.
Joe Sandigata
The Brooklyn ice Cream Social. 5K.
Frank Alvarez
Do you like ice cream? So look at this.
Joe Sandigata
Look. This is the metal.
Frank Alvarez
An ice cream cone.
Joe Sandigata
It's a.
Frank Alvarez
That's actually pretty cool.
Joe Sandigata
That's good.
Frank Alvarez
That's a cool one. But.
Joe Sandigata
And you get ice cream at the end.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, so I can run with a bunch of Brooklyn hipsters who are probably walking it with their dog. No thanks.
Greg
When's that?
Joe Sandigata
July 25th. Five days before your birthday.
Frank Alvarez
Actually, I have something the day before in Atlantic City.
Greg
So there's either. There's no lasts. I can't do July.
Joe Sandigata
Then there's the Haunted Island 5K in October.
Frank Alvarez
I do like, spooky stuff.
Greg
Yeah. But at that point, we're so close to the October to see the half marathon.
Frank Alvarez
It would be smart if they did like a 5k. But like you're chased by zombies or something.
Greg
That would be cool. That would be kind of.
Frank Alvarez
That would be cool. Because then I would. I think I'd do better because, like, when I get chased by things, which doesn't happen often, but like, the idea definitely motivates me more to like. Oh, no.
Joe Sandigata
So how about if I just pay an extra participant in this 5K and I dress him up as a ghoul and I have him about six steps behind you the entire time.
Frank Alvarez
Why do you get in touch with Doug Wyckoff's family?
Joe Sandigata
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Frank Alvarez
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Greg
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Greg
All right, I think it's my turn. Can you guys close your eyes for me? I want you to imagine something.
Joe Sandigata
I'm closing our eyes again. This is great. Oh, God.
Frank Alvarez
Now, see. Are you gonna prank me?
Greg
No, no, I won't prank you. So your eyes are closed?
Frank Alvarez
Yep.
Greg
You are seeing a big tray of buffalo wings.
Frank Alvarez
Hell, yeah, dude. Now, this is what I'm talking about. Running.
Greg
Okay? You open. You open your eyes, and these are the options you have. Which one are you picking first? Which wing are you selecting first?
Frank Alvarez
That's a good gw, Jim.
Joe Sandigata
I have an answer.
Frank Alvarez
Those are sauced.
Joe Sandigata
I think I have, like, the answer.
Frank Alvarez
I think I know I have the answer as well.
Joe Sandigata
Should we say it at the same time?
Greg
Probably not.
Frank Alvarez
Okay, I'm gonna go my number. I'm gonna go my number one.
Greg
I'll tell you the worst one I see right now as well.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, you want to do that?
Frank Alvarez
Let's start with the worst one. Oh, worst one, I think, is number six.
Joe Sandigata
No, six. 11.
Greg
11. Dude, 13.
Frank Alvarez
11 has nothing on it.
Greg
Yeah, but 13 has the broken bone thing. I hate that.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, yeah, that's bad.
Joe Sandigata
No, that's bad.
Frank Alvarez
Eleven is pretty bad. But also six, like, that's the one you bite into, and it's mostly cartilage, and it's not, like, enough actual meat.
Greg
Six looks fine.
Frank Alvarez
The best one.
Joe Sandigata
Okay, easily.
Frank Alvarez
Easily.
Joe Sandigata
The best one is 14.
Frank Alvarez
Yep, 100%.
Joe Sandigata
14 is the worst.
Greg
14?
Frank Alvarez
What, you don't like 14?
Greg
The best one is 7.
Frank Alvarez
Are you out of your fucking mind? That's a drumstick. Yeah, it's a drum. No, flats. Over drums. Flats, flats, Baby, You're a drumstick kind of girl.
Greg
You two are those. All right.
Frank Alvarez
Those don't know what. We're everybody. The. We are the world. We are the children. Okay. We are the world. We are the children. We are the children. We are fighting to make a better place. So let's start giving.
Joe Sandigata
And you're nobody if you're going flat.
Greg
The 12 is better. The 12 or the 10 is better than the 14.
Joe Sandigata
14.
Frank Alvarez
Here's the thing about 14 is that it's an even cook and it's a good sauce application on there and she's. And she's got meat on her and
Joe Sandigata
there's a ton of sauce on it.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, hell ye like, that's number one. I will also. First of all, I would go any flat on there over any drum on there.
Joe Sandigata
Seven is an outrageous answer by the way.
Greg
It's the best looking wing.
Frank Alvarez
No, it is. Absolutely not. Four is better. Three is even better than seven.
Greg
Three is really good.
Joe Sandigata
Wait, there's ready.
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Joe Sandigata
It's one that's not labeled. That kind of has a fat ass right under six. What is that about? What's going on?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, I think it got cut off.
Joe Sandigata
I don't know what's going on there, but she's got some potential lure. 16. Throw it out or I'm going to scream.
Frank Alvarez
Well, 16 might be a deceptive picture because it just might be from a weird angle. You know what I mean? Maybe 13 is bad. Really, really bad. 11 is probably the worst one though.
Joe Sandigata
I would say the best drum on there could be three.
Frank Alvarez
I would agree.
Joe Sandigata
Three looks like a drumstick.
Greg
Three and seven have the best ones on.
Frank Alvarez
I can't believe you like drums. Seven is. Seven is not even like top five.
Joe Sandigata
Oh yeah, seven's crazy.
Frank Alvarez
Seven is so bad.
Joe Sandigata
Nine is better than seven.
Frank Alvarez
I agreed. Eight. Oh my God. Eight.
Joe Sandigata
It's a lovely little dude.
Frank Alvarez
Four is a good looking wing.
Greg
You know, it's a sneaky good one. 5 because you get your thumb in there and push the meat off.
Joe Sandigata
Whoa, dude, Crazy thumb. Get your thumb in there.
Greg
You know, it's like you. I'm not.
Frank Alvarez
Dude, how do you eat these things in public? First of all. Yeah. Why are you using your thumb to eat chicken wings?
Greg
I'm saying you push like you, you grip the bone, you push it down. I can't be doing this.
Joe Sandigata
I mean, people who are just audio are probably like, what are they talking?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, go show us how you grip from the bas and push down what you're.
Joe Sandigata
With your thumb. Yeah, Y2's got a good coating on it.
Frank Alvarez
Wait, how do you. Serious question. If you're And I want a visual representation of what I'm asking.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, boy.
Frank Alvarez
If you're going to eat five, how are you eating?
Greg
It depends how I'm feeling. Normally I would just rip the bone apart, take one out, and then I eat it like a drum anyway.
Frank Alvarez
See? But why are you trying to civilize chicken wings?
Joe Sandigata
Civilized.
Frank Alvarez
They're meant to be filthy.
Greg
Okay? So even if you do it the way where you just put the whole thing in your mouth and you pull the. The five has a good thumb hold right there.
Joe Sandigata
Wait, how do you eat chicken wings?
Frank Alvarez
Well, flatter drum. You got to tell me.
Joe Sandigata
A flat.
Frank Alvarez
A flat.
Joe Sandigata
You shove the whole flat in your mouth.
Frank Alvarez
I. The whole flat in my mouth and I pull out. And then if there's. If there's anything in the middle, I hold it sideways and I. I break through.
Greg
Oh, I see.
Frank Alvarez
How do you.
Joe Sandigata
I'll do that if they're, like, super tender, but I don't like leaving a bunch of meat in the middle that I gotta, like, fish out.
Frank Alvarez
There's. I'm telling you right now, there's more meat on a T. Rex carcass than there is on those wings when I'm done with them.
Joe Sandigata
Okay.
Frank Alvarez
There's no. There's no meat left on a T. Rex.
Joe Sandigata
Right. I was trying to figure out what
Frank Alvarez
you meant by their fossilized bones. Now.
Joe Sandigata
Got that. Oh, yeah. I didn't know I got it.
Frank Alvarez
I was like, what?
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Joe Sandigata
But. Or there's some times where, like, if it's not coming off like that, then I'll. I'll. You ever do the thing where you just press down and just comes off?
Frank Alvarez
No.
Greg
That's what I was saying.
Joe Sandigata
Well, I've never done that.
Greg
That's what I was saying. The thumb thing.
Joe Sandigata
But, like, it looks cool when people do it.
Frank Alvarez
Wings are one of the foods that, like, I fully sac. Like, I submit myself to the mess because, like, there's certain foods that, like, you know they're going to be messy, but you try to not get it. Let it be messy. You know what I mean? Like, everyone does the twirl with the spaghetti, and, like, you avoid the mess.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, my God. People who eat spaghetti with a spoon and a fork. Come on.
Frank Alvarez
People do that.
Joe Sandigata
Come on.
Frank Alvarez
I get it. I'm not going to. I'm not that upset.
Joe Sandigata
Don't slurp either.
Frank Alvarez
Don't be slurping spaghetti. I understand the upset. Do you slurp? I sneak a slurp in every now and then.
Joe Sandigata
What about soup? Are you just, like a loud.
Frank Alvarez
I. There's But I'm not doing it to be, like, annoying. Every now and then, a slurp sneaks in, and that's just because it's just sometimes it's too hot and I want to eat it. So you slurp just, like. Just to, like. Like I said, it's like a bit of a litmus test just to see how hot it is.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, but that's not slurping Slurpees.
Frank Alvarez
Like, well, then I have to.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
You know, but then once I'm like, oh, this is good, I'll either just drink it or I'll just, like, spoon it.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Most of the soups that I have now, I drink, like, it's a cup. Like, you ever ordered, like, sushi and it comes with a miso soup.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
I just take it and I drink it.
Joe Sandigata
Like, it like that? Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah.
Greg
It's fun.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, I like it.
Frank Alvarez
New way of doing stuff. Oh, what do you do? Me with a straw?
Greg
No.
Joe Sandigata
You are a straw guy, though.
Greg
I love straws. Huge.
Joe Sandigata
I don't know if this came up on the show or not. When we went to Austin, this dude had straws in his luggage.
Greg
All right.
Frank Alvarez
You brought straws him in. That's stupid.
Joe Sandigata
And shot glasses.
Greg
We used both things.
Joe Sandigata
First of all, you and Greg use the shot glasses to take shots of Ros. Such a great thing.
Greg
It's Greg's idea.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, yeah, of course that's Greg's idea. That is. I mean, I get it because you don't want to share the bottle and stuff like that, but there was also cups.
Greg
I was.
Frank Alvarez
There's also cups everywhere. There's cups everywhere. And like, normally, like, Airbnbs will have wine glasses as, like, one of the, like, cup options. Yeah. So I don't get bringing shot glasses. Oh, you know what? It's the party. Yeah, the party's here.
Greg
I don't know what you guys do without me.
Joe Sandigata
Don't take shots.
Greg
No, no, not the shots. We didn't even take shots. I'm saying, like, you guys were playing with my switch.
Joe Sandigata
If I wasn't there, I don't know which was mask.
Greg
What were you guys doing if I wasn't there? Just staring at each other.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, conversation. The switch was massive.
Joe Sandigata
I will say.
Frank Alvarez
I'm not. I didn't say anything about the switch. The shot glasses, though. What would we do without you? Let's look at the 33 years of history before.
Greg
I don't know what you guys are doing.
Frank Alvarez
We were partying. I don't know what you guys are doing. We were partying. Beer pong.
Greg
Beer puff.
Joe Sandigata
Hip cup.
Frank Alvarez
Guys. Hey, guys, guess who showed up. The guy that has shots in his luggage.
Joe Sandigata
I have.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
I don't know. I. I don't know. I. I get, like, the idea.
Greg
It was just prep. It was just. Just in case. It was just prep.
Frank Alvarez
Also, we got stuck there.
Greg
St. Patty's Day. They came in real handy.
Frank Alvarez
I like how you say came in handy as if you were in the third world and you wouldn't have been able to find shot glasses anywhere.
Greg
We didn't have to.
Frank Alvarez
You were in awesome. You were in Austin, Texas. You could have walked down the street to a CVS and gotten disposable shot glasses.
Joe Sandigata
We. We did do a shot of Jameson, which I did not want to do.
Greg
No, he did not.
Joe Sandigata
But I was. I was bullied into that.
Frank Alvarez
No disrespect to the Jameson team. Days of drinking. Jameson along behind me. Yeah, just like days of drinking. Dude. I was a big Jack Daniels fan to the point where it was a problem.
Joe Sandigata
I loved Jack Daniels probably as much as I assume Kid Rock does.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. Back in the day, I had Jack Daniels and probably had a picture of me holding it and then the picture of, you know, John Belushi chugging it with a sweater that says college.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
You know what I'm talking about.
Joe Sandigata
Also when Jack Dan Daniels came out with, like, the honey dude, that's.
Frank Alvarez
Hold on, though.
Joe Sandigata
I do want to say that. Remember, this was a couple years ago. But. But Jack Daniels and Coke made the. The Jack and Daniel.
Frank Alvarez
Those are good, dude.
Joe Sandigata
The Jack and Cokes in the can. I was like, this is innovative and genius.
Frank Alvarez
I. I'm not kidding when I say this. I was a big Jack and Coke drinker for years and years and years.
Joe Sandigata
It was the only cocktail I knew.
Frank Alvarez
Years and years and years.
Greg
The.
Frank Alvarez
I've seen, like, bottled or canned cocktails, and I've tried a couple. The only one that I believe is, like, exactly what it was. When you get it made at like a bar or something or make it yourself was the canned Jack and Coke.
Joe Sandigata
It truly was like. Well, you would hope because it's both brands.
Frank Alvarez
I know. But like, really does sometimes. Sometimes they like, you know, they like, over engineer something. Yeah. And like, it takes away the spirit of it. Like, no, brother, this just feels like they went. Like they literally went Jack, Coke, boom. And I was very. I was happy with it.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Greg
They have Jack and Coke Zero ones too. That's the ones I get.
Frank Alvarez
Whoa, You're a savior for drinking Coke
Joe Sandigata
Zero I've just gotten into the diet soda, like, universe. I. I never got into, like. I feel like Diet Coke people are like fiends. Like, there's a cult behind Diet Coke.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, there are.
Joe Sandigata
It's. It's wild.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
They must make so much money just from Diet Coke.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, I imagine the fridge cigs is, like, a thing. What the.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, fridge.
Frank Alvarez
Fridge cig. That's what they call Diet Cokes. If you haven't seen, like, people making, like, shirts that say, like, pass me a fridge cig. And it's like. Like, clearly looks like a pack of cigarettes. Like a Marlboro Red. And it's open, and it's just a thing of Diet Coke. I love that.
Joe Sandigata
That's so funny.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. No, people that, like, there's two types of people. People that just don't drink Diet Coke or people that have it with every ounce of their being and will defend it until the day. Aspartame is not even that bad for you.
Joe Sandigata
I mean, it isn't.
Frank Alvarez
I know, but I'm saying, like, those are the people. It's not, like, casual. I know Diet Coke drinkers, bro.
Joe Sandigata
I like. I guess I just. It was just one of those parts of life that you don't think about for so long, but now that I'm, like, conscious and realizing what's going on, it's kind of, like, incredible. A Diet Coke is zero calories.
Frank Alvarez
I am holding on to whatever of my youth I have left by refusing to drink diet soda of any type of.
Joe Sandigata
What do you mean?
Frank Alvarez
Because, like, I will convince, not will. I fully have convinced myself that, like, cane sugar. Yeah, sodas, like, you know how they do. Like the Mexican Cokes and, like, I think a lot of soda brands are now rolling out more, like, cane sugar options than high fructose corn syrup. But, like, I will convince myself to the day I die. Like, I'm being a healthier person by having that compared to the high fructose corn syrup.
Joe Sandigata
I think that as long as you're not abusing either, you're being healthy.
Frank Alvarez
No. High fructose corn syrup. I like.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, there is high fructose. I thought if you had cane sugar, then you don't.
Frank Alvarez
That's what I'm saying. High fructose corn syrup in any capacity. I can only speak for myself, is not good for me, like, whether it's one or whether it's five. But I'm saying I have convinced myself that just the exact same drink with the exact same sugar content, but just with cane sugar is better. For me, despite the fact that it's 130% my daily value for sugar. So, like, I am not there on diet soda of any. Like, someone once. Where were we recently that someone had a diet orange soda, and I was like, just don't have it at that point.
Joe Sandigata
I mean, it probably tastes the same and it's zero calories. That's absurd.
Frank Alvarez
I am one of those people that I believe with so much confidence, I can taste the difference between diet and regular.
Joe Sandigata
You probably could, but it's not worth it. The. The diff.
Frank Alvarez
Like the health. The health difference. Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
Because something like orange soda, too, has, like, a lot of.
Frank Alvarez
But, like, I do look at, like, I know I. Like, I am a skeptic. I think you know that about me. I look at diet soda and just say, like, we. There's something we're missing. Like, this is too good to be true. Yeah. To be a real thing. And for it to not, like, in 10 years, it forms into, like, a glob monster in our stomach and eat us somehow. You know what I mean? Like, there's something we don't get yet.
Joe Sandigata
Well, that's the thing. Like, people say, like, the aspartame is, like, the bad thing, which it is technically, like, not good. If you had a lot. But the. But the amount you would need to drink in a single day is like 30 cans.
Frank Alvarez
Like, Dr. Mike says it all the time on his show. The dose makes the poison.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. Not anything like water, which too much would kill you. But.
Frank Alvarez
Exactly.
Joe Sandigata
I. But yeah, it's.
Frank Alvarez
It's outrageous.
Joe Sandigata
I don't really, like, I guess just not drinking soda at all for so many years. I don't really, like, crave it, but I find it fascinating.
Frank Alvarez
I will tell you right now.
Joe Sandigata
We have the mini ones of, like, that's.
Frank Alvarez
That's smart and.
Joe Sandigata
And responsible ginger ale and whatever.
Frank Alvarez
Yo, I'm gonna tell you right now. Real, like, I've had like, you know, like, you have like, Coca Cola and then you have, like, off brand, like, real cane sugar cola. Nothing is as good as the real stuff. Except for ginger ale. Yo, I had real, like, real legit ginger ale. And I was like, what have we been missing out on our whole lives? This is so good.
Joe Sandigata
What are you talking about?
Frank Alvarez
It's just so much better than, like, Schweppes.
Joe Sandigata
What's. What's real ginger ale?
Frank Alvarez
Like, when you look. When you get ginger ale, like, Like a Canada Dryer. Schweppes, no disrespect, it's like high fructose corn syrup and, you know, like ginger extract and stuff like that. Like when you get, like, legit ginger ale.
Joe Sandigata
Where would I get that? What is it?
Frank Alvarez
They bottle it. They sell it at the store.
Joe Sandigata
It's just ginger.
Frank Alvarez
It's. It's basically just like soda water, a little bit of cane sugar, and like, ginger juice.
Joe Sandigata
Okay.
Frank Alvarez
It'll fucking blow your mind. You'll be like, wow. That is.
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Frank Alvarez
Like a significant difference.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
In quality, just better.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. I don't know. It's. It's fascinating.
Greg
Diet Snapple doesn't get it right.
Joe Sandigata
That's.
Greg
That's the only. That's the only diet product where the calories of regular Snapple is 100 worth it because it tastes awful. Diet Snapple, taste. I've never had it.
Frank Alvarez
I just don't understand, like, people are like, I'm gonna have a diet Mountain Dew. Like, you're already there. Just what?
Joe Sandigata
No, there's a massive.
Frank Alvarez
Just happen. But I'm saying, like, if you're going to the point where, like, you're having.
Joe Sandigata
I feel the opposite than what you're saying. Like, if you're gonna have soda, just have the one that has 40 grams of sugar.
Frank Alvarez
I think I'm more referencing the fact, like, if it's like a niche soda, like, oh, man, I really love Mr. Pibb. Like, just. Just have Mr. Pibb. Don't have diet Mr. Pibb. You know what I mean?
Joe Sandigata
I feel differently. I feel like if you can get.
Frank Alvarez
You went. You went to the park. Go down the slide.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, but it's so different.
Frank Alvarez
Is it?
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, because like the, the. If I like, the only soda that I've consistently liked has been ginger ale.
Frank Alvarez
Like, not a Coca Cola guy.
Joe Sandigata
No, I'm not like, oh, no, no, no.
Frank Alvarez
I like it. You and your cream soda or root beer.
Joe Sandigata
Well, like, I don't. I, I don't like, drink that. I haven't drank that since I was like nine. But. But a diet. But a diet, like Coke to me, because I don't drink the, like, the regular stuff. It Tastes it, like, does what it needs to do.
Frank Alvarez
Fine. And that's good. Like I said, you. We. I don't think there's any one sitting in this triangle right here that is going to say that you're not being a more responsible version of a human being.
Joe Sandigata
I just can't wrap my mind around, like, if you have any insert brand name of a soda, and it's whatever amount of calories, 200 to 300, with, like 50 grams of sugar, and then you can get the same thing that is very close in taste, and it's zero. What?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, but then you're going to look at it and you're going to be like, why? Like, that's me. Like, I. Like there's an answer for some reason. And I know this is stupid.
Joe Sandigata
It's the aspartame.
Frank Alvarez
I know. But listen, I know this is dumb. I know it. I know it. I know it. In my head, though, it's like I feel like I'm getting more of an answer with the one that has the sugar in it than the one that tastes the exact same and doesn't. Does that make sense? Like, I feel like. I understand that.
Joe Sandigata
Right.
Frank Alvarez
What the fuck is that over there?
Joe Sandigata
But all that requires is for you to be open to being wrong.
Frank Alvarez
But listen, you know me. I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna do that about certain things in life. Not soda. You think I'm gonna be. You want me to admit that I'm a human and I can, and that I'm wrong about soda.
Joe Sandigata
I'm an idiot. Yeah.
Greg
What am I saying?
Frank Alvarez
Who do you think you're talking to here? That's so funny. Are you a Diet guy?
Greg
Yeah. Diet Coke.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, yeah.
Greg
You're big on diet Diet Coke. I mean, it's just wasted calories. The other way already. Or, you know, if you're drinking already, getting those calories, do the Diet Coke.
Frank Alvarez
I just. I also. Do I need to try a diet. No, I'm not doing this.
Greg
We got Diet Coke in the fridge. Wait, have you. You've tried one before?
Frank Alvarez
I'm not even kidding. I can't tell you the last time I had a Diet Coke Pro.
Joe Sandigata
It's kind of incredible.
Greg
Get the Diet Coke. He's going to try it.
Joe Sandigata
That's kind of insane.
Frank Alvarez
I guess I'll try one now.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, it's kind of wild.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, look at. Oh. Oh, yeah. You're limping. He's so big. Limpy.
Joe Sandigata
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Frank Alvarez
I'm just, I, I, I'm not even like, I can't tell you the last time I had a Diet Coke.
Greg
When do you think the last time you had a diet Coke was?
Frank Alvarez
Truly, truly. Like, what are we saying? Like had like ordered one and got one or bought one from the store?
Greg
Did it touch your lips?
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. When was the last time you drank it?
Frank Alvarez
Maybe 15 to 20 years ago. Wow.
Joe Sandigata
And when was the last time you had a Coca Cola?
Frank Alvarez
Saturday.
Joe Sandigata
Okay, so you're, you're not, not a stranger to the taste? Yes.
Frank Alvarez
I, I, I, I have gone on record. I'm gonna be a real hero here and say that I believe Coca Cola is the best soda.
Greg
Okay.
Frank Alvarez
You know, but like, I'm just looking at this.
Joe Sandigata
It's a D.C. babe.
Frank Alvarez
It was to the Point that, like, Coca Cola came out with, like, a line of, like, vintage glass bottles when I was in high school, and I, like, bought some for my dad, and I.
Joe Sandigata
You love it, don't you? I do.
Frank Alvarez
Well, then you'll think this is. I think I actually put. Brought it in on that episode we did months ago, years ago, like, bringing in old stuff. I saved one and filled it with sunflower seeds, put the top back on it and wrote Frankie on it, because I was like, this is me in a bottle.
Joe Sandigata
What the hell does that mean? Well, you put sunflower seeds in a.
Frank Alvarez
In a. Yeah, I drank the soda
Joe Sandigata
out of a Coca Cola bottle.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. Filled it with sunflower seeds.
Joe Sandigata
Like a plastic bottle?
Frank Alvarez
No glass.
Joe Sandigata
It was a glass bottle.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
And then you filled that with seeds and you put the cap back on.
Frank Alvarez
Yep.
Joe Sandigata
And you said, this bottle is representative of me.
Frank Alvarez
You got it.
Joe Sandigata
Just a simple guy. Just give me some seeds and some soda, and I'm chilling. Frankie.
Greg
Yep.
Joe Sandigata
That sounded good. Give me the sound.
Frank Alvarez
I smell it like it's wine. I mean, aerated. I can already. I. I. Well, I can't say anything because I. I know it's a Diet Coke, so I can't say it every. Like, I smell a difference, but, like,
Joe Sandigata
You gave that a big taste.
Frank Alvarez
That tastes like the 90s.
Joe Sandigata
It tastes like the 90s.
Frank Alvarez
We always had Coca Cola at my house in the 90s and Diet Coke. My mom was one of those people that was just like, diet Coke. Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, dude. Is it good?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely diet.
Joe Sandigata
You can. It's like, it's extreme for you.
Frank Alvarez
Again, I'm. I. It could be mental, because I know I'm drinking it, so, like, I think
Joe Sandigata
you'd be able to tell.
Frank Alvarez
I do, too. But, like, to be fair, I can't sit here and say with 100 certainty. I think I could tell.
Greg
You'd be able to tell because then when you drink a normal Coke, you go, whoa, it's a lot of sugar, and that's zero.
Joe Sandigata
So imagine the guilt you have from having, like, why am I pedaling, like.
Frank Alvarez
But, like, you're really working hard for Coca Cola. No, I.
Joe Sandigata
It's honestly, like, it's because it's very recent to me that, like, I just started, like, having, like, the little.
Frank Alvarez
Little nips.
Joe Sandigata
No, you need your.
Frank Alvarez
You need your fridge dart.
Joe Sandigata
My fridge dart? No, they're like, whatever, the smaller cans. And I'm like, how, like, it's just zero calories is crazy to me. And it's a soda. Like, I'm tasting soda in my mind.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. I mean, it's just. It's just a weird. Another thing that makes it really cool is that, like, they have their recipe, like, in a basement in, like, a vault somewhere. I think that's pretty cool.
Joe Sandigata
Do they? Why do you know that?
Frank Alvarez
That's, like, the thing that people know about Coca Cola.
Joe Sandigata
They have a recipe on, like, papyrus and they have it in a basement.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, in a vault. You never saw the Coke vault? Pull up a. Pull up a. Pull up a picture of the Coke vault.
Joe Sandigata
The Coco vault.
Frank Alvarez
If this is a real door and not. I was tricked. It's a fucking sick vault, dude.
Joe Sandigata
Fuck off. I thought that was. That's real. Yeah.
Greg
I trust this image.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
All the other ones could be artificial.
Greg
Yeah. But this one looks like there's a line and a thing and.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, you can, like, walk by it.
Greg
Yeah, dude.
Frank Alvarez
Like, there is this, I think, in Georgia. Yeah.
Greg
Atlanta.
Frank Alvarez
Like, it's like a thing.
Greg
It's a sick keyhole.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Look, man, I think that makes it also way cooler. Like, no one's, like, vying for. I guess technically it is, but Diet Coke also. But, like, like, it's like a legit secret, and it's like, you'll never know.
Greg
It's like, where Mr. Krabs has the Krabby Patty formula.
Frank Alvarez
Sorry, I mean, we are just on the cusp of understanding spongebob references because.
Greg
Oh, you guys don't.
Frank Alvarez
No, we do. I mean, it debuted when we were like.
Joe Sandigata
Of course I know spongebob.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, it debuted when we were, like, eight.
Joe Sandigata
I loved spongebob.
Frank Alvarez
Big spongebob.
Joe Sandigata
You don't even know spongebob.
Greg
Yeah, I know spongebob.
Frank Alvarez
You know the new. You know, where spongebob is, like, a full idiot. We remember when he was annoying.
Joe Sandigata
Huh? You know the episode where it's like. Yeah, they keep talking like that. Oh, I love that. It's the old animation.
Greg
And it's not. Not just a boulder, it's a rock.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. How about Hinoy Mino? Who's that? Who's that?
Greg
Doodle Bob.
Joe Sandigata
It is Doodle Bob.
Frank Alvarez
You remember Doodle Bob, right?
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
That's a very easy one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about the crusty crab pizza?
Greg
Is the pizza for you and me?
Frank Alvarez
All right, he knows that one.
Joe Sandigata
All right.
Greg
That's the same thing as the boulder in the rock. Sorry to bring up SpongeBob, everybody.
Joe Sandigata
God. Why are you sorry? I don't know. Is there, like, a point of. Is this, like, a hot button subject here?
Frank Alvarez
No, I think Spongebob is still a universally loved piece of intellectual property. I don't think there's a lot there for people to get upset about.
Joe Sandigata
You ever see the dude who does SpongeBob's voice, Tom Kenny? Whenever I see him do it, I'm
Greg
like, I don't know if I like that.
Frank Alvarez
He.
Joe Sandigata
I don't like seeing.
Frank Alvarez
If you were to ask me to draw the guy that does spongebob's voice, that's who I would draw.
Joe Sandigata
I would draw Ariana Grande's boyfriend, for sure.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. Oh, that video that went viral of him singing at the like. Because that's how a lot of people don't know that that's where Ethan Slater got big is. He did SpongeBob on Broadway, which is a. Like, a sentence that's never been uttered before.
Joe Sandigata
I got big on Broadway because of SpongeBob.
Frank Alvarez
And he looks like. Yeah, that's SpongeBob.
Joe Sandigata
He's a SpongeBobby.
Frank Alvarez
He's a seasoned SpongeBob. Yeah, like, he's a. Well, do you. Have you ever seen the guy does Mr. Krabs, you know. You know, the actor. You've seen him in other things, but,
Joe Sandigata
like, pull him up.
Frank Alvarez
Clancy Brown. Is his name.
Joe Sandigata
Clancy Brown.
Frank Alvarez
You could just write Clancy Brown.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Greg
You know this guy, he does a lot of voice acting.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, so does Tom Kenny.
Joe Sandigata
Wait, that's him. The dude from fucking Shawshank. Yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah, that's Mr. Krabs.
Frank Alvarez
The guy from Shawshank. Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
Dude, just want a bucket of suds for me and my fellas.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, he's done a lot.
Joe Sandigata
Wow. Dude. Being a voice actor is probably a pretty cool gig.
Greg
I would do it. I think it's cool.
Frank Alvarez
I would love.
Joe Sandigata
Can you. Can you do voices?
Greg
Figure it out.
Joe Sandigata
Well, no, that's not how the job works. They're not gonna hire you.
Greg
You can figure out anything.
Frank Alvarez
All right, do, like, do Mr. Krabs. Yeah, do Mr. Krabs.
Greg
But I'm not Mr. Krabs.
Frank Alvarez
Crab that's greedy and loves money.
Greg
I don't know.
Frank Alvarez
Yes. Yeah, you're fired.
Joe Sandigata
Actually. You'll never get it.
Frank Alvarez
I feel like we would be good voice actors.
Joe Sandigata
Me. That's it. I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. I could probably. I could. I could do my voice, but I don't think it's interesting enough.
Frank Alvarez
I think you could do, like, I
Joe Sandigata
don't have, like, an interesting voice, but,
Frank Alvarez
like, I think the part of voice acting that you would be good at is, like, you're not just doing your voice. You're like, turning it up for a little bit. You know what I mean? Like.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Yep. You're Joe.
Joe Sandigata
Hello.
Frank Alvarez
But you're a skater that really loves to hang out and eat tacos.
Joe Sandigata
I'm a skater.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
Like, I just, like. Like skating.
Frank Alvarez
Okay, that was not bad.
Joe Sandigata
See, I wasn't doing a voice.
Frank Alvarez
Exactly.
Greg
You were so enveloped in the character.
Joe Sandigata
Is that the word enveloped?
Greg
Enveloped, yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Is that a word? Yeah, like an envelope.
Joe Sandigata
That's my. Yeah. Yeah. How would that.
Greg
It's okay.
Frank Alvarez
When you're, like, fully in something, you're enveloped in it.
Joe Sandigata
I had no idea.
Frank Alvarez
Or buy it and help buy it. Maybe. Thanks for the actual syntax.
Greg
Thanks for that.
Frank Alvarez
You're welcome. That's the only one you get. After you. The way you spoke to me earlier. I didn't say nothing.
Joe Sandigata
After you.
Greg
Calm down.
Frank Alvarez
Whoa.
Joe Sandigata
What happened?
Frank Alvarez
No. So you're. You're like a. Like, you're a. You're a skater that just loves tacos.
Joe Sandigata
Like a Californian skater, dude.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, but see, like, There you go, dude. Like, you just got to be yourself, but, like, draw it up a little bit, you know?
Joe Sandigata
You have been really good in, like, those 90s. Like. Like, Rocket Power.
Frank Alvarez
That's what I was thinking, honestly.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
I think we would have been good in Rocket Power.
Joe Sandigata
Real quick. Rocket Power, right? You watched that and obviously you're like, which one of these guys am I? Which one did you think you were?
Frank Alvarez
I wish.
Joe Sandigata
Which one did you want to be?
Frank Alvarez
I wanted to. Who didn't want to be Otto? Everyone wanted to be Otto.
Joe Sandigata
I didn't.
Frank Alvarez
Who did you want to be?
Joe Sandigata
The other ones. What's his name? Squid.
Frank Alvarez
No. Who's Quid. Who's. That's why I'm confused.
Joe Sandigata
Who's the other guy with that. With the backwards hat?
Frank Alvarez
Otto.
Joe Sandigata
Twister. Is his name Twister?
Frank Alvarez
Do we know Auto?
Joe Sandigata
Twister?
Frank Alvarez
Squid?
Joe Sandigata
What's the girl's name? Damn, I don't remember.
Frank Alvarez
I know. I guess I don't remember Rocket Power as well as I thought I did.
Joe Sandigata
And earn your goddamn paycheck.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, bitch. Otto, you wanted to be. Oh, no.
Joe Sandigata
Maurice.
Frank Alvarez
I had no idea you wanted to be Maurice off the name alone. That sucks. Click on Maurice.
Joe Sandigata
This guy had a nickname. He needed a nickname.
Frank Alvarez
He's Twister, bro. Twister. Damn. I thought it was just like, I want to be Maurice. No, no. As soon as I heard Maurice, I'm like, I'm out, dude.
Joe Sandigata
No, no. I wanted to be him, though, because I was like, yo, I'm probably not Otto, but at least I could Be Twister.
Frank Alvarez
Dude, look at Otto. Look how fucking rad he looks like. Those glasses. Are you kidding me?
Joe Sandigata
It's kind of crazy.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, I don't. I don't know where the mustache thing came in.
Joe Sandigata
That's. That's a Later.
Frank Alvarez
That's honestly a weird one.
Joe Sandigata
Twister.
Frank Alvarez
Twister. Sick name.
Joe Sandigata
I will. The backwards kangal is kind of bananas, to be honest with you.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, you. You know what, though? I'm confident you could pull it off.
Joe Sandigata
I don't know.
Frank Alvarez
You could have, like, the little hair flip in the front like that, like. I think you do.
Joe Sandigata
All right. Did you watch this show?
Greg
I didn't. I. I was. It was on during my time. I just. I never watched this one, though.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, yeah, I loved.
Joe Sandigata
What was your thing?
Greg
I think it was kids code name Kids Next Door.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, yeah.
Greg
What is that?
Frank Alvarez
It was like, kids that are like spies. And they're like, this is number one, number three, number two, number five. They're like spies. They're home. They're like spy.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, they were numbered.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. They would call himself each other, like, number one. And he was like a bald kid also.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Why were there bald kids?
Greg
There's always a bald kid.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, I guess.
Joe Sandigata
Wait, there was bald children in the show you're talking about?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. Number one was bald. Pull it up.
Greg
Number one was bald. And also Kalu. Kalu.
Frank Alvarez
Caillou.
Greg
Caillou.
Frank Alvarez
Can't believe I knew that. And you did it.
Joe Sandigata
Kalu. Kahlua. I've never heard of this show. Oh, I've seen a picture of this.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, you've definitely seen it.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, I've seen that. That reminds me of Danny.
Frank Alvarez
This guy. My Danny?
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. You're Danny.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, it's definitely my Danny's number two.
Greg
That's number two.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, yeah. I could tell by his hat.
Greg
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Dude, they lean into.
Greg
They lean into the numbers. Pretty hard thing.
Frank Alvarez
Going back to rocket power, hindsight. I think if we watch it, it wouldn't be very well representative of, like, the guy that plays Tito, how he's just like a caricature for, like, the, like Hawaiian. Hawaiian man.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, you know, and it's like,
Joe Sandigata
all right, what am I gonna do?
Frank Alvarez
I don't know if we could repeat some of those sayings.
Greg
Frankie, you want to do a voice acting thing for me?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, I. I sure, yeah.
Joe Sandigata
You have something.
Greg
I have a villain released after a thousand years from a crypt who sees an old friend.
Joe Sandigata
Mmm.
Frank Alvarez
Give me more.
Joe Sandigata
Do villains have friends?
Frank Alvarez
Let's get that other villains, dude.
Joe Sandigata
That's fair. But do they even like each other? Or they could use.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, even. I'm not gonna say. Yeah, they have friends or, you know,
Greg
like a companion that has released this villain from the crypt.
Joe Sandigata
Ah, yes. So am I the other one? I've released you?
Frank Alvarez
Yes. How many years?
Greg
Thousand years.
Joe Sandigata
Thousand years. You're probably like, sore.
Frank Alvarez
Am I like, what kind of villain am I? Am I like a real, like, cheeky son of a bitch? Or am I just like.
Joe Sandigata
You're an evil bitch, I think.
Frank Alvarez
But I think I'm like, funny and witty and I try to be like, hahaha. Like Hades from Hercules.
Joe Sandigata
No, no, no, you're a evil.
Greg
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, I'm a real scumbag.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Like a real dude.
Greg
If there's a reason you were locked
Frank Alvarez
up for a thousand years, it was I. Now, within this prison of mine.
Greg
Yes, sir.
Joe Sandigata
Yes.
Frank Alvarez
Do I have access to speak or is it like I'm like, in carbonite?
Joe Sandigata
Like, I can't. No, this is your first time. This is like genie coming out of the lamp. Like 10,000 years.
Frank Alvarez
It's such a crick in the neck.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. So that's you, but evil.
Frank Alvarez
Okay, all right. That's tough. I think I can do it.
Greg
I would say even you are stoned and you're kind of like breaking out. You're coming out of it. You're coming back.
Frank Alvarez
Okay. All right, so give him. You have to release me, but you have to say something to release me.
Joe Sandigata
I can do a. What's that called?
Greg
Incantation.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, yeah. And then you start breaking out of your shell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, go ahead.
Frank Alvarez
Follow me here.
Joe Sandigata
I don't know how to do this without sounding offensive.
Frank Alvarez
Drink a Diet Coke.
Greg
What is the Evil Dead one? Nosferocta nikto.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, I. I don't know the Evil Dead one off the top of my head. Isn't that like Kunda? And I'm gonna stop there just in case.
Greg
Something like that. Yeah, that was the bad one.
Joe Sandigata
Just let's pretend I did it already.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. Okay.
Greg
All right, all right.
Joe Sandigata
You just. Bridge.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, yeah. Okay, okay. Oh, I'm back.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
What? Why am I evil? Who am I? Who am I evil against?
Joe Sandigata
Let's make that clear. Those damn kids.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, soon as I get my hands on those damn kids, it's pretty good. Please don't take that out of.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, my God.
Frank Alvarez
The government will be here any second between. Okay, all right. Like, Scooby Doo. That's why I said that. Please don't take that.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Oh.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, you're Really?
Frank Alvarez
I mean, I'm stretching. I was just in stone.
Greg
I feel like you're twitching up the cowboy a little bit. Could we get a little more skeleton in there?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, well, I finally got out.
Joe Sandigata
No, I mean, I appreciate your commitment.
Frank Alvarez
I'm trying.
Joe Sandigata
You are.
Frank Alvarez
I'm thinking, like Skeletor from, like, the Old man ones, you know, where he's just like, yeah, you know, something like that. I don't know.
Greg
We should do a whole episode.
Frank Alvarez
You give me this.
Joe Sandigata
What does that mean?
Frank Alvarez
All right, you're. Oh, wait, I don't. Okay, you're an old, evil genie.
Joe Sandigata
Genie.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, but, like, you're kind of like. You think you're. Like, you're funny, but you want to take people's souls.
Joe Sandigata
Can genies do that?
Frank Alvarez
And I let you out. And I let you out, but I think you're gonna do good. Right? But, like, you're like, I. You don't know who I.
Joe Sandigata
You.
Frank Alvarez
You don't even know who you let out.
Joe Sandigata
Who are you?
Frank Alvarez
I'm just me.
Joe Sandigata
A dude.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, but you're just like.
Joe Sandigata
And you found my lamp.
Frank Alvarez
I found your lamp. And I think like, oh, man, great. Now I have a genie lamp. Yeah, but, like, you're an actual bad person. Genie.
Joe Sandigata
An old guy.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, you are thousands of years old, but you were genocide. Gena Fied.
Joe Sandigata
What does that mean?
Frank Alvarez
Turned into a genie when you were 34.
Joe Sandigata
So I'm just me.
Frank Alvarez
I mean, that's for you to decide, my friend. So what am I doing? I rub the lamp, and you're coming out, and it's like. I think I'm like, oh, my God. Yes, I have a genie. But you're like, little. Do you know who you just let out? Big boy. You don't need to say that.
Joe Sandigata
Big boy. Yes. All right. You have no idea who you just let out.
Frank Alvarez
Big boy.
Joe Sandigata
What wish do you want? Let me know what wish you want, Big boy. He comes out. He's just hitting on you.
Frank Alvarez
Ooh. Come here.
Joe Sandigata
Who rubbed my lamp?
Frank Alvarez
Who needs a wish?
Joe Sandigata
Shirtless wish.
Frank Alvarez
You honestly sound like Will Ferrell right now. There was some little Will Ferrell in there.
Joe Sandigata
You know, that would be a funny movie.
Frank Alvarez
Like, did you ever see. Do you remember the sketch he did with Garth brooks in the 90s where he plays the devil, and it's like, the devil's gonna play this guitar, but he sucks at it. Yeah, yeah, you remember that? It's like, oh, I'm gonna shred this.
Joe Sandigata
He's like, hold on, hold on.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, I'm getting it.
Joe Sandigata
Imagine oh, dude. Imagine rubbing a lamp and a genie popped out. Yo, after I saw a line when I was a child, I was rubbing and everything.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, I mean, I. I bet you were.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. That's fair, too.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
I was myself. Jesus.
Frank Alvarez
I used to like.
Greg
I'll skip that one.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah,
Greg
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
I used to think the same thing. Like, if I were to like. Just like, you remember how in, like, Dexter's laboratory, he, like, lifted up like a family portrait and there was like, a button.
Joe Sandigata
I love that.
Frank Alvarez
I would, like, search behind, like, things hung up in my house. Be like, maybe there's the button to, like a secret lab.
Joe Sandigata
I think that when people have shit like that in their house, I think it's so cool.
Frank Alvarez
Do you think when you have a giant house. Because we know you'll have, like. Because people have installed, like, modern day, like, bookcases where, like, they move a book and it opens to, like, the. The man cave. Yeah. Which we can agree.
Joe Sandigata
I hate.
Frank Alvarez
The man man caves are.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
So stupid.
Joe Sandigata
I just have a house and I. I feel like this. This is the man cave.
Frank Alvarez
This is the man cave. What gave it away? The sign that says, parking for Yankee fans only.
Joe Sandigata
I hate that so much.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, the bathroom. It's a urinal. And guess what's in there of David Ortiz's face.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. Like, I don't need all the signage. I don't want this.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
Or like, even where she go? Not even worse. But, like, in addition, it. People's like, man caves. And there's 80 TVs. Who needs this?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. And it's like, that's. That's my chair. That's the holy. That's the holy throne. Here's the rules. Rule number one, no bitching. Why? Rule number one, I'm always right. Rule number two, Fuck the Patriots.
Joe Sandigata
All right.
Frank Alvarez
And rule number one. Yeah, we knew you've been to Hobby lobby. We understand.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, it's rough. What was the question? Oh, will I do the bookcase?
Frank Alvarez
I could see that being, like, cool for like, a reading nook.
Joe Sandigata
I would love that. I mean. Yeah. I don't know that unfortunately it would make a lot of sense, but I think that it is cool. Or like a button.
Frank Alvarez
You could have a button on like a bust of William Shakespeare. And you, like, push his head back, press it, and the door opens. I could see you having, like, a room that has, like, floor to ceiling bookshelves.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, I really like that. I like a book. Like a library ladder hole.
Frank Alvarez
You want a library ladder?
Joe Sandigata
When I could just like, kick off and be like, what do you need?
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, but here's the thing. They used to be filled with cool looking books. Now the spines of all the books are like white and colorful. Like back then it was like old bound leather. Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
Like spell books.
Frank Alvarez
Yes.
Joe Sandigata
You know what I mean?
Frank Alvarez
I want to open a book and cough, bro.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. I want it to be dusty and have like asbestos in the pages.
Frank Alvarez
I could see you having something like, I am going to go out on a limb. I think you should. And if you don't, you kind of suck.
Joe Sandigata
I'm dropping the ball. I should just buy encyclopedias. I don't even know what they do anymore. Haven't opened one since third grade.
Frank Alvarez
Literally like an absolutely defunct form of technology because of the Internet.
Joe Sandigata
Also an almanac. Forgot what that is.
Frank Alvarez
I think it's just like the world. Like pictures of maps.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. Like what is an almanac? It's like somewhat agriculture. I feel like that works.
Frank Alvarez
No, it's stupid. It's just like, oh, here, here's a map of America. Also here's a map of the eastern part of America. And also here's a map of the northeast. And it's like, I don't need a whole book for maps.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, it's stupid. Although when I was in London, there was a story walked into and they had a bunch of old maps from like old bro.
Frank Alvarez
I'm gonna do kind of cool books after 1999 suck.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
So trash.
Joe Sandigata
I need an old book that smells like and probably has like some blood on a page or.
Frank Alvarez
And I'm going to go further. Like not. What are they called? Soft cover books.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, paperbacks.
Frank Alvarez
Paperback books are stupid.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, I like paperbacks. Nope, hardcovers.
Frank Alvarez
Hardcovers are way better, dude.
Joe Sandigata
No, I'm reading it.
Frank Alvarez
I want to put this thing down and it makes a stunch. Yeah, like paperback. It's just like. Like we got books around here somewhere. Right there.
Greg
Oh yeah.
Frank Alvarez
Perfect.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, you got two examples. Yeah.
Greg
Yeah. Look at that.
Frank Alvarez
So this is Greg's book. No disrespect to Greg, but it's a paperback, so it's. Right, it's a Greg book.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Greg
Careful, he'll text you.
Joe Sandigata
Oh, wow.
Frank Alvarez
There's a. There's a. There's a quote from you on the back of this. Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
You don't know the story behind that?
Frank Alvarez
No, bro.
Joe Sandigata
Me and Greg were like friends, but not really yet. And then he asked me be a part of his book because I had a YouTube channel that was popular at the time and he was trying to use me.
Greg
Classic.
Joe Sandigata
No, that's what? That's the joke that I make. But, like, he had approached me. I was like, hey, I'm writing a book. I would love for you to, like, you know, do this thing. And I wrote something. What does it say?
Frank Alvarez
I loved every second of it.
Joe Sandigata
I wrote. The actual quote that I wrote was, I loved every second of it. And I don't even read books. And the person was like, all right, we're shortening this.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. I mean, jokes aside, it's wildly impressive that he wrote a book.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. Two published books.
Frank Alvarez
I've heard nothing but good things about it. I've not read it, however, listen to this.
Joe Sandigata
All right?
Frank Alvarez
And then. This is a book. This is not a T shirt. This sucks. I don't even know.
Joe Sandigata
I don't even know what that is.
Frank Alvarez
I don't even know what it is. No disrespect to Gary V. Jessica Alba and Tony Hawk, but they're on the back of that.
Joe Sandigata
That's.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah, they wrote something. Listen, you ready? Just listen. Okay, actually, I'll give it a more fair shake. I'll drop them both like this one. Like this. Okay.
Joe Sandigata
Come on, dude, you like a big.
Frank Alvarez
I just want, like, booming. Yeah, that's like I'm smacking my ass with a roll of newspaper.
Joe Sandigata
And when would that be appropriate?
Frank Alvarez
Well, like, I want to put a book.
Greg
Bit
Frank Alvarez
a boo. Book down and, like. Yeah. You know what I mean?
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. I like old pages. Do you remember when there was a video that went around of, like. Like, Joe Biden was getting sworn in with a book that looked insane? It had a lock on it. When books have locks on them. I like that.
Frank Alvarez
Name two incredible movie books.
Joe Sandigata
Well, something from Harry Potter. I just can't remember, like, the name of the books.
Frank Alvarez
I wasn't gonna think of that one. I was gonna go with the spell book from Hocus Pocus.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah, that's a good one.
Frank Alvarez
That's a good one. Or the book from the Mummy.
Joe Sandigata
I don't remember the Mummy.
Frank Alvarez
You don't remember? Dude, what a book. It has, like, a. A lock on the front that, like, it, like, opens like. Like scarabs like that. And they put it and they turn it, and it's. It's fucking good, dude.
Joe Sandigata
The mummy book.
Greg
Oh, yeah, there it is.
Frank Alvarez
Wow. It worked, I think. Is it a real book?
Joe Sandigata
That thing?
Frank Alvarez
Dude, that looks a little too mechanical. I know that. It's it.
Greg
This is it, though.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah.
Greg
It's the death book in the up spoiler, but death book in the lifebook.
Joe Sandigata
Nice spoiler. The movie's from like fucking 1999.
Frank Alvarez
It is great, great, great, great job there with the year it was.
Joe Sandigata
Right?
Frank Alvarez
1999.
Joe Sandigata
I'm on it.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. Good movie, by the way.
Greg
What about the Necromonicon?
Frank Alvarez
Necronomicon, whatever.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah.
Frank Alvarez
That one's just a scary looking.
Joe Sandigata
What's a Necro?
Frank Alvarez
It's from the Evil Dead series. It's like it's bound in human. Oh, well, those are real versions of it. Which is kind of creepy.
Joe Sandigata
Why?
Frank Alvarez
It's bound with human flesh and all the pages are written in blood. I mean, it's from a movie. Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
Like a book made out of flesh is probably discuss train.
Greg
Yeah. Let's not sit. Let's not look at the images. Just in case.
Frank Alvarez
I'm good.
Greg
Just in case something pops out.
Joe Sandigata
Yeah. What was it?
Frank Alvarez
Necronomicon.
Joe Sandigata
Necronomicon, yeah.
Greg
It's like Necromancer, but a book.
Frank Alvarez
What's more that a necromancer is like someone that does, like, Evil Dead, like magic raises the dead. Yeah.
Joe Sandigata
I'm only familiar with necrophilia. Not that I'm familiar. I'm familiar with the turp.
Frank Alvarez
That one I'll get neck roof. Necro is like the prefix for, like, having to do with the dead, I believe. And then Philia is obviously the Greek. What's. What's. It's prefix in Sussex. Post fix for, like, love. Right. You know, that's why it's called Philadelphia. Fila.
Joe Sandigata
Right.
Frank Alvarez
City of brotherly love.
Joe Sandigata
It's ironic because I hate it.
Frank Alvarez
Oh, yeah, that place.
Joe Sandigata
I hate their sports teams. Yeah. Well, maybe we can end on necrophilia.
Frank Alvarez
Nope.
Joe Sandigata
Shouldn't we?
Frank Alvarez
We started with swastika, ended on Necrophilia. What an episode.
Joe Sandigata
Bookends of this episode are very interesting.
Frank Alvarez
Yeah. What are we gonna name this one?
Joe Sandigata
Oh, that's a great question. I have no idea. That's a problem for another time. Frank. Where can they find you?
Frank Alvarez
The Frank Alvarez all over and patreon. Patreon.com. the basement yard. And the basement yard all over social media and nope, he doesn't get one today. Nope.
Joe Sandigata
You can find me at the finish line of the half marathon and you guys can go follow me at Joe Sandigata. Go follow the show at the basement yard on TikTok and Instagram. And that is all. See you next time.
The Basement Yard — Episode #554: "The Amazing Race"
Date: May 11, 2026
Hosts: Joe Santagato & Frank Alvarez (with guest Greg)
Studio: Santagato Studios
This episode kicks off with the celebration of Greg’s first half marathon and quickly spins into the group’s trademark banter. Joe, Frank, and Greg dissect their varying fitness ambitions, the mental challenge of running, and the ultimate importance of race medals. The guys flirt with the idea of a group 5K, exchange playful jabs, and spiral into discussions on the best post-run treats, the psychology of Diet Coke, and the aesthetics of old books. True to The Basement Yard, the conversation is fast, irreverent, and peppered with memorable lines and nostalgic references.
| Segment | Timestamp | |-----------------------------------------------|--------------| | Introduction & Greg’s Half Marathon | 01:44–04:45 | | Race Oddities & Symbolic Marathon Stories | 03:59–04:15 | | Medals, Ego, and Running Motivation | 06:22–16:27 | | The Proposed Basement Yard 5K | 08:05–16:27 | | Chicken Wings: Best, Worst, and How to Eat | 35:05–40:01 | | Diet Soda Debate & Frank Tries Diet Coke | 45:53–61:03 | | Cartoons, Voice Acting, and Nostalgia | 62:12–75:38 | | Old Books vs. Paperbacks & Book Fetish | 77:54–83:17 | | Hilarious Bookends: Swastika to Necrophilia | 84:20–84:32 |
This episode captures everything fans love about The Basement Yard: friendly competition, hilarious derailments, and a shared sense of lived-in nostalgia. Whether talking running, wings, cartoons, or Diet Coke, Joe, Frank, and Greg keep the laughs coming—making this a quintessential hangout in the Basement.
Memorable Endnote:
“We started with swastika, ended on necrophilia. What an episode.” — Frank (84:22)
“Bookends of this episode are very interesting.” — Joe (84:27)
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See you at the finish line... or at the next episode!